(Clearwisdom.net) It has been a dozen years since we started assisting Master in Fa-rectification. Step by step, we have come upon this stage today, cultivating away many attachments during this process.
When the persecution started on July 20, 1999, fellow practitioners and I went to Beijing to validate the Fa. We were illegally arrested and suffered much in the detention center. After returning home, we started to clarify the truth about Falun Gong. Initially we had fear, but we thought of assisting Master in Fa-rectification and allowing more people to have the correct understanding about Dafa. During this process, we cultivated away the attachment of fear bit by bit.
We started to clarify the facts to the villages and continued to do so in the city. We wrote numerous messages, hung many banners and distributed many truth-clarifying materials. On the street, I would climb onto the shoulders of my fellow practitioner and write the Dafa truth-clarifying messages on high surfaces. Even if there was only one family living in an area very far away, I would deliver the materials to them.
Once when I spent the night distributing materials, I was so tired on the way home that I could barely walk. I saw a bright spot and thought that it was the road, but it turned out to be a water canal. I fell into the canal, but my heart was not dampened, and I didn't mind the hardship or the exhaustion.
One winter a fellow practitioner and I went to a village to distribute truth-clarifying materials. At that time, the persecution was very severe and some of us had been jailed. For the sake of my fellow practitioner's safety, I went out alone in the middle of the night. I accidentally walked into a water canal of a big lake. When I came out of it, scrambling, I found myself surrounded by a corn field. As the sky was dark, I felt nervous. Then I thought of Master's words, “Spirits and ghosts fear greatly,” from “Mighty Virtue” in Hong Yin. I immediately did not feel afraid; it was as though Master was right beside me. I staggered through the corn field and entered the village to distribute truth-clarifying materials to every household. When I finished, I returned home safely.
During the winter of last year, my lips were cracked and blistering, but I still went out daily to clarify the truth. When I came home after clarifying the truth one day and took off my mouth mask, my lips were covered in blisters. The blisters did not heal for many days, so I thought of not wearing the mask any more and decided that it was the evil old forces trying to interfere with my saving sentient beings. I came here to save sentient beings, thus I persisted to go out every day to clarify the truth. Then one morning when I woke up, my lips were glued together due to the fluids secreted from the wounds, and the situation appeared worse than before. I could not even open my mouth. I looked into the mirror and with much determination tore off the scabs; I was in a lot of pain afterward. However, I was eager to save sentient beings, so I wore the mouth mask and headed out. At a canteen, I took off my mouth mask and went from table to table to clarify the truth. I met a policeman who told me that he was armed and that I was very daring to talk to him about Falun Gong, but I was very calm and patient. Finally, I convinced him to renounce his Communist Party membership. The Party secretary of our factory also renounced his Party membership.
Once I was clarifying the truth with a fellow practitioner when it was drizzling. We walked and clarified the truth to many people. There were two people riding a motorcycle. We waved to them and they stopped. We walked toward them and on the pretext of asking directions, started chatting with them. Before we parted, we managed to convince them to renounce their Party membership.
I had attachments to fame and gain. These things were interfering with me, and thus I could not calm down my thoughts during meditation. After I clearly recognized my attachments, during the night I saw (in another dimension) a big iron nail that was one meter long falling off my leg and another nail also falling off my chest. My understanding is that Master removed the karma manifesting as two very big and long iron nails from me. That night when I meditated, I felt peace that I had never felt before. Suddenly, I felt my body shake, and it was as though every joint of my body had been elevated.
Whenever I met with tribulations, I felt that I was very fortunate. I know that Master wants me to let go of this heart full of human attachments. Fame, gain and sentimentality of the human world are really minute.
This is my current understanding. Please kindly point out anything inappropriate.
