(Minghui.org) There was recently a wave of arrests of Falun Gong practitioners in Liaoning Province. Over sixty practitioners were arrested in Dalian alone. This large-scale arrest shook the area deeply. Many practitioners have been reflecting on this incident.

After some discussion, they realized an alarming fact: many truth-clarification materials production centers used the same vendor for supplies. That vendor has been monitored by the local police department for a long time, and as a result all those production centers were destroyed!

Our discussion focused on why we weren't abiding by the safety requirements set forth by the Minghui website. Why not have smaller production centers blossom everywhere? The risks associated with a centralized center are just too great.

There are plenty more lessons from the past. In February 2012, there were similar incidents in Hebei Province and in Liaoning Province as well; many practitioners were arrested in more than a dozen districts, again because they had the same vendor. One should never obtain supplies through a wholesale vendor; it is very risky. If the supplier were discovered by the authorities, the consequences would be devastating.

When I was in my hometown many years back, a fellow practitioner wanted me to help establish a large materials production center. They wanted one large center to provide all the materials for the area. They would purchase 100 boxes of paper at a time and transport them with trucks. This kind of behavior was stopped by me as well as other coordinators.

How could we do things in such a blatant way? We are not a company about to hold a grand opening! We should maintain a low profile. Safety should always be the number one priority.

The other safety risk is having centralized technical support. In one area, a practitioner who'd only practiced for a few years was responsible for the technical problems for a whole city. In the end, local as well as out-of-town materials production centers all asked her to fix their machines. This young practitioner suddenly died from a stroke, without any warning.

A practitioner who has technical skills should teach them to others, and those who do not have these skills should learn them. We should not rely on a small group of practitioners for technical support all the time; we are putting them in danger if we do things that way.

As a Fa-rectification period Dafa practitioner, no matter what we do, we need to abide by the principles of Dafa. We must be careful not to go to extremes in how we do things. Doing so will bring risk of harm. We need to realize that we are here to help Master rectify the cosmos. We need to consider how to fulfill our mission, how to maintain long term stability and how to negate interference. Safety measures should be our priority.