(Clearwisdom.net) Dafa disciples' cultivation circumstances have been very difficult in mainland China since the persecution began. My department supervisor suspended my job and my salary because I refused to write a guarantee statement. I was elbowed out and isolated from the workplace. Only Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance allowed me to pass through those difficult days. Here I want to share how I used the wisdom given by Dafa to break through the persecution from the police and my workplace, to clarify the truth and save sentient beings.
In October 2000, the department I worked for stopped paying my salary and suspended my job because I refused to write a "guarantee statement". They also gave me failing marks on my annual assessment because I was "spreading and practicing Falun Gong." Master tells us not to acknowledge the old forces, and to deny their arrangements. During these years, I have often thought of how to deny the evil arrangements, how to resist the persecution, and how to save sentient beings while denying the persecution. Although in my mind I didn't recognize the persecution, still I didn't know how to stop it. In the past five years, I felt terrible because I was not able to stop the persecution.
I studied the Fa every day. Master mentioned to us many times that when we clarify the truth, we should not talk about things at too high a level, we should just talk about the persecution of belief, freedom and human rights, and that people would then understand. I came to realize this for myself when the company withheld my salary and suspended my job.
My understanding is that if we want to save sentient beings and protest the persecution, we have to fit in with everyday people's mentality as we talk to them. I have not done anything illegal. How could my supervisor have the right to suspend my paycheck? Most people would not dare to do things that disobey universal values. When people have clear minds, evil factors from other dimensions will not be able to control them.
So, in August 2005, I wrote a letter to my supervisor. I pointed out that practicing Falun Dafa, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, is what I believe. What I believe should not entitle him to suspend my salary, nor does it justify him giving me a failing grade on my annual assessment. I also found out that "the Regulation of Annual Assessment for Governmental Officials" is issued by the Department of National Human Resources. In that regulation, it is clearly pointed out that annual assessments should be on the basis of someone's "work achievements." Since I began practicing Falun Dafa, almost everyone in my department knew that I worked hard and carefully, and made few mistakes. I asked my supervisor to arrange for my salary for the past five years to be paid, and also asked him to re-qualify me to take part in an annual assessment. I even told my supervisor that the over 5 years of persecution I faced has brought severe damage to my family and me. I was wrongly persecuted for my beliefs, and as a supervisor, I hoped that he could help me to get back all the pay that I had lost.
I gave the letter to my supervisor, went back to my office and waited. The supervisor used the excuse that I had been in a labor camp in order to refuse to pay back my wages. I said: "First, I have never seen any judgment from a labor camp, and the reason for suspending my salary which you told me before was because I refused to write a "guarantee statement." Second, the department did not have any paperwork from the labor camp, therefore I want to know, according to what rules did the department personnel decide to stop paying me."
I realized that by failing to question their stopping my salary, I had acknowledged the persecution. Trying to stop the persecution is a way to save the people involved in persecuting me. The process of asking for my salary back is a process of cultivation, opposing the persecution and saving sentient beings. By doing so, I jumped out of the trap set by the old forces. I believe that the path of my life has been arranged by Master. The amount of the old force arrangements that I can deny depends on how much I righteously believe in Master and Dafa, because I am Master's disciple, and I am a cultivator. I can totally deny all of the old forces' stuff as long as I do what Dafa requires me to do and totally believe that Master has arranged everything for me.
Taking advantage of the salary issue, I constantly clarified the truth to the people of the Human Resources and Finance Department, telling them my personal experience of the past several years. I also told them that we have our faith, and asked them why the CCP wants to persecute people of faith and why the CCP wants to control people's thoughts. I let them know that the police took me from my office by lying to me, charged me with "Disturbing the Order of Society," and detained me. I was innocent and was treated unjustly.
As I said things like this, they understood right away. They did not set any obstacles for my salary issue anymore, and became sympathetic with me and other Dafa practitioners. With this kind of situation, the persecution was dissolved. Finally, the supervisor realized that persecuting me was wrong. He admitted that what they did was excessive and unfair. He agreed to make up my salary and redo my annual assessment. During this process, I felt the importance of trusting in Master and Dafa with righteous thoughts and righteous actions. Not only did I clarify the truth but also awakened people's kindness, and reduced the loss caused by the persecution. At last, all my colleagues said: What you did was just right, how could they hold up your wages?
I therefore believe that all Dafa practitioners should step out to protest the persecution. Dafa practitioners are the leading force that can stop the persecution. We should have no fear of difficulties, because difficulties can reflect practitioners' virtue and magnificence while saving sentient beings. This is the holy mission that Master has given to all Dafa practitioners. Dafa is all-encompassing. We can stop the persecution and save sentient beings as long as we walk on the path of cultivation righteously.
That happened in 2005, and ever since, I have clarified the truth in my department, persuading people to quit the CCP, but I did run into a little trouble when I requested my outstanding salary. In January 2006, a surly old man from my department reported me to the authorities at a higher level, saying that I was spreading Falun Gong and information urging people to quit the CCP. The head of our department threatened to investigate me. I told him: "I hope you can finish the investigation as soon as possible. If I really have problems, I will accept all the blame without complaining, but if I don't, please stop listening to those lies and rumors, and solve my salary problem as soon as possible."
As I knew the person who had betrayed me, I started to measure this thing at the level of everyday people. I was furious and felt treated unfairly. I wanted to find him and settle the problem with him by quarreling. But it would not have solved the problem. I came to a dead end. I felt desperate and did not know what to do. I am Master's disciple, I am a cultivator. I repeated these words to myself numerous times on my way back home.
When I got home, I suddenly felt relieved. The unspeakable sore feeling hovering above my head was suddenly gone. It was Master using the Fa to untie the knot in my heart. I realized: the old man was not harming me. How could he be able to harm me? I am Master's disciple, and my path that has been arranged by Master. It cannot be influenced by everyday people. As a matter of fact, I should thank that old man. No matter what he was up to, he created an opportunity for me to pass the information about "Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party" and quitting the CCP to the head of the department. That was just what I wanted to do. Why should I hate him? Why not go and thank him? As I thought like that, I could not describe how wonderful I felt. All those bad feelings were replaced by compassion.
When I went to work the next day, I met the man who reported me. I thanked him for spreading the truth and bringing the Nine Commentaries information to the department leader. After hearing what I said, a mixed expression appeared on his face. Later on he told me that he was very regretful, and felt very sorry for what he did to me. I clarified the truth to him again and brought the magnificence of Dafa to him.
During my years of cultivation, I realized how important it is to walk correctly on the path of cultivation and saving sentient beings. It looks like it is no big difference from what everyday people do, but actually we are doing things on a different basis with a different goal. We are not against the persecution simply to be against it, but for saving sentient beings. Those people can only be saved as they repair the damage that they did toward Dafa practitioners.
One day, when I talked to people on the street, one person asked me, "Aren't you afraid of being reported? I told him, "I don't think that you will report me, because what I told you will bring infinite goodness to your life forever; I am saving you. You will not return kindness with hatred and report a person who is saving you."
When I was in my office, I talked about Falun Gong and quitting the CCP to visitors, colleagues' friends and classmates, helping them to quit the CCP. Some practitioners are afraid of clarifying the truth in their workplace, but quitting the CCP is saving people. It is the greatest and most magnificent thing, and it is what Master asks us to do. Who can bring obstacles when we are saving sentient beings, who will commit crimes? From the angle of everyday people's rules, we are doing nothing illegal. We are just chatting. As to what we are talking about, it has nothing to do with the people who are not part of the conversation. So no matter whether I'm in the office or in other public areas, I openly talk about how the CCP persecutes Falun Gong, and why we try to convince people to quit the CCP. Almost all the people feel good after hearing what I say. When my xinxing meets the requirements of Dafa, my words really can touch people.
Clarifying the truth to the people face to face is a part of cultivation and of upgrading oneself. Sometimes, I meet some really crafty or surly guys who can raise some very difficult questions. Other times I am not satisfied with my own answers, and sometimes I am stumped by their questions. Then I would study the Fa more, and while reading, Master's Fa would give me a hint.
As I clarified the truth, other problems would emerge and I would study the Fa to solve the problem. I feel the Fa is so profound and so wonderful. At present, no question can stump me as I clarify the truth. People like to listen to me when I clarify the truth to them. They think that I speak good words. But as a matter of fact, I clearly understand that everything comes from Dafa. It is Master and Dafa that give me the wisdom and ability to accomplish this holy mission of saving sentient beings at this critical and historic time.
