(Clearwisdom.net) In an effort to help save sentient beings, the practitioners in our city worked together for over a year on a lawsuit. After that effort, the evil forces in the area were greatly reduced. As a result, ordinary citizens better understood the truth of Falun Gong, the evil forces inside the government law enforcement agencies were eliminated to a large degree, and the local practitioners worked as one body.

A fellow practitioner was illegally arrested last spring, and practitioners from out of town hired lawyers to defend her. Two weeks before the trial, her case reached a deadlock. Therefore, we readjusted our way of thinking about the case.

Our goals for the lawsuit

Everything that we do is to save sentient beings and for practitioners to become more mature. Hence the goals we wanted to reach through filing this lawsuit were:

1) To clarify the truth to a large number of people

The persecution of Falun Gong has lasted for more than ten years, and during this time, a large number of Chinese have learned that Falun Gong is good. Many Chinese people, however, still believe the Falun Gong is illegal in China. That notion prevents people from supporting Falun Gong even though they know that Falun Gong is good. Many Chinese citizens’ moral consciences have been oppressed so badly by this notion that they are not clear on this.

From this event, we learned that to offer salvation to sentient beings in the current China, we should help people understand two basic concepts. First of all, no Chinese law says that Falun Gong is illegal, and secondly, those who have been persecuting Falun Gong practitioners are unknowingly committing a crime, and will eventually be punished by law. Our lawsuit intended to give the public the opportunity to learn the facts of the law and consequently develop righteous attitudes and eventually be saved.

2) Offer salvation to the personnel who work for law enforcement agencies

Many people did not know the truth about Dafa. We believe that most of the people who participate in the persecution will stop committing the crimes of persecuting Falun Gong after they learn that Falun Gong actually is legal. After they know that, if they continue to persecute practitioners, they might end up in jail, or even pay with their own lives for those practitioners who have passed away in their custody. If we help them to see the danger, they will be awakened, and afterwards they will be saved. Not only that, the evil forces will be dismantled and it will play a vital role to help end the persecution.

3) Help more practitioners to join the project, so that we can form a whole body

We did not form group Fa studies until recently in our city, so communication between the practitioners in different towns and districts in our area was not well organized. As a result, some practitioners had conflicts and did not talk to each other; they could not collaborate with each other at all. We hoped that we could use this opportunity to get everyone together to accomplish the project objectives as a whole body. After organizing our thoughts, the coordinators in different districts began to collaborate well and discussed the importance of the lawsuit and how we should cultivate ourselves in the process. We promised that we would work together and let go of our sense of self in order to accomplish our tasks together. Even those practitioners who did not do anything, as long as they silently supported other practitioners, they were collaborating effectively with the entire group.

After readjusting our thoughts, we focused on the fact that there were only ten days left before the trial. The volunteer coordinators from all of the towns and districts busily travelled to different places every day, because they did not want to leave any practitioners out of such an important event. At a critical moment, we were told that the trial had been postponed for six days. We thanked Master for his arrangement. With the extra six days, we were able to help every single practitioner in all the towns and districts to get updates on the lawsuit, and, eventually, over 900f the practitioners all did their best to collaborate together.

4) Rescue fellow practitioners

We concluded that we could help save a large number of sentient beings through the lawsuit; in addition, our fellow practitioners could also get an opportunity to work collaboratively when our hearts were joined together. Even if the practitioner was not be released in the end, our efforts would still improve her situation. On the other hand, if we truly did well, the sentient beings’ hearts would be rectified, and this would also be beneficial for those practitioners who were still incarcerated.

For the above reasons, we made banners, post-it notes, fliers, and pamphlets; left voice mail and text messages; and sent invitations to people to educate them about the legitimacy of the lawsuit.

Our goal for hiring the lawyers

We were not clear what kind of roles the lawyers could play in this case. However, after we readjusted our thoughts that the lawsuit was meant as a vehicle to offer salvation to sentient beings, everything went well.

The vicious Chinese Communist Party (CCP) persecutes Falun Gong, but tries its best to cover up its notorious deeds from the general public. Selfishness has left most Chinese indifferent to the persecution. In some areas, the evil forces successfully interfered with some trials for Falun Gong practitioners. We believed that, whatever the outcome, it would nevertheless give us a great opportunity to simply let people hear the truth about Dafa. Furthermore, we would also use this opportunity to let every corner of the city know that “well-known lawyers from Beijing” would present in the courtroom representing the practitioner. Media coverage was positive.

Spread the truth widely

We made a large number of banners to spread the news of our intention to plead innocent and hung them up everywhere. We also passed out lots of post-it notes, fliers, and pamphlets. Very quickly, almost everyone in the city knew about the lawsuit. Of all the methods that we tried, voice mail messages and invitations were the most effective.

We split up the several hundred thousand phone numbers, entered them into a few dozen phones, and called almost all of them in a short period of time. The effect was very good: the majority of the people who received the calls listened to our messages and some of them even listened more than once.

We also found about 500 phone numbers of those who work for law enforcement agencies in the city and sent them text messages that explicitly explained to the correct legal facts about Falun Gong and an invitation to attend the trial.

In an appeals case this year in a nearby city, fellow practitioners collected about one million phone numbers and asked the practitioners from nearby towns and cities for help in contacting those people. For example, the practitioners from one city got more than 260,000 phone numbers. They entered those numbers in different phones, and, within a month, they texted all of the numbers with the legal facts of their case. Lots of people responded to their text messages. The effect was very good, and lots of people were saved as a result.

Some government officials and “famous and powerful local celebrities” hardly have a chance to come across truth-clarifying materials, since they either stay indoors or ride in their cars. To help them see the materials, we sent them invitations that helped explain the truth about the lawsuit.

As a matter of fact, our invitations resembled the truth-clarifying materials on which we printed the traditional Chinese brush style on one side: “Why has Falun Gong been spread all over the world, but only been persecuted in China? Why are Falun Gong practitioners standing steadfast even though the brutal persecution of Falun Gong has been going on for more than ten years? Why do more and more lawyers dare to help Falun Gong practitioners to enter innocent pleas even if they are adversely pressured by the government? Coming up in October, two famous lawyers from Beijing will reveal the truth about Falun Gong for you. Please come join us in court.” On the other side of the invitations, we printed the particulars of our case with the time and location of the trial. Many people who received our invitations carefully read the information, and some said they would come to the trial.

When sending out invitations, we needed to pay attention to security, but at the same time, we wanted to send as many invitations as possible. Therefore, we did not set any limits on how many invitations each practitioner should send. We each sent invitations to those “well-known and important celebrities” in our local areas, in addition to our friends, families, and acquaintances. No matter what titles they held—whether they were officials or security guards in small villages—as long as they regarded themselves as someone important, we sent them invitations. We sent out about two thousand invitations all together. In such a small city, we covered the majority of people who made up the mainstream of our local community.

Clarifying the truth in such a comprehensive way captured the attention of the entire city; everywhere we went, we could find a large number of people talking about our lawsuit.

Master’s arrangement is the best

Right before the trial convened, the court was able to pressure the practitioner’s family to fire the lawyers we had hired from Beijing and switch to a local lawyer who would enter a guilty plea in exchange for a shortened jail term. They also made a deal to hold a closed trial. The CCP court then had police officers guarding all the intersections within a one-mile radius and blocked all traffic from entering the area. Even the public buses did not stop near the courthouse that day. Furthermore, the local government made sure that all villages and work units monitored Dafa practitioners. Undercover officers surrounded the courthouse. It was a very special day; people talked about the case on the streets and at work.

It looked as if the evil forces were armed to the teeth, but we were elated because the evil forces actually helped us to spread the influence of the case. Originally we were afraid that not many people would pay attention to the trial and listen to the truth. We learned that, as long as we were intent on offering salvation to the sentient beings, the evil forces would be under our control and obediently follow our commands.

As a matter of fact, we were worried before the trial because one of the lawyers from Beijing had planned to plead innocent but then bargain for a guilty verdict with a shortened term. His defense argument, however, contained anti-Falun Gong information. We absolutely did not want to allow that lawyer that we had hired to slander Dafa, and we wanted do our best to prevent people from hearing those lies. However, the lawyer insisted on submitting that misinformation. Not knowing what else we could do, we felt powerless. Then a miracle happened that morning when the practitioner’s family fired the lawyers from Beijing. We thanked Master for the perfect arrangement.

We were fully prepared before the trial. We utilized the opportunity to once again reveal the evil forces’ true nature and clarified the truth to everybody present.

The lawsuit gave us the opportunity to form one body, and the evil forces were reduced. Several police officers stated that they no longer wanted to participate in the persecution, and some of them secretly stopped arresting Falun Gong practitioners. Some people from inside the law enforcement agencies told us that nobody wanted to arrest practitioners if the incidents were being publicly reported on.