(Clearwisdom.net) It has been three years since I established a home-based "truth clarification" materials production site. Under Teacher's protection, I have persevered in studying the Fa more and maintained righteous thoughts and actions. I have been considerate of others in everything I do. While cultivating myself, I have also harmonized my relationships with my family and neighbors. Consequently, the site has been running smoothly.
Our local coordinator arranged for me to take charge of certain responsibilities in our local area, including downloading and printing Teacher's new articles, producing booklets and CDs of the "Nine Commentaries on the Chinese Communist Party", helping people quit the CCP through the Internet, editing fellow practitioners' articles, and making booklets of Teacher's works. For over a year, I was also responsible for the weekly download of truth clarification materials like the Minghui Weekly newsletter and the Minghui Weekly newspaper for another materials production site.
I ended my education with the fourth grade due to the CCP's persecution of my family. For several decades my work was machine related. I encountered some difficulties when I first started making truth clarification materials. I was in my 50s and new to the computer and printer. I questioned whether I could do the work, and I was also concerned with the security issues, or if my wife would be supportive of me. However, as a Falun Dafa practitioner, clarifying the truth and saving sentient beings is our responsibility. Therefore, making truth clarification materials is necessary, and, although it is risky, someone has to do it. When we are faced with danger, we should not just think about ourselves and let others take the risk. At first my wife worried about my safety, but seeing that I was determined, she supported me but told me to be very careful of the security issues.
In 2005, I bought a computer and a printer. With fellow practitioners' help, a home-based truth clarification materials production site was established. Although I'm not well-educated, as long as we have a heart for something, Teacher will give us boundless wisdom. There were some difficulties, but I was able to overcome all of them. Now I'm pretty adept at the projects I'm responsible for. I'm also able to handle some simple repair work for my printer. In the past my biggest problem was that when equipment broke down, I was not able to fix it and had to send it out for repair, which involved a hidden risk in addition to being very expensive. Whenever I sent equipment out for a repair, I observed the repair procedures very carefully, and I was able to learn the techniques. This would have been unimaginable had I not practiced Falun Dafa.
As long as we have strong righteous thoughts, Teacher is looking after us. One night I rode a bicycle to deliver 100 copies of the Nine Commentaries. On my way home, I was supposed to purchase a box of printing paper. As I headed for the computer store, I suddenly realized that I was going in the opposite direction. I had lived in this city for several decades, and it seemed impossible for me to get lost. When I turned back, about 30 minutes had passed. There was a police car parked outside the computer store. I immediately realized that Teacher had been protecting me.
My wife has been very understanding and supportive of Dafa-related work during this process of making truth clarification materials for the past several years. I have also greatly benefited from it. She teaches at a school and comes home every Friday. When she comes home, she takes care of all the household chores so that I can spend more time doing Dafa-related work. She never complains, and sometimes she even helps me make small booklets. Since I began practicing Falun Dafa, she has experienced the goodness Falun Dafa has brought her because she noticed the changes in me. For instance, I have given up many bad habits. Whenever there's a conflict, I first look inward; I have become considerate of others in everything I do. Because of her understanding of Falun Dafa, her body has experienced changes. She suffered from insomnia when she had to spend those nights at school, but she slept very well when she was home. So I told her that the field in our home was very pure and clean because the evil demons' substances had all been eliminated, and that Dafa books and materials are capable of rectifying any negative environment. I suggested that she remove the two evil, red CCP flags when she went back to the school dormitory. She had suffered from Hepatitis B for years. After experiencing Falun Dafa, I recommended that she go to the hospital for a checkup. She was happy with her test results. Her indicator had dropped from three plus to one plus. I told her that it was because she still had attachments, and that if she had eliminated all her attachments, her results would have been even better. She had truly experienced the benefit of the magnificent and miraculous Falun Dafa.,
When the CCP started persecuting Falun Dafa on July 20, 1999, there were false reports about it on TV, the radio, and in newspapers, I gave my wife the book Zhuan Falun and told her that she had to finish reading all of it before she talked about her views. Several days later after she finished reading the book, she said, "What is reported on TV is not the same as what is written in the book. Although I cannot understand the book completely, it teaches us how to become good people." With this understanding, I hoped that she would read the book more and listen to Teacher's Fa-lectures. When she would do housework, I would read out loud when I studied the Fa so that she could listen to it. We practiced the exercises together when she came home. The first two years was a great hassle when she tried to cross her legs to meditate. When she did single-leg meditation, one of her feet would raise up so high that she said that she could not possibly do crossed-legged meditation. I told her that studying the Fa is more important than practicing the exercises. Whenever she went to school I told her to take Zhuan Falun with her. Now she is able to do single-legged meditation for an hour without getting uncomfortable. Through studying the Fa and practicing the exercises, her body has gone through dramatic changes. Her friends and co-workers all say that she looks younger. Another thing that excited her was that her menstrual period resumed after being absent for years.
My mother-in-law is in her 80s. She lives in the same city as my wife and I so we go to her home to help her with household chores. She is aware that I practice Falun Dafa. Her son and daughter-in-law are very busy with their own business. When I clarified the truth about Falun Dafa to them, I also constantly offered them my help and refused their offer of money for helping. We have been holding ourselves to the standard of Dafa in everything we do. Consequently, they saw in us the huge difference between ordinary people and Falun Dafa practitioners. They gradually changed their notions and recognized Falun Dafa. My mother-in-law suffered from asthma for over 20 years. I taught her to recite "Falun Dafa is good" and "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good." Sometimes I read a paragraph from Zhuan Falun to her. Her asthma has been gone now for almost two years, and she seldom catches the flu. My mother-in-law has been telling everyone she comes into contact with about the changes in her health, and she has also been teaching others to recite "Falun Dafa is good" and "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good." She asked me to give her a lot of Falun Gong talismans(1) to give away to relatives in her hometown. My mother-in-law's health has improved so much that she does not get tired going up and down the stairs of a seven-story apartment building several times a day.
A good family environment is very good for my making truth clarification materials. A home-based truth clarification materials production site is very good because you can make good arrangements to study the Fa and practice the exercises, as well as take care of household chores. When the environment at my relatives' homes improved, my relatives all understood and supported me. When a coordinator I had contact with was arrested in another city in January 2007 for distributing the Nine Commentaries and clarifying the truth about Falun Dafa, I stored my equipment at a relative's home. I'm kind to everyone in my neighborhood and my small community, and I'm considerate of others in everything I do. I have never asked for anything when I'm tempted with material gain. Everyone knows that we are good people. These past few years we have purchased a large amount of merchandise, and we have constantly been loading and unloading boxes of materials, yet everything has gone well. Through these past several years, I have enlightened that while we should cultivate ourselves well, our home, our neighborhood, and our environment also play a very important role.
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(1) Talismans - In China, practitioners sometimes clarify the truth by giving people something small to wear or cherish, bearing a few words reminding them of the goodness of Dafa.
