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Creating the Environment for Face-to-Face Truth Clarification By a Falun Dafa practitioner in Liaoning, China
(Clearwisdom.net) I live in the countryside. Since the spring of 2003, I
have been bringing truth-clarification materials and VCDs with me
when I go to the market to sell vegetables. I clarify the truth to people
face-to-face. When I meet people who don't understand the true situation about
Falun Gong and the persecution, I give them a copy of the VCD for them to watch
at home, so that they can learn that Falun Dafa is wonderful. Usually, I start by chatting with fellow vendors around me. I ask them where
they live, and if they know of anyone practicing Falun Gong in their area, and
if they know about Falun Gong. Whenever I mention Falun Gong, people will pay
attention or look at me with shock in their eyes (because the persecution is
severe in my district), and ask me if I practice Falun Gong. I then reply yes.
They ask why I practice it even though the government doesn't allow it. I then
tell them about how my body used to be sick, and how I couldn't even ride a
bicycle. Now I am over 50 years old, but I can ride a bike for over 40
kilometers with 100 kilograms of goods. I start from how I have benefited and
how the practitioners are being persecuted. Usually I will have quite an
audience by this time. One time, a woman in her thirties saw that I was giving out Falun Gong
materials in the market and came up to me. I was still handing out materials and
I didn't avoid her. She stopped and said to me, "How dare you, spreading
Falun Gong." I talked to her about how the media lies about Falun Gong. She
said, "How dare you say that, do you know what I do?" I said, "I
am not concerned about what you do. You are first a human, and a human needs a
moral standard to conduct themselves by." She then said, "Do you know
what my husband does? He works for the government." I said, "I don't
care what he does. If he's in a police station or in a department that
persecutes Falun Gong, then it makes sense for me to clarify the truth to you!
Tell him not to persecute the innocent and kind practitioners. Tell him to learn
the truth, don't let him commit wrongdoings, and tell him that this is for his
own good." I talked to her about the persecution that the practitioners are
going through, and told her how the media lies to the public. She started
smiling in understanding after listening for a while. I gave her some truth
clarification materials and a VCD, and put them into her bag. Whenever I meet
people who start smiling after listening to me clarifying the truth, I feel
happy for them because they now know the truth. This kind of joy for others is
stronger than any joy I might feel for myself. Through clarifying the truth face-to-face, I learned that when a person has
been poisoned extensively by the lies, he usually has reservations when he first
hears truth clarification or when he reads the materials. When a second or third
person talks to him about the truth, he understands more. Take my cousin for example. She thought I was crazy for going to Beijing to
validate Dafa, getting arrested, detained and beaten up. She even made fun of
me. Later, after my uncle (her father) was sent to the hospital, the mother of
another practitioner stayed in the same room. The practitioner clarified the
truth to my family, and they became more understanding. My cousin and her mother
told me that the other practitioner told them the same things I told them, and
thus they realized what is really going on. They became understanding and
supportive towards me, and my two cousins started reading the Falun Gong books. One time while I was walking, I started chatting with a passer-by. Later, I
asked if there were any practitioners in his neighborhood. He said yes, but that
they might be practicing at home. I asked him if he knew that Falun Gong is
good. He said that he had seen a VCD and knows that Falun Gong is good. He said,
"There are so many people practicing Falun Gong outside China. Jiang Zemin
can't suppress them all." He told me that a relative of his is a village
secretary, and that he said the same thing. He then talked about how the
officials in all levels of the government are corrupt. I had tears of joy for
him and the village secretary. In August of 2002, officials started a brainwashing class in my city. The
police station chief, town secretary and officers all came to arrest me. They
brought with them two women to monitor me and took me away in a police vehicle.
As soon as the vehicle started moving I clarified the truth to them. They asked
questions and I answered them. Slowly their attitude softened. In the
brainwashing class, I clarified the truth to the perpetrators, to suppress the
persecution and refused to be "transformed". They sent me to the
detention center. While there, I clarified the truth to the detainees, and
taught them how to sing Falun Dafa songs. After 15 days of detention, under the
protection of Master, I came out with righteous thoughts. In the past, the
perpetrators always monitored me and always came to keep surveillance on me and
harassed me at my house. Since leaving the detention center this time, the
police have not come back to harass me. It's now easier for me to clarify the
truth, so I do so whenever I have the chance. As Master's Fa-rectification progresses, and through the practitioners'
sacrifices in clarifying the truth, it is now easier for people to listen to our
truth clarification. Now when I say I practice Falun Gong, people won't be
shocked or misunderstand me. Many people from the market know that I practice
Falun Gong. Some of them shout, "Falun Dafa is wonderful!" as a way of
saying hello when they see me. Practitioners in my district take all opportunities to clarify the truth with
wisdom. We give out flyers and materials in faraway locations. In order to let
people living in the far away mountain districts learn the truth, we will travel
120 kilometers overnight to hand out flyers. We always get back around 2 or 3 in
the morning, yet we always feel joyful as we travel back. I am thankful to Master for assigning me a cultivation path, and giving me
the environment to clarify the truth in the market. I have learned the power of
"righteous thoughts and righteous actions" and righteous faith in
Falun Dafa. At this point in time we should further understand Master's
teaching, "Let Go of Human Attachments and Save the World's People."
We should value our opportunities and complete the great mission that our Master
has given us, and bring salvation to more sentient beings. These are some of my experiences in clarifying the truth. I hope that fellow
practitioners can kindly point out my mistakes. October 21, 2004 Posting date: 3/2/2005 |