(Clearwisdon.net) I am a practitioner who first learned about Falun Dafa in 1998. I first understood what cultivation is when I read the following in Zhuan Falun:

"...the entire cultivation process for a practitioner is one of constantly giving up human attachments."

Master requires us to conform as much as possible to the state of everyday people in our cultivation and to make the best use of time for genuine cultivation. I realized that doing the three things well is the standard by which we, Fa-rectification period disciples, may complete our cultivation and fulfill our vows. Dafa disciples in Mainland China, in particular, are the main body for validating the Fa and clarifying the truth. Facing the huge difficulties contrived by the old forces, here are my personal opinions on how to do better to offer salvation to more people.

1. The most important Fa-rectification requirement is to do the three things well (study the Fa, explain the facts and send forth righteous thoughts), putting them first in our daily work and life.

Doing well in the three things according to Master's requirement is a manifestation of our own initiative to assimilate to Dafa. One is not a practitioner if one just wants to take from the Fa and doesn't think of contributing. Mainland China is the central place where the evil gathers. We have the Fa and Master as well as support from practitioners all over the world. We have the ability to offer salvation to people. Here is what I have been doing:

Daily Fa-study and the exercises

I keep Master's teachings firmly in mind, continue to do Fa-study and the exercises every day, and refuse to be interrupted. I have been through detention, and my home has been searched. For nearly a month, police monitored me 24 hours a day with a surveillance camera set up in a window at a house opposite mine. The police have set up "their people" as my neighbors and dispatched undercover agents around my house. I still keep up with Fa-study and the exercises every day. My Dafa materials are quite complete. Besides reading Zhuan Falun every day, I also study Master's new writings. Whenever I run into difficulties validating the Fa, I concentrate for a few days and read through all the lectures Master gave in various places so as to look for solutions from the Fa's point of view and to understand the progress of Fa-rectification as well as the requirements of the Fa. Keeping up with Fa-study and the exercises every day are what Dafa practice requires: it is our form of cultivation, solid like a diamond and immutable.

"The three things" are inseparable

In each of his lectures, Master has emphasized the importance of Fa-study. In recent years, he has also given much importance to sending righteous thoughts and the importance of truth clarification. It seems to me that persistence in Fa-study is the prerequisite and the foundation. Only by persisting in Fa-study can one unceasingly assimilate oneself to Dafa, comprehend the Fa, open oneself to wisdom, and recognize the difference between righteous and evil. Sending forth righteous thoughts is essential for clarifying the truth and offering salvation to people. Clarifying the truth and offering salvation to people are the purpose.

In the first half of 2002, I neglected to send forth of righteous thoughts. I particularly neglected cleaning up the bad interference in my own surroundings. As a result, I was abducted and taken to a brainwashing center. After escaping from the brainwashing center I calmed down and studied the Fa for a week and strengthened my righteous thoughts. During the entire year I was deprived of personal freedom, I eliminated evil factors by sending forth righteous thoughts.

I took the opportunity to visit relatives in far-away places to clarify the truth. Whether I was on a train or a bus, in the street or on the road, in the countryside, markets or village fields, I told people the true facts about Falun Gong and distributed truth-clarifying materials as I traveled. The results were quite good.

Master taught us "Dafa Disciples' Righteous Thoughts are Powerful"

According to Master's instructions, I continue sending forth righteous thoughts with fellow practitioners every day. I never overlook it, especially not since I was detained. No matter whether it was a globally or locally coordinated time to send forth righteous thoughts, I always participated. Sometimes as many as ten times a day, sometimes five or six times a day. I always send forth righteous thoughts whenever I have business and go to Tiananmen Square, the police department, the local police station the brainwashing center, or other places where the evil gathers.

During the morning of July 25, 2002, the police seized me and searched my home. During their search for Falun Dafa materials I kept strong righteous thoughts, "You don't have the ability to find Dafa materials." As a result, some of them even touched my Dafa books, yet they somehow just didn't find them. None of my Dafa materials were taken away. Later on a 610 Office policeman named Zhang Guiming very cruelly interrogated me and yelled, "We are enemies!" When I sent forth righteous thoughts, he stopped the interrogation immediately and changed his name-calling, addressing me instead as "teacher "or "auntie." He didn't even make a record of the interrogation.

On October 7, 2003, when I went to the local police station to request a refund of my 5,000 yuan for my so-called "bail," I kept on sending forth righteous thoughts along the way, intending for that money to be used for saving people. I confidently walked into the local police station. They not only didn't say any bad words about Falun Dafa but also very courteously offered for me to sit down. They promised to process the refund that afternoon. After a week, I got the refund and contributed it to two Falun Dafa materials production sites.

Quite a few practitioners in our area have been illegally arrested. This is an indication that our Dafa disciples had some omissions. I have shared my own lessons and experiences with fellow practitioners who have been released from brainwashing centers or forced labor camps. I have encouraged them to get over their detours and to step back into Fa-rectification. Now there are three fellow practitioners doing fairly well. They have also led other practitioners to do the three things well together. Also, I didn't give up trying to persuade those who for a long time had not dared to step forward. I feel we should offer salvation to practitioners who have gotten off track, as well as to the general public. Master has not yet given up on any one of his disciples. I, as a Fa-rectification period Dafa disciple, have no excuse to give up on them either. I ran across six or seven such instances, and they have all now started to step forward.

2. Conform as much as possible to the state of everyday society during Fa-rectification cultivation

It is extremely important to follow Master's requirement to conform as much as possible to the state of everyday people during our cultivation. We should neither be too zealous nor overly sensitive, nor fall into the habits of average people. I should keep firmly in mind Master's request to not only cultivate myself but also to offer salvation to other people and leave them with the most positive future path for posterity.

Through these years of Dafa cultivation, my experiences have shown me that we must make use of the way ordinary people live and work to do the three things. As a retired teacher, I have made full use of the opportunity to visit all my relatives and old friends whom I had not seen for many, many years. I have quite a few relatives and friends who are middle to high-ranking officers. Clarifying the truth to them is crucial.

During the 2003 Spring Festival (Chinese New Year) I met twice with a couple dozen old classmates whom I hadn't seen for 38 years. Some of them were division chiefs and department heads, and others were principals and professors. I told them the ins-and-outs of the April 25, 1999 incident and about the staged Tiananmen self-immolation. I shared with them my own personal experiences as well as the situation of Dafa spreading around the world. They all understood and expressed support.

I told my nephew, who had been head of a superior court, and my younger brother, who had been a security officer, not to do bad deeds. Later on my nephew got rid of his provincial 610 Office work, and my younger brother also silently protected the practitioners in his unit. After many relatives and friends learned the true facts, their relatives and friends also got to learn the truth.

I have also gone to many places to clarify the truth. I have been to the big cities and medium-sized cities, to villages and small towns, to institutions and even forced labor camps. I have had contact with a wide range of people, and I have told them the true facts by appealing to their personal interests. Usually when I arrive in a town, I make use of shopping opportunities to meet and tell people the true story and/or to give them truth-clarifying materials. I also send truth-clarifying materials to those I haven't met but whose names and addresses I know. The result have been good, too.

Previously I neglected some social activities. Later on I realized that I could also clarify the truth during conversations at these events, so I decided to wholeheartedly participate in these gatherings. This included accompanying family members on travels. We still did what we were supposed to do. For instance, I learned things from overseas practitioners when I visited my relatives abroad. I studied the Fa and sent forth-righteous thoughts with them and distributed flyers. Sometimes I went to a Chinese embassy by myself to send forth righteous thoughts.

In summary, conforming as much as possible to the state of everyday people to do the three things can make it possible for us to offer salvation to more people. Then our family members, relatives and friends can understand and provide support more easily.

I realized the urgent need to offer salvation to people and the significance of our responsibilities. We must not let this opportunity pass by for it will not come again. I should strive to perform a Dafa particle's function.

"With righteous thoughts and righteous actions;

He is diligent without letting up."

(Draft translation from Hong Yin (2) "A Righteous God")