Positive Results Come When Practitioners Sincerely Cooperate

(Minghui.org) Greetings compassionate Master! Greetings fellow practitioners!

I came to Toronto in 2019 and contacted local practitioners. With their help, I quickly adapted to the cultivation environment here and went to Queen’s Park, the Chinese Consulate, Niagara Falls, and the Quit CCP site in Chinatown to clarify the truth about the persecution to people.

Clarifying the Truth in Chinatown

I’ve been going to Chinatown for three years. The colors on the cart were very beautiful and eye-catching. Another practitioner told me how the cart came to be in Chinatown. It was assembled on Finch Avenue and then practitioners pushed it all the way from Finch Avenue to the busy intersection in Chinatown, while playing Pudu the entire way. Throughout the year, practitioners bring the cart to Chinatown to tell people about the persecution and help them quit the CCP organizations. After 17 years of wear and tear, the cart is still in good shape. I was very moved by this story, and felt that our being there is very important.

The site in Chinatown is feared and hated by the evil factors, and it is not always easy for us to clarify the truth there. There is a lot of interference. One was from a Chinese man who came every day with a megaphone, shouting and screaming. I have talked with him, and he had a good attitude when we spoke, but he kept doing it. We persisted in sending righteous thoughts and kept playing the musical pieces Pudu and Jishi.

One day, something unusual happened. While this man stood there shouting as usual, out of nowhere, a stranger came, sternly criticized him, picked up his bags and threw them into the middle of the road. They were run over by passing cars. I stood by our cart and looked on. When I turned back around, the stranger was gone. Where did he come from, and where did he go? Since then, no one has come to interfere with us.

I realized that compassionate Master (Falun Dafa’s founder) was helping us and prevented him from interfering.

Toronto’s Chinatown is a popular tourist attraction. Every day there are many visitors from China, including international students. Most of them look at our carts, the six big panels and the banners, when they pass by.

One day when I was handing out flyers with another practitioner, a Chinese gentleman hurried toward us. Pointing to the “End the CCP” petition board, he asked me, “Is this the right place to withdraw? I’m here, and I want to quit the CCP, is this the place to sign up?” I took out a blank piece of paper, handed it to him and said, “Please write here, I withdraw from the CCP organizations and refuse to be its scapegoat!” He added, “I’ve known for a long time that the CCP is evil! So evil! I saw with my own eyes that they even beat up old ladies. When people were doing the Falun Gong exercises, they wouldn’t allow it, they went over and beat them up. There is no humanity in it! In the past I joined the Young Pioneers, and I’m quitting that today!” He neatly wrote, “I quit the Young Pioneers! May God destroy the Chinese Communist Party!” Then he signed his name, his real name.

Another time I was changing the numbers on the Three Withdrawals board when a practitioner told me, “Two Chinese people are looking at the display board.” I looked up and saw two Chinese ladies reading a story on the large display board: “A Critical Moment: The Miracle of One Thought.” I greeted them, and one lady pointed to a sentence and asked me, “This person had a cough and a fever, and as soon as he said, “Falun Dafa is good! His cough and fever were gone, how come?” I told them: “Falun Dafa is Buddha law! Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance are the characteristics of the universe. Falun Dafa is good! Truthfulness- Compassion-Forbearance is good. These are the sacred phrases. Many people have remained safe and avoided the plague by saying them! When you sincerely recite these two phrases, you will be able to mobilize the positive energy of the universe to communicate with your body, purify your body, drive away bad things and receive the blessing of Gods and Buddhas.”

The two ladies listened and smiled. I told them, “If you joined any CCP organizations, please quickly withdraw from them. Why? Growing up in China, as soon as you go to school, they make you join the Young Pioneers, and make you swear that you will give your life to it, fight for it all your life, and as you grow older they make you join the Youth League, join the Party, swear again to give your life to it and fight for it all your life. You may not know that the oaths you made are poisonous. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) created the virus to take away people’s lives, but most people don’t know what is going on. People swear to devote their lives to the CCP, to fight and give their lives for it. Please hurry up and quit whatever CCP organization you joined, so that you can have a better future, get away from its evil claws, and save your own lives.

The two ladies said they understood. One said, “I already quit. Practitioners helped me quit.” She then pointed to the other lady and said, “She has not quit, help her quit.” The other lady readily agreed to quit the Young Pioneers and the Youth League. I pointed to another panel and told them that the Tiananmen self-immolation was a hoax; it was orchestrated by the CCP to discredit Falun Dafa. Practitioners are good people who conduct themselves according to the standards of Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance; they would not kill others and they would not commit suicide. The CCP does not allow people to be good, so they persecute and defame Falun Gong. They even harvest organs from living Falun Gong practitioners. There has never been something so evil, and I suggest that you read The Ultimate Goal of Communism on the internet to better understand the CCP.”

I know that our compassionate Master is right beside us, bringing predestined people to us to hear the truth, and withdraw from CCP organizations, in order to protect their lives. It is a joy to be on duty at the Chinatown site, and we all cooperate very well.

This January we had two heavy snowfalls, and the lowest temperature was around minus 20 degrees. As the roads were snowy and slippery, we had to stop for two days. On Thursday, January 20, we resumed going to Chinatown. The temperature was very low, about minus 15. I was scheduled for the second shift from 2:30 to 4:00 and it didn’t snow that day. The temperature was very low, and it was also windy. I wondered if anyone salted the street or shoveled the snow, so I arrived an hour early. I brought the snow pusher and a shovel. The practitioners on the first shift said, “You came so early.” I explained that I wanted to shovel the snow in our area. They immediately took the snow pusher and shovel from me, and started clearing the snow. I was very touched and took a few videos with my phone. Looking at the videos, I thought, “Dafa practitioners are so great!”

The next afternoon when I went to cover the shift, I was alone. I was standing by the cart handing out materials, when the man who feeds the pigeons came up to me with a smile and said hello. I pointed to the picture on the cart and asked him, “Do you know about the three withdrawals?” He said, “I withdrew a long time ago and signed the petition.” I said, “That’s good!” He said, “The CCP is so evil! They all send their children abroad ...” I was so happy that he knew the truth.

He noticed that the area around our stand has no snow and it’s quite spacious. He grabbed a handful of rice from his bag and scattered it on the ground next to our cart and said, “Let the pigeons keep you company!” Instantly, pigeons flew in from all directions to eat the rice. When the pigeons flew away droppings surrounded our cart. I thought, “Nothing is accidental.” Why did he do this? Was there something we didn’t do right? Were we too selfish and only thought about ourselves?

Master said, “... try to always be thoughtful towards others.” (The Ninth Talk, Zhuan Falun) “...think of others first at all times.” (The Sixth Talk, Zhuan Falun)

We only thought about ourselves, not others. If we had shoveled a path in front of their door, maybe he wouldn’t have done it. The Quit the CCP site is a place where the old forces exploits our gaps. We are Dafa practitioners, shouldn’t we be unselfish?

On Sunday, I went there to fill in for another practitioner. It was at least minus 10 degrees that day, my hands and feet were frozen. Practitioners came to cover their shifts as usual. I arrived an hour early to shovel the snow. I told the practitioners on the first shift what I planned to do. The three of us took turns shoveling the snow, and I was very touched.

We shoveled a path around our cart and the display boards. Because it was the weekend many people were coming and going, and many people who passed by smiled and gave us a thumbs up, and some people said, “Good job!” To prevent pedestrians from falling, we also cleared the snow and ice at the intersection by the traffic light. While we shoveled, people watched us. A Western lady standing at the intersection waiting for a green light, thanked us profusely.

People watch every move we make. From that day on, the man feeding the pigeons never came to our spot.

Whenever I stand by the cart to clarify the truth and validate the Fa, I have a very sacred feeling, especially when I see people who know the truth pass by and give us a thumbs up, or say, “Way to go!” That feeling is even stronger.

Helping Coordinate the City Hall Square Site

In April, the coordinator said, “The practitioner who has been clarifying the truth and holding banners there needs to go to work, and I hope to find some replacements.” I was asked to coordinate the truth-clarification site at City Hall with another practitioner. I thought, “I’m already coordinating the Chinatown site, so I’m worried that I won’t do a good job coordinating here.”

However, when I realized that so many tourists from all over the world go there to do sight-seeing and take pictures, I knew this was a good place to clarify the truth. I agreed to help coordinate and made arrangements for practitioners to be on duty seven days a week. Every day practitioners put up banners in the city hall square with the messages, “Falun Dafa is good” and “The World Needs Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance.” The first thing we do every day when we get there is send righteous thoughts.

One day, around 1:30 p.m., a male practitioner who can speak English came to help after his shift at another truth clarifying site. At around 2:00 p.m., a man came up behind us, and grabbed one of the banners and tried to pull it down. He shouted, “This is an English-speaking country.” The male practitioner stepped in front of him to stop him. The man grabbed the male practitioner with one hand, shoved him against the concrete wall, and his other hand was trying to choke him. Seeing this, I shouted: “Master please help!” I sent out strong righteous thoughts to clear the evil in other dimensions and to make the man stop. The man immediately let go.

But he would not give up and went for the other banner that says, “Falun Dafa is good.” He grabbed it and pulled the bottom edge of the banner off. People nearby were shocked at the man’s behavior, and one of them condemned him loudly. He ran away.

We continued to hang up banners and clarify the truth, and practitioners were at our post every day to save people. We have Master, and the Fa with us, and we know that one righteous thought overcomes a hundred evils! No matter how rampant the evil is, it cannot stop us from saving people!

Many tourists visit city hall, and they all like to take pictures. When they see us meditating and doing the exercises, some give us a thumbs up, and some give us two thumbs up. People say they enjoy listening to our music, and some come to learn the exercises. Next to the banner we put free truth-clarifying materials, small lotus flowers, and a petition letter. The visitors take flyers, sign the petition and take the small lotus flowers themselves.

One day there was an event in City Hall square. A lot of people came, and we still had those two big banners up. As soon as we finished putting them up, a gentleman came to us. He had a badge on his chest, and looked like someone who worked in the building. He smiled at us and gave us a thumbs up and said in Chinese, “Way to go! The CCP is evil!” I also gave him a thumbs up and said, “You’re awesome!”

All beings are awakening, and I know that it is our great compassionate Master who brings predestined people to us to encourage us. Everything is arranged by Master, we just move our lips.

Introducing Falun Dafa at Niagara Falls

Niagara Falls attracts many visitors from all over the world and is a great place for us to clarify the truth.

I have been going to the falls once a week on Mondays for three years now. We recite Lunyu (On Dafa), listen to one of Master’s lectures, and demonstrate the exercises in the park. I use the little English I learned to hand out flyers and clarify the truth to people. Each group of people that wants to learn the exercises comes from a different country, and we meet with visitors from all over the world every day.

One day while another practitioner meditated in the park, I handed a flyer to a gentleman. He took it and said, “Many people want to learn to meditate, can you teach us?” I said, “Of course.” I didn’t ask him which country he was from since he spoke English. He was one of a group of seven visiting the falls and we taught them the Falun Dafa exercises.

Before they left, the gentleman said, “Can we take a picture with you?” I said, “Yes.” I was very touched by their respect for Falun Dafa.

I know Master is bringing predestined people to us to hear the truth and learn the exercises.

Looking at the tourists coming and going, I was happy from the bottom of my heart. When I smiled and greeted them they greeted me, and took the flyers. I feel as if they were my relatives. They sign the petition in twos and threes. Suddenly three people stood in front of me with smiles on their faces, after they took the flyers and signed the petition, I gave each of them a small lotus flower. One of the young ladies said, “This small lotus flower is so beautiful.” They laughed very happily, and when I saw their happy faces, I didn’t know why, tears came, as if they were my relatives from the past who had found the truth in this time of crisis. I was so happy for them that tears came to my eyes! I told them: “Good luck to you!” They said, “You too.”

Attraction sites that are effective sometimes experiences interference. One day as soon as we hung up the banner, a police car came. The two police officers came over and told us, “Someone reported you. Take down the banner. There is nothing we can do about it.”

The police here are very kind and we obeyed their order. We immediately took down the banner, and put the flyers, the small lotus flowers and the sign board on the rocks of the park fence so that people could help themselves. We did the exercises in the park, and visitors came to sign the petition and take the flyers and the small lotus flowers. At one point, six people lined up to sign the petition. Seeing this, we were all amazed. We knew that as long as our hearts are pure in saving people, Master will bring people who are predestined to learn the truth and be saved.

Master said,

“When a problem arises, it provides an opportunity for clarifying the truth.” ( “Fa Teaching Given at the 2006 Conference in Canada,” Collected Teachings Given Around the World Volume VII)

The police here are completely different from the police in China. Several of us who can speak English have been to the police station many times to tell them the facts about Dafa, and the police who met with us know more and more about us. They all know that Falun Dafa is good, but they have to respond when someone reports us.

Niagara Falls is a renowned tourist attraction, receiving many tourists from all over the world every year. We distribute flyers, clarify the truth, and help people withdraw from CCP organizations. Every day many people get to know what Falun Dafa is. Many people come to learn the exercises and the truth. Some Chinese people quit the CCP organizations on the spot. But recently there has been a lot of interference.

Practitioners should look inside for anything they encounter. First, I should look for what I have not done well and whether I have an attachment to zealotry. Every time on the way back from the falls, I have a feeling of joy for the people who got to know the truth. At a deeper level in my heart, there is also a potential attachment of zealotry, which should be removed.

Having found this attachment, I have been strict with myself, study the Fa more, send righteous thoughts, constantly reject and not want the attachment, and try to save people with a calm heart.

(Presented at the 2022 Canada Falun Dafa Cultivation Experience Sharing Conference)