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Greetings, Teacher!
Greetings, fellow practitioners!
I obtained the Fa in 2002. From a high school student to a medical doctor, with Teacher's benevolent care, I've walked the path of validating the Fa and saving sentient beings in different environments. It's a great honor today for me to report to Teacher and share with fellow practitioners my experience in clarifying facts in the medical community along with practitioners in Taiwan who are doctors.
The entire human race is before us
In the past few years of promoting Shenyun, Taiwan practitioners who are doctors have formed a mechanism to work together to clarify the facts. Situations in China have changed drastically since February 2012. The evil organ harvesting by the Communist Party has gradually caught the attention of the international community. Once in sharing how to clarify the facts to doctors, who is a group hard to access, what Teacher said popped into my head,
"What lies before you is not merely personal cultivation or saving a few people. The entire human race is before you, and the Chinese people, in particular. " (Teaching the Fa in the City of Chicago"）
Suddenly I was enlightened that we often think too little of our ability and mission. What we are facing is not just doctors around us, or the medial community in Taiwan, but the beings of the entire world. Taiwan practitioners who are doctors have relatively ample human resources and a good sharing environment. We should be able to unfold power as a whole group and live up to our missions as Dafa Disciples. We could use our expertise as doctors to open up ways in clarifying the truth of organ harvesting and save sentient beings with no reservation.
That thought shook my world. Yet, I didn't know how to do it. Soon, I was able to see Teacher's arrangement in the Fa-rectification. In September, the evil organ harvesting was largely exposed in mainland China and the world. Taiwan practitioners, through sharing, pointed out that the medical community in Taiwan actually has been quite close with their counterparts in the mainland. Hence some doctors and patients were consciously or unconsciously made accomplices in organ harvesting with the Communist Party. Meanwhile, many medical people have yet to be reached to learn the truth about Falun Gong.
After the sharing and the coordinators' arrangement, we've decided to clarify the facts to people in the medical profession and launch a petition for them to position themselves. More and more doctor practitioners joined in the efforts and we've formed one body. Practitioners all over Taiwan are reaching out to the medial professionals and inspiring their kind thoughts. Many doctors quickly signed the petition.
Clarifying the facts face to face at medical conferences
In order to reach more people, we've decided to go to medical conferences and talk to the doctors so they could learn the truth in a relaxed environment. In the beginning, we didn't know how to do it, as we had never done anything like that before. Through Fa-study and sharing, it became clear to us the importance of the matter. We had a better understanding of how to clarify the facts with reference to the doctors' attachments and notions. After all, they have been waiting for tens of millions of years.
In the first round of the battle, there was great pressure from other dimensions. I was fully aware that I had to break through it and open up the way to clarify the truth to the doctors. In sending forth righteous thoughts, I felt that my body in other dimensions became larger and larger, towering over the conference room and suffocating the evil. Teacher was strengthening us at a higher level. I remember what Teacher said, “Compassion can harmonize Heaven and Earth, ushering in spring. Righteous thoughts can save the people in this world” (“The Fa Rectifies the Cosmos”, from Hong Yin II)" Each flyer, as well as each sentence, should be like a sword piercing through the interference, awakening the beings with benevolence.
After the first try, we made some adjustments. In the following medical conferences, we adopted more acceptable methods, conforming to the event. We set up a booth at the venue and clarified the facts in a noble and dignified manner. We had two to three dozen practitioners. There were thousands of doctors. We took every opportunity to talk to them. Emerged in the righteous field of practitioners' benevolence, I could feel the energy to save people coming from the depth of my life. Often with one sentence I could hold them there to listen quietly for over half a minute. Their eyes glittered after learning the truth. They didn't just sign the petition, but asked for advice how to be more helpful. Some doctors asked for a DVD to play in their hospital. They said they would tell their patients about the bloody persecution in the mainland. Practitioners' benevolent thoughts dominated the field for sentient beings to learn the truth and to be saved.
I was once interfered with by many different thoughts while preparing truth clarification materials. In sending forth righteous thoughts, I asked myself why I couldn't let go of so many attachments. Then a clear thought came to my mind, "Fa is first and foremost.." I was suddenly awakened. Indeed, Dafa is first and foremost. Our renewed life is constructed in Teacher's immense benevolence and in the new cosmos of Truth-Compassion-Forbearance. Teacher and Dafa are everything of our life. What is it that I cannot let go?
In cultivation, I often found that deep in my heart, there was a selfish nature. I have attachments which are hard to eliminate. As my thoughts were rectified and I put Dafa first and foremost, this attachment was gone like a puff as if Teacher had directly removed it. In the following days, I had clearly experienced what Teacher said in "Teaching the Fa at the Great Lakes Fa Conference in North America":
"No matter what you do, you aren't thinking that you're doing something for Dafa, about how you should do things for Dafa, or 'how can I do things well for this Fa.' Instead, you are placing yourselves in Dafa. Like a particle of Dafa, [you feel that] no matter what it is, you should just do it."
It is hard for the beings in the old cosmos to be aware of what they are lacking. Even if they are aware of it, it's hard for them to change. Teacher sees that we have the heart to assist Teacher in Fa-rectification and save sentient beings, and to rectify ourselves, so Teacher rectifies us from the root of our life.
In a surgical conference, no practitioners were able to go as they were all busy promoting Shenyun. I asked myself if I would go. The two or three thousand surgeons were our key target in clarifying the facts. They had been waiting for tens of millions of years. Missing this opportunity, they might not have another chance to be saved. I had a firm thought in my mind, "If it was just me, I would still go. " It was me and another practitioner, facing thousands of people. It seemed impossible to talk to everyone. Because I had a firm thought to do it, I felt extremely strong benevolent energy, penetrating and filling each and every dimension of particles. People walked by and took the materials, with a happy glitter in their eyes for learning the truth. I realized that the power of sending forth righteous thoughts simply increases along with our advance in cultivation.
In that two months, practitioners in various places reached out to over ten thousand people in the medical profession. About six thousand of them, including three thousand doctors, signed petitions condemning the Chinese Communist Party's crime of organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners, calling for governments and international organizations to stop the persecution.
In a conflict, looking within and proactively cooperating
It took some time for us to learn how to work together, for each practitioner has his or her own mindset and focus. In many discussions, I knew I should follow the coordinator's decision. But in my heart, there was a voice saying, "You are right. You are right. The other person didn't think it through." Sometimes I had very passive thought like, "So be it." On the surface I was cooperating, but my heart disagreed. Teacher says in "Who's Right, Who's Wrong" in Hong Yin III, "[During a conflict, if you can remember[ 'He's right. And I'm wrong,' What's to dispute? " I told myself to seriously get enlightened to this principle, instead of cooperating on the surface and disagreeing at heart. I said in my heart to Teacher, "Teacher, I'm wrong. I will cooperate unconditionally."
In a split second when I chose to rectify myself, Teacher opened up the limit of my mindset and made me think from the other party's angle. I saw the magnificence of the practitioner, him being really responsible for the Fa. Thus I've crossed the mind limits that set different beings apart. I came to understand what Teacher said in "Teaching the Fa at the 2002 Fa Conference in Boston":
"They are in a state of immense tolerance, of mercy toward all beings, and of being able to understand everything with kindness."
I realized that only with real tolerance and by putting oneself in the other party's shoes, could one get to see that each and every being is shining. I was brought to tears at the enlightenment and was quite grateful for Teacher's benevolent arrangement.
I understand that I should constantly look for my own faults and look at practitioners' shining points, putting the best of me to fill in what's missing. During that period, I felt that only by giving up oneself completely and cooperating unconditionally, can we fulfill the sacred mission that Teacher has bestowed upon us.
I also realized that any human method to bind us together is useless. We ought to improve on the Fa and form one body based on the Fa, giving up our own notions. Only then can we meet the standards. It's Teacher's choice that we are assigned different jobs, yet at the same time demonstrating the overall power of Dafa to save sentient beings.
Preparing an International symposium and clarifying the facts on a larger scale
With the righteous thoughts to work together and the power of justice brought forth by the petition, the field is opened up to save the high ranking officials in the medical community in Taiwan. We've clarified the facts to officials in the Transplant Association and Health Department, building up some experiences. Meanwhile, we were planning activities that would bring a larger impact. Assisted by the overall improvement in the situation, we successfully invited some heavy weight medical and legal experts from different countries to attend an international symposium sponsored by the Taiwan government.
To carry it out was no easy task, though. It was a critical moment for selling Shenyun tickets. We were short of hands, and the workload doubled. However, practitioners in this project were stimulated to fully display the abilities established in ordinary human world and the righteous thoughts cultivated in Dafa to advance rapidly and enlarge our capacity.
Being pushed forward by a great pressure without a minute break, my physical body found it hard to bear. At a very difficult time, I dreamed of Teacher smiling at me in encouragement. I also saw a large mechanism. I corresponded to a circle some distance away from the center. It's like the wheels. After the small wheels moved one full circle, the big one would move a bit. When I strived to run with my full strength, the energy channel that I represented was running fast, too, bringing other channels, and those in the next layer, all the hundreds of channels to run together. All those forces finally pushed the main channel in the middle to move and opened up the field.
The reflection in the human world was that with the support of the Health Department, a quite influential organization also co-sponsored the symposium. The experts, upon arrival in Taiwan, toured the hospitals and medical schools in a roll to give lectures, do interviews, and sit in programs. They played a very positive role. During this period, the Taipei Bar Association also held a forum and made a statement condemning organ harvesting and the persecution.
The topic ran hot during the week-long events. At Round Tables in the Taiwan Legislature, several legislators and officials from the Health Department expressed their concerns about the persecution. The international symposium at the end was a full house, thanks to many main stream members' active participation. Representatives from the Health Department all expressed their support in the most positive way. Everyday people's media had several dozen news reports covering these series of events, which had successfully channeled the force of justice from all over the globe, making a big explosion in Taiwan.
After those events, the environment in Taiwan became bright and clear. Before we had time to rejoice over the achievements, with Teacher's kind reminder, I saw vaguely the arrangement of clarifying facts about organ harvesting. It was like patterns on a seashell, spiraling out from the center. Teacher's gong was outside of everything, eliminating the arrangement by the highest levels of old forces. What we've done in Taiwan has opened only the point in the middle. We have to spiral it out rapidly to open up the field and keep up with the Fa-rectification process.
Thanks to Teacher's mercy and constant guidance, we were allowed no room for complacency. Once we arrived at certain level, we had to make constant improvement from there and save more beings. The following one or two months saw further development in clarifying the facts of organ harvesting. We could not afford slacking off, but to continue pushing forward to the international medical community, legal community, governments, legislatures, and media. In the near future, I believe we can keep up with the Fa-rectification and let the truth prevail in mainland China and elsewhere in the world to save a large number of beings.
Letting go oneself, Assisting Techer in Fa-rectification and Saving Sentient Beings
Sometimes I was confused about the role I played in organizing the events. Once in a dream, I saw a symphony orchestra practicing. I was the tenor, taking a rest aside. Suddenly, the art director said the conductor was not there and I should take his job on stage. Surprised, I went on the stage to conduct. When it came time for the tenor to sing, I went back to my position as singer. But the art director said, "No. You've got to conduct and sing at the same time. " I wondered how that could be possible. Awkwardly I tried. All of a sudden, I realized that it was possible. I did and it worked. Then I woke up.
What happened in the dream was very clear. I knew it was Teacher's guidance, telling me it was possible to sing and conduct at the same time. We are required to do well in our individual part of truth clarification. When needed, we should be able to orchestrate a group of people in cooperation. Many seemingly impossible things were actually all arranged by Teacher. With righteous thoughts, even though it's hard to do, we can do it.
Once I had a poor thought. I felt I overworked and other practitioners should have taken more. Then I was arranged to take a tennis class. When I picked up the tennis ball, my mind was full of the number of balls I had hit and how many I should pick up. My partner, however, didn't have such a thought at all. He just kept on picking up the balls. I took it as a hint from Teacher that it was all arranged by Teacher who should do what and how much he should take. It was a mission bestowed upon us. We had no choice, nor should we have any complaints. We should just follow Teacher's arrangement and that is assisting Teacher in Fa-rectification. Looking at the balls on the court, I knew that sentient beings are waiting for use to save them. Even if we use up all our strength to pick them up, there are still a large number of people who cannot be saved. How can we have the human notion of differentiation and say, this is what you ought to do, and that is what I ought to do?
After the symposium, I made some mistakes in taking the lecturers back. I knew Teacher was reminding me of my long time problem. That is, when practitioners criticized me, I didn't want to admit I was wrong. Just like Teacher points out in "Fa Teaching Given in Manhattan":
“You don’t realize what the situation was at the time.”
I always focus on other people's faults and blaming others. When I reluctantly admitted that I made mistakes, practitioners' continued accusation made me very uncomfortable. I remember Teacher said："If you can manage to handle things calmly no matter how wronged you may feel, if you can remain unmoved and not try to come up with some kind of excuse for yourself, then with many things you won’t even need to argue. That’s because on your path of cultivation there is nothing that is by chance. So, when you get into a heated exchange and it stirs things up in you, or you get into a conflict over something that concerns your vital interests, perhaps the factors behind it were put there by Master." ("Fa Teaching Given in Manhattan")
I am determined not to cover up or find excuses any more. I will not look at others' fault, but look at my own. I admitted at heart to Teacher and fellow practitioners that I was wrong. Then I felt quite light. I know I've stepped over another barrier.
Things didn't end there. I started to get a temperature. I didn't give it much thought as I believed Teacher was cleansing my body. On the third day of my fever, my body was hot and aching. I could not concentrate. I knew I had to maintain a strong main consciousness. Still, it was getting more and more vague. I felt miserable. I remember what Teacher said in " Teaching the Fa at the Western U.S. International Fa Conference ":"One thought born of righteous faith is all it takes. And whoever can hold firm that righteous thought and go the distance will become a magnificent god forged by Dafa. "
In a trance, I held firm to the thought of assisting Teacher and saving sentient beings. One righteous thought subdues ten thousand. At that moment, the mechanism of looking within helped me find an attachment, a human notion of talking to others about what I've accomplished. My fever was miraculously gone after I found that attachment.
Cherishing practitioners and the whole body, as well as the sacred opportunity for beings to be saved
During the months of truth clarification, I felt deeply that we have to look within constantly in order to keep up with the Fa-rectification process. The Fa has different requirements for different practitioners. We cannot fix our eyes on others. Instead, we should only look within to find our own faults and create an environment of all Dafa disciples looking within and coordinating well. Only then can we fulfill the mission of assisting Teacher in Fa-rectification and save sentient beings.
Teacher said in Congratulatory Message: "Dafa disciples, you are golden light in the mortal world, the hope of the world's people, Fa-disciples who help Master, and future Fa-Kings. Keep diligent, Awakened Ones that walk the earth: Everything of today will be the glory of the future."
With Teacher's encouraging words, let us support each other and form one unbreakable body, walking well on the final leg of the path.
Thank you, Teacher!
Thank you, fellow practitioners!
