(Clearwisdom.net) I felt very inspired when I heard or read about other practitioners' experience sharing on clarifying the truth. We can adopt different methods based on our unique abilities to introduce Falun Dafa to other people and clarify the truth to them. Normally I use two methods to introduce Falun Dafa and clarify the truth.
1) Using the improvement in my health to build up the mighty virtue of Falun Dafa
Everyone at my workplace knew that I was afflicted with one of the most serious illnesses. I was routinely hospitalized for emergency treatment. Eventually, I could no longer take injections because there was no place on my body to insert a needle. Since no medicine could improve my condition, I had no choice but to wait for death. My neighbors also thought that I was heading for death. However, after practicing Falun Dafa there was no longer any need for me to go to a hospital, and no need for any injections or medicine. I became a healthy and lively person. I told my neighbors that miracles happen when practicing Falun Dafa.
At home, I was responsible for taking two grandchildren to school and picking them up, helping them with their studies and their homework, helping my daughter-in-law to look after her shop, taking care of a sick husband, going shopping, cooking meals, and cleaning the house. I would make two to three trips for a distance of one and a half miles every day. I walked very fast, and no one my age dared to walk alongside of me. Even people younger than I am could not keep up. When my workplace organized outdoor activities, I was always at the front when going up or down the mountain. The younger women in their thirties dared not carry the same weight that I was able to carry.
Last year I went to another part of the country to visit a classmate who I had not seen for 50 years. She lay in bed for 37 years. When she learned that I had traveled that far to see her, she was very touched. Her daughters all envied me. They said that I looked very young, with a rosy complexion, wrinkleless cheeks, and I always smiled. They asked me the secret of keeping myself young. I told them that my disposition, my health, and my path of life changed after I began to practice Falun Gong. I also told them that all the practitioners who pursued the principles of "Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance" were like me.
Her relatives said I looked like a 40 to 50-year-old, and some even called me a little sister. Actually I was nearly 70-years-old while my friend's relatives were only around 50 years old. One of my former colleagues whom I had not seen for more than 30 years said that I was virtually unchanged. Now some of them have started to read Falun Dafa books, and others started to learn the five sets of exercises.
When I had to pay for my karma, I felt very uncomfortable. Sometimes, I would be breathless and could not move at all. Sometimes I limped and could not walk. One time I had diarrhea, which lasted about 8 days. My husband was quite scared, and he tested me and made sure that I was still breathing regularly. This was because his father died of acute diarrhea when he was only 30 years old. On the contrary, I could still eat, drink, and sleep. In addition I was in high spirits, getting out of bed, and walking all by myself. The diarrhea disappeared without a visit to the doctor or a single pill. My husband was very puzzled. I told him, "For Falun Dafa practitioners, all these are not the symptoms of an illness. It is karma releasing and body cleansing by our Teacher." He nodded his head and was quite convinced.
My neighbor had pain in her knees, and limped like me. She spent more than 2,000 yuan but saw no improvement. However, when I looked inside to check my xinxing, the pain was gone, and I could walk normally. Non-practitioners all talked about it. They thought Falun Dafa was really wonderful. The sickness disappeared without spending any money on treatment and medicine.
As a matter of fact, I set very strict requirements for myself regarding my words and deeds, and persevered in studying the Fa and practicing the exercises. I strictly abided by the Fa in all things I did. At all times, I kept a healthy body to validate the great virtue of Falun Dafa.
2) Conducting face-to-face truth-clarification
The good thing about face-to-face truth clarification is that you can decide on the amount of time as well as the content and the approach, based on the person to whom you are talking. In talking to acquaintances, time is not an issue, but you need to explain very clearly. When talking to strangers, you need to be just right and you do not need to talk too much.
Among my neighbors, there was an old man who was the Party Secretary of the District Commercial Department. We were not friends and just greeted each other when we saw each other. For a short period of time, I encountered him often in shops, markets, parks, campus, newspaper stalls and even on the road. I thought it was our predestined relationship and that I should look for an opportunity to clarify the truth to him.
One day we came back home together, and we talked while walking. He said, "You look very fit. Do you have any illnesses?" I asked him what illnesses he had. He replied, "Heart disease." I told him, "In the past I was diagnosed as having more than two dozen illnesses. Among them the most serious one was a myocardial infarction. Because my brain did not get a sufficient supply of blood, I was hospitalized every year for emergency treatment. Later, after I started to practice Falun Gong all my illnesses were gone." He stopped his steps to listen to me and then he told me, "I have a relative whose illnesses all disappeared after practicing Falun Gong. However, my relative was arrested for going to Beijing to appeal on 'April 25.' It would be OK to practice at home." I told him, "I have some Falun Gong information. Do you want to read it?" He replied, "Do you really have it? Let me have a look." I gave him the information and said goodbye to him before we parted and went home.
At 4:00 p.m. on the third day my family phoned me, "That old man's daughter wants to see you and return the things to you personally. You must come back home at once." I thought quietly for a while and sent forth the righteous thoughts while going back home. After arriving home, my family described to me how the man's daughter acted and what vicious words she had used. My first thought was, "I am saving you, therefore, I am not afraid of anything." At the same time, I eliminated the evil behind their backs.
I sent forth righteous thoughts continuously while waiting for the father and daughter to come. When they came, the elderly man said, "I have finished reading the materials you gave me, but my daughter was scared when she saw them. We came to return them to you in person. Otherwise, if anything happens later on, it will be hard for us to explain." I said, "Because I left in a hurry that day, and I forgot to tell you to give back the materials to me after you finish reading them. Since so many people wanted to read the materials, I have to pass them around." Then I said to his daughter, "Your dad is a former colleague of mine. We talked about health on the street the other day, and I gave him the materials." The man said, "I asked for them and she gave them to me."
Then I talked about the changes in my health before and after practicing Falun Gong, and answered her questions about the staged self-immolation, cutting open the stomach and killing people as well as the "April 25" incident. She thought that if people had not gone to Zhongnanhai to appeal, there would be no persecution of Falun Gong. When I clarified these issues, they listened attentively. Finally I told them, "It's our predestined relationship for me to give you materials to read and clarify the truth. Please remember Falun Dafa is good and you will receive blessings. Treat Dafa practitioners kindly, and Heaven will grant you happiness and safety." They accepted with pleasure.
Follow-up visits
The good thing about face-to-face truth-clarification is that you can clarify the truth to a wider range of people; it is safer, easier to explain more clearly, saves time, and you can get immediate feedback.
- A wider range of people: This means that when you clarify the truth, the whole family and their relatives and neighbors will all learn the truth.
- Safer: You do not need to worry about the police following or arresting you.
- Be able to explain more clearly: When the other party has any questions you can answer them clearly to let them know the truth and the principles of the Fa.
I would revisit, in different ways, those people to whom I had clarified the truth or to whom I had given the amulets. The result was very good. One patient I spoke with had suffered from a brain condition with encysted larvae of tapeworms. He spent tens of thousands of yuan for a cure but to no avail. After hearing the truth about Falun Dafa and having obtained the amulets, every morning when taking a walk, he said silently "Falun Dafa is good," and "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good." One day he felt dizzy, and went to a hospital for a check up. He was told that his brain condition had disappeared. This made him firmly believe in Falun Dafa. He then told his relatives and friends that it was Falun Dafa that cured his brain condition. In the past someone suffered the same illness and died 14 years later. This patient, however, was cured in half a year. As a result, he firmly expressed his determination to practice Falun Dafa.
A middle-aged woman hurt her leg while working. She stayed in bed for more than two months, could not walk, and could not look after herself. When she saw that I was in very good health, she borrowed the Falun Gong books from me and learned to practice the exercises while sitting in bed. She kept saying silently, "Falun Dafa is good," and "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good." A few days later she could get up, cook meals, clean the house, and go downstairs to take a walk. She continuously chanted silently, "Falun Dafa is good" and "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good." Not long after that, she was fully recovered, and was able to work in other parts of the country to support her child to go the university. She was grateful to Teacher and to Falun Dafa. She now walks on the path of cultivation.
There are many beneficiaries
There were some adverse examples as well. One veteran practitioner began to learn Falun Gong in 1994, but gave up after the persecution started. She returned to her old self again. All of her illnesses came back, and she was hospitalized frequently for diabetes and kidney failure. She recently broke her leg in a fall. I gave her a Falun Dafa amulet last year, and Falun Gong books this year. She returned all of them to me. Another veteran practitioner stopped practicing Falun Gong on June 20. Later I clarified the truth to him many times and gave him books and the truth-clarification materials to read. He could not let go of the human attachment of sickness, so he would go to the hospital whenever he had symptoms.
Issues of my own
I seldom went out to post or drop off the truth-clarification materials because I thought that posting materials would affect the environment. When I saw the truth-clarification materials that had been stepped on, I felt very sad. Sometimes I would pick them up, and other times I could not. In addition, I was hearing impaired, and my movements were getting slower. I therefore faced the danger of being arrested.
Teacher said "The fact is, those who can't step forward, regardless of the excuse, are concealing fear. Yet for cultivators, fear or lack thereof proves [one's] humanity or divinity, and it is what differentiates cultivators from ordinary people. It is something that a cultivator must face, and the biggest human attachment that a cultivator must remove." ("The Only Thing Falun Dafa Disciples Have a Role in Is Saving People * With Teacher's Commentary" "Study the Fa Well, and Getting Rid of Attachments is Not Hard")
Some fellow practitioners told me that I only needed to deliver the truth-clarification materials to a certain place and the predestined people would pick them up. Nonetheless, in my heart I wondered how that could work. Was I doubting Falun Dafa? My thinking was that I did not see people take the materials, but only saw the materials being thrown away.
I experienced miracles of Dafa on two occasions. One practitioner asked me to deliver a copy of Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party to a friend of mine. I waited outside the building on an early morning but did not see him. I wanted to send it to his home but did not know the number of his house. Since there was no one outside, I could not ask anyone. In addition, his phone did not work. I moved recently, and I just could not wait there all day. I wished that he would come to my house to pick up the "Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party." I thought about it twice and went to the window to wait for him. In about ten minutes he was outside my window. I waved to him and he came in. I asked him where he was heading. He said that he intended to come to my home, because he felt that I wanted him to come there. I gave him the book. This proved to me how wonderful Dafa is. I also realized that fellow practitioners had a better enlightenment quality. He did a lot better than I did, and I was lagging behind.
Another occasion was during the October 1 long holiday when I went to the countryside to clarify the truth to my relatives. They told me that they had already read the materials. When I asked them where they got the information, they said someone often threw the materials into their yard, or left them on the windowsill, so they just picked them up and read them. I just answered the questions that they raised. I realized how well the practitioners in the countryside had done.
I must let go of all my human attachments including fear. I am determined to do the three things well, and to save sentient beings.
