在疫情期间的修炼体会
尊敬的师父好！
各位同修好！
师父告诫我们：“你们为什么当大法弟子啊？大法弟子就有那么大的责任，那这个责任就是要在众生都不行了的时候、世人被恶魔中共邪党绑架而无望的时候救度他们。今天的众生又都是天上来的，而且每一个人甚至于他都代表着一个天体体系的，所以救一个人等于救无量无计的生命，这背后的威德太大了，你说一个常人能做的了吗？配吗？不配。只有配做大法弟子的人才能做的了，才能解体这恶魔。”[1]
以下是我在疫情期间的修炼体会，向师尊汇报，和同修交流。
一、在RTC平台上学打真相电话
二零二零年初，瘟疫在中国爆发之后，来澳洲景点的中国游客突然减少了许多。很快澳洲也因为中共病毒在三月中旬开始进入半封城状态，我的常人工作单位也决定开始在家里上班。我觉得这正是师父给我们大法弟子安排的在平台上往国内打救人电话的最佳契机。所以我很迅速就在四月初开始学着在平台上拨打真相电话。
打电话就是修心的过程。首先是克服了安逸心，本来一到晚上十点我就想睡觉了，自己救人的决心战胜了睡魔的干扰，现在这个点一开始讲电话就精神起来了。通过在平台上打真相电话很能发现自己平常觉察不到的不真和虚伪的毛病。在打哈尔滨专案的时候和一个大哥通上了电话，从肺炎的情况开始聊，对方因觉得国内现在肺炎控制得很好问我为什么不回国，我就随口说之前考虑过要回国，但后来因为知道国内的安全只是宣传出来的所以还是不回了。事后在一旁听我打电话的同修问我是否真的考虑过回国，我说我不可能目前考虑回国，这有悖于师父对我们海外弟子的要求。同修接着问那为什么不对众生说实话，这不符合真。
师父讲：“我这个人我不愿意说的话，我可以不说，但是我说出来的就得是真话。”[2]
我当时才意识到我和同修的差距，人家就可以用法来严格要求自己，而我因为各种人心挡着，不敢说真话还觉得这种无关痛痒的善意的谎言没事。我为什么就不能堂堂正正的告诉众生因为自己的信仰在国内遭到残酷的迫害而一时想回回不去？不就是怕人家笑话自己吗？瞧你炼个法轮功，连回国都不敢回了？为什么自己的正念少的如此可怜，就不想通过讲这个事实让众生看清中共的变态和邪恶？唉，多些正念很多情况就不一样了。我感激平台同修及时又真诚善意的指出自己的不足。我之后更加注意杜绝自己任何情况下的言不由衷。怪不得之前听一位老同修说上平台打电话是最快提高心性的项目之一。
开始在平台上打电话救人之后，发现自己的修炼状态对救人的效果影响很大。在参与平台打电话之前由于自己的惰性，每天的学法炼功经常没有办法保证，经常是学半讲法和只炼一二五套动功，凌晨发正念根本起不来。修炼上的每日功课没有到位，说出的话没有足够的法力来解体另外空间的邪恶，所以众生经常不接电话或者听两句就挂电话，再打不接。刚开始还觉得是因为自己的电话讲稿有问题，什么不能有疫情敏感词啦，要快速的直接说主题啊等等，那时总是向身边的几位同修打听哪里可以获得更好更吸引人的电话讲稿。
后来才发现自己还是向外求了，因为其他同修在讲电话的时候说了所谓的敏感词众生也不挂电话呀，其他同修不紧不慢的讲着真相也没有太多挂电话的。反观自己，因为担心对方挂电话，讲的越来越快，再快一点就可以飞起来了。这种电话谁要接听？
后来向内找之后发现担心众生听不明白也是一颗必须要修去的心。师父讲：“害怕也是一种执着心。”[2]后来我就特别重视自己每天的学法炼功发正念，打电话在语速上尽量慢一些，众生也不像原来那样频繁挂电话了。向内找就能找到最好的解决方法！我发现如果今天学法炼功没有全部完成，反映到救人上就是接电话的众生听大法真相听不全，他们因为害怕电话监听或者其他原因挂电话的机率就会增多。原来他们的表现都是我自己修炼状态的真实反映啊！所以现在我就会格外重视每天自己要做的修炼功课——炼功、学法、发正念和尽量用法来规正自己的一思一念。
说在平台上打电话救人，就像修炼人云游中修心的过程，我刚开始还觉得就那么一说吧，也没去多想。但是经过这几个月的亲身体验下来，才千真万确的知道每一个接电话的众生，都是师父给我们安排的让我们提高心性的有缘人。比如说，怕心未去的同修常常遇见胆小不敢接电话的众生，或者一听开头就挂电话；爱面子心、争斗心未去的同修经常遇上破口大骂完全不听真相的众生；急性子的同修经常遇见有很多心结的众生，需要耐心聊一至两小时才能明白真相。看着是给十四亿中国同胞随机拨打的电话，但是我越来越觉得每个电话都是师父巧妙完美的安排。
我虽然表面上谦虚有礼，待人接物都能尽量做到为他人着想，让对方感到我的真诚和善意。但是一旦发现对方暴露出了我之前未曾察觉的大缺点，或者让我觉得很不舒服的方面，我就会打心眼里瞧不起这个人，然后态度一百八十度大转弯，甚至懒得多说一句。在宽容忍耐方面做得实在太不象个修炼人应有的状态。所以有一次接电话的是一位正在田地里休息的农民大哥。我听他的声音觉得他是善良有传统理念的好人。我就想简单和他聊一下，问他种的是什么农作物之类的，随后才和他开始讲真相。
这位大哥听完了抹毒誓三退保平安的消息后就很爽快的退了少先队。当我还在恭喜他做出这样一个明智选择的时候，他在电话的那一头就迫不及待的表达了他对我说话声音的喜爱，紧接着就说了很露骨淫秽的话，说他很想怎样怎样，还问我想不想。我当时就觉得这人简直太恶心了，他的那些话像一大堆屎壳郎一样砸在了我的脸上，我当时真想破口大骂然后挂电话。好在我同时又想起师父讲：“文艺作品里边要不写点儿黄色的东西，好象这本书都卖不出去，因为讲销售量的问题；电影电视里要没有点儿床上镜头，好象电影电视也没人看了，讲上座率收视率的问题；裸体画就搁那放着，大马路中间挂着，一抬头就看见。”[2]
我当时仿佛看见自己站在直升飞机外正在伸手救援一个不小心落入大粪池里的有缘生命，我会因为大粪池的臭气熏天就不完成我的使命了吗？我会因为等待救援的生命手上有粪便我就放弃他吗？绝不能！只要他愿意伸出手臂被救，只要他愿意三退并且对法轮功有个正面的表态，那他就会拥有平安美好的未来。那我就应该放下所有观念义不容辞的帮他得救。在经过了这两秒的挣扎之后，正念战胜了人心，我就当没听见对方的恶心话，接着充满善意的和他说：“恭喜您大哥，退一次就可以了，不用重复退。另外您听说过真善忍好吗？”我和他继续讲法轮功的真相。很快他就非常充满正气地说：“我知道法轮功是好的！”我真替这位大哥的明智选择感到欣慰，谢谢师父对我的加持！
二、等待真相电话的有缘大姐
中共的谎言使国内很多民众误解法轮功，中共在国内的淫威让善良的民众不敢来了解真相。但是作为正法时期弟子，我们就是把持着一颗纯净的心在平台上向所有有缘的中国人讲真相。有时也能遇到师父安排的很有缘份的众生。记得大约是今年六月份的一天晚上，我照常上平台打电话，这次接通电话的是一位中年女性，她一听我的开场白就说可算是接到我们真人电话了，她之前接到过好几通我们打的电话，但都是事先录好的语音电话，不能和真人互动，但是她觉得一定会有真人打来电话的，所以她那段时间就每天守候在电话边等待我们给她打电话。她十分明白中共的邪恶，所以很快就同意了三退。
大法真相她也知道很多，因为原来经常翻墙看新唐人的节目，所以她知道法轮功弟子就是想要修心向善的一群好人。这位善良的大姐还告诉我她一直都对宗教信仰很感兴趣，曾经很多年在国内的教堂里面了解基督教和在寺庙里了解佛教，但是现在都退出来了，因为她觉得这些宗教都不修心，她和我说她认识的大和尚天天都想着怎么去买名牌好车，她就觉得奇怪，你一个和尚你要那么好的车做什么？她觉得人生最重要的事就是要给自己的灵魂找一个家，她说：但是现在很多现代人都不知道自己还有灵魂。
我告诉她法轮大法修炼没有宗教形式，但是特别注重修心，很多法理直指人心。她听了之后很感兴趣，问我如何学炼。我就把安全获取大法信息的方法告诉她。她很快就开始看《转法轮》这本书，过了些日子我再次打电话给她的时候，她和我说这是一本指导人上天的书，她说她找了一辈子，现在终于找到真爱了。她现在有机会的情况下还会告诉身边的人法轮功可好了，不要相信中共的谎言。
三、在中国大陆社交媒体项目中修炼提高自己
在打电话的过程中，很多同修经常碰到国内有缘众生向我们询问如何突破邪党的网络封锁，安全稳定的接收海外真实的新闻。因为在中国大陆几乎人人都用社交媒体，有大量人群整天花大量时间抱着手机看社交媒体。我很快意识到了社交媒体也是一个很好的讲真相救人的平台。虽然说邪党的监控和封锁很厉害，但是同修们在师父的加持下总能智慧的突破他们的封锁把真相资料发到国内众生的手机里。
刚开始的时候我也就是在群组里发一发每天的真相资料，包括九评共产党，新唐人的时政节目，传统文化故事和大法基本真相。一开始师父鼓励我，就每天有很多人来加我为好友，希望得到我们每天更新的真相资料。很快我的好友数量就达到了七八百人，那协调同修就跟我说希望我开设新的群组，把这些有缘众生都放在几个大群里，然后每天定时在群里发几次资料，再管管群里的秩序就可以了。听着并不复杂，也是我力所能及的事情，所以我就答应管理我们的真相群。师父把有缘人送来，我开了几个群，很快每个群里都有两百五十人左右了。
就在我正有点沾沾自喜的时候，问题就来了。在每个群里都有那么十来个群友在群里每天发不少的常人文章，我因为不想得罪人也就没说什么。但很快就有其它群友对我说群主您可是要管一管呀，不管这群到时又烂了。我立刻和另一位有经验的同修联系，她说在群里是不能太吵，就像看神韵演出一样，周围环境要安静观众才能专心看演出。是啊，确保众生能在安静的环境中收看每天更新的真相资料，就已经是开始净化他们的心灵，救人重要的一个步骤了。
所以我就开始制定群规希望大家保持安静。但是那些个不安静的群友根本就不听我的，还是照常发。出于无奈我就开始把他们一个个都删除出去。但是我每删一个人我都心如刀割，因为人家是来得真相的，我却把人家赶出去了。这结了恶缘以后还怎么单独劝三退啊？这可都是师父给安排的有缘生命啊！但是他们就是不断发帖，不删除他们我能怎么办呢？我给协调同修发信息他也不回，我一下子变得很烦躁，怨恨协调同修怎么不帮我解决解决这个难题，还怨恨群友不遵守规矩，不懂得珍惜这来之不易的真相资料，然后我还要惦记着每隔几分钟就要到群里去看看有没有谁又发常人文章了，如果谁发了还要把他们删除，唉，我的心那时七上八下，我整个人也是坐立不安。我怎么变成了自己最讨厌的那种人，像不给人说话的“监狱长”了呢？
不行，我一定要找到自己的问题。师父讲：“因为矛盾产生的时候，会突然间出现，可是却不是偶然存在的，那是为了提高你的心性的。你只要把你当作炼功人，你就能够把它处理好。”[2]
所以我想这件事情能发生，一定是我修炼哪里出了问题，你看其他同修管的群都安安静静的，我向内找一定也可以做得到！师父讲：“对的是他，错的是我”。[3]更何况我是修炼人和常人发生不愉快，那错的一定是我修炼人了。
我很快安静下来向内找，找到了自己的人心：用要求自己的标准去要求别人。发真相对我修炼人来说很重要，但对于尚不全面了解大法的普通民众来说，重要的东西除了真相之外还有很多，比如保健养生、孩子教育、购房置业啊这些都是和他们生活息息相关的。不让想说话的人说话就会引起不愉快。怎么办呢？静下心来之后，我就突然想到了一个好办法：再开一个可以说话的真相讨论群，把那些删除的人再加到这个可以讨论发消息的群不就很好了吗？然后我每天也在这个群里发真相资料，这样他们既可以得真相，也可以自由发言，问题不就解决了吗？这样一来，那些被删除的众生也很感谢我把他们又拉入另一群可以一边听真相一边谈天说地，那些想要安静听真相的群友私下和我说“群主管理真好，此地无声胜有声。”谢谢师父的大法给我的智慧！
四、结语
多年坚持讲真相的同修常常说：“讲真相贵在坚持，不要被一时的结果带动了情绪。在看不到表面结果的时候，还能坚持是很了不起的。”
最后我恭录师父的一段法和大家共勉。师父讲:“做的过程中看的是你的人心，而不是看你成功的本身。你做的过程中就把人救了！你做的过程中是你修炼提高的过程，同时就在起着救度众生的作用！不是说你把那件事情做成了才能起到救度众生的作用。”[4]
层次有限，不妥之处请同修慈悲指正。
谢谢师父！
谢谢同修！
注：
[1]李洪志师父著作：《各地讲法十》〈在明慧网十周年法会上讲法〉
[2]李洪志师父著作：《转法轮》
[3]李洪志师父诗词：《洪吟三》〈谁是谁非〉
[4]李洪志师父著作：《二零一六年纽约法会》
（编者按：本文作者是一位二零一三年开始修炼的年轻教师）
English translation of this sharing:
2020 Australian online Fahui Sharing article 1: My Cultivation Journey During the Period of the epidemic (English translation)
Greetings to Master
Greetings to fellow practitioners!
Master said in Fa Teaching Given at the Fa Conference Marking the Tenth Anniversary of Minghui’s Founding：“why was it you that became a Dafa disciple? How come you are Dafa disciples right when this massive cosmos is going through a process of renewal and re-creation? That is how great the responsibility of Dafa disciples is, and that responsibility entails saving sentient beings when they are no longer any good and when the world’s people have been held hostage by that wretched fiend, the wicked CCP, and have no hope. Furthermore, the sentient beings today came from the heavens, with each, moreover, being the representative of a system of cosmic bodies. Saving one person thus amounts to saving countless, measureless lives, and the mighty virtue that lies behind that act is simply enormous. Would you say that’s something an ordinary person could accomplish? Could he be worthy? He couldn’t be. Only those who are worthy of being Dafa disciples could accomplish that, and only they could dissolve that wretched fiend.”
- Learning to make calls to clarify the truths
The number of Chinese tourists quickly plunged in Australia due to the outbreak of the CCP virus and Sydney soon began semi-lockdown status. My workplace decided to move things online in the middle of March. I felt that was a great opportunity that Master has arranged for me to save sentient beings through making phone calls to China. So I got everything ready and began learning how to make calls to China at the start of April.
Making calls to China and clarifying theand truth is the process of cultivating the mind. First of all, I had to overcome my attachment to sleeping early. I wanted to sleep as soon as 10 o’clock at night. My determination to save people overcame this interference. Now I feel more energetic when I talk on the phone. By making the calls on the RTC platform, I found out that I was always being very truthful. When I was calling Harbin, I was talking to a local male there. I started by asking him how the virus situation was. He told me that it was well controlled in China and he then asked me why I didn’t go back for better safety. I said that I thought about going back before, then I knew that it was only the propaganda that made people feel safe there, so I didn’t go back. Afterwards, a fellow practitioner who had listened to me on the phone asked me privately if I had really considered returning to China. I said that it is impossible for me to consider that at the moment. This goes against Master’s instructions for overseas disciples. The fellow practitioners then asked why I didn’t tell the guy the truth on the phone. This is not being truthful.
In the eighth lecture of Zhuan Falun, Master said: “I am a person who will not say what he does not want to say, but what I say must be true.” I realized the gap between me and fellow practitioners. Fellow practitioners can use the Fa to strictly guide themselves, but due to all kinds of human attachments, I dare not tell the truth and felt that this kind of innocuous white lie was ok. Why didn’t I tell him honestly that I couldn’t go back because of the cruel persecution of my faith in China? Isn’t it just my fear of others laughing at me? Look, you practice Falun Gong, you dare not even go back to your country? Why areis my own righteous thoughts so weak that I didn’t want to let sentient beings see the CCP’s evilness by honestly describing the situation I face? Many things would be different with more righteous thoughts. I am grateful to the practitioner for pointing out my shortcomings so promptly and sincerely. Since that, I have even more careful about being truthful in all circumstances. No wonder I heard a veteran fellow practitioner say that making calls to China is one of the best projects to improve our xinxing levels.
After starting to make phone calls on the platform to save lives, I found that my own cultivation state particularly affected the effectiveness of my phone calls to save lives. Before participating in the project, due to my laziness, I was often unable to complete the daily tasks for a cultivator, often just finishing half a lecture and exercising only 3 sets of exercises, and I could not get up in the early morning to send righteous thoughts. The daily homework of cultivation was not completed, and the words spoken did not carry enough power to dissolve the evilness in another dimension, so people often did not want to answer the phone or listen to more than two sentences before they hung up the phone. At first, I thought it was because there were problems in my scripts, such as the pandemic sort of sensitive words or I was speaking too quickly, etc. At that time, I always asked my fellow practitioners where and how I could get a better and more attractive beginning in what I have to tell them.
Later on, I realised I was still seeking answers from outside. When other fellow practitioners said the so-called taboo words, sentient beings did not hang up the phone. And other fellow practitioners speak fairly slowly on the phone, but the sentient beings did not hang up. On the other hand, because of my fear of the sentient being hanging up the phone, I ended up speaking faster and faster. Who wants to answer such a call?
Later, after looking inward, I discovered that fear of sentient beings not understanding me was also an attachment that has to be removed. In Lecture Six of Zhuan Falun, Master said, “Fear is also a kind of attachment.” Then I made sure that I did my daily Fa study and exercises and the cultivation of the mind. I also tried to speak more slowly on the phone, and sentient beings stopped hanging up so quickly. Looking inward leads to the best solutions! I found that if I didn’t complete my daily Fa study or exercise, it would be reflected in saving lives – the sentient beings who answered the phone couldn’t hear the truth of the Dafa fully, and their chances of hanging up increased for fear of phone tapping or other reasons. It turns out that their response was a true reflection of my own cultivation status! So now I will pay extra attention to my daily cultivation tasks – exercising, a lecture of Fa study, sending out righteous thoughts and trying to use the Master’s teachings to guide every thought in my mind.
Making calls to China to clarify the truth and save people is like wandering around in society to really cultivate the heart. I just thought that’s what people said and I did not think much of it. But now after months of personal experience, I know that every sentient being who answers the phone is arranged by Master for us to improve our xinxing. For example, those who have an attachment of fear often ring sentient beings who are too timid to answer the phone, or hang up as soon as they hear the first word; those who have attachments to fame often call sentient beings who yell at them and refuse to listen to the truth; those practitioners who are impatient often call sentient beings who have a lot to questions and need a lot of patience to explain about things for 1-2 hours to understand the truth. It looks like a phone call to random numbers among 1.4 billion Chinese people, but each phone call has been a perfect arrangement by Master.
On the surface, I seem modest and polite and I try to be considerate of others so that people feel that I am sincere and kind. But once I find that the other person reveals a major flaw that I hadn’t noticed before or an aspect that makes me feel uncomfortable, I will despise the person in my heart, and then make a U-turn in my attitude without saying anything. My tolerance and patience were not up to a real cultivator’s level. There was a time that a guy who answered the phone was a farmer who was resting in the field. As soon as I heard his voice and I felt that he must be a good man with traditional values. I talked to him briefly and I asked him what kind of crops he was growing, and then I started to tell him what I was really calling to say.
After hearing the campaign of quitting the CCP to secure a good future, he happily renounced his affiliation with the CCP’s Young Pioneers. When I was congratulating him for making such a wise choice, he couldn’t wait to express his love for my voice on the other end of the phone, followed by very explicit and obscene words, saying that he really wanted to do something with me and he also asked me if I wanted to. I was so disgusted with what I heard that his words hit me in the face like a pile of feces, and I really wanted to yell at him and hang up.
However, I remembered what Master said in Lecture 9 of Zhuan Falun: “If a piece of literary work is not written with some sexual content, the book seems unable to sell since the issue of sales quantity is involved. If movies and television programs do not show footage of bedroom scenes, in terms of audience ratings no one seems to watch them. ” “Nude pictures are displayed right over there, hanging in the middle of the street. Once you look up, you will see them.”
It was as if I saw myself standing outside a helicopter reaching out to rescue a sentient being who had accidentally fallen into a cesspool, and would I stop rescuing him because of the stench of the cesspool? Am I going to give up on a life waiting to be rescued because it has feces on its hands? No way! As long as he is willing to raise his arms to be saved, as long as he is willing to quit the CCP and have a good impression of Falun Gong, then he will have a safe and bright future. Then I should put aside all my human notions and help him to be saved. After a few seconds of struggle, righteousness got the upper hand in my mind. I pretended not to hear the disgusting words and said to him with kindness: “Congratulations! you only need to quit the CCP once. Also have you heard of truthfulness, compassion and forbearance?” I continued to tell him the truth about Falun Gong. Soon he was very full of righteousness and said, “I know that Falun Gong is good!” I’m so glad for his wise choice, and I thank the Master for showing me the right way!
- A Lady waiting by the phone for truth clarification
The Chinese Communist Party’s lies have made many people in China misunderstand Falun Gong, and because of the regime’s appalling human rights record, people of goodwill are afraid to get to know the truth. However, by keeping a clear and clean mind with righteous thoughts, we can still sometimes chat with the very kind and brave sentient beings brought by Master.
In June this year, I rang a phone number and a middle-aged lady picked it up. She was so happy that we finally rang her. She said she had received several calls from us before, but they were all pre-recorded voice messages, so she couldn’t interact with the real person, but she thought there should be a real person calling her soon, so she had been waiting by her phone for someone to call her! She understood the evilness of the CCP very well and she quickly agreed to quit the CCP.
She also knew a lot about the truth of Falun Gong, because she used to watch NTD programs through special channels, so she knew that Falun Gong disciples are just a group of good people who want to cultivate their hearts to be better people. She also told me that she has always been interested in religion. She used to learn about Christianity in churches and Buddhism in temples in China for many years, but now she doesn’t practise these religions because she feels that they do not cultivate the heart. She told me many monks she knows always try to get money to buy many expensive cars. She thought, what do monks need expensive cars for? She didn’t understand it. She felt that the most important thing in life is to find a home for one’s soul, but many people today don’t even know they have souls.
I told her that Falun Dafa has no religious rituals, but that it focuses on cultivating the mind, and its teachings are directly to the heart. She was very interested and asked me how to learn it. I told her how to safely get information about Falun Dafa. When I called her again a few days later, she told me that it was a book that guides people to go to Heaven. She told me that she had been searching her whole life and now had finally found her true love. She now tells people around her that Falun Gong is good and that they should not believe the lies of the CCP.
- Cultivating myself on Chinese social media project
While interacting with people in China, many of them would like to know more truth and they asked us how to break through the CCP’s internet firewall and receive real news from overseas safely and reliably. Because almost everyone in Mainland China uses social media, there are large numbers of people who spend a lot of time on social media on their mobile phones. I soon realized that social media is also a great platform for clarifying the truth and saving lives. Although the surveillance and blockades by the evil CCP seem very strong, with the wisdom given by Master, fellow practitioners were always able to break through and send the truth materials to the phones of sentient beings in China.
At first, my job was just posting daily truth material in chat groups, including the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, NTD’s current affairs programs, traditional cultural stories and the basic truths of Falun Gong. With Master’s encouragement, and many people added me as friends every day, hoping to get the daily updates of the material. Soon the number of my friends reached almost 800, and the coordinator of the project told me that he would like me to start new chat groups, so that all these sentient beings would be placed in several large groups, and then I could post information to the groups several times a day, and manage them well. It didn’t sound complicated at all, so I agreed to manage new groups. Master sent those sentient beings, and I started several groups, and soon there were about 250 people in each group.
Just when I was feeling a bit pleased with myself, problems quickly followed. In each group there were some group members sending a lot of their everyday people posts in the group chat. I didn’t say anything as I didn’t want to offend anyone. Soon the quiet group members complained about the groups being too “noisy” as they only wanted to receive the truth clarification material from Falun Gong practitioners. I immediately contacted another more experienced practitioner and she told me that there should not be too much noise in the group, and it was like the audience watching a Shen Yun performance. Of course, making sure sentient beings can watch the daily truth updates in a quiet environment is an important step to start purifying their hearts and minds and saving lives.
So I started making rules for the groups and I asked everyone not to send their everyday people posts in the groups. However, that did not stop those from posting in the groups. I had no choice but to kick them out one by one. I was heartbroken every time I had to kick a member out. That’s because everybody came for the truth materials, and I kicked them out! They hate me now, how can I help to quit the CCP later on? They are here because Master has arranged them for me. But they just keep posting, so what can I do except kicking them out? I sent messages to the project coordinator and he did not reply. I suddenly became very irritated, resenting the coordinator. Why can’t he help me solve this problem? And I also resented the group members for not following the rules, not cherishing this hard-earned truth information. Plus, I had to check who posted anything in the group every few minutes. It was driving me mad! How did I become the type of person I hate the most? A prison captain who didn’t allow anyone to talk.
No, I have to find my problem, because Master said in Zhuan Falun that “…when a conflict occurs, it will take place unexpectedly. But that is not a coincidence—it is for improving your xinxing. As long as you treat yourself as a practitioner, you can handle it properly.” So, I thought there must be something that has to be improved in my cultivation. Other chat groups organised by other practitioners are so quiet with a similar number of people in them. Master wrote in Hongyin III, “Who is right and who is wrong”: “He is right, I am wrong,” not to mention that when problems occurred between a practitioner and everyday people, it must be my fault.
I quickly calmed down and looked inward and found my attachment: expecting others to have the same standard as I require of myself. It’s my top priority to deliver the truth materials, but for everyday people who don’t fully understand Falun Gong, there are many other things that are just important, such as health care, children’s education, buying properties, and so on. If I don’t let those who want to share and post such things, surely there will be conflicts.
What should I do? After calming down, a good idea came to me: wouldn’t it be great to start another group where we can talk about the truth and invite those who have been deleted in this group so they can post as much as they want. Then I will post the truth materials on both sides every day, so that everyone can get the truth materials and speak freely, and the problem will be solved. Those who wanted to listen to the truth in peace and quiet said to me privately, “This is a great way to deal with the situation.” Thank you, Master, for giving me the wisdom!
Conclusion
Fellow practitioners who have been doing truth clarification over the years often say, “Clarifying the truth needs a lot of perseverance. Don’t be driven by momentary results. It’s remarkable to carry on when you can’t see the apparent results.”
I would like to conclude with a piece of Master’s teachings from the New York Fa Conference in 2016, where He said: “In the process of doing things, what’s looked at is your hearts, not your success itself. In the process of doing things you can save people! Your process of doing things is also a process of you elevating in cultivation, which, at the same time, plays the role of saving sentient beings! It is not that only if you succeed in doing that thing can you play the role of saving sentient beings.”
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Thank You Master
Thank You fellow practitioners!
(Editor’s note: The author of this article is a young teacher who started practicing Falun Dafa in 2013)