Genuine Cultivation While Clarifying the Truth to People

(Clearwisdom.net) I have experienced three stages of cultivation while clarifying the truth face to face to people. Step by step, I have become more steady and rational.

At the beginning, I explained the truth about Falun Gong by happenstance. I stayed at this level for a long time. At the time, I was experiencing tribulations from family and society. I was under a lot of pressure from work as well. My notions and attachments were many, and I didn’t have enough time and energy to clarify the truth to people. But I knew that I was a Dafa disciple and it was my duty and responsibility to help Master to save people. I remembered Master’s words:

“When you clarify the truth you are saving even more and even larger additional cosmic bodies and the beings in those cosmic bodies, because this is the responsibility Dafa and history have bestowed upon you.” (Touring North America To Teach the Fa)

So now I use every opportunity to tell people about Falun Gong: anytime and anywhere.

After the 2008 Olympics, local practitioners gradually started being more active in telling people about the persecution of Falun Gong. I became a coordinator and worked with fellow practitioners to explain the facts to people we met. We often went out together. Our thoughts were pure and we cooperated well with each other, so the results were very good. As a coordinator, I would set the time and location of our activities. I also took care of the older practitioners while we were on the road and was especially mindful of safety. It was hard work.

These responsibilities exposed many of my issues. For example, I always talked first. Whenever I helped someone to withdraw from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations, I immediately told other practitioners what I had done and felt very good about myself. I also talked a lot on the road, using the excuse of discussing this issue or that problem. I liked to teach others. I told fellow practitioners what was good, what was not good, and how things should be done. I was always showing off, as if I was better than they. Without consideration for the elderly practitioners, I took them to places that were far away.

One day, a practitioner I had worked with for many years made an excuse to not go out with me and went with another practitioner instead. I felt very sad. I realized that anything a Dafa disciple encounters is not by coincidence; there must be something that needs to be improved. I calmed down and enlightened that Master was giving me a “stick wake-up.” It was an opportunity for me to get rid of my attachments. I repeatedly looked inward and found that I had many attachments, such as jealousy, zealotry, showing off, irritability, and selfishness. I had a negative effect on fellow practitioners and interfered with their xinxing, which especially affected our saving people. All these notions and attachments were not meeting a cultivator’s standard. The old notions were a hindrance. After that, I continued to rectify myself through Fa study and cultivation.

After many years of cultivation, I feel that I have matured a lot. Although I still have the attachments of fear, comfort, worry about what others think about me, and fear of hardship, they are very weak now and no longer hinder my confidence in clarifying the truth face to face. I began to do it on my own. I enlightened from the Fa that Master has compassion towards all sentient beings, and he cherishes all lives and wants to save them. I am a disciple and should do the leg work for Master. When I walk down the street, I don’t feel that I am doing it on my own, Master’s fashen is looking after me, and righteous gods are helping me. I am not alone. Master requires Dafa disciples to become mature and be able to do things on their own, as well as to work cooperatively. I believe that cooperation among practitioners is more comprehensive and does not only refer to a few people working together.

In China, clarifying the truth to people is a very good way to save them. Such work has proven that one practitioner can do the work of 10, or even 100, ordinary people. I used to believe that I was stupid and weak, and I was afraid of doing things on my own. Now I believe that saving sentient beings is not following the crowd, it is not up to a person’s ability, but rather the person’s heart. If one has it in one's heart, the results can be unimaginably good. When I go out, I send these righteous thoughts: I will use my heart to tell those with predestined relationships to wait for me to tell them about Dafa, and eliminate all evil beings and factors that prevent people from being saved.

I always bring Shen Yun DVDs with me. After I explain the facts to people, I respectfully present them with a DVD, and many accept it politely. I tell anyone I meet about Dafa. When I get a break, I recite the Fa or send righteous thoughts. I have realized that Dafa has given disciples the mighty virtue, ability, and wisdom to save sentient being. When we are saving people, our ability and wisdom just come forth. I am able to discern people’s attachments and untie the knots in their minds, wake up their conscience and compassion, and eliminate the lies that deceived them.

On many occasions I felt that people were there to hear the truth. They are so precious. Their lives are riches, and saving people increases the riches in the universe and our own world. In fact, Master had everything planned out: Sentient beings are waiting, waiting for us to talk with them. With righteous thoughts and compassion we can save people.

The process of clarifying the truth is also a process of cultivating myself. I am still not doing enough. Sometimes I only said a few sentences without clarify the truth in depth; sometimes I argued and was irresponsible; sometimes I was selfish and didn’t want to talk; and sometimes I missed predestined people because I was indecisive. To cherish life is to have compassion for everyone. Every disciple should do his or her best to save people.

After studying Master’s recent articles, I understand the seriousness and urgency of “helping Master with Fa-rectification.” If we don't do well, we will be letting Master down and letting all the sentient beings in the cosmos down, and we would not be worthy of being called “Fa-rectification period disciples.”