(Clearwisdom.net) Nine years ago today my parents took me to visit a Falun Dafa assistance center volunteer. I was then in middle school. Just as I sat down I felt a strong energy field and then felt Falun rotating in my lower abdominal area. I was extremely excited. That moment I knew that Master regarded me as a disciple of Dafa.
Over the past nine years I was forced to leave school and was illegally detained for persevering in my belief and for having clarified the truth about Falun Dafa. This difficult process tempered me well and at the same time allowed me to walk on the path of Fa-rectification. All of these experiences led me to profound insights.
Eventually I took a self-taught examination and entered university. While there I met with a difficult issue--how to do the exercises regularly while sharing a dorm room with several others. Due to my unique experience, it was too dangerous for me to tell the others I was a Falun Gong practitioner. I managed to use a sheet to make a simple mosquito net over my bed so that I could sit in meditation. In the daytime I often tried to find a quiet place to do the first four sets of exercises. I understand if we are diligent, with Master's arrangement we can solve any difficult problem. It is just as Master said,
"When one is attached to nothing
The path underfoot is naturally smooth"("Unimpeded" from Hong Yin II, Translation Version A)
When I wanted to clarify the facts to my classmates, I often told them of the June 4, 1989 "Tiananmen Square Incident" (the Tiananmen Square Massacre) and then introduced them to the "Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party." I also talked about the persecution of Falun Gong. Some classmates understood the truth and immediately quit the CCP, expressing their understanding and support. Some of them were shocked by the descriptions of police arresting and violently beating Falun Gong practitioners as chronicled in the "Nine Commentaries."
I once visited one of my longtime friends. I worried initially that he would not believe the truth about Falun Gong because he had come to see me when I was detained to try to persuade me to give up my belief. While we were chatting I talked about some Internet news that he had no access to. Then I used the software that helps me break through the Internet blockade to visit the website. After he noticed the software he immediately commented, "It is very good. Please leave me the software." Now he understands the truth.
At present, more than 200 million people in China use the Internet. In addition, most of the students are used to visiting websites that allow them to access outside information. I saw from the website that overseas fellow practitioners had uploaded precious films onto some video websites and blogs that would [otherwise] not be seen in China. This way, people do not need to use the software that helps break through the Internet blockade to learn the truth. It is really a good technique. One time I sent the website links to some people. They soon saw the truth. Normally, people have to face the difficulty of downloading the films even though they have the software that helps them break through the Internet blockade. I hope that those overseas practitioners who have the ability to upload truth-clarification films to various video websites and blogs that cannot be blocked in China will upload more films.
Because I slacked off in Fa study, the old forces took advantage of my emotions to interfere with me for some time. Later I was extremely remorseful and even lost my confidence. I studied the Fa more and incessantly solidified my righteous thoughts. In order to test Dafa's mighty virtue of offering sentient beings salvation, the old forces intentionally utilize the CCP to destroy human morals.
Our responsibilities as Fa-rectification period Dafa disciples are great. Only when we keep our righteous thoughts at all times can we genuinely offer salvation to sentient beings and for the world it:
"Puts a stop to its downward slide" ("Illuminating All" from Hong Yin II, Translation Version A)
At the same time, no matter what setbacks we run into, we should believe in Dafa.
Master told us:
"For any being, let alone human beings, no matter how high a being he is, as long as he's a being within the cosmos, I can rectify him during the Fa-rectification, from his fundamental nature, from the origin of his existence, and from all the elements that constitute his being, eliminating the impure and turning those things around." ("Teaching the Fa at the Great Lakes Fa Conference in North America" in 2000, Guiding the Voyage)
Regarding fellow practitioners who have not done well: we must thoroughly negate the old forces' arrangements and surpass the factors of the old cosmos.
It is just as Master said:
"For example, if a bottle filled with dirty things is sealed tightly and thrown into water, it will sink all the way to the bottom. You pour out some of its dirty contents. The more you empty the bottle, the higher it will float in the water. If it is emptied entirely, it will float on the surface completely." (From Lecture One in "Zhuan Falun," 2000 translation version)
No matter what setbacks we encounter, we should steadfastly believe in cultivation and righteously believe that with salvation from Dafa and Master, the Fa-rectification is bound to succeed, and Dafa disciples are bound to succeed. We should not lose the glory of being a god forever due to our human attachments.
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November 4, 2007