(Clearwisdom.net) There was an elderly practitioner in our area who was cultivating in an unlocked state. In late 2011 she saw from her third eye that Teacher was to do an annual summary for each of the practitioners, as well as for each of the counties and areas. This time Teacher was extremely serious and was very worried about our problems in clarifying the truth.
In the process of persuading people to withdraw from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the Youth League, and the Young Pioneers, known as the “three withdrawals,” many practitioners focused only on persuading people to do the withdrawals, but did not clarify the truth of the persecution of Falun Gong to them. The quality of the truth clarification did not, therefore, meet the standard.
I found that we truly had that problem. Many of our practitioners only talk about the three withdrawals, but do not clarify the truth about Falun Dafa, so it's not complete. For example, they did not talk about what exactly Falun Gong is or why the CCP persecutes Falun Gong, nor did they mention the physical and mental changes they experienced after they began practicing Falun Gong. They did not talk through any of those things. As a result, the people who should have been saved were not saved. On the contrary, these people might have some misunderstandings about us. So we must look inward at ourselves on this aspect.
1. Some people quit the CCP and its affiliated organizations several times. Whenever the practitioners asked them to quit, they would quit, but we failed to tell them about the benefits of learning Falun Gong and the benefits that practitioners experience. Therefore, these people still do not know the truth about Falun Gong. Teacher taught us the Fa, but we've failed to pass it on to others. Since we have already stepped forward, we should clarify the truth thoroughly and save them. We only ask people to repeat “Falun Dafa is good,” but they don't know why Falun Dafa is good. If this person withdraws from the CCP and its affiliated organizations after hearing ten practitioners talk about the benefits they obtained by practicing Falun Gong, the person might automatically come to learn Falun Gong.
2. As for the issue of civility, the Chinese people all behaved courteously in the past. When they saw someone, they would salute and greet them before starting a conversation. Nowadays, under the rule of the CCP, the Chinese people have lost this common courtesy. They speak very casually and often use foul words. They like to pat the other person as they talk, and they speak very bluntly. They don't think about the other person's feelings. As practitioners, however, we should not do this, especially when clarifying the truth. Nonetheless, one practitioner was into cornering people when she saw them, and sometimes she would exploiting her connections, or try to pal up with them before beginning to explain the facts to them. She seemed not to care about other people's feelings. She did this to someone I knew, and he had a bad impression of her. She had poor manners, and she said that she was a neighbor or someone from the same hometown, when that wasn't true. This was not in line with the Falun Gong principle of “Truthfulness.”
We must, of course, encourage those practitioners who have stepped forward, and not dampan their enthusiasm. Who hasn't made mistakes in cultivation practice? But we must let go of the things that we fail to notice after a long period of time. This will make our truth-clarification more pure and more powerful. We should not leave any regrets for ourselves. If we could pay some attention to our appearance and manners when clarifying the truth, let go of our attachments of accomplishing a task, and seek not only the quantity of withdrawals, we would be more effective in our efforts.
If someone is not saved because of our behavior, this is not a small matter. Of course, if we can do it better in the future, Teacher will harmonize things for us, so we should not let our past shortcomings hold us back us and keep us from moving forward.
3. Many of the DVDs we handed out were not playable. People threw them away on the road and they were stepped on. On the DVD were images of Teacher. Whoever stepped on it or whoever threw it away committed a sin. However, the reason these people stepped on it or threw it away was because they were unable to watch the truth-clarifying content on the DVD. Our fellow practitioners must therefore be more careful in producing the DVDs. It would be very bad if we failed to do a good job in truth-clarification and instead end up playing a negative role. Many practitioners were able to clarify the truth from house to house, but they couldn't help the families make the DVDs play. As for the problem with the DVDs, we should first check the quality to see if the surface is smooth and level, the thickness is even, and the label is not too thick.
4. Some practitioners cannot study the Fa with a calm mind. While reading the Fa we should not be thinking about anything else.
5. Some practitioners have even asked Teacher for help regarding raising pigs. Can't we leave these incorrect behaviors to the future mankind?
6. Some practitioners take truth-clarification as a task. If the person refuses to withdraw from the CCP, the practitioner might invite him/her to dinner. The person might then take a perfunctory stand, but in his or her heart, it may have a bad effect. Is this saving people? If we fail to clarify the truth clearly, we simply cannot save people. If we want to save people, we must let them express their true stand so that they be will really be saved.
7. Some of the practitioners blindly pursue the three withdrawals. When the person they are talking to doesn't want to listen, they often impose themselves on them until they agree. They then add the number to the list of people they have saved. As a matter of fact, these practitioners haven't said a word about the truth of Falun Gong, so these people don't know anything about Falun Gong. They simply agreed to do the three withdrawals because they wanted to avoid being imposed on. When they leave, they might say something bad about the practitioner. These people didn't agree to withdraw from the CCP because they had learned the facts about Falun Gong. How can these sentient beings be saved if they don't know the truth of Falun Gong?
Please kindly point out any shortcomings.
