(Minghui.org) When I was planning to submit a lawsuit against Jiang Zemin, the former dictator of China who launched the persecution of Falun Dafa, I was suddenly contacted by a police officer.
“Those 'above' wanted me to talk to you,” he said. “You need to watch out these couple of days.” I talked with him and clarified the truth about the persecution. After he left, I thought about it, and realized that evil factors in other dimensions were trying to scare me away from submitting the lawsuit.
I thought, “How could that little trick stop me?” I immediately wrote the lawsuit.
But at the same time, I casually told several practitioners around me about this little incident. I didn't think it would have any consequences.
Totally unexpected to me, this news was soon spread to all the practitioners in my city, and caused a very negative effect. Some said that the police officers are on the move to arrest practitioners who submit lawsuits against Jiang. Some said I was being monitored for doing so. Others said I had been arrested and that practitioners should wait on submitting lawsuits against Jiang, as the current situation was dangerous.
When I visited a fellow practitioner two weeks later, he asked me if I was okay. “I heard you submitted a complaint against Jiang and were arrested by police,” he said. “An elderly practitioner in my Fa-study group finished writing a complaint against Jiang and was going to submit it, but I told her to delay it a bit, because I heard you had been arrested.”
From this I immediately realized that I failed in my cultivation of speech, and I shouldn't have spread this negative news to practitioners. All kinds of rumors can spread and change very quickly, and this effect was exactly what the old forces desired.
This was truly a lesson for us.
There was another similar lesson. A fellow practitioner wrote a lawsuit against Jiang, and this morning I took it to another practitioner's shop. I asked this practitioner to call the post office's pickup vehicle to come get it.
At around lunch time, this practitioner contacted me. “The post office pickup vehicle would not come,” he said. “They claim that the upper branches directed them not to accept any express mail of lawsuits against Jiang.”
I was shocked, and thought, “Did the government issue a document to the post office? If so, then the situation would be quite serious.” I told this to two other practitioners. They both felt quite dissapointed, yet they remained steadfast. “This is interference. Let us send forth righteous thoughts. Suing Jiang is what's meant to happen, and no one can stop it.” I felt a bit uneasy as we talked. I thought to myself, “I don't know the details, and if this wasn't the case, wouldn't I be spreading negative news again and causing interference for fellow practitioners?”
I went that afternoon to ask a fellow practitioner who works at the post office. She said, “There is nothing like this. I work at the front desk and handle lawsuits against Jiang every day.” I felt relieved. But why did the pickup vehicle refuse it? I realized that it was due to my attachment to fear. I was afraid that the shop practitioner would encounter trouble if he went to the post office. So I asked him to call the pickup vehicle.
I immediately told this to the two other practitioners. “I was afraid that you would spread this to others and more negative effects,” I told them. “It would add pressure to those fellow practitioners who have the attachment to fear. These days, even Minghui is very cautious about reporting negative news. There has not been any real and substantial interference since the tide of suing Jiang started. There were incidents here and there, but all have been related to practitioners' personal cultivation. We should therefore not scare ourselves.”
I hope that all fellow practitioners can learn from my lessons of immaturity.
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