A High School Student's Experience Cultivating in a New Environment

I lived on campus all three years in middle school and the first year in high school. Because of my slacking off, I strayed from the Fa. However, everything changed at the beginning of my second year in high school. I moved to my practitioner aunt's house. My aunt helped me come back into Dafa.

My second year in high school was the most difficult and required the most time for homework and studying. Although I had a new environment in which to study the Fa, I had very little time to do so. Therefore, I was only able to take small periods of time after lunch and before I went to bed to study the Fa. I did not spend much time doing so, but the change I experienced was obvious. I realized the urgency of Fa-rectification through Fa study. Being a Dafa disciple, I had not broken through to do any kind of truth-clarification (explaining to the public the facts about Falun Gong and exposing the persecution) yet. Even if I had talked about this to my classmates in the past, the effects were not so good because I did not study the Fa very well and did not know the right way to do it. Sometimes I was overzealous and said something that was too difficult for others to understand, without touching on the topic of quitting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations.

However, with continuous Fa study, things finally changed. I remember that the Fa principles became clearer to me every day after I studied the Fa after lunch. Meanwhile, I was also worried for those people who have not learned the truth. Since I lived only ten minutes away from school, I would meet a lot of classmates on my way to school. Because all kinds of notions blocked me, I always held in the words that I was about to say to clarify the truth about Falun Dafa and the persecution to them.

Then one day, I decided that I must say something. In the past, I often met one classmate on my way to school, so I wished to meet him again that day. I kept sending righteous thoughts, and there he was. Then we walked together to school, and again, I held back the words. But I then realized that I could not miss this chance again to save him. So I asked him, "Have you joined the league?" He said, "I did when I was in middle school; all of my class became league members at that time." I kept sending righteous thoughts, but I had the notion it was hard to persuade someone to quit the CCP. While another thought came into my mind, "Everything is arranged by Master, I don't have to worry about it." So I asked him, "Have you heard that quitting the CCP can save your life?" He said, "Yes, I knew it, and I have already quit it." Then he told me that his neighbour helped him to quit the CCP. What a coincidence! I met someone who had already quit the CCP in my first effort of truth-clarification. Afterwards, I realized that Master was encouraging me to continue my truth-clarification.

After my first experience, things went much better. I clarified the truth to the one who sat in front of me in class: from the truth about the staged self-immolation at Tiananmen Square to why Falun Gong is persecuted, from the disgraceful behaviour of the evil party to the magnificence of Dafa. I talked a lot to him, I could tell he was shocked by all the facts. But when I offered to help him anonymously quit the CCP, he seemed worried and said it was fine if he just denied it in his mind. He told me: "You do not have to be disappointed, you have convinced me successfully." Actually, I was generally not good at talking, but I surprisingly said a lot that day. All the wisdom came from Master!

I told my aunt about this after I arrived home. I also realized I was attached to the results of doing things, which could be the reason that the classmate mentioned above had some worries in the end. Later I invited him to my aunt's house; my aunt and I clarified the truth to him for more than one hour. He told us when he left: "It meant a lot coming here today; I totally changed my mind towards Falun Gong."

After that, I went to an internet cafe with him to show him a picture of the rock formation that had the characters "Death to the CCP" mysteriously carved into it, but the place was full at that time. Fortunately there was another classmate playing computer games, so I went to him and asked if I could use his computer to search for a picture. After we saw the picture, I told him the story of that rock formation. He was shocked and asked me what he should do, I told him he should quit the CCP. "As long as you do not accept the CCP in your heart, I can help you to quit it anonymously." He said he would quit using his own name. With just a few words, he quit the CCP.

After I went back home, I was happy that I clarified the truth and saved people. I also thank Master for all the arrangements: I used to live in the same dorm with the second classmate, to whom I have already talked about the magnificence of Dafa. This made it much easier for me to persuade him to quit the CCP at that time.