(Minghui.org) Shen Yun Performing Arts successfully concluded its Australian tour in February 2013. Shortly after, something happened that greatly touched my heart. This encouraged me to step onto a new journey to assist Master in Fa-rectification. I understood that this was Master's arrangement.
I started practicing Falun Dafa in early 2009. After I began, I naturally wanted to persuade my family members to withdraw from the CCP and its affiliated organizations. My father was stubborn, and no matter how I explained to him, he refused to withdraw. Now when I look back, I realize that I was clarifying the truth with strong sentiments. The effect was thus not desirable. My parents come to Australia to visit me once every other year. Every time they came, I prepared various truth-clarification materials, including Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party videos, brochures, Shen Yun Performing Arts Chorus Concert DVD, The Art of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance Exhibition book and some articles from the Epochtimes.com.
Because my mother had heart disease and high blood pressure, she felt anxious whenever she saw my father and I talking about Falun Dafa. She was afraid that my father might overreact because his point of view differed from mine. As I kept improving in cultivation, my compassion and wisdom expanded. I talked to my father about Falun Gong when my mother was not present. If my mother was present, I clarified the truth in an indirect way to my father. My mother already understood the truth and she sometimes also talked from her point of view to support me.
The last time they came to Australia, in the evening before they left for China, the three of us had a long talk. This time my father initiated the conversation. My father raised many questions and I analyzed each of his questions and gave a thorough explanation. I sensed that these were the knots that he had in his mind for a long time. Several months after they returned to China, during a phone call to my parents I asked him again, but he still did not want to withdraw from the CCP.
One weekend in mid-February, my mother called me. She told me that my father asked me to help him make an announcement: he wanted to withdraw from the CCP and he had already prepared a pseudonym for himself. I was shocked and, of course, felt very happy that he had finally seen through the regime's lies. It took three years for him to be saved. I also came to understand that Fa-rectification has progressed to this stage and it brought about the corresponding cosmic changes. People are awakening.
Several days later I went to visit a fellow practitioner, and I shared this experience with her. She told me that a project needed help to clarify the truth to people in China. I signed up without hesitation. For the first several weeks I learned what to do and how to do it. Gradually, some practitioners on the same project team started having favorable results of people withdrawing from the CCP. However, it seemed that my work did not achieve any result and no one had withdrawn from the Party after I spoke with them. I became anxious and worried about whether I was suitable for this project. For several days, all I could think about was the project. Even in my dreams I persuaded people to withdraw from the CCP and its affiliated organizations and I could clearly remember the dream after I woke up. Master saw my heart and benevolently encouraged me. I then changed my approach. In the beginning I could persuade one person a day to withdraw. This gradually increased to two people, then three people. One day, from morning to midnight, I persuaded 10 people to withdraw from the CCP and its affiliated organizations.
Reading other fellow practitioners' sharing articles, I learned that they treated every day as the first day they had just started cultivating. However, I had treated every day as the last day and encouraged myself to save as many lives as possible. I kept thinking that Fa-rectification may conclude the next moment and if that were the case, many people would lose their opportunity to be saved. There are more than one billion people in China, how many of them who were predestined to be saved would lose their chance? Because of this sense of urgency, I wanted to catch every moment to save lives. I did not study the Fa or do the exercises for several days and I devoted all my time to the project. Afterward I realized that doing this was not acting according to the Fa. I then adjusted my schedule to make sure I had time to study the Fa and do the exercises. Master taught us,
“Think about it, everyone: Your acting like this is also wrong, and you have gone to the other extreme—again it is an attachment. You should give it up and practice cultivation while living normally like everyone else among everyday people.” (Zhuan Falun)
I came to understand that this sense of urgency encourages us to be diligent, but if taken to an extreme, it could also become an attachment. No matter what we do, cultivation should always come first.
After I read Master's new Fa lecture, “Fa Teaching at the 2013 Greater New York Fa Conference”, I came to understand about karma elimination and old forces interference. Thereafter when I encountered difficulties in the process of doing this project, I knew that it was because of the old forces' interference, and I rejected it instead of passively enduring the difficulties. I came to understand that if one has the thought of karma elimination while being interfered with, he is acknowledging the interference and choosing to endure the interference passively.
After I started participating in this project, I felt like I had been launched like a rocket booster. The booster keeps pushing me forward to walk well on the last part of the path. Time is running out, let us be diligent together and complete our prehistoric mission!
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