Coercion Cannot Change People’s Hearts
The steadfast, righteous thoughts of a cultivator transcend
all human understandings, transcend all human thinking, and can never be
understood by everyday people. At the same time, they cannot be changed by
everyday people, because humans are not able to change Enlightened Beings.
The evil has utilized the power in bad people’s hands to
create turmoil for nearly two years, using the most base actions ever in human
history—whether ancient or modern, Chinese or foreign—and employing all the
most malicious means to persecute Dafa and its cultivators. Its aim is to use
coercive measures to change Dafa cultivators’ hearts and have them give up
their cultivation practice. This is futile. Never in history has someone who
persecuted those with upright faiths ever succeeded. All of this is merely to
use the evil’s performance to solidify Dafa and remove cultivators’
fundamental attachments so as to free cultivators from the shackles of humanness
and karma. All those who have been weeded out are not true cultivators. Although
the evil can run rampant temporarily in this period of time when it is being
used, it will eventually end up in utter disgrace since in the Fa-rectification
process they are beings doomed to be weeded out. For over a year, the evil has
utilized the bad people who have been used as its tools and who employ all sorts
of torture instruments and methods to beat cruelly and torture Dafa cultivators.
Although many people have been beaten to death, beaten to disability, or sent
off to mental hospitals, this has still not changed true cultivators’
steadfast, righteous thoughts. [The bad people] produce fake scriptures, don’t
allow students to sleep, fabricate charges, frame up students, spread lies, and
so on. Being threatened severely, deceived, and pressured greatly by all those
indecent means, some students have written things like the so-called
"guarantees to stop practicing" or "statements of
repentance" when they were not in their right minds and forced. None of
those were genuine expressions from the students’ hearts—they were done
against their will. Although they had attachments, were momentarily taken
advantage of by the evil, and did what a cultivator should not, a cultivator
ought to be looked at in his entirety. I do not recognize any of those things.
When they return to their senses, they will immediately start doing again what a
Dafa student should do during this time, and, in the meantime, will declare as
null and void everything that they said and wrote when they were not in their
right minds due to intense persecution, and will declare that they are
determined in cultivation. A large number of declarations from students all over
the country have appeared daily. The last hope of attempting to change Dafa
disciples’ righteous thoughts through coercion and deception has been
completely shattered. The evil no longer has any way to change the determination
that Dafa disciples have developed from their true understanding of the Fa
through cultivation and from their Buddha-nature after the elevation of their benti6
in actual cultivation. In this situation, the evil’s performance has
completely turned into the venting of personal resentment by the malicious
people, using the power in their hands and employing the most base means.
Since the only evil remaining in the current Fa-rectification
has seen Dafa disciples’ unshakable, steadfast faith, it has gone mad and
completely lost its senses. Although Dafa disciples do not get involved in
politics and do not value ordinary human power, the evil’s persecution in
China—which ignores all of its consequences—will lead people to completely
distrust the ruling party and its regime, and to disobey the government. The
lie-spreading propaganda machine will no longer be able to employ demagoguery.
This is because at the same time that the evil persecutes Dafa, it has also
arranged it so that, during the campaign, the party’s current head himself is
used to destroy the party and its regime from within the party—this is what
those being manipulated and the world’s people cannot see clearly. Then the
consequences of their personal resentment become inevitable and cannot be
avoided. And in this persecution, the world’s people will see more clearly
everything the evil has done; Dafa disciples will become more rational and more
clearheaded, and, with determination and maturation in cultivation, move towards
magnificent Consummation.
Li Hongzhi
March 4, 2001
6. benti (bun-tee)—"own-body,"
"original-body," or "true being."
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