Use Every Little Detail to Explain Falun Dafa to the World
By a practitioner in Heilongjiang Province
(Clearwisdom.net) Before becoming a Falun Dafa practitioner, my sole goal
in life was to be an outstanding individual and achieve greatness in society.
After I began the practice, I understood that non-practitioners have worldly
desires that are in opposition to cultivation. Teacher guides us on a most pure,
magnificent, and sacred road that enables a person to become a celestial being.
I finally understood the meaning and mission of my existence. 1. Placing Saving People as Top Priority, Balancing Relations Between Home,
Work, and Society Teacher said: "Dafa has been established in human society, and your form of
cultivation has you conform to ordinary society to the maximum extent. Many
people think it's about being lenient with and making things convenient for
our cultivation, but diligent students don't see it that way. It is, rather,
the path that Dafa disciples must take as they cultivate. So everything that
you do, be it your balancing well your family relationships while you live
among ordinary people, balancing well your relationships in society, how you
perform at your workplace, how you conduct yourself in society, etc., none of
these are things you can just go through the motions on. All of these are part
of your cultivation format, and are serious matters." ("Teaching the
Fa in Canada, 2006") Domestic Relationships I became a practitioner after I was married. Although my husband is not a
practitioner, he is very supportive of Falun Dafa. I knew that one's attitude
toward Dafa will position everyone in the future. Because he married me, my
husband had a predestined relation with Falun Dafa and I believe he has chosen a
great future because of his positive attitude towards Falun Dafa. From the day I started the practice, I did not avoid or hide anything from my
husband. It did not matter what happened to cause conflicts between us,
everything was often resolved after I unconditionally looked within and
painstakingly eliminated my attachments. Because of studying the Fa,
I could tell better how the evil in other dimensions manipulated people to
interfere with me. Through sending righteous thoughts and eliminating evil
elements, the knowing side of people gradually awakened. At times I talked with my husband about how I passed tests and tribulations
following the principles of the Fa in a way he could understand. I hoped his
life could be rectified by this profound teaching. Many times compassionate
Teacher demonstrated miracles in front of my husband. As a result, a firm
believer in modern medicine and science, an atheist, and a medical doctor became
a Dafa supporter. Because of him, I escaped persecution. Many people whose minds were poisoned by the lies publicized by the Chinese
Communist Party (CCP) asked my husband how he handled his wife being a Falun
Gong practitioner. Every time, his positive attitude gave me a good opportunity
to validate the Fa, clarify the truth, and eliminate the evil. A
colleague of mine couldn't understand why I continued with the practice after
the persecution started. Because of my truth clarification and my husband's
support and understanding when I suffered tribulations, he told me a story. One
time he saw a friend beating his wife who insisted on practicing Falun Gong and
threatened her with divorce. He told his friend my story and asked him to stop
treating his wife that way. He even told his friend he respected and regarded
practitioners highly. His kind act not only alleviated the stress in that
practitioner's family but also laid a foundation for his bright future. Balancing Work Relationships I worked in a high school where the interpersonal relationships between
people were tense and complicated. I followed Teacher's directions: "What I've told you is that you should be a good person wherever you
are and have others say that you are a Dafa disciple. You need to handle the
things in your family well and handle the things in your workplace well. As
Dafa disciples, how well you've cultivated is precisely reflected in these
areas, in front of the world's people." ("Teaching the Fa at the
2004 Western U.S. Fa Conference") I was the only person that practiced Falun Dafa at that school, and I knew I
shouldered a great responsibility. Every move and word of mine might decide
whether a person could be saved. Hence, I strictly followed the Fa and did not
fight over personal gains. With intellectuals, I tried to use rational ways they
felt comfortable with when I interacted with them. One day I was talking about the persecution of Falun Gong to the dean. The
associate dean and the chair of the 610 Office came by and heard me
talking. The associate dean cut into the conversation and complained about how
he was upset with what practitioners did. He was upset with practitioners
calling him from overseas in the middle of the night. He called it harassment
and said that practitioners posting truth-clarification messages and fliers were
damaging and polluting the environment. He even questioned the accuracy of the
content in the fliers because of the language used. Other people present started
to agree with him and agreed that practitioners clarifying the truth were
venting their discontent with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). I felt really
sorry for them, as their minds were poisoned by the Party culture. They accepted
the lies they heard and were manipulated by the dark minions and evils in other
dimensions. I sent righteous thoughts with a calm mind and talked to them
kindly. I told them that practitioners, in order to expose the lies, had given
up almost everything. They only wanted to tell people what was really happening
with the persecution of Falun Gong. I said that the behavior of practitioners
was compassionate and magnificent. They had to break through the CCP's
obstructions and restrictions and endure all kinds of pressure from society.
Hence, they might have acted wrongly, made mistakes, or failed to conform to
common norms. I explained that practitioners would improve, because they wanted
people to understand them and be saved. Then I told them of the brutal tortures used to suppress practitioners and
why the practitioners risked their safety to tell the world about the
persecution of Falun Gong. I spoke of the damage the CCP had done to our great
Chinese culture and how it hurt the Chinese people. Because they understood what
kind of person I was and approved of my performance at work, they agreed with
what I said. Later I was told that the associate dean became a defense lawyer
for a practitioner. My supervisors and coworkers understood the truth about the persecution of
Falun Gong and agreed with my actions. They often protected me from the CCP's
harassment and persecution. Sometimes I was faced with an emergency situation. I
needed to rescue a practitioner that was arrested and needed time off. I held my
righteous thoughts and clarified the facts about the persecution of Falun Gong
as I explained to the division supervisors why I had to take time off. They
often approved my requests quickly and told me to be careful of my safety. Many
of them had become "live advertisements" in telling people the facts
of Falun Gong. Balancing Relationships Well Practitioners practice in the human world, and I realized that we had to
present ourselves like an elegant lotus flower growing up out of the mud. We had
to save sentient beings. Teacher said: "Everything that Dafa disciples are doing today is for the sake of
saving people. Otherwise what are you doing it for? Clarifying the truth in an
upright and open manner are the very things Dafa disciples should do. I'm also
telling you that all beings in today's world came for the sake of the Fa. If
you want a being to clearly understand this point, you should go and clarify
the truth to him. It is a master key, the key that can unlock that one thing
all living beings have had sealed off for a long time and been waiting for
more than an eternity." ("Explaining the Fa at the 2003 Atlanta Fa
Conference") One time several practitioners and I wanted to go to a forced labor camp at
night to send righteous thoughts nearby. In order to save money, we took the
same taxi. We tried to tell the taxi driver the truth about the persecution. He
did not believe what we said, especially when we talked about the Nine
Commentaries on the Communist Party and quitting the CCP and its
affiliates. He resented the idea of quitting the Party. We decided to send
righteous thoughts to clear the evil elements that controlled him. I figured
that, given his age, he had a school-aged child. I started talking about how
tough it was to be the parent of a school child and discussed the corruption and
dark side of education. Then I talked about the CCP's evil persecution and how
many innocent Falun Gong practitioners have been tortured. He listened quietly.
Soon we arrived at the forced labor camp. As we got out, we continued clarifying
the truth to him. When the last of us had gotten out of the car, after a great
deal of struggle, he said, "I agree with you practitioners. Please help me
quit. I am a CCP member." He had finally understood the truth. 2. Practitioners Coordinate and Demonstrate the Mighty Power of Falun Dafa I took part in several Dafa projects. I had no specific idea of what I wanted
to do or what I could do. I often accidentally bumped into practitioners' Fa
study sessions. They asked me to join them in some activity after a couple of
group meetings. I found that they coordinated, worked in informational materials
production sites, and delivered materials. I joined their efforts. Several years
ago, I wrote an article about how I was persecuted and submitted it to the
Minghui Website (Chinese version of the Clearwisdom Website). After that, I
collected practitioners' articles and polished and edited them before sending
them to Minghui. Several years ago, I became involved in rescuing imprisoned practitioners
when I indirectly received a letter asking for help to rescue from a
practitioner in prison. Teacher said about an article: "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." ("Master's Comment on a Student's
Article, 2/16/03") We all know that there is no work in the Fa, only practice. Creating and
participating in various projects are to validate the Fa and save sentient
beings. Practitioners are involved in projects they are qualified to help with.
I deeply feel that the most powerful guarantee for doing Dafa work well is for
practitioners to coordinate with and support each another. Several years ago, only one practitioner and I were involved in rescuing
imprisoned practitioners. There was a lot of interference from evil in other
dimensions. We had to help imprisoned practitioners to improve their xinxing
based on the Fa and encourage their families to have faith in the Fa. We also
needed to expose the evil in order to stop the prison guards from torturing
practitioners. We needed to gain support from ordinary people and clarify the
truth of the persecution to them. Whenever we found that we lacked righteous
thoughts, we studied the Fa and shared our thoughts based on the Fa. That was
how we regained our righteous thoughts. Teacher said: "So as a cultivator, what is truly remarkable is when you can be
steadfast and have righteous thoughts so firm that nothing can sway you. Be
solid and firm like diamond, or granite, and then nothing can affect you--evil
will be afraid at the mere sight of you. If upon encountering trying
circumstances your thinking can be truly righteous, then, when faced with the
evil's persecution and when faced with interference, just one sentence of
yours fortified with steadfast righteous thoughts can instantly make the evil
disintegrate, and it will make those who are being used by the evil turn and
flee, it will make the evil's persecution of you dissolve, and it will make
the evil's interfering with you disappear without a trace. One thought born of
righteous faith is all it takes. And whoever can hold firm that righteous
thought and go the distance will become a magnificent god forged by Dafa."
("Teaching the Fa at the Western U.S. International Fa Conference") In the spring of 2008, we received a letter from an imprisoned practitioner
asking us to visit her. Before we were ready to leave, we called the
practitioner's family who are not practitioners and discussed what we were about
to do. They tried everything to stop us and told us that around the Olympics,
the authorities would not allow family visits. They believed the prison would
turn down our request to visit because we were also practitioners. We realized
that we had shortcomings in our minds. I found that I had the attachment of
rushing things, complaint, and wanting to use the work to validate myself. My
righteous thoughts got stronger. I called the practitioner's family again
without any thought of insisting on what I wanted to do. I communicated with
them calmly with the attitude of consulting with them. Later her family was
happy to agree to take us to see her. Before we took off, I notified many practitioners to send righteous thoughts
to support us and the imprisoned practitioners. At the prison, we did not have
to go through any procedures and saw the practitioner without any problems.
Despite being monitored by many guards, prisoners, and cameras, we maintained
our righteous thoughts and shared with the practitioner based on the Fa openly
and nobly. Because of everyone's coordination, we did what we intended to do. We
gave the imprisoned practitioner encouragement based on the Fa. What we did also
amazed the practitioner's family. They truly respected what we did, and one of
them even told us, "You guys are really gods." Teacher's compassionate guidance and protection have helped us pass
tribulations and interference. We gradually eliminated our human notions and
ideology. As long as there is a practitioner who needs help, we do whatever we
can to coordinate. Teacher said: "Master affirms what Dafa disciples have done. As long as you are
doing things out of a wish to validate the Fa and save sentient beings, I will
affirm all that you do. And when you go do those things, there will be my Law
Bodies or gods there to amplify it and make what you do yet more magnificent
and extraordinary, and they will assist you."("Fa Teaching at the
2008 New York Conference") Currently we work with practitioners across six districts and conduct
widespread rescue operations, expose the evil, clarify the truth, and save
sentient beings.
Chinese version available at
http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2008/11/20/189949.html
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