(Minghui.org) The coronavirus outbreak exploded around the Chinese New Year's Day in Wuhan and has quickly spread across China and abroad.
People are very scared. They tend to believe what they hear on the state-controlled media and have no way of knowing the true picture of what has been happening. For self-protection, they have chosen to stay inside their homes.
Such a situation appears to have made it more difficult for Dafa disciples to clarify the truth to save people. However, with Master's strengthening, practitioners conduct themselves with righteous thoughts and righteous action and each has been walking their own path in the course of saving people.
With the rapid increase in death toll, we realize that we have less and less time left for our cultivation and saving sentient beings. So many people have died. Were there any people among the dead that we should have saved? If so, how many of them?
I felt very sad each time I thought about this. As Dafa disciples, the only thing we could do is to hurry up and further clarify the truth to people and tell them the way to avoid danger amid the current epidemic.
Master told us,
“Dafa disciples are humankind's only hope for salvation.” (“To the Fa Conference of Europe,” Team Yellow Translation)
As soon as I came back from visiting my parents-in-law on the second day of the Chinese New Year, I started to go out every day to clarify the truth to people. Our residential zone was not yet locked down at that time and there was only an officer at the entrance to check people's body temperature. So it was still quite easy for me to go in and out.
There are many Dafa practitioners in our local area and I was always able to come across a few every day when I went out, and best of all, I also had contact with practitioners who make truth-clarification materials. They provided me with the latest materials downloaded from the Minghui website with reference to the current coronavirus outbreak, including cards, flyers, stickers, and magazines.
Through sharing with local practitioners, we decided to go to the pedestrian street first every day to send forth righteous thoughts together to eliminate all the evil beings and factors that prevent people from listening to the truth. Then we each would start with our own plan to save people.
My plan was to go to the morning market. I always went there on foot, and while walking, I would send forth righteous thoughts to encourage people to take the truth-clarification materials, cherish them and pass them on to relatives and friends, and remember to recite “Falun Dafa is good. Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good,” so that more people could be saved and have a bright future.
There were only a few people on the street these days. When I came across a parked car or a bicycle, I would leave some materials on the hood of the car or in the bicycle basket.
When I got to the market, I cooperated with practitioners on site and placed beautiful truth-clarification cards and flyers wrapped in plastic sheets in people's baskets or trolley bags. It was quite safe to do so. I noticed that when people saw the materials, instead of throwing them away, they took them home quietly.
We also sent updated information and messages to people on their cellphones via our truth-clarification wifi server. When I checked later, there were always six or seven new people logging in to our website every day.
I usually go out to distribute truth-clarification materials or put up stickers after 7:00 p.m. I would insert different flyers in the truth-clarification magazines, seal each copy in a plastic bag, and hang it on the door knob of each household.
I also put up truth-clarification stickers at each entrance of the residential blocks so that everyone passing by would see them.
Not long after the outbreak, our residential zone was also locked down. The local residential committee closed the entrance on the east, leaving the west entrance for people to go in and out. The entrance is guarded by specially assigned officers, who would take the body temperature of everyone who goes through the entrance, and each household was issued a pass to go in and out the residential zone.
One day while I was approaching the entrance of our residential zone, the officer on duty asked to see my the pass. I thought I put the pass in my pocket on the right side of my outfit, but when I took out the contents in my pocket, they were truth-clarification cards. I put them back quickly and found my pass in my handbag. The officer on duty must have seen the truth-clarification cards I took out from my pocket accidentally and learned that I am a Falun Gong practitioner.
“Don't go out and run around at random,” he warned me.
I ignored his warning and thought to myself: “You can't tell me what to do or not to do. I only listen to our Master.”
However, in the next few days, I always felt some kind of fear and harbored some negative thoughts before I went out each time.
One day as I walked up to the entrance, the same officer said to me, “You still want to go out? Look, we installed surveillance devices here yesterday.”
“What does it have to do with me? I still need to go out,” I said to him.
“Okay, just go quickly then,” the officer said.
While walking, I thought: “None of your surveillance devices would work. They won't last long...”
At the same time I intensified sending forth righteous thoughts and asked Master to strengthen me.
I sent forth righteous thoughts every day before I went out and kept reciting Master's poem:
“Dafa is what you carry everywhere,Zhen Shan Ren, rooted in the mind;A great Arhat walks the earth,Gods and demons fear with awe.” (“Benevolent Might,” Hong Yin, Translation Version A)
Gradually, all my fears disappeared and I felt Master was right beside me. The substance of fear I had earlier was gone.
One day, as I was preparing to go out, I felt my body had become so gigantic and my back very straight. I felt Master was right by my side as I walked energetically to the entrance.
The officer greeted me warmly, “You are going out again?” I nodded to him politely with a smile.
Since then, the officer has been very polite to me each time I go out, and he does not even bother to check my pass any more.
I know in my heart that all this is due to the fact that Master has helped me remove my attachment to fear and eliminate the evil spirits and rotten demons that prevent sentient beings from being saved.
I realize that I still fall short in many aspects in my cultivation. I particularly realize that I should not hold any discriminatory notion in saving sentient beings and I should treat every single one of them as my family so that more people can be saved after leaning the truth.