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In addition we are practitioners and will be enlightened beings in the future. How can we say
dirty words?‘
49 ‗Looking Within Myself During the Fa Rectification‘, 20 April 2001, http://www.clear
wisdom.net/emh/articles/2001/4/20/6831.html.
50 ‗Media Advisory – for Immediate Release‘, 26 April 2001,
http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2001/4/27/9091.html. See also Li Hongzhi,
‗Eliminate Evil‘, 2 Dec. 2000,
http://www.clearwisdom.net/eng/2000/Dec/02/Editorials120200.html.
51 Bell and Boas (note 47).
52 In ‗Master Li Hongzhi‘s Lecture at the Great Lakes Conference in North America‘, 23 Dec. 2000,
http://www.clearwisdom.net/eng/2000/Dec/23/JingWen122300.html, Li states: ‗Some of our
students outside of China wonder: ―Being overseas, we don‘t suffer as much the students in
China do. Does this mean that we won‘t be as good as the students in China when we reach
Consummation?‖‘ The answer Li gives is that they are all equal as particles of Dafa as long as
they do what they can to step forward and defend the Fa.
53 This changed in Li‘s message ‗Coercion Cannot Change People‘s Hearts‘, 6 March 2001,
http://www.clearwisdom.net/eng/2001/Mar/06/JingWen030601.html, where he indicated that
reformed practitioners could come back into the fold if they renounced their renunciation.
However, they will need to ‗make up for the losses they have caused Dafa because of their
own misconduct‘ by ‗doubling your efforts to make amends …‘, ‗Double Your Efforts to Make
Amends, Catch up With the Fa-Rectification Process‘, 2 Jan. 2001,
http://www.clearwisdom.net/eng/2001/Jan/02/VSF0102012.html.
54See David C. Rapoport, ‗Messianic Sanctions For Terror‘, Comparative Politics (Jan. 1988) p.205.
55 Ian Johnson, ‗The Burden of Belief‘, The Wall Street Journal, 27 March 2000.
56 Li Hongzhi, ‗Fa-Rectification Period Dafa Disciples‘, 15 August 2001,
http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2001/8/16/12965.html ‗Lecture on the Fa at the
Washington D.C. International Conference‘,
http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2001/7/30/12636,html.
57 The period of Fa-rectification is identified with the persecution that the practitioners experience in
China. The persecution is described as a ‗test‘ of practitioners and referred to as the ‗time of
tribulations‘. It is implied that the Fa-rectification process will be completed and the Fa-
rectification (as an end result) arrive, when the period of persecution of the Falun Gong has
ended. This also implies that the practitioner‘s moment of Consummation cannot arrive until
the ban in China is lifted. There are hints that there is not much time left before the Fa-
rectification is complete. The exact ending time for the Fa-rectification and the time of
Consummation to arrive, is kept vague, and Li tells practitioners not to think about it or they
may become ‗attached‘ to it. A ‗common resident‘ in China is quoted in a Minghui article as
saying: ‗They said the Fa would be rectified very soon. I am looking forward to the coming of
that day‘. In ‗Despite the Blanket of Terror, Changshun Falun Dafa Practitioners Remain
Determined and People Are Awakening‘, 28 March 2002.
58 ‗What Shanshan Saw in Other Dimensions – Part I‘, 28 April 2001, http://www.clear
wisdom.net/emh/articles/2001/4/28/9140.html, and ‗Part II‘, 2 May 2001,
http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2001/5/2/9205.html ‗With Teacher at the helm,
the Fa saves all beings – Part I‘, 5 May 2001,
http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2001/5/4/9259.html ‗One Wink in the Boundless
Dafa – Part III‘, 5 May 2001, http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2001/5/5/9287.html.
59 See ‗Two Examples of Sudden Death for Unlawful Officers‘, 17 Sept. 2001,
http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2001/9/9/16276.html. Other examples include the
explosion of a barge and the death of six on board, and various cases of food poisoning in
wine, rice, vegetable oil ‗and even poisonous moon cakes appeared one after another‘,
http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2001/10/30/18838.html.
60 Li Hongzhi, ‗The Foretelling‘ (updated), posted 15 February 2002,
http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2002/2/15/18801.html. In this poem Li states:
‗What humans don‘t believe in, all now comes forth/ The sky cracks open and the earth burns/
The evil tries to hide the wicked ones to flee/ As gong surges forth, evil spirits wail and
scream/The Dafa disciples, ascend into the highest heavens/ In control of Heaven and Earth,
rectifying the human realm‘.
61 Li Hongzhi, ‗Eliminate Evil‘, 2 Dec. 2000,
http://www.clearwisdom.net/eng/2000/Dec/02/Editorials120200.html ‗Lecture at the Great
In addition we are practitioners and will be enlightened beings in the future. How can we say
dirty words?‘
49 ‗Looking Within Myself During the Fa Rectification‘, 20 April 2001, http://www.clear
wisdom.net/emh/articles/2001/4/20/6831.html.
50 ‗Media Advisory – for Immediate Release‘, 26 April 2001,
http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2001/4/27/9091.html. See also Li Hongzhi,
‗Eliminate Evil‘, 2 Dec. 2000,
http://www.clearwisdom.net/eng/2000/Dec/02/Editorials120200.html.
51 Bell and Boas (note 47).
52 In ‗Master Li Hongzhi‘s Lecture at the Great Lakes Conference in North America‘, 23 Dec. 2000,
http://www.clearwisdom.net/eng/2000/Dec/23/JingWen122300.html, Li states: ‗Some of our
students outside of China wonder: ―Being overseas, we don‘t suffer as much the students in
China do. Does this mean that we won‘t be as good as the students in China when we reach
Consummation?‖‘ The answer Li gives is that they are all equal as particles of Dafa as long as
they do what they can to step forward and defend the Fa.
53 This changed in Li‘s message ‗Coercion Cannot Change People‘s Hearts‘, 6 March 2001,
http://www.clearwisdom.net/eng/2001/Mar/06/JingWen030601.html, where he indicated that
reformed practitioners could come back into the fold if they renounced their renunciation.
However, they will need to ‗make up for the losses they have caused Dafa because of their
own misconduct‘ by ‗doubling your efforts to make amends …‘, ‗Double Your Efforts to Make
Amends, Catch up With the Fa-Rectification Process‘, 2 Jan. 2001,
http://www.clearwisdom.net/eng/2001/Jan/02/VSF0102012.html.
54See David C. Rapoport, ‗Messianic Sanctions For Terror‘, Comparative Politics (Jan. 1988) p.205.
55 Ian Johnson, ‗The Burden of Belief‘, The Wall Street Journal, 27 March 2000.
56 Li Hongzhi, ‗Fa-Rectification Period Dafa Disciples‘, 15 August 2001,
http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2001/8/16/12965.html ‗Lecture on the Fa at the
Washington D.C. International Conference‘,
http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2001/7/30/12636,html.
57 The period of Fa-rectification is identified with the persecution that the practitioners experience in
China. The persecution is described as a ‗test‘ of practitioners and referred to as the ‗time of
tribulations‘. It is implied that the Fa-rectification process will be completed and the Fa-
rectification (as an end result) arrive, when the period of persecution of the Falun Gong has
ended. This also implies that the practitioner‘s moment of Consummation cannot arrive until
the ban in China is lifted. There are hints that there is not much time left before the Fa-
rectification is complete. The exact ending time for the Fa-rectification and the time of
Consummation to arrive, is kept vague, and Li tells practitioners not to think about it or they
may become ‗attached‘ to it. A ‗common resident‘ in China is quoted in a Minghui article as
saying: ‗They said the Fa would be rectified very soon. I am looking forward to the coming of
that day‘. In ‗Despite the Blanket of Terror, Changshun Falun Dafa Practitioners Remain
Determined and People Are Awakening‘, 28 March 2002.
58 ‗What Shanshan Saw in Other Dimensions – Part I‘, 28 April 2001, http://www.clear
wisdom.net/emh/articles/2001/4/28/9140.html, and ‗Part II‘, 2 May 2001,
http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2001/5/2/9205.html ‗With Teacher at the helm,
the Fa saves all beings – Part I‘, 5 May 2001,
http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2001/5/4/9259.html ‗One Wink in the Boundless
Dafa – Part III‘, 5 May 2001, http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2001/5/5/9287.html.
59 See ‗Two Examples of Sudden Death for Unlawful Officers‘, 17 Sept. 2001,
http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2001/9/9/16276.html. Other examples include the
explosion of a barge and the death of six on board, and various cases of food poisoning in
wine, rice, vegetable oil ‗and even poisonous moon cakes appeared one after another‘,
http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2001/10/30/18838.html.
60 Li Hongzhi, ‗The Foretelling‘ (updated), posted 15 February 2002,
http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2002/2/15/18801.html. In this poem Li states:
‗What humans don‘t believe in, all now comes forth/ The sky cracks open and the earth burns/
The evil tries to hide the wicked ones to flee/ As gong surges forth, evil spirits wail and
scream/The Dafa disciples, ascend into the highest heavens/ In control of Heaven and Earth,
rectifying the human realm‘.
61 Li Hongzhi, ‗Eliminate Evil‘, 2 Dec. 2000,
http://www.clearwisdom.net/eng/2000/Dec/02/Editorials120200.html ‗Lecture at the Great
