(Minghui.org) Master said,
“I’ll say one more thing in passing. The intensity of our clarifying the truth should grow only greater and greater, so you mustn’t let up—you absolutely must not. If humankind really experienced something like what the prophecies have described, it would be too late for regret. You mustn’t let the sentient beings down, nor fail to honor the vow that you made before the dawn of history.” (“Fa Teaching Given in Manhattan”, Collected Fa Teachings, Vol. X )
Before the Chinese New Year, there were many people shopping in Farmers Markets to buy New Year's goods. I could only go to two markets, where I distributed over 600 Dafa brochures. Master saw my heart of wanting to save people, he arranged everything, such as where to park my electric bike, distribute fliers, which was the second and which was the last place to give out materials, and so on. No one had the time to pay attention to my electric bike where I stored Dafa materials. When it was time to change location, the traffic jam area was back to unobstructed.
Now, that the epidemic is spreading, every life is thinking about how to deal with it. This is the best time for us to clarify the truth about Dafa. But, faced with “blocking”, quite a few fellow practitioners felt helpless. I also regretted that I had not been able to distribute materials about the epidemic in a more timely manner before the Chinese New Year, when nothing was blocked.
Cooperating with Fellow Practitioners
I went to another practitioner’s home one day. She was reading a “Podcast Transcript: A Possible Magic Cure for the Coronavirus Epidemic” We thought that if we could produce truth materials to hand out, that would be great! Next, we downloaded the three latest articles. The next day, we asked a practitioner to print them for us. But the “village blocking” and “community blocking” became more and more strict and made it difficult for outsiders to enter.
I was unwilling to watch sentient beings wait for death, so I went out to distribute the materials. The villages were relatively large and scattered, and most entries were blocked. The practitioner who produced Dafa materials for me told me a way to enter his village. I started with the village I was familiar with, and looked for a back entryway.
I definitely avoided the guarded intersections, because the guards would “strictly” enforce the entry and exit rules as provided by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Outsiders were forbidden to enter, and a village person or a local one had to register his name, have his or her temperature measured, and so on.
I found that the more they blocked roads with obstacles, the easier it was to get in and out, because the villagers would open another way next to the intersection for convenience. It was no problem for a bicycle or electric bike to pass through. The village was generally quiet, but occasionally, I encountered several villagers but no one bothered to question me. By the way, I was wearing a mask, a hat and casual clothes, so no one could tell if I was a villager or not.
In the past few days, I entered several villages where I had distributed Dafa materials in previous years. I also studied Master’s Fa.
Master said,
“The journey is the same, whatever project it may be. When things don’t go well it stems from poor cooperation or not giving it enough priority. Human attachments are what block your path, and thus the entire journey has been bumpy and filled with constant troubles. Because there are too many human attachments involved, people try to defend themselves when problems come up, rather than defend the Fa.” (“Fa Teaching Given at the Epoch Times Meeting, ” Collected Fa Teachings, Vol. X)
I think it’s best to have the latest truth-clarifying journals and brochures mixed with a ratio of 30 to 100. If the rate of truth journals were too high, then one couldn’t bring many copies; without journals to hand out to people, one would feel that the gifts were too light. When I was in a stable state or I couldn’t avoid meeting people, I said, “There is no medicine or vaccine for this plague. This material can really save people.” The majority accepted it; a few didn’t want it, but they didn’t create trouble for me.
Recent Experiences of Handing Out Dafa Materials in Four Villages
I brought two packs of Dafa materials, and one pack held more than 100 copies. One was on the handlebars, and the other was hidden in the interlayer of the windshield. My windshield was attached to the handlebars, and it was invisible to others. This was the first time I brought two packs, because sometimes I handed out one pack of truth materials, and still had the time and opportunity to hand out more. I could bring back the rest as soon as giving out the truth journals.
On a remote road, about eight retired cadres were chatting. It looked like they were bored to death, so they made appointments with each other. I half-jokingly said, “Are you partying?” They were stunned, maybe their political sensitive nerves were touched. Two of them said, “no” to me with a nasty attitude when they heard that I was going to give them books. I remembered what practitioners said in the experience sharing article that we should not stimulate their negative factor; also considering the materials I carried, I left them. Others just watched and listened.
I walked into a village and fell down beside the mounds blocking the road. Several people chatted in the middle of the road and looked at me. I calmly lifted up the electric bike, pushed hard on the right path, straightened the front handlebar, and slowly rode toward them. I thought to let them make a way for me. The man in the middle turned around a little to let me pass.
I’d been to this village before. I thought this village was very small. A man sang a song about friends in a loudspeaker. I saw a man in his 40s entertaining himself. I gave him a copy of the Minghui journal “The Truth”. He took it and still sang and laughed.
After leaving this village, I moved on to a strange village. I was suddenly worried how to get out. Then, I also figured, “With Master, what should I worry about? After completing the people-saving task, I will definitely find a way out.”
I went to a neighboring village, next to the one I just left. I judged that there was a CCP village committee inside because there was a table. After entering the village, I met a person who appeared to be on duty – I let him pass. I calmed down and began to distribute Dafa materials.
A man entered the village from the south road, I had fear rising and asked myself, “Will I leave? It is a pity to leave now for Master has arranged such a good opportunity for me.” I kept my heart steady and continued to give out fliers and journals. I arrived at the west village entrance. There were several men looking like village cadres around the entry and registration spot. To avoid passing through that, I turned into an alley and continued to give out truth materials.
At another intersection in the southwest of the village, there was only a tractor blocking the entry with a loosely tied red sign slogan, saying, “No entry for outsiders!” I smiled and thanked Master in my heart. Under the watch of the gatekeepers in the other village across the road, I handed out a few more materials and then pushed my electric bike to the major road and left.
Meeting a Fellow Practitioner Accidentally
There were a few leaflets and journals left, which I gave to a person on the roadside. I was ready to go to the second person on the roadside and found he was a fellow practitioner. He was afraid that I couldn’t identify him, so he took off his mask to talk with me. He seemed to be very encouraged. I gave one journal out to a third person.
The private supermarket on the side of the road was half-opened, and there was a sign “closed” on the door. Two outsiders staying in this area were shopping. I bought a box of milk and some daily necessities. It was pitiful that when I finished shopping, the two outsiders had already left. I had two truth journals in my hand and I knew that they were prepared for them by Master. I hope to get the chance to give these materials to these two people.
However, I didn’t give the two journals to the supermarket owner, and I was a bit sorry, because he accepted my ten-yuan bill with truth-clarifying information written on it without hesitation. I think he should have understood the facts about Dafa and was saved after a fellow practitioner talked with him.
Study the Fa Well, Everything Stems From the Fa
I went out in the morning, and wanted to go again in the afternoon. It was easy to neglect studying the Fa. One afternoon, my husband angrily grabbed my pack and put it back in my room. I realized that it was not interference; it was time to study the Fa more. It is urgent to save people, but we cannot be impatient.
I was illegally detained by the CCP several times all for the same reason: I was too anxious to do things, and couldn’t assimilate into Dafa, so I failed to get the wisdom and supernormal power from the Fa as well as Master’s hints. Several fellow practitioners in my area were persecuted one after the other who all had similar shortcomings in cultivation. One of them (Xiamei, alias) is still being illegally detained, and another veteran practitioner (Liyi, alias) was busy with going out to save people.
Liyi went out distributing materials in the morning and in the afternoon. For the weekend group Fa-study, she came late and left earlier. Some practitioners occasionally went to her house during the daytime and heard her snoring loudly, thinking that it was her spouse, but actually it was Liyi who slept while studying the Fa. Fellow practitioner reminded her to study the Fa more, Liyi said helplessly and eagerly, “I also want to learn more!”
Liyi was illegally detained in a detention center for more than a month this summer. Because there was not enough Fa in her mind, she was suffering in that harsh environment. To this day, she is entangled with family relationships, and both her husband and son are in charge of her. Liyi seems to not understand fellow practitioners’ advice for her.
I lost the group Fa-study environment due to the community-blocking which is taking place daily until past 9:00 p.m. I had big interference to study the Fa and I dozed off a lot during the process. Now my time for studying the Fa is less. Inspired by Minghui’s sharing article, I mainly focus on memorizing Zhuan Falun. I recited one paragraph after another, one section after another, and am trying to memorize the third lecture. The benefit is huge when memorizing the Fa, such as obtaining a simple mindset, having few bad thoughts and more righteous thoughts.
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