Later on, my sister told me over the telephone that she watched a television programme from China, reporting that Falun Gong practitioners had committed suicide in China. She was worried about me and tried to persuade me to stop cultivation. I felt extremely sad about this and firmly told her that I would carry on practising Falun Dafa. At that moment, I felt that I was surrounded by a huge righteous energy. I told my sister that Falun Gong practitioners were wrongfully persecuted in China, and what she saw on television was slanderous propaganda.
Afterwards, I started to call my sister every week, and clarified the truth to her from different angles. I started with the persecution of the Christians in ancient times.
There is a popular legend in this country: if this planet is coming to an end, the evil of No. 666 will appear and persecute people who believe in God. I mentioned this legend to her and compared it with the No. 610 Office in China, which organised and carried out systematic persecution of Falun Gong. She began to realise the truth about Falun Gong more and more. She understood this was not a normal persecution: this was evil people attempting to persecute the virtuous. I explained to her that the principles of Falun Gong were Truth, Compassion and Forbearance. I knew that her thoughts became more righteous, that she realised that the television reports were full of lies, and also contradicted the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance.
Some days ago, my wife and I went back to Ethiopia for a holiday, and we used this opportunity to clarify the facts to all our family members.
Once, my uncle came to visit us, and most of the family members were there. My aunt suddenly asked: “What is Falun Gong?” She saw the books and material on view.. She was highly interested in them and asked lots of questions. We told her that all Falun Dafa practitioners study Zhuan Falun and practise the five sets of beautiful exercises. I suggested that I could demonstrate the movements, everybody were very excited to see them. In the beginning the children were laughing, gradually, everybody was attracted to it and was absorbed in watching. After that, they asked about the benefits of these exercises. We shared our four year’s cultivation experience with them and told them how our health was improving and how our minds were becoming more peaceful.
A week later, we went to visit my uncle. My aunt asked us to demonstrate the exercises once more. She also suggested another of our relatives could learn them. This relative of mine showed a great deal of interest in the exercises, and wanted to learn them immediately.
I also mentioned Falun Dafa and its principles to my mother. She said this was very similar to Christianity. I told her that Falun Gong was not a religion; we just studied the book and did the exercises. She asked whether I believed in God or not. I answered that I knew there were many Gods, but I choose to follow this method. She then asked me whether or not I believed science; I said science could not help to improve the moral standard of this world. She said many scientists turned to believe in God when they became older.
Many of the children in our family read the truth material about the persecution, I also told them about the ruthless persecution in China. Sometimes I could hear their discussion regarding the pictures.
We stayed at home for four weeks, I witnessed them steadily building up a solid and correct view of Dafa. I felt that slander was the last thing which the Jiang evil regime could do to fool the people in Ethiopia. Our practitioners around the world have seen through their attempt, and clarified the truth everywhere. Every single person is waiting for the precious moment when they can learn of the truth.
Translated from Chinese at http://yuangming.net/articles/200304/19015.html
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