How Dafa Practitioners Treated the General Election in Canada
By a Dafa practitioner in Canada
(Clearwisdom.net) On October 14, 2008, Canada held a general election, and the Conservative
Party that has long been supportive towards Dafa won the election by a big
margin. Before the election, because we were very busy with the Divine
Performing Arts (DPA) shows during the Mid-Autumn Festival, we hardly had
any time to think about the election. After we were finished with the
shows, there were only a couple of weeks left before the election. During
this very short period of time, practitioners actively shared their
understandings and started taking action. We came to the understanding
that as Dafa practitioners, we ought to have a righteous understanding
about big issues such as the general election in a democratic country. The
righteous thoughts of Dafa practitioners in a country can have a decisive
impact upon the future of that country. We are not interested in politics
and have no attachment to who might be elected. Although the Conservative
Party government had always been very supportive towards Dafa, we did not
hold any notion that they should be elected. We were very clear in our
mind that we would send forth righteous thoughts to support all those who
had a positive understanding about Dafa to be elected, no matter which
party they belong to. At the same time we also held a righteous thought:
those who have bad moral characters and who insist on cooperating with the
evil Communist regime must not be elected. Then there was an issue: the candidates must take a stand on Dafa,
otherwise how would gods position them? This meant that we must do
everything we could within two weeks to let the candidates in our
respective constituencies know the facts about Falun Gong, so that they
would have a chance to declare their stance. No matter what they were
doing or what they had on their mind, Master and gods only see their
hearts. We understood that the government of a country also played an important
role in relation to the salvation of the people in that country, so it was
very important that we hurried up to save those candidates, because in the
last week before the election it would be very difficult to meet with
these people. At the time, they were still holding election activities in
their own constituency, so we still had about six days. This was an
opportunity for us to go straight to these candidates in our constituency.
We reminded each other to make the best use of these few precious days. We
realized that the situation would be quite different if each of us could
spend just two or three hours clarifying the facts to the candidates. At that time, we asked all practitioners who could speak English to
find out the details about the time and place of the activities, and
arranged for experienced practitioners to help others collect information
about the time and place of debates in each constituency and inform
everyone via email. We called on practitioners in each constituency to
participate in the election activities and encouraged others who might
have time to go along. We also encouraged those who could not speak
English to go with those who could, so that they could help as their
interpreters. This way those who could not speak English were also able to
clarify the facts to save the candidates. Before we went, we needed to prepare ourselves and took with us
materials for clarifying the facts, which might include the organ
harvesting investigation report by WOIPF (the report can be downloaded
from their website), and other reports and materials exposing the evil
conduct of the CCP that is happening in China right now. In short, we
focused on exposing the evil nature of the CCP and telling people about
the benefits of Falun Dafa to society and about the persecution of Falun
Gong in China. We would ask the candidates how they view these matters.
Some practitioners also prepared a few questions for others to use (an
example is shown at the end of this sharing). If we had a chance, we would
ask questions at the debates, so that all the people present would have an
opportunity to hear the facts. We had a clear understanding that asking or
not asking questions was not the key point, and we did not differentiate
between the candidates either. We Dafa practitioners will give everyone a
chance and will try to save everyone. Our going there and clarifying the
facts is the most important thing. Because we hosted the DPA shows, we really did not have much time to
engage ourselves in clarifying the facts in conjunction with the general
election. However, we believe that for gods, two weeks are long enough as
long as we do things with righteous thoughts and righteous actions. During
those few days, everyone took action. We shared information via email;
practitioners contacted each other and went to debates in groups. The key
point was that every practitioner gained a righteous understanding about
the general election, and our thoughts formed huge righteous fields in
other dimensions. When the election result was published, and the party that had been
supporting Dafa had been re-elected, we did not get overjoyed and our
hearts were not moved either. Instead, we shared and understood that we
must continue to clarify the facts to the MPs in our respective
constituency and to make up for what we had not done well in the past. No
matter which party they belong to, they all need to be saved. The general election in the US has also come to its last phase, with
only a couple of days left. I have written this short sharing as an
encouragement to fellow practitioners in the US, and I hope the candidates
to be elected will also be those who have learned the facts about Dafa and
who hold a positive attitude towards Dafa. This would bring a good future
to the American people. A sample question: "Many people in the west, especially many elected officials are
eager to sacrifice principles for doing trade and business using the
excuse of engagement. However, the reality is: the Chinese Communist
Regime has killed 80 million people; there have been credible reports that
it has been harvesting organs of Falun Gong practitioners, because they
believe in Truth-Compassion-Forbearance, killing them in the process. But
the world remains silent facing such atrocities. Now it was discovered
that most milk products in China contain poison, which has killed babies,
and caused many infants to suffer kidney diseases. The regime remained
silent about it for some time when this was found out in August during the
Olympics, causing more children to die and get sick. What is your position on this matter?"
Chinese version available at
http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2008/10/29/188757.html
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