(Clearwisdom.net) It's been two years since I began using my cell phone to send text messages and make phone calls with recorded messages. I came to realize that this approach was very effective, so I began to actively promote it to fellow practitioners. It is secure, convenient, and flexible. One thing to consider however, is that if the text message is too short and obscure, it's hard to get the meaning across. I have written text messages about the beauty of Falun Dafa, the fact that Falun Dafa has spread all around the world, information on the three withdrawals (withdrawing from the Chinese Communist Party, the Communist Youth League, and the Young Pioneers), the truth about the staged self-immolation at Tiananmen Square, the brutality of organ harvesting, as well as other facts. From the replies to the text messages, I can see many whom I send the text messages to change their thinking a lot, and only a few don't accept the message. After I further clarify the truth to them, they finally come to truly understand it or agree with it.
The sincere appreciation from sentient beings often moves me. Some feel that it is such a pity that they learned the truth so late, some express appreciation by writing a poem, some talk as if we had known each other for a while, and some only reply with a very short sentence, “Oh ok, I got it. Thank you.” Seeing all those responses, I am so moved.
I have collected many phone numbers, from the countryside to the urban areas, and from the yellow pages. During the process of making phone calls, I have experienced that very few have hung up on me, and the majority listen attentively. If no one answers the phone, I write down the phone number and usually get through the next time. But there are also cases where phone calls to cell phones never get through. In that case, I just send text messages to them. People from the countryside are normally honest and kind, and many of them like listening to my phone calls. While they listen, they nod their heads from time to time, as if they were talking to someone face to face.
Families Began Practicing Falun Gong Together
In October 2007, while I was listening to Teacher's Fa-lecture recordings at home. My mother said to me, “I'd like to listen to it as well.” I said “OK” with a smile, and didn't take her action to heart, as I had thought she was curious. That evening, she began to eliminate her illness karma. Her feet swelled up. Not until then did I realize that my mother was going to begin her Falun Dafa cultivation. I said to her, “Feeling pain is a good thing, it is our Teacher being compassionate to you, seeing that you have listened to the Fa and have good inborn quality, He is cleaning up your body for you. As long as you can treat yourself as a practitioner, you'll be fine.” After that, I began sitting by her bed and talking to her about our cultivation story, my own experiences, and I encouraged her. She then felt relaxed and could endure the pain. The next day, she was back to normal. My mother said, “It was Teacher who suffered for me. Falun Dafa is so wonderful, I want to cultivate too.”
My mother then began studying the Fa, doing the exercises, and sending forth righteous thoughts. She also learned how to use my cell phone to read electronic books. She often feels sorry for not doing more to save sentient beings. She asked if she could assist me with doing something, so that I could save more people. My mother is a very kind person, and for the past ten years she has supported my cultivation. At certain key moments, she helped me by using her wisdom. After she began to cultivate, even though she didn't step out herself, she began helping me save sentient beings.
One day she said, “I never thought about if I could succeed in cultivation. You are not going to get married and have nothing in this world. I think you should cultivate hard. I didn't previously understand things, and every time you went out to do something, I became worried. I now understand that Teacher is always protecting you, so I don't need to be worried.”
After listening to what she said, I once again truly felt Teacher's benevolence and protection.
When my brother first started working, he was working on a mountain full of trees, where it was very quiet. At the time, he had a strong desire to cultivate. After I obtained the Fa in 1998, he was the first person I called. I told tell him that I obtained the righteous Fa. When he came home during his vacation time, I gave him a copy of the book Zhuan Falun. From then on, every year when he was back, I talked to him in detail about my understanding of the Fa and enlightenment at my personal level. Our conversations went on, and one went until very late at night. He also told others, “Falun Dafa is great, my sister is cultivating it.” However, for himself, I knew that he had not yet begun cultivating. For that, I felt so much pity for him and cried several times.
One day in 2008, a practitioner came to my home, and after she saw my brother, she said to him in a very warm-hearted way, “I heard from your sister that you have had the heart for cultivation since childhood, but Falun Dafa was not being spread to the world back then. Now since Falun Dafa is being spread to the world, we shouldn't pass it by. Why haven't you started cultivation yet, since you are already in so much agreement with Falun Dafa?” She then added, “Seeing that you have suffered so much hardship in life, I truly feel sorry for you. When I first saw you, you seemed so familiar to me. Maybe in one lifetime, we were in the same family. You are just like my real brother.” My brother listened to her quietly while she talked.
A few days later, this practitioner had another lengthy talk with my brother. After she left, my brother said, “After hearing what she had to say, I was shocked. I feel that I truly need to act on it, otherwise I will have no chance. On the other hand, everyday people have limited control over themselves nowadays.”
Ten years after I first told him about it, he finally began to practice Falun Dafa. One time when we were sharing, he suddenly couldn't help crying, which I have never seen before. He said that when he heard that Buddha Sakyamuni had displayed his mighty virtue a countless number of times in order to enlighten his disciples, he felt so sad. I suddenly understood that it was his knowing side being deeply moved by Teacher's saving grace.
Walking Toward Maturity and Rationality
On July 20, 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began persecuting Falun Gong. I consider this persecution a tremendous injustice for us. I have been distributing fliers, hoping that the people of the world will understand us, and to help them see the nature of Falun Dafa practitioners.
In 2001, Teacher's new article, “Fa-Rectification Period Dafa Disciples” was published. I didn't truly enlighten to the Fa-principle, so I didn't truly understand the meaning of being a Fa-rectification period Dafa disciple. One night, while I was hurrying on my way home, suddenly the two grand words “bestowed upon” were cast into my mind. As a result, my mind felt broadened, and suddenly I understood that it was Teacher bestowing upon me this sacred historical mission of saving sentient beings, as well as its broad and in-depth meaning. A strong sense of righteousness immediately came forth from the bottom of my heart.
My attachment to fear is not very strong. I used to bring folded fliers into shops and either pass them out to people or just leave them on the counter. When I was on the street, I passed them out to pedestrians. When I ran into primary school students, I told them to treasure the flyers and take them home to show to their parents. They are simple enough to accept them happily.
In 2005, we began producing materials ourselves. The practitioners who helped us set up the materials production center warned again and again that I should pay attention to security issues. She advised me to ask other people to deliver the materials. I realized that this was not only my own business, as it was not a matter of one being responsible for what one was doing either. For the very first time, I came to feel that it's a pleasant thing to think for the sake of our one-body.
When the center was first set up, even though we had only a few practitioners, we had a very high demand and workload. In one week, we used a full box of paper; we were working non-stop. A few key practitioners who were responsible for delivering the materials were later arrested by the CCP. What happened to them alerted me. Not until then did I begin to calm down, and look within. In the past, I had been in a rather hot-headed state while validating the Fa. I had the heart of sacrificing myself, and heroism. As a result, I lacked rationality, was seldom compassionate to others, and often felt a sense of fear deep inside myself for not having the Fa in my heart. I sometimes had a lot of fear. I yearned for Fa study. At that time, it was as if it was the first time that I read this paragraph in Teacher's article,
“The third thing is studying the Fa well. If you don't study this Great Law well your own Consummation won't be secured. What's more, all the important Dafa things you should do will be like ordinary people going about their business, with ordinary-person thoughts and with an ordinary person's basis, and then that's just ordinary people, at best that's just ordinary people doing good deeds for Dafa. Since you're Dafa disciples you can't dissociate yourselves from the Fa when you do things. You're still continually changing this most surface part that hasn't changed. That's why you can't go without studying the Fa. You must study the Fa well. In the process of studying the Fa you'll be able to keep clearing away bad elements in yourself, changing the last bit of stuff you have that hasn't yet been changed.” ("Teaching and Explaining the Fa at the Metropolitan New York Fa Conference")
I realized that I wasn't studying the Fa with a calm mind. I knew that only if one is immersed in the Fa, does the power of the Fa manifest. We should validate the Fa with maturity and rationality, and we can't be hot-headed while doing things. With more Fa study, my fear disappeared. When I reached an optimal state, Teacher's loud and compassionate voice echoed in my mind. My mind was clear and righteous at all times. As soon as a notion surfaced, I seized it right away. I have truly come to realize the beauty of being immersed in the Fa. I realized that I should change my ways instead of taking care of everything for everyone, I should have each and every one of them walk their own path based on their own situations, and let practitioners who have the resources set up family-based materials production centers. Let one's cell phone and stamps became one's Fa weapons, along with truth-clarifying materials, DVDs, and truth-clarification bills.
One time when I was printing Minghui Journal, I felt as if someone was outside. I became nervous right away, and all the cells in my body became alert. I began to hold my breath and thought to myself, "Hurry up, hurry up, I'll be done after another 100 copies." After I finished printing, I couldn't help laughing at myself, as at the right corner of each printout, there was a small wrinkle. “...the appearance stems from the mind.” which exactly reflected my mindset at that time. I was nervous, and so was the printer, as it began to “shake.” I have now made a breakthrough, I truly felt the difficult environment and all kinds of tribulation that practitioners had to face at the materials production center. Therefore, I'd like to remind practitioners that no matter how busy they are, to set aside time for Fa-study and sending forth more righteous thoughts every day. This is the key, so that we can maximize our efforts and achieve the best results at all levels.
On my cultivation path, I stumbled from time to time, but my path is full of selfless encouragement and support from fellow practitioners, I have truly felt practitioners' sincere cheers and tears. Fellow practitioners, I thank you for what you have done for me. Through reincarnations throughout tens of thousands of years, we finally got together in this human world, where our words echo in the cosmos, "No matter what difficulties we have to face, and what kind of tribulations we have to overcome, we will help each other and walk with each other." Let's appreciate and treasure the sacred predestined relationships with each other, bestowed upon us by our benevolent and wonderful Teacher!
