(Minghui.org) After reading a fellow practitioner’s article, Delivering Truth-Clarification Materials with Compassion, I recalled some of my personal experiences and wanted to share them.
Clarifying the Facts to Hostile Villagers
One night in the twelfth lunar month (December) of 2000, I, along with several Falun Gong practitioners, Xiaohong my sister, and her two daughters, went to a relatively remote village to deliver Dafa informational pamphlets. I asked my niece to drive us because it was a long distance to get there.
We delivered the materials smoothly for a while and then we stopped near a ditch. Xiaohong and I decided to cross the ditch, and throw some materials into a yard. Almost immediately, we heard someone shouting, “What are you doing? Everyone, come!”
A group of 30 or 40 people—men, women and children—came out of their houses. Some carried spades, picks, sticks, sickles, kitchen knives, and broken beer bottles in their hands and surrounded Xiaohong and me. Meanwhile, someone shouted, “Car. They came by car. Call the police quickly. Dial 110 and don’t let them get away!”
I was really frightened by the hubbub because I had never seen anything like it. My heart raced, my legs trembled, and I almost vomited when I felt bile rise in my throat. I controlled myself, didn't vomit, and tried to calm down a bit. I remembered that I am a Dafa practitioner and I am doing the most righteous thing to save people. I thought from the bottom of my heart, “I should clarify the truth about Falun Dafa to these people tonight, no matter who they are, even when police are standing in front of me, or someone is putting a knife to my neck or pointing a gun at my head. We are here to save people. We are here for them.” So Xiaohong and I started to talk to these people and tell them the facts about Falun Gong.
It turned out that some villagers had argued with another group of villagers in the market that morning, and they feared that the other party would retaliate at night. They thought that we belonged to the other group and had arrived to make trouble.
Xiaohong and I asked them to read the pamphlets and explained that they tell people to be good and follow the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. Someone came near and looked at the materials with a flashlight. Some of them gradually realized that we are Falun Gong practitioners and wanted to release us. But one of their leaders did not believe us. He wrote down the license plate number of our car and wanted to call the police.
Xiaohong usually stammers when she becomes nervous. However, she spoke fluently that night. She told the leader to check our car and see for himself. If we came to fight, there should be men in the car, instead of only women and children. The leader looked in the car and found no men, so he agreed to let us go.
I asked Xiaohong later, “Were you afraid?” She replied that she was scared at first but she thought that we went there to save people so we must tell them about Falun Gong and how it is persecuted. In fact, we were quite fortunate that day. A male practitioner wanted to go with us initially, but changed his mind at the last minute. I complained about his absence but later understood that this was Master’s arrangement. If the male practitioner had come with us, his presence would have made the situation more complicated.
Master arranged everything ingeniously. If the villagers hadn't been concerned that people might come to fight, they wouldn’t have come outside in such a large group at night. Xiaohong and I took the opportunity to help many of them understand the facts. She and I aren't usually good speakers but we explained the facts smoothly and clearly that night. Although the incident appeared very scary, based on the Fa, I learned that Master is by our side protecting us when we send out pure benevolent thoughts about saving people.
Talking with an Old Man in a Shop
When I went to a small shop to buy water, some time in 2003. I heard an old man from the shop talking to someone about Falun Gong. He said that his wife’s brother and sister-in-law did not take medicine. Upon hearing the old man spreading false information, I immediately told him that Falun Gong teaches people to be kind, truthful, benevolent, and tolerant. Master Li teaches us to follow Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, be a good person, and treat everyone well. Falun Gong has very serious standards. As adherents, we do not fight back when people hit or verbally abuse us. We have to cultivate according to Dafa's standards to achieve good health.
The old man said, “You don’t know. You can ask my wife about her brother and his wife.” Realizing that the old man was deceived by false information put out by the wicked Chinese Communist Party, I decided to explain the facts to him clearly. I said, “A teacher taught a class of students. Some of them studied well and scored 100 points; but some did not study and scored zero points. Can you say that the teacher did not teach well? I am an example of someone who benefited from following Falun Gong's principles. Before practicing, I had diabetes, low blood circulation in my brain, myocardial ischemia, iron deficiency anemia, cardiac disease, stomach problems, headaches, tinnitus, and pain in my abdomen and legs. I could not wear a skirt in summer and my body hurt all over. After I practiced Falun Gong and followed the standards of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, all my illnesses disappeared. Do I look like a sick person? Our Master teaches us to be good people and to be nice to everyone. I am taking care of my mother-in-law when none of her four daughters and four sons attend to her.”
Finally, the old man signaled me to stop. He gave me a thumbs up and said, “I understand. You are good. Now I know that Falun Gong is good.”
The above sharing is based on my limited understanding. Please be compassionate and point out any misapprehensions to me.
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