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Greetings, merciful and magnificent Master!
Greetings, fellow practitioners!
I would like to share with everyone some experiences about how I have been clarifying the truth to Chinese people. Being limited in my level of cultivation, if there is anything improper, please kindly point it out to me.
1. Clarifying the truth outside the Chinese Embassy
I started protesting at the Chinese Embassy in April 2004. During the two years before my husband and children came to Ireland, I went to the Chinese Embassy to clarify the truth to people and to send forth righteous thoughts almost every day. Whether it was spring, summer, autumn or winter, and whatever the weather, with the exception of special dates and very bad weather, I went there every day before going to work or after finishing work. Sometimes I went there on weekends as well. On my days off, I went there in the morning and didn't leave until the last bus late at night. Outside the Embassy, I studied the Fa, practiced the exercises, and sent forth righteous thoughts every hour. I was really feeling like I had melted into the Fa every day. When I left the Embassy each time, I felt that my whole body had been scoured and purified. No words could describe that kind of sublime joy. I felt that my righteous thoughts were stronger and stronger and my attachments became less and less.
I enlightened that the Chinese embassies are the "Tiananmen Squares" of overseas countries and are the dark dens of the evil. Dafa disciples doing Fa study, sending forth righteous thoughts, and there exercises there directly eliminates the evil in close proximity, which is a great help to the practitioners in China. It is helpful in eliminating the evil that is preventing Western governments, media, and people from learning the truth. It is also helpful in eliminating the elements that are hindering Dafa disciples from cooperating and improving as a whole body, which will be the start of big improvements in our local Fa Rectification progress.
When we are outside the Chinese Embassy, there are often cars passing by that slow down to see our banners. Many pedestrians stop and ask for materials. Sometimes the drivers sound their horns to show their support or give us a thumbs up. Sometimes the press come and take pictures. I knew that these incidents are Master encouraging me. A lot of Westerners going to China for tourism or business go to the Embassy. Many Chinese people go there as well. They can get truth clarification materials from us and some even ask us to publish their announcements of quitting the evil Party. Some Embassy staff members often greet me. One of them said, "What time did you get here today? It's freezing - please don't stay too late!" One time it was very windy for several days and the Embassy staff were finishing work at lunchtime. They all smiled at me. One elder staff member said, "I admire you. You are extraordinary!" I was happy that he understood the truth.
Once, when I was hanging a banner saying that the four major criminals who persecute Falun Gong must be brought to justice, the former Ambassador shouted to me, "What are you hanging there? It is a defamation of others." He went into the Embassy after saying this. I enlightened that it was not him speaking, but evil elements controlling him and slandering me. I sent righteous thoughts continuously to eliminate the evil behind him. At lunchtime, when he came out, I smiled to him. He said nothing. I greeted him each time I saw him. He started to smile at me later as well. He changed. I enlightened that our emitting righteous thoughts outside the Embassy is a great help to the Embassy staff because we are eliminating the evil that prevents them from understanding the truth. Everyone has a knowing side.
Once, a high official from the Party visited Ireland. Irish Dafa disciples filed a lawsuit against him. That day I finished work at 9 p.m. and then I went to the Embassy to send forth righteous thoughts. Suddenly a police officer came over. He said that he had come to protect me. I said, "I am a Dafa disciple and am not afraid." I asked him to go home. He stayed for two hours beside me until I left for home. It was a very cold winter. Sometimes I could see that a police car was parked some distance away. When I left, they also left.
Later I moved to another house. Because of a strong attachment to comfort that was not my original true self, I did not go to the Embassy much for a period of time. Later a fellow practitioner suggested that I protest at the Embassy with him. About five months ago, we started. He works at night and finishes at 6 a.m. every day. He studies the Fa at his workplace for a while, then I drive up and pick him up at 7:30 a.m. so that we can go to the Embassy together. Sometimes I also pick up another practitioner. This continued every weekday for two weeks. His righteous thoughts got stronger and stronger. Sometimes, when I was late, he would go by himself. Sometimes he encouraged his wife to go with him, taking their several-month-old baby. During the last five months, he has insisted on validating the Fa outside the Embassy nearly every weekday. His cultivation state has become better and better. He has also encouraged other practitioners to join this effort. I hope we practitioners can surpass our tribulations from now on and practice cultivation diligently together with others until the completion of Fa Rectification.
Being tempered outside the gate of the Embassy has stirred up a lot of feelings in me. I have seen my dirty attachments to validating myself, showing off, comfort, being afraid of tiredness, fear, etc. I feel that this environment has made me take a big step forward in my cultivation in the Fa Rectification Period.
2. Establishing a Quitting the Party Service Center and persuading Chinese people to do the three withdrawals
When the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party came out, Fa Rectification entered a new stage. We established a local Assistance Center to Quit the Three Communist Organizations. We often go to the Dublin city center area where many Chinese people can be found. We distribute newspapers and DVDs of the Nine Commentaries. We play audio versions of the Nine Commentaries, clarify the truth to Chinese people, and try to persuade them to quit the three Communist organizations. During the process, we have realized that a lot of Chinese in Dublin are students. Most of them think they have never joined the Party. They think that, even though they were members of the Youth League or the Young Pioneers, they are now too old, and this means they have automatically resigned. Or they think resigning from the three organizations has nothing to do with them. Considering the concrete situation of the local Chinese community, we had some sharing about this and designed a special brochure to answer these questions pf the local Chinese people.
Normally when we set up our Assistance Center is on the street, we display a banner that says, "Ireland Supports 24 Million Chinese People Quitting Chinese Communist Organizations" so that people passing by can know what we are doing. We play the "Quitting the Party" song and other songs composed by Dafa disciples. Later some restaurant staff and those who were doing refurbishment work for a restaurant started to sing the song. We also broadcast Questions and Answers about quitting the Communist organizations. At the same time, other practitioners are on the sidewalks to distribute materials to Chinese people passing by and talk to them to help them quit. When talking with Chinese people, I talk about the Party's corruption, prophecies that tell of the Party's collapse, and the comparison between the Party and the Soviet Union. Then I tell them that I can publish a renouncement on their behalf.
My understanding is that in telling the truth to Chinese people, we should not get attached to the number of people that we can get to quit. We place importance on the process instead of the result. I pay special attention to adjusting my heart and making sure I'm not easily moved by their attitude. It is a process of cultivation. At the beginning I did not know where to start talking or how to talk. I developed from saying one or two sentences to saying more sentences and finally to becoming good at talking. Now I feel that my wisdom comes out effortlessly when I talk, and I am more and more willing to talk. So please do not be afraid of opening your mouth. As long as you speak, even one sentence you speak can clear away the poisons in the person's mind. Some may agree to quit at once, others may not quit but they have accepted the material. After they read the material at home, they may agree to quit next time when another practitioner talks with him.
I also encourage Chinese people to tell their friends and relatives about the organizations helping people to quit the Party. Once, a girl from my home province brought a list of 18 names and asked me to help them publish their renouncements.
3. Clarifying the truth in the workplace and other places
I work in a department store that is very near the Embassy. I often see Chinese people going shopping there, including Embassy staff. Sometimes they check out at my counter. I know that whatever their social positions are, they all came to learn the truth. They all have predestined relationships. So I make use of the short time while they are checking out at my counter to clarify the truth and encourage them to quit the evil Party. Some of them agreed to let me publish their announcements to quit at once. Some wrote down the website address so that they could post the withdrawal statement themselves. Others said they would think about it.
In everyday life, on buses, at airports, on flights and on sidewalks, etc. the Chinese people we meet are all targets for our truth clarification, and are people with predestined relationships that are waiting for us to tell them the truth. I usually keep some truth clarification materials in my handbag. As long as time permits, I greet the Chinese person, say a few sentences, and then talk about the Quitting the Party organizations. I also tell them about Falun Gong and the organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners.
The above are some experiences in my cultivation practice. What I have done is still not enough and there are still big gaps between me and diligent practitioners. If there are any incorrect points, please compassionately point them out to me.
Thank you, Master! Thank you, everyone!
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