H. F.

Greetings, venerable Master! Greetings, fellow practitioners! I benefitted a lot in my cultivation in Dafa and in saving sentient beings in the recent year, and I would like to share my experience with everyone.

A year ago, I joined the Global RTC Platform of truth clarification by calling China. There were many fellow practitioners who participated in making phone calls to China. They came from a variety of countries and regions, but most of them were from Taiwan, the U.S., Canada, Japan, Korea, England, etc. Everyday, practitioners got together on the platform and took turns to make phone calls to China. Practitioners not making phone calls would send forth righteous thoughts simultaneously. Thus, a whole body is formed to send forth strong righteous thoughts and divine power to destroy all evil lives and factors that impede the saving of sentient beings. It made the conscious side of sentient beings to play a dominant role so that they were willing to attain the truth told by fellow practitioners and to quit CCP, and then to be saved.

During my learning process of making phone calls to China, I really felt many fellow practitioners’ compassion to save sentient beings. I was so moved. At the start of making phone calls, I thought that fellow practitioners were so good to clarify the truth. I was far behind and doubted my ability to do it. I was able to make phone calls to China at home, but not able to make phone calls on the RTC platform. Once upon a time, someone told me that there was a fellow practitioner who spoke relatively slow and pronounced inaccurately. It was hard for him to clarify the truth, but he still persisted in making phone calls to China. It inspired me. If I were him, how could I make phone calls to China on the RTC platform? I was enlightened that I had the ability to make phone calls on the RTC platform as long as I had a heart to save sentient beings and eradicated any frightened mind. Other fellow practitioners also encouraged me to rise up and actively make phone calls to China. Eventually, I was able to make phone calls to China on the platform by eradicating my fear.

As time went by, I demonstrated a mastery of making phone calls to China. My confidence became stronger and stronger. After a short period of time of making phone calls, the coordinator of the platform talked to me and asked me to be a team leader, hoping that I could lead a team of other fellow practitioners. I would need to be on duty once a week. I thought that this was needed for saving sentient beings, so I accepted. Afterwards, I realized that there was some pressure for me to become a team lead. I not only had to spend a lot of time, but also need to host the experience sharing on making phone calls. It required me to be well-prepared. I had to seriously think about any issues in the process of making phone calls to China and present these issues for discussion. In addition, I also need to share my experience of cultivation in Dafa with others, encouraging them to be actively involved in discussion and sharing. This could benefit everyone so we can all improve as a one-body.

In addition to the half-hour experience sharing after calling to China daily, there was also a big experience sharing meeting on the RTC platform semi-monthly or monthly. The purpose is simple – cultivating ourselves well and saving more sentient beings. I benefitted a lot from fellow practitioners’ experience sharing and their understanding of Dafa. My faith in cultivation practice in Dafa was largely strengthened. I also obtained answers to a variety of questions asked by ordinary people.

Joining the RTC team is really worthwhile and I am fortunate to be in. I cherish this precious time to make each single phone call to China by using this golden opportunity. I tried hard to do it as needed. In my daily life, I availed myself of time to participate in RTC calling to China at early time. Since we have a different person on duty everyday, sometimes someone might not be able to make it. Thus, at the start of the daily shift, there might be only a few persons there making the phone calls. The process does not seem to work very smoothly. I felt it was my responsibility to harmonize the group. No matter I am on duty or not, I would support and join the team to make phone calls. Sometimes, I even became the principal caller, but I didn’t care and was willing to do so. There were times when Master enlightened and encouraged me through fellow practitioners who says: Come On! Be Diligent! I was greatly inspired in my heart and fully appreciated Master’s care of me.

Calling China is a process of cultivating ourselves. Many of our attachments would emerge. For example, the attachment to the quantity of sentient beings saved. If the number of people quitting CCP was big, I would be happy and feel gratified. On the contrast, if the number of people quitting CCP was small or even nobody was withdrawn from CCP, my mood would be impacted. I would feel disappointed and thought it was too hard to save sentient beings. This kind of negative thinking made me not have enough righteous thoughts and stable mind. I was thinking why I was not able to do it while others could clarify the truth well and make so many sentient beings quit CCP. What was the difference?

Master teaches us in the article Clearheadedness: “While working, your tone of voice, your kindheartedness, and your reasoning can change a person’s heart, whereas commands never could!” If we do not have enough kindheartedness and compassion, if we do not have the heart and the urge to save sentient beings and think that it is up to the ordinary people to quit or not to quit CCP, we would lack confidence to definitely save the ordinary people. Thus, we would not be careful in our tone of voice. Our words would float in the air. You can imagine the effectiveness of calling to China in such a way. As Dafa disciples, we have the mission of saving sentient beings. How could we treat this matter lightly? I determined to change my state of cultivation. Considering that sentient beings are all from high levels and are waiting for our salvage, we do not have any reasons not to have compassion to them and not to save them with our hearts.

First of all, we have to study the Fa diligently and seriously, and to genuinely cultivate ourselves to a high level by studying the Fa into our heart and lifting our xinxing. We should speak slowly. We should make sentient beings feel our kindheartedness and sincerity. In doing so, they will moer likely consider quitting CCP. In addition, I learned from fellow practitioners’ compassion and tone of voice when they made phone calls to China. After a period of practice, I obviously felt that my compassion increased. Indifferent callings such as reading a transcript were decreasing. More and more ordinary people were willing to listen to my words as if they already felt my kindheartedness. The number of quitting CCP increased. However, I was no longer attached to the number of quitting CCP. I thought that the clear side of sentient beings would play a dominant role as long as I could clarify the truth well. If they didn’t quit CCP this time, they might quit CCP next time. As to those who were ferocious, I would not be moved. I knew that they were poisoned so deeply. I could still clarify the truth to them in a calm manner, laying a foundation for them to be saved in the future.

Before, I always thought I was a good person. After studying the Fa, I realized that there was a lot of bad thing in my mind. Take for example compassion, we want to have compassion to other people, but we have to have compassion to our family members first. If we are always picking on our family members for what they say and what they do, how can we talk about compassion? There is predestined relationship between family members and us. We need to cherish it and deal well with our family members. I learned a lot in this matter. Sometimes, my family members did not understand me. They abruptly spoke out with harsh voice or tone, yelling at me and throwing things around. This is just to see how I would handle this kind of things.

Master teaches us in Zhuan Falun that: “As practitioners, you will suddenly come across conflicts. What should you do? You should always maintain a heart of compassion and kindness. Then, when you run into a problem, you will be able to do well because it gives you room to buffer the confrontation.” In accordance with Master’s teaching, I kept a merciful and peaceful attitude usually. When there is conflict, I was generally able to put up with anyone or anything and didn’t get angry, regardless of personal gain or loss. At the same time, I would send forth righteous thoughts and eliminate any evil lives and factors behind them so that their positive and good side can play a dominant role. I would appreciate them helping eliminate karma for me and providing an environment of cultivation for my looking inward and removing attachments. To family members, I would only see their merits and neglect their shortcomings. When encountering conflicts, I would re-think about things in their shoes, understanding them with respect. After dealing with things in such a way, my previous resentment was gone. My intention of fleeing this environment with helplessness was gone as well. I knew that this was the environment of my cultivation. Master arranged this environment for me so that I could be tempered, doing away with my attachments and being lifted up. Nowadays, I get along well with my family members. They all support my cultivation and calling to China more and more.

I live with my daughter, have an 8-year grand-daughter and a one-year grand-son. I have been taking care of them since their birth. My daughter is quite busy with her work. She always returns home late. My son-in-law works in another city. There are many issues in the house to worry about. Children have to be taken care of. Therefore, my time is very limited. I am always very busy. As a practitioner, calling to China, studying the Fa, sending forth righteous thoughts and doing exercise cannot be missed.

Sometimes, I was too busy to have time to drink water. How could I do? I could only do what I should do during children’s sleeping time or in reducing my sleeping time. I got up around 3am daily, do the exercise, send forth righteous thoughts, and then make phone calls to China. If children woke up, I had to immediately take care of them. So I was quite busy in the recent year without any spare time. However, I could relieve my mind because I was walking on the way of cultivation arranged by Master – Cultivating Ourselves and Saving Sentient Beings. Except for special situations, I never waste a day to make phone calls to China. My family member said, other people had holidays or vacation days, but you never had one day off. As a practitioner, I don’t dare to relax and don’t dare to slack off either. I have the responsibility of saving sentient beings on my shoulder. I have the pre-historic vow to be fulfilled. I can only steadily do what I should do as a Dafa practitioner, facing everything with a calm mind. I am Master’s disciple. Do I need to stick to something in this secular world? Master’s arrangement is the best. What else do we demand?

In the end, let me cite Master’s teaching in the article Fa Teaching at the 2015 West Coast Fa Conference to encourage myself and as the close to this experience sharing.

Master says, “But if you can, as cultivators, steady your minds a bit and do well at what you’re supposed to do, everything will be there for you, in fact. If you can all manage to do the three things well, divine beings will look after you even if you are off in a remote corner of the world, and so will Master’s law bodies.”