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Validating Dafa with Cellphone Text Messages From the 2007 Falun Dafa Cultivation Experience Sharing Conference in San Francisco By a practitioner in the Neili District, Zhongli City, Taoyuan County, Taiwan
(Clerwisdom.net) Everything in this world is here because of Dafa.
Teacher said: "In other words, everything was created for this Fa-rectification,
everything came here for this Fa-rectification, and everything within this
process was established for this Fa-rectification. Everything of
mankind--including life, matter, everything a person can come to know,
comprehend, and arrive at an understanding of--exists for this Fa-rectification
affair, and absolutely would not have come into existence otherwise."
("Fa Teaching at the 2007 New York Fa Conference") Among different truth-clarification approaches, using cellphone
text messages to spread the facts about Falun Dafa is fast and convenient.
Anyone who receives the message will read it. It is also without borders. You
can communicate with anyone, anywhere in the world. It has other unique
features, too. For example, it is not limited by space or time. One can send a
message anywhere, anytime. You can do it at home or when you are taking a walk,
shopping, going out, or having a party. All your leisure time can be used for
truth-clarification. Sending messages on the go also prevents the authorities
from monitoring your cellphone's location. Now there are many awakened people
who have very actively taken part in this activity so that they can accumulate
their virtue and make up for their past wrongs, or they do it purely out of
their righteousness. I chose cellphone text messaging to clarify the truth because it suited my
own situation. At first I followed the instructions on a pamphlet on how to
determine whether a cellphone number was in service. If it was, I would send a
short Dafa fact message to the person. Each connected call is a hope for a
sentient being to be saved. All I needed was a cellphone. In the beginning, on
the surface it looked extremely simple, but in reality all my attachments were
exposed: "Would they ask questions?" "What kinds of
questions?" "Would I be able to answer them?" "Would they
call me names?" But then I thought: "Let me be clear why I am doing
this. Am I not Teacher's disciple? Am I not going to tell people facts about
Falun Gong? Am I not going to fulfill my pre-historic vows? With Teacher and the
Fa, what else do I need to worry about? I must calm down right away to study the
Fa and send forth righteous thoughts. I will treat everything with
righteous thoughts." Once I started, I was able to progress one step at a time. Gradually, those
attachments disappeared. Correspondingly, my attachments in my daily affairs
with ordinary people were reduced, too. The most important lesson I learned in
this process is that "the purer one's heart is, the easier things
become." At the end of last year, I received my first message about quitting the
Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations. I used the
cellphone to submit the contents and responded with the verification number.
From then on, there were people quitting the CCP every day, and I responded to
every one of them. People from mainland China started to use this method to quit
the CCP one after another. In the beginning, I thought that my job was done once
I responded to them, and I erased their messages shortly afterwards. But a
couple of days later, probably due to Teacher's hint, I decided that I should
copy the messages down very carefully, so I did it right away. Like a miracle,
some time later, a fellow practitioner called me and asked, "Did you
register for Mr. so and so on such and such a day? Did you respond to him?"
I searched my records and was able to provide the registration number right
away. Thank you, Teacher, for helping me. Some sentient beings in mainland China who were waiting to be saved were very
anxious. They would send two or three messages in a row. Some fellow
practitioners from China would quit the CCP first and then reveal that they were
a Falun Gong practitioner, and help many other sentient beings to quit the CCP.
I have two cellphones. Both have become hotlines for quitting the CCP. Some
families or friends of those who quit the CCP started sending in messages so
that they could also quit the CCP. Every now and then, I also receive negative
messages because some senders are poisoned by the Party culture. I simply ignore
them. Some people have responded to me with messages defaming Dafa and Teacher.
What should I do? I got the idea to have our telephone team talk to them and
clarify the facts about Falun Gong. Many misunderstandings were rectified by our
telephone team. I also sent them my online chatting account ID so they could
talk to me over the Internet. Peculiar things happened sometimes. Instead of sending short messages, some
people have actually called me. I wondered,"Should I take the call?"
The ringing stopped in a moment and I did not need to wonder any more. But what
should I do if they called again? Should I take it? Because of my attachment of
being afraid to talk with them, I was looking for more excuses. What was going
to happen was going to happen. One after another, many people called me. Teacher
has said that with the presence of Teacher and Dafa, as long as we have
righteous thoughts, Teacher will help us. What is there to be afraid of? The
next time they call, I will definitely take the call without fear. From mainland China, I kept receiving text messages such as "I don't
know how to do text messaging, but I want to quit the CCP" or "I
cannot do text editing with my cellphone. My phone can hold 300 words. Can you
prepare a 300-word message for me so that I can send it out to spread the
word" or "Where are you? Are you a Falun Gong practitioner?" Of
course, there are also people who have sent texts containing gibberish and
negative messages. In this process, much of my attachment of fear was reduced. Aside from quitting the CCP, messages from mainland China have contained
things such as: "We are practitioners from such and such an area. Please
send greetings to Teacher for us. We wish our great Teacher a happy
birthday" or "Such and such area policeman received karmic retribution
for persecuting practitioners. He had a strange disease and the hospital was
unable to treat it. He killed himself by jumping off a building" or "I
want to join your organization." There are also many who describe their
dissatisfaction with the current situation in China and give their support and
thanks to practitioners. But there are also quite a few who don't understand
Dafa practitioners. Having been in so many different situations, what did I do when I could not
handle them? I sought help from fellow practitioners. For those who call me
names, I ask the telephone team to help. For those who ask for more information,
I give them my Internet chat account number. For those who describe their
feelings, support us, send greetings to Teacher, or tell me that wrongdoers have
received retribution, I email the message to the hotline for quitting the CCP.
One very difficult case I had was a message stating: "please rescue
practitioner so and so." While I have been able to do this job rather smoothly, I want to thank all
fellow practitioners because all of us have formed a mutually supporting one
body. I also want to thank a certain practitioner who found a low-cost phone
carrier to reduce our financial burden. The above is my report. Please correct
me if you see any deficiencies. Finally I want to use Teacher's comment on the article"Do Not
Differentiate Between Fa-Rectification Projects; 'A Great Way Has No Form' But
Exists As a Whole" to call upon everyone to form a solid one body at this
last moment, in order for us to save more people: "Well said. Each person's cultivation path is different, the way in
which each validates the Fa is different, their social statuses are different,
their occupations are different, and their surroundings are different, but
they can all cultivate nevertheless. This is the path Dafa presents to its
cultivators. Dafa disciples are one body, and I affirm everything they have
been doing during Fa-rectification--they are all doing what Dafa disciples
should do. Different approaches are in fact the all-encompassing way in which
roles are dynamically distributed in the operations of the Fa, and the Fa-power
is a reflection of the one body. Posting date: 11/20/2007 |