(Minghui.org) I started practicing Falun Dafa (Falun Gong) in China before 1999 and moved abroad in 2010. I would like to share some of my cultivation experiences outside of China.
I had an opportunity to join a live broadcast room on the RTC platform in 2017. This is a platform where Dafa practitioners make phone calls to people in China, clarify the truth about Dafa, and advise people to quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). For the past seven years, from listening to other practitioners making calls, to making calls myself with Master’s strengthening and practitioners’ encouragement, I have improved my xinxing and benefited a lot while helping Master save people.
I faced trials and tribulations during the process. At the beginning, I was too scared to open my mouth and talk. Later, I could make calls, but only when I was alone. In the end, I became able to fully participate in making calls calmly and naturally.
I truly appreciate the training team for providing excellent materials for the calls, and the technical practitioners for developing and improving the calling tools, allowing more practitioners to listen to the full process of making the phone calls. To help practitioners, we also had team cultivation sharings.
Listening to practitioners on the RTC platform, I heard many touching stories of people quitting the CCP, and I also deeply felt the urgency of saving people.
When landslides, mudslides, and floods occurred in many places in Sichuan Province in 2020, one person got washed away during the phone call and the phone disconnected. This instance let me increasingly feel the significance and urgency of our mission to save people. During the pandemic many people regained their health after they began to recite, “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good,” which increased my confidence in the truth clarification work.
When making phone calls, I came across all kinds of people, including officials, professors, farmers, children, and other individuals. During one call, I talked for more than 20 minutes, but the listener didn’t say anything. When he finally did speak, he told me that he was the director of a police team, which was in charge of Falun Gong cases. I was not moved, and talked about how wonderful Dafa is, the Tiananmen Square self-immolation being a hoax, and live organ harvesting. I also told him that many senior CCP officials who were involved in the persecution have received retribution, such as Zhou Yongkang and Bo Xilai. He listened to me for quite a while, and in the end he quit the Party.
He said that part of his job was to burn Dafa books and truth clarification disks that had been confiscated. He thought there must be a reason for so many people wanting to practice Falun Gong, so he took a copy of Zhuan Falun, the main text of Falun Dafa, and a truth clarification disk and hid it in his home. But he was too scared to read or watch the materials. After clarifying the truth to him for 50 minutes, he made a decision that he would read Zhuan Falun. He also decided to quit his current job, and said he would try to protect Falun Gong practitioners in the future.
During the phone calls, I have also met people who cursed me, who asked me for a date, or who asked for money. I took them as a mirror reflecting on my own attachments. I understood that I must look within, eliminate my attachments, and keep righteous thoughts. Only by doing so, can I help save more predestined people.
I moved with my family to a small city in 2019. There were only a few practitioners there, and I was practicing Dafa by myself. By chance I learned that I could purchase a license for the film “Letter from Masanjia.” I wanted to invite people to watch the film so they could hear the truth about Falun Dafa.
I put up posters and distributed fliers at the local library and university. I became friends with a librarian, who was a kind woman from China, and also a loyal reader of The Epoch Times. With her recommendation, I participated in many community events. During the free speech times, I stood up and exposed the CCP’s crime of live organ harvesting, and shared the preciousness of Dafa with people. Afterward, many organizations invited me to give talks. I was so grateful that Master arranged for many predestined people to come and hear the truth about Dafa, including Vietnamese community groups, political groups, as well as university professors.
Due to Master’s merciful arrangement, I also had the chance to get in contact with some upper class communities, which laid a good foundation for Shen Yun promotions later on.
We held three large-scale screenings of “Letter from Masanjia” in the library. Many people were touched by the story of the protagonist who was persecuted in the CCP’s Masanjia Forced Labor Camp for his belief in Falun Dafa. Some audience members shed tears.
This librarian later showed strong interest in learning Falun Dafa. I gave her a copy of Zhuan Falun, and I am so happy for her!
Every year around July 20, I contact the state representative’s office, clarify the truth to the staff there, and ask them to voice their support for Falun Dafa and ending the CCP’s persecution. I usually make appointments with the office people online and keep email contact with them.
When World Falun Dafa Day approached each year, I contacted the mayor’s offices of nearby cities and filed applications for official recognition and awards for Falun Dafa. At the beginning, I applied from their official websites and sent some introduction materials about Dafa electronically. I waited, but there were no replies. I realized that I had attachments. I realized that I wanted to prove myself, had desires to be praised by others, wanting quick results, and I had the fear of causing trouble. I came to understand that regardless of whether they would issue an award or not, I should clarify the truth to them face to face.
Therefore, I went to every office, delivered Dafa materials, and talked to them about Falun Dafa in person. Soon, a city mayor’s office called and notified me that Falun Dafa was being given an award, and I was invited to join the award ceremony. The city named May 13th “Falun Dafa Day.” The ceremony was aired live on TV. I was very grateful. This was an affirmation of Dafa, as well as an opportunity for my cultivation improvement.
Because of my work, I traveled frequently and had the opportunity to meet many predestined people. I was initially nervous to talk about Falun Dafa to strangers. Once on an airplane, a Chinese person sat right next to me, but I didn’t know how to start a conversation. My heart was pounding, and I couldn’t pluck up the courage to speak. I felt extremely upset and frustrated. After returning home, I knelt in front of Master’s portrait and made a vow, that next time, I must maintain righteous thoughts and do my best to save predestined people around me.
Several weeks later, I was on a plane again, and a Chinese woman was sitting next to me. When I found out that we were from the same hometown, I silently sent a righteous thought, “Remove all obstacles that might prevent her from being saved.” I started talking to her about our hometown, and it naturally led me to talk about Dafa. I helped her quit the CCP, and gave her a bookmark with Dafa information on it. This experience boosted my confidence.
I have since always brought truth clarification booklets with me every time I traveled, and seized the opportunity to share the facts with those who are predestined. Once when dining at a Chinese restaurant, I not only helped the restaurant owner quit the CCP, but also went into the kitchen, talked to the cooks, and helped them quit as well.
There were also some people who did not agree with Dafa. Some ridiculed me, some called me an anti-China force, some said I was hired to do this, and so forth. I was not swayed by their words, and just followed what Master taught us.
Through these experiences, I have realized that as long as we have a compassionate heart and hold on to righteous thoughts, there is hope for predestined people to be saved.
Studying the Fa well, looking inward, and sending forth righteous thoughts are the basic requirements for our truth clarification work. Truth-clarification itself is also a process of cultivation. Nowadays, wherever I go, I carry booklets, bookmarks, and small lotus flowers carrying Dafa information. During periods of Shen Yun promotion, I also carry Shen Yun fliers. I give them to predestined people I encounter, tell them the facts about Falun Dafa, and advise Chinese people to quit the CCP.
I am so lucky to be a Dafa practitioner! I must live up to the name “Dafa disciple of the Fa-rectification period.” I know that Master really wants to see us disciples becoming more diligent and mature in our cultivation.