(Clearwisdom.net) At the end of July 2008, the Olympic Torch passed through our city and arrived in Caofeidian. Fellow practitioners in the city sent out an emergency notice: they asked the practitioners in and around the city to constantly send forth righteous thoughts to disintegrate the evil and save more beings. Although the local practitioners made a great effort, several were still illegally arrested. A few days ago, a practitioner told me that a practitioner from Village A was arrested by 610 Office personnel who worked with the local police station and residential committee. The home of the arrested practitioner was also searched. Some people who did not know the truth were speculating about what had happened to the practitioner. Until recently, that practitioner's home was monitored by about 10 people, and the practitioner's family members were also being followed. I remembered that practitioners from Village A had been under surveillance for a long time, but the practitioners didn't do anything about it. I think that the main reason that the evil was able to interfere is that we have not yet done enough truth-clarification in that area, and we have not sufficiently exposed the evil, which has meant that our efforts to save sentient beings have lagged behind.

By comparison, Village B, which is nearby, is a totally different situation. There has been no persecution in Village B for more than a year. This is because the practitioners in that village clarified the truth very well, and many locals have quit the CCP. The practitioners have woken the people up, have helped them to choose a wonderful future, and have also taken charge of their own cultivation environment. The below are a couple of examples.

A. Clarify the truth to the people who monitor practitioners

Before the persecution began, there were about 40 people practicing Falun Dafa in Village B. After the persecution started, only about 10 practitioners remained steadfast and diligent. As a result they were the main targets of the persecution. But they steadfastly believed that Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is not wrong, persisted in their practice, and went to Tiananmen Square to appeal for justice for Master and Dafa. Seven practitioners were illegally detained and sentenced to forced labor, where one was tortured to death. Many others were repeatedly arrested. Village B also arranged for many people to keep the practitioners under surveillance. But the practitioners were not afraid. They believed that this human society has been arranged as the stage for Dafa disciples to save people. Through Fa-study and sharing, they came to an agreement: they would listen to Master, use truth-clarification as the universal key to open the locks in people's hearts, and save them. This is our responsibility.

When the persecution first began, the CCP sent a lot of banners and other materials to all the villages. On the banners and materials were printed slanderous words against Master and Dafa. The unemployed personnel who were usually in charge of monitoring practitioners posted these banners up and down the streets. The practitioners quickly held a meeting and divided up the work in order to deal with the situation. Some of them found the people responsible for posting the slanderous materials and compassionately clarified the truth to them, asking them not to commit crimes against Dafa. Practitioners even convinced them to take down the banners in order to retrieve their futures. As a result, the defamatory propaganda materials that were put up in the morning were ripped down in the afternoon.

B. Clarify the truth to the village head

Through their constant and diligent Fa-study, the practitioners were able to sum up their cultivation experiences and look inward to find their shortcomings. Because of this, they realized that it was a very important step to clarify the truth to the village head. So they selected two practitioners who were good at communicating and had strong righteous thoughts to go to the administrative office and explain the truth to the head of the village. The other practitioners stayed at home, sending forth righteous thoughts for them. Thus, they were able to reach the village leader.

With this good beginning, other practitioners visited the administrative office from time to time and re-iterated the truth to the head. They told him about the magnificence of Dafa on one day and then told him that Dafa has spread all over the world on another day. From telling him about the predictions that foretell the elimination of the CCP to telling him about the millions quitting the CCP, they finally influenced the village head to have a positive opinion about Dafa, and he willingly quit the CCP and its related organizations.

In the spring of this year, the fields to be planted in the countryside had to be re-assigned. The practitioners who had been sentenced to forced labor could not be assigned any fields to plant because their residential records had been canceled in the village. This was another good opportunity for truth-clarification. The practitioners went to the local police station with the thought that they were not going there to file for land but, instead, to tell the officers the facts about Falun Gong. They had failed to do so three times before, so this fourth time they brought the head of the village with them. The village head asked the police chief, "How come you have not finished the residential record transactions for them yet? I am waiting for this information to distribute the fields. The other villages have already finished, but we cannot start until you get this thing done." The police chief said, "So you will write a guarantee statement for me!" The police wanted the practitioners to write a guarantee statement, but none of the practitioners said that they could possibly write such a statement. The village leader then tipped off the practitioners with a wink and said, "Just do it." This is what the practitioners wrote: "We guarantee that we will study the Fa, protect the Fa, and walk well our own paths." When their "guarantee statement" was read out aloud, everyone inside the police office started laughing. On the way back to the village, the practitioners thanked the head of the village. He was very happy and said, "Just practice well at home. As long as I am here, nobody will dare to arrest you."

One of the officials from the county 610 Office came to arrest practitioners. The village head gave the police a warm reception and brought them into his office. While he offered them tea and lit up cigarettes for them, he said, "Is it that you guys have nothing else to do? What's wrong with practicing Falun Gong? All they want is to have good health and be good people. Is there anything wrong with that? They are all country men, simple and well-behaved. If you take away one of these people, the entire family will have trouble, so you cannot take anyone away today. But I will not have you come here in vain--let's go to the restaurant. I'll treat you!" In this way he distracted the authorities and protected the practitioners.

C. Disseminating information about Falun Gong to the villagers

While studying the Fa and sending righteous thoughts, the practitioners from Village B used the wisdom given to them by Dafa to disseminate information about Falun Gong to the villagers. Some of them always kept chalk in their pockets and wrote messages wherever they went. During these past couple of years, they have kept up this effort. With Master's protection, those practitioners worked smoothly together. Eight out of ten Party members in this village have already quit the CCP, and almost all the villagers would try to protect Dafa practitioners if danger came.

A few days ago, when an elderly practitioner went to the market, he ran into a former practitioner who had practiced before the persecution began. That former practitioner was at the administrative level in his company. Due to pressure from his supervisor, family, and relatives, he stopped practicing when the persecution began. But he had never really given up believing in Dafa. He believed that Dafa is good and righteous. The elderly practitioner told him, "It's time now to wake up. This is the opportunity that you have been waiting for, for hundreds of thousands of years. You should cherish it!" The former practitioner said, "Yes, it's time to wake up, I have missed eight years. And I might miss my opportunity forever if I don't wake up now. What a pity. If you have any materials you can give me, I will help to distribute them. I want to do something to save people." The elderly practitioner said, "You can come to my home when you have time. Then we can sit down and talk about it."

Not long after that, the former practitioner rode his motorcycle to visit the elderly practitioner. As he came into the village and asked people where the practitioner lived, nobody would tell him anything. He hung out there for more than an hour, until finally one person who knew him told him where the practitioner's home was. The elderly practitioner later asked the villagers, "Why didn't you just tell him where my home was?" The villagers said, "We didn't recognize him. What if he was a plainclothes policeman?"

Through these examples, we can see how important truth-clarification is. Truth-clarification has saved sentient beings and created a good cultivation environment for these villagers. Now in that village there are two Fa-study groups. By practicing, sharing, and sending righteous thoughts, their cultivation environment has returned to the way it was before the persecution began on July 20, 1999. Those who gave up cultivation have opened up Zhuan Falun and started to read once again. New practitioners continue to appear, which has made the number of practitioners climb to more than 20. Having created their righteous environment and circumstances, these practitioners are doing the "three-things" smoothly.

By comparing these two different cultivation environments, we can see the importance of truth-clarification and working as one body. We must put the three things into effect and catch up with Master's Fa-rectification process.

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