Parramatta Fa study group's sharing

Greetings respected Master, greetings practitioners,

I will now report to practitioners and Master about the Parramatta practice site setting up a Quitting CCP Centre, and our cultivation experiences. We set up our Tuidang site in July. Before this time we were floating around the public square near City Hall doing tuidang, but found that the efficacy was not good. There weren’t very many Chinese people there. So, we decided to go to Chinatown to promote the three withdrawals. Before that, we spoke to some of the managers of shops there, and they didn’t agree. But practitioners’ xinxing was in the right place, and they agreed to go there. After we went there, the bosses of the stores not only not opposed it, but through clarifying the truth, we gained their support. Originally they’re from mainland China, and had been persecuted by the CCP. One manager’s mother said “I support you being here. I’m opposed to the CCP.” Also, the store bosses often looked after the Epoch Times newspaper for us, and sometimes especially went to grab some copies of the paper to put them in their stores, because they know their customers really like The Epoch Times.

Persisting in small group Fa study, forming one body

Our Parramatta Fa study group has a characteristic, it’s that there are relatively more older people, so if we want to open up our Fa study and validating the Fa projects more, we need to think of the characteristics of these older practitioners. When everybody cooperates well, a lot of things can be manifested very well.

We believe that a small group Fa study being able to stabilise and persist long term, is the foundation of us forming one body. The portion of older practitioners in our group is something that we couldn’t do without. Even though they don’t go to work, like younger practitioners they don’t waste any of their spare time. In Sydney there are many big activities, like the city great wall of truth, sending righteous thoughts outside the embassy, selling tickets for Shen Yun, encouraging Chinese to renounce the CCP, every day handing out newspapers—all these things are part of what they do. They wake up at 6am to go hand out the paper; you could say that these guys are the main force of our practice site.

Our regular Fa study speed is relatively slow, so at the start a few of the younger practitioners aren’t too accustomed to it; so sometimes, the more we reader, the faster we read. But after we shared about this issue, everyone thought about it from the perspective of one body, and that the  situation of the older practitioners must be given consideration—so we adjusted our Fa study speed. Even though this is a really small thing, whenever we do something we should think of the whole body. Being able to consider things from other people’s perspective is a reflection of elevating xinxing.

In the process of d oing three things we’ve also encountered a lot of evil interference. In particular, for older people it’s easy to get attachments to worries about health. The evil just creates all kinds of “sickness karma.” An example is, we have here a 70 year old aunty who, after leaving the Belmore park in the city after sending righteous thoughts together for Shen Yun, started getting a serious kind of “sickness karma.” She didn’t recover for quite a few days, and it had a trend of getting more serious. After fellow practitioners knew about it, they went to her house and studied the Fa together and shared. One thing they shared about was, why after leaving from sending righteous thoughts from Shen Yun would this kind of bad body state manifest—and is it because we did things really correctly, and that’s why the evil would try to interfere and persecute us. Another thing was that we are in the Fa rectification period, and apart from new practitioners and those who haven’t come out in a long time, practitioners doing Fa rectification projects may at that time have a regular state of eliminating karma. Other practitioners manifesting this kind of state is definitely evil interference, it’s the old forces factors interfereing with our assisting Master to rectify the Fa. And why does this kind of thing manifest in the bodies of older practitioners? It’s exactly because us older practitioners often see our age as some big thing, making a reason that maybe our bodies aren’t like those of younger people—this is exactly letting the evil take advantage of a loophole. So we have to firmly send righteous thoughts, clear our the evil, and definitely not acknowledge any evil persecuting our body. In this way, after sharing on the Fa, sending righteous thoughts again, the practitioner quickly recovered. But because older practitioners have this sort of attachment a bit more, sometimes you cannot completely get rid of it in one go, so maybe later there will be another kind of bad bodily state that comes out. So recently this aunty got some issue with her eyes not seeing clearly, was unable to read Dafa books, and could only watch the videos. After the weekend tuidang event was over we all went to this aunty’s house, shared from the Fa again, and then sent righteous thoughts. This aunty was very moved at the time. She felt like our small Fa study group was really as close as a family, and she was moved to tears.

Catching up with the progress of Fa-rectification, saving more sentient beings

During tuidang activities, at the start older practitioners didn’t talk about the three withdrawals, they old handed out information. When they say younger practitioners and ordinary people talking about tuidang, they just quietly sent righteous thoughts on the side, and in this way there were a lot of people renouncing the CCP. Later they enlightened that not clarifying the truth about tuidang because of their age was an impediment to cultivation, so with the encouragement of other practitioners they also started to talk about the three withdrawals. Though they spoke slowly, they could still promote the three withdrawals, and could also encourage some people to quit.

One time someone made a big scene loudly rejecting our three withdrawals, also saying some negative words. Practitioners formed one body then, some sending righteous thoughts, some clarifying the truth, clearing out the evil factors behind that person, and saw that the more this person spoke, the more ineffectual they felt their words were, and finally the person left, looking like they didn’t have any energy in their body. This incident showed the power of righteous thoughts, and the effect of one body.

When promoting the three withdrawals some people don’t renounce the CCP the first time, and nobody loses heart. The second time they don’t renounce, also no one loses heart. The third time this person comes, finally they make the three withdrawals. Everyone is really happy. Happy for the life that obtained salvation.

After listening to the sharing from a practitioner from Switzerland, we enlightened to many things. We learnt that clarifying the truth according to ordinary peoples’ attachments was extremely effective. For example, some people started out against us, not accepting truth-clarification material. Because we changed the manner in which we spoke, after a wile they started to accept the truth-clarification material, so in this way we established a foundation for doing the three withdrawals going forward. Another person, upon hearing that a practitioner was from her own hometown, felt really close to this practitioner, and as they walk and spoke, her shell was broken by the truth. The whole walk together she didn’t agree to renounce the CCP, but as they walked to a restaurant the practitioner said “Our predestined relationship arrives here, are you going to renounce the CCP or not?” And all of a sudden this person said the words, “I renounce, I renounce, I renounce.” This is when we enlightened to a piece of Fa that Master said: “The power of true compassion can dissolve all deviant factors, and when you talk with a person you will be emitting energy outwardly that dissolves evil things, and the evil in other dimensions will not dare to approach or control that person anymore. When you then reason with that person, he will listen, and you will be able to purge the lies infused into him by the wicked CCP, thus removing the block in his mind.” (Fa Teaching Given in Manhattan)

There are also many other moving things, I can’t give one example after another.

Recently we have been organized the West district’s cooperation and work, and one issue is to improving on how to get more practitioners online, so to improving our keeping in contacts and Fa study in our group … another is opening more Quit CCP centres, not leaving any area where there are Chinese people empty. It’s just like when we practice the Heavenly Circuit, it opens all our hundreds of energy channels “In the end, thousands of energy channels will join together and turn one’s body into one without any energy channels or acupuncture points; they will join together to make one whole body.” (Zhuan Falun, Lecture Eight). If we all cultivate ourselves well, the Sydney one body will definitely get better and better.

Even though we still have many attachments, like competitiveness, fear, we willeventually get rid of them through cultivation. We know that cooperation of the whole body in Sydney has some not-ideal aspects, but we’ve enlightened that no one should wait or be reliant, it doesn’t matter what interference appears, it doesn’t matter what kind of negative news you hear, everyone just has to cultivate themselves well, start from myself, start from right here. We’ll definitely increase Fa study, study the Fa well, do the three things well, and save more and more sentient beings. We will fulfill our prehistoric vows.

Finally, let us be mutually encouraged by Master’s Hong Yin:

Hurry Up and Speak
Dafa disciples, speak the truth,
From your mouths, sharp swords all at once shoot forth.
Piercing through the lies of rotten ghosts,
Seize the moment to rescue and save—hurry up and speak

August 21, 2002

The sharing was jointly written by Alice and Xiao Deng.