(Clearwisdom.net) As the number of people quitting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Communist Youth League (CYL) and Chinese Young Pioneers (CYP) keeps increasing, the communist evil spirit is employing all means in a vain attempt to expand its forces and is starting to increase the CYL's membership, even among elementary school pupils under the age of 14.
One day, the teacher in charge of our class wrote out on the blackboard more than ten outstanding students' names for the class to elect and my name was among them. Since I had already withdrawn from the CYP, I knew I should absolutely never get stuck with the CYL. Therefore, I sent forth righteous thoughts to deny the communist evil spirit's arrangement completely and ask for Teacher's help. As a result, I was, as I wished, not elected, but I gave several of my votes to other classmates, thinking with an ordinary person's mentality.
Upon getting home, I told my mom about it. Mom pointed out that I was being too selfish. Since I knew that I myself could not be inscribed with the mark of the party, I should not have elected other classmates. She pointed out that that was the same as if I had pushed them into a bottomless pit. She asked me to clarify the truth quickly to my classmates and have them quit the CYL as soon as possible.
Therefore, I started clarifying the truth to my classmates from the angle of a third party. It went smoothly. Before I realized it, I developed an attachment of being complacent and one of my classmates, who didn't want to quit the CYL, informed our teacher against me.
On the day I went back to school, the teacher in charge of our class suddenly asked me, "Why did you persuade your classmates to quit the CYL and CYP?" I said frankly and calmly, "I read from a book of prophecies that the CCP is a red dragon in another dimension. If one joins the CCP, CYL or CYP, he will be inscribed with the mark of this dragon. Nowadays, the Party has become corrupt and evil, and the gods will settle accounts with it some day in the future. If one is a member of CCP, CYL or CYP, he will be a member of their organization and will be among the ones that are weeded out."
The teacher asked, "Is there anybody in your family practicing Falun Gong?" I didn't answer directly; instead I replied, "I have read flyers handed out by Falun Gong practitioners. They tell people about 'Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance' and persuade people to become good. Furthermore, Falun Gong can cure people's diseases and keep them fit. Now, there are many people outside China who believe in and practice Falun Gong." The teacher then said, "O.K. Let's have a good talk about it tonight."
Upon learning that the teacher wanted to talk to me later, Mom reminded me, "Seize this chance to clarify the truth. You may clarify the truth with wisdom from the angle of a third party. Send forth righteous thoughts frequently, and I will help you by sending forth righteous thoughts also." Having listened to what Mom said to me, I could not help being a little nervous. I lost no time and started to send forth righteous thoughts to clear away my attachment of fear and all the evil factors in other dimensions. Then I found from the "Minghui Weekly" several articles sharing experiences about clarifying the truth to teachers. I read them to get an idea of how others had been able to be successful when clarifying the truth to their teachers.
In the evening, our teacher asked her daughter (also my classmate) to come look for me. Upon going down the stairs with her, I saw the teacher, two other teachers who were teaching us some courses and our vice principal waiting for me there. I was told they came to do an investigation of what happened. I felt my heart beating faster, and I asked Teacher to strengthen my resolve. In the process of clarifying the truth to my teachers, I felt myself filled with wisdom and able to answer questions smoothly. Below are the questions my teachers and vice principal asked me, along with my replies.
The teacher in charge asked, "Do you believe in Falun Gong?"
I answered, "I believe in 'Zhen, Shan, Ren.' I think 'Zhen, Shan, Ren' is very good. 'Zhen' is teaching people to be honest, do things in a honest way and not lie; 'Shan' means always thinking of others, being kind, and having compassion for others; 'Ren' is a way to treat others with tolerance and forbearance, and to be modest and courteous."
Question: "You quit the CYP. Don't you love our country?"
Answer: "I love my country. However, it doesn't mean I love the organization of the CCP. China and the CCP are not equivalent concepts."
Question: "Our country doesn't allow people to practice Falun Gong, so one can not practice. Isn't that right?"
Answer: "It is not the country that doesn't allow people to practice Falun Gong. It is only one or a handful of leaders of the government, who were full of jealousy, that didn't allow people to practice. The Tiananmen Self-Immolation Incident was staged. As far as I know, all Falun Gong practitioners are nice people. They don't even kill insects. How could they commit suicide? If Falun Gong is not good, why are so many people practicing it, including many foreigners?"
Question: "How do you know so much about it?"
Answer: "Because I often read flyers clarifying the truth, delivered by Falun Gong practitioners. Teacher, don't you read those flyers delivered to the building hallways where your home is?"
Finally, a teacher complained to the teacher in charge, "You are stirring up troubles." After saying that, the teacher left in a huff. Another teacher whispered to me, "Please quit the CCP for me, but don't use my real name." After saying this, that teacher was also gone. The vice principal, who was off to the side, also glared at the teacher in charge and said no more.
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Upon going through the process of clarifying the truth this time, I found that I still had many human mentalities. Facing the upcoming graduation from elementary school, I thought I should make good progress after finishing the exams and getting into junior high school. As a matter of fact, this was to find some pretext for myself to be lazy and, therefore, I slackened my pace in doing the three things that Teacher asked us to do. Furthermore, when facing the problem of quitting the CYL, I did not realize, from the aspect of the Fa, that I should seize the opportunity to save my classmates and teachers. On the contrary, I voted for classmates out of a human mentality. Is it not the same as pushing my classmates into a bottomless pit?
Later after discussing with Mom, I came to realize that, as practitioners, we are supposed to save sentient beings. However, I clarified the truth only because I wanted to make up for my mistake of voting for my classmates to join the CYL. In other words, I did not do it out of my compassion for them. After several classmates quit the CYP (or CYL), I developed an attachment to being complacent and this allowed the evil to use it as a loophole, which caused the classmate, who didn't know the truth, to report me to the teacher.
Since I failed to study the Fa and practice the exercises often, my righteous thoughts were not strong enough and the words I spoke were not powerful enough. Hence, the evil spirit behind the teacher in charge was not eliminated completely. When the teacher in charge later brought the vice principal and two other teachers to do an investigation (they are also sentient beings I should save), I developed the attachment of fear and wasn't able to realize quickly that it was not me who was scared, but some factors behind me. Only after asking for Teacher's help to strengthen me and under Teacher's protection with compassion, did my wisdom emerge. It kept me from being persecuted by the evil and made those teachers able to know the truth and one to even resign from the CCP.
The above are just some shallow understandings of my Mom and me. If anything is wrong or improper, please kindly point it out.
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