(Clearwisdom.net) My daughter's son is already six and a half years old. He often comes to stay with me during holidays or school breaks. His third eye is open. When he was four years old, he said that the photo of Master was emitting light, and he repetitively used his little hands to express what he had seen. He would put his hands in front of his chest, and then extend them, while shaking his fingers quickly, saying, "Master emits light like this. Why can't you see it?" He also said, "Why does this Falun rotate clockwise for several turns and then counterclockwise for another several turns?" One day, he pointed to Master, who was giving a lecture, on the television screen, and said, "I see He is sitting on a very large lotus flower platform. There are many, many people sitting on small lotus flowers platforms and listening to the lecture. I also sit on a small lotus flower platform. The sky looks beautiful, as if filled with fireworks. Why do those people in the sky walk by sliding (he did not know the enlightened beings can float)?" I told him that that person (on the largest lotus flower platform) is our great Master and that he should respect Master. Ever since then, whenever he sees Master's photos, he kneels down and kowtows.
I taught him to recite Hong Yin and follow the principle of "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance" to be a good person. He likes very much listening to the stories in "Minghui Weekly" and Zhengjian Weekly. When he does his homework, I read Zhuan Falun beside him. He says that he likes to listen to my reading, and he wants me to read the Fa out loud. In the evening, he doesn't sleep unless he is allowed to listen to the music, Pudu. Seeing the realities of life, he has numerous questions in his mind, and I have tried my best to provide him the answers. I told him, "Yi, you should remember that what your grandma is doing is the most sacred and righteous thing. It is for saving people. My giving out truth-clarification materials is a secret between you and me. You cannot tell anyone else. "Do you think you can do this?" He responded in a very serious way, "I can do it." Two years have passed and except for some fellow practitioners, he has not told the secret to anyone else. Even his mother does not know it.
After he learned the importance of sending righteous thoughts, he sometimes also wanted to do it with me. He could sit with his legs double-crossed in lotus position, but only for three or four minutes. He said, "Grandma, sit here with your eyes closed, so you can concentrate on eliminating the evil. I will watch the time." He is now already in the second grade at elementary school. When he was in the first grade, because of his good academic records, he was among the first group of students in his class who were allowed to join the Young Pioneers, when he was five and a half years old. After he learned the importance of withdrawing himself from the Young Pioneers, he stopped wearing the red scarf. When he had to wear it, he wrote a big Chinese character "Mie" (meaning "elimination") on the scarf.
During his school break times, as soon as he comes to my home he quietly says to me, "Grandma, let's go out to save people this evening." Sometimes when he is naughty, I show him a stern face, and he immediately runs to me and recites:
"With Teacher guiding the voyage, the Fa saves all beings,
One sail is hoisted, one hundred million sails follow..."
("The Knowing Heart" from Essentials for Further Advancement II)
I then smile and start to recite with him.
I remember that the first time I took him out to distribute truth-clarifying materials was during his summer break in 2005, when he was four and a half years old. When we got onto the streets, I said, "Yi, Let's play hide-and-seek. You go to that place in the front and hide yourself. Remember, do not run until I have already come to where you are, because I need to post the things for saving people in that place." In this way, we played and laughed. He was very happy. Several dozen copies of the materials were easily distributed this way. Each time before we go out, we carefully send forth righteous thoughts.
On one occasion the area which we chose to distribute materials was a residential neighborhood where the streets were not well-lit. He said in a low voice, "There is someone ahead of or behind us." or "Now there are no people in either direction." or "Hurry up and paste it!" Being a child, it was natural for him to jump and look here and there, which caused no concerns of others but it would be unnatural for an adult to behave this way. Later, I suddenly found that a person was following us. He was walking very slowly and talking on a cell phone. I then became cautious. There was an intersection ahead, so I intentionally slowed down and let him walk to the front. He walked along the badly lit street and we then walked along the well-lit one. After passing by one more street, I thought that I had gotten away from that person, so I again chose to go along the darker street to distribute the materials. Just after I posted a copy on the wall, I noticed that the person was behind us again. I held the copy of the material onto the wall with my hand, and said. "Yi, wait for a minute. I have sand in my shoes." I took off my shoes to dump the sand out, so as to let that person walk by. He kept walking, but when he reached the busy street, he stopped and looked back. I immediately pulled Yi to squat down and started sending righteous thoughts. At the time, I was very peaceful, and not scared at all. I asked Master to help me and let none of the evil persons who want to interfere with me in saving sentient beings see us, and eliminate all the dark minions and rotten demons in the other dimensions that were manipulating the evil persons. I then saw that the person passed us in a hurried way while looking around. I immediately dragged my grandson and walked onto a wide street. A three-wheel taxi immediately stopped in front of us, so we quickly got into the taxi and went back home safely. I knew that all the arrangements were done by Master. It was Master who allowed me to escape the danger.
After I got back home, I measured myself against the Fa and searched inward. Master said,
"The old forces don't dare to oppose our clarifying the truth or saving sentient beings. What's key is to not let them take advantage of the gaps in your state of mind when you do things." ("Teaching the Fa at the 2002 Fa Conference in Boston," April 27, 2002)
Was I too attached to doing things without correctly positioning the task of saving sentient beings? Master has repetitively emphasized that we should do well the three things, while the first of the three things is to study the Fa and cultivate ourselves well. Without doing well in my personal cultivation, I would not have the power and great virtue to save sentient beings. I would be an ordinary person who does work that is related to Dafa. I started my cultivation in 2003, so I should pay even more attention to personal cultivation, strictly use the Fa to correct my words and actions, and steadily do the three things well.
Minghui Weekly has published other practitioners' experiences of distributing truth-clarification materials. Their ways are very good. What I have been doing is inserting the materials into an envelope and then attaching the envelope to an object with tape. During the summer break, my grandson and I also used the hide-and-seek method to post truth-clarification materials onto trees or other objects, such as the dormitory buildings with wooden staircases, which we could stick the materials on. It is even safer to do this than to bring the materials directly to people's homes.
Although I have done something a Dafa cultivator should do, I wrote this mainly for sharing experiences with other older practitioners, so we can improve together. We not only need to walk our own cultivation ways, but also have the responsibility of leading well our dear ones, who have very close predestined relationships with us.
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