Realizing the Importance of Kindness During Truth Clarification
(Clearwisdom.net) Master said, "If you are without the Goodness (Shan) that a Dafa disciple has, then
you are not a cultivator. If a Dafa disciple cannot validate the Fa, then he is not a Dafa
disciple." (On "The Dignity of Dafa") During truth clarification, I truly realized
the importance of "Goodness" (Shan). While Shan must stem from the process of
saving sentient beings and self-cultivation, it is the kind actions of Dafa disciples that make
ordinary people believe in what Dafa disciples say. Once, I was illegally arrested by the police and had refused to cooperate with them during their
interrogations. Two policemen took turns slapping my face, but I still refused to cooperate. They
chained my hands behind my back and then hung me from the door. Rather than feeling angry, I simply
felt pity for them. I told them that Falun Dafa is good and that what they were doing was
self-destructive. During the second interrogation, I said to them, "Although you beat me and hung me up like
that, I do not see you as enemies. Instead, I see you as someone who might still be saved by Falun
Dafa. I hope that you can treat Falun Dafa and practitioners with kindness, so that your spirit will
not be weeded out in the end." At the third interrogation, I still greeted them with a smile, "Here you are again. How are
you?" This time, they said, "The fact is that we do not really want to treat you this way, but
because we wear these uniforms we are obligated to do so." I replied, "You should be responsible for your own actions. An artillery shell splits apart
when it explodes and the shrapnel randomly injures people in its path. One should not allow oneself
to be used as such by others, since a person, unlike an artillery shell, has a brain and can think.
Right?" They all laughed and agreed. We need to remind these beings of the kind thoughts that can still emerge from their knowing
side. When I was first illegally detained, the chief "610" officer locked me onto the
metal chair in his office. [For a pictorial description of the Iron Chair torture device, please
see http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/articles/2002/1/9/17577.html]
I told him twice that my arms were twisted and too painful, and asked him to unlock them. He ignored
me and left. When he returned, I said, "Your mother, wife and sisters are all women. If someone
were to treat them like this, how would you feel?" Upon hearing this he came over, unlocked the handcuffs and placed both my hands on the right side
of the chair. The cuffs were very loose. I told him, "Falun Dafa is good. Please remember 'Falun
Dafa is good.'" He looked at me and was trying to say something, but could not. During my stay in the detention center, I met many criminals. I always told them the facts about
Falun Dafa and the persecution of practitioners. They would often respond with surprise and say,
"If we had not seen you with our own eyes, we would have thought what was aired on television
was all true." They also said that they would definitely tell their family members that Falun
Dafa is good. I told them to also tell neighbors, classmates, colleagues and everyone else they
knew, since that would be doing a good deed and helping to save people. There was a girl who had been jailed for stealing, and she said, "I know from whom you
learned to be so kind." When I asked, she answered, "Of course, from your Teacher."
She eventually began reciting the Fa with me every day. "You are right about that," I said. "Our Teacher taught us to be kind to all
people and to always be totally benevolent toward others." There was a young guard who always
liked to be next to me, because she liked to listen to what I said. Once, when I was staying in a hotel with an older woman, she hesitated to pay her portion of the
bill after I had already paid ten yuan. I said, "It is alright with me if you want to pay less.
I won't haggle with you over it." She was so surprised that she quickly paid. I mentioned to
her that I practiced Falun Gong and I always try to be understanding of others and always consider
others first. That night, we had a long conversation during which she admitted that she had never
before understood the truth about Falun Gong. She said that she now realized that everything on
television was false and meant to deceive people. I realized that every practitioner is like a window through which Falun Dafa may be viewed and
judged. If you can conduct yourself well among ordinary people, then you will also do well in truth
clarification and validating the Fa. However, if you do not pay attention to your behavior, the
opposite will occur. Among practitioners, there also exists the issue of being kind to each other. It is just as
Teacher said, "In these situations your conduct should always show Dafa disciples' tolerance,
kindness, and niceness. The next person's things are your things, and your things are his
things." ("Teaching the Fa at the 2002 Washington, D.C. Fa Conference") Fa study is extremely important. This study is the foundation of Falun Dafa disciples' doing
everything well. Only through constantly studying Fa and upgrading our xinxing, will the Shan of
Dafa disciples gradually become recognized by people of the world, and thus save people from the
poisonous lies. Posting date: 7/27/2003 |