Awakening

The time for genuine Dafa cultivation is limited. Many practitioners have realized that they must hurry up and diligently make continual progress. Yet some practitioners do not treasure their time, and focus their minds on tangential issues. Since this book of Dafa, Zhuan Falun, was published, many people have compared the recordings of my lectures with the book, claiming that the Research Society changed Teacher’s words. Some others said that the book was written with the help of so-and-so, thereby undermining Dafa. I am telling you now that Dafa belongs to me, Li Hongzhi. It is taught to save you and spoken from my mouth. Additionally, when I taught the Fa, I did not use any scripts or other materials, but only a piece of paper concerning what I would teach to my students; it contained something very simple with only a few points that no one else could understand. Every time I taught the Fa I presented it from a different angle and delivered my speech according to the students’ ability to comprehend. Therefore, every time I taught the Fa I would address the same issue from different angles. Furthermore, this book of the Fa represents the characteristic of the universe and is the true manifestation of the mighty Buddha Fa. It is what I originally had, that which I recalled after attaining enlightenment through cultivation practice. I then made it public in everyday people’s language, and I taught it to you as well as to those in heavens, thereby rectifying the universe with the Fa. For the convenience of learners’ cultivation practice, I assigned some students to transcribe the contents of my lectures from the tape recordings without any changes to my original words; they then gave it to me for revision. The students merely copied my revisions or typed it on a computer so that I could make further revisions. As far as Zhuan Falun is concerned, it was finalized and published after I personally revised it three times.

No one has ever made even a slight change regarding the content of this book of Dafa. Furthermore, who could possibly do that? There are three reasons for its differences from the tape recordings. First, for the convenience of cultivation practice, in the revision I have incorporated many of my lectures on the Fa. Secondly, while giving the lectures on the Fa, I taught it according to students’ different abilities to comprehend and on the situations and circumstances at that time; therefore, I had to modify the structure of the language when editing it into a book. Thirdly, when cultivators study it, misunderstandings can occur due to the differences between the speech and the written language, so modification was needed. Nonetheless, the form and colloquial style of my lectures on the Fa were still preserved. Zhuan Falun (Volume Two), and Falun Dafa Explication, were also personally revised by me before they were published. I incorporated thinking at different levels in writing Zhuan Falun (Volume Two), so some people find the writing style different and are puzzled by it. These are not things of everyday people to begin with! In fact, Volume Two is reserved for future generations to learn the extent of mankind’s degeneration today, thereby leaving people a profound historical lesson. China Falun Gong, including its revised version, is only a transitional material in the form of qigong for people to understand at the beginning.

The disruption of the Fa takes many forms, of which the unintentional disruption by disciples themselves is the most difficult to detect. Sakyamuni’s Buddhism began its deterioration in just this way and the lesson is profound.

Disciples must remember: All Falun Dafa texts are the Fa that I have taught, and they are revised and edited personally by me. From now on, no one may take excerpts from the tape recordings of my lectures on the Fa, or compile them into written materials. Regardless of any excuses you may have, it is undermining the Fa; this includes the so-called "contrasting the differences between the speech and its written form," and so on.

Nothing in the evolution of cosmic bodies or mankind’s development is accidental. Human society’s development is directed by history and is driven by the cosmic climate. In the future, there will be more people around the world learning Dafa. This is not something that can be done by a hot-headed person simply because he wants to. For such a major event, how can there not be various arrangements in history? Actually, everything that I have done was arranged innumerous years ago, and this includes those who have obtained the Fa—nothing is accidental; but these things manifest in the same forms as those of everyday people. As a matter of fact, the things imparted to me by my several masters in this life are also what I intentionally arranged a few lifetimes ago for them to obtain. When the predestined occasion arrived, they were arranged to impart those things back to me so as to enable me to recall my Fa in its entirety. So let me tell you that this book of the Fa is not only studied by the level of human beings, but also by the beings at higher levels. It is because a very large scope of the cosmic body has deviated from the fundamental nature of the universe that it has to be rectified by the Fa. Mankind is rather insignificant in the vast universe. Earth is nothing in the cosmos but a speck of dust. If human beings want to be valued by higher beings, they must practice cultivation and become higher beings as well!

Li Hongzhi
May 27, 1996