(Clearwisdom.net) I went to the barbershop to get my hair washed and cut. When I clarified the truth to the owner, he said he had never joined the Communist Youth League or the Young Pioneers, but he really agreed with what I said. I gave him a DVD of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, and he played it immediately. There were many people there getting their hair washed and cut and chatting away. After a while, no one spoke: they were all quietly watching the Nine Commentaries even after I had finished and left the barbershop.
-- By the author
Greetings to our compassionate and great Master! Greetings to my fellow practitioners!
Master said in “Dafa Disciples Must Study the Fa,”
“But for you, disciples of Dafa, you cannot let up in what you need to do—namely, the three tasks. By all means, you mustn’t. Nothing less than your mighty virtue, your cultivation, and all that you shoulder is bound up in these.”
1. Study and Recite the Fa, Cultivate Well Ourselves
I obtained the Fa in 1992, and all three members of my family began practicing Falun Dafa. Every day I listened to Master’s audio Fa-lectures and read Zhuan Falun, and very often I participated in group exercises and activities to spread the Fa. Every day I got up at 3:50 a.m. and did the five exercises. After Zhuan Falun was published, I bought a copy and started to recite it, as well as Master’s new articles, and grand poems in Hong Yin. Why did I recite the Fa? I believed that reciting the Fa could help deepen my understanding of the Fa and get rid of my bad thoughts and karma and all kinds of attachments and desires. I felt I would constantly assimilate to Falun Dafa. I could use the Fa to require myself to do well and cultivate well myself and return to my true self. Every night after work and dinner, I joined in the group study to read Zhuan Falun. Since my child was very small, my wife and child stayed with my in-laws, and they usually came back once every week. On Sunday when they came back to rest, I would bring my wife and child with me to join the group exercises and Fa study. Later on, my home was also set up as a Fa-study group. We joined together to study the Fa and for sharing. We improved rapidly. With his mother’s help, my child could fluently recite Master’s new articles, including Hong Yin, when he was three years old.
I used to have a very bad temper and very often I quarreled with my colleagues at work. I also smashed things when I was angry. I had all kinds of attachments to selfishness, competition, showing off, jealousy, and greed. After cultivating Falun Dafa, I became very healthy physically. My stomachaches and rheumatism were all gone. Everyone said that I had changed completely from who I was. I still recall how once I had an argument with a senior colleague over some trifle, and my voice was very loud. I had a terrible expression on my face, and I even said something like “making a clean break, being irreconcilable” etc. After cultivating Falun Dafa, I know how to cultivate myself and get rid of all kinds of bad thoughts and attachments. And I learned to think of others first and to look inside while facing conflicts. When a misunderstanding occurred, I just smiled it away. Once when a female colleague cursed me for something, I ignored her. Later on when I went past the office, the supervisor asked me in for some questions related to snack preparation. Just then, the woman who cursed me caught sight of me and thought that I had gone to the supervisor to tell on her. She started to curse at me, running towards me from far away. She said something really mean. The supervisor just walked away and dared not talk to her since she was so unpleasant. I thought to myself that I was a cultivator and that I should not curse or fight back. I just smiled and walked away without any explanation.
There was another time when I had my one-year-old child on my back and I was pushing my bicycle towards the zebra crossing to cross the road. Suddenly a military police motorcycle ran through the red light. The driver stopped suddenly when he came close to me. Since he was going so fast, the policeman on the back of the motorcycle was thrown to the ground. And then, for no apparent reason, he ran towards me, trying to hit me. I immediately said, “I am sorry, sorry.” The driver knew this was not right, so he pulled the other policeman away, saying, “Let him go, let him go. Don’t hit him. Let's go.” That angry policeman said that if I didn't have my child on my back, he would definitely beat me. Many people crowded around to see how I was. I understood that it was Master’s law-body that was protecting me. Maybe I owed him in the past, now I had paid him back.
Once I went to a supermarket to buy groceries and paid with a ten-yuan bill. The person who sold me the groceries paid me back over 90 yuan. I said, “You made a mistake, you over-paid me.” He said, “No mistake, no mistake.” I said, “I gave you a ten-yuan bill, not a one hundred-yuan bill.” He understood immediately and kept saying, “Thank-you, you are really a good person.” I was enlightened after I came home and realized that if at that moment I had told him that I was a cultivator of Falun Dafa, that would have been much better.
After July 20, 1999, I went by myself to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa. Later on I was arrested and taken to a brainwashing center. I continued to cultivate with no doubts. Every day I recited over eight hours of Zhuan Falun, Master’s new articles, and Hong Yin, and I also did the exercises for two hours. I usually sent forth righteous thoughts and clarified the truth. Many so-called “aides” who “helped to transform (the practitioners)” understood the truth, and I left the brainwashing center without writing any statements. I understood that only when I studied more of the Fa could I strengthen my righteous thoughts. Master said,
“The Fa can break all attachments, the Fa can destroy all evil, the Fa can shatter all lies, and the Fa can strengthen righteous thoughts.” (Essentials for Further Advancement II, “Drive Out Interference”)
2. Sending Forth Righteous Thoughts to Oppose All Arrangements Made by the Old Forces
Besides sending forth righteous thoughts at the four, set daily times, I also cooperated with fellow practitioners to go near the detention centers and forced labor camps or to the courts to send forth righteous thoughts for long periods of time to rescue fellow practitioners. When fellow practitioners had the false symptoms of sickness karma, sending forth righteous thoughts had very obvious effects. One night I was fast asleep when suddenly my wife started thrashing on the bed non-stop and foaming at the mouth, like having the symptoms of epilepsy. She had this kind of symptom once every few days. I did not know why. After studying the Fa and sharing, I was enlightened to the understanding that cultivation was very serious: this is because the old forces used her karma to persecute her. Master mentioned in “Dafa is Indestructible” (Essentials for Further Advancement II), “A Dafa disciple completely opposes everything arranged by the evil old forces.”
I told her, “You should study the Fa more and strengthen your efforts to send forth righteous thoughts. You should definitely treat yourself as a cultivator and should not treat this as illness. You should send forth righteous thoughts to oppose all the arrangements made by the old forces.” Whenever she had her sickness karma, I would always sit up in the double lotus position and hold my palm upright to dissolve it. In my daily sending forth righteous thoughts, I also added a thought to dissolve it. After a short period of time, this false karma symptom was gone. Now she also realizes the importance of studying the Fa and sending forth righteous thoughts.
3. Setting up a Family Material Production Center
I never learned how to use computers and did not even know how to turn one on and off. I wanted to set up a family material production center, but my family finances were not good. A fellow practitioner gave me a laptop and helped me to buy a printer, copier paper, and ink. Our family material center was set up. Unless it was used to buy necessary materials, I would not waste a single penny of the money that the fellow practitioner gave me. Our family material production center has been working normally ever since it was started. Practitioners taught me how to use the computer and the printer. Since they were willing to teach and I was willing to learn—and I understood my mission—I learned very fast how to do it. From being inexperienced to very skilled, from not knowing how to fix the computer to knowing how to fix the computer and the printer, from stealthily giving out the truth clarification materials to giving them out and clarifying the truth face to face in an upright way, I have matured.
4. Clarify the Truth Face to Face to Save Sentient Beings
I used many different ways to clarify the truth to save sentient beings and to validate Falun Dafa including hanging banners, posting messages, using bills with truth-clarifying content, mailing letters, texting messages to cellphones, calling cellphones with truth content recordings, and giving out Shen Yun DVDs face to face. No matter whether it was at home, at work, or in my everyday life, whoever I came across, I would clarify the truth to them, and most of them agreed to quit the CCP-related organizations.
Once my over 90-year-old aunt was hospitalized. She had no strength in her hands and legs. She was dizzy and even lost control of her bladder. She stayed in bed in the hospital. When I went to visit her, I said, “You should sincerely recite 'Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.' If you do, you will for sure be discharged from the hospital.” She recited with me “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” Several days later, she was discharged from the hospital.
Once my uncle had two flesh lumps, and his family took him to the hospital in the city. The hospital refused to take him. After coming home, the Chinese medicine doctor prescribed some Chinese herbal medicine to apply, but there was no improvement. The Party secretary general bought a wheelchair for him, asking him to sit in the wheelchair for the rest of his life. When I went to visit him, I saw that he was bedridden. I told him, “If you sincerely say 'Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good,' you will recover.” I gave him some Falun Dafa materials to read. Several months later when I went to visit him again, he could walk already. When I asked him how he felt, he said that it was because he recited “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good” that he felt better. But he said he had still a little bit of a headache. I suddenly recalled that I had been rushing to go back to work and had forgotten to ask him whether he had ever joined the CCP (Chinese Communist Party). He said when he was serving in the army, he joined the CCP. I clarified the truth to him, and he asked me to help him quit all the organizations related to the CCP. His headache disappeared, and he could walk to buy groceries.
Once there was something wrong with the washing machine and it would not drain. Someone from the factory came to fix it by changing the drainage pipe. Several days later, the same problem occurred again, and the person from the factory came again. I suddenly understood that last time when he came, I was not at home and I did not clarify the truth to him. Now he came purposely to hear the truth, so I clarified the truth to him. He listened to me while working. In the end, he asked me to help him quit the Young Pioneers. He was saved.
Once when I was changing clothes in the locker room, I saw an old man sweeping the floor. I clarified the truth to him and helped him quit the CCP-related organizations. He gratefully shook my hand, saying, “Thank you, thank you!” Master mentioned in “What is a Dafa Disciple”
“You might discover that a garbage collector, if you look back [at his previous lives], was formerly a massive god in the cosmos who, under the illusion here, and in the course of his reincarnations, has become completely lost—lost to the point that he remembers nothing. [The illusion] is such that many beings, in the course of reincarnating, are resentful about their lots in life, and know nothing about the mission that brought them here.”
I've helped most of my colleagues at work quit the CCP. Recently a former colleague was transferred back to my department. I recalled that, when I clarified the truth to her in the past, she did not say anything. It was Master’s compassion that brought her to me one more time to listen to me to clarify the truth to her. When I talked to her about how the evil CCP harvested Falun Gong practitioners’ organs at Sujiatun, she was shocked. She was very surprised and later she asked me to help her quit the Young Pioneers.
A female colleague in my department refused many times to listen to me explain the facts to her. I believed it was the evil CCP spirit that was behind her, interfering with her and not allowing her to understand the truth, so I sent forth righteous thoughts to eliminate the bad elements and the evil CCP spirit. When I spoke to her again, she understood and kept nodding that she would quit the Young Pioneers.
Another time I went to the barbershop to get my hair washed and cut. When I clarified the truth to the owner, he said he'd never joined the Youth League or the Young Pioneers, but he really agreed with what I said. I gave him a DVD of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, and he played it immediately. Many people were there getting their hair washed and cut and chatting as well. After a while, no one spoke: they were all quietly watching the Nine Commentaries even after I'd finished and left the barbershop. Later on the barber's business got better and better, and of course I know the real reason why.
The above are only some of my experiences in clarifying the truth and saving sentient beings. Fellow practitioners, please point out with your compassion if there is anything improper.
Heshi.
