(Minghui.org) Master has repeatedly spoken about security issues, and the Minghui website has published many sharing articles about safety. Fellow practitioners have also discussed the various methods used to monitor practitioners in China, including through cameras, phones, and the internet.
I felt it was prudent to learn as much as I could about such things.
Growing Fear
I was usually quite careful when going to a fellow practitioner's home or doing Dafa work with other practitioners; I would usually leave my mobile phone at home.
But when I went to work, I would openly clarify the facts to people. I worked in a very good environment, and no one around me objected. I would often clarify the truth to people with my cell phone in my pocket. I would also use my cell phone to search for the “hidden words stone” on the internet and show it to people. The results were quite good.
I downloaded the exercise music onto my cell phone and practiced the first, third, and fourth standing exercises with colleagues during break time. My colleagues did not practice Falun Dafa, but they liked to do the exercises.
After I read those sharing articles about safety, however, I became a little nervous. Going to a fellow practitioner's home to study the Fa, I started to worry about safety once I was aware that there was a chance her home was being monitored.
I talked to people less about Falun Dafa and quitting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). I was also afraid when driving practitioners to the countryside to raise awareness of Falun Gong and the persecution.
For a period of time I was disturbed by this fear, but I knew this state was not correct for a practitioner. I had to eliminate it and continue to shoulder the responsibilities of a Dafa practitioner.
Casting Off Fear
I remembered one incident years ago involving a patient who had come to me to have an ultrasound.
In the examination room, I told her the facts about Dafa and offered her a Dafa amulet. Before I could say anything else, she threw it into the trash basket.
I pointed to the amulet and asked her to pick it up. She hurriedly picked it up and gave it back to me.
I said, “You can refuse to take it, but you cannot throw it away. This amulet is very precious.”
I continued to clarify the facts to her until she accepted it and apologized to me.
Another incident involved a fellow practitioner who was illegally arrested. The police had gone to her home to confiscate her Dafa books. As they were about to grab them, her son, a non-practitioner, told the police, “Put that book down! Without the book, what can she learn? How can she be a Dafa practitioner without reading the book?”
The policeman obediently put the book down.
What practitioner's home does not have Dafa books and materials? What practitioner only studies the Fa and does the exercises but does not clarify the truth?
We are called to do what Dafa practitioners ought to do.
Master said,
“...but we can’t be like overcautious goodie-goodies either, and always focus on those petty things, like being so afraid of stepping on ants that we hop all over the place when we walk.” (The Seventh Talk, Zhuan Falun)
Evil cannot subdue righteousness. We should do what Master said, wisely do what we ought to do, and not be taken in by little tricks while also paying attention to safety.
All that surveillance had caught nothing in front of practitioners’ homes. Once my righteous thoughts became stronger, the fear was gone, and I went back to my normal state of looking for opportunities to spread the truth about Falun Gong.
If my limited understanding is not aligned with the Fa, may fellow practitioners point it out.
Category: Improving Oneself
