(Minghui.org) I would like to share my cultivation experiences over the past year.
Soon after my wife and I were married a few years ago, we began to study the Fa and exercise together on a daily basis. We also watched Master’s lecture in Guangzhou from time to time. Once a month, we also watched the video “Teaching the Fa to Australian Practitioners.”
When I first watched the lecture video, I often became sleepy. I shook my head to stay alert, but I still felt sleepy. I knew these symptoms were demonic interference, and I began to send forth righteous thought to eliminate it. Soon I began to feel energized and I was able to understand Master’s words.
We also tried to memorize the book Zhuan Falun. I've now recited Zhuan Falun from memory three times. Memorizing the Fa enables me to recall Master’s words whenever a problem arises. By looking for my own problems first, conflicts are resolved instantly.
Last year we needed some home improvement work done. When we purchased materials and hired contractors, I put saving people at the top of my agenda. Since my contractor, his suppliers, and his employees are all Chinese, my home improvement project naturally became an opportunity for truth clarification.
After I ordered our cabinets at a shop, I began to chat with the owner. He asked many questions, such as about the Tiananmen self-immolation hoax, the Communist Party tyranny, organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners, and the movement of quitting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). My answers convinced him to denounce his past association with the Communist Party.
As the project progressed, several different groups of workers came to our home at different times. When my wife and I clarified the facts to them, one of us sent forth righteous thoughts while the other talked. Almost every person was convinced and renounced the Party.
One day we saw a worker unloading merchandise at a grocery store. My wife said, “I think you should talk to him about quitting the CCP while I send forth righteous thoughts.” I took her advice and talked to him. The man listened for a while, but he was not ready to quit. My wife took over and continued explaining the facts to him. He finally agreed to quit the Party.
Another time I was shopping for groceries alone and saw a man arranging the produce. I started to chat with him and told him about quitting the CCP. He told me he had joined the Communist Youth League and the Young Pioneers when he was young. With my encouragement, he agreed to quit both organizations.
We stopped by another grocery store to get fish. While waiting in line, I began to tell a Chinese woman about the movement to quit the Party. She told me her membership had expired by default because of her old age. I told her she should still invalidate the vows she made when she joined those groups. She finally agreed and asked me to help her quit her past associations with the Party.
I later told other practitioners that when I was doing grocery shopping, I helped save some people. A practitioner said, “It's the other way around. You went to the market to help people quit the Party, and incidentally, bought your groceries.” This comment suddenly opened up my mind. Master wants us to put saving people as the top priority. On my next grocery shopping trip, I was able to convince seven people to quit the Party organizations.
Master said, “Saving beings should permeate every single aspect of your daily lives at this time.” (“Teaching the Fa at 2003 Atlanta Fa Conference”)
I will remember Master's teaching and do my best to save more people.
I've participated in calling China to rescue fellow practitioners for three years. I've made phone calls to many agencies involved in the persecution, including courts, prisons, labor camps, detention centers, brainwashing centers, police headquarters, police branches, and prosecutor’s homes.
Sometimes, the phone calls really tested my xinxing. Other times, I could hardly get anyone to listen even though I had called for several hours. I almost gave up trying. But Master’s teaching encouraged me to go on. Master said:
“With the exception of a handful of evil ringleaders who are evil beings incarnate, we don't regard anyone as a demon; it is that people have been ensnared by it, rather.” (“Fa Teaching Given at the Fa Conference Marking the Tenth Anniversary of the Minghui Website’s Founding”)
So we still need to save everyone. Regardless their attitude, I give them a chance. Even if they listen to just one word, they may be saved. I feel encouraged and have not given up.
One Saturday my wife suggested that we go to a tourist attraction to talk to Chinese people. I told her I had to work later that day. She reminded me that I still had a few hours. I agreed. But right before we were about to go, we started to argue over a trivial matter, and in the end we didn't go. I later realized that this was interference by the old forces.
We both looked at ourselves for fault. I didn't give it high priority because of my work, so the evil took advantage of my loophole and stopped us from going.
Master told us:
“There is an increasing number of tourist groups from mainland China nowadays. This is an arrangement for people to hear the truth in a different setting. Our truth-clarification sites are, in fact, the front line—the front line for clarifying the truth.” (“Fa Teaching at the 2013 Western U.S. Fa Conference”)
The next day we spent a little over an hour at a tourist site. Even in that short amount of time, we helped several Chinese tourists quit the Party.
We went to the same site the following weekend. Many people came to the site in groups, ten to twenty in each. This time they wouldn't listen to us. I tried to start a conversation with a woman, but she looked very angry. When I said something, she stopped and began yelling at me. I felt bad for her, but I wasn't discouraged. No matter what she said, I still had to give her hope.
One day I went to the CN Tower. I was able to convince eight people to quit their Party affiliations on the subway. I met many people with different attitudes. Master said, “The evil people act as they do because evil is propping them up from behind.” (“20th Anniversary Fa Teaching”)
Despite people’s negative attitudes, their knowing sides are begging us to save them. One older man appeared very indifferent to what I was saying, and ignored me completely. I told him, “I hope you can be saved and avoid the coming danger.” Suddenly he opened up and began to talk to me.
My small efforts cannot compare to practitioners who clarify the truth to Chinese tourists year-round. But I am motivated by Master’s encouragement to continue saving people. I hope more young practitioners can clarify the truth to tourists and save more Chinese people.
A year has passed, and the time left to save people is growing shorter by the day. I would like to share Master's teaching with fellow practitioners:
“I could see at that time that it was already impossible to save every person, much less could we save all of the cosmos’s sentient beings. But we will still do our utmost to save more, to save them quickly, to rush to save still more lives before the time arrives.” (“20th Anniversary Fa Teaching”)
Please correct me if there is anything inappropriate.