Clarifying the Truth to the Precious Chinese People Through Phone Calls
By a Dafa practitioner from Seattle, USA
Shared at 2004 Chicago Falun Dafa Conference (Clearwisdom.net) Master told us in "Teaching the Fa at the 2003
Atlanta Fa Conference" that, "Clarifying the truth during these gigantic changes has already become
the major way of saving all beings and the world's people, so in doing this,
the wisdom that Dafa has given you and the enormous capability that the Fa has
provided you with are manifesting." Master also said, "You have to clarify the truth rationally and in line with people's
logic and ways of thinking. If you talk about it in a strange, otherworldly
way, not at all based on people's logic and way of thinking, and not
considering whether people can accept it or not, then you're doing harm and
the result is opposite what was intended. Make sure you do it rationally and
clearheadedly. When you clarify the truth to people you have to consider their
level of acceptance. .... Don't just go to talk for the sake of formality.
Whenever you talk to someone you need to have him understand." Here Master not only told us the reason for clarifying the truth -- saving
people, and also told us the right way of doing so -- "in line with
people's logic and ways of thinking" and "whenever you talk to someone
you need to have him understand." If we truly follow Master's Fa, we will
do very well in clarifying the truth. I am clarifying the truth by making phone calls. I tried to make several
phone calls at the beginning of 2001. I prepared a short message and read it
once I got through the line. I made my first call to Beijing City's "610
Office" and chose to leave voice mail message. When I finished reading my
pre-written message and hung up, I was extremely happy that I finally said what
I wanted to say. My next phone call was to the former Public Security Minister,
Jia Chunwang's office. I read my message to his secretary. But the following
phone calls were not as easy. I called Beijing's Dongcheng District police
station and the Xicheng District police station, but neither one wanted to
listen to my pre-written message. They said, "If you don't talk to us, I
will hang up." I kept on reading and they hung up. At that point, I was a
little scared to talk directly to the evildoers. After this failed trial I did not call for almost a year. At end of 2001,
Master lectured at the Fa Conference in Florida, U.S.A and told us to do
"three things" well. Master said, "Currently the most important thing is clarifying the truth, because
this is directly saving sentient beings, it's directly saving the people of
the future, and it also demonstrates the magnificence of Dafa and Dafa
disciples--in such a difficult environment you're still managing to save
sentient beings." Master also told us, "Do it on a large scale, do
it with all the wisdom that you can, and as long as something can save the
people, go do it." ("Fa-Lecture at the Conference in Florida,
U.S.A.") After studying Master's Fa-Lecture, I assessed my own situation. I don't know
English, I am not a computer expert, I don't know how to drive. Making phone
calls suits me the best. Thus, since the beginning of 2002, I picked up the
phone one more time to clarify the truth to the precious Chinese people. I did
not give up this time. In the 365 days of each year, on average I made phone
calls on 350 days. The other days I was out of town attending Fa experience
sharing conferences. Every night I made phone calls from 10:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m.
or 11:00 p.m. to 3:00 a.m. during the daylight savings time period. To avoid
interrupting my family members, normal life, I stayed in a bathroom with the
door closed to make the phone calls. At the beginning, I copied phone numbers from the Internet during the daytime
and called those numbers at night. For every call I made, I kept a simple
record, which I organized into three categories: the ones that listened to the
facts well, not so well and not well at all. After a period of time, I would
take out those numbers that did not listen very well or not at all and called
the numbers one more time. Another way for me to find Chinese phone numbers to call is through friends
and relatives living in China. I would ask one friend or a relative to give me
numbers of other friends and relatives he knows of, and kept asking everyone I
called. Like rolling snow balls, I found more than a hundred of friends and
relatives' phone numbers, including the ones that I lost contact with for dozens
of years. I called them one by one, to tell them the facts about Falun Dafa. For
the ones who could not understand the facts at first, I would not push them; at
least I sent them the message that there are lots people overseas practicing
Falun Dafa. At beginning of 2003, I started to call phone numbers of remote Chinese
remote. It was a coincidence that a fellow practitioner gave me a list of phone
numbers for remote townships. When I called these numbers, almost every call was
answered. Unlike phone numbers of the evildoing organizations, people who
answered the phone were willing to listen to the facts; lots of them never heard
the truth about Dafa. There are over a thousand remote townships in each
province in China; this is a big population, waiting to be saved. Since then, I
called these remote townships province by province. So far, I called all the
townships in 12 provinces - Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Anhui, Jiangsu, Shanxi,
Shaanxi, Sichuan, Hebei, Shandong, Heilongjinag. I also worked with fellow
practitioners. Together we called all the townships in Henan and Jilin province.
These townships are the connections between cities and villages. Once people
there understood the truth, they could spread the truth to more people in more
areas. I realized the process of making phone calls is a process of cultivating and
improving myself. From 2002 till now were my busiest two years since I started
practicing. I have to baby-sit my grandson for ten hours during the daytime,
make phone calls at night, teach at Minghui School on Saturdays and introduce
Falun Dafa at public locations on Sundays. In the meantime, I have to study the
Falun Dafa teachings, practice the exercises, send forth righteous thoughts,
search the web, etc. Though there is a lot to do, I could do everything well as
long as I am thinking about the Fa and melting myself into the Fa. In ordinary people's society I am a grandmother. I must play this role well,
to show my non-practicing yet very supporting family members the greatness of
Dafa. Because of my efforts, I am a very good grandma. My grandson is very
active, smart and healthy. Everyday I recite "Lunyu" twice and also
recite lots of Hongyin poems to him. When he naps, I study two Falun Dafa
lectures daily. Every night I spend four hours making phone calls and sleep for
four hours. In the mornings I do the sitting exercise for one hour and the
standing exercises for half an hour, yet I feel very energized. I knew Dafa gave
me this energy, otherwise how could a 67 year old woman keep up with such a
schedule? The process of making phone calls is a process of improving and cultivating
myself, a process of purifying my thinking and assimilating into Dafa. In the
very beginning, my attachment of fear was very strong. I could only read the
pre-written messages; without that I did not know what to say. Even when I
started talking, as soon as the other side interrupted me or asked a question, I
wouldn't know how to continue. Very often I found myself shaking from
nervousness in the unheated bathroom after my phone calls. Later I became more fluent carrying on a conversation, but found my
attachment to competitiveness very strong. Sometimes I found myself arguing with
the other side, trying to win the argument. The result was that the other side
hang up on me. The tone of my voice was not nice either. It sounded like a
teacher scolding students. I often started my sentence with "let me tell
you..." Several times the other side said back to me, "I don't need
you to tell me anything, let me tell you..." This forced me to realize how
unpleasant such a tone was. In addition, when I could not answer the other
side's question well, I just tried to force them listen to me, thinking it was
their fault... Every phone call is a process of correcting myself, a process of better
understanding the Fa. With one call after another, in my process of feeling
sorrow, regret and self-criticism I improved myself. I found that my tone became
more and more calm; the compassion in my heart became stronger and stronger. I
answered the questions better and better, clarified the truth more and more
clearly; even my voice became more and more pleasant. Finally one day, after
answering over a dozen of one young lady's questions on the phone she said to me
sincerely, "You did great and answered all my questions. Thank you very
much. Falun Dafa is great!" There are always difficulties and interruptions when making phone calls.
Sometimes I dialed more than a dozen phone numbers but none was answered. Other
I was so tired that I could hardly keep my eyes open. My brain felt empty and I
really wanted to go to sleep. At these moments, one thought always kept me
continue to make the phone calls, that is "saving people, it is better to
save even just one more." I insisted to myself to keep calling. Gradually, I learned some better ways of clarifying the truth to different
types of people. Since there had been lots of changes to the township phone
numbers, very often I called residential homes. Children love to answer the
phone, so I often met some children over the phone. Whenever I heard a young
voice from the other side I would say happily, "How are you? Are you an
elementary student? Which grade are you in?" When he told me that, I would
tell him I am a teacher and would like to teach him three characters today. I
said I believe you are a smart child and you will remember them. When a child
hears me saying he is smart, he will be happy to learn. I would tell him,
"The first character is "Truth;" it means telling the truth and
never lie. Do you think Truth is good?" The child would say yes. Then I
would teach him the second character, "Compassion. It means be nice to
everyone, and care for others. Is Compassion good?" "The third
character is Forbearance. Be patient when encountering difficulties, be tolerant
when others are not nice to you. Do you think it is good?" When the child
said yes, I would teach him, "Truth, Compassion, Forbearance is good."
Then I would tell him Falun Dafa teaches us to be good people according to
"Truth, Compassion and Forbearance" so he should remember "Falun
Dafa is good." When the child repeated after me several times, I would tell
him to write them down and read them every day. I also would tell him to tell
his friends about it. Sometimes housewives answered the phone. Then I told them, "Falun Dafa
is great! It is the righteous Fa and teaches people to be good. Reciting 'Falun
Dafa is great,' 'Truth, Compassion, Forbearance is good' everyday is much better
than reciting 'Buddha Amitabha' each day." Then I would tell them true
stories that a senior citizen suffering cancer recited "Falun Dafa is
great," "Truth, Benevolence, Forbearance is good" and
miraculously recovered; a 89 years old senior citizen broke his legs and fully
recovered in half a month by reciting "Falun Dafa is great,"
"Truth, Compassion, Forbearance is good." Seniors citizens and
housewives were very interested in learning about these cases. When calling evildoing organizations and evildoing individuals, I emphasized
the facts that Jiang Zemin was sued in international courts for three types of
crimes; that nine top Chinese government officials (increased to 18 now) were
sued in international courts; told them of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)
list of Chinese officials not allowed to enter Canada; of the U.S. Congressional
House Concurrent Resolution 188, and of the World Organization to
Investigate the Persecution of Falun Dafa. These facts greatly shocked the
evildoers and helped to change their minds. When people who answered the phone did not know the truth about Dafa, I told
them the three types of crimes Jiang Zemin committed, the cruel persecution
against Dafa practitioners, the truth about the Tiananmen Self-immolation
incident, and how Falun Dafa is widely spread around the world. To expand their
concept of Dafa, I described to them how great and sacred Dafa parades are, and
told them about the Global Chinese New Year Gala. I told them the
story about the song of "Coming For You," and described to them how 80
European practitioners sang the song in five different languages. Sometimes I
would sing the song for them; normally, people would change their perception
about Dafa as soon as they listened to the song. The song is so moving that it
could break through all the barriers in people's minds and change people's
hearts; it could be more powerful than any spoken language. Master told us at the 2003 Atlanta Fa Conference, "Right now every minute and every second is crucial. If you miss out
during this period of time, you miss out on everything. History won't recur.
The history of the cosmos and the Three Realms have gone through so many,
long, long years--what have all the beings been waiting for? What are they all
here for? For exactly these few years! Yet there are [Dafa] students who are
squandering their lives during these few years, not seizing the time. And yet
you are shouldering such huge responsibilities for all beings and for
history!" ("Teaching the Fa at the 2003 Atlanta Fa Conference") Master's Fa often reminded me to be more diligent. I often see my
shortcomings and how far away I am from Master's requirements. Sometimes my
heart was not pure when studying the Fa, my mind was not powerful enough when
sending forth righteous thoughts, I was not clear enough when clarifying the
truth, my attachment to self is still strong, and my thoughts were not pure
enough ... These are all the weakness that I need to overcome in future
cultivation. Finally, let us encourage each other with Master's poem, "Rest and self-checking for a little while to enforce righteous
thoughts; Keep forging ahead once recognizing the weakness." (unofficial
translation) Thank you revered Master, thank you everyone.
Chinese version available at
http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/5/28/75800.html
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