(Minghui.org)
Greetings to great and benevolent Master! Greetings to fellow practitioners!
After the Shen Yun Performances concluded in Brisbane at the beginning of this year, I joined the newly formed Queensland RTC phone group. I had heard and read some of the sharing from the RTC team, but hadn’t gotten involved.
The RTC Platform project’s purpose is to convince Chinese people to renounce the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). I have now been part of the RTC team for about three months and feel the preciousness of this cultivation environment.
A most inspiring part on the platform is the half-hour experience sharing at the end of every night's calls with practitioners from around the world. Subjects, such as how to deal with certain situations, cultivation experiences, tests and enlightenment. I benefit greatly from sharing with the RTC team members.
In the beginning, the calls went smoothly due to Master’s guidance and encouragement. I was able to successfully convince a few Chinese people every day to quit the CCP and its affiliates. Then, the number of Chinese people we were able to convince about quitting the CCP began to drop.
I noticed that fellow practitioners were looking within to find their loopholes and eliminate them. However, I was blocked by a notion that told me that looking within means that my righteous thoughts were not strong enough and I should not think of anything and just keep calling.
One night, a European practitioner shared her phone call experiences. My brief understanding of what she shared was that her heart was so pure that she felt she was in another dimension when calling. I was really touched. That was it! I asked myself, “Was my heart that pure?” Digging further, I realized that being involved in a Falun Dafa project, I had been given the opportunity to share with fellow practitioners once a week. Yet, I didn’t consider this as an opportunity to improve myself, but instead held onto the attachments of showing off and zealotry. Master said:
“We talk about minding speech, it’s about the ordinary things like reputation and profit that you can’t let go of and that aren’t related to a cultivator’s actual work in the world; it’s about disciples in the same practice talking about pointless things with each other; it’s about stuff that’s done to show off because of attachments; about spreading rumors heard through the grapevine; and talking about other things in the world with a lot of excitement and interest. I think these are all attachments an ordinary person has, and we should mind our speech when it comes to these things.” (Zhuan Falun)
On another night, I successfully convinced a few Chinese people to renounce the CCP within a very short time. Again, I became zealous and thought at this rate I should be able to save quite a few tonight! This one thought changed the environment and I no longer could convince people to renounce the CCP. From this, I understood cultivation is a serious matter. A Dafa disciple’s mind and every thought should be kept on the Fa.
After a few years of cultivation, I understand on my level why Master talked about showing off, jealousy, and zealotry. For instance, when I started cultivating, Master helped me get rid of my attachments, such as being clean, the fear of insects, and so on. These attachments didn’t recur much after being removed. However, the attachments of showing off, jealousy, zealotry, lure and lust continued to affect me and tried to interfere.
I understood that the old cosmos was based on selfishness. Therefore, lives created in that cosmos were attached to self, which warped over time.
Dafa practitioners were buried in layers of bad matter while descending to this world. Therefore, it has to be peeled off during our cultivation so we can go back.
“A person should return to his original, true self – that’s actually the true purpose of being human.” (Zhuan Falun)
After becoming aware of the above, I realized that I shouldn't just eliminate all interfering factors that stop sentient beings from getting to know the truth, but also the bad factors in my own field, and use at all times the purest heart to save sentient beings.
Master said:
“Besides, when you treat another person you and that sick person form one field, and all of his pathogenic qi will come over to your body.” (Zhuan Falun)
I understand that when we clarify the truth, we form a field as well. Keeping a pure field will help people find their true self and accept the truth.
All practitioners’ energy contributes to the whole body. For instance, when sentient beings listen for the first or second time to the truth about Falun Dafa they may not want to renounce the CCP. But after a few times of different practitioners clarifying the truth about Falun Dafa, they become clear and understand the facts about the persecution of Falun Dafa. They no longer will be in a daze and agree to renounce the CCP.
For example I spoke to a man who said, “You have called me many times and I know what you are going to say.” I asked him, “Have you renounced yet?” He said, “Not yet.” I said, “Then I will help you renounce it.” He agreed.
Practitioners are clarifying the truth about Falun Dafa via different channels to the world’s people. It is the foundations that have been laid by practitioners globally that have enabled Chinese people to eventually awaken and renounce the CCP.
I have been living in Australia for many years now, so I have no idea whatsoever what the current Mainland Chinese are like. Most practitioners in my area are Westerners. The projects I am involved with complement each other.
For example, in one of the projects I get to read sharing from fellow practitioners, such as divine culture stories, people experiencing Dafa miracles, Dafa spreading worldwide and people signing petitions to stop the persecution. All this information has become important resources for my phone calls to China to clarify the truth.
One time, a man asked me that if he believed in Falun Dafa, could his leg recover from an operation? I had just recorded a story that I had read a few times and remembered very well. It was called “The Dafa Master Saved Me.” So I told him this story and also suggested to him to sincerely recite “Falun Dafa is good! Zhen Shan Ren is good!” and he would witness Dafa miracles. He responded, “Yes, I will do it.”
Another time, I came across a young lady who was an atheist. We talked for about 1 hour and 35 minutes on the phone. I clarified the truth, and shared some of my experiences, beginning with believing the CCP’s lies to starting practicing Falun Dafa. Eventually, she agreed to renounce the CCP and promised to say the phrase, “Falun Dafa is good! Zhen Shan Ren is good!”
During the RTC platform calling, no matter whether they had joined the CCP or not, I clarify the truth about Falun Dafa. I want them to know that this truth is their only hope to be saved.
I no longer hold any attachment to the number of sentient beings saved, but only focus on being responsible for every one I'm predestined with.
Once the people agree to renounce, I often suggest that they help their family members renounce the CCP. Sometimes their family members were away and I needed to follow up. When I called back, the line was either busy or no one answered. But I didn’t give up. There was one number I kept redialing. I eventually got through after about 20 days. This call was also very successful. All the family members renounced the CCP.
Since working on the RTC platform, I study the Fa at night before calling and also while on the platform. In order to be able to make phone calls, I have overcome all kinds of difficulties.
In the beginning, I didn’t have WiFi. After convincing my family, we changed to a box with WiFi capability and I could use my laptop. The next problem was the Internet allowance. One-third of our monthly plan is during peak time, that is, from afternoon to midnight. Another 2/3 is from midnight to noon. Fa study and calling time all fall into the peak hour. The allowance was often used up, because my family sometimes watch videos online.
To increase the Internet connection allowance, I bought a new mobile phone with a data package. However, there is a daily limit that I discovered later. Finally, I bought phone cards.
Throughout all of it, I hold one thought in my heart: “I need to call and save people and nothing can or will stop me from doing this.”
I'm not always able to go to the tourist site to clarify the truth, but I can and do make phone calls. From mid-June until this article was finished, I haven’t missed one day.
Not long after I joined the Queensland RTC phone group I had a dream. I saw a dark sky and heavy gray clouds. There was an old ship with a few groups of people on the deck. These people were wearing life jackets, while I held one under my arm. We looked down from above the ship. Then we went to the side of the ship. I saw that the ship was tipped sidewise and sinking. After waking up, I realized that Master had hinted I should try to save people by making phone calls. The people with life jackets had made their choices in their hearts and were just waiting for us to help them finish the procedure in this dimension.
Master said,
“There really isn’t much time left. It could end at any time, and the next phase could begin at any time.” (“Fa Teaching at the 2013 Greater New York Fa Conference”)
Dafa disciples don’t have any attachment to time. Everything is within Master’s hands. No matter what time it finishes, we just try our best and see every day as the last day, so we don't and leave any regrets for ourselves.
Thank you, Master, for granting disciples such a powerful Fa-weapon to help with the Fa rectification. I appreciate that fellow practitioners give selflessly so we can keep this pure cultivation environment.
This is my cultivation experience on the RTC platform with fellow practitioners. It is only limited to my level. Please point out anything that is not in accordance with the Fa.
Thank you, Master! Thank you, fellow practitioners!