Greetings revered Master! Hello fellow practitioners.
The title of my sharing is: I am cultivating myself while helping Fa-rectification.
The first time I got to know Dafa was back in August, 1999. However, due to the interference of epilepsy I had inherited from my family, I only started to cultivate from September, 2002. Now, having cultivated for 19 years, I have changed from a person who suffered from a severe illness to someone with a healthy mind and body. In addition, I also become a coordinator of a Fa Study group and of various kinds of truth clarification projects.
First, be a good, responsible coordinator
The Fa study group that I coordinate was established mid-June 2006, and it was located in my family’s living room. It was not easy to run this Fa study group from the beginning to the present, because I have been living with my husband’s family. When my husband and I first discussed our plan to establish a Fa study group with my husband’s parents, my father-in-law totally opposed it. For one thing, my father-in-law was afraid of persecution from the CPP because in 2005 a group of spies broke into our home when only my parents-in-law were at home. They hit his head against the wall, which caused a brain concussion and he had to stay in hospital for quite a long time. Due to this horrible experience, my father-in-law was afraid that setting up this Fa study group would attract spies’ attention and persecution again. Also, my father-in-law does not like to see strangers at home. However, I felt the necessity of setting up this Fa Study Group as there was not a single Chinese Fa study group in the Sydney city area, yet quite a number of Chinese-speaking practitioners lived in that area. After repeated negotiations with my parents-in-law, the Fa study group was finally established. Initially, my father-in-law always displayed a cold face when our group members came to study Fa. In contrast to his cold face, the practitioners responded with a friendly smile and showed good manners as well. Gradually, my father-in-law could feel the genuine compassion from the practitioners who came regularly. He then came to support our Fa study group and each time he tried not to come to the living room when we studied Fa. He also said some very positive comments to our group members, and said he feels that Dafa practitioners are well-educated.
The number of fellow practitioners who came to the Fa study group sometimes reached more than 20 people. The majority of fellow practitioners in this group have received a high level of education. Some of are studying towards a Master degree, and one is a postdoctoral fellow. Those in the group also have high socio-economic status in society, including senior managers in companies, retired teachers, and retired leaders in large enterprises. Compared with them, I am the only one who has received a bare minimum education, in that I did not even graduate from primary school. However, under the mercy of Master and the support of fellow practitioners I feel happy as a coordinator, and at the same time sense a feeling of great achievement. I try my best to care about every fellow practitioner in our Fa study group, especially newcomers, whom I help in all respects. All the practitioners in our group also cooperate well in every kind of truth clarification event.
In recent months, we had a number of young practitioners join our Fa study group. For example, a young girl, who had started to practice when she was three, in China. Since Coming to Sydney alone to pursue her undergraduate studies, she was not as diligent as before, and a got bit left behind. This May when we met in Hyde Park during the May 13 activities, she decided to catch up, and then came to our group. Since then, she has never missed the weekly Fa study and has also dared to come out and participate in various truth clarification projects. And there is another young practitioner who also started cultivating at three years old. She arrived in Sydney from mainland China one month ago, to study a Master’s degree. I tried my best to help her in different respects so that she could settled into this new environment as soon as possible. Two weeks ago, our group held a cultivation sharing meeting (before Australian Fahui). In the meeting, everyone shared their past cultivation experiences through vivid stories. In particular, this young practitioner shared about her mother’s persecution in China and how she valued the freedom we have to cultivate in Australia, and that for the first time in her life she could read Master’s teachings in the park bathed in warm sunshine. Every member was moved to tears by her story and felt that we should treasure the freedom of cultivating in Australia. In fact, every member’s cultivation story was so vivid and touching that tears rolled down everyone’s cheeks.
2. Follow Master’s words by establishing a truth clarification project in Sydney CBD to save sentient beings
In order to save more people, my husband (a practitioner) and I have been undertaking coordination work for a truth clarification project in the Sydney CBD every Friday for many years. With the cooperation of many practitioners, we have developed various ways to clarify the truth at different periods of time and focusing on different people, including encouraging people to quit the CCP, inviting people to sign petitions for stopping organ harvesting; demonstrating the exercises, and setting up display boards. My husband and I purchased and prepared most of the things used at this site, such as the display boards, banners, and tables. We even purchased a car, which is only used to store and move the equipment for truth clarification. For many years, regardless of the weather conditions – heavy rain or strong wind – this truth clarification project has appeared in various CBD locations, such as Sydney Town Hall, Hyde Park, and the Pitt Street Heritage Walk. These famous places have become an important platform to clarify the truth not only to the local people in mainstream society, but also to tourists from all over the world. As a result of the endeavours made by all the practitioners who regularly come to these sites, a number of people sign the petition to stop illegal organ harvesting. This project not only saves sentient beings but also encourages more practitioners to come out to clarify the truth and help Master in the Fa rectification period.
3. Establish a new truth clarification site at Sydney Fish Market
As the largest market of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere, the Sydney Fish Market is a famous sightseeing place, which attracts hundreds and thousands of people every day. In particular, it is one of the favourite places for the tourists from mainland China to come and taste Australian seafood. After realising the fish market can serve as a good location for truth clarification, especially for saving Chinese people by encouraging them to quit the CPP, my husband and I decided to establish a new truth clarification site there. We bought materials and equipment used for truth clarification, such as banners and audio-players. Initially, we only ran this site on weekends. At the beginning, one practitioner volunteered to take the responsibility for Saturdays, so I only needed to deliver everything to her place. Soon after, she became very busy at her work and often could not go to the Fish Market on Saturdays. As a result, I had to go there. I became very angry with her, thinking that if she were not able to come, then she should not promise. At that time, I also coordinated other truth clarification projects at different Sydney suburbs on weekends. This meant I had to coordinate both projects at the same time. How could I appear in two different locations at the same time? I felt that the Fish Market was quite an important truth clarification site because I saw the good effect in saving Chinese people, so decided to persist with running this site. Then I discussed with another coordinator and decided to only look after the Fish Market site. Although the issue was resolved, it did not stop me from resenting that practitioner. Through serious Fa study, and looking inward, I became more and more aware of my attachment of resentment. I then started to treat it seriously and told myself that I had to eliminate this attachment. I asked myself why I do not look at the positive side of the practitioner. I then started to use a positive lens to see this practitioner. I found that even though the practitioner could not go to the Fish Market site, she put effort into designing the banners and display boards to make this truth clarification project more effective. In addition, since she joined this project, she also attended the weekly Fa Study session more often, which demonstrated her improvement in cultivation. I should have felt happy about all of these positive aspects. Soon after I found my own problems and appreciated the strengths of that practitioner. I felt that the attachment of resentment was eliminated. I managed to keep this site running in the processes of cultivating and improving my own xinxing.
Later, I observed that Chinese tourists came to the Fish Market not only on weekends, so I considered whether the days for truth clarification at the Fish Market should be increased from two days on weekends to seven days a week so that we would not miss even a single person who deserves to be saved. In the decision making process, a number of practitioners from mainland China joined our Fa study group. After Fa Study, I made this proposal to them and they all endorsed my proposal. Currently, we display banners, demonstrate exercises, and clarify the truth in the Fish Market every day from 11:30am to 2:30pm.
4. Believe in Master and break through the tribulation
There are five people in my family. Both my father and mother-in-law are in their 80’s. My mother-in-law has paralysis so she has to use a wheel chair. My daughter is still young. My husband is a taxi-driver and I have my own business. Even though I need to look after both elderly parents-in-law and a young daughter, I live quite a satisfactory life. Unexpectedly one day before last year’s Australian Dafa Sharing Conference, my husband suddenly seemed to suffer a stroke and appeared to have all the symptoms: his face was drooped and half of his body could not move. Thinking that the main source of household income had collapsed, I had to bear the burden of the whole family and to take care of him every moment. I felt myself falling into desperation. If I had not cultivated, I would not know how to face and survive such a great tribulation. However, at that moment, my mind was very clear that the only way to break through the tribulation is to believe in Dafa.
The first thing I did was to encourage my husband to give up the negative thinking of going to hospital. I told him that he should deeply believe in Master and Dafa. We not only increased Fa Study and exercises but also increased sending forth righteous thoughts. At the same time, we began to look within, constantly. In addition, fellow practitioners also sent forth righteous thoughts with us. My husband became better and better day by day. I knew that Master healed him and I felt hopeful from the bottom of my heart. During my husband’s tribulation, although I had to work and look after the whole family, I never missed any truth clarification sessions. My husband also recovered quite quickly, and soon after he started to drive his taxi and together we joined various Dafa projects.
Master said in Teaching the Fa in Washington D.C. in 2018, “I’ve said that disciples in mainland China are in that kind of environment of hardship and under high pressure, they are under temptation in that kind of complicated environment, and yet they are still able to persist in doing what Dafa disciples should do, they are still practicing cultivation and studying the Fa, isn’t that remarkable, they are truly remarkable. What kind of an environment is that, and yet they are still able to do those things. So don’t slack off!”
Compared with practitioners in mainland China, our environment is much better. In such a good environment, if we cannot persist in doing what we should do, we will feel unworthy of esteemed Master’s merciful and arduous salvation, and we will feel ashamed in front of Dafa. During the past year, under the mercy of Master, we broke through this huge tribulation.
5 Utilising a large social activity to show the beauty of Dafa in order to save people
The City2Surf is a popular road-running event held annually in Sydney and the event attracts more than almost 100,000 people. My husband and I believe this is a good opportunity to clarify the truth and to save sentient beings, so we proposed to the Falun Dafa Association of Australia that we can demonstrate exercises along the route of the City2Surf. This proposal was endorsed by the Association and welcomed by all the coordinators and practitioners. Every year, during the City2Surf, our truth clarification activity becomes a beautiful scene: the bright banners, petition signing tables, English truth clarification broadcasting, and especially the beautiful and peaceful exercise demonstration by hundreds of practitioners, dressed in bright yellow jackets, all of which make the runners sense the beauty of Dafa. Lots of runners stopped to sign our “stop organ harvesting petition,” take photos of us, support us by giving the thumbs up, and some of them expressed their intention to learn the exercises. Each time, my husband and I volunteered to coordinate this truth clarification activity because we live in the city, which is close to the location of the running route. We feel it is our responsibility to take this coordination role.
In the future, we will follow Master’s words to boldly and vigorously forge ahead, to be worthy of esteemed Master’s merciful and arduous salvation.
Thank you Master
Thank you fellow practitioners.