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Teenage Practitioner in China: My Experiences Clarifying the Truth
By a teenage Falun Gong practitioner in Liaoning Province
(Clearwisdom.net) My name is Yu Er (pseudonym) and I am 15 years old. I
started practicing Falun Dafa in 1997 and have been studying the Fa
and practicing the Falun Gong exercises since I was little. Before the
persecution began, sometimes I went out with the adult practitioners to spread
Falun Gong and practice the exercises. As more and more people in China began to
practice Falun Gong, my area was filled with an atmosphere of peace and
compassion. Driven by jealousy, Jiang Zemin and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
launched the suppression of Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, and attempted to
destroy practitioners' spirits, reputations and lives. My mother and father
stepped forward to appeal for Falun Gong, leaving my older sister to look after
me. She was 13, and I was 7 at the time. Due to the CCP's interference and
harassment, we had not practiced the Falun Gong exercises for some time, but we
always remembered that Falun Gong is good and the principles of
Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance are good. The local authorities often
harassed us at our home. Once, the police came and asked us if we would continue
to practice Falun Gong. I replied, "Yes, I will." The police even told
me to demonstrate one of the Falun Gong exercises, and I did. They left after
watching me practice a Falun Gong exercise. When our parents returned home, my
sister and I resumed our cultivation practice again. There are many fellow
practitioners in our area. Young fellow practitioners and I often go out
together to clarify the truth, distribute truth-clarification
materials and post truth-clarification messages on the streets. After we studied
Teacher's article, "Turning the Wheel Towards the Human World," we
started to clarify the truth about the CCP and persuade people to withdraw from
the CCP, as well as its affiliated organizations, including the Youth League and
the Young Pioneers. While I attended elementary school, there were three classes at our school.
Several young fellow practitioners and I clarified the truth to these students
and they all withdrew from the Young Pioneers. The chairman of my class was very
angry when it came to the subject of Falun Gong. I clarified the truth to him
and he now has a positive attitude towards Falun Gong. The secretary of our team
has committed a lot of sins by following CCP orders. I wrote a letter to him in
which I said, "Everyone sees it when you do a good deed. Likewise, everyone
sees it when you do a bad deed. If you bring a Falun Gong practitioner to court,
you will face the legal consequences of your crime sooner or later. You should
know the Law of Heaven will ultimately 'reward a good deed and punish a bad
deed.'" Since then, the secretary has not been as depraved as before. When I attended middle school, I clarified the truth about the CCP to my
peers. I told them that the communist party is a "beast" and an evil
specter. Some argued that the Party is but terminology. I asked them, "Does
a human being or the term for human being come into existence first?" They
replied, "Human beings." I explained, "That's right. The Party
came into existence first before the term was invented to describe it. Why don't
we look up in the dictionary and see what 'party' means. All the Chinese phrases
and idioms associated with 'party' are negative." Some of my peers decided
to withdraw from the Party's affiliated organizations, but others said they
needed more time to think about it. At a politics class, the teacher spread a
lot of lies about Falun Gong, including the most infamous hate propaganda known
as the Self-Immolation at Tiananmen Square. Because I have clarified the truth
about the Self-Immolation incident to my classmates, many of them looked at me,
expecting me to do something. I felt as though it was a hint from Teacher, so I
stood up slowly and told the teacher peacefully, "You are wrong, sir. The
so-called Self-Immolation at Tiananmen Square is a hoax that purposefully
recruited one actor from each age group to instigate people's hatred against
Falun Gong. It is exactly like when the former Chairman of the CCP, Liu Shaoqi,
was condemned overnight as a traitor, special agent and enemy of the workers. I
believe the Chinese people over 50 years old have shouted the slogan, 'Liu
Shaoqi will be forever condemned.' But ten years later, his name was restored
and all charges were reversed! Sir, no Chinese dynasty lasts forever." The
politics teacher asked for my name and I told him without hesitation. I would like to tell fellow practitioners of my age or older, no matter which
social stratum you belong to, what business you run, whether you work in the
private business sector or in a public organization, or whether you go to
college, high school or elementary school, it is your mission to clarify the
truth as a Falun Gong practitioner. Teacher said, "Wandering around in society is rather torturous. It must beg for food
and meet different kinds of people who will scold, insult, or take advantage
of it. It might encounter all kinds of things." (Lecture Eight, Zhuan
Falun) The process of clarifying the truth to the world's people is very similar to
the journey of wandering around in society. During the process, we meet with all
kinds of different people who might scold, insult or take advantage of us. The
process provides us with opportunities to temper our xinxing,
search inward for loopholes, and eliminate our attachment to fear and the
warped notions of the CCP, so that we can eradicate the evil Party's elements
and save sentient beings. No matter which environment or occasion we face, we
must walk our path righteously. Teacher's Fa creates and perfects the future. It follows that, as
cultivators, we must establish a good foundation for future generations by
conducting ourselves well in society and by doing the three things
well with rationality. For example, when we study the Fa, we must be clearheaded
in order to truly assimilate to the meaning of the Fa and elevate our xinxing
level. When we send forth righteous thoughts, our mind intent must be strong and
our thoughts must be righteous in order to disintegrate the evil elements, dark
minions and rotten demons. When our posture for sending forth righteous thoughts
or for our exercise movements is not correct, we must rectify it right away.
When we clarify the truth, our goals are saving people and rectifying their
moral values. We may wish people to be free of harm, but first we must tell them
that to be free of harm and disasters is to be free of the CCP. The CCP's
tyrannous rule and its dozens of terrifying political movements have caused the
deaths of 80 million Chinese people over the past five decades. The Chinese
people have been deceived by the CCP for over five decades. It is important to
ask them to read the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party
to see through the nature of the CCP so that they will want to sever all ties
with it in order to erase the mark of the beast. We should tell people that
Falun Gong is good. All and all, we must save sentient beings with a rational
and a clear mind. We must identify our loopholes to prevent the evil from
exploiting them. The residual elements of the CCP continue to poison people in
China, so we must completely eradicate them. We must save sentient beings, have
faith in Teacher and the Fa, and cultivate until consummation. |