(Minghui.org) I started practicing Falun Dafa in May 2005. I was not diligent at the beginning. With Master's compassionate encouragement and protection, I gradually became a diligent Dafa practitioner capable of keeping up with the progress of Master’s Fa-rectification.
I have participated in the project of clarifying the truth through phone calls for four years. In this project, practitioners first dial people’s phone numbers and play them pre-recorded truth messages when the phone is picked up. The phone numbers are logged of those people who listen to the messages for more than two minutes. I then call these numbers to talk to these people directly, explaining the persecution of Falun Gong to them and advising them to withdraw from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
As I am dialing the numbers to play the pre-recorded messages, other practitioners read the phone numbers for me to make phone calls and write the names of people who withdrew from the CCP over the phone. Cooperating in this way among the practitioners, within one-and-a-half-hours, our calling group could dial more than 1,000 phone numbers to play the pre-recorded messages and persuade about 20 people to withdraw through a direct phone conversation.
When I just started making phone calls, I was nervous. I now calmly make the calls and lead the conversation to guide people to understand Dafa better and to recognize the nature of the CCP; it seems my calls have achieved a good effect in saving people.
When making calls, a critical step is to keep the listeners on the phone. As long as the other side is willing to talk, most likely they can be persuaded to withdraw from the CCP. In the process, we keep strong righteous thoughts and ask for Master’s strengthening. We talk in a calm, warm, and compassionate tone with a moderate rate of speech so that listeners' negative factors are suppressed. In this way, they can feel that we were making the calls for their sake.
"How are you? Sorry for disturbing you,” I said. “Lately, there have been so many calamities—Have you heard about withdrawing from the CCP in order to be safe?"
“No.”
"These calamities are actually to punish the CCP’s tyranny,” I add. “If one has joined the party or the Youth League, he is then a member of them. When one joins them, he has to make a life-long vow to struggle for them. A vow will eventually be fulfilled. It is fortunate that you have received this phone call. If you can truly withdraw from the CCP and its affiliated organizations from your heart, and discard the vow, you can really escape the disasters."
"I am recording our conversation," the caller said suddenly.
"Recording?" I hesitated for a moment. "That's okay. You can also put our conversation on speaker phone so your family can listen."
I could hear some wickedness in his tone. I sent righteous thoughts and kept talking. “I sense you are very patriotic,” I said. “However, loving our motherland is not the same as loving the party. Our nation has 5,000 years of history; the CCP has ruled the country for only 60 years. There is no comparison!"
He interrupted me: "I am a CCP member. The Communist Party feeds me. If I don’t believe in the CCP, who else should I believe?"
"I view this from a different angle,” I said. “If you stayed home, the CCP would never give you any money. The CCP does not farm and does not run factories. Where does it get the money? It is your tax money that supports the party. In countries without the communist party, people have better wages and good benefits. Many countries have universal, free medical care. If we get sick, can we afford to be hospitalized? Can you afford a house even if you work hard your whole life? However, a corrupt official can have a dozen or even a hundred houses or apartments, and get millions, or even billions of yuan through corruption."
"You're getting involved in politics,” he said. “Aren’t you afraid that I'll report you?"
I said in a compassionate tone: "I did not ask you to do anything bad and I did not harm you. What is there for you to report me about? My advising you to withdraw from the CCP is to save your life and it is a good thing! It has nothing to do with politics. Even if you do not withdraw there is no way for you to save the corrupted party from dying. When heaven eliminates the evil party, you will be involved. Asking you to withdraw is entirely for the sake of your life. You are a kind and good man. I don’t think you will report me."
He eased his tone: "How do you know I'm a good person?"
While asking for Master’s strengthening to save this life, I said with a laugh: "If you are not a kind person and not a fortunate person, how can you receive this good news? How about if I help you to withdraw from the CCP with the pseudonym ‘Hongfu’?"
"Okay." He also gave a sincere laugh.
Throughout the conversation, I kept Master’s Fa in mind, remained calm, and was not moved. I sent righteous thoughts while I was not speaking. I spoke at a moderate rate with positive phrases to encourage him and inspire his good side. In this way, I finally persuaded him to withdraw from the CCP.
For every person I have persuaded to withdraw, I told them that the Tiananmen Square Self-immolation incident was framed. I asked them to remember that “Falun Dafa is good!” and “Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good!” and told them that citing these phrases is good for their health. I also told them that Falun Dafa has been introduced worldwide. For some, I have called and recited the phrases right away; some asked me to teach them to recite several times; some wanted to start cultivating Dafa; some asked me to send them Dafa books and Falun Dafa exercise instructions; some even asked me to help their relatives withdraw.
For those who cultivated Dafa in the past, I recited Master’s Fa to them from memory:
“When I saw students who came out of China, I urged them to tell the students who haven’t stepped forward to quickly do so—to have them quickly find those lost students and spell the facts out for them, for what they otherwise face is a most tragic of ends.” (“20th Anniversary Fa Teaching”)
I also told them that Master never gave up on them and encouraged them to come back to cultivate Dafa as soon as possible.
The process of making calls is also linked to cultivation. Saving lives is serious. Any mistake may discount the effects. Sometimes, when more people withdraw from the CCP, I've had the mentality of showing off and an attachment of zealotry. When I encountered some people who were deceived by the CCP and disoriented, I would have a mentality of competing with them. When I spoke to people who verbally abused me, I had resentment come up. When these attachments showed up, more people would hang up on me.
After I noticed my attachments, I would study the Fa more to eliminate the attachments and to keep up my compassionate mentality.
Sometimes, when I told the truth face-to-face on the street, with only a simple conversation, I could persuade a person to withdraw. I did not feel the need to talk much and I thought that it was good enough if they withdrew.
Then I read:
“The reality is, in the end, if anything that has been saved or re-formed is not what I want or does not reach my standard, it will have been for naught since it will have to be destroyed.” (“20th Anniversary Fa Teaching”)
I came to realize that when the situation permits, we need to tell people more about the beauty of Dafa, explain why heaven is eliminating the CCP, and promote Dafa’s righteous energy in the human world. The lives being saved this way would then tell others that Falun Dafa is good. This kind of permeating effect would also help us to promote Dafa’s righteous energy field in the human world.
When I just started cultivation, I explained the truth to my colleagues as a third party. Although they agreed to withdraw from the CCP, they talked about my practicing Falun Dafa behind my back and told my family that I asked others to withdraw from the CCP. My family felt they had lost face and would put pressure on me. At the beginning, I resented those colleagues, thinking that they bad mouthed me while I was trying to save them. Later, through studying the Fa, I came to realize that I had not explained the truth to them clearly, and that was why they could not understand me.
I followed Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance in my conduct, and I tried to do a perfect job so that managers and my colleagues could see that Dafa practitioners are good people. I was also more reasonable when explaining the truth to them. Out of the more than 140 employees in my work unit, all withdrew from the CCP.
Later, my work unit reorganized and merged with another unit. Facing new managers and colleagues, I followed Fa principles in my conduct while I sent righteous thoughts to eliminate the evil behind them. I tried my best to help them in their work. A year later, except for those colleagues I had no contact with, all 70 colleagues withdrew from the CCP and its affiliated organizations.
I was transferred to a different unit last June. Before I became acquainted with my new colleagues, I was sent to an administrative unit. I knew that it was Master’s arrangement for me to save predestined lives.
Master taught us:
"In reality, the entire world has been divided up with a piece apportioned to each Dafa disciple. This is reflected in how things are on Earth, and the people in this world correspond to the cosmos." ("Fa Teaching at the 2009 Washington DC International Fa Conference")
My mother-in-law, a practitioner, was persecuted in 2001 for going to Beijing to validate Dafa. Our family became afraid and could not understand Dafa practitioners. In 2005 when I started cultivating Dafa, my husband and father-in-law opposed me cultivating Dafa. Tests came one after another, and at that time I did not know that they were tests. I passed them with my persistent belief in Dafa.
I was supposed to be upgraded to the formal employee status in my work unit. However, this did not happen because I practiced Falun Dafa. This caused another round of objections from my husband to my cultivation.
My mother-in-law introduced me to a Fa-study group. Seeing fellow practitioners’ diligent cultivation situation, I realized that my learning the Fa was far behind other practitioners.
I started making time to study the Fa and gradually came to understand how to cultivate. No matter how my husband pressured me, I was not moved. I knew that it was a test. Under Master’s encouragement and protection, my capacity kept expanding.
To clear up my husband’s misunderstandings, I read him the articles about divine culture and cultivation stories. When he encountered situations at work and at home, I explained to him based on the principles of the Fa and told him that no matter what one is doing, he is doing that to himself. Doing good deeds will be rewarded and doing bad deeds will be punished. Gradually he changed.
Before, when I went out to study the Fa or to clarify the truth, I would not tell him. Through learning the Fa, I knew what I had done was not in accordance with truthfulness. I now openly tell him when I go out to do the three things or to study the Fa.
At the beginning, he was worried about my safety and he tried to stop me. I told him: "What I am doing is the most righteous thing. With Master’s protection, nothing will happen to me."
Sometimes when I went out to tell people about Falun Dafa and came home late, he would come downstairs to wait for me. His help and support for Dafa practitioners was also rewarded. For example, he used to have gastrointestinal problems, and now his health problems have all disappeared. He rarely even gets a cold.
Two years ago we bought a new car. I told him that I would use the car to do the three things whenever needed. He did not object. However, when I asked him to drive me to make truth-telling phone calls, he was reluctant. Once when I made a schedule to make phone calls, he refused to drive me. I was angry and argued with him, and I did not look inside for why this happened.
The next day, our new car’s windshield was smashed. My husband got angry and cursed the people who did it. I said, "Don’t be angry. If one curses, one loses virtue.” I also felt regret and looked inside. In myself I found my competing mentality, and found that I was doing the things for the purpose of doing things. I did not consider an ordinary person’s fear and inability to bear pressure under the CCP's tyranny. I blindly asked him to do things as if he were a practitioner, and I lost my temper with him. I then sent righteous thoughts to get rid of these attachments.
In the evening he said, "I thought that only the glass was smashed. But when I took the car to the garage, the mechanic found that there was a big dent on the top of the car. In this residential area others had their cars smashed, and the people told me who did it. I want to take revenge."
I said, “How much virtue he has given us by smashing our car. We cannot behave like him and do bad things back, and we have no evidence that he did it.”
My husband did not want to listen to me, and the more he talked about it, the angrier he became. I saw that his face changed color out of anger.
I took out a mirror and asked him to look at his face. He looked worried. He thought about it, then said, “Okay. I will not take revenge against him. I was just too upset. It is our new car!" After his bad thoughts were gone, his facial color returned to normal. I let him look in the mirror again and he believed.
Another time, I was scheduled to go out to speak to people about Falun Dafa and he made excuses not to go. The car was scraped again in the morning. I reminded him that we bought the car to use in saving people and we must use it to validate Dafa. Although he was angry about the scrape, he did not curse. I said, “If no one comes forward to admit they did it, we can repair it ourselves.”
He agreed. The same evening, a woman came by and apologized to my husband and said, “I scratched your car accidentally and I will pay for the repair.”
Since then, my husband often drives our son, my mother-in-law, and myself to make phone calls to save lives.
In the remaining Fa-rectification period, let us cultivate well, fulfill our prehistoric vows, live up to Master’s expectations, and not disappoint sentient beings waiting to be saved.
Let us cultivate to consummation and go home following our Master.
The above is some of my experiences. Please point out any of my mistakes.