A Practitioner in India: Master Arranges Everything for Us

(Clearwisdom) I would like to share my experiences with the media, government, and schools in our city.

One day, by chance I saw a TV program entitled Youngistan. Meant for young people, the program is on a popular channel that also has a widely read daily newspaper in our language. When the director of the channel was talking about the degradation of moral values and corruption in public life, an idea suddenly struck me, which was that the best thing to do to help this situation would be to bring awareness of our practice, which cultivates moral values based on Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, by having their daily newspaper do an article on it. I was also motivated by the advice of a foreign practitioner, who said that the media was a good way to reach the public with the facts about the practice or the persecution.

So I decided to meet with the editor of the daily newspaper and explain about our practice. Accordingly, another practitioner and I met the editor on May 16, 2011. We gave him details about the practice, showed him pictures, etc. He asked, "Is it the same Falun Gong that was banned by Chinese Communist Party?" I said that it was. I presented him with a copy of Zhuan Falun and asked him to study it, and if he thought it was good, he might publish an article on it or just give me a call to pick up the book from him. I also told the editor that although there are only a few practitioners in the city, we want to do a good job of spreading this great practice called Falun Dafa, which is based on the universal principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. He smiled and promised to make their readers aware of our practice through their newspaper.

Prior to this, we had planned to have a group practice on a bridge called Tank Bund in our city to celebrate Master's birthday on Sunday, May 8, instead of Friday, May 13, as it was more convenient for people with weekday jobs. We selected that place because of the big Buddha statue near the lake and thought it would be symbolic. We did the exercises as a group as planned.

Without saying who she was, a journalist who had come with her photographer to take early morning pictures heard the music and inquired about our practice. She watched us doing the exercises for a while and left. She then told her male colleague about learning about our practice that morning, and both thought it would be better to publish a small news article about Falun Gong. That evening, without knowing any of this, we happened to meet with the editor. The following morning, the editor called both journalists into his office and gave them our leaflets and the copy of Zhuan Falun. He asked them to study them and write an article. They were surprised, as they had planned to do an article on their own already.

The editor entrusted the job to the male journalist, who then met with us, and, finally, a beautiful, full cover story was presented in their Sunday edition on May 29. The cover page was in full color. It was just a miracle when we look at how things happened. This helped to generate many inquiries about the practice within our state, and now more people are aware of the practice.

In a second instance, we wanted to do the exercises in one of the prime, busy centers in our city. To get permission from the police, we met with the assistant police commissioner, who asked us to meet his deputy. We met with the deputy and told him about Falun Gong. He said it was doubtful, because we'd distract the traffic and there could be accidents. To keep the assistant commissioner posted about our situation, we met with him again. While promising to talk to his deputy again about our request for permission, he introduced us to the man sitting beside us as his brother, who is a district jail superintendent and works nearly 300 kms away. The superintendent was very agreeable and asked us to introduce the practice to the inmates in his jail. I introduced the practice for a week, from 6 a.m. to 7 a.m. The prisoners were very happy to find out about Falun Gong and asked how to do the practice when they were released.

In a similar incident, once I read an article in a popular daily entitled "Our Schools for Tomorrow." Immediately, I thought that the schools for tomorrow should be taught with the principles of our practice, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. Another practitioner and I met the Commissioner of Education, who immediately asked us to introduce Falun Gong on a sample basis in three government schools, which we did. At every place we went, everyone inquired if our book was available in the local language.

Many things like this that have happened have made me understand that Master won't leave anyone behind who is predestined. I realized that it was Master's arrangement to introduce the practice to the prisoners and to the students in the government schools. I also realized that our great Master will take full care of anyone who is truly committed to following Dafa.

If you find anything wrong in my sharing, please point it out.

Heshi to our revered Master.