(Clearwisdom.net) Each of us has a family and friends. We may start the truth-clarification with our family members, letting all of them know the truth about Falun Gong. After they understand the truth, they will spread it. This will push the truth-clarification effort forward.
We face a certain degree of difficulty when clarifying the truth to our families. Even when friends, classmates and acquaintances don't want to listen, they won't quarrel with us. Family members may interrupt us in the middle without any hesitation, forcing us to stop. They may argue and quarrel with us in any manner they please. They will also speak their "point of view" freely. Actually, this is the breakthrough point of our truth-clarification.
Before we start the conversation, we must keep ourselves rational. We must have righteous thoughts and actions. All the irrational behavior of an everyday person is manipulated by evil beings from other dimensions. If we argue with them, we will fall into the old forces' trap. When they furiously argue with us, we should check within ourselves to see whether we hold the mental state of the utmost compassion in saving sentient beings, and whether we have a strong attachment to competitiveness. If we are able to save them with the compassion that can melt steel and iron, we will find that they will quiet down after some brief quarreling. When they show their so-called "point of view," isn't it a chance to unlock their hearts? This will require us to study the Fa and read truth-clarification materials often. By doing so, when we clarify the truth to people, we will have plenty of things to say.
I obtained the Fa in 2000. For the following several years, my family and relatives were all against it. In spite of the persecution from the evil forces and pressure from family and friends, I persisted in clarifying the truth. This year, four family members have walked into Dafa. Everybody has quit the Chinese Communist Party except one.
In July 2000, the local police arrested me and sent me to a labor camp for two years. At the time of my arrest, my daughter was on a school break. When she saw me being taken away without cause, she went to ask for help, including going to the police station, and talking to an attorney, acquaintances and classmates. Everybody told her there was no way to help. One attorney sympathized with her and told her that the higher authorities forbade them from taking Falun Gong cases. Then, she started to understand, and felt there was no hope.
She went to visit her high school teacher and told her about my situation. The teacher said, "If you want to save your mother, you must not sympathize with Falun Gong. You must draw a clear line between yourself and Falun Gong." Because my daughter was an everyday person, she thought that opposing my practicing Falun Gong was the only way and the best way to guarantee my not being harassed ever again. From then, she kept sending letters to the labor camp. In one letter, she slandered Dafa. When she visited me, she tried to use love and tears to move my heart. Gradually, her hatred toward Dafa became more and more strong, manipulated by the evil in other dimensions. Two years later, I came back home. On her school break, I clarified the truth to her without stopping. She did not listen. On the contrary, she defamed Dafa and Teacher. She even threatened to disown me. I thought that every time that she spoke ill of Dafa or Teacher, she moved one step further to destruction. To prevent her from slandering Teacher and Dafa, my fear started to surface. I did not dare to clarify the truth to her any more. I even practiced the exercises in secret. That state continued for a long time. I would find excuses for my fear. Actually, won't such so-called excuses move her toward elimination? I deceived myself by decorating this evil-enlightenment as compassion. Even though she didn't say it, her heart still hated Dafa.
In this Fa-rectification, Teacher only counts a sentient being's attitude toward Dafa. There was pressure in my family, but wasn't it what I should harmonize? When fear surfaced, who became happy? Evil became happy. If I couldn't help the beings in my family know the truth, if I couldn't save them, then I was not a Dafa practitioner in the period of Fa-rectification. I came to realize that the evil seized every opportunity to control the people around me, trying to make me fearful. Finding where the problem was, I sent forth righteous thoughts to eliminate the evil behind every family member. I asked for strength from Teacher, sending "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance" to everyone's microscopic being.
Only a few days later, my fear was gone. I started to clarify the truth to my daughter again, and found that her attitude was different. All of a sudden, she had many questions (actually, I had talked about those things to her before). I grasped that opportunity, "You should get to know about Falun Gong. You don't even know what Falun Gong is all about. Don't agree to whatever other people say. It's like a person without a brain. If you read the book and still think it is no good, it won't be too late to oppose it." She immediately said, "OK!" I felt Teacher was by my side, gave me strength, and compassionately took care of every predestined being. She took the book and read it, from 9 p.m. to 3 a.m. She finished reading Zhuan Falun in two days. Compassionate Teacher opened her tianmu, or third eye, on the second day. After obtaining the Fa, she was like a completely different person. She always blamed me for not telling her earlier, for example that the Tiananmen "self-immolation" incident was false. In fact, I told her everything before. On the surface, she had the sentiment to resist, and didn't hear me. In fact, it was the evil in other dimensions that sealed her up, not letting her absorb the truth. When the evil beings behind her were eliminated, her true self showed up, and she could hear me. It looked like sending forth righteous thoughts to eradicate evil behind these people's backs was very important. When the evil was eliminated, things that looked difficult were worked out immediately.
In the recent year, she clarified truth at school and distributed truth-clarification materials. After graduation, she clarified the truth at work. When participating in the school homecoming event, she clarified the truth to high school classmates and teachers. Now, she goes out and distributes materials every day, and is very diligent. If we don't clarify the truth diligently, family and friends like this will not understand the truth. If someone else clarifies the truth to them, they will respond perfunctorily. Such people are at large. Therefore, we can't push away people who are close to us. We can't let them have the false scenario of "they already knew the truth."
My sister-in-law was the secretary of the Street Committee, in charge of persecuting Falun Gong. From the beginning, I sent her truth-clarification materials to read. In addition, Falun Gong practitioners in her region all clarified the truth to her. She eventually understood that Teacher descended to save sentient beings. To prevent the communist evil beings from using her, I took the train to her home to clarify the truth. Three days later, she decided to withdraw from the evil CCP. She also asked me to take Mao Zedong's painting, badge, and other things to my home and get rid of them. Now, she has resigned the "work" of persecuting Falun Gong and from the Street Committee and walked into Dafa.
I recorded every member of my family, my old classmates, friends and colleagues' information on a notebook. Following a plan, arranging travel routes and time, I went to everyone's home to clarify the truth, with one package of materials for each family. If anyone didn't understand the first time, I would go back again. Just like this, I traveled from Beijing to Shijiazhuang, Shanxi, Hebei, visiting relatives. I talked with one family and then the next. If they didn't understand the truth, I wouldn't go back home. In the families I visited, most of the people withdrew from the Party, the Communist Youth League and the Young Pioneer League. Only a few said that they would tell me when they wanted to withdraw. This year, four people officially walked into Dafa. One veteran practitioner quit the practice a long time ago. After persuading him to withdraw from the Party in 2005, he came back to Dafa.
Sentient beings eagerly expect us to save them, but we hold all kinds of human attachments and are afraid of stepping forward. So many beings won't be saved due to our own attachments. We are indeed committing a crime! Fellow practitioners who have fears may clarify the truth to family members first. At the same time, they will accumulate experience in truth-clarifying. Do it quick, step by step. Talk to others. Don't think that they are "stubborn." We can save them with the compassion that will melt steel and iron.
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