Overcoming Problems to Clarify the Truth to the Chinese People

Recently, the 2002 Commonwealth Games were held in Manchester, England. Many practitioners attended an SOS walk through the city on the weekend. However, during the week many had to return to their respective cities and the few remaining practitioners gave out truth-clarification materials in pairs in busy parts of the city. Myself and a Chinese practitioner realised that although our task of handing out leaflets to the tourists attending the games was important, we could not forget about the precious Chinese people who have been poisoned by Jiang Zemin’s vicious web of lies. One afternoon we headed to Chinatown with as much material about Falun Gong and the persecution as we could carry – mostly in Chinese. We were astonished that after two hours all our Chinese material was gone and we could see Chinese people sitting and reading Dafa newspapers and booklets all along the street. That evening we reflected that a lot of evil in other dimensions has been eliminated by Dafa disciples sending forth righteous thoughts and now the Chinese can learn the truth about Dafa much more easily. We remembered that there is a city only a few hours drive from Manchester that has one of the largest Chinese populations in England but contains no practitioners and so has seen little hongfa (promoting/spreading Falun Dafa) activity. We determined that the following day we would go there.

As we left the house, the rain was pouring down but we remained unmoved by the horrible conditions. I was the passenger and after a couple of hours, I began to feel more and more tired, the closer we got to the city. This did not feel like a natural sleepiness and I knew it was interference – I soon realised why. The digital signs warned us of severe congestion and I looked up and saw a traffic jam snaking miles into the distance. We both immediately began to send forth righteous thoughts but I could feel an enormous pressure pushing on my head. Whilst trying to maintain a tranquil mind strange thoughts that were totally alien to me mixed with a heavy sleepiness stopped me from emitting pure and strong righteous thoughts.

After we had been at a standstill for a couple of minutes, I thought to myself, “This is not correct. We are heading for this city to clarify the truth and offer salvation to the precious Chinese people and this traffic jam is stopping us.” However, as hard as I tried I could not overcome the interference and it seemed to get worse. I remembered a passage spoken by our Master in Touring North America to Teach the Fa: “..some students’ righteous thoughts weren’t adequate, and so the persecution that they suffered became even more severe. When the evil was beating them they forgot that they were Dafa Disciples and they didn’t think, “I’ll ask Master to help me”.” Before, I did not like to ask Master for help because I felt that he does so much for me and that to ask for more is selfish and ungrateful. However, this misconception was soon revealed when I was put into situations where I had to ask Master for help. I realised my previous thoughts were wrong and that I was really thinking in human terms. Master Li says “Cultivation depends on oneself and gong depends on the Master.” I realised that as long as I am pure and righteous in everything I do there is nothing Master cannot do to help me and without the constant help of Master I would not be able to take part in Fa rectification. If I am in trouble, how can he not help me? I said in my mind, “Master, please help me to get to this city to clarify the truth.” Immediately my righteous thoughts became very strong and the car began to move. After a couple of minutes of sending forth righteous thoughts we were again moving at full speed along the motorway. The practitioner I was with told me that he had also asked Master for help and said, “our Master can do anything. If he can’t help us, no-one can.” I felt the great benevolence of our Master and how truly fortunate I am to be a Fa-rectification period Dafa Disciple.

We continued to send forth righteous thoughts for the rest of the journey and had no more traffic problems. However, the rain was still very heavy. We parked up and prepared our materials. Just as we were about to leave the car, the rain stopped. We realised that this was merely a test to check that we were steadfast in our mission to hongfa in this city. As we walked towards Chinatown, I had no other thoughts except that we had come to help the precious Chinese people learn the truth about the biggest and most brutal persecution in history. Most of the Chinese people that I handed a booklet to looked at the pictures of Dafa Disciples around the world on the front cover before they accepted it. People looked surprised and many were happy to learn the truth about Falun Dafa.

One group of young Chinese were very eager to receive truth-clarification materials. One girl squealed in excitement when she looked at the booklet and said, “What are you doing with this? You’re English!” I told her that I practise Falun Dafa and that it is popular throughout the world. She replied, “Oh, I’m very happy for you. I’m a communist but I know about Falun Gong. I’m really glad that you enjoy your practise and feel the benefits.” I asked her and her friends if they knew about the persecution and she replied, “Don’t worry – I know all about it. Our government does a lot of bad things and does not tell the truth to us.” Everyone in the group asked for a leaflet. They all walked away reading attentively with smiles on their faces and wished me good luck in my Falun Dafa practice.

It began to rain again but we did not lose our good spirits. I found that this seemed to be an advantage; many Chinese people looked truly amazed when a young westerner walked over and gave them a Falun Dafa booklet in the pouring rain. Some patted me on the back and I was treated to a lot of smiling faces that day. Western people asked me when a class would begin in this city and I told them that there would soon be one and that they could download “Falun Gong” for free on the Internet. The Chinese practitioner that I travelled with had similar success and we distributed a lot of material.

I really felt like we had broken through the old forces arrangement by going to this isolated city that is not lucky enough to be home to any Falun Dafa practitioners. As we drove back the sun came out and it was a beautiful evening.