(Clearwisdom.net) All of our family members are Falun Gong practitioners from Shandong Province. As the 2006 Chinese New Year approached, my wife and I decided, as we had done the past two years, to leave our comfortable home and go to the countryside to clarify the truth and save sentient beings. What was different from the previous times was that we also wanted to include the "three withdrawals" in our truth clarification this time. After we had this desire, we then sent forth one thought that we disintegrated all interference and everything must work favorably for this endeavor.
During the nine days around the Chinese New Year, we traveled over 1,000 kilometers and went to the towns and villages in several counties. We overcame hardships, and did a lot of truth-clarification. During that period of time, we mainly did the following things:
1. Clarified the truth to relatives and friends. Sometimes we went to the families one by one to clarify the truth. Sometimes when we did not have enough time, we gathered six or seven families and then clarified the truth to them together. For those to whom we had already clarified the truth before, we mainly talked to them about the "three withdrawals," while for those to whom we had not clarified the truth before, we clarified the truth and talked about the "three withdrawals" at the same time.
2. Distributed the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party and other truth-clarification materials.
3. Shared understandings with fellow practitioners who were in different cultivation states so as to improve together.
4. Talked with those former practitioners who had enlightened along the evil path and who still had not awakened, so as to help them wake up quickly and come back onto the righteous path.
The nine days was quickly over. In looking back on our experience, we feel very happy and have the following understandings.
We had personally felt, in the human world, the manifestations of the Fa-rectification that is rapidly pushing forward. As compared with our past trips to the countryside, we have obviously felt that under the impact of Master's immense Fa-rectification, after the evils had been cleaned out in large quantities, and through Dafa practitioners' constant truth-clarification, the ordinary people have become more and more clearheaded. Some of them, on the spot, agreed to declare the "three withdrawals," and some immediately came up with pseudo names for themselves as well as methods for future communication. Those who had been irrational in the past were also able to attentively listen to our truth clarification. Some people not only could listen to our truth clarification carefully, but also immediately stopped those who tried to interfere with our truth clarification. Although there were still those who were not rational and other interference, they were already very weak. On some occasions, it was not just that Dafa practitioners were persuading people to declare the "three withdrawals," the ordinary people were also helping in the persuasion.
We were moved by the efforts that many fellow practitioners made. During our truth clarification, through ordinary people's words, we also learned something about the local practitioners' Fa-validation efforts. Many people who listened to our truth-clarification mentioned having received the truth-clarification materials before. Some of them said, "Falun Gong is so powerful that in just one night they delivered the VCD, pamphlet and flyer to every family." We were naturally touched whenever we heard this. Many sentient beings' salvation is the cumulative effort of many Dafa practitioners under Master's compassionate protection. Superficially, some people came to know the truth and declared their "three withdrawals" after we talked with them. However, before this happened, how many Dafa practitioners had spent their efforts on these people?
Everything in the Fa rectification is a manifestation of Master's immense compassion and boundless Fa power, and as Master's disciples, we need to act with our righteous thoughts and cooperate with each other.
During the nine days of intense travel we could always feel Master's help, hints and protection. Through Master's hints, we went to the places we initially had not planned to go, and the effect was very good. Even the snow and the slippery roads could not stop our going there. During the whole period of traveling, we tried hard to find times to study the Fa, and we used our mighty righteous thoughts to treat the conflicts we encountered and our own problems that surfaced. For example, sometimes before we hit the road, my wife and I just started arguing about a petty issue. We felt odd about it. Both of us could understand that it had not happened accidentally, and it came out partly because problems had surfaced that existed in us which we had not cultivated well, and partly because it was also a form of the demons' interference, as the evils were trying their best to prevent us from clarifying the truth and saving the sentient beings. We constantly summarized what we had learned and found out where we still had not done well and then improved ourselves accordingly. When we clarified the truth, one person assumed the role of clarifying the truth, while the others sent forth righteous thoughts. After that person finished talking, the others added things. The effect was very good.
Dafa disciples are no longer the ordinary persons from the past. After we returned home, my wife and I shared our understandings. We had a common understanding that although some of our own shortcomings were exposed during the nine days, we have already fundamentally changed from being selfish ordinary persons to Dafa disciples, the altruistic all-new beings, who are recreated by Master. The ordinary people stressed the importance of enjoying the holidays, during which time they busied themselves with their materialistic enjoyments, while we Dafa practitioners have put no thoughts on our personal enjoyments in the ordinary society, and instead have wholeheartedly busied ourselves and worked hard to help others have good futures. Dafa practitioners have been working hard no matter whether they were under favorable, unfavorable, or dangerous conditions, and they have no grudges or complaints.
We often feel that we miss Master. We also often feel ashamed for our own lack of diligence and our attachments that we have not eliminated. But after experiencing the various tribulations, we deeply believe that nothing can stop us from validating the Fa and saving sentient beings, because we are Master's students and we are Dafa disciples.
February 7, 2006