To make it convenient for more people to practice cultivation, Dafa at present mainly adopts cultivation practice in ordinary human society, and practitioners temper themselves in their workplaces and other ordinary human environments. Only monks and nuns need to roam around. Yet currently some people are traveling around all over the country, calling themselves Dafa disciples. They live in the homes of Dafa disciples for no reason, eating, drinking, taking, and asking for things. Swindling and bluffing, they take advantage of Dafa by capitalizing on the kind nature of practitioners. But why can’t our practitioners distinguish them? Cultivation practice is to cultivate one’s own self. Think it over. Why don’t these people genuinely practice cultivation peacefully in their own homes? A difficult environment can help one cultivate oneself better. Why don’t these people listen to my words, moving around all over the country? Why do these people eat, take, and ask for practitioners’ things, yet ask them to abandon their attachments? Is this what I’ve taught them? Even worse, some stay in practitioners’ homes for a few months in a row. Isn’t this flagrantly interfering with and undermining practitioners’ cultivation practice? I think that these people must pay back in full for what they have eaten and taken by swindling. Otherwise, Dafa will not permit it. If such a case occurs again in the future, you can treat that person as a regular swindler and report it to the police, because this person absolutely is not our practitioner.

Also, in some regions people organize the so-called "Fa-preaching groups" without permission, acting pretentiously among practitioners and swindling people everywhere. There are people who also invite individuals to give speeches, thereby undermining and interfering with practitioners’ cultivation practice. On the surface these people appear to be promoting Dafa, but in reality they are promoting themselves. A practitioner’s cultivation is arranged systematically by my fashen. It is only that some practitioners do not realize this or they are not conscious of it. So aren’t these people causing interference? It is especially difficult for those who have just started to learn the Fa to make a clear distinction. There are also people delivering so-called "speeches" in conferences attended by thousands of people. What they have said was all about themselves. They even define some sentences of Dafa or interpret Dafa, with their bodies emitting to the practitioners black karma and the substance of attachments. I have stated explicitly in Zhuan Falun that this is not allowed. Why don’t you think it over? Especially for those who are in charge of receptions and inviting people to do such things, you might have inflicted some intangible harm to Dafa disciples, and you are no longer qualified to be in charge of Dafa disciples. Without listening to me or following the requirements of Dafa, how can you be my disciples? Isn’t thisgoing against Dafa? If this isn’t an undermining of Dafa, then what is it? My disciples, you should not always be unaware of these things until I point them out. In fact, everything is included in the Fa. Why not read the books more? I suggest that everyone set his mind to reading ten times the book I wrote, Essentials for Further Advancement, which you call scripture. When your mind is not at peace, it is no use studying the Fa. You should study it with a peaceful mind.

In a few regions we have people in charge who do not read the books or study the Fa. Furthermore, they claim that they have headaches whenever they read the Fa. Isn’t it obvious that demons are interfering with them and yet they don’t want to break away from their control? Even a new practitioner can realize this. How can such people be in charge? I think it is better for people like that to voluntarily become common practitioners and genuinely practice cultivation for a period of time peacefully—this is good for both Dafa and themselves. There was also someone who understood my letter of criticism to her in the opposite way and made copies and distributed them to show off, without realizing her mistake, claiming, "Teacher even wrote to me." Also, in order to have practitioners follow their commands, some people in their speeches often use words like, "On behalf of Teacher Li, I ...," and so on. Nobody can represent me. How can your words become my words? What I say is the Fa. Can what you say become the Fa? My disciples! I suggest that you should first become common practitioners for a period of time, and then resume your work after you sober up. No matter how much work a person in charge has done among everyday people, he is working for Dafa out of his own will. The success of his work is only a form of manifestation among everyday people. It is the mighty power of Dafa itself and the specific arrangements made by my fashen that enable people to obtain the Fa and spread the Fa widely. Without my fashen doing these things, even protecting the people in charge can hardly be ensured, let alone spreading the Fa widely. Therefore, do not always think of yourself too highly. There is no fame, self-interest, or official titles in Dafa, but only cultivation practice.