(Minghui.org) I am a young practitioner who learned Falun Dafa about a year or so ago. I often tell people the facts about Falun Dafa on the internet. Below is my experience.
Although my voice does not sound special to people who know me in my daily life, it is steady, calm, and particularly youthful when I tell people the facts. I know it is Master helping me.
People Can Be Mean: Facing Humiliation
People praised my voice when I sent voice messages to people in a thousand-people group. They wanted me to talk more.
It gave me another opportunity to clarify the truth and convey the power of Dafa. But there were people who ridiculed me and said that I was a robot.
They used distorted arguments to sway the direction of the discussion. Their self-righteous arguments made me speechless.
I felt sorry to see how the evil culture of communism had ruined people’s ability to reason. Even those who believed that I was a real person kept asking where I got my voice modified or yelled at me for being a mainland Chinese person pretending to be Taiwanese.
Some even claimed that I was a spy, that I was there to spew propaganda for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and kicked me out of the group.
I truly felt that the culture of the evil Party had completely inverted right and wrong, making people afraid to believe that wonderful things exist. When things were beyond their comprehension, their struggling mentality was stirred up to cover their sense of inferiority for failing to understand. There is a principle of mutual generation and mutual restraint in everything. Some people liked my voice and my telling the facts about Dafa.
At the same time, some people tried to attack and insult me or replied to me with dirty texts. I was too attached to fear and saving face. As a result, I didn’t clarify the truth properly, lost my righteous thoughts, and quit the group quickly. After studying the Fa more, I now know how to clarify the truth better.
Whenever someone humiliated me in a thousand-people group, I would think of Master’s story about “Han Xin being humiliated by crawling “...crawling between someone's legs” (Lecture Nine, Zhuan Falun)
I knew that this was a great opportunity to improve my xinxing, and I needed to behave even more as a Dafa practitioner in front of a big crowd.
Once someone asked me to bark to prove that I was not a robot. I remained unmoved and continued to clarify the truth calmly. He also asked me to mimic a parrot and a cat. Other people in the group reacted and stopped him. He was eventually kicked out of the group by the group host.
Letting Go of Attachments
I still have many attachments that I need to let go of. Sometimes I am afraid or sad. But I know that I can’t let the evil lead.
Dafa practitioners are the main characters. I feel sorry for the lives that are manipulated by the evil and sorry that I cannot help them. I think their knowing side must be in more pain than I am.
Hearing indecent words, I think, was a test of my attachment to lust. I might as well take it as my chance to eliminate the karma and my attachment.
I also sometimes had the attachment to hatred. When I noticed that I could not bear the anger, I closed my eyes and imagined that I was a majestic, high-level being, here to fulfill my vows to help people
Why should I be like ordinary people with depraved morals? Someone in a ten-thousand-person group once asked if I was a live person or a robot.
Fellow practitioners in the group asked him to stop, but he still continued. I responded openly and said calmly, “You also insulted me in the other group just now. I hope that you respect every Dafa practitioner here.” He left the group.
I don’t like to make speeches, but whenever I see Dafa being discredited, I always think of what Master said:
“Have you validated the Fa? You came when Dafa benefited you, yet you hid out and didn't dare to speak up for Dafa when it faced danger. You have shown yourself to be less worthy than an ordinary person, so what's the point of “studying the Fa at home”?” (Teaching the Fa at the 2004 International Fa Conference in New York)
What’s more, what happens after one begins to practice is not accidental. When someone slandered Dafa in front of me, I had to overcome my fears to speak up and defend Dafa.
I often encountered people who maliciously discredited Dafa. Someone once asked me, “Why didn’t you go and self-immolate?”.
Exposing Lies
I felt it provided me an opportunity to expose the evil Party’s lies publicly. I pointed out the flaws in the supposed self-immolation and explained that Dafa teaches us not to kill or commit suicide.
I also said, “Hundreds of millions of Dafa practitioners worldwide seek to improve their bodies and minds. Why hasn't anyone heard of any self-immolation cases elsewhere? The lies are self-defeating.”
I believe many people in the group understood that it was the CCP who staged the event to slander Dafa, but the detractors continued to question me.
They said, “Are you still besieging Zhongnanhai?” I took the opportunity to explain that the Dafa practitioners were peaceful and orderly and followed the guidance of the staff from the petition center.
I also calmly explained that it was the Party that deliberately led Dafa practitioners to line up and encircle Zhongnanhai.
I said, “Many kind Dafa practitioners have been persecuted to death, maimed, and had their organs harvested. The CCP has reaped huge profits. If a mob had besieged Zhongnanhai, why weren’t there any casualties?”
The slanderer had nothing to say. I went on, “Please tell me which incident the supposed mob caused? We are a group of people who cultivate Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. It is the CCP that killed over 80 million people and destroyed the 5,000 years of Chinese culture during its campaigns. It is the CCP regime that is a true mob.”
Some people who had kept silent in the group began to voice their support for Dafa. The detractors felt defeated and quickly switched the topic. Some said, “You’re asking people to quit the CCP and its youth organizations just to get people to join your religion,” and said this was what other Dafa practitioners had said.
I took the opportunity to explain that quitting the CCP and its affiliates is the safest and most secure way to invalidate the oath one made and that we respect all orthodox religions. “One must have a good predestined relationship to be able to come to Dafa. Not everyone is so blessed.”
I also said, “Dafa is not a religion. It is a belief in pursuit of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. We will never pressure anyone to join us. There are many people on the internet who pretend to be Dafa practitioners. They do that to confuse people and keep them away from Dafa.
“These are Party tactics. True practitioners are very civilized and intelligent and will bring people good feelings and get rid of the prejudice caused by the evil's misguidance.”
It appalled me to see people so under the spell of the CCP culture that they could fabricate lies so casually. They always had endless lies, and their lies were rough and awkward.
But I believe by explaining to them peacefully and calmly, all sentient beings will gradually become sober and be able to distinguish right from wrong and good from evil.
A member in the group responded to me privately. He said that, according to his long-term observation, almost all of those who attacked Dafa practitioners were hired by the CCP or were the Party’s professional internet chatters.
The more irrational the evil gets, the more people can see just how ugly it is. It only brings out the goodness and kindness of Dafa practitioners.
Master said:
“Validate the Fa with rationality, clarify the truth with wisdom, spread the Fa and save people with mercy.” (“Rationality,” Essentials for Further Advancement, II)
“You should remember one thing: Today, mankind's stage is for Dafa disciples to perform on, and absolutely not for those evil ones! (Applause) As long as you do well and everyone can come to good understandings, cooperate and coordinate with each other, and have strong righteous thoughts, then there is nothing that cannot be accomplished, for your starting point is matched by no one--it is to save all beings!” (“Fa Teaching at the 2007 New York Fa Conference,” Collected Fa Teachings, Vol. VIII)
Although I cannot say I am diligent in doing the three things, I will strive to follow the process of the Fa-rectification and be a good disciple of Master’s (Master Li Hongzhi, the founder of Falun Dafa). I will work hard to rid my human attachments while validating Dafa.
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