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Re-establishing My Own Path, Assisting Master in Fa-Rectification By a Dafa Practitioner from Mainland China
(Clearwisdom.net) I was fortunate to begin Falun Dafa study during my
junior year in college in September 1997. The school environment was very good
then. Assistants led practitioners in diligent Fa study. My health
improved greatly, and I became very peaceful, too. Master's Fa principles
opened the door to my wisdom. My ability to understand things improved
significantly. I made great progress in my school and graduated with honors. I
started to believe firmly that Dafa is the profound Buddha Law. In 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), under Jiang Zemin's Regime,
started persecuting Dafa. Other practitioners and I went to Beijing to validate
Dafa. I also downloaded Master's lectures from the Internet and disseminated
them to other practitioners. Police discovered this and I was illegally
sentenced to two years in a forced labor camp. At the Sanshui Women's Forced Labor Camp, I mistakenly followed somebody,
taking that person as my model. I let people who went astray in the Masanjia
Forced Labor Camp affect me too. In 2001, I returned home from the forced labor
camp. Because I had given up Dafa, I stopped studying the Fa and doing the
exercises. Later, I felt my xinxing had become worse and
worse. Just then I remembered Master's lectures. I felt that in this complex
human world, I'd lost the purity that I had when I practiced Dafa. I reconsidered "transformation." As I was reading the cultivation
story of Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara and the Eight Immortals, it made me think of
many of the principles Master taught us. I suddenly had the desire to read
Zhuan Falun. I started to read the new lectures calmly.
Through reading I suddenly realized and understood that this persecution during
Master's Fa-rectification era is directly related to the old forces'
interference in other dimensions. So I asked fellow practitioners to publish my
"Solemn Declaration" on the Minghui website. I made up my mind to
follow Master and to continue my cultivation, but my attachment to fear that
welled up occasionally shook my determination, making me feel the difficulty
with every step I took. But I kept in mind Master's admonition to study the Fa
more, and as I did so, I had more and more righteous thoughts. In the recent
years of my cultivation, my righteous thoughts helped me overcome obstacles, one
by one. In 2002 I was transferred to a city high school as a teacher. I followed the
principles Master taught us and did my teaching work really well and won
acclaim. For each semester since then, the school arranged for me to give
demonstration lessons to teachers and leaders from my school and other schools.
I took those opportunities to validate Dafa and showed them by example the
standard of a cultivator. Every time I earned praise I always thought: this is
Dafa's mighty power. No doubt, this established a basis for me to validate
Dafa later on. Once, some practitioners and I hung up two truth-clarification
banners at a certain place in the city. It was the first time that Dafa banners
appeared in the city. The news spread rapidly. It was the time of the CCP's
important conference. The local Public Security Bureau was investigating and
watching closely. One policeman who understood the truth about Dafa already
called me and warned me that the police were checking my file and it was very
urgent because they may persecute me. I sent forth righteous thoughts. Then I
thought that I should go directly to the school director to clarify the truth
rather than waiting for the police to force the school leaders to persecute me.
I had one thought: as long as I speak the truth, the evil that was trying to
persecute me from other dimensions would be eliminated, no matter how vicious
they appeared to be in the human world. I went to the director's office, and the director listened to me carefully.
I told him about the benefits I received from practicing, about being persecuted
and going back into teaching, and a few other things. I explained facts of the
persecution. I spoke for almost three hours, until the director reminded me that
it was time to go home. The director said to me at last, "I wouldn't say
anything bad about Falun Gong. If it is truly like what you say, hopefully Falun
Gong's name will later be restored." I told the director, "If the
police come to the school to give pressure, please help control it for me."
Police didn't come to school and the investigation stopped. I then wrote a
long letter to the director and attached a truth-clarification CD. Since then, every time agents from the 610 Office came to the
school to investigate, the director always praised me for my teaching and said I
was following the principles of "Truthfulness, Compassion,
Forbearance" to be a good person. The police didn't know how to respond.
Prior to October the year before last, the police arrested a local practitioner.
They were trying to pressure me. I refused to go to see them in the director's
office. They had to leave. Since then, nobody from the "610 Office"
ever came to harass me again. Through diligent Fa study and continued improvement in my righteous thoughts,
I was able to eliminate the attachment to fear. I often think: An Arhat is
always in a happy mood. I should let go of all my attachments and clarify the
truth lightheartedly and with dignity. I teach Chinese Language and Literature at the high school. Dafa opened the
door to my wisdom. I can melt into and become interconnected with what I learned
from my readings and use it in teaching the students, and point them in the
direction of understanding the principles of being a good person. So, all the
students like to take my Chinese class. During a teacher's survey, students
always gave me high scores on my teaching evaluations. I tried to find proper
opportunities to channel the topic to "cultivation" and switch the
textbooks' article topics to the April 25, 1999 Zhongnanhai Peaceful Appeal.
When the class was over, the students applauded. Once there were adjustments in class arrangements, to divide classes into
arts and science sections. Many students from other classes joined my class. The
class monitor stayed in my class. She got to know the truth already and asked me
to teach her how to practice. She remembered what I said: the purpose of
clarifying the truth is to dissolve hatred. The more people that understand the
truth, the sooner this persecution will end. One day she took the opportunity to
present a speech before the official start of class. She purposely mentioned the
"Falun Gong" topic and asked me to clarify the truth to the class. I
had just thought about how to get to this topic. It turned out that she and I
were thinking the same thing. She later experienced the wonders of Dafa and felt
the rotation of the Falun in her abdomen. I told her it was Master's
encouragement for her. After that, she often distributed truth-clarification
flyers to her classmates. One student, the chairman of the student union, was being groomed to become a
CCP member. My class monitor and this student came from the same hometown. She
patiently persuaded him to listen to me about withdrawing from the CCP. At last
this student carefully read "The Nine Commentaries on the Communist
Party," borrowed Zhuan Falun from me and began practicing. Each time I clarified the truth in class I always maintained my righteous
thoughts: clarifying the truth can eliminate the evil. As long as I have
righteous thoughts, the old forces will not dare to persecute me. When I met
students who couldn't understand the truth, I used the opportunities of their
visiting my home to show them truth-clarification videos or tried to guide them
to break through their human notions and learn to think independently. I often took the opportunities of field trips to clarify the truth to
students and tried to avoid any arguments between me and my students. I learned
how to start a conversation with non-sensitive topics and understand the other
party's way of thinking and depth of thinking. When I read books or magazines,
I tried to gather historical information to better facilitate conversations when
clarifying the truth, so I wouldn't be only focusing on the issue of
persecution. I would introduce principles and help them break through their
human notions. After a while, when they would see me, they would ask me about
cultivation stories in a matter-of-fact way. Several of my coworkers changed
their biased opinions of Falun Gong and started re-thinking the persecution. I have recently taken two approaches at the same time at school to clarify
the truth - openly and secretly. When I chat with coworkers, for security
reasons, I give them materials such as Nine Commentaries secretly. I
remind myself to study the Fa daily and send forth righteous thoughts, do the
three things and read current information, such as Minghui Weekly. I
tried to participate in group studies and compare myself to others to find my
own shortcomings. Sometimes when I didn't do well and after other
practitioners pointed it out, I would adjust my mindset and continue to assist
Master to rectify the Fa. Since I had transferred to this school, we broke the long-held college entry
exam record for three consecutive years and made it to first place in our county
in the arts and sports areas. All the neighboring schools were amazed. The
director said the school was led to glory during those three years. I believe
this is the good fortune Dafa brought to the beings in this area. Dafa has given me wisdom and strength in every breakthrough on my cultivation
path. Compared to other practitioners, I still have many areas that need
improvement. The Fa requires us to improve rapidly. I need to cultivate more
diligently. I didn't use any of Master's quotes in this article. Some practitioners
didn't think this was proper. But I understand it from a different
perspective. I think this is related to my own cultivation state. Every
righteous thought I have in validating Dafa is based on my study of the Fa. When
clarifying the truth I try to maintain a pure mind without worrying too much. I
try to bring the principles of the Fa that I can remember into my conversations,
to make people understand them and see through the evil's lies. When clarifying
the truth I also try to compare what I say to Dafa principles. Sometimes I didn't
clarify this well and found my attachments, but I would then find opportunities
to make it up the next time, to improve myself. Posting date: 3/5/2006 |