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By a teacher in Mainland China
I am a primary school teacher who has practiced Falun Dafa for over four years. I work as the head teacher of a class. In my class there is a boy from a rural area who is notorious in the school for making trouble. He was enrolled late in my class in the third grade. He didn't understand anything, nor did he listen to the teachers in class. He couldn't write a word, nor could he solve a problem. It seemed that he didn't have a sense of how to study at all. On his
final exams, he got 6 points in math and 11 in Chinese language (out of 100 each). Almost every day he would make some trouble, big or little, without a break. He caused the most difficulties for the teachers, and also was a big headache for me. I patiently counseled him several times to behave himself, and his father also tried both hard and soft tactics at home with him, but none of these methods produced any results.
During the Spring Festival of 2001, the staged "Self-immolation Incident" occurred in Tiananmen Square, under a scheme by Jiang Zemin and the Chinese Communist Party to frame Falun Gong.
After the incident, I often thought of letting my students know the truth, but I could not speak out, even when the words were on the tip of my tongue. I worried that students in the country were unsophisticated and it was likely to get me into trouble if I spoke out. So I did not tell my students about the truth of the incident. Later on, I felt that as a cultivator, clarifying the truth to people is to help them to establish the right understanding of Dafa. Everyone has a right to know the truth, including every innocent child. They should not have to live in lies and deception.
So one day I explained the truth about Falun Gong to my students. At that time both my mind and tone were very calm, without any worries. After I finished talking, a student in the last row of the classroom raised his hand and shouted loudly, "Teacher, I want to learn Falun Gong!" I looked around and found surprisingly that it was that troublemaker. At the time I thought he was making mischief and said right away, "You sit down
first, wait until afterwards." I did not take it seriously, since I thought it was impossible for him to truly want to learn. So I kind of forgot about the matter.
Soon it was April 10. The last class in the morning is my morality class. At the end of the text, there was an essay slandering Falun Dafa. I thought, I can't allow such an abominable article to poison the pure hearts of the children. So, I told some true stories to the class about Falun Gong teaching people to be good, and the great deeds of Dafa practitioners who hold firmly to the truth in the face of vicious persecution.
After I completed the talk, this student again put up his little hand and shouted loudly, "Teacher, I want to learn Falun Gong, please teach me!" I saw his sincerity, and promised him I would.
Section One in the afternoon was my math class. No sooner did I finish explaining one example, than this student raised his hand, saying that he could do it. At that time I did not believe him at first because he never listened to teachers in his classes, nor was he able to solve any problems. I let him go to the blackboard and work on the problem. Surprisingly, he did it correctly. I asked him to do another one, and again he did it right. Other students were very surprised. I thought at the moment that although I did not talk much, the boy had already been affected by the righteous power of Dafa that lifts people upward. He wanted to be good himself! This is something that cannot be achieved by any external force. I was very excited. The mighty power of Dafa had already transformed him. On the same
afternoon after school, he found me in my office, and asked me, "Teacher, is there any book for learning Falun Gong?" I said, "Yes, but you can't read it yet." He insisted on reading it, and wanted to know if he could read it through. He opened the book and saw "Lunyu" [the Preface to Zhuan Falun]. Unexpectedly he read through it and only failed to recognize a few characters.
He really began to study from then on. He listened to teachers attentively in class, and also started to do homework. Once the Chinese language teacher talked to me, surprised, "What happened to this boy? He began to study. He took a Chinese language test and surprisingly, he correctly answered many of the questions. He seems to be a
different person! He is also obedient and no longer makes trouble every day."
Just like that, the little boy started on his cultivation path of returning to his original, true self. And from this I understood that by truly using reason, wisdom and a benevolent heart to tell people about Falun Dafa, and doing things without pursuit, one will naturally do well.
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