(Clearwisdom.net) After learning that the evil is gathering in Beijing, I started to call Beijing in my spare time. I obtained the telephone numbers of the headmasters of elementary schools in some suburbs in Beijing. At the time some practitioners had successfully prosecuted Chen Zhili (Minister of Education Department) in Africa. I used this for starters and then went straight to the self-immolation incident in Tiananmen square, the lawsuits abroad against Jiang for his persecution of Falun Gong, and the fact that Falun Dafa is being spread rapidly around the world. The result was very positive. Except for the lines I could not get through, all the people that I talked to listened very attentively, and some even asked many questions. Most of the conversations ended only when I thought that they had received enough information.
I could not help but feel complacent with these initial successes. I even thought that these numbers were not "substantial" enough, and that I should look for something more challenging, someone who is deeply lost and deceived by the propaganda. And if I could turn them around, then that would be really saving people. However, things did not pan out as I had thought, undoubtedly because of my complacency I met with difficulties in my subsequent calls.
I calmed myself down and turned to preparing the necessary materials for the calls. I had collected many such materials because I used to do truth-clarification to the Chinese people on and off. I read through experience-sharing articles on clarifying the truth written by fellow practitioners in the past two or three years, and the materials for fax and broadcast. Taking the valuable experiences of fellow practitioners as reference, I carefully reassessed the telephone calls that I made previously, and made a special summary of the shortcomings. For example, I didn't study the Fa before calls, and I forgot to send forth righteous thoughts while clarifying the truth. Because I used to spend a great deal of time on truth-clarification using other methods, when I started calling I just wanted to zero straight in on clarifying the truth, and I wouldn't even want to talk when people wanted to know more about Dafa once they learned the truth. I figured that would be for the next stage, and I needn't waste time on it now. There was a period of time when I joined a group to save fellow practitioners, I came into contact with the police often, and I was influenced by their vicious words and actions. So when people told me that Falun Gong had nothing to do with them, I felt helpless and simply gave up calling because I thought I couldn't make any breakthroughs.
I took out the materials that were of relevance to Beijing and combined them with the ones for rescuing fellow practitioners and reorganized them into different categories. I picked out a number of practitioners that needed to be rescued and collected all the materials about their past and their latest situation from the Internet. Then I nailed down the relevant work units and made calls to them. I felt that was a better approach, which not only serves to rescue fellow practitioners but also clarifies the truth at the same time. Even if the other side had nothing to do with the practitioners to be rescued, a thorough understanding of the practitioner's situation could only help with the truth-clarification. Otherwise, it would be difficult to convince them if I only talked in generalities. I ran into several people who still thought that the persecution was mere hearsay; the public security personnel also often asked if the person lived in the district. So if we could raise specific examples of persecuted practitioners that the people we call are familiar with, the effect of our call would be much more compelling. So before clarifying the truth, we need to have a good understanding about the subject matter we are going to discuss.
My personal understanding is that clarifying the truth by phone is an art. I find that when I call often, I can talk freely, and find many topics to begin the conversation with, and when it's time to switch to the truth about Dafa, it becomes quite natural, and I can easily control the topic. Sometimes if the other side is willing to listen, I can talk for hours on end. On the other hand, if I don't call for a while, I am at a loss as to what to say when I pick up the phone. Practice makes perfect, and we can really accumulate a lot of experience to suit ourselves. Before making any calls we should do the necessary preparation. We get what we put in, and we will not be able to convince the other party if we are not clear about the truths we are clarifying. However, we need not be constrained by experience either. Sometimes I see practitioners from overseas achieving miraculous results, and I feel that they are more suited to the task, but this is a manifestation of bad enlightenment. Practitioners are all different, and their cultivation paths are different, and so are the ways to clarify the truth. We can learn from the experiences of fellow practitioners, but we must not be constrained by these experiences. More importantly, we should make the best use of our own ability and do our best. As long as we study the Fa more, have righteous thoughts and maintain a heart of compassion to save sentient beings, wisdom will rush forth nonstop, and we will certainly achieve the results of saving sentient beings.
The above is some shallow understanding of mine in the area of preparation for truth-clarification by telephone. I hope more practitioners will share their experiences so that we can learn from each other, and I also hope that good news keeps coming in the battle between righteous and evil in other dimensions over Beijing.
Category: Perspective
