(Minghui.org) I’d like to share some of my recent cultivation experiences with fellow practitioners and report them to Master.
We promoted Shen Yun for nearly six months in Japan this year. I was involved in the promotion of Shen Yun, so I didn’t have time to tell people about Falun Dafa and help them withdraw from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations for a long time. I felt a bit anxious when Shen Yun finished. I knew that clarifying the truth to people was the most important project, but the environment was now different. The way to tell people about Falun Dafa and the persecution had changed.
When I was in China, I had worked with other practitioners, clarified the truth to people, and helped them withdraw from the CCP and its affiliated organizations face-to-face. It was different at overseas scenic spots. The tourists often stayed at the scenic spots for only a short time, sometimes only the time of a red light. I didn’t know how to talk to people and help them quit the CCP in such a short time. I said hello to them, and they got pamphlets and walked away. I didn’t know how to break through.
When I went to the scenic spot for the first time after Shen Yun finished, I met Chinese tourists who were on a self-guided tour. One young man asked me for pamphlets. He and the people he was with were waiting for a taxi and stayed for some time. The young man knew quite a bit about Falun Gong and asked me if I knew a certain influencer. The influencer was a practitioner. Following from this topic, I told him the basic facts about Falun Dafa, the facts about the CCP-staged Tiananmen Self-Immolation incident, and how Falun Dafa has spread across the world.
He asked me what people in Taiwan thought of Falun Dafa. I told him that the president of Taiwan had given an award to Shen Yun Performing Arts and that many people practiced Falun Dafa in Taiwan. I helped the three of them quit the CCP before they left. I knew that Master sent these sentient beings to me because he saw my heart to save sentient beings. I was very thankful to Master.
I met a group of Chinese people several days ago. I gave pamphlets to a mother and her son. The mother accepted them politely. The son looked at the pamphlets with hatred and was about to tear them up. I took them back and said, “Please don’t do that. This is a free and democratic society that doesn’t have a totalitarian government. We have freedom of speech. Everyone has the right to know the truth.” His mother dragged him away.
A girl standing near us came over to me and asked me what I was doing, because she was curious about why the boy got so angry. I told her that I was there to help people learn about Falun Dafa and the CCP’s persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners in China, and also how the CCP has damaged Chinese traditional culture. The girl agreed to quit the CCP.
I ran out of pamphlets, so I went over to where the other practitioners were. I saw a Chinese group coming toward us. We went over to their tour bus. Another practitioner held a display board and talked to the tourists loudly, while the rest of us chatted with individual tourists.
I told them about the staged Tiananmen self-immolation incident. Liu Siying, the girl filmed in the self-immolation incident, had tracheotomy surgery but could sing songs loudly three days later, which went against basic medical knowledge. I told them why people should withdraw from the CCP and its affiliated organizations. Two of them agreed to quit the CCP. Some of them knew the truth and had already quit the CCP. They helped me clarify the truth. When they boarded the bus, we waved goodbye to them. They waved back to us.
During the process of clarifying the truth to people, we felt a battle between good and evil in other dimensions. We must take hold of opportunities to let more people know the truth and break through the CCP’s lies that have misled sentient beings. I felt the power of practitioners’ cooperation as one body.
We went to a scenic site one day and there were not many tourists there, so some practitioners left early and went to give out pamphlets in other places. One practitioner gave me a dozen pamphlets and a copy of the small booklet “Dissolving CCP Culture.”
A Chinese young man saw the booklet and shouted “Falun Gong!” He then shouted “Falun Dafa is good! Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good!” with us. At the beginning, his girlfriend wouldn’t let him take our pamphlets. But he took the booklet from me. I helped them both withdraw from the CCP and its affiliated organizations using aliases. During the process, I felt the importance of encouragement and harmonization among practitioners.
I always go to scenic spots to clarify the truth to people with another practitioner. One day she said, “I want to ask you to practice the exercises with me, but I feel like that it is my attachment of relying on other people.” I suggested that we also ask practitioner Bing (alias) to join us. We formed a team of three to practice the exercises and memorize the Fa together, so I had to get up early to do the exercises.
I realized the importance of believing in Master and the Fa. I had previously not been aware that I had shortcomings regarding believing in Master and the Fa, and I thought I was very firm in cultivation because I started practicing Falun Dafa in my childhood. I had been doing the three things for a long time, but after some things happened, I realized that I didn’t believe in Master and the Fa completely.
Every time I went out to calrify the truth, I had fear in my heart. I felt that I couldn’t do it and couldn’t clarify the truth well. I was afraid that people would refuse to listen to me. I thought I was not very capable. When I didn’t do as well as I expected I became negative. One of my shortcomings was that I didn’t get up early to do the exercises. My shortcomings prevented me from charging forward, especially when I came across hardships or when things didn’t go smoothly.
When people didn’t accept what I said or I didn’t open up their minds, I didn’t think it was because my cultivation was not good enough. I thought it was an issue of my abilities. I felt sad, blamed myself, and had low self-esteem.
One day when I memorized the Fa, I came across this paragraph of the Fa:
“We obtain this substance de through suffering, enduring setbacks, and doing good deeds;” (Lecture One, Zhuan Falun)
I realized that enduring setbacks was a good thing, not a bad thing. I only do what Master asks me to do. As long as I work hard, it is good enough. I don’t need to pay too much attention to the results.
I had thought that since I had been practicing Falun Dafa this was believing in Master and the Fa. I now realize at my cultivation level that I should do what Master asks us to do without any compromise, and I shouldn’t retreat, lose heart, or give up. This is truly believing in Master and the Fa.
Thank you, Master, for your saving grace! Thank you, fellow practitioners, for encouraging me and helping me walk forward. I’d also like to thank the sentient beings who gave me a thumbs-up after they learned the truth. I know that Master was encouraging me and pushing me forward in cultivation.
The above is my sharing. Please kindly point out anything that is not in line with the Fa.