(Clearwisdom.net) My classmate invited me to her wedding party. I thought this was a great opportunity to clarify the truth to the other guests, and I should not let it slip by. But I was concerned because I had developed some ringworms on my face recently, and I didn't want this to affect my classmates' impression of Dafa. I happened to find out that one of my classmates was a police officer. We hadn't seen each other for five years, and she said she would come to the wedding party as well. I thought to myself that I must not miss this chance to clarify the truth to her. Before attending the party, I started sending forth righteous thoughts every hour. I thought to myself that I couldn't let my poor state of cultivation affect the salvation of sentient beings. I wanted to reinforce my righteous thoughts so that this classmate, who is a police officer, could be saved. All my other classmates at the party had already learned the truth about the persecution and they had withdrawn from the Communist Party. This time, I wanted to focus on clarifying the truth specifically to this police officer classmate.
On the day of the wedding, I was still a little worried because of the ringworms. When I saw one of my classmates, I intentionally turned my face the other way so she wouldn't see my ringworms. However, I was immediately aware of my attachment to my appearance. As I was chatting with my classmates, I gradually forgot about the ringworms. Actually, in all my conversations, no one asked me about the ringworms. When the wedding party was nearly over, one classmate came up to me and said: "You have very healthy-looking and clean skin." In fact, the ringworms on my face were very obvious. They looked reddish. I came to understand that Master had helped me because He saw I had a pure heart.
After chatting with that classmate who was a police officer for a while, I found out that she hadn't participated in the persecution of Dafa practitioners, but she was very hostile to Dafa. So I started by telling her about the healing power of Dafa, and how my loved ones had benefited by practicing it. She was immediately annoyed and interrupted me by saying I had been "fanned into it." I took a deep breath, and calmly continued to tell her the wonderful things that had happened to me since I started practicing Falun Gong. She immediately interrupted me again by saying: "This is just your own mentality and it has nothing to do with Falun Gong." She also accused me of marketing something. As I wanted to tell her more about the practice, she became very mean and said: "What you are telling me is against my work morale. If you continue this conversation, I will really get angry with you." I got quite upset by what she said. But immediately I tried to look inward to see what was wrong with me. I was just trying to help her! I saw that I was being too forthcoming. I calmed down and sent forth righteous thoughts. I asked Master to reinforce me. Afterward, we chatted about the topics that interested her. I also cleverly added some truth-clarification topics into our conversations.
After we left the hotel, she didn't seem to have changed much, but I was still sending forth righteous thoughts and said to Master: "Time is running out! She is likely to miss this opportunity and lose the chance to be saved forever. Master, please help me. I want to save her." Right after I sent out this thought, she told me she wanted to go somewhere to take care of some personal business before going home. I told her I was also going there and we could go together. She was very happy to learn we could go together. She wanted to take a cab. I thought that taking a cab would not give me enough time to talk to her, so I suggested taking a bus. She agreed. When boarding the bus, I didn't pay attention to the people around me, and I started telling her stories about indigenous people who were saved during the tsunami because of their kindheartedness. I also talked about the news and topics of interest that took place around the city. Although she sometimes tried to shift to another topic, or closed her eyes, pretending not to hear anything, and said I was an "anti-communist," I saw some changes on her face. I was not moved by her, and I continued clarifying the truth to her.
After we alighted, she said a friendly farewell to me. I went up to her, and said sincerely: "I want to say one last thing. Quit the party! You can use your nickname. You will be safe and have a bright future. I will be relieved." She suddenly changed her face and said: "You go your way and I'll go mine. Goodbye." I was very disappointed and discouraged. But I immediately recalled Master's teachings, and thought to myself: "Feeling hurt is a human feeling, I cannot let myself be drawn to it. I didn't come for nothing today. At least she has learned more truth than before. I have hope that she will learn more truth in the future, and I must not let go of her. She will be saved. It is just that she hasn't understood me yet. I will continue to use my righteous thoughts to help her."
I stopped sending righteous thoughts when I got home. I saw a missed call on my phone. Usually I don't return calls to someone that I don't know, but this time I returned the call anyway. It was that classmate. She asked me: "What did you tell me when we got off the bus?" "I told you to withdraw from the party by using your nickname, and you will have a bright future. You don't have to use your real name. So, do you agree to quit? It's for your own sake." She said: "OK! I quit. I know you came for my sake, and I felt it long ago." I went on to say: "Please treat Dafa practitioners well and listen to what they tell you." She happily said: "OK!" We said goodbye to each other and hung up.
Through this experience, I've enlightened to two things: First, in the course of clarifying the truth, we often encounter all sorts of people who don't understand us. They might be very stubborn or "evil." What they say can be hard to listen to. Sometimes they treat us unkindly. But as cultivators, especially in this critical moment of saving sentient beings, we must not let their superficial behavior move us. We must stay calm, rational, and wise, because what we see may just be delusions. If we are disappointed or discouraged, this delusion will become reality. If we always maintain a mentality of a cultivator and stay righteous, ordinary people will become very easy to influence. And, without pursuing, results may turn out to be surprisingly good. Of course, the precondition is that we must send forth righteous thoughts to clear out the interference and have faith in Master and the Fa.
Secondly, our thoughts must be sincere, altruistic, and pure when clarifying the truth to sentient beings. In light of their specific circumstances, we must try to clarify the truth to them in a way they can accept. Only when we are in a state of selflessness can we truly touch people's hearts and save them.
