(Minghui.org) I am a coordinator for a certain area in China. Now that the Fa-rectification has come to its final stage, I consider one of my key responsibilities to be helping practitioners in our area step forward to clarify the facts and persuade sentient beings to quit the CCP and its two affiliated organizations, the Communist Youth League and the Young Pioneers (also referred to as the “Three Withdrawals”). Since quitting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is the main topic among the practitioners here, I am taking this opportunity to share with practitioners on the topic of helping people do the "Three Withdrawals."
Fa Study and Sharing Is Key
A few of our coordinators have been taking lead roles in helping people in China with the Three Withdrawals in recent years. These coordinators gather together to study the Fa on a regular basis. If there is nothing else more important afterwards, we share our experience of helping people with the Three Withdrawals. After Teacher's article "Fa Teaching at the 2013 Western U.S. Fa Conference" was published, we have all come to realize the urgency of having fellow practitioners step forward and help people withdraw from the CCP.
I took turns with other coordinators attending each Fa-study group to share with other practitioners, since quite a few practitioners haven't been able to step forward. This served to encourage people who haven't been participating to step forward and help sentient beings quit the CCP.
We read an experience sharing article from the Minghui Journal at the conclusion of each Fa-study. After that, everyone takes a turn sharing their understanding of the importance of clarifying the facts and helping people quit the CCP. Then we invite a few practitioners who have done well with helping people do the Three Withdrawals to share their experiences with others. I then ask people who haven't stepped forward if they have any difficulties, or if they need any help, so I can ask other practitioners to team up with them. This sharing process has achieved a great positive effect.
Encouraging Every Practitioner
For example, two senior practitioners at the Fa-study group had given up practicing for many years as a result of the persecution. They came back after reading Teacher's article "20th Anniversary Fa Teaching." These two practitioners have been very diligent in doing the three things. They hand out truth-clarification materials, DVDs and stickers, truth-clarification flyers, and they make phone calls to people using recorded messages.
The only thing they hadn't done is help people with the Three Withdrawals. After sharing with these two, they said right away that they'd get together to go to parks and talk to people face-to-face about the Three Withdrawals. Sure enough, since then, they have been bringing a list to Fa study with names of people who have quit the CCP.
There is a Fa-study group comprised of seniors who are in their 70s and 80s. Even though they are seniors, they don't slack off in doing the three things. The only thing they have difficulty in doing is to help people with the Three Withdrawals face-to-face. At the Fa-study group, when we were sharing, I said to them, "Think about it: When we handed out truth-clarification materials for the first time, or used the truth-clarification flyers for the first time, weren't we afraid? However, now we can hand out as many materials and flyers as we want, right?”
I continued, “Actually the same rule applies to helping people quit the CCP. The first step is always the hardest, but once that step is taken, the following steps will be much easier.” Three of those seniors began to go out to help people with the Three Withdrawals the very next day after the Fa-study. The first time, they helped two people, the second time they helped nine. Seeing their progress, we were all very happy. Now they are doing it much more skillfully.
Through this process, each coordinator has been successful in expanding the number of practitioners helping sentient beings quit the CCP to include their entire Fa study group.
Making Breakthroughs
There are a few stories related to this. One is about a practitioner from one of the Fa-study groups who used to only babysit her grandchild, hardly getting out of the house. Now as soon as she has time, she looks for people to help with the Three Withdrawals. She said, “I couldn't just stay at home any more. If I don't help a few people with the Three Withdrawals every day, I can't sleep.”
An older practitioner began taking on truth-clarification projects after he listened to other practitioners share about doing the Three Withdrawals at Fa study. For the past few years, practitioners who are under 60 years old from our different areas can also pick up the phone to help people with the Three Withdrawals. As to practitioners who have been doing the Three Withdrawals all along, we encourage them to keep making breakthroughs and save even more people.
Another practitioner was happy with helping ten people quit the CCP every day by making phone calls. She would feel very tried if she tried to do more. She was with us one time when a few of us were making phone calls. She was about to go home after helping ten people with the Three Withdrawals. I encouraged her to continue, so she made a few more phone calls and helped a few more. She kept wanting to leave, thinking she couldn't do any more, but I continued to encourage her.
Making phone calls is like running a marathon: when you first start running, you feel fine, but after a while, you begin to feel tired. Then a little while later, you'll feel fine again. Because she continued the effort, she helped 24 people proceed with the Three Withdrawals. With the breakthroughs she made on that day, this practitioner can easily help over twenty people a day now.
One coordinator is available to help a lot of people proceed with the Three Withdrawals by making phone calls. However, she only calls for two hours a day, and is happy with helping one or two dozen people quit the CCP. She has taken the initiative now in getting rid of her attachment to comfort. She extended her hours in making the phone calls so that one time, she helped 38 people. I said, "If I were you, I'd help two more people to make it 40. That'll be another step up." Through this, we encouraged each other to save more people.
For the past few years, people feel that it has become fairly easy to help people with the Three Withdrawals through making phone calls. As a result, they didn't do as much face-to-face truth-clarification as before. Now we often share on the topic of saving more people. Under the environment where everyone is working diligently towards helping people with the Three Withdrawals, practitioners have been gradually catching up in this regard.
One practitioner used to have difficult clarifying the facts to people face-to-face. He could only make phone calls. Now he not only helped his neighbors do the Three Withdrawals, but also helped people who were sitting at the same table with him at a wedding ceremony. A practitioner who specialized in doing technical work used to find that it was rather hard for him to clarify the facts to his coworkers. Now on top of making phone calls, he also clarifies the facts to his colleagues at work, and has helped most of them do the Three Withdrawals.
Constantly Striving to Reach More People
In addition to my coordination work, Fa-study and sending forth righteous thoughts, I focus on helping people quit the CCP. Doing that face-to-face, as well as making phone calls has been very effective for me. If I have time, I find benefit in studying the Fa for one or two hours first, then send forth righteous thoughts before heading outside to make phone calls at around 10 a.m. Sometimes I take my lunch with me so that I can keep making phone calls until 6 p.m., then send forth righteous thoughts again. I look for any available moment to make phone calls. If I am on my way home and it is not quite 9 p.m. yet, I immediately take out my cell phone and help a few people do the Three Withdrawals.
My goal now is to help at least 20 people a day quit the CCP, so I must make use of all available time. Most of the time I can help a dozen a day, and sometimes I can help a few dozen. Under Teacher's benevolent empowerment, one time, I managed to help 61 people complete their withdrawals over the phone.
This is what I think: The Fa-rectification period has almost come to an end. If I don't seize the time to save those sentient beings who have not withdrawn yet, it will be too late for them, and they will never have another chance.
Practitioners are stepping out more and more in our area. Senior practitioners are more focused on helping people with the Three Withdrawals face-to-face, whereas young practitioners make a lot of phone calls. We all feel very happy in our hearts when we help a person quit the CCP and its affiliated organizations.
