By a Dafa practitioner in Malaysia

(Clearwisdom.net) I'm a student and do not have much in the way of financial resources. When I was quite busy studying for exams, I couldn't go out very often, but I began reading the packages of food products made in China and found that some listed website addresses. So I started to send them emails to clarify the truth about Falun Dafa whenever possible.

When my exams began, I switched to another method: chatting online. I made use of breaks in my daily schedule, spending 5 or 10 minutes on the net and by doing so, what others use for fun has become a good way to spread the Fa. It is easy to learn, and is worth doing even if you can only spend 20 minutes a day on it. This method is suitable for many practitioners who live in remote areas, who do not go out often, or are not able to go out, or for those who do not have a good financial situation. In fact, no matter where we are, how busy we are, or whatever circumstances we are in, there are always ways to spread the Fa.

Now I would like to share some of my experiences with chatting on the Internet.

1. Online Chat-- There are several million online chat rooms in China and many are accessible from overseas. Every city in China has its local chat rooms, with Beijing and Shanghai having the most.
2. MIRC is the software I use most. As long as you find the channel of China MIRC chat rooms, you can sign in. I often go to big chat rooms with hundreds of participants. Beforehand, I would write some short stories or short messages about the truth of Dafa with word processing software such as NOTEPAD, then sign in and double click on each name, copy and paste what I had prepared to their private dialogue boxes. It only takes a few seconds to paste each one, so it would not be long before the whole chat room was done. Some would not respond, but others would. They would ask questions and want to know more. Since some chat rooms have virtual IP addresses, no one can track down where you logged on.
3. There is a lot of other software, such as YAHOO MESSENGER (the public chat rooms in YAHOO MESSENGER won't allow any kick-outs), MSN, and ICQ etc. They are all very convenient software and can be downloaded from their respective websites.
4. One does not have to spend a lot of time chatting online every day. For those who never dared to respond, yet did not oppose me, I would collect some brief news items from Clearwisdom.net, some poems by practitioners or short stories about evil being met with evil, and send them a little bit every day. As time went on, if I occasionally did not send anything, they would ask me, "How come you stopped sending news from overseas? Did the western practitioners get back home? What happened next?"
5. Sometimes when I got really busy, and did not have much time, I would still spend a few seconds online and paste one sentence "Falun Dafa is good!" I ensured that every day the message of Dafa appeared on at least one website in China, and that at least one group of Chinese people could see the message. This can at least help the deceived Chinese people, who do not know that there are people overseas practicing Falun Gong, and to learn that Dafa did not disappear as reported in China.

When I first started chatting online, very few people responded to me, some even shouted that they would kick out the "traitor," while others were indifferent. I started to send forth righteous thoughts, and saw that there was a demon behind this, which is the demon of discouragement. It aims to make you feel dejected and discouraged. So I persevered, thinking that I would surely come across people with predestined relationship. Once I became persistent, people soon started to reply, some said directly, "You are right! Falun Gong is bound to be redressed!" "I support you! I believe Falun Gong is good!" "I finally understand that [the persecution] is fraud. It is indeed like the Cultural Revolution." Many others have given me their postal addresses, asking me to send the VCD on the truth of Tiananmen self-immolation case to them, as well as to the directors of their factories [the Chinese government staged an event in which some people committed self-immolation and then claimed these people were Falun Gong practitioners]. I promised them one by one, while amazed to think that these people were fiercely against Dafa at the beginning.

According to statistics, there are millions of people online every day in China alone. These people are also sentient beings, so why don't we make use of this? If every practitioner makes use of the Internet to clarify the truth to one person every day, then Dafa will be spread quickly and exponentially, and the rumours will naturally die out.

It does not require special computing knowledge to chat online, and you do not need to spend time collecting email addresses. You can sign in whenever you have time. Even if you don't know how to type, it doesn't matter. As long as you know how to use the mouse to copy and paste, which only takes about 1 minute to learn, it will do. In fact, this method is suitable for all practitioners, including western practitioners. If it is feasible, make full use of it and through perseverance you will succeed.

As I'm not very good at computers, please kindly point out anything improper.

Posting date: 1/1/2002
Original article date: 12/25/2001
Category: Views on Cultivation
Translated on 12/28/2001
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2001/12/25/21980.html

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