PureInsight | August 23, 2004
[PureInsight.org] My name is Z. I have spent the past four years clarifying the truth to precious Chinese people over the phone. In these past four years, I come from not even knowing the truth to nowadays forming the Toronto phone team together with fellow practitioners. Every step the team has taken was the result of letting go of selfish notions and strengthening our firm belief in Dafa. We have become more and more mature in this process of cultivation.
As a result of the seemingly simple and common work of buying phone cards, preparing phone scripts and phone numbers to making the phone calls to China every week, many precious Chinese people hear the voice of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance resounding from other countries and areas. They hear the voice from the hearts of practitioners, they hear the great Buddha Law—Falun Dafa is widely spread all over the world as more and more Chinese people, deceived by lies for such a long time, awaken!
In the past few years during this process of calling China, I enlightened to the fact that, clarifying the truth through phone calls is a manifestation of Dafa practitioner's wisdom, courage, compassion, and righteous thoughts and righteous actions. This is the process of removing the attachment of fear and unrighteous factors from our own dimensional fields and of Dafa practitioners following Master Li in Fa-rectification. This is the process of completely denying the old forces' interference of Fa-rectification and the persecution of Dafa practitioners. It is the process of accomplishing the work of great enlightened beings of righteous Fa and righteous enlightenment; the process of offering salvation to the sentient beings that have come for Dafa. It is the process of transforming a human into a God.
I would like to share some stories of things that have happened while making phone calls.
On March 5, 2002, practitioners in Changchun City successfully broadcast truth-clarifying videos via cable TV. This shocked the local people. In response, Changchun police started to wildly arrest Dafa practitioners. In order to reduce the pressure of the persecution on Changchun practitioners, I started to put a lot of effort into calling police stations in Changchun City. At that time, when I returned home from work in the evenings, an inner sense of responsibility drove me to make phone calls to China because Chinese Dafa practitioners were validating Dafa with their very lives. I called one district after another, one department after another. Sometimes I called the head of a police department. One time, a police department head was so surprised at receiving my phone calls. He said, "How can you overseas Falun Gong practitioners make phone calls to my police department head office? Now I would like to chat with you Falun Gong practitioners for one day"! I clarified the truth to him most concisely and quickly. When he saw that he could not convince me, he hung up the phone. I made more phone calls to the offices of city and district police department heads, criminal police teams, forced-labour camps and police stations. I ran into all kinds of questions and situations, which needed to be handled with righteous thoughts and wisdom. Once, the police department of a district that had received many phone calls from overseas practitioners, said, "No, we are not a police department, but a hospital." At that time, I realised that they were telling lies but didn't want to give up the opportunity to tell the truth. So, I clarified the truth to them and let those policemen feel the wisdom of Dafa practitioners.
As we made more phone calls, we developed good techniques and improved our wisdom resulting in an effective way to clarify the truth. Some policemen to whom we spoke understood that broadcasting the truth clarifying video was to expose the lies and deception and to help the Changchun people see the beauty of Dafa. They were touched by my sincerity and also showed their kindness and politeness to me. Some policemen asked me to call them later when there were fewer people around so as to know more about Falun Gong. At that time, I really felt the importance of overseas practitioners calling China so as to reduce the pressure on Chinese practitioners.
Due to the tragedy of Wangjia Labor Camp, the Global Phone Team coordinated practitioners in different areas to make phone calls to Wangjia Labor Camp and Harbin. One day, I had to talk to that most vicious team head in Wangjia Labor Camp and asked it why it persecuted Dafa practitioners so brutally. The phone connected easily and I found myself speaking to the team head that directly persecutes Dafa practitioners. I asked it questions with peaceful tone and righteous thoughts. I asked, "Why don't you allow practitioners to eat? Why don't you allow practitioners to sleep? Why do you force them to do overtime of hard labor? Why do you beat practitioners? Do you know that your actions have been exposed to the world"? This team head answered my questions hypocritically saying that they didn't persecute Falun Gong practitioners. Despite his manner, I still insisted on clarifying the facts of the persecution.
Zhao Ming wrote an article for the 60th Session of UN Human Rights Commission called "Who makes the brutality so beautiful". In that article, he compared the brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners by Jiang in China and the persecution of Jewish people by Hitler in World War II. He helped people see the brutality of the persecution and the crimes that are covered up. He exposed the propaganda machine and the bias of the media under Jiang's control that deceives countless precious Chinese people.
Over the past two years, in order to clarify the truth more deeply and thoroughly, global phone teams have been coordinating practitioners from different areas to speak to families from different Chinese cities. This has helped me to appreciate the momentum of truth clarification spreading across China and raises the standards in making good phone calls. By contacting families, not only do we clarify the facts, but we also help everyday people to see the purity, kindness, and sincerity of Dafa practitioners. Once, when I called a home, a middle-aged woman picked up the phone. When she heard that I was a Dafa practitioner she wanted to hang up. But I strengthened my righteous thoughts and told her the most important Dafa truths. She started to listen to me patiently. I told her that we are all women and mothers. At present, many women in China are receiving inhumane tortures, have been raped, or fierce severely beaten. Some couples that were both Falun Dafa practitioners have been detained in jail leaving their children with no one to take care of them. As Chinese with a sense of justice, we should stand up for justice for those women who practice Truth-Compassion-Tolerance. In the end, I told her about how jails and forced-labor camps persecuted Dafa practitioners. This really surprised her. During the process of clarifying the truth, the world's people will see more and more clearly who is righteous and who is evil. I talked to her for about 20 minutes and I felt that this woman's understanding changed a lot.
Once I called a family, and could see that the man who answered the phone was a very kind person. I told him that all the Chinese people would oppose this persecution in China in the near future. He was very interested in the topics that I brought up. I started from the facts of the persecution, and clarified the truth to him from various perspectives. I used the following examples - the wide spread of Dafa in the world, the campaign to bring Jiang to justice around the world, the morality of the society and family, and the torture that Dafa practitioners experience in jail for example. When I talked to him, he said, "Thank you for your reminders." I also asked him questions: "Did you have a sandstorm during the Peoples' Congress annual meeting? Please think about it. So many good people who practice Truth-Compassion-Forbearance are detained, injured, and even killed in detention centers or abused in mental hospitals. There are so many accidents and disasters in our country in the past few years. This is heaven's warning to people." Then he said, "You should make more phone calls to Mainland China and encourage more Chinese people to stand up and ask for justice for Falun Gong. Falun Gong issues should be readdressed as soon as possible."
When I made phone calls to Qinghua University, I met some kind, simple university students who were willing to listen to the truth and they left me with deep impressions. Clarifying the truth to university students is different compared to clarifying the truth to ordinary residents. University students demand higher standards for practitioners' wisdom, knowledge, and language. But I found that they are more willing to listen to us clarify the truth in depth. Once I talked about the persecution inflicted upon Qinghua University faculty and staff, the court cases to sue Jiang and about the differences between the oriental and occidental social systems in regard to beliefs, human rights, and freedom.
When we clarify the truth, we should talk in a way that everyday people can understand. When we meet kind and predestined people, we can open up their thoughts, talk about the history and reality and include Buddha, Tao, and Gods in our conversations.
When I talk about the bitter experience of Wei Xinyan, I would mention that the persecution of women, children, and elderly people who practice Falun Gong. I try to awaken students' sense of justice.
When I run into students who want to hang up the phone quickly, I would say, "Please hold on for a minute, I would like to recite a poem about Qinghua University". The first sentence of this poem says, "The persecution of Qinghua students is to damage the essential resources of China". All those students who heard this would not hang, up but instead, they would listen to me patiently because they felt that I truly cared about their university.
I told them morality is most important in their lives. Everyone should squeeze out the bad substance in our bodies like sponge and let Truth-Compassion-Forbearance melt into every cell of our lives. One young student asked me, "Are you a PhD or a psychological doctor? Why can your words deeply penetrate into our hearts?"
When practitioners from the Toronto phone team clarify the truth, we always add the news about bringing Jiang to justice. It is a topic we must talk about.
Master Li said in Zhuan Falun that, "Chinese people were strongly influenced by Confucianism in the past, and their personality is pretty introverted. When they're angry it doesn't show, and when they're happy it doesn't show. They make a point of polite restraint and enduring hardships. Since it's been so deeply ingrained, our people have developed a very introverted personality overall; " Because people in Mainland China experience many political campaigns and lack democracy, their thoughts are quite conservative. Sometimes, as soon as we talk about suing Jiang, they become silent or hang up the phone. However, we are not disturbed by such reactions and continue to expose the evil nature of Jiang. Once a person from Mainland China told me words from his heart, he said, "Falun Gong practitioners are really magnificent. It is the wisest choice to sue Jiang using the international laws. Falun Gong practitioners are all good people. Why does Jiang persecute Falun Gong so brutally? We have Falun Gong practitioners in our workplace, and they are all good people. But they are detained and beaten. Jiang is not a good person, and he should be brought to justice. In these years, Jiang didn't do any good thing and what a mess he has created for China. Morality in society has abruptly dropped, and Chinese people all curse him." He continued, "You don't know that many Chinese people admire Falun Gong practitioners. You are really remarkable, and work together to bring Jiang to justice in the international courts".
Two years ago, I cooperated with other practitioners in Toronto to coordinate the work to clarify the truth to China through mail, fax, and phone. Therefore I often made phone calls to China so as to get feedback and opinions about our truth clarifying materials - this was really helpful for us to clarify the truth well. Once I mailed three VCDs to an acquaintance and told him that these VCDs were really good. He distributed them to friends and family. After some time, I called him again and asked him about the situation. He told me, "The VCD's that you mailed to me have been shown to certain number of people. After seeing them many people have all come to understand Falun Gong. In fact, they also felt puzzled when watching the propaganda on the TV and reading about it in the newspapers because they didn't understand Falun Gong at that time. Now they are all clear. " He also said that a VCD called "Plum Blossom Poem" was extremely good. Other people asked him where he obtained such a high quality video, and he told them that he picked it up from a taxi.
To improve the skills in making phone calls, the Toronto team practices by calling practitioners who live in China once every week and the effect has been quite good. This not only encourages those practitioners who don't know how to clarify the truth over the phone, but also provides practitioners from other teams with a good chance to learn good truth clarifying techniques. During the process of calling in groups, practitioners on the team improve very quickly in learning to clarify the truth. Master Li said in the article "Environment", "The lofty conduct that Dafa disciples have established in this environment--including every word and every deed--can make people recognize their own weaknesses and identify their shortcomings; it can move their hearts, refine their conduct, and enable them to make progress more rapidly." In the phone team, practitioners don't blame each other, nor do they complain. Practitioners learn from one another and encourage each other because we all know that we carry a big responsibility. We have to cultivate ourselves well and in this way, we can offer salvation to sentient beings with pure hearts and strong righteous thoughts. Master Li said, "However high a person's character is, that's how high his gong is" ( Zhuan Falun). Our cultivation states are shown in the process of offering salvation to sentient beings over the phone; so, we have to cultivate ourselves well.
The environments of making phone calls at home and making calls as part of a phone team are different. To make phone calls in the team one has to take exams in which practitioners listen to what you say. I used to have an attachment: if I didn't speak well in the phone-team, what would other practitioners think of me? I am one of the coordinators of the phone team, if I didn't clarify the truth well, what would other practitioners think of me? This attachment interfered with me for a long time and made me unable to let go of myself. It was like a thick layer of substance in another dimension that suppressed me and unconsciously enlarged my ego. It is encouraging and it is a learning experience to listen to other practitioners make phone calls, and also helps me see my own attachments and shortcomings. Practitioner's sincere words deeply touch me and also help me improve together with the team.
I would like to conclude my sharing Master Li's words in the article "Congratulatory Statement to the New York Fa Conference": "In history past, you brought to humankind the splendor it should have; in history present, Dafa has bestowed upon you the mission of saving all sentient beings; in history future, everything of yours that is pure and righteous will be what ensures that the colossal firmament has formation and stasis, but not destruction."
