Fa Teaching at the 2007 New York Fa Conference<br>(Q&A Portion, Part 1)

Disciple: Dafa disciples from the
cities of Wuhan and Shenzhen send their greetings to Master! (Applause)
And we are determined to do the three things well and walk well the
last part of our journey.

Master: I believe in you. You surely will! Thank you! (Applause)



Disciple: I've discovered that what
has been impeding my improvement is actually that my righteous belief
isn't solid enough and that there are elements at the microcosmic level
that don't believe, so this makes me feel really sad. I, your disciple,
truly yearn to return to our home with Master.

Master: I can see from this
question slip, of course, that there are elements of falling short, but
that at the same time you really wish to cultivate well. I think that
as long as you read the Fa more, you will be able to resolve what is
bothering you and definitely cultivate well. There is no special means.
There is no way Master could personally teach each and every person to
cultivate, given how many people there are in the world. That is why I
have always taught you to take the Fa as the master. I have said that
Master has compressed everything into the Fa, but as of today not that
many of you have yet grasped the weight of those words. I'll talk to
you about it again in the future. If you truly adhere to the Fa and
cultivate, you will definitely succeed at cultivation! Thus you are to
read the book more and study the Fa more. (Applause)



Disciple: I am conveying greetings to Master on behalf of the disciples from the city of Shenyang! (Master:
Thank you!) (Applause) When we cleanse our own dimensional fields,
should we use the conjoined hands position (jieyin) or the erect palm
position (lizhang)?

Master: When the hands are
conjoined, your body and mind are being cleansed, and when your palm is
erect, there is a sending forth. The form at the surface is merely to
strengthen your thought as you send righteous thoughts and to help you
focus better on doing that one task. Actually, when your righteous
thoughts are strong, your thoughts alone will suffice.



Disciple: All the Dafa disciples from the cities of Bengbu, Hefei, and
Huainan in Anhui province send their greetings to their great Master!
We miss you very much. When may we see compassionate Master in person?
In China right now, all the six-year-old kids are made to join the
Young Pioneers en masse two months after beginning their schooling.
Will kids in this scenario face mortal danger when the wicked Party is
disintegrated?

Master: It doesn't count for
kids. It doesn't count for kids when they are forced to join the Young
Pioneers. (Applause) It definitely doesn't count for kids who are six,
or younger. (Applause) The wicked CCP is just spinning its wheels.
(Audience laughs) No matter how it tries one thing after another, it
makes no difference. (Audience laughs)



Disciple: All of the Dafa disciples from Turkey send their greetings to
Master! We thank our compassionate and great Master for his saving
grace!

Master: Thank you! (Applause)



Disciple: The spread of the Nine Commentaries and Dafa disciples'
efforts to clarify the facts have led to a tremendous change in the
situation in mainland China. May we ask Master if we can use reasons
such as business trips to go back to China?

Master: You'd best wait a
little longer. (Master laughs) The entire Fa-rectification is charging
forward toward the surface at a furious rate, and it is now very fast,
so the quantity of evil elements being destroyed is quite large, and
they are being eliminated and decimated on a large scale in
Fa-rectification. In the surface dimension where the Fa-rectification
has not yet arrived, when Dafa disciples' righteous thoughts are
especially strong, they too destroy large quantities of evil elements.
Dafa disciples all over the world, including those in mainland China,
are swiftly destroying the entities of the wicked Party as well as
meddlesome demons. And of note is that lately the multitude of gods are
tracking down and killing the old forces on all fronts. The moment they
are found, they are cast into hell. And even when none are found, the
gods search all about for them with the intent of completely clearing
them out (applause), and along the way some of the factors that the old
forces arranged are being destroyed, as well. Another thing right now
is that those meddling deities that are affiliated with religions,
which I discussed recently, are also being cleared out. So, the overall
situation is changing rapidly. But as long as the evil beings aren't
completely cleared out, they will do bad things, and they will focus
their efforts on terrible people and things. So for now, don't be
overly anxious [to go back].



Disciple: What role are the students at Fei Tian Academy of the Arts
who are on tour supposed to play in the Fa-rectification process? Do
they still need to complete high school and college?

Master: Fei Tian Academy of the
Arts is a professional institution designed to train first-class
talent, and of course it includes an academic curriculum. When it comes
to the regular subjects, students participate in the standardized tests
in America for high school students, ensuring that they don't fall
behind in those subjects. Dafa disciples are still working on the
school, and things are continually being perfected.

The roles that students at Fei Tian Academy of the Arts are playing in
validating the Fa are by no means small. When clarifying the facts it's
not possible to reach that many people all at once, and although Dafa
disciples have saved many people with their truth-clarification
efforts, that effect is hard to extend to the billions of people in the
world. You have all seen that. When you explain the facts to someone,
it's usually done on a one-on-one basis, or with just a few people at a
time. But one single performance draws an audience of thousands, or at
least a thousand at a time. Of note are the results of the performances
dating back to last Christmas, which have been excellent. For the most
part everyone in the audience underwent a complete change. At first a
few special agents were sent to cause problems, and they caused trouble
at the provocation of the meddling deities connected to religions.
Precautionary measures were then taken, and afterwards there were no
further problems of that sort. Upon leaving the theater, audience
members' initial attitude toward Dafa disciples had basically undergone
a complete change - their attitudes toward Falun Gong all changed. With
that shift in the person's thought, his fate - that is, whether he
remains - is decided.

Students from the advanced class are on tour at the moment, and when
the tour is over, more than two hundred thousand people will have seen
it. Think about it: How well has this endeavor gone? (Applause) I think
it has been well worth the effort. (Audience laughs) So when we
realized that one dance troupe wasn't enough, we established a second,
and then a third. We are saving beings, after all. These young Dafa
disciples are not only doing things to save beings, but also elevating
through cultivation. And they are establishing themselves, for what
they are doing is itself cultivation, and what they are walking down is
a path to godhood.



Disciple: Because of their selfishness and attachments, many
coordinators in Taiwan have strayed while leading practitioners in
doing things to validate the Fa, and those things were not in line with
the Fa's requirements. Exchanging views proved fruitless, even after
multiple rounds. Your disciple has seen this and is quite worried.
Master, I'd like to ask how a regular practitioner is to play his or
her role in this scenario while not starting up some faction and by
cooperating well.

Master: I think [what you described] is the product of too much human
thinking, and that's how things are going to go when people do the
tasks of Dafa disciples with a human mindset. If each person walks his
own path well and cultivates himself well as he goes about cultivation,
he will do things well. The assistants in different areas are really
just persons who coordinate things, with the exception being that when
the Falun Dafa Associations or Master have something for them to
handle, they are contacted, and asked to communicate to practitioners
information and what's needed. Each of them has to cultivate him or
herself well, just like everyone else. All Dafa disciples, including
assistants, have to look inside themselves when problems arise. When
everyone does so, things are sure to go well. It's a problem if all
eyes are fixed on the assistants, and everyone is helping them
cultivate while forgetting that they themselves are cultivators too.
More and more problems will arise when that's the case, since you are
looking outward, looking externally.

If, however, the assistants really aren't doing a good job, or if their
abilities fall short, then indeed a change needs to be considered.
That's because their failure to do well, albeit related to larger
issues involving improvement as a whole in that region, will
nonetheless interfere with Dafa disciples' efforts to validate the Fa.
But if each and every Dafa disciple can manage to be responsible to his
or her own cultivation and to Dafa, I think that will result in the
state of things being excellent for the entire region.

An assistant is bound to make mistakes. You heard what I just said,
right? He is bound to make mistakes. That's because if he didn't, he
would be a god, and he wouldn't need to cultivate anymore. Then should
an assistant who made a mistake be treated more sternly than others who
make mistakes? Cultivation is equal and treats everyone the same. In
terms of impact, of course his responsibility is greater, and his
conduct will likely affect other practitioners. So naturally Master has
higher requirements for him. But in reality, as an individual
cultivator, he is treated just the same. Under normal circumstances, an
assistant cannot be relieved of his duties just because he makes a
mistake. Well, why is that the case? As As Dafa disciples go about
their cultivation, the assistants are themselves being established and
tempered, for the way the assistants of Dafa disciples do their work is
like nothing found in ordinary society. It's unprecedented. If he is
removed upon making a mistake, and then the next person [who is
installed is soon] removed since he's going to make mistakes as well,
then that's not what I want. I want to temper him and have him mature.
Put another way, would it work if when you, a Dafa disciple, made a
mistake I didn't allow you to be a Dafa disciple anymore and replaced
you with someone else? (Disciples laugh) But when that person made a
mistake he wouldn't be allowed to be a Dafa disciple, and we'd swap in
another person - would that work? Problems are bound to come up as you go
about cultivating, and when they do, the important thing is how
everyone helps him, with goodwill, to change for the better, as opposed
to holding him accountable somehow or criticizing him. The attitude
each cultivator has toward others is a reflection of his own
cultivation, and you should all be clear on these things.

When there is something wrong with an assistant, the responsibility he
must bear for it is for sure greater, and you all know that. Master has
countless Law Bodies who look after these things, and they will
definitely not let his problems or opportunities for improvement go
unattended to. But if you are overly attached to his problems, your
problems will themselves be exposed through the affair, and you will be
made to see your own problems through the affair; and this might lead
to his problem not being resolved for the time being as a result of
your attachment not having been removed. And if yet more people are
mobilized and get involved in it, then all right—all of your problems
will be exposed through it for you all to see. Such things will happen.
It's not that problems should go unresolved, and it's not that Master's
Law Bodies aren't going to address them.



Disciple: The Global Service Center for Quitting the CCP often receives
telephone calls from people from different circles in mainland China,
asking us to convey their greetings to Master!

Master: Then I thank the people
in mainland China and sentient beings! (Applause) Once the world's
people are freed from the control of evil factors, they will wake up,
and will use their own minds to think about things. When people
declared their stances or made statements against Dafa earlier on under
the evil's assault and suppression that eclipsed the sky and covered
the earth, no matter how many of these cases there were, that was not
the person him or herself who truly said those things. Rather, it was
evil factors making use of those people's mouths. I make a sharp
distinction on this! So I say to the evil: Those things that you did
and your desire to persecute people will be, in the course of the
Fa-rectification, dealt with without the slightest error.



Disciple: Hello, Master! I, your disciple, serve as a journalist with
the media. I often feel that my abilities are limited and that I have
made breakthroughs only very slowly. It takes me much longer to write
news articles than the profession demands. So I'm really anxious about
this, and sense that this has to do with the slow improvement of my
xinxing.

Master: Breakthroughs will
occur if you keep up your Fa-study. Only by studying the Fa well can
you validate the Fa, and only by studying the Fa well can you do
better. Many practitioners have found themselves able to think about
things that they didn't know how to do before in a more creative,
comprehensive way thanks to Fa-study, and they are able to do anything
with great proficiency. That is what comes about when you study the Fa
well. Now I'm not saying that you have not cultivated well. I am
talking about a Fa principle. Read the book more, study the Fa more,
and you are sure to gain wisdom.



Disciple: In the course of clarifying the facts I often encounter this
kind of person: He identifies with Falun Gong, but not with the
Dajiyuan (Epoch Times) newspaper. My question is, is the manner in
which Dajiyuan is run causing people to misunderstand Falun Gong, or is
it that there are problems with these media entities in themselves? Master: In my view, it's
neither. There are all sorts of people in this world: One might like
spicy food and another sour - there's a variety of tastes out there.
People have different misunderstandings, all of which owe to having
been poisoned by groundless lies spread by the wicked CCP. Wherever a
person's misunderstanding lies, that is where problems will arise in
terms of how he looks at things, and this manifests itself in the form
of different viewpoints. Of course, that's not to say that this media
entity has been run ideally.  But, at the very least, the media
outlets that Dafa disciples run are cleaner than those of ordinary
people. They are saving people and benefiting them, after all, and on
that score ordinary media outlets are no match. Then why is it that
there are still people who think that way and say such things? It
bespeaks of the fact that different people are in different realms and
have different takes on things. Wherever a person is poisoned the most
by the wicked Party, that is where things are going to surface. So, I
think it's best that you clarify the facts to him thoroughly on
whichever issue and help him to understand things. It's not that
Dajiyuan really has that serious of a problem.



Disciple: Regarding the wicked Party's TV station entering Canada and
the establishing of New Tang Dynasty TV, how can we make a breakthrough?

Master: It's up to Dafa
disciples how to do it. You should remember one thing: Today, mankind's
stage is for Dafa disciples to perform on, and absolutely not for those
evil ones! (Applause) As long as you do well and everyone can come to
good understandings, cooperate and coordinate with each other, and have
strong righteous thoughts, then there is nothing that cannot be
accomplished, for your starting point is matched by no one - it is to
save all beings! The Three Realms were created for the purpose of the
affairs at hand, not to give ordinary people recreation, and definitely
not for ordinary people's entertainment. Human beings indeed have their
amusements, but that's just a part of human life, and it is a state
that human beings maintain while awaiting the Fa.



Disciple: Why is it that no matter how hard I, your disciple, try, I
always feel that I can't keep up with the progress of Fa-rectification?

Master: I think that your
insight is quite good. If you always feel as if you have shortcomings,
then try to constantly address this head on and catch up by studying
the Fa more and doing more of what Dafa disciples are supposed to do.
That's all you need to do.



Disciple: We are a team compiling Chinese language textbooks. We would
like to ask Master: With the Fa-rectification process where it's at
today, how much energy should we expend on creating textbooks? Should
we spend more time creating textbooks or on other projects?

Master: I think that whether
you are creating Chinese textbooks or doing something else, you should
think about doing them in a coordinated manner, and see if the schools
run by Dafa disciples will be using your textbooks. If not, when you
finished preparing them and no one used them, wouldn't you have wasted
your time? So this should be done in a coordinated manner. If the
schools run by Dafa disciples truly need them, then do it, and do it
well. Once something like this is begun it's no small undertaking, and
not minor. [Your work] will be left behind for mankind. If it is merely
that you yourselves want to create them, what if, upon completing them,
they are found to have defects or be inadequate, and they can't be
used - then won't you have delayed other things? So you need to
coordinate well.



Disciple: First, I'd like to convey greetings to Master on behalf of
all the disciples from the United Kingdom! We didn't do well preparing
for the global tour of NTDTV's Chinese New Year Spectacular. The
Spectacular did not take place in the U.K., owing to the many
challenges encountered when looking for a venue. Is that because there
are some problems with the disciples in the U.K. as a whole?

Master: I think that if even a
venue couldn't be found, that really is a problem. (Disciples laugh)
How could that happen? Was it because you didn't treat it as
sufficiently important, and didn't cooperate well? Every year Dafa
disciples have put together a Chinese New Year show, and with time it
spread to other regions, with other countries even holding their own
shows. Why are we doing that? To entertain ordinary people? Absolutely
not. Everyone is clear on this. What we wish to do is to, through this
medium, display Dafa disciples' demeanor, do away with the lies and
slander that the wicked Party has instilled in people, and at the same
time save all beings and clarify the facts. Today, if there are people,
anywhere in the world, in the middle and upper classes who say they
don't know about Falun Gong, I would say they are feigning ignorance.
And especially if it's somebody from a governmental agency who claims
not to know what Falun Gong is, then he is deliberately playing dumb - he
really is. So in other words, basically everyone knows what Falun Gong
is about, and they all know that the CCP is persecuting Falun Gong, and
that Falun Gong is a good, kind group of people that cultivate
according to Zhen, Shan, Ren. They are very clear on this.

So I think that since a problem did arise, there is a need to go
explain the facts. I think it should be resolved by clarifying the
facts, and at the same time, we should figure out what is blocking us.
The biggest problem is actually that practitioners have not cooperated
well with each other. Of course, there are regions where practitioners
were locked in endless arguments - one wanted to rent this theater and
another wanted some different one - and they forgot that they were to
validate the Fa, not themselves.

In previous years it was all done by you, the Dafa disciples. Each year
after I watched it, however, I felt at once both happy and unsatisfied.
Dafa disciples expended a lot of financial, material, and human
resources on each year's Chinese New Year show, and the persons
involved were usually core members of various projects. So if we didn't
achieve our desired results, it would really be a net loss, and not
worth it. Even during the show I heard sarcastic comments, and
theater-goers said all sorts of things as they were exiting the
show - meaning that the desired result was not achieved. Of course, Dafa
disciples are validating the Fa, and as they go about clarifying the
facts they might not always succeed in making their point. Later on I
thought it over for a while, pondering: "Should we continue to hold the
show? If the results stay the same, it can't go on. Dafa disciples
haven't been doing all of this to give ordinary people entertainment.
If it can't save people after our having expended so many human,
material, and financial resources on it - and it is being done in
multiple areas - then it can't continue." Later, when I weighed it
carefully, I saw that there were indeed some persons with talent in
this area among our Dafa disciples, and who had always wanted to
validate the Fa in this capacity. They all had a similar desire. Of
course, I'm talking about it at the surface level. So I thought: "Since
that's the situation, I'll just go ahead and take the lead on this."
(Applause) Or at the very least, I would lead them until they became
mature; I would lead them for a couple of years, at which point they
would know how to do things.

Of course, things are always easier said than done, and once I got
involved the very nature of it changed. You all know that Dafa
disciples are to validate the Fa, so then what is Master doing? Master
came to do Fa-rectification. That is why once I decided to do this,
everything changed - the audience members before us, the people I
wanted
to save, and the affair itself that was to be carried out. If this was
to be done well, then it must achieve the best results and truly save
and rescue people. Only then would I do it, and this had to be
achieved. So I couldn't do things as before. Before, Dafa disciples
were doing the show part time, and now, if it was to be done, it had to
be high caliber. Of course, some people said, "Whatever Master does is
sure to be done the very best." True! If it were not the best, I
wouldn't do it. (Applause) So, I asked people to start recruiting for
and setting up a school of dance, selected talented people, and formed
an orchestra. This entire sequence of events required training and
development starting from the fundamentals, and it all had to lead to
truly top-notch performances. Master has been involved in many of these
things, including creative components of it and rehearsals. You have
all heard about this. In any case, the kids did great in their performances. They really did
a super job. It is rare to see audience members shedding tears at a
performing arts event. At every show put on by Divine Performing Arts,
there were many audience members who shed tears throughout, with many
more having to constantly wipe tears from their eyes. Every show was
like that. People were deeply stirred and moved. In this dimension it
was young people who were performing, while in other dimensions, many
of my Law Bodies and many divine beings were doing so. (Applause) The
strength of the impact on people, as with the changes it caused in
them, were very similar to what happened back when I personally taught
the Fa early on. (Applause) So it has effected tremendous changes in
people.

It's performing arts after all, so the higher the caliber, the more
people are going to be receptive to it and the greater the changes that
are going to occur in people. They thus have to be perfect
performances. They have to be perfect in every respect - the moment the
curtain rises, a most beautiful scene should meet the eye. The
requirements are that the choreography, costumes, and theatrical effect
all have to be beautiful. People in today's society don't understand
this anymore. People's aesthetic sense changes along with the trends of
society. One day such and such is fashionable, so it is said to be
good; then the next day it's something else that is fashionable, and so
something different is said to be good. Only Dafa's principles are
unchanging and immutable, and we are the only ones who know what true
beauty is. Since Dafa disciples cultivate Zhen, Shan, Ren, we are able
to know what is truly good - something that never changes - and thus have
resonance with people's good and wonderful side. This is something that
ordinary people can't do now. Also, the energy sent forth with the
songs of our singers, with the music from the orchestra, and with the
movements from the dancers in the show is pure and benevolent,
compassionate, and extremely powerful. In fact, many members of the
audience had their health problems resolved in that field. Those who
watched the shows don't know that yet, but they will gradually come to.
By the time they finished watching the show, their minds were purified
and their health recovered. (Applause) So I think that what we did had
excellent results. And of course, most of the performers are young Dafa
disciples, so this way, it doesn't take up [much of] Dafa disciples'
resources.



Disciple: What is the purpose of the first NTDTV International Chinese Classical Dance Competition?

Master: I don't want to explain
it in full this early on, as this way we will leave ourselves something
good to talk about later. (Disciples laugh) But I can talk with you
about it in superficial terms. The wicked CCP is afraid of whatever
Dafa disciples do. The performances given by Dafa disciples are of
pure, upright Chinese culture, ancient culture, and true culture
bestowed by gods. And this of course destroys the culture of the wicked
CCP, so naturally, it is afraid. No matter how the wicked Party goes
through all its machinations, it is an ignoble government that has
occupied only the piece of land that is China, and so whatever it does
is limited to within China's borders. By contrast, when New Tang
Dynasty TV does something such as this [competition], it is global in
scale - it's an international competition and an international event
regardless of whatever else. (Master laughs) (Audience laughs,
applauds) The winners will be winning an international
competition.   



Disciple: Would you please talk about whether it is okay for a Minghui School to use simplified Chinese characters?

Master: Do what is most
expedient. You can do things only based on mankind's current
circumstances. The Minghui Schools in Taiwan use traditional
characters, and the ones that cater to mainland Chinese use simplified
characters. I am not against any of that. The issue is not one of how
characters should be written per se. The key is how to purge the
Party's culture and save sentient beings. That is what matters most.
Don't dwell on these trivial things.



Disciple: Some disciples who live in remote areas didn't participate in
the recent Fa-rectification project wherein Master led North American
disciples in holding the New Year Spectacular. They feel that they may
be falling behind.

Master: No, it's not like that.
I didn't ask all of you to come and take part. Even [when I commented
on] selling tickets for the Spectacular, that was because students were
anxious and had asked me to say a few words; I didn't ask you to all
come and participate. I just said that those of you with the right
circumstances could come help. If your circumstances weren't favorable,
you were not to come. If you were to say, "I'm really busy here and
can't leave the projects that validate the Fa," then don't come.



Disciple: (Master: I'll skip the names). Greetings to Master from Dafa disciples in Zhejiang province! (Master:
Thank you!) (Applause) Are the requirements for domestic and overseas
disciples different? Or is it that the amounts of karma are different?
Or is it due to having different kinds of knowledge and certain
predestined connections?

Master: It's not about having
different karma or different requirements, and it is definitely not
about different predestined connections. It has to do with the
different vows you made at the beginning. Dafa disciples are one body,
and it is the same wherever you are - the progress of Fa-rectification is
synchronized. (Applause) Had there been no efforts to resist the
persecution by Dafa disciples outside of China, who have powerfully
exposed the evil on an international scale, the evil would have
persecuted the Dafa disciples in China even more severely and with even
less restraint. All of this has brought about great changes, and these
things are inseparable from what Dafa disciples outside of China have
done. So on this question [you raise], the only difference is in terms
of what you do. The problems that you face are the same. There is no
difference at all in terms of cultivation realms or levels.



Disciple: All students from Russia send their regards to Master. A few
Russian students were arrested or detained for clarifying the facts.
May we ask how Russian students should change this type of situation
and environment?

Master: Usually wherever there
is a problem, that is where Dafa disciples should go to clarify the
facts, and do so tenaciously. Our Chinese students share an impression,
namely, that in Western society everything happens in an orderly and
organized fashion. For certain things appointments have to be booked in
advance, and one has to wait a long time for things to get done. But
what is happening with the persecution is so urgent, and as we resist
the persecution there is no time to do things in such a slow, unhurried
manner. Students have realized that this won't work. Thus a lot of our
Chinese students have taken their own approach, going for in-person
meetings, doing things tenaciously, determined to clarify the facts to
the fullest extent and get things done. Of course, some Western
students find it hard to bear, being used to doing things that [other]
way. But that won't work - it really won't. You cannot wait. Sentient
beings are being persecuted, and morality is on a rapid decline. The
number of people you are to save is becoming smaller and smaller, and
it is becoming ever more difficult. That is why we cannot wait.



Disciple: Why are simplified characters used in the Chinese teaching
materials that are to be given to the future? Aren't simplified
characters a product of the CCP?

Master: Indeed, simplified
characters were created amidst the wicked CCP's society. That's for
sure. But, today more than a billion people use simplified characters
in China. If we clarify the facts using traditional characters and they
can't read them, that won't do. It's not something that can be changed
overnight. Do what is most expedient when you clarify the facts. It
doesn't matter what script people use now. It's not a problem as long
as we can save people with it. Saving people is the top priority!
(Applause)



Disciple: Master has said that Dafa disciples have gained new life,
emerging from the old cosmos and the old Fa principles. Can we take
this to mean that Dafa has given all beings a chance to renew
themselves, a chance that is unique and unparalleled?

Master: The cosmos is no good
anymore, and the same is true for sentient beings. If they were not
renewed, the cosmos would cease to exist. That's the situation. And it
is not limited to human beings: What I said applies to divine beings as
well, and the heavens, to all beings - it holds for all life. It is in
the cosmos that the Fa is being rectified, not just the human world.
But actually, true Fa-rectification of the human world has not yet
begun.



Disciple: Please tell us: What is the connection between establishing a college and Fa-rectification?

Master: If Dafa disciples want
to establish a college, there is nothing wrong with doing that,
provided you can use it to validate the Fa, clarify the facts, and save
sentient beings. The point is to look and see whether the undertaking
has any connection to the salvation of sentient beings.  And if it
has none, then there is not much point in doing so.



Disciple: I see many elements of the Party's culture in the ways fellow
practitioners do things, but I don't know how to communicate this to
them.

Master: The ways of thinking
and the sentence patterns of persons coming from mainland China are
composed, to varying degrees, of the bad societal practices created by
the wicked CCP for mainland Chinese. As you cultivate you will
gradually come to recognize these things. When mainland Chinese live in
a normal society, the bad practices and habits they have change over
time. Those things don't affect cultivation, though, and they cannot
impede it, so this isn't a problem. When I imparted the Fa in China
back in the early days, many people had that same state of mind, and
yet they could still understand the Fa and cultivate. That can't be
stopped. Our bringing to light the wicked culture of the Party is to
expose its wicked nature and have people see it for what it is, see how
it is poisoning Chinese people, how it is destroying mankind's sense of
conscience, and how it is ruining ancient Chinese culture. The evil's
ultimate purpose is to destroy mankind.



Disciple: Are Dafa books in traditional and simplified characters the same in other dimensions?   

Master: In other dimensions
they are not in traditional or simplified characters. (Audience laughs)
They are in the scripts of other dimensions. (Audience laughs) In the
heavens they have the scripts of the heavens.



Disciple: When I see a bright golden dot moving before my eyes, can I recite "mie"¹?

Master: I'll put it this way:
If you think it's not a good thing, you may handle it with righteous
thoughts. But if it is a good thing, your righteous thoughts will not
affect it. That is because your [thought] is righteous, and if that
thing is also righteous, it won't be affected.

 

Disciple: There will only be Dafa and the Chinese language in the
future, so is it all right for children born outside of China not to go
to school and to study only Dafa and the Chinese language?

Master: I have not asked you to
do that. When, in the future, the Fa rectifies the human world, however
things are at that time is a state toward which the remaining human
beings will need to move. If you say, "I want to do things now that are
meant for the future," then you can't do them. You had best focus on
doing well the things associated with the task at hand, which is saving
beings. Future things are not for Dafa disciples to take care of, for
at that time it will be Master alone who handles things.

 

Disciple: We haven't kept up our activities at tourist attractions in
many large cities, since most practitioners are involved in the Chinese
New Year Spectacular, the Divine Land Marching Band, and other
projects. So there are fewer and fewer practitioners involved in
clarifying the facts directly.

Master: Actually, the Divine
Land Marching Band is hardly practicing any new pieces of late. Most
often the band members find time to practice on their own as
individuals; there is little time for group rehearsal. This is the case
in all regions, so it hasn't affected other projects for the most part.
In the beginning, when the band was first established, time did indeed
have to be set aside for rehearsal together during that period. But
currently it hardly affects [other projects].  

 

Disciple: The CCP's persecution of Falun Gong has reached beyond China,
and there have been cases of practitioners being repatriated. How
should our media handle this?

Master: When the evil
persecutes us, we report it - that's not a problem. There is nothing for
us to be embarrassed about, as what we show the public is the CCP's
wickedness. Dafa disciples won't be frightened by the evil. Dafa
disciples have weathered terrible storms, so who's afraid? If even
mainland Dafa disciples are not afraid of it, who would be afraid of it
outside of China? Expose the evil wherever it should be exposed, and
report whatever needs to be reported.

  

Disciple: I, your disciple, want to memorize the Fa very much, but because of various projects at hand, time is really tight.

Master: It's up to you. That
dilemma has always been present, for Dafa disciples have to validate
the Fa while studying the Fa well, and so their time is definitely
tight. That is the challenge you are facing. Cultivate yourself well
and save sentient beings. Both are important, for sure.  



Disciple: Since Master told us in the 2005 lecture in San Francisco
that Chinatown was a blank spot in our clarifying the facts, we have
been trying to make efforts to address this. However, the evil there is
still rampant today, and the disciples in the Bay Area are quite
anxious. Master, please give us some guidance on this.

Master: How many people have
really gone to San Francisco's Chinatown to clarify the facts? If you
haven't persisted at it and there have only been a few people involved,
of course things won't change! Given that there are so many disciples
in the Bay Area, why don't you make that area a priority and put in
some effort there?   



Disciple: Dafa disciples from various areas send their greetings to
you! These greetings come from Fushun city of Liaoning province, Shashi
city of Hubei province, Yantai city, Puyang city of Henan province,
Hefei city, Pingjiang city of Hunan province, Jinan city, Kunming city,
Dandong city of Liaoning province, Hangzhou city, Fujian province,
Nanping city, Minbei city, Guizhou province, Zunyi city, Panjin city,
Huai'an city of Jiangsu province, Changchun city, Beijing, Tianjin,
Nanjing, Changzhou city, Guiyang city, Xishuangbanna city of Yunnan
province, Shenyang city, Ningde city, Zhengzhou city of Henan province,
Jilin city, Hongdu of Nanchang city, Zhuhai city, Laiyang city,
Chenzhou city, Hengyang city, Hengnan city, Luzhou city of Sichuan
province, Tianjin university, and Yiyang city of Hunan province.

Master: Thank you all! (Applause)



Disciple: Dafa disciples came to the human world with the vows they
made to Master. If in this life that is lived in human delusion a
disciple didn't walk down the path that he vowed to, does he still have
a cultivation path that leads to Consummation? And in particular, how
will this affect children?

Master: If a being breaks his
vow, the heavens regard it as a serious matter. Of course, if while
Dafa disciples are being persecuted he has not followed the evil, has
not been aggravating a situation that was bad to begin with, has not
been involved in the persecution of Dafa disciples, and has meanwhile
been able to identify with Dafa, then at the very least he will be
allowed to remain for the next phase. In the next phase there are still
going to be people cultivating. Of course, they won't have the honor
and glory of Fa-Rectification Period Dafa Disciples, since this mighty
virtue is immeasurable. When the Fa rectifies the human world in the
future, there will be a group of Dafa disciples, but their cultivation
will be very hard, so much so that even the slightest deviation in
one's thoughts will lead to the Fa not being shown to that person.
After obtaining the book, they might read it every day and still not
necessarily be cultivators. So they will be held to higher standards,
since the true picture of everything will be displayed in the future.
In other words, although it will be hard in the future, the opportunity
to cultivate will still exist.  



Disciple: Regarding your talks in certain regions that were not
officially passed along by the Falun Dafa Association, is it okay for
people in other regions to listen to individual practitioners relay
them?

Master: Some practitioners like
to try to stand out, and from time to time they show off by doing
something new or unique. As I have said on many occasions: What I say
regarding specific circumstances or say to a small number of people is
not to be recorded, nor to just be relayed to other practitioners. Some
people just don't listen, though, and insist on doing that. They are
showing off, undermining Dafa, and disrupting Dafa disciples'
cultivation. You know, in cultivation the most prominent sign that a
person still harbors human attachments is his doing things that are not
to validate Dafa but instead to validate himself! That is playing a
destructive role. There are those who often do things in Master's name,
saying, "Master asked me to do such and such," "Master said this and
that," or "Master asked you to do this or that." I have never asked
anyone to do this or that. Whoever says that is furthering his own ends
in Master's name. Even if I instruct someone to take specific action so
as to resolve something and that person says things to other
practitioners, he is still playing a destructive role. Remember my
words: Whoever says things in my name is doing a bad thing. At the very
least, at that moment he is absolutely not saying things that a
cultivator should say; he is stifling others and building himself up in
Master's name. Of course, I may ask the primary coordinators of Dafa
disciples to relay my words, and in those cases I ask them to do so.
  



Disciple: Chinese culture's five thousand years of history laid the
foundation for mankind to understand the Fa. Now that the
Fa-rectification process is nearing its end, we need to spend a lot of
time compiling textbooks that teach true, standard Chinese culture and
that are suitable for elementary and middle school students, as well as
non-Chinese students.

Master: I think that this
should be jointly undertaken with the establishment of schools and be
done in a coordinated fashion. If among you one person wants to do it
and the next person also wants to do the same, expending human
resources, material resources, and energy, well, in the end it may not
be usable, and wouldn't you have done it in vain? Clarifying the facts
and saving people is truly an urgent matter right now. The people of
the future will have to set right the things they once ruined. It
doesn't matter that it was the evil leading them to do such things, as
those bad deeds were nevertheless done by human beings. People will
have to undo the wrong they once did. Thus, however Dafa disciples do
things now is simply giving mankind a correct path to follow.
  



Disciple: Please help us understand the importance of Chinese classical dance.

Master: There isn't much to
talk about in terms of importance. Dafa disciples are using Chinese
classical dance in their performances. Should I talk about Chinese
dance here? (Audience laughs) Since you are using it in your
performances, I'll say a few words about it. "Chinese dance" is
actually a short way of saying Chinese classical dance. And of course,
Chinese dance includes folk dance, ethnic dance, and so on. Why is
Chinese classical dance considered classical dance? Because it was
passed down from ancient China. As for things being passed down, there
are in fact two methods: One is when ancient cultures of different
periods are infused into people's genes, forming a kind of bearing that
is associated with every move of a human being, called "yun² bearing";
another means is via a cultural heritage, and the passing down of
culture can be divided into oral and written transmissions, on the one
hand, and the transmission of dance positions or movements on the
other. Different regions have different styles of dance, and the things
that are infused into the human body in turn lead to people's positions
and movements coming to define their ethnic uniqueness; this refers to
the ethnic bearing that exists in what makes up a human being. That's
why there is a big difference in every move made by a Chinese versus a
Western person - the raising of an arm or the lifting of a leg, for
example - as well as in their facial expressions. In fact, this is ethnic
"yun bearing," something very difficult to learn. Whatever dance
position or move you may do, every extension of your arm and every
planting of your foot expresses this bearing, and it is a common thread
that runs through history.

There are three major components to Chinese dance: physical yun,
physical forms, and technique. The "physical yun" that Chinese dance
emphasizes is actually about expressing ethnic bearing through physical
performance. There was no systematic passing down of the physical-form
aspect of Chinese dance over history, but the techniques, however, were
passed down, and exceptionally well. As you know, the character "wu" in
the word "wushu" (martial arts) and the character wu in the word
"wudao" (dance) are homophones, which was deliberately planned by gods.
And as a matter of fact, if the character wu [as in wushu] were used in
a soft context, it would refer to dance; if the character wu [as in
wudao] were used in an aggressive context, it would refer to the
martial arts. In the different dynasties in history and in a variety of
settings, ranging from imperial courts to [settings of] common
citizens, on many occasions, such as celebrations and banquets, the
dances that were performed were done by warriors, who would perform
leaps, turns, and tumbling moves that involve martial arts techniques,
and they would brandish swords, spears, staves, and the like. By
contrast, physical forms were mostly transmitted among the people, and
they include many elements of different styles. Different dynasties
also had their court dances, and this practice never ceased. It was
only in recent times, however, that people began to systematically
standardize Chinese dance and establish the formal study and teaching
of Chinese dance - that is, teaching Chinese dance in systematic fashion.
However, this [form of dance] was definitely not created in recent
times.

Chinese dance has its own complete system of training to hone the
fundamentals. It has exercises similar to those of ballet, such as
those involving bars or ones done on the floor. Meanwhile, it also has
physical yun, physical forms, and techniques. The physical yun of
classical dance that mainland China uses today is limited by the system
of the Party's culture, and the understanding there is actually quite
shallow. Yun is not just about the dance movements seen on the surface;
it is mainly about the inner qualities of that ethnicity. For instance,
when a Westerner and a Chinese person, both of whom have never learned
dance before, start to study Chinese dance together, they will
definitely exhibit different bearings. The things passed down through
one's ethnicity are in the bones and in one's being. The advanced
techniques in Chinese dance include tumbling, jumps, and turns that are
harder to do than ballet, and it demands a greater mastery of technique
than ballet. Chinese dance is broader than ballet in terms of scope,
and it has far more movements.

Ballet has only a few movements, and if you try to add another to it,
it won't be a ballet movement. So it can't be altered. By contrast,
Chinese dance has so many movements that it's relatively easy for
Chinese dance to portray any given character. It can all be done, no
matter which character, setting, or surroundings are meant to be
depicted in the dance. That is one of its strengths, and its creation
is relatively easy. With ballet, on the other hand, it's awfully hard
to come up with a new composition, owing to how few movements it
has - that's all there is to it - and once you go beyond that, it's no
longer ballet. Since Chinese dance is vast and contains so much, it is
relatively easy to create something. So that's an advantage for Dafa
disciples when they use Chinese dance in the Chinese New Year shows.
What's more, China has had five thousand years of civilization, so any
story or any thing can be taken and portrayed on stage. It provides an
endless, inexhaustible wellspring of material. What is that wicked
CCP's terribly dull, boring culture worth? Last year, the wicked CCP
wasted so much money and manpower sending more than sixty performing
arts troupes around the world in an attempt to interfere with Dafa
disciples' performances, putting on a kaleidoscope of buffoonery, and
their crude and degrading shows interested no one. They had to pay
people to go watch their shows, and yet people still jeered them to no
end. They squandered billions and returned home a complete failure. And
many of their performers seized the opportunity to defect. There was
vicious infighting in the various performing arts troupes on account of
the compensation being unevenly distributed; it cost them a fortune
since nobody wanted to see their shows; and audiences could hardly find
enough insults to hurl at them. All of their performers were heavily
tainted with bad habits from the Party's culture, so the wicked Party
is doing nothing but spinning its wheels. (Applause)   

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¹Translator's note: meaning, "eliminate it" or "it is eliminated."

²Translator's note: in the context of this discussion, this refers to a subtle feeling conveyed through outward form.





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