(Clearwisdom.net) I wish to share my experiences of "truth-clarification" from the past few years. I hope we can find more and better approaches to saving sentient beings during what little time we have left, enabling us to complete Falun Dafa disciples' historical mission.
Most of the time, I use a face-to-face approach to try to save people. At first, I did not have much experience. Although I talked to people about erasing the "mark of the beast," it is hard for many Chinese who grew up under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) atheism to understand a spiritual point of view. Also, when talking to people on the street, a few words are not enough to help someone understand the nature of communism. So, I was not very effective.
Then, I started to tell people directly: "Heaven will eliminate the CCP. Withdraw from the Party, the Youth League, and the Young Pioneers to save your own life." Some people understood and quit the CCP. However, there were still many who would not. I thought more about it and realized that I was not completely thinking about the welfare of others. The CCP has controlled China for over half a century. Many Chinese have grown up surrounded by Party culture since birth and live within the sham prosperity. It was hard for them to accept the statement "Heaven will eliminate the CCP." Most of the time, they were just dumbfounded when I talked to them.
What is the best way to get people to enthusiastically accept the truth? I studied Teacher's words about truth-clarification. Teacher said in "Touring North America to Teach the Fa:"
"It's hard to save people nowadays. You have to explain things to them by following the logic of their attachments. For the sake of saving them, don't create any obstacles for them."
What were the attachments of the people I was trying to reach? The number one priority for them is often money, so I started with that.
I met a person that operated a bicycle-taxi. I said to him, "The money you make carrying people from one place to another is not enough to buy a pound of tofu. The CCP is corrupt and is causing drastic inflation. Nowadays, people's lives are hard." He smiled, and I then talked to him about quitting the CCP. He was happy to do it. I often chat and laugh with the people I tell about quitting the CCP.
We should clarify the truth about Dafa when we talk about quitting the CCP. I often talk about how Dafa has spread around the world, about the staged Tiananmen self-immolation, about the organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners for profit by the CCP, about the many examples of people obtaining good fortune after saying "Falun Dafa is good," and about those who receive karmic retribution for persecuting practitioners.
I keep reviewing and improving my approach and talking points, and I go out to clarify the truth every day. The more people I talk to, the clearer I can make it for them to understand. The stronger my righteous thoughts are, the greater the number people who listen and quit the CCP and its affiliated associations. No one and nothing can change my determination when I am clarifying the truth to save people.
I have not stayed with a fixed format for truth-clarification. I have proceeded in many ways, including distributing truth-clarification materials, distributing copies of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, posting flyers, and having face-to-face talks. As long as it is for Dafa, for saving people, I will do it.
In my city, I have distributed truth-clarification materials to all the schools and hospitals. The schools are closed to the public most of the time. I enter the school when parents take their children to school or home. I take a set of materials to each office. Once after I inserted the material beneath a door, someone came out of the room. I sent forth a righteous thought: "You should go inside and stay there." He turned around and went back into the room. I have experienced this kind of occurrence many, many times. I am no long nervous or afraid. Gradually, I have no other thoughts except for saving people.
Teacher has written many articles asking disciples to save people. Every day after studying the Fa, I go out to save people. I used to go out once a day, but now, since it's urgent, I go out in the morning, come home to send forth righteous thoughts at noon, and then go out again. When I leave home, I concentrate on saving people and keep talking to people. There are also many people who come to me directly.
The current time is priceless and precious, and I can feel it. Whenever I go to my sister's home or other practitioners' homes, attend Fa conferences, or go to Fa study group, I always put the Fa and saving sentient beings as my first priority. No matter how long the trip is, I walk rather than ride a bicycle so that I can talk to people on my way. Usually, I can persuade 20 or 30 people to quit the CCP on one trip.
It is very important that we keep clarifying the truth and telling people to quit the CCP every day. Hot or cold, snowy or windy, I always go out. Since Teacher's article "Turning the Wheel Towards the Human World" was published, I have not missed a day of telling people to quit the CCP. Nothing can stop me from saving people.
We can rescue people if we use our true thoughts. I often treat people on the street as my relatives. When I talk to them, I feel benevolence streaming out of my heart. The more I talk, the more patient I am. Many times I meet people who refuse to listen and immediately turn their back to me. I talk to them a second to give them another chance. Many of them quit the CCP that way. Of course, I have also received cold shoulders and curse words. It never bothers me. I know clearly what I am doing. There were a couple of store owners in the market that refused to listen to me at first. I then talked to them a second time, a third time, and a fourth time. My words still did not reach them. Then, I bought their products though I did not really need them. Afterwards, I talked to them from their angle, and they decided to quit! I have had more than ten cases like this.
Once a practitioner asked me how many people I had persuaded to quit the CCP. I said that I have never counted. The practitioner who helped me to publish the names on the web said, "I keep a count for you. It is over eight thousand. I also published three thousand names for other practitioners. The total is more than eleven thousand." This number helped me realize the power of the Fa. It also strengthened my confidence in saving people.
Master has said,
"The focus for you right now is simply to find ways to do better, to be more efficient, to have a greater impact, and to save more people." ("Fa Teaching at the U.S. Capital")
I think that we will be more effective and have more impact if all Falun Dafa practitioners go out and clarify the truth. Then, we can save more people. I realize that it is also very important to help other practitioners. Now, I normally do not go out by myself. I go out with two or three practitioners. We help, encourage, and remind one another that we need to raise our xinxing as a whole and improve as a whole so as to save more sentient beings.
