(Minghui.org) I am an Asian Falun Dafa practitioner and currently live in Canada. I felt I had a special connection with Chinese people before I started practicing Falun Dafa. I learned from the Fa that Chinese people had special identities, and that their salvation would help more people be saved. I have lived in different countries to study and work. I knew that there were opportunities, and it was also my responsibility, to clarify the truth to more people. I have been trying my best to grasp every opportunity to offer salvation to more Chinese people. I’d like to share my cultivation experiences of clarifying the truth to Chinese people.

Master Protected Me at a Truth Clarification Site in Paris

The first Chinese person I helped withdraw from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations was my classmate in Paris. I lived in Paris then. I had started practicing Falun Dafa six months prior. I sent forth righteous thoughts and pleaded with Master to help me. Initially, this classmate tried to avoid me. When I succeeded in getting him to watch a video about a stone in China on which the words “The CCP will perish” were inscribed, he agreed to quit the CCP.

There weren’t many Chinese people around me, so I went to Chinatown in Paris to clarify the truth to Chinese people there. Paris has the largest Chinese population in Europe. I found an area where there were a lot of Chinese people, especially young people my age. Some practitioners had been attacked there because of the CCP’s negative propaganda poisoning people’s minds. But I knew that I must save those people in Chinatown. Practitioners in China are severely persecuted, yet they spread the truth to every corner of China. I live in a free country, so I shouldn’t stop saving sentient beings because of fear. I approached the local police station and applied for a permit to set up a truth-clarification site in Chinatown.

Initially, I was the only practitioner at the site. I set up display boards. The Chinese people looked at me strangely, with anger and contempt. I panicked a little.

Thanks to Master’s protection, I met open-minded Westerners. They supported me and my efforts to raise awareness of the persecution. I talked to them happily. When Chinese people saw that the locals also supported Falun Dafa, their anger and looks of contempt disappeared.

I gradually felt confident and stood there practicing the exercises and giving out flyers. When I was doing the meditation exercise, I felt confident, without any fear. Many Chinese people passed our boards and took photos of information about the CCP-staged Tiananmen self-immolation incident. Some came over and picked up pamphlets.

The site was near the CCP’s embassy. The atmosphere was extremely hostile. From the Fa perspective, I knew that I should do better to save the people in this area.

One day, a group of Chinese people showed up. They tried to get us to leave. They said that the area belonged to the Chinese embassy. I told them that we had a permit from the police and we wanted to let the Chinese people know the facts about Falun Dafa. They retreated, but still lingered not far from us. They tried to stop us from talking to people about Falun Dafa.

At that moment, a police car appeared because they had just responded to a fight that had occurred nearby. I opened the gate for the police and talked to them. When the police left, that group of Chinese people didn’t dare do anything more to deter us. They stood far away, and then left.

I had been in France for many years and had never encountered the police by chance like this. It looked accidental but it was arranged by Master. Master protected us. As long as we have the heart to save sentient beings, Master will arrange the best results for us, no matter how bad the environment is.

Later on, when I went shopping in this area, a Chinese person tried to knock me down. I pushed back politely but didn’t do the person any harm. At the cashier counter, the Chinese shop assistant looked a bit timid. I smiled at her and talked to her. She opened up and said that I was well known in this area. I laughed and gave her a Falun Dafa pamphlet. She accepted it happily.

Master Encouraged Me to Make Phone Calls to People in China

The Epoch Times reported that 400 million people had died due to the pandemic. I felt empty in my heart when I learned this and couldn’t hold back my tears. I felt sad that so many lives were lost in the pandemic. I felt like my universe had become smaller because I hadn’t done enough to save people.

I decided to make phone calls to people in China to tell them about Falun Dafa. For the first several months, I didn’t persuade anyone to quit the CCP. Because I was busy with another project and my daily life, I didn’t set a fixed time to make phone calls regularly. I only made calls occasionally.

I felt that I was not in the right state to make these calls. I was attached to results when I tried to ask people to withdraw from the CCP and its affiliated organizations. One day, before I made a phone call, I had the simple thought that I was just doing what I should do. I helped seven people quit the CCP that day. Several of them quit their memberships in the Communist Party. But not one had quit the CCP in my previous calls. All of a sudden, seven people quit the CCP. Nothing was accidental. The coordinator of the phone calling project reminded me: “Everything is done by Master.”

I couldn’t do anything if I didn’t have Master’s strengthening. Everything has been bestowed upon us by Master. But we don’t do well due to our human attachments and to being slack in cultivation. Master is always compassionate and takes care of us. He even helps us complete the task. Master said,

“I save you, and you save them. Now I am even helping you do it, …” (“Fa Teaching at the 2019 New York Fa Conference”)

Ever since then, I maintain a calm mind when I clarify the truth to Chinese people over the phone. I am able to persuade people to quit the CCP almost every time. When I hear the voices of the Chinese people on the other end of the phone, I am reminded that I shouldn’t forget the purpose of my coming to this world. It seems a coincidence that I make phone calls to them, but the person who picks up the phone might have been my family member from one of my previous lives, or I might have promised them that I would save them in the end times.

Letting Go of Attachments and Cultivating Compassion

I once helped work on a project in the United States. I went to Flushing, a predominantly Chinese community in Queens, New York, to clarify the truth to people on the weekend. There were so many Chinese people there, but most of them were indifferent. It was not easy to clarify the truth to them.

I always kept a smile on my face and hoped that I would give them a good impression even if they turned their back on me. I gave out many flyers. Some of them gave me a thumbs up to show their support and told me to be careful. I ran out of flyers after several days.

Though I didn’t show it, I developed a sense of arrogance in my heart. I thought I was very capable. On one occasion, a Chinese woman stopped and took a flyer from me. I was very happy and was going to clarify the truth to her. But she tore up the flyer in front of me. My heart ached. I felt ashamed and didn’t tell other practitioners about this incident. We all know that truth-clarification sites are places where a battle between good and evil takes place. Divine beings are watching these places. But I still have such attachments. This was a wake-up call for me.

I realized that we still have attachments when we do Dafa work and we don’t do things well because we still have karma. Superficially, I smiled and many Chinese people had taken flyers. But I still had attachments and my mind was not in the right state. The Fa-rectification period is coming to an end. Theoretically, I should pay back the karma that I have accumulated. But I don’t have the ability. Our compassionate Master has borne the huge karma for us. But in this world there are unreasonable lawsuits and unfounded slander against Master.

As I my writing got to this point, I was very moved and tears streamed down my face. There has never been such a great Master. I am so thankful to Master from the bottom of my heart. I further realized what Master meant when he said,

“If I cannot save you, nobody else can.” (Lecture Eight, Zhuan Falun)

As I looked within further, I realized that the Flushing incident was only one example. In my daily life, I was too attached to myself. I liked to listen to praise and indulged in the satisfaction of vanity. I became arrogant and deemed myself very important. Was this the first step to demonic interference from one’s own mind? The new cosmos is selfless. If I couldn’t let go of selfishness, how could I reach the standard to enter the new cosmos?

I have tried to maintain a pure, tolerant, and broad heart since then. When I was at this truth-clarification site and looked at the predestined sentient beings, I silently recited poems from Hong Yin and couldn’t hold back my tears. I felt compassionate energy enveloping me. I wanted to save more sentient beings.

Spreading the Truth While Traveling

When I was flying to the US, I transferred in Tokyo and stayed there for almost a whold day. I saw many Chinese people when I entered the city center. I had originally planned to tour the city, but instead I grasped the opportunity to hand out flyers to the Chinese people until I ran out of flyers.

A Chinese woman asked me for directions as I was going to the airport. She looked kind and was different from other Chinese people who are heavily indoctrinated by CCP culture. I gave her the last flyer I had. She said immediately, “Falun Gong, Master Li.”

She had practiced Falun Dafa before 1999, but stopped due to the persecution. She said that she saw Falun Dafa practitioners in the park in Tokyo. I told her that Japan is a free country and she could pick up the practice again. She said, “Yes!”

I really hope that she will practice Falun Dafa again. In the crowded streets of Tokyo, I came across a former Falun Dafa practitioner. Was it a coincidence? I know that Master looks after his practitioners all the time. Master gives opportunities to those who’ve stopped practicing Falun Dafa. I was really moved by Master’s boundless compassion. I realized that this was encouragement and a reminder to me. I should cherish every opportunity to spread the truth about Falun Dafa.

I’ve attended seminars in the US and Canada and take those opportunities to clarify the truth to people. In airport lounges, I ask people to sign petitions calling for an end to the CCP.

I attended a seminar in Toronto this winter and visited a friend there. She told me that there were a lot of Chinese people in her area. Most of them were students at Toronto University and are from mainland China. I knew that this message was not accidental. These Chinese students were around my age. I must save them. This was the first year I stayed in Canada. It was coldest winter in recent years, and I went out at night to distribute flyers.

There were indeed a lot of Chinese people. It became dark. I was alone and got a bit afraid, especially when those Chinese looked at me with disdain and seemed angry. I told myself that I was doing the most righteous thing in the universe. I calmed down and sent forth righteous thoughts. My attachments and negative feelings gradually disappeared. Many Chinese people took my fliers and read them on the spot. I gave out many flyers that night.

There were many Chinese students in the area where the seminar was held. Many students didn’t attend, as the seminar was on the weekend. I didn’t give out flyers. Instead I put up three posters about quitting the CCP, as there were many Chinese posters in the nearby area.

After the seminar, I visited the streets nearby and put up many posters. It was cold. My nose was running. The raging wind slapped my face. I felt frozen and one poster dropped from my hand. A strong gust of wind blew the poster into the top of a tree. I knew that the evil didn’t want me putting up the posters. I sent forth righteous thoughts and said, “Wind, stop blowing!” The wind stopped and the poster fell to the ground. I picked it up and put it up on a noticeboard.

I went from one place to another over several days to print posters and borrow truth-clarification materials from local practitioners. I walked constantly in the cold and felt exhausted. But I felt happy and light-hearted inside because I was spreading the truth.

I was woken up by heavy smoke in my home at dawn. My roommate had forgotten to turn off the stove after she had cooked dinner, and then she had gone to sleep. The burner had been on high and the fire had burned for a whole night. But the pot did not explode. One thought flashed through my mind, “It is Master who protects me.”

I understood that the evil wanted to harm me after I had clarified the truth in Toronto. Master had protected me and I was safe. Looking back at my cultivation journey, Master always protects me. Without Master’s protection, I would not have made it to today.

Looking at the crowds moving in the streets, I was wondering to myself how many hardships had they experienced before they came to this earth, made connections, and waited for the final salvation? We practice Falun Dafa and are the most fortunate beings. With Master’s protection, we shoulder the responsibility of saving sentient beings in this universe in the end times. How could we possibly not try our best to spread the truth to every single being?

The above are some of cultivation experiences and my realizations from cultivation. Please kindly point out anything if there is room for improvement.

Category: Clarifying the Truth