(Minghui.org) Greetings compassionate Master! Hello, fellow practitioners!
At the beginning of 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic broke out in Wuhan, I saw an online video from a female college student in Wuhan who requested help. She said that her mother, a doctor, was infected with the virus while treating patients in the hospital, and now her life was in great danger. She wept and asked for help and left her phone number at the end of the video. I really wanted to help this girl, so I immediately sent her an image of the two phrases: “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” Although I did not receive a reply, I hoped that her mother could sincerely recite the two phrases and obtain peace and health.
Soon after, Australia also began working from home, and the world fell into a panic. Especially the poor Chinese people who were trapped behind the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) information censorship, unable to freely access the facts about Falun Dafa that could really help them through this disaster. I felt very anxious. I heard that the RTC platform was organizing training for practitioners to call people in China to help them quit the CCP and its affiliated organizations, so I signed up without hesitation.
The training on the RTC platform was well-organized. The practitioners were divided into small groups, with experienced practitioners leading and guiding one-on-one calls in different small rooms. Every evening, there was sharing and discussions, and every Saturday afternoon, there was analyses of some successful calls. This provided a lot of guidance and inspiration for me. I sincerely thank those practitioners who have been silently contributing to providing training on the RTC platform for many years.
Since the effectiveness of my phone calls is closely related to my cultivation status, I diligently studied the Fa, did the exercises, sent forth righteous thoughts, and cultivated my heart. I really felt a strong sense of mission to save people, driving me forward. Although I was just sitting in my room making calls every day, I felt as if I were traveling to China with other practitioners on the RTC platform. I sometimes encountered people who made sarcastic comments, cursed at me, didn’t understand what I was saying, or just listened for a few seconds before hanging up. There were all kinds of reactions.
But after I calmed down and carefully thought about it, I realized that people's reactions were like a mirror, reflecting my various attachments. For example, when I encountered people who cursed at me, it reflected my attachment to hearing compliments and praise. When I kept encountering people who wouldn’t answer the phone or hung up quickly, it reflected my attachment to worry and fear that they wouldn’t pick up the phone. Sometimes I encountered people who didn’t hang up, but wouldn’t listen and were argumentative. I felt this reflected my impatience.
Every time I realized what my problem was and let go of the attachment, the situation significantly improved. Eventually, Master arranged for several predestined people to pick up the phone. They understood and chose to quit the CCP, and even encouraged me by saying, “What you said made a lot of sense.” One person listened for a few seconds and said, “Are you an overseas Falun Dafa practitioner? Please help me quit the CCP. I’m in a meeting and can’t talk, but please help me quit the CCP!” Truly, it has all been due to Master’s guidance and blessing along the way! I realized that making truth-clarification calls is the cultivation path that Master arranged for us.
Apart from maintaining a righteous heart while making the calls, improving our character everyday is also very important. Our cultivation environment is our daily life and work. As long as we are willing to do our best, Master will help us and send us predestined people. I’ll give a few examples:
One day at the end of June 2020, during the peak of the pandemic, the news was constantly reporting the number of cases and deaths. After I went out to buy daily necessities and have dinner, I was getting ready to make truth-clarification calls on the RTC platform when I suddenly felt like I was coming down with a fever, and my head ached. My first reaction was: “Oh no, could I have been infected? There is no cure for this virus. What should I do?” But then I immediately thought, “What virus? A true practitioner shouldn’t fear any virus.”
Master taught us,
“Genuine Dafa disciples all carry energy and are themselves beings who eliminate karma and eradicate germs. They are the envoys of salvation at the end times, and they all know to be rational in saving people and clarifying the truth.” (“Rationality”)
As soon as I recalled Master’s words, I immediately became full of righteous thoughts and went on to the RTC platform to make calls. The first person I encountered was a woman from Nanjing. She listened attentively and accepted the truth about Falun Dafa. She quickly agreed to quit the CCP and its affiliated organizations. Later, she told me that before receiving my call, she had received two previous truth-clarification calls, but they were recorded voice messages, not a real person speaking on the phone. She had been eagerly awaiting a real person’s call, and when she finally got mine, she was very happy and laughed like an innocent child.
We continued to stay in touch, and she asked me how to practice Falun Dafa. I told her the safe way to go online and watch Master’s teaching videos and read Master’s books. She soon started studying the Fa and practicing the exercises every day, and many chronic ailments that had bothered her for years disappeared. She also said her character changed from being unreasonable and always ready to argue to being more understanding and sympathetic. She said that before she practiced Falun Dafa, she yearned to live in Tibet because she felt it was a pure land. But after she started practicing Falun Dafa, she no longer had that thought. Now, she just wants to cultivate well in the environment that Master arranged for her. Her daughter also noticed the miraculous changes in her, recognized the greatness of Falun Dafa, and chose to quit the CCP organizations.
This woman from Nanjing was very grateful to Master for arranging everything for her; allowing her to receive a truth-clarification call from a Falun Dafa practitioner when she was nearly seventy years old so that she could practice Falun Dafa.
She sold some small decorations and luxury goods online, and after gaining the trust of her customers, she started telling them about Falun Dafa. Some of her close customers also started practicing Falun Dafa.
She even gave me the phone numbers of those not-so-close but kindhearted customers, asking me to call them to clarify the truth and help them quit the CCP. Several understood and immediately chose to quit. However, there was one young man, probably born in the 1980s, from whom I didn’t get an immediate response. The first time I called him, he listened but didn’t agree to quit the CCP. He said as an ordinary citizen, he had no power over the government, and then he hung up. A few months later, after the pandemic lockdown in Nanjing, I called him again. This time, his attitude was completely different. He agreed to quit the CCP right away.
When I first began making calls, I encountered a man from Jiangmen, Guangdong Province. From his voice, I could tell he was a kind person. I thought he would quickly understand and agree to quit the CCP, as I had encountered an elderly man from Guangdong before who immediately agreed to quit after hearing about the CCP’s evil nature. He also mentioned his number one wish is to see the collapse of the CCP. However, the man from Jiangmen not only didn’t agree to quit, but accused us practitioners of being trained by the U.S. to subvert China. But he didn’t hang up and asked me to continue. I tried my best to explain how bad the CCP is, but he kept insisting that I was part of a U.S. plan. I called him again a few months later, and he answered, saying he was at work and couldn’t talk. I said I would call again later, but he said there was no need. A month later, I called him for the last time, and this time, he immediately agreed to quit the CCP.
I’m not sharing this to boast, but to show that when we practitioners speak with a great deal of love and kindness to Chinese people, they will be saved.
When I first started making calls on the RTC platform, I often heard fellow practitioners say, “If a person doesn’t listen to the truth or says unpleasant things, we should just continue telling them about Dafa because the truth can eliminate the interference controlling them, and then they will be more likely to listen.” At first, I was quite skeptical, but one time, I called a young man from Wuhan, and he wouldn’t listen to me about the withdrawals. So, I started telling him about Falun Dafa, and he immediately became quiet and listened. Afterwards he agreed to withdraw from the CCP.
My personal understanding concerning love and kindness is, when making truth-clarifying phone calls, we need to show tolerance and understanding towards the people in China. They live in an environment full of lies and fear. It’s very common for someone to be too afraid to listen the first time they receive a call, or even to curse at us, or to listen but still not dare to withdraw from the CCP. We must understand that they are blinded by lies and trapped by fear, and it’s only natural that they cannot think rationally under such circumstances.
That’s why I usually call each number three times—not all on the same day, but spaced out over several weeks or even months. The information we share in our calls often takes time for many Chinese people to digest and absorb. If they are given time to think about the content of the call and relate it to their own experiences in their daily life—what they eat, wear, where they live and work—they may gradually come to understand and change their views. If we continue to study the Fa, memorize the Fa, and improve our cultivation, our words may become more powerful and help eliminate the interference behind them, resulting in a different response. Of course, not everyone will change immediately. Our role is to do our best without seeking results.
I remember one call where it was obvious that the other person was in a noisy restaurant. I could clearly hear the sound of clinking dishes and background chatter. At first, I thought about hanging up and calling back another time. But then I changed my mind—since he answered the phone, that’s already a predestined connection. I decided to say as much as I could. The person didn’t say anything, but also didn’t hang up. When I finally asked about withdrawing from the CCP, he surprisingly agreed right away and repeatedly thanked me.
We often think a quiet environment is necessary so that the person can concentrate on what we’re saying. But for many Chinese people, listening to a truth clarification call in a noisy place actually feels safer. So we really need to let go of our own notions and think from their perspective. Only then can we truly clarify the truth and save sentient beings.
When I first joined the RTC platform to make phone calls, I used a standard script similar to what we practiced in the training sessions. It began with a friendly greeting to see if the person was open to talking, followed by sharing the good news about quitting the CCP. I would offer an alias and encourage them to make the “three withdrawals” (quitting the CCP, Youth League, and Young Pioneers). Once they agreed, I would explain the facts about Falun Gong and the CCP-staged Tiananmen self-immolation incident.
However, after making calls for some time, I noticed that many people in China were afraid to hear anything about quitting the CCP. They usually hung up the moment I mentioned it. I felt confused and wasn’t sure how to break through this barrier.
Master said,
“However, if he says, “I oppose the wicked CCP, but I don’t approve of Falun Gong either,” that amounts to him not yet taking his stance, since there is no third choice.” (“Fa Teaching at the Minghui 10thAnniversary Conference,” Collected Teachings Given Around the World Volume X)
I read this passage many times, and I came to realize that perhaps I should start by simply clarifying the truth to people, rather than jumping straight into talking about the withdrawals. That way, I won’t be so attached to the number of withdrawals. If people truly understand the truth, they will naturally choose to withdraw from the CCP. Even if some are afraid of surveillance and don’t dare to speak up on the phone, once they truly understand, they may withdraw later when they meet a practitioner in person in China. After all, Dafa practitioners around the world are one body.
Many people don’t answer the phone or hang up after a few words. This is quite common now, considering that practitioners have been calling China for over 20 years. Many who are already clear-minded have likely received our calls and made their withdrawals. Those who can bypass the the CCP’s information censorship are also using our secure websites to quit the CCP themselves.
Once, I saw a comment from a young man in China after he used a secure website to make the “three withdrawals.” It was just a few words: “Being clear-headed is great.” I was deeply moved and nearly brought to tears. With the high unemployment rate and difficult lives many young people face in China, many have chosen to “lie flat,” give up, escape reality, or even commit suicide under the immense pressure. But this young man’s message was: “Being clear-headed is great.” I don’t know his full story, but it made me truly appreciate the tireless, selfless effort of Falun Dafa practitioners all over the world who have been making phone calls and distributing materials to clarify the truth to people in China over the last two decades. It really has played a vital, drip-by-drip, truth-by-truth role in helping them awaken and be saved.
Overall, making such phone calls to Chinese people is an interesting process. Although I often say the same basic content each time, the responses vary greatly. Because Chinese is our native language, we can quickly identify the person’s mental block and adjust our content accordingly. It’s not necessary for every call to be successful. Just like a starving person may need ten pancakes to feel full—my call might be their first pancake or their tenth—it doesn’t matter. As long as they eventually understand the truth and are saved, that’s what truly matters.
When I feel discouraged or bored making calls, I often think of the story of Milarepa building a house. He built it, then was told to tear it down, then rebuild it again and again—he silently endured without a single complaint, carrying stone after stone up and down the mountain in both the cold and the scorching heat. Even when his back was covered with sores, he didn’t give up. Thinking of this makes me feel that the hardships I endure are truly insignificant. Master allows us to make use of modern communication technology to clarify the truth to sentient beings in China. In doing so, we are both tempering our own cultivation and saving Chinese people.
This concludes my sharing. This is only my limited personal understanding; please kindly point out where I need to improve.
Thank you, Master! Thank you, fellow practitioners!
(Selected submission presented at the 2025 Australia Fa Conference)