(Clearwisdom.net)
As the process of Fa-rectification speeds up, international cooperation and interaction among practitioners also increase. Teacher said in "Tathagata" that "Spreading the Fa's principles throughout the secular world" and I realize that one can clarify the facts while traveling.
1. Clarify the Truth to the Numerous Travelers and Personnel at the Airport
Every time before my departure on a trip, I prepare 300-500 sets of truth-clarification materials. I give a set of Dafa materials to those I met during check-in, security checks or while waiting to board. Usually local practitioners do not have many opportunities to go to the airport to distribute Dafa materials unless we travel. When I went through the security inspection at the Kennedy Airport after the New York Fa Conference this year, I gave materials to the inspection personnel. Two of them asked about the details of Falun Gong. One lady asked me if she could find practitioners locally.
While traveling to the Geneva Fa-conference, my plane stopped at the Athens Airport for half an hour. Thinking that there may not be any practitioners in Greece yet, I gave the materials to the three ground crew members that serviced our flight. Another time my plane stopped at the Fiji Airport for two hours. As the airport was not very big, I gave truth-clarification materials to just about everyone waiting or working at the airport. Not a single worker there refused the material. I thought that for these countries that had yet to have local practitioners, people would at least hear about Dafa. While in transit or waiting for a plane, quite often I see flight crews in their neat uniforms in the waiting lounges. I walk up to them and give them Dafa materials. Almost every time someone says cheerfully, "Oh, Falun Gong. I know about it." or someone raises a thumb and says, "Falun Gong, Falun Gong."
2. Clarify the Truth to the Precious Chinese People
Nowadays, you can come across Chinese from Mainland China at just about any airport in the world. Last year, while I was waiting for my flight at the Sydney Airport after attending the Australian Fa-Conference, a fellow practitioner traveling with me gave a copy of truth clarification flyers to an elderly Chinese gentleman but he tore it up and threw it in the garbage bin without even looking at it. I walked up to him and said: "How are you? Do you know that these truth-clarification materials don't come easily? They are all made with money that we saved up to let people have a better understanding of Falun Gong. Some elderly practitioners would forego a loaf of bread to print the materials." At this time, seven to eight people from his party came to listen. I continued: "Whether to read it or not is your choice. If you don't want to read it, you can return it to us. It is a waste to tear it up." Then I told them about the extensive dissemination of Dafa outside of China, and about the numerous awards given to Dafa in various countries. In the end, the gentleman who tore up the material quietly went to the practitioner who gave him the material and told her, "I know that you Falun Gong practitioners are all good people."
In April when my plane stopped over at the Fiji Airport on my way to the New York Fa-Conference I met a group of over 40 Chinese workers. I gave the materials to them but they said they dared not take them because they might get into trouble when they returned home. I said, "Our meeting is a kind of predestined relationship. Don't miss this good opportunity to understand the true facts about Dafa. It is ok if you don't want to take the materials home. You can give it back to me after reading it." Several of them stuck their hands out for the material. I gave them the five to six different kinds of materials that I had with me, and told them about the case of Jiang's prosecution. After reading them, they handed the materials back to me very politely, and said, "Thank you, we understand now." I asked them to tell the true situation to their friends and families after they go home. They promised gladly. Two young guys said, "To tell you the truth, we all knew these things."áá
3. Reject the Old Forces' Arrangement with Righteous Thoughts and Actions
Master said, "In history the old forces arranged many, many things, and they made extremely thorough and intricate arrangements." ("Teaching the Fa at the 2002 Fa Conference in Philadelphia, U.S.A.") Practically no airport or train station has a clear regulation regarding where flyers can be placed within its compound. In reality this is also a deliberate arrangement by the old forces.
When I went to the United States and Mexico last year to take part in group sending-forth righteous thoughts, a practitioner kept reminding me that we were not allowed to distribute flyers at the airport. I understood that the fellow practitioner was being responsible to Dafa. But looking from another standpoint, this was the old forces using the old notions that they had arranged for us, to interfere with our activities. There is no rhyme or reason whatsoever for stopping people from understanding Dafa and knowing the truth. To reject the old forces' arrangement is actually to reject the set notions in our minds. Master said: "Everything through the ages, has happened for the Fa." ("Just a Play"). Watching the travelers passing by, one after another, I thought, "aren't they here for the Fa?" I know deep down that as a Dafa practitioner I have huge responsibilities. So I began to distribute Dafa materials to the passengers and the personnel at the airport, and no one tried to stop me. Then other practitioners also followed suit.
All practitioners in the world are one body. There are hundreds or even thousands of us practitioners traveling to attend Fa-conferences or group Fa-rectification activities. If every one of us can clarify the truth about Dafa whenever and wherever we go on our trips, this would be a large worldwide Fa-spreading activity.
2003-5-13
