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Seize Every Opportunity to Save People
By Mei Mei, a Practitioner in the Northeastern part of China
(Clearwisdom.net) I started practicing Falun Gong in 1996. Looking back on the last ten years,
there are no words that could describe how much I have obtained from Dafa. Today
I am putting my cultivation story on paper as a report to Master. 1. Follow the Fa as Teacher, cultivating oneself well in everything Master reminds us to study the Fa well in each and every one of
his lectures. Master told us early on in "Explaining the Content of Falun
Dafa", "We require you to be a completely extraordinary person, to completely
give up your own interests and to be entirely for others." One day our work unit distributed a housing subsidy reimbursement. Every
department's director level personnel received from 15,000 to 20,000 yuan,
but I was singled out and got nothing. Some suggested that I should go to the
senior management to demand my payment. I told them I was a Dafa practitioner,
and I would not fight for such personal benefit. I must follow my Master's
request to care about others. The senior management and colleagues all said
admirably, "People who practice Dafa stand out from regular people." On an August day in 2005 I went to the market to buy some groceries. I
noticed that there was a fifty yuan bill under my foot. I picked up the money
and handed it to the clerk, "Would you please give it back to whoever lost
it?" Several customers commented, "Wouldn't it be nice if this old
woman saved the money for herself?" I replied, "No, I am a Dafa
practitioner, I must be considerate of others. Please give it to the person who
lost the money since he or she must feel awful. Tell them Falun Dafa is
good." 2. Validate the Fa with Divine power We all needed to buy winter groceries during the fall. During the fall of
2004, a nearby retired official who was 80 years old bought more than 100 lbs.
of vegetables but there was no one helping him to carry the vegetables upstairs,
and his children were not living with him. The grocery farmer was very anxious,
too. I volunteered to help and together with the farmer we carried all 100 lbs.
of vegetables upstairs. The elderly man was very grateful and surprised and
asked, "How come you are so strong?" I told him that I practiced Falun
Gong and all my ailments were cured. I felt strong all over. The farmer asked,
"I thought the government had forbidden people to practice, how come you
are still practicing it?" I replied, "It was wrong for Jiang Zemin to
persecute and suppress Falun Gong. It was just like the notorious 'Great
Cultural Revolution', when good people were persecuted. Falun Gong teaches us to
conduct ourselves according to the principles of 'Truth, Compassion,
Forbearance.' There is nothing wrong with practicing Falun Gong. Please remember
that Falun Dafa is good, and tell your friends in the village." The old
official happened to have some flyers telling the truth about Falun Gong that he
had picked up before and he knew the facts. He gave the flyer to the farmer to
read on the way back and asked him to remember that Falun Dafa is good. Now this
elderly gentleman has started to practice Dafa. 3. Persistent in doing the three things well even under surveillance During these years I, as well as other practitioners have all experienced
various degrees of persecution. I have been under surveillance by several people
arranged by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for the past 7 years. Under the
protection of Master I have escaped all dangers without harm to this day.
Studying the Fa well is the fundamental guarantee of doing the three
things well. The day before the New Year, a family member of a fellow practitioner rushed
to my home, informed me that the police had arrested several practitioners, and
were planning to take me to the police station, too. I was advised to leave
immediately. For safety, I rented an empty room without a heater for the New
Year. In April of that year, two more practitioners were arrested, and again it
was said that they were targeting me next. One morning, I went to deliver
Master's new article to fellow practitioners. I felt uneasy the whole day. When
I came home in the evening I noticed that there was a police car in front of my
home, but there was no person in the car. I went into my house and my husband
said, "Today six police (four men, two women) came to find you, asking
where you were. I told them I did not know and they were not very happy. They
stayed for a while and left, feeling pretty mad." My children told me,
"Mom you better not stay home, it is too dangerous here." Thus, I left
home and rented another place. The police did not give up and went to my work
unit. My management was very righteous and caring. They asked the police if they
had any evidence that I had committed a crime. If they had no evidence, then
they should leave me alone. The management further stressed that I was a good
worker and there were no problems whatsoever. During the Lantern Festival in 2003 someone reported me to the police while I
was visiting a fellow practitioner. The police went to the practitioner's home
to investigate. After the practitioner clarified the facts they left me alone.
On May 6, 2003, another practitioner was abducted and I needed to take on the
responsibility of distributing the truth clarifying information. One day I was
followed by police on motorcycles while distributing information. Fortunately,
under the protection of Master, we discovered them early. We avoided the
motorcycle police after making some sharp turns. Why have so many incidents occurred around me lately? Master said, "Search your inner self whenever you have problems." (Teaching
the Fa at the Conference in Canada, Toronto, 1999) I discovered that I still have the attachment of fear, and my sentimentality
was also overwhelming. Since I studied the Fa every day without lapse, reciting
Master's Fa-rectification verses and the poem "Compassion can harmonize Heaven and Earth, ushering in spring often, I was able to carry out the three tasks without lapse even under the
police surveillance. 4. Spread the Nine Commentaries far and wide; cultivate well
while persuading people to quit the Communist Party and its affiliated
organizations Since Master published "Turning the Wheel Towards the Human World"
in 2005, we as Dafa practitioners, must follow closely the pace of Master's Fa
Rectification. It is the Fa Rectification's requirement to spread the Nine
Commentaries on the Communist Party and persuade people to quit the CCP and
its related organizations. It is also a requirement to save people. Only by
thoroughly studying Master's Fa lectures can we perform this major critical
task. Under several decades of poisonous propaganda and control, people
initially did not dare to read the Nine Commentaries and it was very
difficult to persuade people to quit the CCP and its affiliated organizations.
Even some practitioners did not understand. They thought this is participating
in politics and anti-party. There were so many layers of difficulties. Even so,
we must firmly believe in Master and Dafa, and we must carry it through to the
end. Since January 2005, I started to persuade my relatives and family members to
quit the CCP. At one family gatherings, I persuaded 11 people to quit the CCP
and it affiliated organizations. While persuading people to do the "three
withdrawals", you will encounter every type of person. Do not worry about
others' criticism and finger pointing. Clarify the facts with compassion, peace
and patience. If it does not work the first time, then try again for the second
time. Once I approached someone a total of four times before he quit the CCP.
Any temper flaring wouldn't faze me. They were the victims; we are the ones who
have enlightened along the divine path. Now all my family, my in-law's family,
as well as some of my colleagues and retired officials have all quit the party. May 28 2007 |