(Minghui.org) I was fortunate to begin cultivating Falun Dafa in 1998. My son was a newborn at that time. I was busy caring for him and could only read Dafa books occasionally. I wasn’t serious about my cultivation. Then, in 1999, Jiang Zemin, the former Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader, and his evil group launched the persecution of Dafa. Back then, I didn’t have a deep understanding of the Fa, so I stopped reading the books and became an ordinary person.
Thank you, Master, for your immense benevolence in saving your disciple. Master arranged for a colleague to wake me up so I wouldn’t miss this precious opportunity. The colleague told me the facts about Dafa, explained that it was being persecuted, showed me the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, and played the video about the “Self-Immolation Hoax on Tiananmen Square.” After I learned the truth, I decided to return to Dafa cultivation, and have continued on my path to this day.
I was released from unlawful imprisonment and persecution in 2023. After returning home, I learned that while I was incarcerated, the local Political and Legal Affairs Committee pressured my company to end my employment contract without notifying me. This was clearly illegal, resulting in severe financial loss and immense mental stress for me and my family. I also worried about my colleagues and superiors at work, wondering if they had been coerced into participating in an action that was a crime against Dafa and could affect their futures.
I was very depressed during that time. I came to assist Master in rectifying the Fa and saving sentient beings, however I didn’t save them, and instead put them in danger. I felt sad and guilty. I was also momentarily troubled by feelings of inferiority, pride, vanity, and self-interest. These negative thoughts kept circling in my mind. My family environment also became oppressive and tense.
Although my husband wasn’t opposed to my cultivation, he was worried that I would have contact with other practitioners. I believe this was the evil’s sinister plan to make me abandon group cultivation, weaken my righteous thoughts, and gradually make me drift away from cultivation. My husband wasn’t a practitioner. His ability to cope was limited, but he did everything he could. He endured immense psychological pressure and emotional distress. His managers at work spoke to him multiple times, and he was frequently harassed by the police and community workers, on top of work and life stresses. He tried to stop me from contacting other practitioners out of fear that the CCP would again harass me or our family. I understood how difficult it was for him.
However, if I wanted to change my cultivation environment, I couldn’t rely on ordinary people or force others to change; I only had myself. I am a practitioner, and the only way to improve my cultivation was to study the Fa more. Only by gaining a clear understanding could I develop strong righteous thoughts and improve my cultivation environment and xinxing.
So I began studying the Fa diligently by repeatedly reading Zhuan Falun and Master’s new lectures. With more and more in-depth Fa-study, the Fa principles kept unfolding. I discovered the reason for my omissions, which were taken advantage of by the evil. I’ve been attached to my ego all along, and I never rectified my deviated notions of self within the Fa. Facing trials, I didn’t make safeguarding Master and Dafa a priority, nor did I pay attention to saving sentient beings or preventing them from committing crimes against Dafa. Instead, I relied on human cunning, avoided fear, and tried to protect my own interests from harm. I see these as the excuses the evil forces used to ruthlessly persecute me.
However, a practitioner only walks the path that Master arranged for his or her cultivation. Even though we have attachments that we cannot immediately let go of, the Fa will rectify them. The old forces have no right to use any excuse to interfere with or persecute any of us. In our cultivation, Master has never arranged for any persecution nor acknowledged any forced persecution. The evil forces arranged every attack on practitioners’ reputations, finances, and personal safety. Furthermore, their intentions were extremely malicious, involving “destructive testing to persecute practitioners,” while also eliminating those who participated in the crimes. The true purpose of the evil was to destroy both practitioners and ordinary people.
I wanted to write to my colleagues and managers to help them position themselves properly in Dafa, be saved by Dafa, and have a bright future. I decided to send truth-clarifying letters to them, prioritizing saving sentient beings, then requesting the reinstatement of my position, and further clarifying the facts to help them pursue kindness.
After I wrote the letter, I asked Ms. Ling, also a practitioner, to proofread it. She told me that in a dream she heard Master ask her to give me a hand. She made some significant revisions and additions. She wrote from the reader’s perspective, taking into account people’s reading habits and comprehension abilities. Her language was clear and emotionally resonant, making it friendly and easy to understand, which would help overcome people’s obstacles.
I wrote two letters, with different content, depending on the recipients.
The first letter was addressed to all employees and provided a general overview. It first described how the CCP persecuted me by imprisoning me, detailing the torture methods used, and the extent to which they were used. It began by recounting my personal experiences as their colleague, designed to naturally engage the reader’s attention. Then, I elaborated on the key points. I shared facts about Dafa, how Dafa has spread worldwide, the consequences of the persecution—since good and evil have their corresponding effects, and the evil retribution faced by those who participated in the persecution. This letter needed to be mailed to every department and sent to at least three people in each department.
The second letter discussed reinstating me to my former position, thereby persuading the supervisor and department staff who terminated my employment to reconcile.
Ms. Ying then helped find contact information for hundreds of employees companywide, including their department, positions, job titles, and mobile phone numbers, which made both of us very excited. To strengthen the power of truth-clarification, we sent the phone numbers to the Minghui website, and asked practitioners outside China to make calls to clarify the facts and lay a foundation for the next steps in truth-clarification. On this basis, we mailed the truth-clarifying letters.
Letters were mailed by several practitioners in another city. They sent them to my company in batches. For some practitioners, it was their first time mailing a truth-clarification letter, and they put their hearts into it. Each time, they sent righteous thoughts to clean up the field, and within a month they had mailed out 60 letters.
A 70-year-old female practitioner mailed out letters in her area. She printed the letters, bought envelopes and stamps at several post offices, and mailed them in remote suburbs and county towns. The bus trip took over an hour each way. Along the way, she sent righteous thoughts and asked for Master’s help to ensure the letters were delivered successfully. She sent out 40 truth-clarifying letters. She did this quietly on her own, which was truly touching.
Thus, 100 truth-clarifying letters, which contained huge energy, and carrying the benevolent power of practitioners assisting Master in saving sentient beings, were flown in from different cities to where I used to work, from cities and provinces. They spread from 100 individuals, then took root in the hearts of 100 families, and were passed on to other people. This effort dismantled the CCP’s lies and propaganda on a large scale, rescued countless people from the delusional world, and demonstrated the immense power of Dafa!
The practitioners sent the letters while I was at home sending righteous thoughts to prevent interfering factors from blocking those letters from being delivered, and blocking every evil factor, spirit, and rotten demon from preventing sentient beings from reading the truth and being saved.
After they were mailed, we paused for a while to give people time to digest and absorb the information, so they could go through a process of understanding Dafa. People have the ability to think, and we wanted them to judge for themselves whether what they truly believe is right or wrong.
During that period, practitioners began composing another letter, one of persuasion, addressed to the senior management of companies at the provincial level. It primarily discussed the current state of the CCP officials, guiding them to see the evil nature of the CCP so they could understand Dafa correctly and view the persecution objectively. The letter listed numerous examples of retributions incurred by CCP officials who participated in the persecution, and warning them not to engage in such actions. It also aimed to convince the recipients to treat practitioners kindly and help them, thereby accumulating virtue for themselves and their descendants.
I mailed the reinstatement request via EMS express mail to numerous leaders in relevant departments. Throughout the process, I continuously cleared away my own fear and negative thoughts, eliminating any selfish motives or desire to protect myself. I also studied the Fa and sent forth righteous thoughts intensively, to ensure the letters were safely delivered. At the same time, I communicated with the knowing side of the relevant parties in my mind, hoping they would listen to the truth about Dafa with their hearts, and understand the stakes clearly, thereby correctly positioning themselves regarding Dafa.
Some time later, my husband’s supervisor called him in and offered him a promotion with no conditions attached. The manager indirectly helping a practitioner in this way suggested that his righteous thoughts had been awakened by the truth-clarifying letter.
The provincial company leader later contacted my company’s Party Secretary to inquire about my employment being terminated. The Party Secretary then spoke with my husband, who only then learned about the letters I had written and fellow practitioners had sent. The Party Secretary’s attitude had changed significantly, and he became very polite when talking to my husband. He even said without hesitation, “The persecution of Dafa is a complete miscarriage of justice!”
The truth-clarifying letters played a positive role, which was exactly what we hoped for. After all, we did this to help everyday people cleanse their minds of the poisonous lies planted by the evil Party so they could understand that Dafa is righteous, and that practitioners are good people and haven’t committed any crimes. This way, they will understand Dafa correctly and be saved by Dafa.
During this process, I also removed my selfishness, the hard shell that had enveloped my true self, layer after layer. It didn’t align with Dafa, was deviated, and needed to be cast away. With that, my xinxing underwent a fundamental transformation. I also felt that I was moving closer to the higher standards of Dafa. Right then, I no longer experienced the pain or suppression I initially felt from being persecuted, because my colleagues and managers learned about Dafa through me sharing my experiences. Many of them had righteous thoughts about Dafa, which is most precious. Although the persecution itself is bad, the fact that sentient beings could be saved through it turned it into a good thing.
One day, I discovered a dozen Udumbara flowers on my vegetables at home. I understood that this was Master’s encouragement and benevolence toward his disciple. Beyond being surprised, I was profoundly moved. It was Master who saved sentient beings; we only did what we were supposed to do, yet Master bestowed glory on us. We will never know the immense sacrifices and hardships Master endured during this process. I am extremely honored to be Master’s disciple in this lifetime!
The dozen sacred flowers made me think of my fellow practitioners, both here and outside China, quietly doing the three things, and harmonizing with what Master wanted. They look like blooming golden lotuses, each with its own unique beauty and charm, jointly displaying the glory of Dafa and how wonderful Dafa is!