(Minghui.org) I joined the phone call team to rescue practitioners in Mainland China about a year ago. During these days, there was happiness, confusion, and struggle. Here I would like to share some of my experiences.
An Unprecedented Opportunity
When I first joined the phone call team, some practitioners said my voice was too soft to rescue practitioners. Nonetheless, I kept on making phone calls to agencies involved in the persecution.
When I watched the Lady General Mu Guiying program in Shen Yun's performance this year, Master helped open my memory, and I understood my mission. In ancient times, we were soldiers who fought together shoulder to shoulder. Today we join the phone team to clarify the truth and fulfill our prehistoric vows to assist Master with Fa-rectification.
Therefore, after Shen Yun concluded their performances in our local area, I immediately returned to the phone team. I was more confident now since Master was helping me and my fellow practitioners. It also encouraged me. I knew that I just needed a pure mind and to let go of my human notions to save more people.
Letting Go of Self
In thinking back about my participation in promoting the Shen Yun shows and making phone calls, I realized that although I had been doing the three things and looking inward, there were not many breakthroughs. Then about two months ago, a coordinator invited me to join a project. She had been working very hard on it, often with little sleep before leaving for her job in the morning. Moreover, she had to take care of her child. I was moved and decided to participate as well.
It was difficult to learn the software, and there was not much progress despite my efforts. I thought about giving up. By then, another practitioner heard about my problem and offered to help me for 20 minutes a day. He was already very busy, and now he needed to sacrifice more for other practitioners to improve. From this, I saw my selfishness—my focusing on doing things that I like. For example, instead of thinking about what Dafa needs me to do, I tended to emphasize how much I had improved, how many phone calls I made, and how many people quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations. At that time I understood why I did not make breakthroughs—it was because of my selfishness, something inconsistent with the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. Once I had that thought, I suddenly felt my heart broaden. It was just like Master said in Hong Yin III,
“Secular and sacred, one creek apart
Forward or back: two different realms...”
(“One Thought”)
During those days, there were few things on my mind other than doing the three things.
In the past, I liked to call mainland China to encourage people to quit the CCP instead of contacting the agencies to rescue practitioners. It was relatively easier for me to help people quit the CCP, and the results were always encouraging. Moreover, the success rate often reflected my cultivation status. When making phone calls to rescue practitioners, however, we could hardly see an immediate effect. There were not many practitioners involved in this, and I felt obliged to do so. I did not do it to validate myself or improve my cultivation—I did it because of need from the Fa. In Hong Yin Vol. II, Master said,
“Credit and honor are not what is on my mind
As I rectify heaven, rectify earth, and rectify all lives”
(“In One Thought”)
Thinking of this, I was very sympathetic towards those people who persecuted practitioners and sent forth righteous thoughts to eliminate the vicious elements behind them. No matter how they swore at me, I was undisturbed. Nonetheless, I somehow considered myself superior, and my words to them were not very compassionate, which made it hard for them to accept. Now, I am able to let go of myself and be simply willing to save them.
Several days ago I made a phone call to a police station. The police agent always hung up after I spoke a few sentences. I was wondering if I should give up, and at the same time I felt pity for him if he missed such a precious opportunity. I thought about this and was in tears. Then I called him again and sent forth righteous thoughts to the phone number as well the evil elements behind the police station. This time, he listened for a long time and was very polite. In the end, he said he would not participate in the persecution anymore. From this, I learned the importance of being really considerate towards others.
Getting Rid of the Attachment to Comfort
I used to sleep for six hours a day, and it seemed hard for me to reduce it. I often thought that after a day's hard work, a good sleep is needed, otherwise, one may feel sleepy when studying the Fa or driving a car. Because I recently joined more projects while continuing to make phone calls, the time was very limited, and I had less time to sleep. In “Dafa Disciples Must Study the Fa”, Master said,
“I have come to save people (disciples applaud), and you all know that I am enduring things on behalf of sentient beings so that they may gain salvation. I seek nothing personally from this. I can forsake everything, and I have no human attachments. Since I have come to save sentient beings, I cannot be selective. I am saving all of the world’s people, which includes all of you seated here.”
I was very touched by this paragraph. Since there are so many people waiting for me to save, I can no longer indulge myself in relaxation and comfort. After changing that mindset, I only slept two or three hours a day and have not been sleepy.
My husband often travels to a U.S. city on Tuesdays to promote the Shen Yun performance. I have to take care of the store myself by working over 10 hours a day. I was not sleepy with two or three hours of sleep every day. One day after making phone calls, it was already 4:00 in the morning, about two hours before the global sending forth righteous thoughts. I closed my eyes and soon saw a colorful and shining paradise. I knew Master was encouraging me. Although I had not done so for very long, I finally overcame the sleeping dilemma that had bothered me for years.
In “The Ultimate Objective of Clarifying the Truth”, Master said, “Falun Dafa is the Buddha Fa.” and
“The emergence of the Communist Party and the CCP’s real goal is to have people hate Gods and Buddhas, to propagate atheism, to instill a philosophy of 'struggle,' and to thereby destroy humankind.”
I thus further understood the importance of clarifying the truth to the police and procuratorial system. We need to tell these people the consequences of the persecution, the danger of hatred towards the Buddha Fa, the CCP's history of killing, and that “good is rewarded with good, and evil meets evil”. In the past, I was not very clear on what to speak about. Now these angles have helped me to explain to them, and people know what to choose after hearing the truth. I also learned to awaken them with a peaceful mind and strong righteous thoughts.
One day, I called a policeman who said dirty words to me and hung up the phone. I knew his true self was waiting to be saved; so I continued to call him, and he picked up the phone. I told him the consequences of persecuting practitioners, and he said he only cared about money. I explained to him that money is meaningless once a person dies. I told him that the CCP has brainwashed people to forget about retribution and to go against their conscience. In the end, he thanked me and said he would no longer participate in the persecution.
In Zhuan Falun, Master said,
“We would say that this is what psychosis is all about. How could I cure it for you? I would say that this is how one actually acquires psychosis. What can be done about it? Educate the person and help him become conscious—but it is very difficult to do that. You will find that when a doctor at a psychiatric hospital picks up an electric-shock club in his or her hand, immediately the patients will be too scared to utter anything absurd. Why is it? At that moment, this person’s Main Spirit becomes alert, and it fears the electrical shock.” (“Lecture Six”)
My understanding is that, for those people who persecuted practitioners, we need to remind them of the consequences and wake them up. Once I spoke to an officer from a 610 Office. He swore at me and defamed Master. I seriously explained to him the danger of doing that; for example, a CCTV news host developed throat cancer after slandering Dafa, and he could not even drink water. Because I was not disturbed, my words were able to penetrate his mind and wake him up.
As I look back, I knew Master helped purify me and helped me assimilate to the Fa as well as validate the Fa. We need to do better in saving people and fulfilling the mission of Dafa disciples.
