Solidify Righteous Thoughts and Walk Our Own Path of Cultivation Righteously

One of the major German media had been unwilling to give up calling Falun Gong “xxx” [Slanderous term omitted] Many practitioners had made efforts to clarify the truth to them, but their correspondents in Beijing refused to give up the slanderous term. For a period of time, I had felt it hard to surmount the obstacle, being as insurmountable as a high mountain.

One day after reading the newspaper’s usage of this slanderous term again, I knew that our indulgence of the evil would encourage their evil doing. Immediately I wrote a letter to the director of this newspaper, but got no response. Then, I wrote another letter to the director and called him. His secretary answered that the received letters were transferred to the general editor. I proceeded to call the general editor whose secretary coldly told me that this issue had nothing to do with the editor. Therefore, the issue had been turned to the law department of this newspaper office. I insisted on faxing another letter to the general editor. “It is up to you,” said the secretary, hanging up the phone. I did fax the letter to the editor.

Then, I informed other practitioners of the whole event in hope of getting their support and sending forth righteous thoughts together. Right away I got various feedback. Some of them felt that we did not clarify the truth in a deep and elaborate way. The others thought the whole issue was not necessarily bad. And still the others, shocked by the issue, commented that I should not have pushed the newspaper staff so far.

It dawned on me that whatever differing opinions there were, I should keep my righteous thoughts. It was the most righteous matter to clarify the truth to the newspaper staff and to ask them not to apply the slanderous term. If one of the newspaper reporters had been biased by Jiang's evil propaganda, the newspaper office might have published unfair reports of Falun Gong. Then, a lot of readers might have been poisoned by the unfair reports so as to have incorrect understanding of Dafa, which would in turn bring serious consequence to their future. For those in charge of the newspaper, they should have corrected, not indulged, the mistakes made by the reporters. I realized that as Dafa practitioners, we should eradicate the evil, clarify the truth to mankind and offer salvation to sentient beings. But we should be compassionate among one another. Master Li taught us that whatever difficulty we encounter, we should look inside ourselves and eradicate the evil factors behind the issue. I saw my attachment of being argumentative when clarifying the truth to the newspaper reporters, not being compassionate enough. Because I did not solidify my righteous thoughts, I was unable to eliminate the evil factors behind the issue. Only by abandoning my attachments could I have the most righteous thoughts to walk my way righteously.

After figuring out this, I felt calm and knew what to do next. For the following few days, I had spent more time reading the Fa [The books of Falun Gong] and sending forth righteous thoughts. [This refers to a special kind of meditation] Then, I started to call some major departments of the newspaper office, telling them the truth on the phone. That day, I felt that I held a righteous manner, having a very smooth conversation with some of the newspaper staff. Finally, I decided to call the general editor again. His secretary who had been cold and tough said to me in a friendly way, “Wait a moment, please. I will transfer your call to another.” The assistant of general editor sincerely ensured me, “’xxx’ is a wrong term to use, and we will not use it again.” He added that he would inform all of the concerned staff of the decision, and thanked me.

I felt that the high mountain in front of me had disappeared. I had a deep understanding of what it meant by solidifying righteous thoughts, and of Master Li’s words, “As Dafa disciples tell people the facts, It's like sharp swords shooting out together from their mouths." and what it meant by walking our own way of cultivation righteously.