(Clearwisdom.net) Master said in "Rationality": "Validate the Fa with rationality, clarify the truth with wisdom, spread the Fa and save people with mercy." In February 2004, because someone that we had clarified the truth to reported us to the authorities, my mother and I were forced to leave home and go from place to place. In the midst of our destitution, we realized that fleeing was not the goal, but saving sentient beings was fundamental. We found that clarifying the truth in the remote countryside was not enough to meet our objective. Thereupon, we chose a central place, a bustling town surrounded by villages on all sides, to settle. When I went to sleep that evening, I dreamt of gods saying that the beings in this place were blessed.
We cautiously approached every step of the way. After we settled down, we began to distribute truth-clarification materials everywhere. Gradually, we completed the first round. My mother and I had a discussion and felt that we had to seize the time to save the sentient beings. So we rented an inexpensive and temporary small room about 10 miles further out, and alternated between the two places while clarifying the truth. At the beginning, I could only distribute a few dozen each time. Through studying the Fa and reading the experience sharing articles on the Minghui/Clearwisdom website, my determination to save sentient beings grew stronger and stronger. One time I walked through four villages and distributed 5 to 6 hundred copies without leaving a single home out. Master's words encouraged me, "Walk well every step."
I combined cultivation with clarifying the truth, targeting my attachments. Whenever I encountered a problem, I first looked within myself to see where I had omissions before looking externally to interference. Even when my attachment of fear surfaced, I thought to myself, "I came to clarify the truth and save people, if I were afraid, how could other people bear it." Master encouraged me in another dimension and said, "Good job!"
We ran into danger at times. One time, right after I just finished distributing the material in an alley at midnight, I was surrounded by three young people. I had observed and found that villagers usually took precautions against thieves, but the evil made use of this. So I said, "I am not a thief. I cultivate Buddhahood. I have come here to clarify the truth." They understood and said to me, "Be careful!" I then rode off on my bicycle.
Another time, my mother and I went to a far-off village to distribute truth-clarification materials. We came to a four-kilometer-long dam. I gave the only flashlight to my mother, and I proceeded in the dark. Suddenly, I seemed to lose track of where I was. I stopped. In the boundless darkness and the howling wind, I looked inward. I hesitated to move forward. I said to myself, "What did I come here for? I came here to save people. Even if I forgot everything, and only remembered that Falun Dafa is good, I should still move forward." Then I recited, "Falun Dafa is good" and walked step by step. When I was close to the end of the dam, there were four young men. In the depth of night, some squatted, and others stood around. They surrounded me on their motorcycles, one in front, one behind and one on the left. At the beginning, I was a bit afraid. But then I looked inward and calmed down. "I came to save sentient beings. What do I have to fear?" I asked Master for help. After a half hour, they dispersed.
I deeply feel that as long as I firmly follow Dafa in my heart and look at all matters from the perspective of the Fa, there is no hurdle I cannot clear. Who can damage the Fa?
At the beginning, I did not let go of my emotional attachment towards my mother and often used excuses like "Let's not go. It might rain tonight, and the materials can get wet," not to let my mother go out. Later on, I realized that what I did was caused by sentimentality for her temporary comfort. I overlooked the fact that what my mother will attain is infinite glory as a Dafa practitioner, which is her destiny. If I really want to do her good, what I should consider is her eternal life and not her momentary comfort. I should encourage her to go, which is what is good for her. With such righteous thoughts, I gradually let go of my selfishness.
Sometimes, we were in not so good a state. Later on, we enlightened to the fact that we came for the benefit of the sentient beings, we were their hope and we should try to find ways to let them be saved. If we could not do it by ourselves, we would ask other practitioners to help, and offer our home as a place to stay. As long as practitioners come to save the sentient beings, we welcomed them. When they finished, they could rest at our home.
October 28, 2005
