Helping a Fellow Practitioner in China to Step Forward and Expose the Persecution

I started practising Falun Dafa on December 29th in 1998. Here I would like to share with you some of my experiences of the past several years, as I followed Teacher¹ closely and walked my cultivation path with righteous thoughts and righteous actions.

Seven months after I started to cultivate, former president Jiang Zemin started to persecute Falun Gong. Under tremendous pressure, many fellow practitioners were afraid to step forward to expose the persecution and let others know the truth.

In 2000, there was a fellow practitioner who had cultivated very well before the persecution started, and he was even an assistant for the local practitioners. After he experienced persecution, upon returning home, he was afraid to step forward to expose the persecution. At that time, fellow practitioners cultivation levels all held, more or less, some degree of fear. Nobody dared to get in touch with this practitioner and nobody dared to help him. When I learnt this, I thought, "What is there to be afraid of? There is nothing wrong with being a good person. Falun Dafa teaches us to be good people and to be even better people. Everyone is practising kindness. No matter where I am, I dare to say that Falun Dafa is good."

At that time, my heart was very pure and held no fear. I felt that I must not leave our fellow practitioner behind, since we were both Falun Dafa practitioners and we came here to assimilate to the Fa². Falun Dafa was being persecuted, Teacher was being defamed, and Falun Dafa practitioners were being tortured. How could we, as practitioners, not step forward for Falun Dafa? How could we stay home and pursue a comfortable life? I told myself that this could not continue and that I must help him to step forward to validate the Fa. As soon as I had this thought, our benevolent Teacher had already arranged everything for me. That afternoon I bumped into that fellow practitioner on my way to pick up my daughter from school, since his child was attending the same school as mine and he was also picking up his child. I made an appointment with him to meet the following day.

The next day, he came to meet with me. We shared a lot during our conversation. I learnt that he had the intention to validate the Fa, but because of some obstacles at home he could not, and therefore he was feeling much anxiety and pain. I happened to have some VCDs containing the truth about the practise and the persecution, and so I took him with me to distribute them. The first time, he was a little afraid. The second time, he was less afraid. Gradually, he did much better. As soon as I would get hold of some materials, I gave them to him. He improved day by day and thanked me for my help. I told him, "Please do not thank me. Teacher has been teaching me to do this. Teacher has arranged all of this for you. If you want to thank someone, you must thank Teacher." When he heard this, he said firmly, "I will not let Teacher down. I will cultivate steadfastly." He regained the solid cultivation state that he had prior to July 20th, 1999 when the persecution started. The more effort he put in to letting people learn the truth, the better he became. He then took on some important responsibilities. On the path of validating the Fa, he was moving on a grander and more spectacular scale. Our entire region was making progress, cooperating together and elevating as a whole body. Together we were exposing the evil, negating the persecution, clarifying the truth, saving sentient beings with mighty power, and frightening the evil. This experience allowed me to enlighten to the following truth: As long as we have the heart to cultivate firmly and have righteous thoughts and righteous actions, Teacher will do everything for us and will arrange everything well for us.

Note:

1. Teacher: Respectfully referring to the founder of the practice, Mr. Li Hongzhi.
2. Fa: Law or principle; the teachings in Falun Gong.