(Clearwisdom.net) The practitioners in my region held a Fa experience-sharing conference in 2009 on the fifteenth day of the last month, based on the traditional Chinese calendar. According to practitioners from a different region, the practitioners in another county made good use of the Chinese New Year during the previous two or three years. That is, the practitioners in the other county all stepped forward to validate the Fa, clarify the truth, and help people to withdraw from the Chinese Community Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations. Their technique was to take a scroll with the Chinese character “Fu” (meaning “blessings, good fortune, and enjoyment”) to every local family. (Putting a poster or scroll with fortuitous Chinese characters on one's house is a Chinese tradition during the Chinese New Year season.) Over ten thousand people have learned the truth this way. Their experience inspired us. Through searching within ourselves, we found the root cause of our gap, that is, although we kept doing the three things, we did not emphasize the one body of Dafa practitioners. We held the notion of satisfying ourselves. These human notions interfered with the improvement of the one body of Dafa practitioners, and it got in the way of our saving sentient beings. The practitioners in our region decided that we should cooperate better and step forward.
Harmonizing the One Body and Being Responsible for the Fa
The practitioners in our area organized a concerted truth-clarification effort. We recognized that during this process we would encounter people from all walks of life, including those who would understand us as well as those who would not. So we knew that the practitioners who would go first would have to have strong righteous thoughts, fewer human notions, and experience in truth-clarification. We also understood that different groups of practitioners needed to cooperate with each other and send righteous thoughts to support these fellow practitioners.
Working together as one body, the veteran practitioners led the new practitioners, and the new practitioners encouraged the veteran practitioners. Over more than ten days, over eighty percent of the veteran and new practitioners were tempered in the effort. There were several instances of encountering evildoers, but all of them were resolved safely. We came to understand that Master is protecting us at all times and that Master has made detailed arrangements for each and every step we take. This time, cooperation among practitioners was very cohesive. Moreover, there were some practitioners who had been away from the whole group for a long time, but with the help of other practitioners, they all joined Fa study groups again and participated in this activity.
The several practitioners in charge of coordinating the effort were under intense pressure. Each practitioner had his or her own views, and we needed to ensure that over one hundred practitioners, in a very short time, shared the same view and were able to work together. For some important discussions, we communicated with practitioners face to face, rather than using the phone. The practitioners in charge of conveying the messages were willing to take multiple trips in order to convey things in person.
Improving Ourselves While Offering People Salvation
The practitioners whose third eyes were opened could see that when one body of Dafa practitioners sent righteous thoughts toward specific villages or towns, the powerful energy gradually formed beautiful rings of light, and the rings kept changing shape. In the end, the energy formed a lotus flower that rotated in the sky. All the evil elements were eliminated instantly. What was reflected in the human dimension was that people were willing to listen to the truth clarification and quit the Party's organizations.
Before the Chinese New Year, practitioners took paper scrolls with the “Fu” character on them to different families. People were very happy to see the practitioners and were willing to withdraw from the Party's organizations. When we left, they walked us out and kept thanking us.
During the process, many practitioners let go of many attachments they were previously unable to let go of.
One practitioner was 83 years old. Due to her persuasiveness, many of her relatives and friends withdrew from the Party's organizations. To ask the village Party branch head to quit the Party, she went to clarify the truth again and again. Later, due her compassionate persuasion, he finally agreed to quit the Party. During this activity, many felt that she was too old and that it was not convenient for her to go to other regions. However, she insisted on going. During the activity, fellow practitioners helped her go up or downstairs to each home to encourage people to quit the Party. She could help over ten people quit in just a little over an hour. One elderly man, who was partially paralyzed, saw that this elderly practitioner was still strong and healthy, and thus he indicated that he wanted to practice Falun Gong.
A female practitioner was experiencing elimination of sickness karma. Her eyes were red, and she could see well with only one eye. She suffered from high blood sugar for a long time. Seeing the other practitioners go out to offer people salvation, she said that she also wanted to go. Seeing her condition, other practitioners asked her to stay home and send forth righteous thoughts. However, she insisted on going. The next day when others saw her clarifying the truth to people with great energy, she did not feel any discomfort. Now her health is normal.
Another female practitioner, who is over 60 years old, was suffering from high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, etc. She was extremely weak, and her sister helped take care of her. One afternoon I told her and her sister about the truth clarification activity. This practitioner said that she had 500 yuan, which could be used to buy some of the “Fu” characters. She also said that she wanted to go out to make the purchase herself. After learning about this activity, her sister did not stay with her anymore and went to her hometown to clarify the truth. Several days later, I learned that this practitioner's health problems were no more and that she does not need others to take care of her anymore.
One morning, several groups of practitioners went to a village to clarify the truth. One female practitioner saw six or seven persons living in a family compound. When she was about to enter the compound, a big dog came out and ran at her. Without hurrying, she pointed at the dog and said, “I come to offer salvation to your masters. Hurry back in!” She was composed. The dog immediately backed down and obediently went back inside the compound with its head hanging down. Everyone in the compound agreed to quit the Party's organizations after the practitioner talked to them.
On one occasion, practitioners went to another village to clarify the truth, house by house. Two or three police vehicles appeared. The practitioners decided that they had to finish giving out the “Fu” characters. The vehicles stayed behind and slowly followed them as they went to each courtyard and watched from outside. When they finished giving away all they had brought, they safely returned under Master’s protection.
Experiences and Lessons
During the process, there was a small number of practitioners who had a relatively weak perception of the one body of Dafa practitioners. They did not cooperate and started to do things in their own way ahead of time. As a result, they were only able to persuade two people to quit the Party organizations, and people’s attitudes toward them were not good. Another group went to another village, and they were only able to convince six people to quit the Party. They also stumbled and fell on their way home. During the sharing, these practitioners came to understand the mighty power of cooperation among Dafa practitioners as a whole. Otherwise, there would be interference.
In the initial several days the practitioners cooperated well and did well offering people salvation. Because of this, some practitioners, upon seeing the relaxed environment, became complacent. They instead came up with something on their own, and as a result, the evil exploited their gaps and the police seized five of them. After this incident, all the practitioners sent righteous thoughts to disintegrate the evil, and in the meantime, strengthen the fellow practitioners arrested. They also asked the family members of the arrested to go to the police station and ask for the release of these practitioners. The seized practitioners also clarified the facts to the police. Through their concerted efforts, which lasted three hours, the police finally released the practitioners unconditionally .
Before going out to clarify the truth, the practitioners first sent righteous thoughts to remove the rotten demons and communist specters in the region where the practitioners planned to go, as well as to help practitioners who went out to return safely. The practitioners’ minds were very pure within the energy field of the one body of Dafa practitioners. Many elderly practitioners and those practitioners who did not often step forward to validate the Fa were tempered during these activities.
