In a Few Words: Thoughts on Remarks about the Number of People Persuaded to Withdraw from the CCP

(Clearwisdom.net) Some fellow practitioners have claimed in their articles that they have persuaded hundreds or thousands of people to withdraw from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the CCP Youth League, or the CCP Young Pioneer League over the past few years. This might motivate practitioners who are not diligent in clarifying the truth, but there may be some hidden attachments in these boasts. Teacher and divine beings have been watching each and every move of everyone on earth. Why do they need to keep count?

Second, can they honestly claim that they are these people's saviors? Not necessarily. In many articles, fellow practitioners mentioned that they met people who agreed to withdraw from the CCP and its affiliates as soon as they were asked because they had already read our materials. If that's the case, you are simply the last runner in a relay and shouldn't take credit for winning the race. In other words, everyone in the relay should share the credit. I know from personal experience that it is a lot of meticulous work to produce truth-clarification materials, such as buying the equipment needed to produce the materials, getting onto the Internet, downloading and printing truth-clarification materials, binding, cutting, pasting and packaging. Even simple truth-clarification messages on paper money requires handwriting. Eventually practitioners have to take the risk of distributing the materials. It may look like an ordinary print production, but it requires huge amounts of time and effort.

When overseas Falun Gong practitioners produced the Chinese New Year Spectacular, we only saw actors and actress' splendid costumes and their spectacular performances. Has it occurred to us that the production was made possible by numerous volunteers tirelessly and silently servicing customers, selling tickets and promoting the show? Our newspapers, television programs and performing arts programs have the function of saving sentient beings, but every practitioner involved shares the credit of saving sentient beings. Teacher has confirmed that in His lectures.

In my humble opinion, Falun Gong practitioners are one-body. It is the Fa that saves people. It does not seem appropriate that one claims to have saved a specific number of people. We may have the wish to save people, but it is Teacher that actually saves them. This is but my personal understanding on being humble. Please kindly point out anything inappropriate.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2007/11/21/166924.html

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