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Steadfast...................................................................................4
Untitled ....................................................................................5
True Character is Revealed......................................................6
Self-Evident is the Heart ..........................................................7
Retribution ..............................................................................9
Nets of Fa...............................................................................10
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The Fa Rectifies the Cosmos ................................................ 36 Dafa Disciples........................................................................69
Dafa is Great ......................................................................... 37 Constantly Turns the Falun....................................................70
Bell Tower............................................................................. 38 Grand Vow and Great Wish...................................................71
Drum Tower ......................................................................... 39 Saving the Colossal Firmament .............................................72
Buddha Law is Boundless ..................................................... 40 Inexorable Fate.......................................................................73
Entering the Gate of No-Life ................................................ 41 Danger....................................................................................74
Tathagata .............................................................................. 42 The Lotus ...............................................................................75
Righteous Thoughts and Righteous Actions ........................ 43 Severing .................................................................................76
The Difficult Path to Godhood.............................................. 44 Fragrant Lotus........................................................................77
A Righteous God................................................................... 45 When the Fa Rectifies the Human World .............................78
The Heavens Become Clear Again ...................................... 46 Foolish....................................................................................79
Deterrence ............................................................................. 47 Don’t Be Sad..........................................................................80
Hurry Up And Tell Them...................................................... 48 Waist-Drum Troupe ..............................................................81
Be Clearheaded .................................................................... 49 Hardship.................................................................................82
Who is Bewildered? .............................................................. 50 The Master-Disciple Bond .....................................................83
The Net is Tightening............................................................ 51 Gods, Awaken........................................................................84
Pay Up ................................................................................... 52 Heaven’s Gate Opened .........................................................85
Divine Might ........................................................................ 53 What’s to Fear? .....................................................................86
Besiege and Annihilate ......................................................... 54 The Turning Wheel ...............................................................87
Plum Blossoms...................................................................... 55 The Great Kalpa.....................................................................88
Descending to the Earthly World .......................................... 56
Dafa’s Journey ...................................................................... 57
In One Thought ..................................................................... 58
The Tang Way....................................................................... 59
Look Attentively ................................................................... 60
Reading My Students’ Articles ............................................ 61
Chaotic World ...................................................................... 62
The Fa-Rectification View .................................................... 63
Expedition ............................................................................ 64
Rational and Awake ............................................................. 65
Diamond-like Will ............................................................... 66
The Fa Rectifies All .............................................................. 67
Dragon Springs Temple ........................................................ 68
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Steadfast Untitled
The awakened esteem what is beyond this world The Great Law looks at a person’s heart
The devout cultivator sets his heart on Consummation The world’s people would do well to rouse
When great is the ordeal, keep steadfast Divinity, human, ghost, animal, disintegration—
The will to be diligent never bowed The position is decided by oneself
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Self-Evident is the Heart
1
This is a literal rendering of a four-character Chinese idiom
(fengyuntubian) that has the meaning, “a sudden and dramatic change in
circumstances.” Note: this and all subsequent notes are the translator’s
commentary, and not part of the original Chinese text.
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Big talk counts for naught Retribution
in matters of life and death,
Your capacity to act Rotten demons abound in the last phase
gives the true picture Operating beneath the human skin
When one day the time of But once the partitions are cleared away
Consummation arrives, On earth the boiling cauldron2 is in place
The truth will bear itself in full,
astonishing the earth September 1, 2000—
Fourth day of the eighth month, the lunar year of Geng Chen
October 12, 1999
(Published May 22, 2000)
2
The Chinese term here for “boiling cauldron” (youguo) normally also has
the meaning, “punishment for evil spirits in hell.”
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Nets of Fa
Rectifying the Colossal Firmament
Clear Wisdom saves the predestined
New Life can rid the head of evil
How much longer can the evil run rampant?
The People’s sharp pens fill demons with worry
Every being’s volition is fully revealed.
Falun Dafa gives rise to Pure Insight 3 Who could be outside this calamity?
I look with a smile at the gods being foolish.
January 17, 2001—
Twenty-third day of the twelfth month, the lunar year of Geng
February 10, 2001—
Chen
Eighteenth day of the first month, the lunar year of Xin Si
3
The four names appearing in the poem each refer to a specific online
publication or Website, the Chinese names of which are Minghui,
Xinsheng, Renminbao, and Zhengjian.
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Eliminating Evil
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Nothing Unobservant
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On the Journey
Undoing the Disaster
On all the earth, where is such
an astounding scene to be found?
Countless are the chaotic things in this human world
Look to the heavens in the canyon Gratitude and resentment now heaped atop one another,
Where are gods to be found?
No hope had the wicked of heart, their karma massive
Though it’s right before you,
‘Tis Dafa that resolves everything at the source
the gods are not seen
February 22, 2001
February 22, 2001
In the United States, at the Grand Canyon
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No Confusion
Clarity Upon Gaining The Way
Who are the Lords of Heaven?
One dynasty’s emperor, one dynasty’s subjects
Level after level of beings
Dynasty after dynasty were the karmic bonds tied
have drifted from the Fa
in anticipation of the Fa
Each of whom claimed to rule
Don’t pay heed to the affairs of bygone dynasties
the vault of Heaven
All will be known when you return home
The time of return now draws near
at Consummation
Let us see who remains deluded
February 24, 2001
March 14, 2001
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Discarding Attachments
Journeying Via The Way
You may talk cultivation
The Great Way travels through the world But you have to discard the attachments
Bringing salvation to lives once lost that you hold deep inside
Thoughts of fame, feeling, and profit gone— What’s given up is not oneself
Could any difficulty stop the holy one? But instead the folly of delusion
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Predestination Formed, the Lotuses Bloom
Unimpeded
Where now are the gallant heroes of yore?
The paths of cultivation are varied One after another they have come
But none is outside the Great Law since the spread of Dafa commenced
When one is attached to nothing So long and drawn out the years—
The path underfoot is naturally smooth hundreds, thousands, their measure
The predestination formed, with
April 16, 2001 true fruition, the many lotuses bloom
Twenty-third day of the third month, the lunar year of Xin Si
June 19, 2001
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The Final Reckoning Approaches
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The Foretelling
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The Catastrophe
The Great Way’s Spreading
The dark, somber clouds have but a few days left
I raise my eyes and gaze at the azure sky
The bitter cold fully over, spring now appears
Macro- and microcosm, filled with eyes
Upon awakening, the sentient beings
The focal point of what is above and below—
stand aghast at the things they see
The Great Way spreading in the world
Half of China Proper covered by sand and dust
January 15, 2002
January 22, 2002
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Cleaning Out
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The Cleansing The Big Stage
Heaven and Earth turned upside down, Five thousand years of civilization
raining sand and dust with China Proper as the stage.
The minds of hundreds of millions in the Foolishly absorbed in the play’s unfolding,
mortal world have been poisoned the plethora of scenes dazzle.
How many can be saved by mercy? Upon awakening, people will stare at one another,
New graves cover the landscape of China Proper only to realize the stage was being set for the Fa.
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Just a Play
February 5, 2002
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Dafa is Great
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Bell Tower
Drum Tower
Its mighty sound stirs the realm of Fa At the mallet’s drumming one knows to be diligent
Resonances of Fa stretch in ten directions
The Fa drum rouses those lost in confusion
May 5, 2002
May 5, 2002
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Buddha Law is Boundless
Entering the Gate of No-Life
The incense burner gathers in all demons
Riding a tiger, so hard it is to dismount
that seek to wreak havoc on the Fa Humans are they, trying to challenge gods
Fine tripods incinerate those spirits
Doing all possible of evil beings
who defy the Fa
They have made a dead end of their lives
May 5, 2002
May 13, 2002
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Righteous Thoughts and Righteous Actions
Tathagata
A Great Enlightened One fears no hardship
He comes with Truth that gives him free reign
Having forged an adamantine will
And travels the four seas with a free and easy spirit
Free of attachment to living or dying
The Fa’s principles spread throughout the world
He walks the path of Fa-rectification
His Fa Boat sets sail, loaded full with sentient beings
confident and poised
May 13, 2002
May 29, 2002
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The Difficult Path to Godhood A Righteous God
Predestined ties of countless lifetimes With righteous thoughts and righteous actions
Each has Dafa as its guiding thread He is diligent without letting up
‘Tis in hardship the golden body is tempered Eliminating demons that damage the Fa
Why such slow and leisurely steps? He is good to all beings
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The Heavens Become Clear Again
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Be Clearheaded
Hurry Up And Tell Them
Dafa disciples,
away with your tears
As Dafa disciples clarify the truth
The devil, Satan,
Sharp swords shoot forth from their mouths has utterly collapsed
Tearing open the rotten demons’ lies
Clarify the facts,
Lose no time and save them,
send righteous thoughts,
hurry up and tell them
Expose the lies,
clean out the rotten demons
August 21, 2002
September 1, 2002
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Who is Bewildered?
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This is a Buddhist term in Chinese that refers generally to “the secular
world” and is sometimes rendered “this defiled realm” or “the mundane
world.” It is translated literally here to preserve the connection, in the
repetition of the character for “dust” found here, with the first line.
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Divine Might
52 53
Plum Blossoms
(in Yuan verse)
Besiege and Annihilate
In the chaotic world, like pure lotus flowers—
Heaven and earth turned upside down, plum blossoms, a hundred million
how wicked the wolves in human skin Cold winds only accentuate their beauty
Outrageous lies howl like ill wind, The interminable snowfall and rain
trying to deceive the world are the tears of gods,
As Dafa disciples clarify the truth Who look longingly for the plum blossoms’ return
The Fa power of their righteous thoughts Never, ever get preoccupied with worldly things
pounds the demons’ dens Steel your righteous thoughts
For all [that you have gone through] since ancient times,Was
January 23, 2003 for none other than this time around.
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Dafa’s Journey
(in Song verse)
Falun Dafa
Deep and immeasurable
It formed the gigantic firmament
And created all beings
Three words of Truth
Lucid the principles, clear the words
Descending to the Earthly World Generously blessed is the common man
who learns even its most basic meaning
With the turning of Falun there is sure to be madness Clear in vision, like a mirror, is the official
A whole nation’s resources drained, working on me who knows it even shallowly
I quietly observe the buffoon’s fiendish play dying out When a king comes to know its principles
Only last vestiges of dirt now blow to and fro Stability is brought to the country,
Five thousand years of transmigration through shifts and change well is it governed
Brush off the enshrouding dust, and all their realities are seen Peace reigns
Who is really the prevailing, gallant lead in this gigantic play? And the era is one of prosperity
I made this single trip just for the sake of sentient beings When sovereigns and ministers are upright
Good fortune extends for generations
The twenty-ninth day of the twelfth month, the lunar year of People feel safe and settled
Ren Wu Year after year the crops are plentiful
January 31, 2003 The cultivator—clearer still is he
Upon gaining the Fa and entering the Way
Diligently he progresses, cultivating solidly,
‘til his practice succeeds
Persecution he resists
Sentient beings he saves
Journeying the path of godhood
March 2, 2003
The thirtieth day of the first month, the lunar year of Gui Wei
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In One Thought
Confident and magnanimous, I rectify the colossal firmament The Tang Way
Huge is the adversity that accompanies me
as I journey Heaven and Earth While my body is amidst these mountains
Credit and honor are not what is on my mind My thoughts wander to that magical place
As I rectify heaven, rectify earth, and rectify all lives Who was the China of antiquity?
True thoughts, a grand wish, and diamond-like will People don’t know the grandeur of the great Tang way
Recreate with one thought the enormity
The sixth month of the lunar year of Gui Wei
The thirteenth day of the fifth month, the lunar year of Gui Wei
58 59
Look Attentively
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Chaotic World
The Fa-Rectification View
(in Song verse)
(in Song verse)
The heartland, some five thousand years all told
Han Xin conquered the land for the House of Liu5
With each dynasty and generation has come a new look
Taizong of the Great Tang expanded the territory
In the final age, Heaven lacks the Way
Yue Fei and the Sixth Son protected the heartland
Things both evil and wicked are done
And why?
Jackals and wolves roam the world
‘Tis here all lives would come to gain the Fa
And demons lead the treacherous Party
It’s not that evil will go unpunished
August 15, 2003
The massive force is fast approaching
August 1, 2003
5
A term referring to the family that ruled China during the Han Dynasty
(206 BCE–220 CE ); the term is often simply a reference to the Han
Dynasty itself.
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Expedition Rational and Awake
Ten thousand miles I gallop, breaking demons’ battle array Pause for a moment of self-reflection,
Cutting down all dark minions, eliminating wicked deities and increase your righteous thoughts
I heed not their thick fog or the gale winds they whip about Thoroughly analyze your shortcomings,
Mountain rains en route wash off dust from the expedition and progress with renewed diligence
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The Fa Rectifies All
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A Sanskrit, and generally Buddhist, term that refers usually to the
elements earth, water, fire, and wind.
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Dafa Disciples
(in Song verse)
Dafa disciples
Have met with calamity in the heartland
The Way absent in both Heaven and Earth,
Dragon Springs Temple rotten demons run rampant
The enormous force of Fa-rectification
A majestic ancient monastery, nestled in dense woods is right before the eyes
At dawn mist lingers over the surface of its pond Fa rectifies the human world
Below white clouds stretch its towers and pavilions
True transcendents dwell in the new Tang monastery Dafa disciples
Great is the task upon their shoulders
September 30, 2003 Saving all lives,
clarifying the truth
Clearing poison from people’s minds—
boundless is the Fa
Little distance is left on the journey to divinity
October 1, 2003
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Constantly Turns the Falun Grand Vow and Great Wish
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Inexorable Fate7
(in Yuan verse)
Saving the Colossal Firmament
In the vast heartland—
From antiquity ‘til now, never has it been so— Five thousand years of civilization
The future will see Heaven and Earth last forever Endlessly churn stormy waves
In the vast firmament, reaching to time immemorial A specter from the West having arrived
Who dares to descend once more Harm it does to all lives
Destruction it wreaks upon ancient ways
October 12, 2003 People, quickly come to!
In the Divine Land,8 Dafa has begun its spread
7
The two Chinese characters comprising this title, jie shu, could also be
rendered “For a Number of Kalpas.”
8
The term here, shenzhou, is a standard Chinese term referring to China.
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The Lotus
(in Yuan verse)
Danger
A myriad of pure lotuses,
Daily the world’s morals decline, planted by me
people fanning the flames Having braved snow and harsh cold,
Rotten demons lead the way, bloom together
people follow along With the sky clearing,
I worry for the world’s people spring comes to fill the garden
Yet people don’t worry for themselves Divine branches boast a floral assortment
Whose fragrance fills the air
November 20, 2003 and wafts beyond the heavens
December 1, 2003
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Severing
(in Yuan verse)
Fragrant Lotus
Cultivation is not hard,
It’s attachments that are hard to part with. The pure lotus is born from the Fa
When will you sever those many attachments? Compassion spreads its fragrant scent
All know the sea of hardship has no shore. Sprinkling the world with sweet dew
If your will is not firm, Blossoming lotuses fill Heaven’s courtyard
The hurdles are like mountains.
How will you transcend this mortal life? New Year’s Day, 2004
January 1, 2004
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Foolish
(in Yuan verse)
When the Fa Rectifies the Human World
Insolent, unbridled, bumptious,
To the rafters they leapt.
Rotten demons will have been exterminated,
Crows blotted out the sun.
Dark minions, melted into pus and blood.
The foolish, vicious lies,
For the things human beings have done,
All are now exposed.
Deadly epidemics will inevitably be meted out.
Flames of envy consumed its heart,
disclosing its original appearance.
January 1, 2004
Into boiling oil leaps the toad.
January 8, 2004
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Don’t Be Sad Waist-Drum Troupe
(in Yuan verse)
Imprisoned as you are,
don’t be sorrowful or sad Waist-drum formations
Carry on with righteous thoughts and actions, Gods steeped in the Fa
and the Fa is with you Every sound of the Fa drums pipes Zhen Shan Ren
Calmly reflect on the attachments you have Purging evil in the Three Realms, saving the earth’s people
Remove your human thoughts The majestic sight and righteous thoughts shake Heaven’s gate
and evil will naturally die out Rotten demons have nowhere to flee
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The Master-Disciple Bond
February 1, 2004
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Heaven’s Gate Opened
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What’s to Fear?
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The Great Kalpa
March 8, 2004
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