(Li Hongzhi, April 11, 2004)
Hello! (Audience: Hello Master! Applause)
We have a grand occasion here. (Applause) A lot of
people have come to this Fa conference, about four thousand it seems. (Master
laughs) Looking at the current situation, I'd say that when it comes to the
Fa-rectification's overall state, Dafa disciples have done extremely well in the
Three Realms, and they've played a crucial role. Master thanks you all for this.
(Warm applause)
Over these few years we have been under severe persecution.
The Fa-rectification is by nature a serious thing that affects all living
things. The cosmic body is infinitely large, and the number of beings is
measureless--so many they're countless. Even on a tiny particle there are
measureless, countless beings. Then how many beings does such an enormous cosmic
body have? Fa-rectification impacts something that huge, and yet the old forces,
along with some low-level beings they're using, and whatnot, are interfering
with Fa-rectification, attached as they are to their wants, and are using every
conceivable means to try to steer the Fa-rectification. The sin is huge. It's
actually clear to me that, in essence, the old forces and those final, final old
beings want to use this Fa-rectification to eliminate and weed out the beings
they don't want kept, and that's why they make some beings interfere with Fa-rectification.
Even a little disruption or bit of disrespect towards Dafa by the old forces or
a being who isn't able to see Dafa the right way--and not one of them is outside
of this--will mean they can't remain. Ultimately those high-level old factors
want to dispose of those numerous beings that they don't want, and that's why
they let loose and directed a huge number of beings to do things that interfere
with Fa-rectification. On a fundamental level they know that no being at any
level can harm the Fa-rectification. While I'm controlling the fundamental
things, those final beings in their respective realms are overseeing the safety
of this affair out of self-protection, and the number of beings they want to
weed out is downright huge.
Very early on in the Fa-rectification I realized something:
Whenever I want to clear away any group of beings at any level, there's not much
to say or do--one thought disintegrates everything, and it's extremely quick.
However, in the Fa-rectification, keeping certain beings, that's just extremely
hard to do, with challenges piled atop one another; beings that have interfered
with the Fa-rectification aren't qualified to stay now, having interfered with
Fa-rectification as they did. So in the Fa-rectification, once a being gets
involved and has the effect of interfering, which I don't accept, it's in dire
peril. I'm talking in essential terms here. In this process, in all realms, and
at all levels, the beings that affect the Fa-rectification all act in their own
specific ways, and they are different in their levels and realms; and being in
the realms they are in, they have different understandings of Fa-rectification.
That's because the chaos resulting from the different understandings of the Fa-rectification
at the vast number of levels, and held by the vast number of beings, has fully
reflected the actions of the multitude of degenerate beings in the final stage
of the old Fa's law of formation-stasis-degeneration-destruction.
So what does "a measureless number of beings" mean?
Think about this: Even with any ethnic group or country on this tiny Earth,
whenever something happens there are going to be plenty of people who are for it
and plenty against it, and people will have all sorts of takes on it. Then with
the cosmos--such a gigantic cosmic body--and Fa-rectification--such a major
thing--and when the situation is that beings don't realize what danger the great
firmament is in or the peril all beings face, and when it's that Fa-rectification
involves the vital interests of all beings, you can imagine how beings will
react differently and how complicated it all is. A lot of students have been
thinking, "So with validating the Fa, if I could see what happens in other
dimensions I could do better." But the fact is, in a few cases where people
have their Third Eye open and can see those things, they're actually more apt to
get interfered with. For a few people their attachments caused what they saw to
interfere with their cultivation and validating the Fa. That's why I think that
during this period, the best way to go is to ensure a great deal of Fa-study. If
each Dafa disciple can evaluate everything with the Fa, you'll go about things
in an even more upright way, and then our students won't be prone to problems,
whether they can see [other dimensions] or not. That's because with the Fa here,
you can just go by the Fa's requirements. No matter what states other beings are
in, none of their various, ever-changing, complex manifestations can interfere
with a Dafa disciple.
So looking at the current situation, the whole mighty current
of Fa-rectification is getting closer and closer to the outermost surface, and
closer and closer to what is highest, final, largest, and most central. I've
said that many prophecies aren't accurate in their depiction of the final times;
they were plenty accurate about the course of things along the way, but they're
off the mark toward the end. The reason is, even though our cosmic system is
immense beyond compare, the concept of the multitude of cosmic bodies along with
the incalculable number of beings that I've talked about, they're all within
this system. And this persecution that the old-being-formed forces arranged to
"test" Dafa disciples, along with the specific reasons that the old
forces came about, the Fa-rectification itself, the beings to be saved, and so
on, they're all within this [system's] scope. But this enormous cosmos of ours,
no matter how big it is, it's not the only thing there is in the cosmos; there
are factors beyond this cosmos, and those factors all have to do with the
fundamental issue of whether or not the cosmos can exist. Those factors are even
more microcosmic, and all of the changes [that have unfolded] have been caused
by those enormous factors being affected in the Fa-rectification.
In other words, it's a question of whether this cosmos can
exist independently after I'm done with Fa-rectification. To give an analogy, if
you hold a ball in mid-air, once you let go it will fall, and once you let go of
a balloon it will fly away. These analogies aren't all that accurate, it's just
to give you the idea; in fact it's not quite like that. The factors beyond the
cosmos needed to be worked on too, but whatever the case, working on those
things during the Fa-rectification is no longer an issue. Those factors are not
within the range of the gigantic cosmic body of this cosmic system of ours.
Everything that was to be done during the Fa-rectification as well as the old
forces' arrangements, and this includes how all the beings would act, are within
this range. The issues beyond this range no longer exist. But their existence
caused a separation in the microcosm, and that separation is keeping the final,
surfacemost human world separated. Right now the Fa-rectification is already in
the process of resolving these problems. After the problems are resolved, then
basically everything is resolved. In the last Fa lecture I said that actually
this cosmos has already been completed, and that's what I meant.
Even though more than four years have gone by, the
persecution hasn't ended, and that's because the final reasons have yet to be
completely resolved. But the overall situation has undergone tremendous changes.
As you've seen, the evil factors have become very, very few, and the dark
minions that I asked you to clear away, those bad gods that made their way into
the Three Realms, they too have been cleared away to the point that only a few
are left. And along with this, outside of the Three Realms some high-level
beings that have played a negative role are in the process of being cleared
away. So as things now stand, because the forces that affect the Fa-rectification
have been shrinking, and all of the disruptive factors in the Three Realms have
been greatly reduced, the people in this world are becoming ever more awake. And
it's not just the people in this world--all beings in the Three Realms are
waking up and thinking things over for themselves. There are still some people
whose heads are somewhat foggy due to the evil's propaganda, but when you do a
good job explaining things as you clarify the truth, people will immediately get
it since there is no more evil's control at work.
In the process of clarifying the truth, Dafa disciples are
indeed playing an important role, and they've done a great job. Your
circumstances are quite tough; even other people know that Falun Gong has no
money. Some Dafa disciples are in straitened circumstances. But in this
situation, you still need to consider the image you project in society and to
everyday people, because a Dafa disciple needs to be a good person wherever he
is, right? So out in ordinary society, at work, in the family, or in whatever
interactions it may be, you should leave people with a positive image of Dafa
disciples. Your resources are limited, and that's why it is so trying and hard
to do. But even so, we still need to make our Fa-rectification path a straight
and upright one and we cannot go astray. If we're to make it a straight one,
then, well, you know, there's only one path that is straight, and just one step
off the path means going amiss. We cannot go astray, and this means our path is
none too wide or easy to walk, it seems. You can't do as you please or do
whatever you want--if that were the case, the Fa wouldn't be righteous. You need
to make your path of validating the Fa a straight and upright one. Every single
step, every single thing, including a Dafa disciple's words and actions, and
your conduct in every respect out in society must be upright. As far as this
goes, Dafa disciples as a whole have basically managed to do that, and the image
of Dafa disciples that's been presented to the world's people is a good one. Now
the members of society are quite clear on this and they know that Dafa disciples
are all good people, and not just good people but the best bunch of people. The
fact that the people in this world can recognize this is the result of our Dafa
disciples' great sacrifices and laborious efforts validating the Fa; it's only
with these that the world's people have come to recognize it. There's such a
vast number of beings, there are more than 7 billion people in this world, and
relative to the entire world, Dafa disciples are but a drop in the ocean. So how
much sacrifice did you have to make to achieve this? How much effort did you
have to expend? Extraordinary, just extraordinary! (Applause)
Because the world's people have woken up, right now this
persecution that the evil created is getting harder and harder to sustain.
Around the globe the evil beings are losing the environment they need to do
evil, and in China too they are losing the environment they need. You've seen
and heard about this, and in doing work to clarify the truth you have come to
know this full well. Right now in Mainland China a lot of people are extremely
annoyed by this persecution. Of course, there are some people who don't
know the truth yet, and in this situation those beings are waiting for our Dafa
disciples to further bring the Good News and the truth of the situation. But
there are always going to be some people who just aren't up to par. If everyone
were up to par then there wouldn't be a Fa-rectification. If all of the beings
in the cosmos were up to par, then there really wouldn't have been any
validating of the Fa. It's exactly because they aren't up to par that they
really do exhibit the state and behavior of the beings of the past cosmos during
the last stage of formation-stasis-degeneration-destruction.
Because the Fa-rectification hasn't ended yet, even though
people are waking up to the persecution of Dafa disciples, the morality of the
world's people is still declining fast, and that's extremely scary. The longer
the end time drags out, when it comes to saving the beings of the future... That
doesn't pose a challenge for me, and even if you've fallen down into Hell I
could still do it, but whether it'd still be worth doing and whether it could
still be done, that would be a question. While Dafa disciples clarify the truth,
when they allow the world's people to see the truth, that has the dual effect of
stopping man's moral decline, to some extent.
Of course, Dafa disciples and I don't acknowledge anything
that has to do with the old forces. Dafa has forged the Dafa disciples, and Dafa
disciples will definitely safeguard the Fa as they cultivate. But, the ability
of Dafa disciples to validate the Fa isn't for the purpose of enduring this
persecution, and even less is it for clarifying the truth among the world's
people. I only asked Dafa disciples to clarify the truth because persecution has
taken place and has caused this situation. To put it more clearly, Dafa
disciples don't exist in order to clarify the truth; we do that because the old
forces caused this persecution and we were left with no choice. We are making
use of this persecution while we defy it, and we are establishing even greater
mighty virtue for Dafa disciples as we clarify the truth. What Dafa disciples
have given absolutely will not be in vain.
As you know, there is a law that's part of both the old
cosmos's Laws and the new cosmos's Laws: No matter what kind of hardship a being
endures or what blessing he receives in any dimension of the cosmos or in any
environment, there will be payback--either a reward for good or retribution for
evil, and that's for sure, absolutely. Then since Dafa disciples have done so
much for the beings, none of their enormous sacrifices while being wrongly
persecuted were endured in vain, that's certain. So what awaits Dafa disciples
in the future is sure to be most, most wonderful. (Applause) No matter
how many beings there are doing evil, the suffering and persecution they have
imposed on Dafa disciples--no matter what the motive or what the means--will
bring those beings the most severe and most terrifying consequences, and that's
for the persecuting they did. This kind of payback is the retribution they get
for committing the greatest sin--interfering with the Fa-rectification--and
what's in store for them are the most horrible things. With Dafa disciples, on
the other hand, even though they've endured all kinds of interference and
persecution, what Dafa disciples have gained from it is a most distinguished,
most magnificent, and highest mighty virtue that will last forever and ever. (Applause)
The journey of Fa-rectification won't go on for long, it
won't always be like this. So those Dafa disciples who, during this period of
time, have made it through, have managed to do very well, and have managed to
walk their own paths well despite all kinds of things interfering, they have all
established their own mighty virtue. Each of the true Dafa disciples has done
what he should do, and has established all that is best for a being in the
future. With that much achieved, I can now rest assured, and I no longer worry
about whether you can make it through. (Applause) What's transpired is
proof that you have made it through. In the future, when you look back, [you'll
see that] this path was brilliant and promising, magnificent, and something
that's never existed--even since the beginning of time. You can talk about how
such-and-such number of the cosmos's gods came down to the world before to save
people and established such-and-such mighty virtue, but I'll tell you, my true
Dafa disciples: Your future mighty virtue will surpass that of any god who came
to this world before at any point in history, (applause) for you today
are part of Fa-rectification. You need to treasure it--you have to treasure the
path you've walked. Only when you treasure the steps you've taken can you do
well on the path ahead. Not much of the journey is left. Do even better on your
path and do things even more righteously.
During this persecution every Dafa disciple has become
clearheaded and rational. Back when I'd just started to impart the Fa, as I
looked at the people in the audience, I was thinking about something. At the
time, those people's heads had few righteous thoughts in them, and it was even
rare for them to have their true, own thoughts. Human beings are influenced by
all kinds of ideas out in society, and with their postnatal concepts they form
fixed ideas about various things in the human world. And what's more, some
outside factors control and interfere with people. That's the kind of beings I
faced back then. At that time when many students said "Dafa is great,"
they weren't sincere, and some people had some doubts about the huge changes
their bodies were going through. As I looked at those beings, I would think to
myself, "Can they do it? Will they be able to come out of that state
they're in?" And then there were factors in their cultivation path that
would bring interference to their cultivation and my Fa-rectification. How hard
that was! Back then I thought about this all the time. But now I'm not worried
about those things anymore. Those Dafa disciples who have made it through the
persecution, I'll tell you, they've become more and more coolheaded and more and
more aware of what they're doing, their righteous thoughts are getting ever
stronger, and their awareness is increasingly clear. Not only have I stopped
worrying about those things, I'm even happy to see the state you're in. (Enthusiastic
applause) These beings have truly become aware, and their lives are now in
the hands of their own righteous thoughts. On top of that, they're beings that
are cultivating themselves in the Fa-rectification and who are clear about the
paths they want to take and clear about the goal and meaning of their existence.
How extraordinary. So looking at the present situation, I don't worry about
anything now, and I know that the further we go the better you will do. In
validating the Fa, you are the ones who've come up with many of the ideas, and
you've resolved many a problem yourselves. And with validating the Fa, you are
thinking about how to do well validating the Fa, this most magnificent task, and
Dafa disciples the world over are thinking about their shared tasks. You're all
cooperating together, discussing, and debating and analyzing things with each
other to come up with the best approaches. Whatever the case, this is Dafa
disciples' unique way of cultivating, and it's something history has never had
before. (Applause)
Today is Easter, the day of a god's resurrection! (Enthusiastic
applause) This is all I'll say today. On this special, glorious day, may
Dafa disciples' divine sides also be resurrected! (Long period of
enthusiastic applause)
Editor's note: The translation is subject to further
improvement so as to be closer to the original text. Last updated: May 3, 2004.
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