(Clearwisdom.net) Our Fa study group began six years ago in 2005. In the beginning we had six senior practitioners, and later more young and middle-aged practitioners joined in. We study the Fa and share our experiences regularly every week in two groups. The group study environment is a harmonious one in which we all feel the joy of truly cultivating in Dafa. Together we cooperate and coordinate very well in doing the three things. In the process of solid cultivation we continually get rid of our human notions, fear, and different attachments, and have become more mature in our cultivation together.
Practitioner A is 70 years old. His wife is also a practitioner. He offered his house for us to study the Fa together. These two practitioners often package truth clarification materials and get them ready for distribution. They study the Fa and send forth righteous thoughts each hour in the morning at home. In the afternoon they go out to clarify the facts about Falun Gong to help save sentient beings. Their son often helps by driving them to other locations. They hand out Falun Gong flyers and paper money with Falun Dafa messages written on it. This couple works together very well, and they are very healthy.
One day he climbed the Great Wall. There were many tourists and Chinese visiting the site. He walked quickly and reached the top in a short time. The young people there admired his strength and asked him how old he was. He replied, "I am over 70 years of age." They were surprised, as he is tall and strong, with no wrinkles on his face, and he looks very healthy. People just could not believe that he was over 70! The practitioner used this opportunity to explain how good Falun Gong really is. He said, "I have good health because I practice Falun Dafa." He told them that Falun Dafa has spread all over the world. He also told them the truth about the “staged Tiananmen Square Self-Immolation.” He gave them flyers and other information to help them evaluate the CCP's lies and propaganda A few Chinese people also withdrew from the CCP and its affiliated organizations.
Practitioner B is in her fifties. She is very diligent and also does very well with the three things. But her husband was very afraid and would not allow her to practice or study the Fa at home. When he found out she was practicing, he would beat her. One time she was studying Zhuan Falun when her husband returned home. He snatched the book away from her and started to tear it up. She tried to get it back saying, "You can beat me, but please do not destroy the book." Even though her husband beat her black and blue, she didn't cry or feel any pain. She knew Master had handled this for her. She tried very hard get the book back and was very upset when she saw the book had been destroyed. Yet she behaved like a practitioner should and treated her husband compassionately, telling him about Dafa's beauty and Master 's great compassion. Her husband found it hard to believe her as he had been brainwashed by the CCP for many years and could not listen to her. Even in this harsh situation, she still firmly believed in Master and the Fa. She comes to group study and does the three things very well by distributing the flyers about Falun Gong and letting people know about the truth of Falun Dafa and the unlawful persecution. She takes care of all the housework herself and treats her husband, son, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter very well. When she told us about her husband beating her and showed us the bruises, we all felt very bad. After discussion, we suggested to her to send forth righteous thoughts and use her divine power to eliminate the evil elements of the Communist Party in her husband. Now her husband is much better and tells her "You are a good person. I won't bother you anymore with your cultivation." Her husband even passes on the paper money with Falun Dafa messages on it.
Practitioner C is 40. He often drives out of town for work, but he still attends group study and validates the Fa. Wherever he goes, he will clarify the facts of Falun Gong and distributes Falun Gong materials. He is involved in several projects, yet he still finds the time to help fellow practitioners download Master's lectures, exercise music, and Dafa songs. Now he also makes phone calls to Chinese people about Falun Gong and he sends Falun Gong information text messages, too. The practitioners at our Fa study group often remind him to be careful and to be vigilant by keeping righteous thoughts at all times.
Three female practitioners, B, D, E, formed Group A. They cooperated together to clarify the truth of Falun Dafa face to face and to help people to withdraw from the CCP. They study one lecture of Zhuan Falun at home in the morning and then finish their housework. In the afternoon they go to scheduled locations to clarify the facts to all the sentient beings there. They go to shopping centers, plazas, markets, or a place near the city. They try to persuade people to quit the CCP every day. Some times eight or nine or even over 20 people quit the CCP in one afternoon. Practitioner B is good at talking with a pure heart and mind. She is responsible for talking and helping people to quit. Practitioner D’s responsibility is to keep watch in case the situation changes and police arrive. She stays nearby sending forth righteous thoughts. Practitioner E is in charge of distributing Falun Dafa material, flyers, and Shen Yun DVDs. They do this whatever the weather is or how far away the location. They are saving people with righteous thoughts and righteous actions. In order to save sentient beings, they go to shops to buy daily groceries. One time, they succeeded in helping a shoe store owner quit the CCP after the practitioner bought a pair of shoes that did not fit her very well. She said, "I can always give this pair of shoes away to someone else, so either way it was worth it to give a person a good future."
In Group B there are three practitioners who clarify the truth of Falun Gong in the evening with the coordinator of the Fa study group. She is very diligent and hard working. Besides coordinating projects, she often goes to the countryside to talk about Falun Gong, distribute flyers, and encourage people to withdraw from the CCP. She also goes to the Fa study group in the countryside periodically to help them to do well with the three things. She is devoted to working on fellow practitioners' improvement so we are one body. When she saw Practitioner F (who does not belong to our group) not doing much to save people, she worried about her. Practitioner F used to be a very diligent practitioner and often went to Beijing to validate the Fa. She has been illegally detained several times and was unlawfully persecuted in a forced labor camp.
In order to help Practitioner F catch up with the Fa rectification process, she and another senior practitioner from our group formed a group to talk to people about Falun Gong in the evening. We gathered at Practitioner F's house at 7 o'clock, and then we’d work together. One practitioner made phone calls, one posted banners with Dafa information, and the other distributed the material and DVDs. They work together and take care of each other. They use Fa tools and their divine powers to protect themselves so they can hurry and save more people .
There are several elderly practitioners in our Fa study group. They study the Fa and send forth righteous thoughts at home, clarify the facts of Falun Gong to the neighbors, and spread paper currency with Dafa messages. They can wisely clarify the truth of Falun Gong and persuade many people to quit the CCP. During any conversation, in order to save people, they can bring the topic back to Falun Gong and explain the beauty of Dafa while exposing the evil nature of CCP and how the heavens will destroy the CCP for this persecution against Falun Gong.
One practitioner is in her sixties. On November 21 last year, we went to her home to study the Fa. Her husband came home from being in the hospital, fell down, and died. She came to group study the week after he died and has devoted herself to saving sentient beings ever since. She not only joined the group to save people in the evenings, she also assisted other practitioners to go out to spread the facts about Falun Gong. Now everyday she goes to markets and shopping centers to chat with strangers in order to help save them. Everyday when she rides in a motorcycle taxi, she talks to the driver about FalunGong.
Another female practitioner has a business selling bags. She uses her job to tell people about Falun Gong. One time when she went to a shop, she clarified the truth to three saleswomen. After she gave them some flyers, she was reported to the police, who took her to the National Security Team. She was not afraid and sent forth righteous thoughts to the officers in the National Security Team. She had the one thought, “I am doing the most sacred thing to save people. No one is worthy of interfering. Master will protect me, and no one can touch me.” She asked for Master's help to eliminate the evil factors behind the police officer. She explained to the police why she needed to clarify the truth of Falun Gong to the Chinese people. Several hours later she went home safely.
The main characteristic of our group is that we firmly believe in Master and the Fa. Whenever someone has an improper thought or action, others will honestly point it out for the benefit of the whole group. We are glad to accept it and enlighten to the attachment and then eliminate it. We do not have the problem of thinking we are being “criticized," "so no one explodes when they hear criticism."
In the beginning some practitioners' hands fell while sending forth righteous thoughts. They all corrected it right away after the problem was pointed out. For the practitioners who have not caught up with the Fa rectification, we will study the Fa with them and work with them together to do well all the three things.
One practitioner used to be a taxi driver prior to 2005. His little car has contributed much for validating the Fa in our area. The diligent practitioners often took his car to remote mountainous areas and towns to distribute Falun Dafa flyers, the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, and to post messages with the facts about Falun Gong. Once he was arrested and held in a detention center for a month. He was very firm and refused to cooperate with the authorities. He was released because his family members and our practitioners have a strong one body. His wife did not allow him to drive the taxi anymore, so he re-started his former tailoring business and the couple opened a tailor shop. Because his xinxing level is high and they are both nice to others, their business is doing well. Yet this had a negative impact on him, as he could not attend group study. In order to help him, we moved the study group to his home. Initially we were afraid because the residential area had a security gate and guards. Every time we climbed the stairs to this home, a woman would open the door to check us out. We thought about moving the group study to another place. But via sharing on the Fa principles, we got rid of the attachment of fear. Our Fa study group runs well and the practitioner has caught up and improved, too. He can attend the group study in his home when he has free time. He also clarifies the facts of Falun Gong and hands flyers to his parent's neighbors when he visits them.
We also had a senior practitioner whose life was taken by the old forces. He was an official of the town. Before learning Falun Gong his tuberculosis was very severe. He met our coordinator in 2005, and we set up a group study in his home with several senior practitioners attending. One week later, his illness improved, and he did not need to take medication, as he was healthy. In December 2007 he moved to a new place. Since group study was at the home of Practitioner A, he did not come to group study often as he was attached to the comfort of his own home. In 2008 he did not come to group study at all. One time the coordinator and a fellow practitioner went to his home and found him playing poker with others. After we told him why we had come, he said he had a problem with his eyes and could no longer read and needed to go the hospital for treatment. We told him a practitioner does not have illness--it's an illusion, and we need to look inwards and study the Fa more. He did not want to listen to us and became impatient. He insisted on going to the hospital. He went to Changsha Hospital several times and passed away soon after he returned home.
All the practitioners in our group saw that we needed to understand and discuss this. We studied the Fa first and looked inwards. We realized that we needed to continue group study and always remember we are a practitioners walking on the divine path of Godhood. We cannot let the old forces take advantage of any loopholes we may have. Now practitioners from both Fa study groups realize the importance of group study from the bottom of our hearts. This is the cultivation environment created by Master for us. It guarantees that we can improve and do well with the three things in this environment. There is no other way for us to be effective in this Fa rectification period.
