Encouragement and Moral Support - A Suggestion for Mainland China Practitioners

By a Falun Dafa practitioner from Inner Mongolia

(Clearwisdom.net) I have twice been arrested, sent to a labor camp, and later released. Both times when I was released, I found the environment around me was not good. I am not talking about ordinary people here, because what a cultivator does is something an ordinary person cannot comprehend. Therefore I am not concerned at all about what ordinary people think or say about me.

I am mostly concerned about our fellow practitioners. After I returned home, some of them took the initiative to contact me and learn the situation. However, most fellow practitioners shied away from me, including the local assistants who I had spent a lot of time with. Even the practitioners who used to come to my home to study the Fa and do the exercises together seemed to avoid me.

While the evil took advantage of my omissions and twice sent me to a forced labor camp, my family sustained many financial and emotional losses. We are often looked down upon. When I returned home, I really wanted to share with fellow practitioners, improve together, and make up for the loss in cultivation in the last few years. I had hoped that fellow practitioners could learn from my experience and make progress together. I also hoped to tell them the truth about how the labor camps persecuted Dafa practitioners, remind them to study the Fa more, and walk our paths well. Furthermore, I wanted to discuss how to clarify the facts better and encourage the strayed practitioners to return to our group. But I feel like I am in an impasse. Maybe it is also because of my human attachments, but I feel that it's awkward for me to go visit other practitioners if they don't contact me, especially if there are non-practitioners in their families. Even if everyone in the family is a practitioner, I still don't know what they think of me.

Here I would like to raise this issue. The practitioners who have been released from labor camps urgently need help from fellow practitioners, especially encouragement and moral support. In addition, the family members of these practitioners also need help. Some Dafa practitioners have done quite well in this regard, but others have not. There are so many practitioners who have not stepped forward, and who have stopped practicing out of fear of the evil. They all need Dafa practitioners' help. All this can be endured if our spirit is not defeated, so we especially need moral support from others. I hope all those who are able to help will pay attention to the issue. This is all I will say. Please kindly point out anything inappropriate.

March 24, 2006

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/3/25/123657.html

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