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A Few Experiences in Making Phone Calls to China to Clarify the Truth By a Dafa Practitioner in Toronto (Clearwisdom.net) It was very difficult for me to make phone calls. Every time I read an
article on the Clearwisdom website about fellow practitioners who have passed
away due to the persecution, I felt extremely sad. Sometimes I faced the screen
with my eyes full of tears. I really wanted to call those perpetrators directly,
but I was afraid to make the phone call and had a feeling of helplessness in my
heart. Later I found out there was a telephone team. Moreover, I saw the fellow
practitioners in the telephone team sharing their understandings so well
together. I thought since they were doing so well making calls, I should just
diligently concentrate on what I should do. When I saw the persecution cases
again on Clearwisdom, I just skipped them. Recently the telephone team has been sending out an email
every day. The emails included details of persecution cases and telephone
numbers. In the beginning, I had a look and ignored it. Later on, I started to
feel restless. Is making phone calls really only the job of the telephone team?
What should I do, and what shouldn't I do? As said by a practitioner in the
article entitled "Do not differentiate between Fa-rectification projects, A
great way has no form but exists as a whole" (This article was
commented on by Teacher): "When we as individuals regard projects that are
not assigned to ourselves as other people's things, our whole body would be
unwittingly divided into many small pieces, and the powerful strength as a whole
would be weakened into scattered pockets of strength. Moreover, when we have
different opinions or have arguments, we would further weaken each other's
strength." I started to consider making phone calls to China. On the first night, I looked at the telephone and paced around the room a few
times. Then I remembered that I had not finished writing an article. I felt
relieved and sat down to write the article. On the second night, I looked at the telephone and paced around the room a
few times again. Then I remembered that I had to edit a TV program. I felt
relieved and sat down to edit the TV program. On the third day, a fellow practitioner who often makes the phone calls, said
to me: "You can do this. The first call, you can just say one sentence: 'Falun
Dafa is good!' If you are too nervous, then just hang up. The second call, you
can say: 'Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance is good!'
The third call, you can say: 'Falun Dafa is good, it is wrong to persecute Falun
Gong in China." On the third night, I sat next to the telephone, opened up the relevant
information and studied for half an hour. I felt that no matter what, I had to
make the phone call today. Finally, I made a call to my aunty that I had been
putting off for the past two years. On the fourth night, I sat next to the telephone. I opened up the relevant
information and studied for half an hour. I felt sorry for myself. I had been
practicing Falun Gong for so long, yet I was so afraid of making a phone call.
Where did this fear come from? I said to myself, "If you do not make the
phone call today, you really do not measure up to being Teacher's student."
I picked up the phone. Originally, I just wanted to say one sentence: "Falun
Dafa is good!" I ended up talking to the other person for more than ten
minutes. I told the other person about the establishment of "World
Organization to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong" in America and
that Jiang had been sued overseas. After I put down the phone, my whole body unexpectedly trembled. I felt that
there really was a layer of matter that had made me afraid. All sorts of human
attachments had prevented me from making the phone calls. If I didn't break
through it, it would stubbornly keep me from doing so. However, when I can truly
and bravely break through it, it was nothing. 2. Abandon Attachments Without Omission There is a fellow practitioner who does not miss any chance to clarify the
truth, and the effect of introducing Falun Gong is very good. What she said
deeply impressed me. She said that when we clarified the truth, we should be
like a pure and innocent child with a colorful and beautiful balloon in the
hand. The child wants to tell every one how beautiful his balloon is, and in his
heart he does not first appraise what kind of person the other person is. He
only has a very pure aim, that is to tell people about the beauty of this
balloon. However, we Dafa practitioners also have only one aim, that is to tell
people that Dafa is good. When we can abandon our human attachments, there is
only compassion in our hearts. Teacher said, "There is sacrifice in forbearance, and a complete sacrifice is a
higher principle of non-omission." ("Perfect Harmony" from Essentials
for Further Advancement) and "Sacrifice is evidenced by one's being detached from ordinary human
attachments. If a person can indeed calmly abandon everything with his heart
being unaffected, he is actually at that level already. Yet cultivation
practice is to improve yourself: You are already able to abandon the
attachment, so why not also abandon the fear of attachment, itself? Isn't
abandonment without omission a higher sacrifice?"
("Non-Omission" from Essentials for Further Advancement) When I read these two articles written by Teacher again, I understood
further. No matter what kind of Fa-rectification work we do: making phone calls,
faxing or doing TV work, newspaper, or clarifying the truth to every level of
the government; if we truly regard ourselves as enlightened beings, if we can
truly abandon our human attachments, if we can truly achieve "being free of
attachments," then we should not have any worries or so-called barriers
when we clarify the truth to people. Everything we do should be pure and
wonderful. All the barriers actually come from ourselves, as it is our own
attachments and omissions that are interfering and hindering ourselves. Now when I make the phone calls, I am very calm. I clearly feel that the
layers of thick matter that surrounded me have disappeared. I feel so pure and
that my words have power. Simultaneously I also feel the Fa has entrusted me
with inexhaustible wisdom and strength. Finally I would like to read Teacher's poem again: Hurry Up And Tell Them As Dafa disciples tell people the facts,
This article is part of my personal understanding. Please compassionately
point out any shortcomings. Posting date: 5/21/2003 |