Convincing People of the Truth about Falun Dafa Requires Persistence

(Minghui.org) When a fellow practitioner and I went out to clarify the truth, a middle-aged man was walking next to us. Judging from his stride, he seemed like he’d been well-trained, and I was a little hesitant about approaching him. But then I thought that it wasn’t easy to come across such a person, and it would be a pity if I missed this opportunity. Whatever his occupation, he should be given a chance to be saved.

I spoke up and got to the point after a few words. He blurted out, “Do you know what I do?” The words “plainclothes officer” flashed through my mind. From my years of experience clarifying the truth, I knew that such officers tended to say this.

I replied calmly, “No matter what you do, you must first keep yourself safe. You need to have your life before you can do anything! Don’t miss this opportunity to be saved! I’m telling you this because you look like a good person.”

He said he was the worst kind of person. I replied, “I can’t be wrong. I know you’re a good person, and a good person should be saved! I will give you the pseudonym ‘Fu Yuan’ (“Blessing” in Chinese) and help you quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliates.” When he heard ‘Fu Yuan,’ he exclaimed, “That’s a really good name! OK.”

He told me he had only joined the Young Pioneers. As I continued to clarify the truth to him, he listened carefully and asked me questions. I answered them all, and he was satisfied. He told me that he had been abroad and knew about the popularity of Falun Dafa.

The other practitioner followed behind us and sent forth righteous thoughts. The man listened as I kept talking. After we passed a second turn, he said, “Why are you still walking with me? We’ve come a long way.” I told him I would stop only when he fully understood the truth. He said OK.

We chatted like old friends, and I basically told him everything I knew and what I thought he needed to understand. But when I looked back on this experience later, I found there was still the attachment of fear I needed to get rid of.

We have a Sunday market in our area, and many practitioners would go there to clarify the truth. I once met several practitioners at an intersection nearby. After saying hello, we went our own separate ways to find predestined people.

I went over to a man standing next to a tricycle not far away and said, “Hello! Have you heard about quitting the CCP to ensure your safety? The CCP is corrupt and has killed so many innocent people in its campaigns. It is now persecuting Falun Dafa practitioners, and God will eliminate it! You are a part of it once you become a member of it. If you don’t quit, you will perish along with it.” He said he was a farmer and had only joined the Young Pioneers. I gave him the pseudonym “Tian Feng,” which means “A Good Harvest” to quit.

I went up to a woman across the street and explained the facts about Falun Dafa to her and told her why she should quit the Party. She readily quit the CCP and its affiliates. A man happened to be standing a few yards away, so I went over to him and easily got him to quit the CCP as well.

Another practitioner came over and asked, “Did you get the first person to quit the CCP?” I said I did. She asked me about the second person I’d talked to, and I said that person had quit, too. I asked her why she was concerned, but she didn’t answer. She asked me about the third person I’d talked to, and I said he also quit.

When I asked her what happened, she said she had talked to all three of them before, and none of them quit. But they did when I talked to them, and she wondered why.

I told her my understanding: “They had big appetites. They didn’t get full when you talked to them. They needed more bread, which I gave them.” That made sense to her, and I continued, “Or maybe they are sentient beings [who belong] in my world, so they had to come my way to quit the CCP.”

The market was about to close around noon. A group of practitioners gathered in front of a stand. Some were buying fruit and some chatting, but no one clarified the truth to the stall owner. I didn’t know why, but I thought we should not miss this opportunity, so after the others left, I went up and tried to talk to her.

As soon as I opened my mouth, she said angrily, “Don’t you tell me... ” She was looking for a place to vent her anger, and I happened to be there. A person next to me said, “She’s in a bad mood, you’d better stay away!” I left in frustration.

After I returned home, I wondered why that happened. I recalled what had happened that morning step by step and remembered the mindset I had when I talked to the fellow practitioner. When I tried to explain to her my understanding of the situation, I was a little complacent, thinking I did well. This attachment allowed the evil to take advantage of me: “You were doing well, let’s how it goes now.”

As I write this article, I have truly realized that every thought is important for a cultivator. Wasn’t I greedy for heaven’s merit? Master taught us, “Cultivation depends on one’s own efforts, while the transformation of gong is done by one’s master.” (Lecture One in Zhuan Falun) Everything is done by Master. I just moved my legs and mouth, but Master gives his disciples mighty virtue and wisdom. What do I have to be proud of? From now on, I need to watch my each and every thought.

One day, I ran into a police officer I knew. At the station, he was in charge of the administration for the forced labor camps, and it used to seem that he was doing well with his job. But when I saw him that day, he looked completely different, like someone who’d had a stroke. He was only in his 50s, but he couldn’t work anymore. I thought, “It seems that his nature is not that bad. Gods and Buddhas are merciful and make him suffer his due retribution early to prevent him from committing more crimes against Dafa and Dafa disciples.”

He seemed unwell and frustrated when he saw me. I felt sorry for him and decided to save him. I clarified the truth to him and asked him to quit the CCP. He agreed but he said something about his situation being unfair. I asked him to think about what he had done when it came to persecuting Falun Dafa. He said, “I have treated practitioners well enough.” I asked him to think it over carefully and left. He later told another practitioner that his poor condition was the result of incurring his due retribution.

One morning, another practitioner and I went out and met someone in his 60s who looked like a supervisor. I said, “How are you? Are you walking here?” He said he was, so I said, “You look like a supervisor.” He smiled and said he’d been a supervisor of a certain unit before he retired, so I thought he must be a CCP member.

“It’s fortunate that we met here today. There is something important I have to tell you. Have you heard about quitting the CCP to ensure your safety? It means quitting the CCP, Youth League, and Young Pioneers.”

He waited for me to finish, so I went on, “You may have seen the messages ‘Heaven will eliminate the CCP’ and ‘Quit the CCP, Youth League, and Young Pioneers to ensure your safety’ on utility poles. The CCP is atheistic and does not believe in the divine. More than 80 million innocent people have been killed in its campaigns.

“Veteran officials were killed during the Cultural Revolution. College students were shot to death in 1989. Kind-hearted people who practice Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance have been persecuted since 1999. The CCP even harvests organs from living practitioners who are incarcerated. The divine will eradicate the CCP. If you’ve joined their organizations, you are a part of it. If you don’t quit, you will be harmedl when it is eradicated.

“I’ll give you a pseudonym to help you quit the CCP and its affiliates and keep yourself safe. Is that okay?” He readily agreed.

He asked me about my job, and I told him that I was retired from a certain unit. Then he asked me if I knew a certain person, and I did. He named someone else, and I told him I knew her, too. He then asked about two more people, whom I also knew. He said they had all urged him to quit the CCP, but he had declined. He did not know why he agreed when I talked to him. He burst out laughing and was truly happy. The laughter came from the bottom of his heart.

Some people are really difficult to save, just like this person. How big was his appetite? He was not full after having eaten so many pieces of bread and still needed more. To save such a person, Master arranged for many practitioners to clarify the truth to him.

I thought, “How much trouble does Master go through to save a Dafa disciple back to Heaven? How much effort does it take to save all sentient beings in the universe? I cannot imagine it. All I can do is to work hard, cultivate myself well, and save more people.”