By a Falun Dafa practitioner from China

(Clearwisdom.net) As Dafa practitioners in the Fa-rectification period, how can we be worthy of this title? I will reply without hesitation: it's our bounden duty to help Master rectify the Fa. After Master's article "Pass the Deadly Test" was published, practitioners wanted to try to deliver Master's merciful summons and expectation into the hands of fellow practitioners of former days (those being persecuted, those that had enlightened along an evil path, or those unable to step forward due to various reasons), and exchange and share with them together. I also did this.

Fellow practitioner ‘A’ was a volunteer assistant before the persecution and the wonderful effects Dafa brought him are well known. When the evil rampantly suppressed Dafa, because of fear he revealed other practitioners' telephone numbers, addresses, and their work units. Afterwards the local police began to harass the practitioners. Not only did the other practitioners lose their auspicious practice site, they also lost their mutual communication, which caused misunderstandings and distrust among them. During the following years, they were suspicious and complained to each other with human thinking. Sometimes they wouldn’t even talk when they passed each other on the street. Their family members also came to refuse to communicate with other practitioners, sometimes even refusing their visits.

We studied the Fa together with practitioner A, telling him that Master did not want to leave behind a single family member and that he had done what he should do in promoting Dafa in the past. He choked with sobs, saying from the bottom of his heart, "Master has given me so much, I did wrong things without meaning to and now I feel regret for the trouble I caused everybody. Despite this, Master still does not shut me out. I must step up in studying the Fa and practicing the exercises." Several days later, we went together to visit those fellow practitioners to whom he once did harm, offered apologies publicly, laid down the mental burdens, and we all worked to move forward together.

Fellow practitioner ‘B’ did not study the Fa well and had a lot of fears and attachments. He even developed a heart of complaint toward Master. But in his innermost self, he could not lay down Falun Dafa either, and he also persisted in studying the Fa and practicing the exercises. We studied the Fa together with practitioner B time and time again, following the process of Fa-rectification together.

Here we very much wanted to say to the fellow practitioners of former days: "Before the persecution we were able to study the Fa and practice the exercises openly and aboveboard, and what we obtained is not something that can be described with words. Master has not asked for anything from us! How can it be that just because the situation has changed, we must change? Isn't that acknowledging the old force's arrangements? Today we are fortunate to be here during the time that Dafa is being promoted far and wide. Master has delivered to our doorstep the ladder which ascends to the heavens, without asking for any repayment. How can we sit in our own private worlds and become deities? Since we have chosen this righteous belief, no matter how difficult it is, we must firmly step forward without missing this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Everyday people all know the saying, 'Being a Teacher for just one day is equal to being a Father for a whole lifetime.' Being muddled headed for a while is not a big deal. As long as one can stand back up and continue to go forward, he is still a Dafa practitioner!"

We not only have the responsibility to call upon fellow practitioners, but we must also awaken the sentient beings deceived by the Chinese Communist Party lies. So long as we have strong righteous thoughts, it will be just like Master says: "I just don't believe their consciences are irretrievably lost." ("For the Good of the World").

Posting date: 11/17/2006
Original article date: 11/17/2006
Category: Practitioners' Insights
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2006/10/3/139201.html

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