(Minghui.org) I started practicing Falun Dafa in 1997. I have followed Master in the Fa rectification for 28 years despite ups and downs. Master has changed me from a selfish, arrogant, and cowardly human being into a considerate, kind, sincere, and responsible Dafa practitioner. No words can express my gratitude to Master.
Initially, we had a big truth-clarification materials production site. The practitioners involved in the site overcame numerous hardships. They downloaded materials from the Minghui website, edited them, printed them, and made them into flyers and pamphlets. As the practitioners who volunteered at the production site were persecuted one after another, in the end, no one was able to do the job of editing.
Realizing the Smallness of Myself
A fellow practitioner suggested that I would be a good fit for this job, as I was well educated. At first, I was unhappy with this practitioner for recommending me, as the coordinator hadn’t asked me. But on second thought, it might be that Master was giving me a hint. I did have a good education. But did it mean that I was meant to do this job? I had been trained in touch typing at work before I practiced Falun Dafa. Didn’t Master arrange this for me? Realizing this, I was no longer upset with that practitioner.
Still, I felt anxious. I didn’t think that I had the time because I worked full time. Also, I was not good at writing; writing was hard for me. Furthermore, I felt that the job was dangerous and risky. But then I realized I had shortcomings in my cultivation as compared with other practitioners. In order to save sentient beings, they took on responsibility, and were even arrested and sentenced. However, I thought of myself first when under pressure. I saw how small I was, and how selfless other practitioners were.
Cultivating Myself While Working as an Editor
I downloaded some materials and learned how to edit and to do layout. Thanks to Master’s strengthening and with the help of Minghui editors, our first local weekly paper was published. I felt so happy. Several days later, some practitioners found fault with the paper and blamed me. Then I didn’t feel good. I later realized that I needed to become more tolerant and expand my capacity.
Many practitioners from our province were detained in the local forced labor camp. The guards brutally tortured the practitioners. Some were persecuted to death. When I first edited such articles, I was horrified. The guards in the photos looked wicked, cunning, deranged, and vicious. Late at night, I felt even that the air was oppressive, and countless eyes were staring at me. It was spine-chilling. I knew that there was a big battle between good and evil in other dimensions.
The main focus of the local weekly paper was to expose the persecution of practitioners by the local Political and Legal Affairs Committee (PLAC) and the 610 Office.
Master said,
“Exposing the wicked policemen and bad persons and publicizing their evil deeds is extremely effective at shocking and restraining those irrational, wicked people.” (“Comment on a Student’s Article,” The Essentials of Diligent Progress III)
As the persecution cases around us were exposed in the weekly papers, this effectively dissolved the evil.
I edited the local page of the weekly edition after dinner and sometimes continued until midnight. It was time consuming and energy consuming. But I understood that it was an effective, timely weapon to dissolve the evil locally. I didn’t feel tired working on it. Sometimes, when things went smoothly, I developed complacency, a show-off mentality, and the mentality of validating myself. I later realized that I took undue credit. Without Master’s strengthening, I couldn’t do anything. I knew I should let go of my attachments.
Minghui editors gave me a great deal of help while I was learning how to edit articles. They guided me on how to do the layout, insert pictures, and write good titles. The quality of our weekly paper improved steadily.
When the local weekly edition was not published, I looked within and changed my notions. I found my shortcomings. I compared every edition of mine with the edition that was published and found the differences. This helped me improve my vision and elevate my xinxing.
Compiling Complaints Against Jiang Zemin
In 2015, practitioners throughout China started to lodge legal complaints against Jiang Zemin for initiating the persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners. More than 20 practitioners gathered in my home and shared their insights on this issue. We realized that the Fa rectification had entered a new stage, we should let go of our attachments, and that we too should lodge complaints against Jiang Zemin. Each of us went back and shared with our local practitioners, including those in the counties and villages. As a result, almost all of the local practitioners planned to lodge complaints against Jiang.
I had not retired yet and had some concerns. I was afraid that it would affect my work. I knew this was negative thinking. I needed to let go of my attachments and lodge a complaint against Jiang using my real name. I wrote my complaint according to the format provided by the Minghui website. I helped edit other practitioners’ complaints and wrote complaints for some practitioners who were not able to write.
Practitioners improved in their cultivation through this undertaking. Thanks to Master’s compassionate protection, and with righteous thoughts and the great efforts of all practitioners, our complaints against Jiang greatly deterred the local perpetrators. Not one practitioner in our area was persecuted for filing the complaints.
When compiling the weekly paper, we normally published news about the persecution of local practitioners. If any practitioner was arrested, practitioners asked me to write an article and then send the article to the Minghui website. After several articles were published, Minghui added a byline with “Minghui reporter.” I truly felt my responsibility at that moment. It was encouragement and trust from fellow practitioners. I also felt that it represented Master’s hope and expectations placed on me. My righteous thoughts were reinforced.
Further Letting Go of Attachments
Being a reporter is a good opportunity for me to cultivate away my fear. When a practitioner was arrested, I had specific information about the persecution published on the Minghui website as soon as possible. This was my responsibility.
Several practitioners were arrested one day. We didn’t hear any news about them, so I decided to visit their families. I had some fear in my heart. It was said that another practitioner had found policemen stationed outside a persecuted practitioner’s home when she visited the practitioners’ family. She was able to escape thanks to Master’s help. I decided to break through my fear, because fear shouldn’t prevent me from doing what I needed to do.
First, I went to practitioner Ling’s home twice to see if she would help me talk to the families of the persecuted practitioners. She told me that her husband said that two policemen had gone to their residential area to check footage from the surveillance cameras from the afternoon of the previous day. I went to her home in the morning and the policemen came again in the afternoon. I didn’t acknowledge this as persecution.
Ling agreed to visit the family of the persecuted practitioner with me. She had a dream the night before and saw a big dog blocking her way. She told me about the dream the next day. I asked her if she still wanted to go. She said that it was interference from the old forces and she wanted to go with me.
All the way there, we sent forth righteous thoughts to dismantle all interference, including the interference from cameras and electronic eyes. When we arrived at the gate of the building where the practitioner lived, I asked Ling again if she was fine and still wanted to go inside with me. She was firm and said that we would go in together. We bought a watermelon and knocked on the practitioner’s door. Her husband opened the door and was very angry. He vented all his anger upon us. We kept comforting him. After the Chinese New Year, another practitioner and I visited him again and gave him 500 yuan to let him know that practitioners were concerned about him.
Sometimes, I needed to visit the family members of a persecuted practitioner a few times. Some family members told me not to come again because new cameras had been installed.
Different practitioners had different xinxing levels. Some practitioners were not willing to have their experiences of persecution exposed due to attachments of saving face, reputation, or fear. One practitioner had been harassed by the authorities. I put his case with other cases and published it on the Minghui website. He asked who sent it to Minghui and badmouthed me. It was indeed a process to test my xinxing.
On a few occasions, I didn’t check the validity of the reports. I realized that I was being irresponsible and that it was a manifestation of the Chinese Communist Party culture’s elements within me. Sometimes, my focus was on writing reports just to expose the evil. My focus was not on saving sentient beings. The article then wouldn’t have a good effect.
Broadband Port Becomes Available
When I moved to a new residential area, a staff member told me that there was no broadband port available in the unit. He said that I would have to wait until someone moved out. A resident beside me said that he had waited a few years and still didn’t have a broadband connection. I asked Master in my heart what to do, because I couldn’t work without the Internet. I refused to acknowledge this lack of internet access. I must have the internet.
The staff member called me soon after I got home. He told me that there was one port available and my broadband could be connected in the afternoon. I was so excited. I knew that Master had opened up the path to the divine for me—my path to my heavenly home. Thank you, Master, for your saving grace!
Treating Perpetrators as Friends and Dissolving Tribulations
In 2021, officers from the 610 Office, the local community center, and the police station often harassed practitioners. They said that they wouldn’t bother the practitioners if they gave up Falun Dafa. I published the harassment cases, including my own case, on the Minghui website and published the cell phone numbers of the officers in the community center. I asked overseas practitioners to make phone calls to them, asking them not to participate in the persecution. It caused a stir in my local area. Our weekly paper also published the cell phone numbers and the names of the officers from the local community centers. This disturbed the evil in other dimensions.
Pressured by her higher ups, the director of the 610 Office called me. I had once written a letter to her asking her to stop persecuting practitioners. I had visited her with other practitioners twice and clarified the truth to her. I had also invited her to dinner. Other practitioners had also approached her through various means. There had been no arrests of Falun Dafa practitioners in my area for quite a few years. She said that she would ask two officers to come to visit me. I said that I would visit her, so the two officers didn’t need to come. But she insisted that they come to see me.
When the two officers came, I welcomed them in and served them fruit and tea. I turned on the fan because it was hot that day. I treated them like old friends. I could see that they were moved. They opened their laptop and asked me if an officer from the police station had called me on a particular day.
I said yes but I couldn’t remember the date. They asked me to look at the information they’d collected about me. I didn’t look and told them that there was no use in collecting my information. They closed the laptop as I didn’t cooperate. I had met one of the officers before. I told them that all of the local practitioners had noticed that they were not like how they used to be. They smiled and nodded in agreement.
I said, “You are kind and not bad people. You will have a good future.” One of them said, “Look at me. Do you think I am kind?” He was a new officer. I looked at him and said, “You are also kind.” They both laughed. We talked for a while, then they left.
The power of kindness is huge! Thanks to Master’s immense compassion, the tribulation was dissolved.
Before they visited me, officers from the broadband company called me twice to harass me. The director of the 610 Office had visited a practitioner and asked her to remove the article about her from the website. She wanted to know who wrote the article and said that the article was not beneficial to her work. I negated the persecution. I acknowledged that Master always takes care of me, and that what had happened had nothing to do with me.
Exposing the Evil Doings of the Political and Legal Affairs Committee
More than 20 Falun Dafa practitioners were arrested in 2022. We hadn’t had such large-scale arrests in our area for many years. I wondered if the head of the Political and Legal Affairs Committee had changed. I searched online and found that it was indeed so. I downloaded his information and photo and sent them to the Minghui website.
My mother suddenly passed away at that time. The evil tried to take advantage of my loopholes. But I was not afraid because Master was by my side. I was a bit unsteady in my heart at night, so I sould then hand copy the Fa. I felt assured when I remembered that Master was by my side and was looking after me.
Several days later, a Minghui editor published the information about the new local PLAC head. It shocked the evil. I really felt that the practitioners in China and practitioners overseas were one body. The new head didn’t stay in his position long and was transferred to another position a year later.
Saving Officers in Legal Departments
Nearly ten practitioners were arrested several years ago. I had the responsibility to rescue the practitioners and save the officers in the legal professions from doing evil, because they were the real victims.
I exposed the persecution and reported on this case. I helped edit the letters of the practitioners who were released on bail pending trial. We sent the letters to the officers in legal professions and compiled letters of complaint and other documents.
I helped their family members write articles about the persecution and had them published on the website. They informed me about the legal proceedings and details of the first trial and second trial. I wrote reports and published them on the Minghui website. This shocked the evil. Many officers in the legal departments learned the truth about Dafa and the persecution. During the process, practitioners overcame many difficulties and spent a lot of time, manpower, and material resources.
Sometimes I faced xinxing tests. One day, after I spent two days compiling and editing a practitioner’s documents, I took a bus for one hour to deliver the documents to her. When I arrived, she said that one document still needed to be printed and asked me to go home to print it out and deliver it to her again. I felt uncomfortable and complained about why she didn’t tell me earlier. I had hardly studied the Fa during those two days. I wasted so much time on the road. Later, I realized that I was not cultivating myself. I had looked outwardly. She was helping me in my cultivation.
Thanks to Master’s immense compassion to reduce our karma and to the efforts of overseas practitioners, the ten practitioners were sentenced to one year, one year and a half, and two years at most in jail. The degree of persecution was greatly reduced, especially as this was regarded as a major case in the province.
The editing job has forged me through repeated trials. I was able to overcome hardships and risk, thanks to Master’s protection. I am so fortunate to be a Falun Dafa practitioner in this lifetime. This is Master’s grace. I will remember it forever and turn it into the source of my diligent cultivation.
Master has done everything for us. Master is the only person in charge of Fa rectification. What we need to do is to maintain righteous thoughts and our firm belief in Master and the Fa. Only when we behave according to Master’s requirements and the Fa principles on different levels, can Master’s omnipotent power and the mighty virtue of Dafa be fully displayed.
Let’s cherish this once-in-a-millennium opportunity and the time that Master has extended with his huge sacrifice for us, work together to save more sentient beings with righteous thoughts, and fulfill our pre-historic vows.