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In a Few Words: Some Understanding of Teacher's Recent Comment to a Disciple's Article By a Dafa Disciple
Written on February 21, 2003
(Clearwisdom.net)
Recently, while clarifying the truth on the Internet, I came to a deeper
understanding of Teacher's recent comment to a disciple's article "Do Not
Differentiate Between Fa-Rectification Projects; 'A Great Way Has No Form' But
Exists As a Whole." Teacher said in his comment, "Different approaches are in
fact the all-encompassing way in which roles are dynamically distributed in the
operations of the Fa."
I realized that the different approaches practitioners use actually amounted
to only different task allocations. Often the people we clarify the truth to
won't immediately believe what they hear at first. Results are eventually almost
always only achieved through joint efforts by different practitioners, using a
variety of means.
Once on the Internet, a college student told me that he had recently received
phone calls in his school dorm from overseas Falun Gong practitioners. He was
very surprised to receive the phone calls, but was skeptical about the contents
of the truth that the practitioners told him. He simply could not believe it and
told me that he found it "laughable." But in any case, he had heard the truth,
so it became much easier for us to proceed on this topic in our chat. I kept
sending righteous thoughts, and at the same time told him as we continued with
the topic that what he had heard was in fact true. After I told him that Falun
Gong was accepted in over 60 countries and many intellectuals in Taiwan also
practiced Falun Gong, he was apparently flabbergasted and typed dozens of
question marks asking repeatedly if these were true. Then he told me that he was
going to "pass out," but we continued our chat. After learning that people were
persecuted to death for practicing Falun Gong, he said he disapproved of the
means used by the Chinese government. In the end, he lamented with a sigh that
China was still not a country governed by the rule of law.
Because another practitioner had clarified the truth to him over the phone
before, I only had to spend about 20 minutes talking to him on the Internet this
time and obtained pretty good responses.
I also met some friends on the Internet from Northwest China who had picked
up a truth VCD that other Dafa disciples distributed, and thus knew the truth
about the self-immolation incident in Tiananmen Square. Another Internet friend
from Changchun knew the truth of Dafa after watching the Dafa truth footage that
Changchun Dafa disciples heroically transmitted on cable TV. When I ran into
such friends on the Internet, it became much easier for me to clarify the truth
to them the second time around. Even just a few sentences would help to
reinforce their positive impression of Falun Gong.
The above is my shallow level of understanding. If there is anything that
doesn't conform to Dafa principles, I hope fellow practitioners can point it out
and correct them.
Posting date: 3/5/2003 |