Greetings Master!
尊敬的师尊好！
Greetings Fellow Practitioners!
各位同修大家好！
I live in a remote, country city in Western Australia, 450 kilometres from Perth. I obtained the Fa in late 2010 when I was 40. There were a few other practitioners in my city when I started, but within a few years they had all left or fallen away from the Fa.
我住在西澳偏远的乡村城市，距离珀斯450公里。我在2010年末得法，那时我40岁。刚开始修炼时，我所在城市还有一些其他的同修，但几年后，他们有些离开了这里，或离开了大法。
For the first few years of my cultivation, I joined in truth clarification activities organized by a veteran practitioner. She was very proactive about organizing truth clarification activities for us to do. We did a lot. But by 2016 I was cultivating alone.
修炼的最初几年，我参加了一位老学员组织的讲真相活动。她非常积极的安排讲真相活动，我们做了很多。到2016年的时候，当地就只有我一个人修炼了。
This made the first five years of my cultivation feel unique. It was difficult and extremely confusing. Looking back, I’m amazed that I managed to continue – but the thought of quitting never entered my mind. I learned many lessons, but the main ones were to study the Fa, and look inward.
这使我修炼的前五年很独特、艰难，而且很迷惑。回想起来，我很惊讶我能坚持下来，但我从未想到过放弃修炼。这段时间里，我学到了很多，但最主要的是知道了自己必须学法和向内找。
I observed that doing a lot of truth clarification activities and being busy doesn’t necessarily mean you are cultivating. From my experiences in those early days I firmly resolved to take the Fa as the teacher and study the Fa every day without fail; and to painstakingly make myself look inward at my own thoughts to find my faults and attachments, no matter how uncomfortable that might be. This is what gave me a solid foundation in cultivation.
我观察到做很多讲真相活动、很忙碌，但并不一定意味着你在修炼。从我早期的经历来看，我下定决心要以法为师，并坚持每天都学法；而且我也努力的向内找自己的缺点和执着，尽管这是多么的不舒服。这却奠定了我修炼的坚实基础。
From 2013 to now I have had to reform my truth clarification efforts and blaze my own path. The only original activity I kept is a stall at a two-day agricultural show once a year. I knew the importance of doing the Three Things well, so I couldn’t neglect clarifying the truth, but how to do it by myself and how to do it without attachment?
从2013年到现在，我不得不改变以往讲真相的方式、并走出自己的路。我保留的唯一以前做过的活动，是每年一次、为期两天的在当地最大农展会的讲真相摊位。我知道做好三件事的重要性，所以我不能忽视讲真相，但是我如何一个人自己做、以及如何能在没有执着的情况下做到这一点呢？
I tried to get involved in making calls to China, as this seemed like an ideal project for an isolated practitioner, but I’ve always used an Apple Mac laptop and it wasn’t compatible with the software used to make the calls. I felt guilty about not trying harder to overcome this problem, but I didn’t feel like this project was right for me, and doing something out of guilt wasn’t in line with the Fa.
我试图参与向中国打电话的项目，因为这对一个住在偏远地区的学员，似乎是个理想的项目。但我一向使用苹果笔记本电脑，而它与用于拨打电话的软件不兼容。我曾因为没有努力克服这个困难而感到内疚。然而，我总觉得这个项目并不适合我，而且我觉得因为内疚才做大法的事，是不在法上的。
One year I made frequent trips to Perth to join in with the activities there and to sell Shen Yun tickets every second week, but it was a thousand kilometre drive every time, and besides, it was predestined for me to live in Albany, so my main focus should be in that region.
有一年，我经常到珀斯参加当地的讲真相活动，以及每两周到那里卖一次神韵票，但每次都是一千公里的车程。况且，我被安排住在Albany这个乡村城市，所以我讲真相的重点应该是这里。
I knew I needed to do truth clarification to save sentient beings and I worried about what to do. I’ve read many sharings on Minghui about the amazing practitioners in China going out every day and approaching strangers on the streets, in markets, at bus stops, and travelling to small villages to talk to people. My heart yearned to be as proactive as them, but something was wrong. While that method of truth clarification seemed to work well in China, it didn’t feel appropriate for a rural western environment.
我知道我必须讲真相救度众生，但不知该怎么做。我在明慧网上看到许多在中国精進的同修，她们每天出门，在街头、市场、公交车站甚至到小村庄与陌生人讲真相的故事。我渴望像她们一样积极主动，但我感到有些不太对劲 – 这种讲真相方法在中国有效，但对一个西澳的乡村小镇来说却似乎不太合适。
For a while, I tried to emulate the Chinese practitioners, and whenever I had a day off work, I stood in front of the IGA supermarket in town with a placard and a petition and offered people flyers. I also tried to talk to every person I encountered in my daily life. But something wasn’t right so over time I stopped doing it. I felt bad for stopping and I was very confused about what was the right thing to do. My mind just wasn’t comfortable as I had the strong sense that the local people were seeing me as being fanatical or extreme. I worried that I was letting attachments stop me. I thought that I should push myself to make a breakthrough. But I also felt that it wasn’t right to force myself to keep going because of worry and guilt – that was an attachment itself.
有一段时间，我试图模仿中国的同修们。每当我休假的时候，我就站在镇里的IGA超市前面，带着展板和请愿书，并且向人们发传单。我也试着和日常生活中遇到的每个人讲真相，但总觉得有点不太对劲，所以随着时间的推移我不再这样做了。我对自己停下来感到内疚，对于如何做才是正确的我感到非常困惑。因为我能感受到当地人把我视为是一个宗教狂热份子或什至是个极端份子。但同时，我也担心我是被自己的执着挡住，认为我应该主动突破它。虽然如此，我总觉得因为担心和内疚而迫使自己继续做下去是不对的 — 这也是一种执着。
Master said in Fa Teaching at the 2019 New York Fa Conference: “One tendency that people in China develop is to be quite extreme in their writing or approaches to things. That kind of behaviour and thinking really isn’t something that others are going to be receptive to.”
師父在《二零一九年纽约法会讲法》中說：“大家在中国大陆养成的那种习惯，无论是写文章啊、做什么事情啊，就是要一棍子敲到底。那种作风、那种思想真的是叫国际社会的人受不了。”
In Western society it is socially acceptable for a person to be obsessed with sports. A person can be so fixated with sports that they will pay to have a television channel dedicated to sports, they play a number of sports and are on multiple sports teams, they volunteer to coach or assist in young people’s sports and they passionately support their chosen professional sports teams. This behaviour is even considered physically and mentally healthy in our society. But on the other hand, being a dedicated advocate for human rights and raising awareness about one specific issue, seems to alienate people. I knew that the fault was with me and I looked inward. In those early years people would comment that I had a lot of passion, but it wasn’t meant as a compliment. I had too much enthusiasm for talking about the topic, and not enough calm rationality. I have spent a lot of time contemplating how to do truth clarification without annoying my friends, family and colleagues.
在西方社会，一个人热衷于体育运动是被接受的。一个人可以非常专注于体育运动，他们可以付钱购买一个专门观看体育运动的电视频道；他们会参加多项运动、并参加多个球队；他们会自愿给年轻人当教练或协助他们；他们会热情的支持自己所选择的专业球队。在西方的社会中，这种行为什至被认为是身心健康的表现。
然而，一个专注的人权倡导者、或努力提高社会对某些事情认识的人，人们似乎不太能接受。我知道错误在我，我开始向内找。我讲真相的早期，人们常说我很有热情，但这并不是赞扬我。讲真相时，我也不够冷静理性。我花了很多时间思考如何讲真相才能使我的朋友、家人和同事不会反感。
Master said in Zhuan Falun – The Attachment of Zealotry: “If while among everyday people others consider you infatuated, they will not deal with you and will keep a distance from you.”
师父在《转法轮》– 欢喜心中说：“在常人中，人家都把你看的神魂颠倒的，人家都不跟你一般见识，也远离了你，”
I decided I needed to stop talking about the topic in front of my friends and family. They all know I practice Falun Gong; it has to be my behaviour that naturally clarifies the truth to them. There are still moments when I seize opportunities to clarify the truth to someone face to face, but now I am very discerning about when it is appropriate to do that.
我决定必须停止在朋友和家人面前再谈论这个话题。他们都知道我修炼法轮功，我的行为和表现才能自然的向他们讲清真相。有时我仍然会抓住机会向人们讲真相，但是现在我很清楚何时这样做更好。
I now understood that my focus needed to be on reaching out to strangers in my region who might otherwise never learn of the persecution of Falun Gong. Those strangers are my responsibility. But how to reach them without seeming infatuated?
我现在知道了我的重点是给我所在地区的陌生人讲真相，否则他们可能永远不知道中国发生的对法轮功的迫害。对他们讲真相是我的责任，但是如何让他们知道而又不让他们反感呢？
I have always thought of the organ harvesting flyers as a Fa tool that can save sentient beings. I started getting boxes of flyers from Perth and distributing them into letterboxes. This felt unobtrusive and I knew that predestined people would read the flyer. I didn’ t find walking very efficient, so I borrowed a friend’s motor scooter and I was able to get a lot done. This turned out to be a turning point in my truth clarification efforts. From this point on more and more truth clarification projects were offered to me one after another.
我一直认为活摘器官传单是救度众生的一种工具，于是我从珀斯拿了几箱传单回来，并开始投信箱。我认为这不会令人感到反感，而有缘人就会读这张传单。我发现走路效率低，所以向朋友借了一台小型摩托车，工作效率大幅提高。在这之后，讲真相项目一个接一个的来到了我面前。
The Perth Chinese Epoch Times had decided to have two English language pages in each edition. The editor asked if I would prepare several articles for him to select from each week, and then proofread the two pages when they were done. I was very pleased to be involved, but for quite a while I couldn’t work out who would read these pages. Then just recently two Chinese practitioners came to visit my town for a couple of days, and we chatted while I was showing them around. One of the practitioners sold advertising for the paper and he explained to me how valuable these two English language pages are, for showing Western business owners the calibre of the content of the paper. It all made sense after that, and I was even more honoured to be playing a role.
珀斯大纪元报决定每期都有两个英文页面。编辑问我是否可以每周准备几篇文章供他选择，编辑完成后校对这两页。我很高兴能参与其中，但很长一段时间，我怀疑有谁会阅读这些页面。但最近，有两位华人同修来我镇待了几天，我带他们四处走走时，聊到了这个话题。其中一位同修为大纪元销售广告，他向我解释了这两个英文页面的价值，他说这两个页面能向西方企业主展示大纪元报内容的水平。明白了这些后，我更为能够做这件事而感到荣幸。
Then my work required me to travel to a smaller rural town and spend a few days there. While I was there, I thought that it wasn’t a coincidence and I needed to reach all these good country folks. So in my free time I drove back to my town and picked up a box of flyers. I tried to drive around to distribute them in the smaller town, but in farming areas, the houses are far apart and most of them don’t have roadside mailboxes. I realised I needed to use the postal service, so I went to the local general store and organised a flyer to every household in the town. It was around 450 households and it cost less than $100.
后来，我的工作单位让我去一个较小的乡村小镇呆几天。我认为这不是偶然的，我必须让住在这里的那些善良的乡下人知道真相。所以在工作之余，我开车回到我居住的城镇，拿了一箱传单。我开车试图将它们分发到当地住户的邮箱，但在偏远地区，房屋之间的距离很远，而且大多数的住户都没有路边邮箱。我意识到我必须使用邮政服务，于是我去了当地的杂货店，并为镇上的每个家庭邮寄了一份传单。这里大约有450户家庭，花费不到100澳元。
After that, I wanted to reach all the farming communities near me. I believe this is what Master wants me to do. At first I drove to the nearby towns and arranged it at the general store. I did several towns that way, but then I was given a big hint to just use my local post office. This requires doing it more formally, making an email booking and getting trays and labels. I got the hang of it, and I’ve done a couple of dozen towns that way . I budget about $100 a month and I will keep it up, reaching towns further and further away. I am delighted that I always get a timely hint about what town to target next. I feel Master’s divine guidance in these moments.
在那之后，我想以这种方式向附近所有农业区的居民讲真相。我相信这是师父要我做的事。起初，我会开车到附近的城镇，通过当地的杂货店邮寄传单。我这样做了几个城镇，但后来我得到了一个很明显的提示，我只需要到本地的邮局就可以做这件事了。这需要我在网上操作、购买邮寄的包装袋，以及标签，更正规地做这件事。我掌握了流程，用这种方法，我已经完成了几十个城镇。我预算每月花费约100澳元，继续做下去，邮寄到更远的城镇。我很高兴自己总能及时得到关于下一个目标城镇的提示。在这些时刻，我感受了到师父的慈悲指引。
I also did a one-off project after realising there was a Confucius Institute at one of the universities in Perth. They were promoting themselves to all the primary schools and high schools in Western Australia on their webpage, so I compiled a database of over 1000 schools and emailed them all a letter clarifying the truth about Confucius Institutes. I was able to track the emails and I could see that this project definitely had some effect. I was even able to write a sharing about it, which was published on Minghui.
在得知珀斯的一所大学设有孔子学院后，我做了个一次性的项目。这所孔子学院在他们的网页上向西澳所有的小学和高中推广自己，所以我搜集了一个包含1000多所学校的数据库，给所有学校发了一封电子邮件，说明关于孔子学院的真相。我还能够跟踪这些电子邮件，可以肯定这个项目起到了一定的效果。我写了一篇关于这个项目的交流，文章在明慧网上发表。
Recently I was asked to take up the task of running the WA Facebook page. When I was on Facebook, someone in a global Falun Dafa group asked about projects for isolated practitioners, so I wrote a comment describing how I was mailing out to farming communities . Because of this comment, two things happened.
最近我被安排负责西澳脸书的任务。当我在脸书上时，一个全球法轮大法的群组里有人询问关于住在偏远地区的学员如何讲真相的问题。我写了一些评论，讲述了我如何邮寄真相资料到农业区。由于这些评论，后来发生了两件事。
First a person reading my comment decided he could do this activity in his country and he asked me for details. Later I was telling a practitioner from an outer suburb of Perth about this, and he decided he should do this in his area too.
第一件事是，有位读了评论的同修决定他也可以在他所在的国家这样做，并向我询问了详情。后来我告诉住在珀斯远郊的一名同修这件事，他决定也应该在他所在地区这样做。
The second thing was, a person contacted me because she recruits for the New York Epoch Times, and for some reason my comment in the Facebook group stood out to her. She asked for my CV and how much time I might have available each week. In the end, she put me in touch with someone at the Sydney English Epoch Times, and now I help them out with proofreading a whole paper every week.
第二件事是，一位为纽约大纪元时报招募工作人员的同修联系了我，她看到了我在脸书上的交流。她询问了我的简历，以及我每周什么时间有空。最后，她让我与悉尼的英文大纪元时报联系，现在我每周帮他们校对报纸所有的版面。
Last November at the agricultural show, a woman from the stall next to mine approached me with an offer. She enjoys meditation and knew Falun Gong exercises were taught for free. She works for a local real estate agent. She asked if I would teach the exercises after work in a big room in their offices once a week. I had been wishing I could have a practice site and now here I was offered one. I couldn’t help but smile at the arrangement.
在去年11月的农业展上，我旁边摊位的一位女士向我询问有关法轮功的事情。她喜欢打坐，并且知道法轮功免费教功。她在当地的一个房产中介公司工作。她问我是否可以下班后、每周一次在她公司的一个大房间里教功。我一直希望能有一个炼功点，现在终于有了。我对这个安排发自内心的感到高兴。
In September this year I bought my own motor scooter, and I am now able to do a few hours of mailbox deliveries in my town every week as well.
今年9月，我自己买了一辆摩托车，我现在在我所在的城市每周也投放几个小时的信箱。
My involvement in all these projects came about very naturally and there is no sense of doing something out of guilt, and no sense of being extreme. It truly was a reflection of “pursue nothing, gain naturally”. I wanted to do all of the Three Things well and fulfil my vow, and Master could see this wish in my heart. Now I work on so many projects that I have to be very organised to balance them all along with my full-time job, family life, daily exercises, Fa study, and Righteous Thoughts.
我参与所有这些项目都非常自然，不是因为感到内疚而做的，也没有任何走极端的感觉。这真是“无所求而自得”的体现。我想做好三件事并兑现我的誓约，而师父看到了我的愿望。现在我参与了许多项目，我必须非常有条理地安排好它们，在我日常的全职工作、家庭生活、炼功、学法和发正念中平衡好。
A good Fa study routine is essential. From very early on I believed Master when he stressed the seriousness of regular Fa study. I have been strict with myself about studying the Fa every day, but that doesn’t mean the quality of my study was good. There has been serious interference to my study that took different forms.
每天有固定的时间学法是很重要的。师父强调了经常学法的重要性，从很早开始我就对此坚信不疑。我非常严格地每天都学法，但这并不意味着我学法的质量很好。我学法时受到了各种形式的严重干扰。
Being a remote practitioner, I don’t have opportunity to study face-to-face with anyone, so early on I started studying a whole lecture every night on the Internet with Chinese Perth practitioners. They all read in Chinese and I had to concentrate hard to keep up with them and be on the correct paragraph. During this period I read with focus and I read very sincerely.
作为一名住在偏远地区的学员，我没有面对面学法的机会，所以我从很早开始就在互联网上与华人同修一起每晚学一讲。他们用中文阅读，所以我必须集中精力才能跟上他们、并保持正确的段落。在这段时间里，我读法非常认真、专注。
Then some English speakers joined and we split into an English language group. I became more complacent, because even if I wasn’t concentrating I still knew what paragraph we were up to. This group soon switched to reading in the morning after exercises and righteous thoughts. Because of strong human notions I developed bad habits and for a long time I didn’t think to consider it a problem.
后来有一些讲英语的同修加入，我们分成了另一个英语学法组。我变得有些自满，因为即使我没有集中注意力，我仍然知道我该读哪个段落。这个小组很快改成了在早上炼功和发正念后学法。由于强烈的人的观念，我养成了一些不良的习惯，很长一段时间我都没有重视它。
My thoughts would run amok. I read with a strong show off mentality and I over-emphasized words. My mind was irritated by other people’s voices and styles. One person would stop to breathe when the words reached the edge of the page, but he wouldn’t stop to breathe at full stops. I wanted him to realize what he was doing so I emphasized stopping at full stops. After my work hours changed sometimes I would read quickly because I wanted some leisure time before going to work. Sometimes I had strong sleepiness. Sometimes I would look at something on the Internet when it wasn’t my turn to read; or I would be daydreaming even when I was reading out loud. I even developed a habit of watching the time and checking how many pages were left in the lecture.
我学法时经常分神。强烈的显示心使我在读法时会特别强调一些字眼。我的情绪会被其他人读法的声音和风格所激怒。特别是有一位同修每当读到换行时，会停顿一下；而读到句号的时候，却又不停顿。我想提醒他，所以我读到句号的时候，就故意多停一下。后来，由于我工作时间的改变，我会读得很快，因为我想在上班前，能有一些闲暇的时间。有时我也会被睡魔干扰。有时没轮到我读的时候，我什至会在互联网上浏览一些其它的东西。有些时候，即使我正在大声朗读，还会做白日梦。我什至养成了学法时盯着时间看和翻看这一讲还剩多少页的坏习惯。
Another form of interference came when I would think of some ordinary matter that I needed to say to someone, or I would have a good idea about something, or I would think of a chore I needed to do. I worried that I wouldn’t remember it later and I felt a sense of urgency, so I would send a text, write myself a note or write an email. The inspirations would come as soon as Fa study started. They seemed like such great ideas and I was convinced I would lose them if I didn’t jot them down immediately. Only very recently have I begun to be aware of how disrespectful I have been to Master and the Fa.
另一种干扰形式是，每当我开始学法时，一些灵感就会出现。例如，我会想到一些我需要对某人说的话；或者对某些事情有了好的主意；或者想到我需要处理的一件日常的事情。我担心自己会记不得，因此感到紧张，所以我会发个短信、写在纸上或发一封电子邮件。它们似乎是如此好的主意，如果我没有立即记下来，我怕我会忘掉它们。一直到最近，我才开始意识到我对师父和法有多么的不尊重。
Master said in Zhuan Falun – Different Levels Have Different Fa: “It is not easy to change your thinking right away; you will transform your thinking gradually during the lectures to come.”
师父在《转法轮》– <不同层次有不同层次的法>中说：“要一下子转变你的思想是不容易的，在今后的听课当中，你会慢慢的转变你的思想，”
In 2016 another Perth practitioner and I started a second daily study group six nights a week. We systematically read all of the pre 1999 conference lectures on FalunDafa.org. We read for 30 minutes, send righteous thoughts, and then read for another 15 minutes . We have read all the materials through at least three times. We are not in any hurry and we read carefully. Sometimes we even read a paragraph over if one of us wasn’t concentrating or wanted to better understand the concept being described. I can’t over-emphasize how beneficial this has been.
2016年，我和另一位珀斯同修开始了第二个学法小组。每周六个晚上，我们系统地阅读了法轮大法网站上所有1999年以前的法会讲法。我们读30分钟，发正念，然后再读15分钟。我们阅读了所有的讲法至少三遍。我们不求快，并仔细阅读。有时，如果我们中有一个人没有集中注意力、或者是当我们想要更好地理解法所描述的内涵时，我们甚至会重复阅读某个段落。我无法描述这给我带来了多大的益处！
When I first started cultivation I only read these early materials once, and then focused on the newer conference lectures, but without a very solid understanding of the basics I struggled to understand the Fa rectification concepts. After three years of reading these early materials my understandings have improved and I feel that I am catching up.
刚开始修炼时，我只阅读过一遍这些早期的讲法，然后就专注于新的讲法。由于对早期的讲法没有打下坚实的基础，我无法更好的理解正法的内涵。经过三年阅读这些早期的讲法，我的理解有所提高，我觉得我正在迎头赶上。
Although I am still interfered with when I read Zhuan Falun, I am aware of it now and I am improving. Just the other day a practitioner I read with commented that my reading has changed and I sound like I understand what I am reading rather than just going through the motions. In fact, I have started having new understandings while reading.
虽然我读《转法轮》时仍然会受到干扰，但我现在能意识到，而且也在進步。不久前，一位与我一起学法的同修评论说我读法已经发生了变化，我听起来像是在理解我阅读的内容，而不仅仅是在念书。事实上，我在阅读时已经开始有了新的理解。
My study habits are routine and disciplined, even though my human mind might not be. I recently noticed that I have had a longing to experience moments of sudden dramatic improvement in cultivation. But in writing this sharing and taking a look back at how I was in the early years of my cultivation, I can see that my improvement has truly been dramatic; it just happened so gradually that I didn’t notice. Fa study and looking inwards was the key to this.
我的学法习惯是有规律和自律的，尽管我的思想可能不是。我最近注意到，我一直渴望在修炼中能感受到巨大的变化。在写这篇交流、并回顾我修炼初期的表现时，可以看出我确实是已经有了巨大的進步。然而它是慢慢发生的，所以我没注意到。学法和向内找是这些变化的关键。
Human gratitude is inadequate for what Master has given us. Thank you Master. I still have many attachments and things I don’t know how to handle well. I will finish this journey with heart-felt diligence. Thank you fellow practitioners. Even though I am so remote from you all in the human dimension, I know we are all together. Please point out if I have said anything that is not in line with the Fa.
对于师父所给与我们的，人类的感激无法表达。谢谢您，师父。我还有许多执着、还有许多事情我不知道如何能处理好。我会用心精進，走完最后的路。谢谢各位同修，即使我与你们在这个空间相距遥远，但我知道我们都是在一起的。请帮助指出我的交流不在法上的内容。
Thank you Master!
Thank you fellow practitioners!
谢谢师尊！
谢谢同修！