(Clearwisdom.net) In clarifying the truth about Falun Gong and advocating that people withdraw from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), practitioners have established mighty virtue. However, those who do not know the truth have committed many wrongdoings to damage our efforts in clarifying the truth, including reporting us to the police. Many practitioners have been harassed, detained, arrested, sentenced to prison or labor camps and tortured by 610 Office agents and the police. Some practitioners have even lost their lives. Since the persecution of Falun Gong began on July 20, 2007, I have been reported many times, including twice this year alone. The principle of Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance gives me strength and wisdom. With righteous thoughts, I eliminate all interference.
Early this year, I advised a person to remove a poster he made that slandered Falun Gong. One of my colleagues reported this to manager Gui. Because my workplace is directly controlled by the 610 Office, the 610 officials and the police would come even if they sensed a very small matter regarding Falun Gong. However, manager Gui did not report this matter to the upper management. Gui told me, "You told me the truth. I understand that you did it for my well-being. I also know that Falun Gong practitioners are good people and that the persecution is wrong. But when you are clarifying the truth, you should protect yourself. You don't need to worry about this report. I will keep it quiet." After hearing this, I thanked Gui and said, "You are a good person. You will be rewarded by Heaven!"
With this episode in my mind, my human attachments surfaced. I wondered, "Who reported me?" My workplace has over one hundred employees. I filtered through each one of them in my mind a few times. A few of them had reported other fellow practitioners and caused my fellow practitioners to be monitored, arrested, detained and sentenced by 610 officials and the police. I was suspicious of them and my doubt in their goodness was so strong that my attitude affected my efforts in clarifying the truth and doing the three things well. A few days later, I realized that my behavior was not following the standard of a Falun Dafa practitioner. After looking inward, I realized that doubt and suspicion are human sentiment. I am a Dafa practitioner walking on my path to assist Teacher in rectifying the Fa. How could I be so sentimental like an ordinary human being. I am cultivating Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance. Where is my compassion? Each and every one of my colleagues is a being for me to save. I should not have those bad human thoughts about them.
I changed my serious facial expression and started smiling again every day to my colleagues. I used the news from the Falun Dafa websites as frequent material in my daily chats with colleagues. My colleagues also liked to chat with me and called me the "information center." After hearing my news, some of them started saying bad things about the CCP and talking about how corrupt it is. Some of them gave up their plan of applying for membership in the CCP and others said they would withdraw from the CCP. Some of them heard me clarify the truth in public and would warn me, "Be a little quieter, be careful, somebody could report you to the police!" I would tell them with confidence that they are all good people!
Because I felt clarifying the truth to colleagues went very well, my attachment of zealotry surfaced. I thought to myself, "I'm really good at this!" In early May, the person who reported me to Gui wanted to report me again, but this time he wanted to report me to the higher management directly. Manager Gui stopped him, "If you do so, you will cause others to be fired, arrested, and even killed!" The next day, Gui finally told me who reported me, "Chou never appreciates others' kindness towards him. You shouldn't continue clarifying the truth to him." Then Gui told me when and where Chou reported me to him. I felt very sad after hearing this. I had clarified the truth to him many times and helped him during his difficult personal times, but he never clearly showed his attitude regarding whether he wanted to withdraw from the CCP or not. I never imagined Chou would report me. At that moment, my mind was clear. First, I sincerely thanked Gui, then I told him Chou had no hard evidence against me. Gui was relieved, "I thought he had some important evidence. I feel much better now. But you should be very careful from now on."
I thought that I should clarify the truth to Chou using another approach. I often talked about the stories of karmic retribution of good and evil published on the Clearwisdom website. In this way, I helped people around me understand the concept of good and evil. Others started telling me how Chou never took care of his parents and that he kept reporting his colleagues to officials to gain rewards. All my colleagues started paying close attention to Chou's behavior. This way, to some degree, they offered salvation to Chou because he didn't have much room to do those bad things anymore. I still believe that Chou can be saved. I will continue clarifying the truth to him.
Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance gives me the wisdom to eliminate any possible consequences from being reported. This event helped me to understand much deeper the meaning of Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance.
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