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Greetings, Master! Greetings, fellow practitioners!
The experience sharing conference that we hold every year is an opportunity that Master created for us to learn from each other. Looking back over my own journey of truth-clarification, I would like to present my sharing to report to Master. Please kindly correct me if there is anything incorrect.
Making Truth-clarification Phone Calls Despite Environmental Constraints
I had shared a residence with a few roommates that I didn't know beforehand. I had previously shared this residence with several other people, and I knew that my roommates were arranged by Master so that they could learn the truth about Falun Dafa. Whenever a new roommate moved in, I would help her settle in and speak to her about Dafa. They all learned about the persecution and I helped them quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations.
Sharing a residence was not convenient. It made it difficult for me to make truth-clarification phone calls, especially when I needed to make calls on the RTC platform (a platform on the Internet used to clarify the facts to Chinese people).
When I was making a call to China, I was often worried that it would bother my roommates. What if they were not happy? I then realized that everybody came to this world for the sake of Dafa. Listening to truth-clarification phone conversations would help bring out their positive side. Moreover, they had already learned the truth and quit the CCP organizations. Wasn’t my worrying an indication of my inadequate righteous thoughts? So I changed my thinking and did what I was supposed to do.
Master said,
“If a Dafa disciple's heart is unsteady, it will cause changes in his or her surroundings. When you have fear, for instance, you will find that the sentient beings around you are not quite right. When you change such that your presence is refreshing and uplifting to people, and your mind becomes broad and full of optimism, you will find the things around you to be correspondingly different. When clarifying the truth, when validating the Fa, and when encountering challenges as you do things, adjust yourself and look at things with righteous thoughts. It might just prove to be effective.” ("Fa Teaching at the 2009 Washington DC International Fa Conference")
When I did truth-clarification work with a righteous heart, my roommates seemed to be fine with whatever I did. When everyone else went to bed, I made phone calls in the living room. I tried to be considerate. Through this experience I got rid of many selfish attachments and negative thoughts.
I experienced some disruptions due to the constraints of sharing a residence with others. The distraction of noise was really bad, such as the sound of TV programs in the living room, music playing, people talking in the same room, etc. I could not concentrate on what I was doing, and it was difficult to effectively clarify the truth on the phone.
At one point, I became depressed. However, I then realized that anything that occurs in our cultivation is supposed to be a good thing, right? Why was I influenced by this? Was it because I still had human attachments that I hadn't gotten rid of? This was actually a good opportunity for me to improve. So I studied the Fa more and examined myself, and I also sent forth righteous thoughts. After doing this, I could make phone calls with a calm heart. Master helped me so that I could clarify the truth wisely to all types of people.
I once dialed the phone number to a police station. The officer who answered the phone began cursing me. I did not let it move me and I kept telling him the facts. I thought that as long as he didn't hang up, I would keep talking. I told him that the persecution of Falun Gong was a crime and about how many people who participated had already received retribution. I reminded him that our Chinese culture is divinely-inspired. He hung up on me, so I dialed him again. I remained calm and used the wisdom Master gave me to talk with him.
Another officer once answered the phone. He said that he was not involved in the persecution and he knew that Falun Dafa was good. He even said in a loud voice, “Falun Dafa is good.” He told me on the phone, “I really admire Falun Gong practitioners.”
I did not bear a grudge against the officer who used bad language. I knew that he was being controlled by an evil spirit, and it wasn't him talking. I had to help him get rid of this by clarifying the facts to him to eliminate the evil elements that were controlling him.
I once made a few phone calls to clarify the truth to a local government department. When I reached a staff member, he started to use bad language and even asked me for money. I did not let this bother me and talked about traditional culture. I said, “China is the ‘center stage’ and it used to pay attention to ceremonies and morality." I then talked about retribution and creating karma and so on. He stopped cursing, but he then said that the Party paid him well.
I told him that those officers’ salaries came from the people. The money does not belong to the Party. I also talked about human rights violations in China and the illegal persecution of Falun Gong. I told him to remember “Falun Dafa is good.” In the end, he changed his attitude completely. He agreed to withdraw from the Chinese Communist Youth League and he got the Internet blockade software. I spent over 50 minutes talking to him on the phone. One more life was saved.
Improving Through Coordinating and Collaborating
Since the local truth-clarification telephone team was formed, I have been the coordinator for this project. I am also the technician on the team, helping fellow practitioners to be familiar with the content of truth-clarification and also helping them solve technical problems. Thanks to Master’s strengthening, I have enhanced my wisdom by working on this project, and our telephone team has become mature. Some fellow practitioners are able to be a host on the platform. We encourage and take care of each other when there are tribulations.
The role of a coordinator is not easy. I work during the day, and in the evening I make phone calls to save people. I also need to help other practitioners, not to mention study the Fa and practice the exercises. I need more time, and sometimes I get impatient. However, once I calm down, my wisdom opens up, and I am able to solve the problems.
I've seen my own attachments of feeling superior to others, showing off, jealousy, enjoying compliments, and competitiveness. For a period of time, I studied the Fa until 2 or 3 a.m., but was then too sleepy to get up for morning practice. I had an idea to study the Fa until 3:50 a.m. and then do the exercises. After sending forth righteous thoughts at 6:00 a.m., I would go to sleep for two hours and then go to work. With only slightly over two hours’ sleep, I was still energetic. I know that Master was strengthening me.
In addition to truth-clarification via telephone, I have also been involved in face-to-face truth clarification at tourist sites. As long as I have time, I will do whatever I can to clarify the truth. Once on a public holiday, I went to a construction workers’ dormitory with other practitioners. We were not familiar with that area so it took us a long time to find the site. We heard that many Chinese workers lived there, so we were determined to find it.
We kept sending forth righteous thoughts and finally found the dormitory. We left some materials with the workers and went to the next dormitory. On the way to the next stop, we saw two new dormitories, and we stopped to check them out. Many workers from China were living there. I clarified the truth to a Chinese worker who only arrived two months ago. He quit the CCP after learning about the truth. I kept sending forth righteous thoughts and asked Master to please bring those people to us to get the blessing of the truth.
We were so happy that those Chinese workers all agreed to withdraw from the CCP organizations. Some of them had already denounced their membership. We told them to remember “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” They all listened and thanked us.
We then went to a parking lot next to a church. We planned to explain the facts to many Chinese people who usually went to that church. We knew that they would wait in the parking lot for the bus to pick them up. If we were late, then they would have already left. We arrived on time, and I distributed materials. One of them said, “Falun Gong? No, I don’t want it.” I kept explaining things as I distributed the materials.
They all took the newspapers and began to read them. I asked them to quit the CCP organizations. The first man who refused listened to me. In the end, he asked me for all the materials and asked if I had informational DVDs. I told him to remember “Falun Dafa is good.” He said, “OK.” He looked at the materials and DVDs in his hand and said, “I will study them.”
On our way home, I shared my thoughts with fellow practitioners. We felt that Dafa disciples must look at things with righteous thoughts. Our first thought should be of Master. This is the most righteous thought. We should not complain about fellow practitioners and judge their flaws negatively. We felt really happy seeing so many people being saved. We realized that it is a happy thing to clarify the truth and save people. Although there will be tests and hardships, they are connected to our improvement. Once we go through the test, we will taste the fruit of happiness.
Saving As Many As Possible in Our Limited Time
I am always very busy making phone calls to clarify the truth in the evenings after work. I try my best to be on duty at the RTC platform most evenings. Sometimes I arrived home late, hungry and tired, and I really did not want to make phone calls. But when I thought about what Master has done for us and for all sentient beings, the hardships I endured were nothing.
Master has told us to save more and more people. I should do as Master asks. I would pick up the phone no matter what. Many times I felt Master encouraging me. Very often I could get the Chinese person at the other end to quit the CCP with the first call. Sometimes I do not have time to cook dinner. Since my salary was not high, I usually cooked dinner at home. I would skip dinner if I did not have time to buy food. Sometimes a fellow practitioner would bring me dinner, and I was very grateful for her looking after me.
If I have a day off on Saturday and Sunday, I go to the tourist site in the morning. In the afternoon I usually make phone calls. In the evening, I go out to clarify the truth face to face. In Singapore, we can come across people from China everywhere. They come from all walks of life. I always carry truth clarification materials with me. I give people materials whenever I have the chance. I also ask them to quit the CCP. If there is not enough time, I will just tell them to remember Falun Dafa is good, and I ask them to read the materials.
Sometimes I was held back by the fear of losing face or being rejected, and I couldn't speak. I regretted this afterwards and decided to make a breakthrough next time. Now, whenever I have a chance, I first say hello and then give them materials. I feel that the attachments that stopped me have become less and less. I can now face people calmly and with compassion. I try to demonstrate the kindness of a Dafa disciple through my words and behavior in order to save people.
Cultivate More Diligently
I had tried to memorize the Fa before but could not continue. I later heard fellow practitioners talking about how they improved through memorizing the Fa, so I decided to persevere. When I first began, I spent most of the time memorizing instead of reading. I recited the Fa when I was at home, working, walking, or on the bus. It took me nine months to memorize Zhuan Falun from cover to cover. During those nine months, there were times when I wanted to give up because it went so slowly, but I did not give up.
I felt that when I was trying to memorizing the Fa, every word that Master said touched the depths of my heart, and I feltsomething special reciting it. During the process Master helped me eliminate lots of interference from my thoughts, so I continued. When I started to recite the book for the second time, it went faster, and it only took six months. I have now finished for the third time. When I study the Fa now, I can understand the content more clearly.
It is the responsibility of Dafa disciples to do the three thingswell. It will also help us to improve.
Master said at the "2013 Western U.S. Fa Conference,"
“You have responsibilities! You are a Fa-Rectification Period Dafa Disciple! The Dafa disciples of this era are to assist Master, and to take responsibility for saving people. And yet you don’t work on that! Some people have even not eliminated, after a long time, things that they were indoctrinated with by the evil while in China. Only by doing the three things well can you purge that stuff and turn around all of the Party-culture-wrought thinking that you have—including fear.”
I feel that out of the three things, sending forth righteous thoughts is the one that we tend to neglect. I encountered some disruptions before. I would feel sleepy when studying the Fa or sending forth righteous thoughts, and I did not find them as urgent as saving people. I knew that I should pay attention to sending forth righteous thoughts. So whenever I had time, I would send them for a long time.
A few days ago when I was on duty at the RTC platform, I spent one hour sending forth righteous thoughts. In the second half-hour, I felt clear-minded. After that I studied one lecture of Zhuan Falun . In the evening I went out with fellow practitioners to clarify the truth face to face. I helped about 10 people to quit the CCP organizations. This experience helped me realize the importance of sending forth righteous thoughts.
As we share our cultivation experiences at these conferences, we are also demonstrating Master’s infinite compassion. Let us all validate the Fa through our righteous actions.
Please allow me to wish Master a Happy New Year!
Thank you, Master! Thank you, everyone!
