(Clearwisdom.net) As I was about to leave work one afternoon in the spring of 2002, the head of the company came to me and said, “Come to my office at 7:30 this evening for a meeting. Bring your wife too.”
When my wife, who is also a practitioner, and I arrived at the general manager's office, another practitioner who works at the company was also there, as well as the entire leadership team. The general manager announced, “Our local 610 Office has been formed. I am the head and other leadership team members are all deputy heads. We are going to try to persuade the three of you to stop practicing Falun Gong within a month. You will be sent to the provincial brainwashing center if you don't give up your practice by that deadline. Tonight we will watch the program 'Focus' by CCTV.”
The program was about the one year anniversary of the staged Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident. After watching the program, the general manager asked for our thoughts about the program. The practitioner with us said that the self-immolation was staged. The general manager exploded with anger and yelled at her, and then sent her out of the room. The atmosphere became very tense. The deputy heads then tried to persuade me and my wife to stop practicing. When it was almost 9:00 p.m. the general manager decided that we should stop for the day and continue watching more programs the following day.
When we had finished watching the 'Focus' program the following day, the practitioner with my wife and I said, “The CCTV program was falsified and purposely created to slander and defame Falun Gong.” The general manager then ordered her to go downstairs immediately. The practitioner left without saying a word. He then told one of the deputy heads to tell her that if she doesn't want her job, she should just leave.
Everyone had left by 9:00 p.m. except for the general manager, my wife and me. I went to use the restroom and suddenly recalled Teacher's Fa about sending forth righteous thoughts. I felt very confident after that.
I started sending righteous thoughts as soon as I returned to the office, and then my wife and I told him the facts about Falun Gong. During the conversation, we learned that his parents had been labeled as being intellectuals and wealthy in the past, and were thus criticized by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). We talked to him about the evil things that the CCP had done to the Chinese people in the past, from the land reform campaign, to the Cultural Revolution, to the suppression of the democracy movement in 1989. I then told him that Falun Gong was practiced all over the world, and that it was Heaven's will and he should not oppose it, as many people who have participated in the persecution have received karmic retribution.
The general manager seemed to understand and kept nodding his head in agreement. His facial expression had changed and he seemed to look happier and more relaxed. My wife and I continued to tell him how Falun Gong had helped to improve our physical and mental health, and that we were trying to become better people. We also told him about the contradictory information that appeared in the CCTV self-immolation video.
It was approaching midnight, so I told the general manager that we should stop for the day, otherwise he wouldn't get enough rest. He then said to me, “When my superiors come next month to see how we did at getting you to stop practicing, can you cooperate and just say you no longer practice Falun Gong? After they leave, you can continue.” I replied, “The first principle of cultivation is Truthfulness. We should never lie.” I told him not to worry and asked if we had to come back tomorrow night. He quickly replied, “No. I understand now.”
A month later, the general manager's superiors had still not come to see if they had been successful at stopping the practitioners from practicing Falun Gong.
We have continued talking to him about Falun Gong, and in fact he has quit the CCP.
