(Minghui.org) I am a 66-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner. Studying the Fa and helping Master save people is every Falun Dafa practitioner’s responsibility. For the past 14 years, I have studied the Fa for one day, and then I went out to clarify the truth the following day.
Through Fa-study, I realized that Master wants us to save as many people as possible. I decided to help at least 9 people understand the truth about Falun Dafa, and quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its youth organization. I gave myself the goal of helping 20-30 people quit the Party each day. With this self-imposed pressure, my cultivation state improved significantly. I naturally became more serious about it. Since I live alone, I could stay out as long as I needed to, in order to reach my target number. Gradually, I was able to help more and more people quit the CCP. But, sometimes I came across difficulties.
Facing Difficulties
I had walked for over five hours in the city, and was very hot, exhausted, and hungry. But I needed to help three more people quit the Party to reach my goal of 30 people that day. I made my decision to walk home, and look for people who would listen to the truth of Dafa, instead of taking the bus. I finally reached my goal when I was close to my home. If I had taken the bus home, then I wouldn’t have met those three people.
I went to a farmers’ market one chilly autumn day, about seven miles from the city, to clarify the truth. I didn’t put on enough clothes, and was very cold. I recited, “Nothing is truly unbearable or impossible”. (The Ninth Talk, Zhuan Falun)
I walked around talking to people until I finally reached the number that I set for myself that day. Although I was shivering from the cold and my muscles were aching, I felt that I had done my duty. I said to Master, “Master, I did my best today.”
One time, I was extremely sleepy, and it seemed that I could fall asleep at any moment. However, I had already promised a practitioner that we would clarify the truth together. When the practitioner saw me she advised me to go home. I agreed, and started to walk home. While walking, I suddenly realized that I had my mission as a Dafa practitioner. How could I just give up and go back home to sleep? Who made me sleepy? Wasn’t it interference? I couldn’t come out for nothing, so I started sending righteous thoughts and asked Master for help. I insisted on taking a detour and helped seven people quit the CCP on my way home. I studied the Fa and did the exercises when I got home, after which I took a nap. I felt much better in the afternoon, and went out again to clarify the truth. I helped even more people quit the CCP than my usual goal that day.
A couple of days before this Chinese New Year, I was writing the names of those who quit the CCP while walking. Suddenly, I tripped and my left knee hit hard on the concrete steps. I felt great pain, but I could still walk. The practitioner I was with advised me to go home. I didn’t, as I was still short of my goal. I recited “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good,” and continued despite great pain, trying to complete the goal I set for myself that day.
I helped an elderly couple, an elderly man, and a man who was sick quit the Party, and went beyond the target I had set for myself. My leg also felt much better. I was touched because the man with the sickness asked me to help him learn to recite “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good” while we were on the bus together. Other people on the bus, and at the bus station, heard what he said.
My highest record of helping people quit the CCP is 73 in one day. On that day, it snowed. Another practitioner, who had just started clarifying the truth, and I walked for seven hours to help more people quit. When we were tired or cold, we took a break in the lobby of a bank and a hospital. When we were hungry, we ate a bowl of bean curd at a street shop. We kept walking and talking to people. Unexpectedly, we helped so many people quit the CCP.
This is like what Master said, “However much you put in, that’s how much you get out.” (The Ninth Talk, Zhuan Falun)
If we didn’t make an effort for seven hours, I’m sure we wouldn’t have been able to help 73 people quit the Party.
I don’t carefully select who I tell the truth to, as that is not being compassionate. No matter what their career is, their physical appearance, gender or age, they have a predestined relationship with me, Master and Dafa. I would give them the opportunity to be saved as long as we met.
As Dafa practitioners, it doesn’t seem right to not concern ourselves with the number of people we help each day. Isn’t it a quantitative requirement when Master asks us to save more people? From time to time, Minghui.org would announce the number of people who quit the CCP. This served as encouragement and a reminder that we are far away from our goal! Wouldn’t it be a perfunctory routine if we were indifferent to the number of people we helped each day?
During cultivation, a lot of things don’t work out the way we want them to, so we must go against the current. People have attachments to laziness, enjoyment, and fear. If we just go with the flow, it would be impossible for us to overcome difficulties and no practitioner would dare clarify the truth in China. The purpose of setting a goal is just to force myself to try my best to let more people know about Dafa. This method works for me.
The above are some experiences and realizations that I have about saving people, and I thought to share them with other practitioners.
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