Truly Stepping Forward on My Fourth Trip to Beijing

By a Dafa practitioner

(Clearwisdom.net) Although I had been to Beijing with my husband and son three times to safeguard the Fa with my righteous thoughts on July 22 and October 28 in 1999, and when some members of the Dafa Association in Beijing were illegally sentenced, each time I was forcefully caught and sent back for no reason. I felt that I had not truly stepped forward, and always had in mind that I should go to Beijing to safeguard the Fa again. However, because of my fear, I didn't go. Instead, I just continued doing the truth clarifying work in my hometown. When I read the article of a young practitioner "We Made a Vow to the King of Buddhas," I was so impressed that I couldn't help but burst into tears, and felt as if I was experiencing that moment. Nevertheless, I still couldn't make up my mind.

Recently, when I read about a fellow practitioner's experience safeguarding the Fa on Clearwisdom Net, my heart was deeply touched. It was her second time going to Beijing, but she also felt that she had not truly stepped forward, so she went again and returned home safely. Incidentally, a few days later, a fellow practitioner came to me and said, "A fellow practitioner who has never been to Beijing wants to go, and is looking for someone to go along with them." My mind was made up at that moment, but I didn't say anything. That night, I told my husband and son, "I have decided to go to Beijing." My 8-year-old son immediately began crying. After he finished crying he said, "Mom, let me draw a portrait of you." Then he drew a picture of me holding a large Dafa banner in my hands, and he wrote on the picture: "Good mother, excellent mother, great mother! Wow!" I asked what he meant by "Wow." He answered, "That stands for your return." The next day I called that fellow practitioner and said that I would go. Thus, we decided to go to Beijing on October 4.

At about 2:00 p.m. on October 4, we arrived at the train station together with a fellow practitioner who went to send us off. After buying us the tickets, the practitioner would send us off at the station. When we were going upstairs, the police stopped him and asked him to show his identification. Just at this moment, we took the elevator right beside the police and our minds remained completely calm. We felt safe with Teacher's merciful protection in the face of evil. Then we got on the train to Beijing. Along the way we kept sending forth righteous thoughts, "Teacher, please strengthen us, allow us to rectify the Fa with dignity, leave and return on the same day, and completely oppose the arrangements of the old evil forces. When we validate the Fa, all the evil is frozen, and none of the evil will be able see us."

After arriving in Beijing, as we walked, we noticed a lot of police vehicles, police officers and plainclothes police. However, we stayed extremely calm without a bit of fear. We stood in front of Tiananmen Square, unfurled our banner and loudly declared to the people, "Falun Dafa is good. Falun Dafa is the righteous Fa. Restore the reputation of Dafa and restore the reputation of our Teacher!" After we spoke loudly these words, we felt that we had completed a wish that had long been weighing on our minds. Then we rolled up the banner and walked away.

On the train back, I left a message on the passengers' feedback book that said, "Falun Dafa is good; Falun Dafa is the righteous Fa; Keep 'Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance' in mind." Then we returned home safely.

The reason I wrote this in such detail is that I would like to tell fellow practitioners who still have not stepped forward, that actually we have not done much of anything. We have just done a little that we should do with our righteous thoughts.

On the second morning after I came back, I read the last paragraph of Teacher's recent article "Fa-Rectification Period Dafa Disciples:" "Disciples, be diligent! Everything that's the most magnificent and the most wonderful is developed in the process of your validating Dafa. Your vows will become testaments of your future." At that moment I cried, and felt that it was my true-being side that was moved to tears.

Thanks to Teacher's merciful protection and the help from fellow practitioners, I was able to fulfill the wish that I made ages ago. I will strive forward vigorously with gratitude to Teacher for his great compassion.
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2001/10/16/18092.html

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