(Minghui.org) There is a truth-clarification group in our city, where in order to help more practitioners come forward, this group of practitioners, who are experienced in face-to-face truth-clarification, take turns at a location every day. When other practitioners who want to participate in truth-clarification arrive, they go out in pairs.
Many practitioners initially clarified the truth to people they met on the street. They then went to stores, shopping malls, neighborhoods, and now to hospitals. Many practitioners went from not knowing how to clarify the truth to being proficient after joining this group, and have embarked on their own paths to help save people.
I have been active in this group for five years. I would like to share a few stories from the past two years.
There are many practitioners in the city, but less in the surrounding areas and counties, so most of the people in the countryside have not heard the facts about Falun Dafa and the persecution. In 2024, we thought that people from the areas and counties would come to the city to see a doctor, so we could go to the hospital to clarify the truth and get in touch with them. We went to hospitals and saw that most of the patients and their family members were from the countryside.
Truth-Clarification in the Hospitals
I was sitting next to a woman in her fifties on a chair in a hospital corridor, and we started chatting naturally. We talked about the various disasters that had happened in recent years. During the chat we found out that we were from the same area, so we naturally felt closer. I started to clarify the truth, and she said she had never heard it before, so I told her the details.
She was shocked after hearing the facts, and said with emotion, “Is this true?” She said she was member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), so I gave her an alias to quit the CCP. I told her to sincerely recite the two phrases, “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” She said she remembered.
A practitioner and I went to another hospital one day and saw a short, thin, but energetic older man sitting on the stone steps near the side door of the hospital. I sat down next to him and greeted him to start a chat. He said he had come for a checkup. It had hailed recently so we turned to talking about natural disasters. He sighed and said it was not easy for farmers. I said there were so many disasters these years. He looked around and whispered, “The rulers have lost their morals!”
I followed this topic by talking about traditional culture, Falun Dafa, and some of the bad deeds that Jiang Zemin, the former head of the CCP who initiated the persecution of Falun Gong, had done against the principles of heaven, especially his persecution of Falun Gong and intensifying it with the CCP-staged Tiananmen self-immolation, which had misled people around the world. The elderly man asked me to help him quit the Party.
Looking Within While Clarifying the Truth
I went with another practitioner to a hospital one day, where we saw a woman in her fifties lying on several dirty items of clothing on a chair in a corridor. She was barefoot and her shoes were under the chair. Her head was bald and wrapped in a scarf. I felt she was dirty and thought of going on to the next patient. But I quickly rejected this thought, and I determined in my heart, “I have to help save this life.” So I walked over and sat next to her.
During the conversation, I learned that she was from the countryside and was a cancer patient. She had undergone several chemotherapy sessions in the hospital and had come for a checkup. I expressed caring about her illness. She smiled and said it was no big deal. I asked her about the crop harvest. She said it was good, since there had been no hail this year. I started by talking about the many disasters that have hit the south this year and the possible reasons for the disasters, which naturally led to discussing the nature of the CCP. She said she had never heard the facts, but after learning about the nature of the Party, she happily withdrew from the CCP and its affiliated organizations.
I was glad that I did not give up on this predestined person. Looking inward, I found that I was afraid of dirt, looked down on others, and was obsessed with my own selfishness. There are still many aspects of my character that I need cultivate.
From “Enlightening” to “Doing”
On the first day of the Chinese New Year in 2024, my daughter, who was in college, suddenly recalled her childhood. She cried and complained about all my faults, saying that I never praised her and always compared her with others. I didn’t argue with her, and endured it. Looking inward, I discovered my competitiveness, jealousy, utilitarianism, dominance, and stubbornness.
I looked back at my behavior in my family life. I realized that I never took my daughter’s opinions seriously, because I thought that since I was the mother, she had to listen to me. There was no mutual care, understanding, tolerance, or respect.
My daughter came home in the summer of 2024 and talked to me about what she had been doing in school. I learned that the students often worked in teams to complete PowerPoint presentations, and they needed to improve their learning, coordination, and expression skills during the process, which was different from what she did in high school. After listening carefully to her, I praised her. She was very happy and said that this was the most I had ever praised her.
I changed my mindset of always looking at my child’s shortcomings, and praised and respected her sincerely. During this break, she became more willing to communicate with me. Through this experience, I realized that understanding a principle is only the first step. Only by putting it into action can you truly improve your character.
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