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Teacher's Collected Articles and Lectures 2003 and 2004 Teacher's Collected Articles and Lectures 2003 and 2004 Table of Contents New Year's Greetings to Dafa Disciples in 2003 .......................................................................................2 Descending to the Earthly World ...............................................................................................................2 Master's Comment on a Student's Article ..................................................................................................2 Fa-Lecture During the 2003 Lantern Festival at the U.S. West Fa Conference.........................................3 Explaining the Fa During the 2003 Lantern Festival at the U.S. West Fa Conference............................12 Teaching and Explaining the Fa at the Metropolitan New York Fa Conference .....................................62 Teaching the Fa at the Conference in Vancouver, Canada in 2003..........................................................96 Teaching the Fa at the 2003 Midwest-U.S. Fa Conference ...................................................................109 Teaching the Fa at the 2003 Washington DC Fa Conference ................................................................119 Master's Comment on a Student's Article ..............................................................................................125 Teaching the Fa at the Discussion on Creating Fine Art........................................................................126 Master's Comment on a Student's Article ..............................................................................................149 Master's Comment on a Student's Article ..............................................................................................149 Master’s New Year’s Day 2004 Greeting to Dafa Disciples..................................................................149 Teaching the Fa at the 2003 Atlanta Fa Conference ..............................................................................150 Master's Fa Taught in the International Teleconference.........................................................................180 Stop the Evil Acts with Righteous Thoughts .........................................................................................181 Eliminate the Dark Minions With Righteous Thoughts .........................................................................182 Teaching the Fa at the 2004 Western U.S. Fa Conference .....................................................................183 Teaching the Fa on Easter, 2004, at the New York Fa Conference ........................................................210 Be Clearheaded ......................................................................................................................................215 Teaching the Fa at the Meeting with Asia-Pacific Students...................................................................216 Master's Comment on a Student's Article ..............................................................................................246 Teaching the Fa at the 2004 Chicago Conference..................................................................................246 To the Fa Conference in Montreal, Canada ...........................................................................................255 Master’s Message to the European Fa Conference Held in Vienna.......................................................255 On Reading Weathering the Storm.........................................................................................................255 Teaching the Fa at the 2004 Washington DC Fa Conference ................................................................256 Let Go of Human Attachments and Save the World’s People ...............................................................260 In Fa-Rectification Your Thoughts Have to be Righteous, Not Human ................................................261 Master's Comment on a Student's Article ..............................................................................................262 Greetings ................................................................................................................................................262 My Version of a “Stick Wake-up” ..........................................................................................................263 Teaching the Fa at the 2004 International Fa Conference in New York ................................................265 1 New Year's Greetings to Dafa Disciples in 2003 Happy New Year, Dafa disciples in Mainland China! Happy New Year, Dafa disciples around the world! Descending to the Earthly World With the turning of Falun there is sure to be madness, A whole nation's resources drained, working on me. I quietly observe the buffoon's devilish play dying out Only the last vestiges of dirt now blow to and fro. Five thousand years of reincarnation through shifts and change, I brush off the enshrouding dust, and all their realities are seen. Who is really the gallant lead in this gigantic play? I made this trip just for the sake of sentient beings. Li Hongzhi The 29th day of the 12th month, the Year of Ren Wu in the lunar calendar January 31, 2003 Master's Comment on a Student's Article Well said. Each person's cultivation path is different, the way in which each validates the Fa is different, their social statuses are different, their occupations are different, and their -surroundings are different, but they can all cultivate nevertheless. This is the path Dafa presents to its cultivators. Dafa disciples are one body, and I affirm everything they have been doing during Fa-rectification-they are all doing what Dafa disciples should do. Different approaches are in fact the all-encompassing way in which roles are dynamically distributed in the operations of the Fa, and the Fa-power is a reflection of the one body. Li Hongzhi February 16, 2003 Revised on October 8, 2005 2 Fa-Lecture During the 2003 Lantern Festival at the U.S. West Fa Conference (Long applause) Let’s be seated. It’s been a long time again since we last met up. Seems like a lot of people knew I would come to this Fa conference. You’re all pretty in the know! You’re getting more and more amazing as you cultivate. (Applause) Today I’ll first tell you about the state of Fa-rectification, as well as my situation, and then I’ll talk a little about some issues that have come up among our students as the Fa-rectification progresses and in your cultivation. On different occasions, and from different angles, I’ve talked about the immense force of the Fa- rectification of the entire cosmos. Today I’ll explain the form of Fa-rectification to you from yet another angle. As you know, this cosmos is extremely huge, so huge it can’t be measured—and I don’t mean the ways human beings measure things, but even the ways Gods do. I’ve said before that there are countless sentient beings. None of them can figure out exactly how many molecules make up the earth, and, every particle is a being. And then there are so many planets in the cosmos, too many to count. And how big is a cosmic body? Even if you let your imagination go, it’s still only within the scope of a particle of a small cosmic body. In the enormous cosmos, it’s not just beings that are countless, but levels too. Even to Gods they’re countless, and that’s even how Kings and Lords at extremely high levels see it. That’s why in the latter stages of teaching the Fa I stopped talking about how big the cosmos is—it was totally impossible to describe it with human language anymore. But the higher the level, the more huge those beings and dimensions get, and they get so huge that they’re beyond description. The volume of one being up there surpasses all of the cosmoses below him. That’s how big. With the Fa-rectification, twenty percent of the beings of the old cosmos got involved and arranged all the things they wanted in the Fa-rectification; at all the different levels a group of beings got directly involved in this Fa-rectification. They never could have imagined that their involvement would be precisely the real demonic obstacle to this Fa-rectification. But their involvement has created a gigantic obstacle to the entire Fa-rectification, and has resulted in countless sentient beings getting destroyed. “Isn’t Master merciful? Just forgive them and it’ll be okay.” The old forces have exactly been taking advantage of my great mercy and playing games. The Fa is merciful to all beings, but at the same time it’s solemn and dignified. And the Fa has standards, before sentient beings it’s unchanging and unbreakable, and it’s not something that can be influenced casually. I can be merciful to sentient beings, but, when a being has really violated something to that extent, the Fa is there to judge him, and any further mercy would be excessive, it would be the same as destroying itself, so beings like that are marked for elimination. During the Fa-rectification, the number of sentient beings in the cosmos that have been weeded out due to the old forces’ involvement is countless. So, the specifics of their involvement, the way they’ve done it—which is the way they think can best enable them to reach their aims, and their most typical way— is to have all the huge, gigantic cosmic bodies extend a foot into the cosmos’s lowest level, the Three Realms. This is just a figurative description. In other words, they all have a part of them pressed into the Three Realms. Think about it, when such enormous cosmic bodies
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