(Minghui.org) I'm a Falun Dafa practitioner in Liaoning Province. I would like to take this opportunity to report my cultivation experiences to our great and compassionate Master, and fellow practitioners. Please kindly point out anything inappropriate.
Letting Go of Protecting Myself
Seven practitioners in my county were arrested late last year, and two more were forced to leave their homes to avoid persecution. I asked fellow practitioners to send forth righteous thoughts. In the meantime, I visited several police stations to ask about the arrested practitioners.
After locating where they were being held, I organized practitioners to send righteous thoughts close to the detention centers, and to contact the family members of the arrested practitioners to encourage them to request their release. I also visited local practitioners in person, and encouraged them to maintain righteous thoughts.
The Domestic Security Division of the city police was responsible for the arrests. The department transferred the practitioners to a detention center after they were arrested, and threatened to put them in prison.
Dafa practitioners in our county sent righteous thoughts day in and day out. We gathered information about the incident and put together a poster to expose the persecution. We noted that the illegal arrests were directed by the head of the Domestic Security Division.
We put up the posters all over our county within a few days. We sent the same information to relevant government offices and the general public using phone messages. It greatly deterred the persecutors. With our concerted efforts, all seven arrested practitioners were released within a month.
Besides collecting information about the abducted practitioners and the persecutors, I also distributed messages and talked to family members of the abducted practitioners. A fellow practitioner told me that we had been monitored when we went to the countryside for an experience sharing conference. Our names and car license plate numbers had been recorded. I experienced enormous stress and difficulty during this period of time.
I had nightmares every night that the police were after me. I decided to sleep less and send forth righteous thoughts extensively. My husband, who is also a practitioner, recommended that I leave home temporarily to hide. I hesitated, but eventually decided not to go. I told him, “I can't leave. Everyone needs my reassurance at this difficult time. If I go and hide, who will coordinate things? I must stay and go through this difficult time with everyone.”
The mother of an abducted practitioner knew the head of the Domestic Security Division. She kept in contact with him every day, but refused to listen to us. She spoke negatively to practitioners. Most practitioners dared not contact her. I let go of my attachment to self-protection and talked to her again and again. I also communicated with attorneys. Six of the seven abducted practitioners were released after three weeks, and one was officially arrested.
I was sad and angry about the official arrest. I couldn't sleep for a whole night. I looked inward and found an attachment to sentiment. I sent forth righteous thoughts and organized fellow practitioners to continue our rescue efforts. Many practitioners felt they improved in cultivation through this process. After ten days, the last practitioner was released.
What I learned the most through this process was that we should treat other practitioners' matters as our own, form a strong entity, and eliminate any divisions between us. When we refuse to be moved by the false appearance of persecution, follow Dafa's guidance, and let go of attachments to self-protection, we can safely survive tribulations.
Let Go of the Attachment of Complacency
Ten practitioners in a neighboring city were arrested. A practitioner from their area contacted me for help. I asked local practitioners to send forth righteous thoughts for them and to distribute truth-clarification letters. Since no one in my city knew how to create multimedia messages, I went to another city to learn from other practitioners. I created a couple of multimedia messages to distribute locally. I also sent the message to all our local police officers.
I ran into technical problems when I tried to create a new message. I tried for several nights in a row but couldn't make it work. With practitioners' help, I finally resolved the problem and successfully created one.
A feeling of accomplishment and self-complacency began to emerge. I sent a text message to a fellow practitioner, “'Nothing is impossible for a willing heart.' I made one last night. I will send it to you.” I originally wanted to say, “This is the best I can do. You can do whatever you like if you need a change.” But I realized it was wrong before I finished typing. So I changed it to “I will be glad to make changes if needed.”
As I was typing, I suddenly felt I was entering another dimension. I was as tiny as a piece of dust before several huge celestial bodies. But I was showing off my abilities and behaving shamelessly, claiming, “This is the way I am. I dare you to criticize me!” Following this scene, I saw myself become like a drop of water. I was vulnerable and would dry up if I left the ocean. My complacency made me look very pitiful and ridiculous in front of the boundless ocean.
I was completely shocked by what I saw, and almost scared of my attachment to complacency. I am indeed a drop of water. I sincerely thank Master for showing me my attachment.
As soon as I came to my senses, I wrote to fellow practitioners, “I have just found that I'm a drop of water in an ocean. I will dry up if I leave the ocean. How dare I become so attached to myself. I am embarrassed to have exposed my attachment to the gods.”
Ever since then, I stopped insisting on my own opinions and validating myself.
I Choose Whatever the Fa-Rectification Requires
I usually don't care about details. I used to avoid technology, and English words gave me a headache. After being imprisoned for practicing Falun Gong for seven years, I was far behind. I re-started cultivation from scratch and soon started coordinating projects to validate the Fa.
Dafa practitioners in my county started using cellphones to clarify the truth last year. In addition to improving our xinxing, technical knowledge is required for this project. I used to relay all our technical problems to a tech-savvy practitioner, but it took several days to get things fixed. It took too much time and created a loophole for interference.
I started learning the technology by fixing small problems. I was eventually able to completely reset cellphones and change the settings to what we needed. Having these skills really saved time, because I could fix problems much faster. We had hundreds of cellphones sending out truth-clarification messages, but we ran out of numbers to call. I learned how to get more numbers and how to verify them. This process eliminated out-of-service numbers from our database and saved us precious time.
After the successful launch of this truth-clarification project in our county, practitioners in four other cities also joined in. Thousands of area codes were covered by this project.
I continued to eliminate my attachments through coordinating this project. One major attachment I had to work on was impatience. There are many elderly practitioners in my county. Some are in their seventies. I had to teach them many times, sometimes even a dozen times. I asked them to take notes and to practice at home. Fixing cellphone problems takes patience, too. I often had to work until very late at night. I could feel the hardship of practitioners who volunteer in tech support roles.
To save our resources, I kept my eye on calling card prices and taught everyone how to check the left-over amount on their cards. The project has been running smoothly for most of the participating practitioners. We are highly motivated, and work together on improving in our cultivation and truth-clarification. The number of people who have quit the communist organizations is dozens of times more than before, and practitioners continue to join us.
I learned from this project that I shouldn't pick whatever I like to do for the Fa-rectification. I should do whatever is required by the Fa-rectification. I also improved my tolerance for others. I truly experienced how “tolerance creates space.”
With Master's care and support from fellow practitioners, I overcame enormous difficulties and withstood intense pressure. All of this rests on the foundation Master built. As the Fa-rectification approaches the end, I will continue to make improvements and never be unworthy of Master's compassionate salvation!
Heshi!
