(Clearwisdom.net)
I am a teacher. Over the past three years in which the evils have persecuted Falun Dafa, I have been persistently clarifying the truth to the school authorities, to other teachers and students. After I explained the truth of the "Self-Immolation" incident to the students in my class, some teachers and parents who were deeply deceived by the lies reported me to the principal and I was forced to stop teaching. The school authorities talked with me many times and asked me to write the "statement of guarantee" (to give up practicing Falun Dafa). Under such pressure, I still kept explaining the truth to them. When the new semester began, the school authorities said that I had done an excellent job in teaching except that my practicing Falun Gong put them in a bind. They decided to let me teach again, but asked me not to mention Falun Gong anymore in class. I sincerely thanked them for the recognition of my work and told them that I knew what to do.
I taught a new class that semester. I realized that Teacher arranged for me to save those beings. Again, I began to explain the facts of the persecution to my students. Some interference occurred of course. In spite of the difficulty in offering salvation to sentient beings, I kept clarifying the truth to these lovely children whenever there was a chance. I couldn't just watch them be corrupted by the evils, and I couldn't allow myself to miss a single opportunity. Eventually all of the students in my classes understood the truth.
Teacher has told us that time is limited, and that we should not to wait or rely on others. I managed to explain the truth to students who were not in my classes as well. Once, a fellow teacher asked me to help him by taking care of his class for a while. I realized that Teacher was helping me again by arranging that situation. I grabbed this opportunity and made the students in that class aware of the truth. Another opportunity came about when the homeroom teacher of another class asked for a leave of absence and I was asked to cover that class. So now those students know the truth as well. Thus, I kept looking for chances to let more students know the truth. In time, there was only one class left in the school that had not heard the truth. At that time, again I could not teach due to the evil's persecution of me. However, our benevolent Teacher once again arranged an opportunity for me to save those students. I was asked to proctor an exam for that class. At the time, I was facing a bigger tribulation because both the school board and its administrators knew that I was clarifying truth of Falun Gong in the classroom. The authorities in my school were under a lot of pressure, but due to my impeccable work in teaching, they didn't have the heart to persecute me.
I started to send forth righteous thoughts and asked Teacher to help me. After that, I began to explain the truth. At first, the students were all shocked. I started with my own cultivation story, telling them why I was clarifying the truth to them under such pressure. In a short while, the students were at ease. This is how all the teachers and students in our school came to understand the truth. Since my thoughts were very pure and righteous when I was sending forth righteous thoughts, and I had Teacher's help, the evils didn't harass me.
Then a new form of persecution started when the "610 Office" mandated that each school show a film defaming Falun Dafa. The evil forces are so vicious that they don't even spare children. I was feeling very uneasy. I was thinking that I had already explained to them the truth and they should depend on their own righteous thoughts to resist it this time. Later on, a veteran practitioner talked with me about it and told me that quite a few students had nightmares after watching the film and that their parents felt bad as well. The practitioner handed me a stack of letters from the students' parents; they were appeals to not poison the new generation. However, I still felt helpless and defeated.
That night I read Teacher's lecture, "Teaching the Fa at the Washington, D.C. Fa Conference." Teacher said,
"...you have walked that path yourself. In the midst of this evil persecution, each of you thought seriously about what you should do and what kind of path you should take, and through that you established your own mighty virtue; you've come through this enormous tribulation....when it comes to a lot of the specific things you come across, you need to carefully think them over for yourself, and it's up to you yourself to come up with a way to resolve them. Wherever there's a problem, that is where you need to clarify the truth and save people. Don't take a detour when you run into difficulties. When you see something that does us harm, or when you see something blocking our validating the Fa, don't take a detour -- you should face it, and clarify the truth and save those beings. This is the compassion (cibei) of a Dafa disciple, and it's our saving lives. At the same time, when you're clarifying the truth you can resolve the problem of many people having been deceived, the misunderstandings, and the prejudice. After all, the lies in the propaganda from this evil persecution that's happening in China have misled sentient beings. They have covered up the truth with a deceitful show. When met with the truth, people will think things over carefully, and how people respond to all this is their own choice."
Then I suddenly realized that I had perceived the impact of the lies to be much greater than they really were. The lies are false, so what is there to fear when you have the truth? So afterwards when I clarified the truth to people, I often asked them, "What's wrong with truth, compassion and tolerance? They bring us honesty, forgiveness, and peace and happiness. If every one of us could follow truth, compassion and tolerance, imagine how bright our future would be!" In most cases, people of goodwill would nod their heads in agreement. Lies can't last very long. People with righteous minds can tell the true from the false.
Teacher told us, "Do but pursue not, constantly in the Dao" [from Hongyin, provisional translation subject to further improvement]. We should keep doing what we should and fulfill our own responsibilities. Because of our righteous behavior, the people of the world are able to tell the good from the evil. When I enlightened to this understanding based on the Fa, I found my confidence again. I am a particle of Dafa, indestructible, full of wisdom and indomitable. How can I be interfered with?
I am now more clear about what I should do: let the school board know the truth, ask them not to assist the evils in persecuting justice, and choose a bright future for themselves and for others.
