(Minghui.org) Mr. Zheng Xiangxing from Tanghai County, Hebei Province, is still incarcerated in Baoding Prison, despite the rescue efforts of local practitioners. I’d like to share with them our recent experience of rescuing a local practitioner in hopes of getting Mr. Zheng freed as soon as possible.
As we see it, there are two essential things we must pay attention to. First, we need to change our mindset regarding the perpetrators and truly treat them with compassion. In our case, when we overcame the perpetrator stereotype, the prison guards stopped making trouble for us. Second, we cannot be consumed by disharmony among practitioners and must work together well as an indestructible whole body. Only by coordinating well can our righteous thoughts show their mighty power. With strong righteous thoughts and a compassionate heart, we can then work to clarify the facts to and save as many sentient beings as possible.
I. We Must Break through the Perpetrator Stereotype
Speaking of the perpetrators of Falun Gong, most practitioners assume that those in the justice system (including the Police Department, the Procuratorate, and the courts) and the 610 Office system are evil to begin with and are extremely difficult (if not impossible) to save. However, our experience of rescuing practitioner “A” showed that once we changed our mindset and treated them with compassion, they actually changed for the better.
A. With Righteous Thoughts and Compassion, We Got to Sit Down with Practitioner “A” During a Prison Visit
During the many years when practitioner “A” was detained in a notorious prison, the guards there made trouble for us every time we went to visit him. Sometimes they outright refused to let us see him. When we were indeed allowed to see him, we were separated by a glass wall and had to speak to him on the phone, with many guards surrounding us and staring at us all the time. It was frightening.
A couple of months ago when five of us went to visit practitioner “A” again, we decided that we had to change our attitude towards the guards. We all agreed to break through the perpetrator stereotype and treat the guards as sentient beings to be saved. We came to the understanding that perpetrators of Falun Gong were also lives from higher realms that were unfortunately controlled by dark minions in other dimensions to do evil. We felt terrible that the numerous beings that belonged to such perpetrators’ universes had to live in a barren and dark world because of their lords’ evildoing. We thought about how sad these beings must be, crying over their misfortune every day, and how many of them might be wiped out as a result.
On our way to the prison, all five of us kept the following strong righteous thoughts in mind: “We go to the prison today for the sole purpose of saving sentient beings. Let the guards welcome our visit. Let every inch of land and every dimension be full of our strong energy, leaving nowhere for the evil to hide. This prison is an evil den, and we must destroy it to free the guards. We want to see them smile at us and make no trouble for us. We just want them to be saved.”
With such strong righteous thoughts, some of us used our mighty divine power to eliminate evil in other dimensions, while others covered the entire prison with a Fa-net and incense-burners and called in Fa-guarding gods and heavenly soldiers to surround the prison from the most microscopic to the most macroscopic dimensions. We sent forth righteous thoughts together to destroy all evil dens and rotten minions. We were confident that everything was decided by our great Master. Nobody was going to touch us since we came to save sentient beings.
Master said, “... the appearance stems from the mind...” (“Fa Teaching Given at the Epoch Times Meeting”) Once we broke through the perpetrator stereotype, we did see the guards smiling at us upon our arrival. The head of the guards even stopped one of his subordinates from requesting to see our IDs, saying that he knew all of us and there was no need to check our identities.
B. With Righteous Thoughts and Compassion, We Got Practitioner “A” Released Without Incident
One month before the scheduled release date of practitioner “A,” we coordinated with each other to send forth righteous thoughts for him. During our experience sharing, we came to the following understandings:
“We should demand an apology from the perpetrators and restore the glory of Dafa.”
“We need to strike a proper balance when it comes to dealing with the perpetrators. On the one hand, we should be kind to their human side. On the other hand, we must be stern to the evil who was controlling them in other dimensions.”
“Each of us Dafa disciples represents a gigantic universe, and we need to bring the righteous thoughts of all these universes together to eradicate the evil in other dimensions. To those that identify with Dafa, let’s find a kind resolution for them. To those that are impossible to save, let’s wipe them out so as to cleanse the universes. Doing so, we are fine even by the old forces' standards, and they have no reason to argue and interfere with us. When we destroy the evil dens and disintegrate the minions, the human side of the guards will dominate.”
On the day of practitioner A's release, we again reminded each other that we were going to the prison to save sentient beings. We sent forth strong righteous thoughts to have the guards redeem themselves and gain a bright future for themselves by immediately releasing practitioner “A”.
Practitioner “A” was released without incident. After consulting with the town government, the Party secretary in his village even had people deliver necessities to his home. They bought him a couch, some rice, flour, cooking oil, and other kitchen essentials. They also painted his house.
Such a thing has never happened before. Of course, we must not forget that practitioner “A” never yielded to pressure during his incarceration. On the other hand, we believe that the smooth coordination among our local practitioners and the compassionate thoughts we had regarding the guards also played a significant role.
We know from the Fa that kindness is what righteous gods possess, and strong compassion can disintegrate every evil spirit. Our dealing with perpetrators of Falun Gong is not an issue of whether we fear them, but whether we have a kind heart to save them. Such examples are numerous in our area, and I am not going to detail them all here.
If we harbor the slightest hatred towards the perpetrators, we are not conforming to the Fa, let alone showing righteous thoughts. Master said in “The Fa Rectifies the Cosmos” (Hong Yin II),
“Compassion can harmonize Heaven and Earth, ushering in spring
Righteous thoughts can save the people in this world”
II. We Cannot be Consumed by Disharmony and Must Work Well with Each Other
We have been able to follow Master in the Fa-rectification process up to this day, all thanks to Master’s tender care. However, many of us still look externally when we encounter a conflict. We have forgotten Master’s teachings and have become experts at finding other people’s faults. Unfortunately I am one of those practitioners.
We have to know that such discord is 100% the evil in other dimensions at work. The evil is most afraid of us working together in harmony. Each and every one of us has great capabilities, but jointly we are nothing if we keep moving in different directions. The evil would then take advantage of the gaps between us and target those who are inclined to pick on fellow practitioners. One by one, they could get all of us.
I once heard a story about a fellow practitioner who liked to badmouth others behind their backs. One night this practitioner saw a giant cow-like head in her dream. She saw a tongue more than one inch long licking something non-stop; it was really disgusting. She next saw a woman unraveling a sweater non-stop, while smiling at her. This practitioner came to the enlightenment that Master was hinting to her that the evil in other dimensions was using her mouth to undo our whole body of Dafa disciples.
III. Clarify the Facts and Save Sentient Beings
I suggest that practitioners in Tanghai intensify their Fa-study and their sending forth righteous thoughts. With a clear mind, they can then clarify the facts to Zheng Xiangxing’s immediate and extended family members. Once the family comes to a clear understanding of the persecution, they can then accompany them to seek justice from the law enforcement and justice systems. I would suggest that they talk to as many perpetrators as possible.
Besides clarifying the facts on a face-to-face basis, Tanghai practitioners can also use other means, including text messages, voice messages, pamphlets, flyers, and petitions. They should send forth righteous thoughts both from afar and nearby. They should also coordinate well with practitioners in neighboring towns.
The goal is to rescue Zheng Xiangxing and save more sentient beings.
As I see it, Tanghai practitioners cannot afford to be consumed by disagreements among themselves. It is no use trying to figure out who is right and who is wrong.
I’d like to remind everyone of the following two passages of Master’s teachings so we can strive forward diligently together,
“I’ll tell you, for years I have been continually saying that Dafa disciples’ abilities are tremendous, yet many people don’t believe this since those abilities were not allowed to be seen. Under the effect of righteous thoughts, everything around you, as well as you yourself, will undergo changes. Yet you have never thought to give it a try. The old forces as well as the interference from the evil elements are precisely exploiting the gaps in your thinking. That’s what they have been doing all these years. All along the old forces have been directing rotten spirits and the factors of the evil Party to do this, causing you to fail in your efforts to save people. They do this because they don’t have the ability to defeat you in a direct fight. It wouldn’t matter what kind of mighty force they assembled, the instant you started sending righteous thoughts they would all be turned to ashes, completely destroyed and unable to amount to anything. If this kind of fighting continued on, the interference from rotten spirits and factors of the evil Party would be eliminated and disappear. When Dafa disciples are able to send righteous thoughts with good concentration and strong enough righteous thoughts—give it a try—if you could do that today, half of all the evil that now exists would be wiped out. It is exactly because you have all sorts of human attachments, as well as problems cooperating, that it is able to exploit your gaps, prevent you from succeeding at what you’re supposed to do, and weaken your power as you go about saving sentient beings. The evil has no other means at its disposal. When bad people in this world appear to be evil, and might act so ferocious, that’s because there are evil entities behind them propping them up. Eliminate those evil entities and that person wouldn’t be able to muster that ferocity anymore. If Dafa disciples can manage to pool their strength together in one concerted effort, and act with extremely strong righteous thoughts, think about it, that will truly amount to divine beings being present in this world. It would be simply terrifying to the evil!” (“20th Anniversary Fa Teaching”)
“The task of saving sentient beings has to be carried out by you. And not only must it be done, but it must be done well. It is not done for Master, however. Though we call it 'saving sentient beings,' it is not done entirely for them either. It’s also done for your sake. That is because the sentient beings that you save, which includes the people that you clarify the truth to, shall very likely one day be a portion of the sentient beings in your enormous cosmos. You are perfecting and completing yourself, through your successes you are achieving what you shall become, and without these, you could not serve as King there nor complete your mission and establish the magnificent mighty virtue that’s needed. That is how things work, and thus you absolutely must do a good job of it. Don’t allow yourselves to get stuck in a state where you constantly argue endlessly, but instead, be more like a Dafa disciple and earnestly, humbly, and solidly make efforts to carry out well what you are supposed to do. With any project or any task, if you decide not to do it, then don’t do it; and if you do decide to do it, then you definitely have to do it well and carry it through to the end. If you do otherwise, how shall the time you wasted go down in the annals of history? Whatever is not brought to completion amounts to a failure. That is not to say, however, that a certain task has to be carried out according to your own ideas and only if it succeeds will you build up mighty virtue. Rather, it is in the act of your cooperating and the thoughts that follow, and in how you go about things in the process of collaborating, that count as the cultivation process.” (“Fa Teaching Given at the 2010 New York Fa Conference”)
