13. A Small Video Clip Changes a Life

  By a Chinese practitioner in the U.S.   

  I have been practicing Falun Dafa for a year and a half now.   

  Although I know the importance of clarifying the truth to Chinese people who have been deceived by the Chinese Communist Party, especially those who are from Mainland China, I often get unfriendly reactions and words from them that make me reluctant to try harder, and I often think, "I've tried my best."   

  Then my mother came to visit me from China a few months ago, and I had no choice but to face this big challenge. She was upset when she learned that I practice Falun Dafa and didn't want to hear any of the truth from me. Each time we ended our discussions, it was in a fight. I was worried for her, but my character was not yet improved enough to talk to her in a peaceful and intelligent manner. Whenever she quoted something from the evil propaganda, I got emotional. I gave up on her quickly and didn't want to try anymore.   

  But then, one day, I had to make some video copies for a fellow practitioner. It took me a while to set up the equipment. When I was finished, I started recording. Just then my mother happened to come into the family room to see what I was doing. She was immediately attracted to the beautiful three-minute Dafa exercise demo and sat down to watch it. I recorded it three times, and she watched it each of the three times without even moving. For the rest of the night and the next day, she sat on the couch and watched every Dafa film I recorded. One after another, changes began to take place in her.   

  After she watched the tape about the staged ^self- immolation ̄ in Tiananmen Square, she could not stop condemning the Chinese Communist regime for deceiving millions of its innocent citizens. While watching the tape about Zhang Cuiying, an artist who was imprisoned and tortured in China, her eyes watered. When she saw white, black, and Indian faces among the people doing the exercises, she was astonished and her chin dropped. After she watched the videos of Falun Dafa in Taiwan, she asked me what a nine-day seminar was and if she could attend one, too. Soon afterwards, we watched the nine-day seminar together.   

  Now my mother has begun practicing Dafa. She listens to Master Li's Fa lectures on CD every day while cooking, cleaning, and knitting. She reads Master Li's books every night. She tries to improve her character like a practitioner. Seeing the changes in her, I felt the immense power of Dafa. And to think that her amazing changes all started with a small Falun Dafa video clip that had no words in it.  

  Looking back at my previous mindset, I felt so ashamed. I was so uncompassionate. Now I can see that people still have a good conscience, but their good conscience is deeply buried under the lies and garbage that have been forced upon them by the Chinese Communist Party. It's all up to us to make the effort to clear it away and reveal the goodness in them.   

  There are millions of people in China just like my mother. Recently my mother said to me, "he poor people in China know nothing but lies." Her words gave me great confidence and courage to try harder in clarifying the truth to Chinese people. I no longer feel reluctant to speak about the truth of Falun Dafa. When I speak, my mother speaks the truth with me by telling her own story. Looking at the change in my mother, I can't stop thinking, "Dafa's power is so boundless!"