Clarifying the Truth at Work and at Home

(Minghui.org) I was arrested by the police in 2001 for handing out materials about Falun Dafa (also called Falun Gong) and the persecution, and my home was ransacked. I was held in a detention center and later transferred to a brainwashing center. The authorities pressured the management at my office to participate in the persecution, and ordered the officials at my workplace to have people monitor me.

I didn’t treat my colleagues who monitored me as people persecuting me, but rather as people that I needed to help understand the truth about Dafa. I told them, “We are all colleagues. Please don’t believe the lies and propaganda about Falun Dafa. Dafa only teaches people to be good. It also has amazing effects in healing illnesses and keeping fit.”

When truth-clarification calendars were first published on the Minghui website, I started putting the single-sheet calendar under the glass of my office desk. I continued to do that every year. People who came to my office could see it, but they didn’t say anything. One time, the new divisional manager of the Human Resources Department stopped by. After he saw the calendar, he said, “How dare you put this here!?”

I replied, “Look how beautiful it is! What’s wrong?” I took the opportunity to clarify the truth to him, and he never mentioned the calendar again.

My work environment was relatively relaxed. Every day, besides doing my work, I studied the Fa and sent forth righteous thoughts. Sometimes, I didn’t go home at lunch, locked the office door, and studied the Fa with a calm mind.

Prior to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, 610 Office agents ordered each company to closely monitor any Falun Gong practitioners who worked at their companies. I took some time off around then and stayed at home. The office manager called my husband, and said, “We were notified from the top that during the Olympics, we are to monitor people who practice Falun Dafa around the clock. We’ll send dedicated people to monitor your wife at work. But after work, you are responsible for watching her. This has been decided by the company’s Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) committee. Come over this afternoon to sign an agreement for that.”

My husband came home at midday and told me about this. I said, “Don’t listen to them. This is another form of persecution. I’ll go and talk to them this afternoon.”

I sent forth righteous thoughts specifically regarding this matter. I wanted to eliminate every evil being and factor using the Olympics to manipulate people to persecute practitioners.

I went to find the office manager that afternoon. She said, “You have been blacklisted by the top. They told us to do this, so we have given it a lot of attention. A meeting was held by the Party’s Commission, where the decision was made. The CCP secretary is in charge.”

At the CCP secretary’s office, I told the secretary that they can’t force my husband to sign anything. The secretary responded, “This has been approved by the Party Commission. If I were to change it, I’d have to get permission from the chairman of the board. When he comes back, I’ll report it to him. Let’s see.”

I went to the Party office next. They also agreed to talk to the chairman of the board, but couldn’t promise that it would work. After I’d talked to everyone involved, I went back to my office to send righteous thoughts to eliminate every evil being and all factors controlling them to commit crimes against practitioners.

As I was about to go off work, the office manager called and said, “I didn’t expect the chairman to agree so quickly. Your husband doesn’t have to sign the agreement.”

“Later, you’ll see how fortunate you are for not participating into persecuting practitioners,” I responded happily. 

My celestial eye isn’t open, but I could clearly feel that a big battle was won, with the evil defeated in other dimensions. Only our great Master Li, the founder of Falun Dafa, could have turned the situation around. I only did what I was supposed to do.

One time, I went to the office to deal with something, and saw the divisional manager of the Party office there. I didn’t clarify the truth to him, and regretted it soon afterward. I had almost reached retirement, and there would be less and less opportunities for us to see each other, but I didn’t use that opportunity. On my way home, the more I thought about it, the more I regretted it. So I went back. He was the only one in the office that time. He saw that I returned, and asked if everything was ok.

I said, “I’ve come back for you. Do you know about the hidden character stone? There are words on that rock, which read: ‘The CCP will perish.’ That is heaven’s will. Your work is work, but we shouldn’t sacrifice ourselves for the Party! Simply because you’re in this post, am I worried about you!”

He was shocked and didn’t know how to respond. I could see that he knew deep down that I was truly there for him.

At my farewell retirement party, he thanked me sincerely. In the many years since I’ve retired, my company has never come to harass me for my belief in Falun Dafa.

Cultivating Solidly at Home

I can’t remember how many times I have been tormented at home by my husband, with his very short temper. It was hard for me to understand his behavior. It was as if he was targeting me. No matter what I said, he took it as something bad. I had such a hard time communicating with him. Thus, we seldom talked. I quietly did what I was supposed to do. I have been humble and endured my husband’s attitude all these years.

Both my mother-in-law and my son, who was only in junior high school, passed away in 2002 and 2003, respectively. This greatly affected our family. Especially my son’s sudden death was very hard for me to accept.

A month later, my husband proposed that we live separately. A few days later, he brought over a divorce agreement. He put forward two choices: One was to give up cultivation; otherwise, we’d have to get a divorce.

Since I studied the Fa intensively, I knew this tribulation was an illusion created by the old forces— I shouldn’t acknowledge it. Master didn’t arrange a path for His disciples to go through a divorce. Master didn’t acknowledge the old forces, so neither would I. I should completely negate it, and only walk the path arranged by Master.

At this critical moment, I knew that I must shoulder the responsibility of a practitioner, and let go of my grievances. 

For all these years, I have experienced many tribulations and made breakthroughs. There have been many cases like that. I would like to share a few of these experiences.

Overcoming Tribulations

When my second son was born in 2005, he brought hope to our family. My husband was also happy. However, the old forces wouldn’t let go of my husband, and he often had temper tantrums. When he was working in the kitchen, he often swore and made nonsensical remarks.

Once, I was helping my son take a bath, when my husband came upstairs. He pushed me into the bathtub and started hitting me, scaring our son and making him cry. But my husband did not care and kept beating me, as if this was the only way to relieve his temper. Over a small matter, he would swing a chair, pick up a stick, and begin to beat me. I ignored him when he swore, and he only stopped when he’d had enough swearing.

My husband bought a set of books, the Tao Te Ching, a Chinese classic text, for our son. Since cultivators should only cultivate in one system, in order not to affect our child in studying the Fa, I put those books away. My husband didn’t mention it for a long time, and I thought he had forgotten about it.

However, he came after me for the books one day. I told him that cultivators need to be dedicated to only a single way. “What’s mentioned in Tao De Ching are also the principles for cultivation,” I said. “It would be fine for a regular person to read it; however, for a practitioner, one needs to be dedicated to only what one practices.”

He had a fierce look on his face, yelling at me, “Is it not okay for me to read it? Is it not okay for me to read it?”

I told him where I put the books, but he still picked up a chair and threw it at me. He was beating me harder and harder. In order to prevent him from creating karma, I opened the door and went out. He chased me downstairs until the chair hit something and fell apart.

I understood that this was a trial that I had to pass. I said to Master, “Master, I must pass this test well. I won’t resent him, as he is being manipulated by demons.” As I said this, I couldn’t hold back my tears.

One time, I found a painting while cleaning house. I told my husband that it wasn’t good to leave this particular painting in the house. My husband told me that it was given to him by his aunt. I then said, “Can you please check with your aunt to see if she still wants it? If she does, then we can give it back to her. Otherwise, we’ll just get rid of it.” He wasn’t very happy hearing that.

He mentioned it again that night, and beat me with a one-inch wide bamboo board. He kept saying: “I tell you to take care of it! I tell you to take care of it!” It wasn’t until I began to call for Master’s help, that he stopped.

I didn’t resent him, or complain about him. I kept persuading him not to be so impulsive, as it would hurt him. After he stopped, my neck was very hot. When I touched it, my hand was full of blood. I called him over to check where the blood was coming from, so I could press it to stop the bleeding. He saw a cut in my head an inch long. He became scared and wanted to take me to the hospital. I told him that it wasn’t necessary, and he could just help me stop the bleeding. But, he still went out to buy some medicine. Except for the cut on my head, I was fine everywhere else. It didn’t hurt or swell.

After that, he began to feel regret and talked to himself: “What the hell was I doing? I will no longer beat anyone.” He has indeed stopped beating me. I could clearly feel that he also tried to suppress his bad temper.

I don’t know what kind of predestined relationship we had between us. Did the old forces use him to test me?

The most important thing is that I’m a practitioner. I treat every person kindly, including my family. Every grievance needs to be resolved in Dafa. When my xinxing reaches the standards of the Fa, Master will settle everything for me and resolve all grievances. My husband and I are at peace now.

Realizing My Vow to Clarify the Truth

With the progress of Fa-rectification, evil beings that have manipulated people to persecute practitioners and prevent them from being saved are being cleaned up. Many people have also taken the initiative to seek the truth. I’d like to mention a few experiences I had in truth-clarification.

I was talking to an apple vendor about Falun Dafa, when an elderly person in his 70s came by. He asked, “Do you have the World version?” I knew that he must have read The Ultimate Goal of Communism.

I answered, “Sorry, we don’t have that right now, but we have How the Specter of Communism Is Ruling Our World. Would you like to listen to it?”

“Sure, I do,” he responded. I asked him to wait while I went home to fetch an SD card with that audio book on it.

He was still there when I returned. He took the SD card, USB drive and an informational brochure. He said, “I didn’t dare take materials from you before. However, one day, a young lady asked if she could give me a book and said it was a great book. I took it and saw it was The Ultimate Goal of Communism. This book was so well written that I felt it couldn’t be written by a regular writer. I have experienced almost all of what is mentioned in it. I also copied down some paragraphs I found in the book.”

Two men were sitting at the curb. After greeting them, I said, “Let me tell you a good thing!” They asked what it was. I talked about the pandemic and the cure for it, then naturally touched upon the truth about Dafa. 

A few more people came up. One of them was in his 60s and smartly dressed. He asked, “What are you talking about? Is it Falun Dafa?” I invited him to come over and listen. “Sure,” he replied. “I’d like to hear what you have to say.” He turned to grab a stool, and sat right across me, listening to me like a student.

After a while, a person in a security uniform appeared, and said, “I can’t hear you.” I smiled and told him to come closer. He came up to me and asked, “Why do you only hand out fliers at night?”

Before I could answer, the man across from me replied, “They hand them out any time. Didn’t she already mention that?” It was as if he was annoyed that I’d been interrupted.

I told them about the staged self-immolation incident on Tiananmen Square, and that the CCP is frightened of Falun Dafa’s principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, as the Party promotes corruption and has caused the decline of morality in society. I said that for the sake of money, it has committed all kinds of evil deeds, including corruption, selling counterfeit products, producing toxic foods such as tainted rice, milk powder, and gutter oil [a term for tainted oil], directly harming people’s health. Living in such an environment, every one of us is a victim.

I explained about the beauty of Dafa and how the practice has spread to more than 100 countries. The man who sat across from me said, “A person should have a belief; otherwise this society is done for.”

I continued to tell them about the hidden character stone. The person in the security uniform wanted more information about this, so I gave them each a brochure and an amulet.

One person had a puzzled expression and asked, “In order to print these materials, you need to spend a lot of money. Where does the money come from?”

I said, “Falun Dafa has amazing effects in healing illnesses and keeping fit. Many people were ill before, but after practicing, they became much better. You tell me how much they’ve ended up saving financially? It’s very easy to spend a few thousands yuan in hospital fees, right? In order to help people understand the truth, it’s okay for us to spend a little money.”

Another person commented, “If everybody chips in, then that shouldn’t be a problem.” The person who raised the question agreed.

I talked to them about quitting the CCP to ensure their safety. Some said they already had, some didn’t show their stance out of the concern that there were other people around who might report them. I didn’t force them, as I believe they’ll make the right choice after learning the truth.

Clarifying the Truth With Kindness

During these past few years, no matter whether it’s the CCP’s “Zero-out” or “Knocking on Doors” campaigns, I always talk to our local police officers with kindness in my heart, and treat every incident of harassment as an opportunity to clarify the truth to try to save them.

Some people still have a lot of blocks in their mind. When we treat them with kindness, they are generally willing to discuss those issues with us. Through our conversations and clarifying the truth with kindness, I believe that some of them, inspired by Dafa, can be saved through our righteous thoughts and actions.