PureInsight | February 21, 2002
During the New Year period, I rummaged around to find the telephone numbers of my former colleagues and classmates in China. Then I called them to send holiday greetings and to clarify the truth. One of them felt that it was very difficult to understand Dafa because Dafa does not advocate struggling and fighting, and therefore was not accepted by mainstream society. Listening to him talk, I recalled one of my childhood experiences.
When I was in the first year of junior high school, my family moved to a coal-mining area. Soon after we moved, my aunt's husband who lived there for many years gave us a "first lesson." He told us that, unlike a factory, a colliery had no surrounding walls, and lots of its assets were placed in open fields. People there were used to taking the property of the colliery back home. The colliery did issue some coupons for free coal, but that was not nearly enough to cover their heating needs. However, they seldom bought coal. They just took coal from the stacks out in the open. Such an act was called "stealing coal," and yet no one felt ashamed. On the contrary, if you did not steal coal, you were considered a bad person. That was because others were afraid that you would see them steal and report what you saw. If everyone stole, there would be no trouble and everyone would live in peace. If you followed suit and stole, it means that you had entered mainstream society.
What kind of a mainstream society is this!
What we see in our current society is people fighting with one another and trying to cheat each other. The stronger and more powerful the person, the more likely it will be that he behaves this way. Beneath the superficial peace lies the fuse that leads to conflict. "Humans without kind thoughts---Seeing each other as enemies." (From "Ten Evils in the World" in HongYin) Under the influence of such a mainstream, is there a peaceful pure land in the world? Is there real happiness? People are bent on seeking material prosperity, but they have no way to conceal their inner chaos. When a person is in such an environment, he may occasionally feel something is wrong, but he still goes with the flow.
The spread of Falun Dafa is unquestionably like a pristine stream pouring into the world where the ethical standards are declining rapidly. Tens of millions of people have awakened to the truth and immediately followed the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance after they read Zhuan Falun. The moral improvement during cultivation brings people more peace in their hearts. The ancients said, "Human beings walk upright, water flows downward." Enjoying a material life lasts only a short duration, but the improvement of one's heart is eternal and imperishable. For human beings, it is very dangerous that morality has declined to such an extent. Human beings are destroying themselves unknowingly. In ancient times, Sakyamuni, Jesus and Lao Zi presented the principles of cultivation, while Confucius told people how to be virtuous. Today, the spread of Falun Dafa benefits people in ways which words cannot describe.
Only a society that values virtue can be considered a human society.
Translated from: http://www.zhengjian.org/zj/articles/2002/1/18/13417.html
