Ukraine: The evil is afraid of the Truth

By a Falun Dafa practitioner in Ukraine

December 10, 2001

I live in the city of Kramatorsk. I first started cultivating Falun Dafa in 1997. When the Chinese authorities started to persecute the Falun Gong practitioners, I tried to reveal the truth by writing letters to the Ukrainian media, the government and the Parliament. However nobody responded to my actions. Then I thought that I should visit people and talk to them face to face. Therefore in September this year I went to the city of Kiev [Capital of Ukraine]. When I was introducing Falun Dafa to people as well as revealing the truth of the persecution, people responded positively. They showed great respect to the profound principles of Falun Gong and at the same time they condemned the Jiang Zemin regime for their bloody and vicious crimes. Many suggested to me that I should introduce Falun Dafa to the government and the Parliament. I thought that I should put into more efforts when revealing the truth to the government and the media. The letters and leaflets sent to them were not sufficient enough.

Previously we planned to hold an exhibition in Kiev from November 19 to 22, for the artist and our fellow practitioner, Mrs Zhang Cuiying from Australia. When the evil forces were persecuting Falun Dafa practitioners in China, Zhang went there to stand up to safeguard Dafa and to reveal the truth to the Chinese government. Because of this, she was jailed by the Chinese authorities for 8 months, during which she was subjected to severe torture. She witnessed at first hand the hell-like torture that the Falun Gong practitioners experienced in Chinese prisons. Now Ms Zhang is revealing the truth of the brutal persecution by the Chinese government to people all over the world. The evil is afraid of the disclosure of the truth, and is afraid of the compassion from practitioners' cultivation.

When I sent invitations of the exhibition to the media and the government. I tried to take initiative to reveal the truth to them and to promote Falun Dafa. I also told them about the combat between the righteous and the evil. I awakened that when I can reveal the truth to people with a compassionate heart, and when I can do this without any pursuit of achieving some results, people will naturally see the positive aspects of Dafa and understand that the Chinese government has been suppressing Truth-Compassion-Forbearance. Revealing the truth to people is to bring them out of the maze of the human world. It is also a course for us to cultivate ourselves and to upgrade our Xinxing [heart/mind nature]. When we overcome the evil within ourselves, we are able to see how the evil forces affect other people and how the evil forces manifest themselves in reality.

When we revealed the truth of the brutal persecution in China, we did so out of our pure hearts. Amazingly our plans proceeded naturally and smoothly. When I was at the various state departments to reveal the truth to the politicians, I always met those who had been searching for Falun Dafa. I went to the National Science Department. Previously their research staff wrote negative articles about Dafa. But this time they showed gratitude to my revealing the truth. They also thanked me for introducing Dafa to them and giving them Dafa books as gifts. I experienced similarly positive responses from the Cultural and Educational Departments. I had friendly and successful chats with many officials. The policemen at the Legislation Department asked me for Dafa books and the truth about Falun Gong. They also enquired about the Dafa practitioners in Kiev, expressing that they would like to introduce Falun Dafa to their martial arts coach. At the National Religions Centre, a lady was moved by Falun Dafa and she offered to pass the invitation to the exhibition to her supervisor, who is the chief for Ukraine Religions Centre. In about an hour I met him in person. I got to know that other national departments all depend on the National Religions Centre on their views about the nature of Falun Gong. The chief also arranged for me to meet the official who deals specifically with Falun Gong issues. At the beginning all I heard from him were the negative views and evil rumours towards Falun Gong. He was also reluctant to accept the truth materials I passed onto him. I just peacefully revealed the truth to him. He was constantly paying attention to my reactions. I also told him that people commit wrong deeds because they are lost in the human world. At the end he sincerely shook hands with me and said he would study all the truth materials I left with him. He even expressed that he would be interested in reading Falun Dafa books. From that I was able to tell that all their information about Falun Gong was from the so-called “official information” provided by the Chinese embassy. I told him that none of the organizations in the world have the rights to define spiritual beliefs, and that a moral principle has nothing to do with the recognition by a national government. As I was leaving, he ran after me in the corridor and asked, “Is this your only purpose to come here today?” I said to him, “Yes, and it is very important.” Again he promised that he would study carefully the truth materials I left with him.

We should not wait for the situations to improve. Instead we should improve the situations ourselves.

However it was very unfortunate that the Ukraine embassy in Russia did not issue Zhang Cuiying a visa to enter the nation. Our plans did not happen. From this I can see that the Chinese embassy still has very strong evil influence on the Ukraine government, and that our truth clarifying work has not been sufficient yet.

For those days we stayed in front of the exhibition gallery and explained to people why the exhibition was not held. We showed people Ms Zhang’s portfolios instead. We also send out materials to journalists. Many people came, especially on the first day when a journalist also came to us. Everyone was interested in Ms Zhang’s work and expressed that they wished she could come to Ukraine in the future. The friendly and harmonious atmosphere almost gave the impression of a real exhibition. People were very interested in Falun Dafa. We told them that it was simply because of Ms Zhang’s firm faith in Dafa that the artist was tortured for 8 months by the Chinese authorities. People then understood that what the Ukraine government did was actually to give in to the evil forces. We hope that our government will one day stand on the side of Truth-Compassion-Forbearance. This is subject to the constant efforts of each Ukrainian Falun Dafa practitioners.

(Translated on December 17, 2001 on http://www.yuanmingeurope.net/articles/3529.html)