Clarifying the Facts by Telephone is a Cultivation Process

By Dafa practitioner from Taiwan

(Clearwisdom.net)

Greetings, esteemed Teacher! Greetings, fellow practitioners!

Having used the telephone to clarify the facts for more than a year, I have deeply realized that it is a process of cultivation.

I recollect that in the initial process of using the telephone to clarify the facts, the greatest difficulty was not knowing how to enter into conversation. In my first encounter, I contacted a young student. I started to talk about touring and went on to talk about the suppression of Falun Gong in China. The result was quite good. But it took half an hour before I could clarify the facts. After several such encounters I felt that was not the proper way to do it. Although I did finally achieve the results, they were not economical time-wise. There are so many sentient beings! This does not allow me to clarify the facts so slowly.

After this, I tried to use a draft of what I wanted to say over the telephone, and modified the contents in accordance to the actual situation. I struggled through it in this manner, and became more and more proficient and knowledgeable. In the conversations, I took the initiative instead of being led. I realized that as a practitioner that is full of righteous thoughts, the whole environment becomes a field guided by the practitioner.

On one occasion when I telephoned a detention center, the attitude of the other party was very fierce and odious. In the end, I used righteous thoughts and slowly spoke to him: "Please be calm and listen to what I have to say, as I understand very well how you feel. Would you please think about it rationally? Didn't many people call your center? Did anyone take you to task? Did anyone ask you to oppose the government? Certainly not! They were only trying to let you know the truth. In fact you are all the victims! If Jiang Zemin did not commit any crime, the courts overseas would certainly not be accepting the lawsuits filed against him. Let us consign the political matters to history! We are very concerned about the people like you in the front lines. There have been many such lessons taught in history. You are only a minor player in the Public Security Department but you will be their future scapegoats! I am speaking to you as a friend; please contemplate this issue very carefully! How will history judge you..." He remained silent for quite a while. Then he slowly said: "Thank you. Now I understand." I truly realized that the mighty power of compassion of a practitioner genuinely surpasses all.

All along, I had a predestined relationship with a fellow practitioner who cooperated with me in the telephone clarification of the facts, and we encouraged each other on the path of Fa-rectification. Whenever we met with a problem, one of us would say to the other: "There is no problem, you can certainly get through it. Everything will work out fine." We mutually remind each other to look at problems from the Fa, and to avoid getting bogged down in the arguments of everyday people. Because of this, many unnecessary crooked paths have been avoided in Fa-rectification. In the process of cooperation and coordination, we were able to quickly find our inadequacies and disparities. Whenever I observed my fellow practitioner not ever being willing to abandon someone, but dialing the telephone again and again steadfastly until there was success, I was greatly moved.

On several occasions, when the location of detained practitioners was not known, we would mutually cooperate. One of us would go and check on the telephone of the units, the other would follow up, telephoning to clarify the facts. In the righteous field of cooperation, the other party not only let us know the related telephone numbers, but on one occasion even asked if we would like to have a few words with the fellow practitioners detained there. It made me contemplate what Teacher said at the Question and Answer session at "Explaining the Fa During the 2003 Lantern Festival at the U.S. West Fa Conference": "For Dafa disciples as a whole, in the process of validating the Fa, when you work together in concert, the Fa power is great." Through the telephone, I told the fellow practitioner: "All these years, you all have faced the difficulties; the overseas friends and relatives are very concerned for you. You must remember: "What is difficult to endure, you can endure it. What is impossible to do, you can do it." The fellow practitioner replied: "I understand that, I understand that."

The effect of telephoning to clarify the facts is extremely quick and direct. It is like a system in its successive nature and mechanism. The practitioners in China disclose the real situation to the overseas practitioners. We then use the telephone, post, fax and the Internet to feed the facts back into China. How harmonious is the cooperation! Once, when I telephoned a civilian family, as I finished clarifying the facts, the other party softly told me: "I also practice Dafa." At that moment, I was excited beyond comparison, and said to him: "You have faced so many difficulties. We do know all about what is happening in China. The overseas practitioners will in all ways be more diligent in clarifying the facts..." The fellow practitioner at the other end briefly and steadfastly said: "Thank you all! We are all well! We will also work harder to do better..." We exchanged blessings mutually and hung up. I was full of tears. This was a Dafa practitioner! In that short moment, there was no time or space dividing us, we were each doing what every Dafa practitioner should be doing.

Finally, I would like to say: "Fellow practitioners! Let us treasure this golden opportunity, and be more tolerant in our path of Fa-rectification so as to mutually assist each other, and complete our great prehistoric vows together! In the instant of the Fa rectifying the human world, we can all say with a clear conscience: "We have all done what each of us was meant to do."

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