Patiently Offering Salvation to Sentient Beings

(Minghui.org) I went out with another practitioner to clarify the truth in late November this year. We met an 80-year-old woman who struggled to walk and seemed in poor health.

I said to her, “It seems that you are struggling with a health issue. Can we tell you about something good that promotes better health?” She said, “I knew you were Falun Dafa practitioners the moment you asked me that.” After we confirmed that we were, she walked away. It was obvious that she’d been deceived by the evil Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) propaganda and was prejudiced against Dafa practitioners.

I was not affected by her attitude but just wanted her to know the truth. I caught up with her and continued to chat. She said that people from all different religions, such as Christianity and Buddhism, had approached her, but she did not believe any of them. She only believed in herself. I replied, “It is right to believe in yourself and believe you have the ability to distinguish good from bad.” She suddenly stopped and said, “Let me hear what you want to say.”

Before I began, she asked, “Why did Falun Dafa practitioners go to the government office in Zhongnanhai in Beijing to make trouble? How did that resolve anything?” I told her it was a peaceful petition. Former Prime Minister Zhu Rongji came out and selected four practitioners to explain the situation to him. They told him they were appealing in Beijing because 45 Falun Gong practitioners in Tianjin had been illegally arrested and that the arrests had been authorized by the central government in Beijing.

The practitioners asked Minister Zhu for three things: That the arrested practitioners be unconditionally released, that they be allowed to practice Falun Dafa peacefully, and that Falun Gong books be allowed to be published. Minister Zhu agreed, and the issue was resolved.

I also told her that all the practitioners immediately dispersed afterward. They cleaned the area before they left and even picked up all the cigarette butts thrown by the police, as well as paper scraps on the road. It was Jiang Zemin, the former Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader, who later made the decision to persecute Falun Dafa. He even misrepresented our peaceful petition and called it a “siege of Zhongnanhai.”

She also asked about the Tiananmen Square Self-Immolation. I pointed out some flaws in the video, indicating the self-immolation was fabricated. For example, one of the participants, Wang Jindong, had his face burned, but his hair and eyebrows were untouched. The plastic bottle filled with gasoline between his legs was also intact.

The young girl involved, Liu Siying, was interviewed by a reporter just four days after a tracheotomy, yet she could sing, which is not medically possible.

The lady said, “I understand everything you said! You have been really patient with me and did not give up on me even after I walked away. Whenever I met Falun Dafa practitioners before, they gave up on me when I did not want to listen. Now, I finally understand what you all were trying to tell me. Please tell me the best way to keep healthy.”

I told her that Falun Dafa is the great Buddha Fa and that by sincerely reciting, “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good,” she could stay safe and healthy. She recited it with me repeatedly and thanked me. I told her she should thank Master Li. I also told her it was important to withdraw from the CCP and its affiliated organizations. She readily agreed to quit. A person who had been deeply poisoned by the CCP’s lies was finally saved.

My encounter with this woman greatly touched me. I realized that, after many years of cultivating, I had not cultivated patience and compassion, so I may have pushed aside many predestined sentient beings because of my lack of patience.

In the past, when I encountered someone who was deeply poisoned by the CCP’s lies and refused to listen to the truth, I felt it was really difficult to save them and gave up. When I look within now, I feel I let those sentient beings down and did not fully assume my responsibility to save them.

Master said:

“Do a good job of explaining things to them and hit the right points, and they will regain their clarity if you can help the person to see where his understanding is off.” (“Fa Teaching Given at the Fa Conference Marking the Tenth Anniversary of Minghui’s Founding,” Collected Fa Teachings, Vol. X)

“If you, as Dafa disciples, want to effect change in a person when you clarify the truth and want to save him, you must not arouse the negative elements in that person. You must hold to being shan, and only then can you resolve problems that may arise and save that person.” (“Fa Teaching at the 2009 Washington DC International Fa Conference,” Collected Fa Teachings, Vol. IX)

After comparing myself to Master’s Fa, I realized where I did not do well in clarifying the truth and how I did not follow the requirements of the Fa. I want to remind fellow practitioners that we should not easily give up on people who were deeply poisoned by the CCP’s lies. We should treat them with compassion and kindness in order to fulfill our duty to help save them.