We Should Eliminate Our Notions and Hurry Up to Raise Awareness about the Persecution

(Minghui.org) When Falun Dafa’s founder published the article, “How Humankind Came to Be,” I felt that we should hurry and let more people know the facts about the persecution. The world is rapidly changing, and people have recently experienced catastrophes. Many people still believe the CCP’s (Chinese Communist Party) slander about Falun Dafa. Most haven’t learned the truth about Falun Dafa yet and don’t know the true nature of the CCP. We should let go of our fear and explain the facts about Falun Dafa and the persecution to people with compassion and wisdom and persuade them to withdraw from the CCP and its affiliated organizations.

We shouldn’t look at issues with human notions. Some local practitioners had conflicted thoughts regarding the issue of telling people the true situation. For example, some practitioners said that if they used money bills printed with information about Falun Dafa on them when they purchased things, that was sufficient. They didn’t do anything else. Some said that they didn’t know how to clarify the truth face to face. Others only told their relatives and friends about Falun Dafa. Some only talked to people who looked kind, especially the elderly and children—while others only distributed materials but didn’t dare to clarify the truth in person. Some gave out amulets but didn’t dare to give out truth-clarifying materials. Others only read the teachings but didn’t do anything to awaken people. Some practitioners, including me, didn’t have strong righteous thoughts when they clarified the truth to people. Their human notions kept surfacing.

Most practitioners’ mentalities are reflected in their attitude and the way they clarify the truth to let people know about the persecution. Some practitioners were arrested when clarifying the truth to people and were sentenced. Their salaries or their pensions were stopped. They suffered while imprisoned and their relatives and friends were anxious. Their family members who don’t practice Falun Dafa told them, “Don’t go out to distribute materials. Don’t talk to people and ask them to quit the CCP. Just practice at home. Don’t go out.” Some practitioners nearly stopped doing things to let people know the truth about the persecution. They only practiced the exercises and read the Fa at home. Some were frightened and didn’t dare to clarify the truth to people face to face even though they still did things to save people.

There are some that have never been persecuted. But when they saw that other practitioners were persecuted, they became frightened and didn’t dare to come out to talk to people. They have been in this state for a long time. In the process of clarifying the truth to people, all sorts of attachments are exposed to see whether we have compassion and kind thoughts. Have we become selfless and think of others first instead of ourselves? We should really take a hard look at ourselves.

The COVID pandemic was severe, and thousands died. Practitioners know the urgency of saving people. Some practitioners in our area have done very well. They often go out to clarify the truth to people. They go to the market and the countryside to tell people the truth about Falun Dafa. They have awakened a lot of people.

I often go out to clarify the truth and help people withdraw from the CCP and its affiliated organizations. I distribute pamphlets, truth-clarifying calendars, and amulets in the villages.

A local practitioner often goes to other areas by motorcycle to tell people the facts about the persecution. He usually helps more than 300 people withdraw from the CCP and its affiliated organizations each year. He often brings other practitioners with him. I also went with him to clarify the truth in the villages. Every time we helped about 20 to 30 people quit the CCP.

It was already cold with ice on the ground at the end of October and the beginning of November last year. This practitioner and I left at 7 a.m. and headed to a village to distribute calendars for 2023. We brought two big bags full of calendars. It was very cold and the wind was strong. My hands became numb and ached. When I saw people on the street, I asked the practitioner to stop. I went over to clarify the truth and give them calendars. We went to the countryside for two days and helped over 70 people withdraw from the CCP.

Now I read the teachings with another practitioner in our Fa study group in the morning and go out to clarify the truth to people after we send forth righteous thoughts. We can help several people withdraw from the CCP almost every day. Even if people don’t agree to quit the CCP, at least we clarified the truth to them and let them know the true nature of the CCP and let them know that Falun Dafa is good, and Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.

But it didn’t always go smoothly. I sometimes met people who didn’t accept the truth. Some threatened to report me and didn’t let me leave.

One day a man in his sixties grabbed me and wouldn’t let go. He said that I was anti-CCP and threatened to report me to the police. He threatened to take a photo of me and said, “I won’t let you go. I will take you to the police station.” I had a bag on my back filled with truth-clarifying materials. He tried to take it, but I held it tightly. He was not able to take it but wrapped the strap around his wrist. I clarified the truth to him calmly and said, “You think the CCP is good and want to defend it. It’s not wrong from your point of view. But we need to talk. Let’s go inside. Please don’t get angry. I don’t hate you because we don’t know each other. I haven’t done any bad things. Our Master (Falun Dafa’s founder) asks us to be good people by following the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. If you report me to the police, you’ll feel guilty if bad things happen to me, right? I can see you are not a bad person. You will be blessed if you treat Falun Dafa practitioners kindly.” He finally let me go.