Getting Rid of Attachments While Clarifying the Truth Over the Phone
By a Falun Gong practitioner from Taiwan
(Clearwisdom.net) Before, when I was clarifying the truth to Chinese
people in Mainland China through the Internet, I had not been sure of their
mentality. What I had been doing was just posting all the clarifying-truth
materials on the net, but not caring if they would read them and so it
appeared that I was fulfilling a task. After a period of time, I realized what kind of attachments I had which
should be released. I also tried making phone calls but had never been really
involved since in most cases when I called they usually hung up or cursed at
me. Then, I didn't take this as an opportunity to improve myself. On the
contrary, my common people's mentality rose up. I regarded it as a setback and
made up a pretext that I had other clarifying-truth jobs to do to cover up my
attachment of not having the courage to pick up the phone to clarify the
truth. By acting in this manner, I had lost time due to my hesitation and
fear. Then, when I did make an attempt, I could not pick up the phone as if
the phone were very heavy. On one Saturday, my younger sister and I went to Hangnan to study the Falun
Dafa principles with others. Clarifying the truth over the phone was the main
topic in practitioner's experience sharing. After attending experience sharing
meetings, several times, I was touched by my fellow practitioners' experiences
and wanted to make phone calls to clarify the truth because I understood what
I should do and found my attachments and improved my mentality. Several days ago, I made a call to a girl in China, who hung up in the
middle of my talk. Thinking it over, I decided to try one more time. I called
her again. Unexpectedly, she said, "What do you want to say? Just say it."
Then, I quickly told her the facts of the persecution against Falun Dafa while
she, to her credit, didn't hang up the phone until I finished expressing my
points. In deed I was very nervous whenever I was about to make a call. Whenever I
made a call, I would ask myself, "Why should I make this call?" Now, I only
have a single idea: "saving people." This idea is deeply rooted in my mind.
After sending forth righteous thoughts anytime, the idea of "saving people"
has become firmer and more decisive, with no impure element in my mind, and
everything seems so clear and clean. I completely understood what I should do. Even so, I had been nervous in making phone calls. In explaining the facts
to people, I might lose my concentration or not be able to clearly express
myself due to nervousness. In those cases, I would type some notes on a sheet
of paper to help me remember all the points I wanted to clarify on the call,
and read them to the person on the other end. I explained that that Jiang has
been sued in the United States, Falun Gong has been spread widely outside
China, Falun Gong practitioners in China have been persecuted, all of us
outside China know it and I am bringing you the news over phone, hoping you
will understand it. As I can recall, whenever I was calm and confident about my phone calls,
most of my calls were not hung up on and most people on the other side were
patient enough to listen to me until I finished my explanation. Then, I
thought that Teacher really helped me. He knew that "being nervous" was a big
obstacle for me and kept encouraging me whenever I was planning to make a call
to tell the truth. As long as my kind compassion came up and I was eager to
clarify the truth to those precious Chinese people, Teacher would always help
me. Teacher told us, "The evil has now been destroyed in massive amount, and it looks like
the evil ones can no longer run wild." (Teaching the Fa at the 2003
Atlanta Fa Conference). Now I can really feel more relaxed and find the situation easier in making
phone calls, and clarifying the truth over phone is really the most convenient
and direct way.
Chinese version available at
http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/3/10/69588.html
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