August 24, 2003
(Clearwisdom.net) Four years have passed since the persecution of Falun Dafa began. As one who has greatly benefited from cultivating Falun Dafa, I would like to tell everyone with a predestined relationship how good it really is. In past three years, I have visited about a dozen cities to tell the truth about Falun Gong to people there. Regardless of the local environment, I never stopped spreading the truth. The methods I used to spread the truth were face-to-face explanations and mailings, as well as e-mail. The production of truth-clarifying materials and the spreading of truth to others has become an ever increasing part of my life.
In the beginning, I simply downloaded articles from the Minghui website and sent them out. These materials had no eye-catching artwork. Later, I realized that our purpose is not just to dispatch materials but to save sentient beings. People are more eager to read something containing both pictures and text. Therefore, I now do my best to make the printed materials more visually attractive. I also include information about how Dafa has spread overseas, and about activities organized by overseas practitioners.
When editing, compiling, printing, packaging, and dispatching Dafa materials, I strive to maintain a pure heart at each step. I also send forth righteous thoughts to allow people reading them to awaken and be saved, and to facilitate the spread of the materials to more people.
At first, I went out to distribute Dafa materials only at night. Later, I realized that what I was doing was the most righteous thing in the universe. Hence, I began to distribute them openly during the daytime, too. During the past three years, neither the blistering sun overhead nor the pouring rain were able to slow me down. Since I traveled on foot a lot, I wore out two pairs of shoes. Sometimes when I was out of town, I ran out of Dafa materials, so I wrote some by hand. When Jiang visited Germany and Dafa practitioners around the world were intensively sending forth righteous thoughts, I went to Beijing to send forth righteous thoughts. When in Beijing, I had some extra time before having to return home, so I handwrote "Falun Dafa is Good" pamphlets and distributed them on Tiananmen Square. On top of Mount Tai, after running out of Dafa materials, I hung my red, handwritten "Falun Dafa is Good" banners from trees. When I returned to visit one of the schools I had attended, I wrote on the blackboard "Falun Dafa is Good" and "Please visit Minghui.org."
Clarifying the truth face-to-face has many advantages. Almost every one of my relatives has seen the The Truth About the Tiananmen Self-Immolation Event movie. My mother and father had originally opposed my practicing when the persecution first began, and cursed Dafa with hatred in their hearts. My father wanted to terminate our relationship, and threatened to turn me in to the police. Afterwards, after several long conversations, I eliminated his misunderstandings, and he even asked to read Zhuan Falun. Mother also stopped opposing Dafa. One of my aunts wanted to immediately learn Dafa. Other relatives traveled from out of town in an attempt to convince me to quit practicing, but on the contrary, when they left they expressed their wish to read Zhuan Falun. When I was on the road, I often clarified the truth to taxi drivers, and the results were pretty good. Once, when I was clarifying the truth to somebody, I talked for almost an hour. At the time the results weren't apparent. Later, I met that same person again when Jiang happened to be on TV. She looked at the TV in disgust, and told me, "Ever since you talked to me last time, I am extremely disgusted when I see him. Why is he so bad?" Through this event I gained a better understanding of "Do but pursue not." (from "In the Dao," Hong Yin (Grand Poems)), as long as Dafa practitioners do what they are supposed to do, everything will be good.
I visit the Minghui.org website every day. Whenever I spot areas that are affected by negative influences, I try to eliminate them, and stop them from persecuting Dafa and Dafa practitioners. For example, when I read about the persecution of Ms. Wang Limin and Miss Wei Xingyan, I immediately created many Dafa materials to distribute, and sent materials electronically to Chongqing University's faculty and students, to clarify the truth.
Using e-mail and surface mail to clarify the truth.
When overseas Dafa practitioners initiated the "SOS: Global Rescue Walk," I thought that I must also help, and I began my own SOS activities on the Internet. Using various methods to hide my IP address, I sent e-mails to every province of China. I clarified the truth wherever Dafa is persecuted; whenever I obtained someone's e-mail address, I sent him or her truth clarifying materials.
Finding classmates, and clarifying the truth to them.
I lost contact with one of my college classmates for many years, but when I found her address, I learned that she had already immigrated to Canada. At one time she said that if I practiced Falun Gong, she would not be my friend. After I explained the truth to her, she admitted that she had some misconceptions about Dafa due to the untruthful reports in the media, and thanked me for my caring about her.
Oftentimes, when I am walking on the sidewalk, when I think of "Dafa disciples are now sentient beings' only, sole hope for salvation" ("Righteous Thoughts"), tears form in my eyes. "Making a wish to save sentient beings, Assisting Teacher in his journey in this world; Aiding me to turn the Fa wheel, The Fa succeeds and free in heaven and earth." (from "Assisting the Fa," Hong Yin (The Grand Poems)). Our Dafa practitioners, how magnificent it is to live in this period of history. As a Dafa particle, as the last hope for salvation to human beings, how can we pause on the path of validating the Fa?
Three years have passed, and on the road of validating the Fa there have been many tribulations, much sinister interference, as well as harsh weather and rain. However, I have become more mature, calm, and determined. I have gone from having a strong attachment to attaining Consummation, to being disgruntled by the persecution and worrying about my safety when clarifying the truth, to being unmoved by desires and attachments. No matter what the environment, no matter if this was a "sensitive day," no matter what the situation, no matter if another area's materials production site was detected, no matter who plotted against me, I will do what I am supposed to do -- study the Fa, send forth Righteous thoughts, and clarify the truth, because it's what Master has arranged for us to do.
My wife once told me that she dreamed I was caught. I myself had seen a vision where I was distributing materials on top of a building when the police surrounded it and were waiting for me. At one time I had impure thoughts floating in my head that transformed into many scenes. I calmed down and firmly told myself, "These are not my own thoughts, and they are not arranged by Master, I will completely eradicate them and will not allow them to interfere, I will continue to do what I need to do."
The more I study the Fa the more I feel the urgency of time. Countless things still wait to be done by Dafa practitioners, countless beings wait to be saved. We can't miss the opportunity for which we have waited millions of years just because of one impure thought or some attachment. Study the Fa everyday until the end; send forth righteous thoughts everyday until the end; clarify the truth everyday until the end. This way, the past three years seem to have passed in the blink of an eye.
Being representatives of Dafa in this human world, we must also arrange well our everyday lives. My family life is in harmony; I am successful at my job and create a sense of trust amongst coworkers and my boss; I have good relationships with friends and family. All of these are the manifestations of the magnificent Buddha Fa in the human world. Under the immense pressure of the sinister influences in Mainland China, Dafa has displayed to the entire universe its great and magnificent dignity. "Cultivation is hard, and the evil is more evil while you are validating Dafa. Those who can make it through are bound to be Kings of sentient beings." ("Teaching and Explaining the Fa at the Metropolitan New York Fa Conference, 2003").
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