(Minghui.org) I began practicing Falun Dafa in 1998, and joined the phone calling team. We made calls to Chinese people to clarify the truth soon after the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began persecuting Falun Dafa practitioners on July 20, 1999.
I was taught to make phone calls, and now help other practitioners make calls. I have experienced sickness karma, dealt with my husband’s misunderstandings about Dafa, lost my job, and encountered conflicts with other practitioners. Looking back at these ordeals, I realize that they actually helped me improve in my cultivation.
Precious Lesson from Hong Kong
I used to work in a dirty, hot warehouse, and often made phone calls to clarify the truth during my lunch break. I helped about eight people quit the CCP. Later, I complained about the poor working conditions, and was laid off.
Master arranged that environment for me to endure hardships, and awaken the conscience of people, but I lost that cultivation environment due to my incorrect thoughts. My salary was not high, but it was enough to attend Dafa activities in Hong Kong.
I got another job closer to home and the working hours were less. I now have a stable environment to study the Fa and clarify the truth, but the wages are lower. I wanted to look for another job with a good income. I got a cleaning job, but it meant that I had to leave home early and return home late.
I gradually slacked off in my cultivation. I had not looked within for a long time and developed many attachments. I started to experience sickness karma. My arms were in a lot of pain when doing the exercises, and I couldn’t sleep well at night. Even so, I insisted on going out to do the exercises and clarify the truth everyday.
Due to my sense of duty to attend Dafa activities in Hong Kong, I flew over there to participate in the Dafa parade while still enduring sickness karma.
A practitioner shared his experience of sickness karma, and was grateful to Master for eliminating his karma when he felt sick. However, I only thought about myself when I was experiencing sickness karma.
My hands hurt a lot when doing the third exercise in Hong Kong. I then had a thought to thank Master for eliminating my karma. Suddenly, all my discomfort disappeared, and I felt a strong energy current flow through my body.
Phone Team
I used to be the coordinator of a phone calling team that made calls to Chinese people to clarify the truth. Many practitioners were afraid of making the calls. I didn’t put my heart into the project and went to participate in Dafa activities at the airport. Gradually, no practitioner could be found to join the team. I felt sorry that I didn’t motivate more practitioners to join. I thought that it must have something to do with my cultivation state.
Practitioner Wang suggested that we talk to practitioners and encourage them to make phone calls. We went to remote areas to share our understandings with the practitioners there. Finally, we established a phone calling team in one area.
To make it easier for some of the elderly practitioners, we set up a place at the Fa study site to make the phone calls. It has now been running for several years. We also drove an elderly practitioner there. He learned how to make phone calls to clarify the truth while at our study site, then he would make calls from his home as well.
Shouldering Responsibility
I had been working as a cook near my home for the past two years. We had a two hour break, but I didn’t make good use of the time to call people. I later lost my job again. I was frustrated, and then the CCP virus (coronavirus) broke out.
Chinese people were forced into lockdown. They couldn't go out, but they could receive phone calls from Dafa practitioners. I felt that we should really take the opportunity to make calls to awaken the conscience of Chinese people. I came to realize that I shoulder the mission of coordinating practitioners in our area to make these phone calls.
I started to make phone calls at the base with practitioners from Monday to Friday. We had three shifts from Monday to Friday, Fa study, and experience sharing on the weekend.
I was offered a cleaning job in the USA. I had always hoped to go there. When I told a fellow practitioner about this, she said, “You're the coordinator of our phone team. Anyone can do the cleaning job, but you are supposed to lead us to awaken the conscience of people. But you are trying to escape, so how can we fulfill our responsibility?”
I felt ashamed. It would be irresponsible and wrong for me to just walk away. I understood that I needed to shoulder the mission.
Cultivating Diligently
When the pandemic broke out, I had the wish to help fellow practitioners fulfill our mission of awakening people's conscience. It was not enough, just myself calling Chinese people to clarify the truth. I should make sure that all of us can make truth clarification phone calls. Therefore, I spent a lot of time helping practitioners make the calls.
First I taught practitioners how to set up the phone calling system, and update the dialogue sheets we used. Before I went home, I would collect the notebooks from each room, submit the names of those who quit the CCP and its youth organizations to the “Quitting the CCP” website, and deleted the corresponding phone numbers from our database.
When practitioners asked me to help them with the calls, I would run from room to room in an anxious state talking very fast and loudly. A fellow practitioner reminded me of my responsibility of leading others, and suggested that I write a note and stick it on the wall to remind myself to calm down and speak slowly. It worked! We all worked well together to help people quit the CCP.
My hope was also to awaken practitioners who had not yet stepped forward to do the three things that practitioners are supposed to do. Master arranged the opportunity for me. Practitioner Cai, in her 80s, had been bedridden for a long time. When I visited her, I told her to ask for Master's help, so that she could do the three things well.
When I visited her again, she could get up. She looked great and wanted to clarify the truth. It took me five trips to help her set up the phone system and teach her how to make calls. Now, she can help three or four people quit the CCP every day.
Practitioner Deng, who didn't step forward to clarify the truth in the past, also came to make phone calls to Chinese people. Practitioner Lin also didn’t step forward before the pandemic, but she joined us after the pandemic broke out. She needed to pick up her granddaughter and take care of the elderly, but she seizes any time she has to make phone calls.
Practitioner Feng is a regular member of our phone calling team. She wants to get more practitioners to join, as she feels each practitioner has the mission of assisting Master to awaken people's conscience. Therefore, she would call to help other practitioners join the efforts to make calls to Chinese people.
Master said,
“Any Dafa disciples who have not been diligent, or who are prone to acting in extreme ways, should immediately straighten themselves out, and sincerely study the Fa and work on themselves, for you are at great risk.” (“Stay Rational,” Team Yellow Translation)
Some practitioners help plan the monthly experience sharing in our district. In addition to Fa study and experience sharing, practitioners talk about the process of making phone calls. We then divide into groups and arrange the veterans to lead the novices. Many practitioners who have not made phone calls started calling after these meetings.
When practitioners join the project, they take it very seriously. They study the phone scripts many times and rehearse it aloud. The more confident our practitioners become, the bolder they are when speaking. In order to make it convenient for practitioners, we arranged three shifts to study the Fa and make truth clarification calls. Practitioners have developed skills and experience, and most of them now make phone calls on their own.
Looking Inward
I have learned how to look inward and eliminated many attachments at the phone calling initiative.
I need to look inward when encountering conflicts. In the past, I was impatient and spoke very fast and loudly. Now I can speak slowly and listen to people's responses when talking on the phone.
We should not look at issues from a human perspective, such as deciding whether it would be easier to get this person or that person to quit the CCP. When we let go of human notions, it will happen naturally.
Most practitioners have realized the urgency of awakening the conscience of people, and know that people are eagerly waiting for Dafa practitioner’s calls, so they can hear the truth.
Let’s encourage each other with Master’s poem:
“As Dafa disciples clarify the truthSharp swords shoot forth from their mouthsTearing open the rotten demons’ liesLose no time and save them,hurry up and tell them”(“Hurry Up And Tell Them,” Hong Yin Vol. II)
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