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Practitioners in Western Liaoning Province Hold a Small-Scale Experience Sharing Conference
(Clearwisdom.net) The six of us in our Fa study group
conducted a small-scale experience sharing conference. What follows are excerpts
from our speeches presented at the conference. 1. I moved to another town in late 1999 and didn't contact the local
practitioners much. I was doing Dafa work mainly by myself. I clarified
the truth to my relatives, friends, parents of students, and other people
I knew. Most of them understood the truth and quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
and its affiliated organizations. In 2005, I began to go out with local
practitioners and tell people to quit the CCP. Usually I would recite one or two
pages of Zhuan Falun and leave home at around eight o'clock.
Despite the fact that I was over 70 years old, I rode a bike to villages with
the young practitioners. We went to people's homes to tell them the truth and
persuade them to quit the CCP. In the beginning, I was too shy to talk to
strangers face-to-face, so I just stood aside and sent forth righteous thoughts.
Later, I was able to talk one-to-one, and in the end, I could speak freely with
several strangers at the same time. Once at a market, I was talking to an old
man who looked like a government official. He was quiet, so I asked him,
"What do you do?" He said he worked at a police station. I said,
"Police station? My Master also saves people from police stations because
he saves you as a person." Then I started telling him the facts about Dafa.
Upon hearing the facts, he said, "Please help me to quit the CCP! I would
have quit earlier if you had told me this." My younger sister-in-law's family has a big family banquet every year to
which they invite all their relatives and close friends. Among the relatives and
friends are many government officials and some police officers, but the majority
didn't know about the truth. At the family banquet early this year, I made up my
mind to save them. Before it was my turn to speak, I sent forth righteous
thoughts to eliminate interference and ask Master to strengthen me. When it was
my turn, I first sang the song "Be Saved" composed by Dafa
practitioners. Everyone liked it and clapped for me. I started to talk about how
practicing Dafa had benefited me and then shared the truth about Dafa. Most of
the relatives and friends could understand it. One of my nieces, who was a music
teacher, said that the song was very nice and asked me to write it down so that
she could play it on the piano. My experience is that our righteous thoughts
must be strong when we clarify the truth, and it is better to talk about the
issues thoroughly. When encountering problems, think about Master and the Fa,
follow the teachings of the Fa, and ask Master to strengthen your righteous
thoughts. Actually, the process of truth-clarification is a process of
cultivating our hearts--many attachments need to be eliminated, such as fear,
validating ourselves instead of the Fa, self-protection, saving face, etc. 2. In the last several years, I have been clarifying the truth among
relatives, friends, old schoolmates, and co-workers. Most of them have heard the
facts from me and quit the CCP and its affiliated organizations. However, my
immediate family was the most difficult because my husband used to be very
stubborn and would not believe what I said at all. Now he believes, due to our
family's recent experience. I would like to talk about the magnificence of Dafa by talking about what
happened to my daughter. Before, she wouldn't believe the truth about Dafa no
matter how much I talked to her. Recently, she gave birth. However, after the
delivery, she had a high fever for a long period of time. When she had an
injection to help lower the fever in the morning, the fever would come back in
the afternoon; if the injection was in the afternoon, the fever would be back in
the evening. She had quite a few injections, but none seemed to work to cure the
fever. Moreover, she couldn't breastfeed her baby for six hours after each
injection, so the baby was crying from hunger. I said to my daughter, "You
have seen the changes in me since I began to practice Dafa. Why don't you recite
'Falun Dafa is good' after me?" She nodded, so I said, "Falun Dafa is
good, Falun Dafa is the righteous law. Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance
are good!" She repeated after me again and again. As she was repeating what
I said, her fever disappeared without medication. At that point, all my family
members were convinced. Now, Mother and Baby are both very healthy. I sometimes met people who wouldn't listen to or believe the truth when I
tried to persuade them to quit the CCP. Some people would badmouth me, which
upset me sometimes. It is not right to get upset, and I know it's not easy to
save sentient beings. 3. In the past few years, I have been using various means to clarify the
truth. For example, I collected and printed relevant materials from "Minghui
Weekly," and mailed them to policemen and others. I also chose
particular materials to distribute or mail to intellectuals, students, and
people of different religious backgrounds. I have received very positive
feedback, and those who initially disliked the materials like them now. I realize that in order to do well, we need to use our hearts in clarifying
the truth and saving sentient beings. The Fa is always primary, and saving
sentient beings is our main job. Time is precious. Master said that our greatest
mission is to save sentient beings, so we need to seize the time to study the Fa
well and cultivate ourselves in order to better save sentient beings. 4. My family's financial situation was poor during the last several years,
and I lost money in either farming or doing business. In the beginning, I
thought that was arranged to help me eliminate my attachment to money, so I just
accepted it as what it was. Eventually, through studying the Fa, I realized that it was a form of
persecution by the old forces, as the CCP has been persecuting practitioners by
trying to ruin Falun Gong's reputation with lies, destroying practitioners'
finances, and eliminating them. We must not acknowledge this. I sent forth
righteous thoughts to remove the financial persecution that the old forces
placed on me and to deny the arrangements of the old forces. Although I had my
own attachments, the old forces did not have the right to persecute me. I wanted
to walk the path that Master had arranged for me and do the three
things well in the Fa-rectification period. Then there were changes in my
family's situation. My husband received the biggest raise at his work place, my
son found a job without our spending any money buying gifts for relevant
personnel, and I started a business with a relative, which has been going well.
My family's financial situation is much better now. I was imprisoned at a forced labor camp a few years ago, and my family was
terribly affected at that time. They prevented me from doing Dafa work for fear
of my being persecuted again, but I tried my best to do Dafa work. Through these
years of effort, my family members have changed a lot. Not only have they ceased
to obstruct me, but they sometimes help me distribute truth-clarifying
materials. I tried to persuade my son to quit the Youth League (a CCP
organization for young people up to 28 years old) and he wouldn't until
recently. 5. The present time is not a period of personal cultivation for Dafa
disciples, rather, it is the Fa-rectification period. We need to assist Master
in Fa-Rectification and do the three things well. Cultivating self in the
process of saving sentient beings, we should have good control of our own
thoughts. Even the slightest thought going astray may cause unnecessary trouble.
Recently, I was trying to pass the most difficult trial of my xinxing
since the persecution started in 1999 - escaping my "imaginary
prison." When the persecution started, I was not afraid of any torture, thinking
imprisonment could help me cultivate to a high level. Due to my unclear
understandings of the Fa and acknowledgment of the old forces' arrangements, I
was persecuted severely in a detention center and then a forced labor camp.
Later, I studied the Fa wholeheartedly and denied the old forces' arrangements,
so that I was able to catch up with the Fa validation process and do the three
things righteously without fear. However, my heart of fear was growing, as was
the heart of suspicion. I felt as if police officers or police cars were
watching me all the time, knowing that my name was on the police black list.
Thus, I set up an "imaginary prison" for myself. Fellow practitioners noticed this and asked me, "Didn't you cause this
yourself?" I admitted that there was something wrong with me, which was
very much like breeding demonic thoughts. I recalled Master's words, "The
Fa can break all attachments, the Fa can destroy all evil, the Fa can shatter
all lies, and the Fa can strengthen righteous thoughts." ("Drive Out
Interference," Essentials for Further Advancement II) I realized
that I had been spending more time on Dafa work and less time on Fa study. The
evil seized the loophole to interfere with me. Thus, I tried to spend more time
on studying the Fa and looking inward. I studied Guiding the Voyage,
"Teaching the Fa at the 2002 Fa Conference in Philadelphia, U.S.A.,"
and the "Fa-Lecture During the 2003 Lantern Festival at the U.S. West Fa
Conference." When I looked inward, I found that my heart of fear on the
surface was caused by the heart of selfishness and wanting to protect myself.
These attachments needed to be removed. I joined the group study (before, I
rarely participated in group study for various reasons) and kept an eye on my
thoughts, even the slightest thoughts in daily life. I cleansed the energy field
around me and kept the interfering evil factors away. Trying to walk my path
well, I also sent more righteous thoughts and clarified the truth to save
sentient beings rationally. The process of Fa-rectification has its own speed;
we should not continue at our old pace but catch up with Master's steps. Through this experience sharing, we all feel like we've truly improved in the
Fa and made breakthroughs in cultivation. We agree that we should not just
remain at the starting point but be more diligent. Now is the last critical
phase of Fa-rectification, and every minute is precious. In order to fulfill our
oaths from previous lifetimes, we must do the three things well: study the Fa
well, send forth righteous thoughts, and save sentient beings. Please point out anything not in line with the Fa. May 16, 2008
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