(Clearwisdom.net) I'd like to share an experience I had talking to my mom on Mothers' Day.
My mother, a lawyer, has always been pretty supportive of Dafa. She often tells her friends about it, and even paid my flight to an experience sharing conference once. But I always felt that she wasn't too sure of Falun Gong, maybe because of her own spiritual beliefs. She was out with a friend on the evening of Mothers' Day and at around the same time, I was finding that my heart was quite moved yet again, this time by a positive review about a terrible book about Falun Gong.
When Mom got home I was just calming down and studying the Fa. She asked how I was and I said something like, "Umm....trying not to be angry, actually". This led to a long conversation. I explained to her how this book took things out of context, and how the book review said that the genocide against Falun Gong was okay because of the misguided way the book described the Falun Gong teachings.
She was angry and suggested that I get the book and read it, then write
my own review, talk to the woman who wrote it and write to the major US
newspaper that had published the review. I was happy for my mom because she got
a better idea of why practitioners clarify the truth.
When I remarked that the persecution against Falun Gong is a genocide, she asked, "Is it?" "Yes," I replied, and then told her how the persecution has permeated every level of society, from the judicial system to schools, to media, and every level of government. She had never heard the truth so in-depth before.
Then, she began to say something like how China has such a long history, and such complex arrangements. She rhetorically asked, "Why is China's character and history the way it is? Why did Falun Gong emerge? And why did it meet with such opposition? There MUST be a higher, profound spiritual reason for all these things".
I told her some stories about how practitioners have responded so
compassionately to the persecution, and then she continued by saying something
like, "The reason that tens of thousands of people are able to 'cultivate
the perfect human spirit' even amidst the worst brutality is because there is
something from a higher level at work. She said that she thinks Falun Gong
is at the forefront of an overall shift in consciousness in China, and that's
why it has met with so much opposition from people who don't want change.
I was very happy for my mom this day.
Category: Opinion & Perspective
