(Clearwisdom.net) A few days ago, I received a phone call from a former colleague, saying that some people wanted to visit me. As I prepared for their arrival, I thought about how to best clarify the facts about Falun Gong to them.
About a dozen people came to my house. When I met them, I noticed that they were rather stern looking, cautious and observing. My former colleague introduced them as agents from the Residential Committee, and said that they were in charge of our former workplace. I knew that the Residential Committee was involved in the persecution of Falun Gong. In private, my former colleague explained to me that it was his turn at work to accompany them on their travels.
After we were all seated, I wanted to introduce them to Falun Gong, so I asked, "What are each of you in charge of?" They replied that they mainly oversaw all the companies and residents within their jurisdiction, and right now they were quite busy in monitoring Falun Gong practitioners and petitioners who were appealing to the higher level authorities. Then they began to chat about ordinary topics, such as the news and customs they had observed while traveling. I was a little bit anxious, because I didn't want to give up this opportunity to save them. I realized that it wasn't a coincidence that they came here to meet with me from very far away. I asked Master in my heart to help me save them.
Just as I went to the kitchen and prepared food for them, the topic of their conversation shifted to the demolition of private property by the government to further state-run projects, and how the authorities dealt with complaints from people who lodged complaints and appeals. I joined the conversation, speaking about Falun Gong from the perspective of a third party. One person to me: "Don't you know that right now Falun Gong practitioners are too powerful? As long as the caller ID on your phone shows a string of zeros, that is an automated call they place to tell you about the crimes of Jiang Zemin, organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners, and so on. It looks like, though, that the CCP is putting the "lifetime system" on the Falun Gong people."
That was the first time I had heard this term,"the lifetime system," so I asked them what it was. One person answered, "Even if the person has practiced Falun Gong for only one day, the government will set up a file for him, and he is going to be monitored by us indefinitely." I asked how they monitored Falun Gong practitioners, to which they replied that they looked at people inside the homes from their cars or tracked them when they went out. Then I asked about the results of their surveillance. One woman among them laughed, pointed to the two men sitting across from her, and said: "Here is a case. A Falun Gong practitioner went out to the east of the city to buy some dog food everyday, so these two guys both followed him back and forth. Since the practitioner went there by bus, and they rode bicycles, they were too tired to catch up with the bus." I said, "The task your supervisor assigned to you seems too boring. According to my own knowledge, people who practice Falun Gong are all decent people. My neighbors and Falun Gong practitioners overseas are all good examples." Then I clarified the truth about the Tiananmen self-immolation. One man sitting across from me said: "Yeah, it does seem really fake."
Then their director said, "Take my task of persuading people who came to Beijing to appeal to go back as an example: My supervisor instructed us to take them back by all means. However, when we took those people back, no one was responsible for holding them in place, so they would escape and go to Beijing again if we don't monitor them closely enough." The more we talked with each other, the more lively the conversation became.
I said, "You work hard, yet you don't do anything useful, and even worse, you persecute good people. For example, I know a deputy director of a certain department. They assigned him a task to manage a Falun Gong brainwashing class and promised him promotion to a director after he completed this task. So, he accepted this task and managed the brainwashing class, but at the end they made him a supernumerary, not even allowing him to keep his original title of deputy director. He appealed to his supervisor, but no one helped him. How can you trust the CCP? So, it's best to stop the evil tasks you are doing right now." They nodded in agreement. When they were about to leave, every one of them shook hands with me warmly. They were delighted to see me whenever we met after that. I knew that their compassion had come out. I thought a lot about this encounter afterward.
Due to my work, I had to contact some government officials and public security agents. After I was persecuted, I found out that a so-called "close" friend of mine was actually monitoring me. Some time ago, I read an experience sharing article by a fellow practitioner, where he said that we should behave very carefully when we deal with public security agents and officers from the 610 Office. I knew that this view was based on real examples directly related to the lives and survival of our fellow practitioners. Some practitioners thought that we should never contact these agents. Some practitioners themselves used to be public security agents, and after the start of the persecution, they no longer associated with their former colleagues. It seemed that they were doing so for their safety. However, I wondered, "Shouldn't we save sentient beings that have predestined relationships with us if we work as public security agents?"
Once I visited a patient whose mother was the head of the local brainwashing class. Her mother pointed to several truth-clarification booklets and CDs and asked me, "Do you think that Falun Gong practitioners can be truly 'transformed'?" I said, "No, since whoever practices will benefit from doing it." She couldn't understand why many booklets and CDs explaining the facts about Falun Gong had been delivered to her door after she had tried her best to "transform" Falun Gong practitioners. Later on, she was diagnosed with cancer, and I told her that if she could sincerely recite, "Falun Dafa is Good!" in her heart, maybe she could feel better. She promised to do so, and then she understood Falun Gong better.
I thought to myself: "We are constantly stepping out of our comfort zones to do what it takes to give people the chance to learn the truth and change their attitude toward Dafa, even to the extent of taking great risks to clarify the facts about Falun Gong to all levels of government, police, and courts. Before they descended to the secular world, they never thought that they were going to work in these occupations." Therefore, I drew the conclusion that we should not differentiate people by their occupations when trying to save them.
