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Only When We Search Within and Learn from Our Experiences Can We Truly Improve By a Falun Dafa practitioner from China
(Clearwisdom.net) In the process of cultivation, "Minghui Weekly"
was very helpful to me. As I read fellow practitioners' cultivation stories and
experiences, I could compare myself with them and find shortcomings of my own. I
also acquired much encouragement and enlightenment. Until now, however, I had
never thought of submitting my own article to Minghui, because I always thought
that there was a gap between those practitioners who submitted articles and me.
This lack of confidence always held me back. Now I have suddenly enlightened to
that. Isn't submitting articles to Minghui also a form of validating Dafa? Since
every practitioner has the responsibility of validating Dafa, I thought that I
also should write down some of my understandings. I'll use the following example
to show my understandings. If anything is inappropriate, please point it out to
me. Believe Firmly In Master, Cultivate As We Work, Have Righteous Thoughts and
Actions One Sunday in November 2005, I was taking my wife, also a practitioner, on my
motorcycle to the school where she teaches. While there, I walked into a
classroom of fifth graders, and I suddenly wanted to clarify
the truth to the students. I wrote "Truthfulness, Compassion and
Forbearance; Deceptiveness, Wickedness and Violence" on the blackboard and
asked the students, "Of these characters, which three are good?" The
students all answered, "Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance are
good." I then told the students the truth of the persecution of Falun Gong
and the meaning of "Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance." I also
taught them to say quietly, "Falun Dafa is good; Truthfulness, Compassion
and Forbearance is good" and gave them Dafa amulets. That afternoon, when
these students went home, some of them showed their parents the amulets. The
parents asked them where they came from, and the students told them. Since a few
parents did not know the truth, they called the local authorities and reported
that some teacher had taught Falun Gong in class. The local authorities and
police station pressured the school and forced the principal and teachers to
collect the amulets. They also did an investigation in the community and stopped
my wife from teaching her classes. After a few days, my wife and I went to the
students' homes to talk to their parents and clarify the truth. The parent who
reported us again called the police station and said that we were passing out
Falun Gong materials. The police arrested us on our way home. That same day, we
were put in a detention center. After we were taken to the detention center, I thought about it deeply, tried
to find the gaps in my cultivation, and analyzed the whole process. I looked
back on all of my thoughts, moves, and words, and measured them with Dafa to
look for the reason. Yes, after I clarified the truth to the students, I became
engrossed. I did not tell the students what to say if their parents asked them
about the amulets. Secondly, my righteous thoughts were not strong enough and I
did not clear the evil factors in other dimensions around the school and in the
students' homes. Thirdly, I had the attachment of fear, which the old forces
took advantage of. Once I realized my shortcomings, I adjusted the thoughts in my mind and
remembered what Master taught us in Hong Yin Vol. II
(Translation Version A): "When disciples have ample righteous thoughts, Master has the power to turn back the tide." I then insisted on sending forth righteous thoughts for long periods of time
every day to totally reject everything arranged by the old forces, to
disintegrate all of the dark minions and rotten demons, and elements of the
Communist evil specter in other dimensions, which are controlled by the old
forces, and to let all the evil plans to persecute us be completely
disintegrated and destroyed. At the same time, I clarified the truth to save
sentient beings. Master has told us, "...no matter which beings they are or how huge the mistakes and sins
they committed in history, as long as they do not play a negative role with
regard to the Fa-rectification, I can give them benevolent solutions and
eliminate their sins and karma." ("Turning the Wheel Towards the Human World") Although the people here violated the law and made mistakes, some of them
committed crimes only because they were temporarily confused. Thus, I must
clarify the truth to them and save them. During the time I was in the detention
center, I was able to help 18 people understand the truth, and they all quit the
CCP. Just like this, with the protection of Master and help from fellow
practitioners, we left the detention center with dignity and righteous thoughts.
Posting date: 1/20/2007 |