(Minghui.org) After I started practicing Falun Dafa, I went to an extreme in some respects. Gradually, I distanced myself from my classmates, friends, and other social relationships.
From Master's Fa lectures, I knew that people around me all had a predestined relationship with me. I realized that I couldn't neglect them and should take every opportunity to save them.
In recent years, friends, colleagues, and relatives have quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations on different occasions.
Some of my old classmates objected and didn't understand me at first. Gradually they became supportive. One classmate kicked me under the table and hinted at me to stop telling them the facts about Falun Gong when I tried to do so the first time at our reunion party.
After she knew the facts and quit the CCP and its affiliated organizations, she stood on my side. At later gatherings, as soon as I mentioned quitting the CCP, she gave me her support very vocally.
I thought that I had accomplished my task after many of them quit the CCP and its affiliated organizations. I distanced myself from their social circle, because I had nothing in common with them anymore. I'd rather spend the time studying the Fa or distributing materials than meet up with them.
Soon, they seldom called me for social events any more. If I did attend, I arrived late and left early.
Several years passed this way.
A recent incident got me thinking about this. Distancing myself from my social circle for fear of wasting time might have unnecessarily distanced people from the Fa.
I had a very good friend. I told her the facts about Falun Gong two months after I started the practice. She could accept whatever I told her, even the high-level Fa principles. She soon started reading Zhuan Falun. Though she didn't take up the cultivation practice, Dafa was deeply rooted in her heart. For a period of time, she often brought her friends to me so that they could learn about Falun Gong.
However, the old forces made many arrangements to destroy the Chinese people. They made them pursue money, indulge in comfort and fashion, and become addicted to a degenerate culture.
We didn't contact each other for several years until recently. I was surprised at her change.
When I talked to other friends about the CCP's atrocities of removing organs from living Falun Gong practitioners, she interrupted me suddenly and questioned, “Is it possible? How is it possible?” Her expression showed not surprise but contempt.
I was shocked at her change and realized that she was away from the Fa and lost again in the CCP's lies because I had neglected her.
One more thing also aroused my attention and reflection. I joined a recent reunion party with my old classmates and brought with me some Falun Gong materials. To my surprise, their words and actions were not what I had expected.
The classmate who once helped me showed a contemptuous attitude while I was explaining the facts about Falun Gong.
I knew that I had to bring them back from the deception of the CCP's lies. Though they once awakened and knew the CCP's evil, they were poisoned again.
I looked inside repeatedly and asked myself: why did they change so much in the past few years? Now I know the answer: even if they were saved, we cannot neglect them. We have to deliver the facts to them constantly.
When they quit the CCP and its affiliated organizations several years ago, they might have done so in a righteous energy field. However, they might be lost again in the environment filled with CCP's evil lies.
Master has told us early in 2009,
“A person doesn't necessarily change after you clarify the truth to him. When you clarify the truth, you have to clear up the person's wrong ideas and help him to see that the CCP's intentions are evil.” ("Fa Teaching at the 2009 Greater New York International Fa Conference" from Teaching the Fa at the Conference IX)
People who were saved are living media themselves, as they will spread the truth to many more people. Therefore, we must clarify the truth completely. We should cherish the people who have quit the CCP and its affiliated organizations.
Master told us to do the three things well. I was enlightened to one point: clarifying the truth is not just a one-time task. During the process, Fa tempers us, too.
We should do the three things well under all circumstances. We should clarify the truth from different angles, levels, and depths so that people understand the facts completely so that the numerous beings in their systems could also be saved!
