(Minghui.org) I had a vivid dream in which the coordinator of our area passed away. Even though I hurried, when I got there the funeral was over, but several practitioners were lingering. I was told she died because the practitioners in our area relied on her too heavily.
Our coordinator is indeed too busy. One practitioner bought some yellow cloth and brought it to the coordinator's home, asking her to mail it to a certain country for making banners. I asked the practitioner, “Have you contacted the coordinator there and made sure they want it?” She said no, and told me it wasn't a request from the coordinator. I asked, “Have you contacted the practitioners in that country and made sure they want it?” She said it wasn't a request from those practitioners either, but that a practitioner who had recently moved to that country wanted to do Dafa work and needed yellow cloth to make a banner but couldn't afford it, so practitioners in China bought it for her.
During the 15 years the persecution has gone on, many practitioners have moved overseas. I'm not sure exactly how many, but I know dozens of practitioners in our area have moved overseas between 2012 and 2013. It's a personal choice to stay in China or go overseas, but have they considered how much difficulty it created for our coordinator? Some practitioners left in haste. They not only needed someone to help find them a place to live, but also needed someone to take care of what they left behind. For example, selling their houses and cars, gathering their money and clothes, and transferring, selling or shipping their equipment, etc.
Some practitioners were in charge of making truth-clarification materials before they left, and since no one was available to take over their work, the coordinator had to shoulder it all - the technical elements as well as the labor. Moreover, the practitioners found themselves lacking a lot of things upon arriving overseas and were reluctant to spend the money to buy them because they didn't have a job, so they asked fellow practitioners back in China for these things. They asked for a variety of things. I heard someone even asked for a rolling pin.
More and more practitioners travel in and out of China, and bring news from the outside. However, a lot of the news is not positive, most is about how difficult it was to live in other countries and how shorthanded practitioners felt, as well as being short of resources, such as the yellow cloth situation. Should the coordinator have to take care of these things? They were all given to the coordinator to deal with.
And then there's the situation in China. Some practitioners distribute truth-clarification materials, some distribute DVDs, some make phone calls, some clarify the facts face to face, and some make truth-clarification materials. One must buy equipment and supplies to run a material site, and fellow practitioners feel upset if they were given too little or too much, as nobody wants to keep the extra supplies in their home. The best situation is being given exactly what they need. How many practitioners have considered how difficult it is for our coordinator to orchestrate the timing and quantity each person needs?
These are just a part of our coordinator's responsibility. Yesterday, two more practitioners were arrested. Our coordinator will get even busier.
I told our coordinator, “Let go and let fellow practitioners walk their own paths. It's their problem if they rely on you, but it's your problem if you allow them to keep doing it.” I also told practitioners, “Leave our coordinator alone. We have pushed her to the edge of danger. Overly relying on a fellow practitioners will harm both yourself and her. If you keep leaning on others, are you cultivating yourself and walking your own path?”
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