(Clearwisdom.net) Greetings Master! Greetings fellow practitioners!
I am a practitioner from Malaysia who has been involved in clarifying the truth to the government and to the police for the past few years. Through the process of clarifying the truth, practitioners in Malaysia have slowly understood that we need to use our wisdom to clarify the truth in our country. Below are some of my understandings that I would like to share with practitioners.
Malaysia is a small country with little influence in the world. Our government has tried to build up a multi-racial and multi-cultural image for Malaysia. Malaysia has gone through a time of fighting against communism in the country. In order to better control communism in the country and to maintain order in society, Malaysia has enacted certain laws such as the Internal Security Acts and the Printing Acts. They continue to be practiced.
Master has told us:
"No country in this world exists by chance--they all exist with a meaning and a purpose. Actually, people are all waiting for the Fa." ("Teaching the Fa at the Washington, D.C. International Fa Conference")
Master has told us repeatedly that there is nothing coincidental in the world. The history of Malaysia seemed to have nothing to do with Falun Dafa. In fact, everything in the world exists for Dafa and nothing is a coincidence.
Due to the limitation of the historical and political environment in Malaysia, the government has enacted many laws that violate human rights. Malaysians have little knowledge on human rights and generally do not have much freedom of thought and assembly. Due to the limitations of the laws and the lack of knowledge on human rights, we have encountered many problems with truth clarification. We have found that there are restrictions on almost all the truth-clarification projects we want to carry out. The Printing Acts cause us problems with printing The Epoch Times and brochures about Dafa. The Internal Security Acts cause us problems on organizing rallies and protests, and sending forth righteous thoughts at the Chinese Embassy. The Society Acts also give us problems with establishing a Falun Dafa Association.
Therefore, it is very important for us to have a breakthrough so that we can do better in truth clarification. We must also find a way to break the human notions of the people here so that they can understand the truth. Master has told us we must use our wisdom when clarifying the truth. Everyday people will listen only if what we tell them is in line with their ideas and their attachments.
When we first started to clarify the truth to the government, the officials didn't really know what Falun Gong was. On Falun Gong issues, they would answer us with Malaysia's general policy: It is a China affair and Malaysia is holding a neutral policy on the affairs of foreign countries and does not interfere in their affairs. Furthermore, Malaysia has established a very good relationship with China and it cannot be destroyed. You can practice the exercise in Malaysia, you can practice in the park, but don't distribute fliers or say anything bad about China.
They also told us, "You always say that the CCP persecutes Falun Gong, but is it true? We can't see that in Malaysia, and it has nothing to do with Malaysia."
If we talk about human rights, they say, "Malaysia has its own legal system. Our laws are like this and you have to follow them. You need to follow the laws apart from human rights. You can have your demonstration, but you need to apply for a permit." However, they have rejected almost all of our permit applications.
If we followed the government's instructions or laws, we couldn't do any truth-clarification work in Malaysia. How can we clarify the truth to people?
Slowly I understood that such legal systems follow the arrangements of the old forces, with the purpose of interfering in Fa-rectification. The so-called "not interfering with the affairs of foreign countries" policy is also an arrangement of the old forces to disturb the Fa-rectification. I wondered why they all talked in the same way, until I realized that they don't have their own opinions and perspectives. I understood that they were all pitiable beings who lived in the old cosmos and were forced to follow the old forces' arrangements. Falun Dafa disciples must break through the old forces' arrangements and save them, so that they can make their choices correctly without doing harm to Dafa.
In my heart I do not acknowledge any of the old forces' arrangements. At this level of the human world, we should understand what human rights are. Human rights are gifts from god and they can not be abused. From an understanding of the Fa, we have to follow what Master asks us to do. Truth clarification is something that we should do! We should do truth-clarification work according to the requirements of the Fa, not the requirements of laws. Hence, we do not acknowledge such laws.
We do not acknowledge the laws in our minds, but we still need to be kind to everyday people. We are not in opposition to the police and government.
We did not get permits for almost all of our activities, so we tried very hard to get permission from the police to do the activities. When we protest in front of the Chinese Embassy, normally 20-30 police officers come to the site. The police ask us when we are going to disperse. We ask them to give us half an hour. Sometimes we meet police officers who do not really understand the truth of Falun Gong and are unfriendly to us. During the protest, some practitioners clarify the truth to those who do not understand the truth. Some practitioners hold a press conference and read our statement, and others take photos. Sometimes the police allow us 30 minutes, sometimes 15 minutes, and sometimes 10 minutes.
We try our best to coordinate with the police to make it convenient for them. They wanted all of our Identity Card numbers, so we helped them to copy the numbers. After that, we shook hands with them and thanked them for helping us in controlling the traffic and maintaining order. The police had never met any group that is so kind and peaceful and they were surprised by our attitude and behavior. Later on, they came to understand that Falun Gong practitioners are not a violent group and slowly came to trust us. They understand the truth and are gentle to us.
Once they understood the truth, they did not want to take any action against us. They are police officers though, and they have their duties. They have to act according to the instructions of their supervisors and the law, which is the arrangement of the old forces, according to my understanding. Master told us that we have to think of others in whatever we do. As Dafa disciples, we have to understand that these are their duties and we have to be kind and tolerant of them.
Sometimes we have our rallies at a very busy area and we need to rent the place. When we tried to apply and rent the place, the authorities told us that we had to apply for a permit from City Council before they could rent the place to us. When we approached City Council, they told us that we needed to apply for a permit from the police first. The police told us that they wouldn't approve our application. All of our channels were blocked yet we could just hold our activities by using strong righteous thoughts.
Sometimes, the security guards didn't turn up at all when we were having our activities. One time, they came and told us we had to leave. We explained to them that we were just trying to save those who are persecuted in China and asked if they could give us 10 minutes. After 10 minutes they came again but we still had not finished reading our statements. The spokesperson told them that we were going to finish soon. Once we finished reading the statements, we took all of our banners, boards, and tables, and started our parade. This way we didn't have to gather at their area anymore. We successfully held our activities.
I hope to do better in all the activities. However, the situation and condition of every country is different and we need to clarify the truth rationally with wisdom. My understanding is that, holding our ground doesn't mean that we have strong righteous thoughts. The most important thing is that our behavior be understood and accepted by people. Furthermore, we need to let them know that we are determined in exposing the evil and asking that the persecution be stopped, but we are not against the police officers or the security guards. Wisdom and rationality are very important.
Hence, it doesn't mean that we have to insist on protesting or holding the rallies for hours in order to rectify the Fa. If we are there to protest for just 10 minutes, and in this 10 minutes we can let more people understand our objectives, then that is a great activity. We can stop there if we have to.
However, I would never set a limitation for Falun Dafa activities and I would never think that that is all we can do. I am very clear in my heart that we can always look for breakthroughs in our next activity. Throughout the process it is important to look inwards and to cultivate ourselves.
Every Fa-rectification activity is actually a battle between good and evil in other dimensions. The protests in front of the embassy, the art exhibitions and anti-torture exhibits that we organized have eliminated numerous evil elements and demons. This has manifested in the human world. We can see that the police and the government are rectified and that they trust us. They would like to give us opportunities to clarify the truth. We keep on moving forward and spending more effort to hold larger activities like showing Nine Commentaries documentaries on a large screen TV in public, organizing Nine Commentaries forums and rallies and parades to support withdrawals from the Communist Party and its affiliated organizations, as well as organizing the Asia Pacific Fa Conference. Every time we try to coordinate an activity, I feel great pressure because there are no examples to follow, but we keep on going, and do them one by one based on our faith in Master and Dafa. Every time we finish an activity, I can feel that we have further broken through the old forces' arrangements and have made another step forward. We have eliminated a lot of evil elements, and the environment has eased up.
When the evil factors were reduced, we found that people's attitudes towards Dafa generally changed. Recently, we met a high-ranking police officer and clarified the truth to him. That was the first time we had met him and he still asked us some basic questions such as, how many members are there in Malaysia, do you have an office or center, etc., but I could clearly feel that the atmosphere had changed. Last time the police asked us such questions, we could feel the pressure behind them and there were still a lot of evil elements behind them as well. This time, when the police asked us the same questions, I could feel that the atmosphere had eased up. The police know that Falun Dafa is good. I further understand what Master said:
"People still have a side that is being restrained, but if the restraining elements were eliminated then the attitude the world's people have toward Falun Gong wouldn't be like it is today. It would be similar to the state of mind you had when you first obtained the Fa, where as soon as you opened up this Fa you knew what it was." ("Teaching the Fa at the 2003 Midwest-U.S. Fa Conference")
If our thoughts are clear and we have a very strong wish to save sentient beings, Master and the righteous gods will help us. We also witnessed the miracle of Falun Dafa. One time we were having a rally and demonstration at a tourist site, and some reporters who passed by stopped to see what was happening. A reporter was curious and said to me, "It was strange that no police officers came to disperse you." There was also a demonstration organized by a human rights group and the police arrived in a short while and dispersed them. We were there that day for a few hours and we didn't even see the police.
Sometimes we talk to the police officers and some of them told us that they were discussing Falun Gong activities during their meetings. The Civil Ministry also told us that they collected many of our brochures that were printed without permits and they were considering whether to take action against us. We know that they won't take any action as long as we keep our thoughts righteous. Master said:
"Human society is controlled by gods. When gods want chaos in human society, a lack of chaos isn't an option. And when gods want it to be stable, it has no choice but to be stable, right?" ("Teaching the Fa at the Western U.S. International Fa Conference")
The old forces do not have any excuse to persecute us if we are righteous. Of course, it also shows that we haven't done enough clarifying the truth to our Civil Ministry and we must do better in the future.
We also adjust our topics or focus according to the situation. After the police officers knew about the truth, they were still forced to take action due to pressure and instructions from their superiors. Master said that wherever there's a problem, that is where you need to clarify the truth and save people, so we tried to think of some ways to meet with high ranking officers. Since the crime of harvesting organs from living practitioners is now known by the world, we have gone to the Office of the Prime Minister a few times to submit an appeal letter to urge our government to help stop the evil crimes. We could feel that there have been changes in the attitudes of the officials there. One of the high-ranking officials even told us that Malaysia would not persecute Falun Gong. It was just that they still couldn't openly criticize the CCP and they could not recognize Falun Gong openly. We will continue to clarify the truth and the heavenly climate will also keep on moving forward. We believe one day, Malaysia will choose a better future for itself.
We have also found that the government has slowly come to understand what Falun Gong is but that they are still unclear about the evil party. We then apply examples from the Nine Commentaries together with some examples of the infiltration of communism in Malaysia and explain them. We kindly remind the officials to be careful of the CCP. We also want them to know that Falun Gong really benefits the Malaysian Government.
We let them know that the CCP's mouthpiece, The People's Daily, is distributed in Malaysia and even to schools. We explained to them how the CCP brainwashes the public through the media. Some of the police officers understood what we were trying to say and they confiscated the newspapers from stores because of the information given to them by us. They then joke with us, "Can you still buy The People's Daily now?"
In order to let more government officials know about Falun Gong, we spend one day per week going to the Federal Government Center to distribute fliers and to clarify the truth to them so that they know about Falun Gong. We hope to let Dafa spread broadly at the Government Center, save more Malaysians, and save the whole of Malaysia and bring it into the future.
I can feel Master's great mercy through clarifying the truth to save beings. I hope Malaysia can do better in the future. Thank you, Master! Thank you practitioners!
(2006 Falun Dafa Experience Sharing Conference in Malaysia)