About Clarifying the Truth to People in Beijing
By a Falun Dafa practitioner who is a former resident of Beijing
(Clearwisdom.net) Practitioners outside of mainland China have done a lot
of work to clarify the truth to people in Beijing recently. Many of those
practitioners are already doing multiple projects, yet they use what little
spare time they had to save people in Beijing. They rarely get any feedback from the recipients because they use mass
emails, recorded messages and faxes to send information to Beijing. Other
practitioners have talked about how to clarify the truth to people in Beijing. I
also want to share what I experienced when I was living in Beijing, as my
experiences may be helpful to practitioners overseas. The situation inside China is very different from what it is outside of
China. Some ideas that are easily accepted overseas are not easily accepted by
people in Beijing. People in China, especially those who live in the evil's
center, Beijing, have been living under high pressure and tight control from the
Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for many years, so their ways of looking at things
are quite negative. I think that when we write a truth-clarifying article that
explains a principle, we need to ensure that related principles are clear, so
the people in Beijing can accept them. In many cases, we need to elaborate on a
less obvious principle even when we are trying to explain a principle that we,
ourselves, find to be clearly logical. Take the issue of bringing lawsuits against Jiang. If we tell people in
Beijing about the lawsuits around the world, many of them will focus on whether
or not the lawsuits will succeed. They judge things from their experience of
being controlled for so many years, so they naturally conclude that the lawsuits
won't succeed. They may even think that we are wasting our efforts and doing
something meaningless. If we first talk about some related issues that they can
easily identify with before we bring up the issue of the lawsuits, we might have
better success. For instance, we can talk about the principle that "the
prince receives the same punishment as an ordinary person for his crime,"
the fates of other tyrants, or the awkward situation Jiang faces in the
international community. Then, people in Beijing can see the meaning behind the
lawsuits themselves, and focus less on the chance of success in the courts.
Because Jiang is so unpopular among people in Beijing, when they hear the above
points, they clap their hands and cheer. Some practitioners worry that if the content of the truth-clarifying material
relates to the current political situation or to the CCP, the people in Beijing
will not accept the materials well and will think that Falun Gong practitioners
are involved in politics. I think we don't need to worry about that. My
understanding is that in "No Politics," Teacher has clearly indicated
that Dafa has no elements that are related to politics. We don't get involved in
politics, and we are not afraid of being accused of being "involved in
politics" and thus avoid all things related to politics while clarifying
the truth. In the poem Just a Play, Teacher said, "Everything through the ages has happened for the Fa." Currently, everything in the world is related to the Fa. Although the
examples we use to clarify the truth may contain degenerated political concepts,
we are only using the examples to demonstrate the element of justice. We don't
care about benefits to any group or political power. We inspire people to think
about the relationship between the persecution of Falun Gong and the fates of
our country and every individual therein. The power of Dafa is manifest in our
words and the examples we use to illustrate our points. Beijing is the political center of China, so the people there care more about
the current situation than people elsewhere in the country. For example, say a
person went to Beijing on a business trip, and while there he noticed that
everyone was talking about Saddam Hussein's arrest in Iraq. The person might be
very surprised and might even ask, "What does Saddam Hussein's arrest have
to do with your life in Beijing?" Indeed, people in Beijing care more about
what is happening in the outside world than do people in other cities in China.
We can use that as a starting point to clarify the truth to them. Teacher told us that we can "explain things to them by following the
logic of their attachments," ("Touring North America to Teach the Fa")
when clarifying the truth to people. So we can utilize the enthusiasm for
politics of people in Beijing to explain the facts about the persecution. When
Teacher was lecturing to us in the past, although he was facing a group of
degenerate human beings created by modern science, Teacher did not avoid talking
about science. Instead, he utilized the science we were attached to. In the end,
he helped us break away from the notions of science. In the process, Teacher was
talking about the Fa, not about science. Following the same principle, we can
also utilize the logic of politics to clarify the truth to those people who are
attached to it. Yet we are clarifying the truth to them, not talking about
politics. For me, using this way of clarifying the truth to people in Beijing
has had a very good effect. For example, soon after the war in Iraq broke out, the state-controlled media
in China chose sides. They exaggerated the incidents in which the US troops
accidentally killed Iraqi citizens, yet talked very little about Saddam
Hussein's brutal persecution of the Iraqi people for so many years. When
clarifying the truth, I sometimes first said, "The media in our country
chooses the news they will report. In fact, Saddam Hussein has secretly killed
numerous dissidents in Iraq. Yet the media in our country does not care about
the lives of those people; instead, they only report on the bombing of the US
troops!" People in Beijing would usually laugh and agree with my point.
Then I would continue, "That was because the people in power in China are
like Saddam Hussein: they have also killed innocent people over many years. Of
course they don't want to point out crimes that are so similar to their
own." I then talked about the people unjustly killed during the Cultural
Revolution and immediately followed that with the truth about Falun Gong
practitioners being persecuted in China. This way, people in Beijing naturally
sympathized with practitioners and condemned Jiang Zemin. Regarding the CCP, we have never avoided the topic when clarifying the truth
in Beijing. Beijing is the capital of China. People in Beijing have a lot of
inside information and are very knowledgeable about the corrupt government
officials. They have also been the recipients of the most brutal suppression and
persecution from the CCP. As a result, most people in Beijing are filled with
hatred of and indignation towards the CCP, including those people who utilized
the CCP to make a fortune. People from all walks of life denounce the CCP in
private, including the CCP cadres and cadres inside the army. Although a tiny
fraction of people agree with the actions of the CCP, compared to other areas of
China, there are very few such people in Beijing. Over the past several years, I frequently said, "The CCP suppressed the
landlords and became the biggest landlord ever; it suppressed the capitalists
and became the biggest capitalist ever. It asked everyone to "submit the
land and money to the 'country' so that 'people' can have the power to use
them." Who is the "country" and who are the "people?"
People in Beijing usually say, "That's right!" I also said, "In a
capitalist country, one needs to compete for the position of president, and the
person can be dismissed if they don't do a good job. In a feudal society,
although one person, the emperor, dictates the laws, at least he wants to turn
the power and the country over to his own son. The emperor treats the people
like his own children, and is not too wasteful. Plus, some emperors have been
great leaders with much wisdom. The CCP not only appoints people and shows
favoritism, it also has the notion of, 'If you do not use your power while you
have it, the power becomes invalid after the due date.' As a result, there is
nothing but corruption left!" Again, the people in Beijing agree with me.
Sometimes I used a third party approach to talk to them, "On July 22, 1999,
our work unit organized us to study the issue of the CCP persecuting Falun Gong.
Our party secretary read from CCP documents: 'The Truthfulness, Benevolence,
Forbearance of Falun Gong is anti-truthfulness, anti-benevolence, and
anti-forbearance.' It was ridiculous to me: have they been to school at all?
It's sheer nonsense. Following that logic, the corrupt officials of the CCP are
all big honest officials!" Many people in Beijing laughed loudly,
"Yes! You have a good point! That's what they meant!" Of course, the preceding are all just opening words. After pointing out the
brutal and selfish character of the CCP, I immediately talk about the CCP's
persecution of Falun Gong. In this way, people in Beijing have no difficulty in
sympathizing with and supporting us. Some of them said, "Falun Gong
practitioners are great! People in China have been suppressed so much that we
are all numb. We need people like the practitioners to wake up the consciences
of the Chinese people with their blood and lives. The CCP uses violence to
persecute a group of benevolent and unarmed people. The perpetrators are
beasts!" Recently, the Epoch Times published Nine Commentaries on the Communist
Party. The articles were very popular in Beijing. I think we don't need to
worry that people will not accept related topics. As long as we follow Teacher's
words and disclose the persecution of Falun Gong by the CCP, there should be no
problem. Some overseas practitioners said, "I became worried when reading the
truth-clarifying materials I had prepared, suspecting that these materials will
not be acceptable to the people in Beijing." I think we don't need to
worry. First, our goal is to save sentient beings. The thoughts in our minds are
very important: they can change the effect of the truth clarifying materials. So
I think our minds must be calm and free from excessive worries. Second, I think
few people in Beijing become completely clear about the truth after simply
reading the information, so we don't have to expect the materials will have an
immediate effect. What I mean is, we don't need to put too much of a psychological burden on
ourselves. I don't deny the effect of sending truth-clarifying materials to
people in Beijing -- the situation is a result of their characteristics. People in Beijing are pitiable because they have been deceived and hurt so
many times. After their experiences, they are unwilling to believe anyone.
People outside Beijing are simpler. Although they believed the CCP propaganda
about Falun Gong, after we clarified the truth to them, they immediately woke up
to the truth. People in Beijing are not like that. They don't believe the CCP's
lies, yet many of them don't believe the truth-clarifying materials even after
seeing 10 different kinds of materials. They only regard the materials as
someone's opinion. They don't totally believe what they have read. Because of this, many practitioners in Beijing who had been doing really well
in distributing truth-clarifying materials have shifted their focus to
clarifying the truth face to face in the last year or two. Some practitioners
from outside the area think that maybe these practitioners are afraid to
distribute truth-clarifying materials, as they fear they will be persecuted. In
fact, practitioners were able to persist in distributing materials in the center
of the evil for years, during which time they have built up unusual amounts of
courage. It is only because they are clarifying the truth face to face according
to the above situation: this way they can break through people's shells quite
quickly. Although fewer truth-clarifying materials are seen on the streets, with
help from practitioners overseas, the amount of truth-clarifying material in
people's email accounts and their voice mail boxes has increased. Although these
materials can hardly break the shells of people directly, they can eliminate the
evil elements in other dimensions. Also, these materials provide people in
Beijing with more information, so that when practitioners clarify the truth face
to face, people can understand the truth faster and more easily. In this way,
practitioners collaborate and function as one body, which maximizes the effect. Another thing is that many people in Beijing like to read the written
materials and think about the contents themselves. Some people told me that they
would rather read facts and make their own judgments than listen to commentary.
Commentary makes some people suspicious, wondering if the facts are made up. So
in my opinion, if truth clarifying articles are not about the author's own
experiences, it is better to use the kinds of articles that contain few
opinions. When clarifying the truth to people face to face, I have never
encountered this problem. Maybe it is because we get immediate feedback when
talking to people, and they don't feel we are trying to force our ideas on them
in an interactive conversation. My last point is that practitioners overseas don't need to worry about the
number of people in Beijing who have been deeply poisoned by the lies when
clarifying the truth to them. If practitioners have compassionate thoughts, and
think that whomever is listening to the truth in Beijing must be a precious
being, I think the results will be the best. I have clarified the truth to many
taxi drivers in Beijing, and almost every time I found the driver I talked to
did not know the truth. Yet as time passes by, their reactions after hearing the
truth are improving. In 2000, the taxi drivers extended their hands to take the fliers we
distributed. If a group of them were resting together, and I gave one of them a
flier, the other drivers would ask for one too. In 2001, when I clarified the
truth to them face to face, they agreed with what I said. In 2003, after hearing
the truth, they not only agreed with me, but also added, "I have not heard
enough. Next time I will listen to you again." In the first half of 2004,
after I clarified the truth to a taxi driver, the driver wanted to charge me a
lower fare. I said, "That won't do. You drivers work hard for your pay. Now
the gas prices are soaring but the taxi fees have not gone up. If everyone pays
one or two yuan less, then you will be in financial trouble." The driver
said, "You are really considerate and think about our pains." "Of
course, Falun Gong teaches people to think of others." In the second half
of 2004, some drivers stopped the mileage meter before reaching the destination
after hearing the truth. I couldn't stop them from doing that. After the taxi
reached the destination, I wanted to give more money than what the meter showed,
but they insisted that I only pay the price on the meter, saying to me, "On
this trip, I have learned so much. Your words are truly great, I hope I can meet
you again some time!" The old forces wanted to prevent the kind-hearted people in Beijing from
understanding Falun Dafa. They have arranged the biggest obstacles for the
people according to the "mutual-generation and mutual-inhibition"
principle of the old cosmos. Yet the people in Beijing came from very high
levels, and thus correspond to many beings. So we need to work as one body to
save these precious people.
Chinese version available at
http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2005/1/7/93007.html
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