The Process of Clarifying the Truth is the Course of our Fa-Rectification Cultivation (Part III)

October 7, 2001

3. Clarifying the truth with my "heart," and validating Dafa with my own righteous enlightenment

I was very happy because one person began gradually to learn the truth and could possibly be saved. I calmed down and kept on looking inward. I found that I let him know the truth by taking advantage of his human sentiment. When he finished watching the CDs, the lies in his mind were destroyed, but the meaning of clarifying the truth is far deeper than that. I should let him know how great Dafa is and how evil the crackdown is. What's more, Teacher asks us to "clarify the truth thoroughly, eliminate the evil with righteous thoughts, save all beings, and safeguard the Fa with determination." I only changed the direction of his life, which is very far away from what Teacher requires.

I planned to continue to introduce Dafa to him, and really let him know that Dafa is good. Also, I needed to talk to him, validate Dafa with my heart, and let him know that Dafa is good through the changes in my inner heart. I recalled that when I clarified truth to everyday people in the past, I held a warped notion that my own experience was trivial and not worth mentioning. I always told them about how this Dafa practitioner recovered from his incurable disease after practice or that Dafa practitioner improved his morality after practicing Falun Gong. Although it could serve to validate Dafa, it was others who validated Dafa through their own cultivation. So it is very superficial for me to tell people this. Only by telling people things from the bottom of our hearts can we truly touch other people's hearts. No matter how petty my own experiences were, they were genuine.

The next day, I told my father that since my childhood I had felt constrained by his scolding and by his strict discipline. My classmates and I went to watch sentimental movies when I was young; they cried, but I didn't, because I thought I was suffering more than that. I swore to go to college, to find a job somewhere else and to leave this home where I had no freedom and would not return. I had resentment in my mind. But when I read "Zhuan Falun" for the first time in college, many things became clear. I was in tears; I was being so selfish and inconsiderate! I just cared about myself and was attached to whether I, myself, was happy or not. I did not consider my parents. The biggest knot in my heart was untied and I totally changed. I began to truly consider others, and when I did, I decided to go back to my hometown, to get a job there and take good care of my parents. I began to study hard. I truly understood that the real purpose of study is not for fame and interest but to learn skills and capabilities, so that I could take responsibilities for society. These thoughts arose because Dafa changed my selfish mind. I wanted to be a good person, a better person, and return to the original true self.

My father listened with tears in his eyes and said, "Why don't you tell this to your teacher?" I was very surprised - - he was teaching me how to promote Dafa! I said, "It's my fault, I will if I have chance in the future." This is the power of Dafa! Later, I continued to successfully talk about Dafa to him and he listened carefully.

Later, I asked him, "Did you do it intentionally when you cursed Teacher and Dafa?" He felt embarrassed and said, "I did nothing that day except that I beat my daughter up and I was wrong." Finally, before they left, I asked him, "Do you have anything to say to me?" He said, "You told us a lot. Now we can set our hearts at rest. Do what you should do, and we will do what we should." I gave him some truth-clarifying materials and he accepted them cheerfully. He had changed completely. He had a smile on his face and became nicer.

He had called Dafa practitioners "you mob" previously with infused hatred, but now he spoke of "Dafa Practitioner this," "Dafa Practitioner that...," If he saw me reading Dafa materials before, he always glared at me. Now he has begun to read them himself. When I promote Dafa to him he listens carefully each time. When I repeat something he says, "You have mentioned this. Tell me something else." Now he has started to resist the persecution against me by my college.

4. Firmly Believe in Teacher, believe in Dafa, and do Dafa work on the basis of Dafa

Later, when I exchanged experiences with my fellow practitioners, I realized that I had impure thoughts during the process. In addition to shortcomings I had found on other issues, I realized what I considered correct before was wrong. I needed to purify myself continuously and eradicate the evil. The evil must never be allowed to impose hatred in the minds of beings who have learned the truth by taking advantage of my attachments.

In fact, Dafa created everything. Except for those vile people who damage Dafa, all beings know Dafa is good. (Those who resist Dafa do so because they are under the control of the evil). When we ourselves still have warped notions, we actually hinder other beings from understanding and obtaining Dafa. If we can improve ourselves from within the Fa, the tribulation will not be so tremendous and we can pass the tests easily. If we fail to improve our minds, the evil will take advantage of the gaps and we will have to endure some tribulations that we are not supposed to suffer. Actually, in the course of clarifying the truth to my father, I took the long tortuous path. In the beginning I failed to improve myself according to Dafa, so I suffered a lot of tribulations. However, when I was benevolent toward him in line with Dafa, the situation changed all at once. The miraculous power of Dafa will be manifested when we take Dafa as the teacher. Believing in Dafa and Master steadfastly, there is nothing we cannot overcome!

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