(Clearwisdom.net) Since the Epoch Times Newspaper published the book "Nine Commentaries on the Chinese Communist Party", I made use of the opportunity while visiting family members to urge them to renounce their membership in the CCP and its affiliated organizations. My mother, brothers and sisters, and other relatives have renounced their memberships one after another. They did not need much persuasion from me. Only my father dragged out his decision to renounce his membership till December 28 of the lunar calendar last year. He finally made the decision on that day.
My father has been retired for many years. When he was young, he had once held the post of City Police Department Head. Although he suffered much during the Cultural Revolution, the CCP culture is deeply etched in his mind. I don't live in the same city as my parents. Since I started my cultivation in Falun Gong in 1995, the wish to let my family also benefit from the practice of Falun Gong was getting stronger every day. I put clarifying the facts about Falun Gong as the most important task and really put much thought and effort into it. However, my views often clashed with my father's. Due to the attachment to emotion, I was in a state of near despair regarding this issue. The warmth I used to feel when visiting my parents disappeared. Almost every time I went home, I would have conflicts with my father due to this matter. Sometimes I would even cry out loud. However, despite everything, I persisted in talking to them about Falun Gong.
Slowly, my father's opinions started changing a little bit at a time. At the same time, my father is in his 80s and also afraid of losing me. In his words, I am one of the most filial daughters amongst his children. He proclaimed in front of the whole family that "our family practices freedom of belief," etc. After July 20, 1999 when Jiang's regime started to persecute Falun Gong, he wanted me to memorize the book Zhuan Falun. This was so that there would be no need for me to carry the book around with me and get into trouble, should the police discover it in my bag. I know deeply in my heart that Master conveyed the message through my father's words to enlighten me on the importance of memorizing the Fa, and that this was a requirement during this period when the persecution is ongoing. On January 1, 2000, I started to memorize the Fa and have persisted until today.
However, ever since I asked my father to read the Nine Commentaries on the Chinese Communist Party, he declared war on me. The book punctured my father's shell of the CCP culture. He said that I was the biggest political enemy of his life. For a period of time he refused to answer my long distance calls. I felt that all this was only a manifestation on the surface. The book had touched the injured soul of my father. It was something that he put painstaking effort into all his life to protect, and in an instant, its most evil true colors were revealed. He really did not want to face this. Despite all the suffering during the cultural revolution and despite the knowledge that all of this was the result of the CCP, he was still not willing to break from it. I knew that my father needed a certain amount of time, and he needed to go through a process to rationalize and transform his thinking.
During cultivation, which is full of hardships and tribulations, compassionate and great Master taught me to gradually see the true nature of emotion. This time my heart was not moved. I believed resolutely that in the end my father would renounce his CCP membership and walk towards a bright future. I knew that my father is an avid reader and that he would finish reading the book Nine Commentaries on the CCP. Furthermore, my father would never be able to forget the inhumane persecution during the cultural revolution. During the home visits thereafter, I did not take the initiative to discuss Falun Gong and the book Nine Commentaries on the CCP with my father anymore. I handled it as though nothing had happened. However, my father cursed the CCP once in a while on his own accord.
In the lunar December of 2008, my father fell very ill. The hospital could not diagnose his illness. The symptoms were insomnia that lasted for more than a month. My mother called me and ask me to take my leave earlier to return home. My mother has always been supportive of me working away from my hometown, and unless it was absolutely necessary, she would not ask me to come home. I thought of Master's Fa in Hongyin 2, "Just a Play", "Everything through the ages, came about for the Fa". I took my Falun Gong books and truth clarification materials, and set off on my train journey home.
The moment I stepped into the house, I saw that my father looked very gloomy and his face was dark. He seemed to be in much pain. He said, "I have been a policeman all my life. I know of the different ways how people die. If it wasn't for your mom, I would have killed myself already. Do you know how bad it is to have such insomnia?" At this point, without any hesitation, I said to my father, "Dad, if you recite with sincerity 'Falun Gong is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good' today, you will be released from your torture. You will be able to have a good night's sleep. Can you give it a try?"
I talked to my father about how Dafa has already brought benefits to him, my mother and our whole family. I guided my father's thoughts and asked him to think about, "Why is it that both you and mother are already in your 80's and yet do not suffer from major illnesses?" I also guided my father to think about how many of his neighbors, old colleagues, fellow villagers who are as old as them but were unable to ride a bicycle through the streets like them. I told him that the family members of a true Falun Gong practitioner usually enjoy good fortune. For example, I have been cultivating for 15 years. Although my husband has yet to start cultivation, he had not fallen ill during that time.
In reality, my parents have a better idea than anyone else that I had very poor health since youth because I was born prematurely. Before practicing Falun Gong, my health had always been very bad and sometimes I could not go to work. Once I was hospitalized for more than two months because I was anemic. My current state of health is enough to validate the miraculous healing powers of Falun Gong.
My father finally made the right choice for the future. He started to recite repeatedly with all sincerity the words that helped him to improve: "Falun Dafa is good. Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good." Not only did he recite it, he also got my mother to recite together with him. I felt the words floating out of my house into the sky and into the cosmos.
On that very night, my father slept for 6 hours continuously. When he woke up, he continued to recite with sincerity: "Falun Dafa is good. Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good." He managed to sleep for another 2 hours. I told my father, "Master is also taking care of you!"
My father has basically fully recovered his health. My father told me, "I really do not oppose your cultivation anymore. That book Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, I also do not reject it anymore. I know that my daughter is just like the revolution prophet, like Sun Yet-Sen in the early years!" With all seriousness I explained to my father the fundamental difference between Falun Gong, our Master, and Sun Yet-Sen. I explained to him why we are not participating in politics and that our mission is to offer salvation to people. My father accepted all that I told him.
On lunar December 28, 2008, I again persuaded my father to renounce his CCP membership. My father finally agreed!
Today my immediate family members have all renounced their Party membership. However, as a Fa rectification period practitioner, my heart is still heavy. Whenever I think of the masses of people who have yet to clean away their mark left by the CCP, my heart cries. Let us be diligent in the three things required by Master and offer salvation to more people!
