(Minghui.org) I operate a barbershop, and have many customers every day, including government and public security officers. I follow Falun Dafa’s principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, and my customers are always very happy with my service. I take the opportunity to tell everyone about Dafa.
Director-general: “This Will be My Name!”
A retired director-general of a government department and his wife came to my barbershop. I had already told his wife about Falun Dafa, and she quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its youth organizations.
I cut to the chase and told them about the Tiananmen Square self-immolation hoax, ancient Rome’s great plagues, and good deeds being rewarded and bad deeds receiving retribution. The director-general seemed shocked. He had never heard of these before. When I suggested that he quit the CCP with the name “Jianping” (meaning healthy and safe), he agreed right away. He liked the name I gave him, and said happily, “This will be my name!”
Former Practitioner Came to the Right Place
I was about to close the shop for the day, when a farmer in her 60s came in. She told me that she went to the barbers next door, but for some reason, as soon as she saw the owner, she felt an urge to leave. She looked at me, and said, “This time, I believe I came to the right place!”
I knew that Master had sent her to me. I talked about Dafa while cutting her hair. She tried to avoid the topic by saying she had her belief and believed in gods. I explained that the CCP is against gods, and that when gods eliminate the CCP, members of the Party won’t be spared.
She told me that she used to practice Falun Dafa, but after two practitioners in her village passed away, she doubted Dafa, and switched to believe in other gods. She said that her health became bad, and she was scheduled to have a leg operation the next day. She was almost in tears.
I told her that only Dafa’s Master can truly save people. I also explained that a cultivator must face tests, “That might be a test for you to see practitioners passing away. Are you going to waver under these tests?”
She understood, and wanted to quit the CCP right away. “I came to the right place today!” she said, “and will come here again.”
“It was Master who led you here,” I added.
She agreed. I wished her good health and hope that she would return to Dafa. She said she hopes for that day to come. I know Master does not want to give up on anyone.
Deputy Director of the Public Security Bureau: You Are Different from Others
I recognized a customer who came in July 2019. He was a deputy director of the local Public Security Bureau. I took the opportunity to tell him about Dafa. I said, “You are in the public security and follow orders from higher-level officials. The CCP uses all of its state apparatus, huge amounts of money, cruel torture methods, and even practices organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners. Yet Dafa wasn’t defeated. Instead it has spread to more than 100 countries.
“For all these years, Dafa practitioners around the world have followed Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, and don’t seek personal benefit. When the persecution began, at least three practitioners in our area went to Beijing on foot, and one went by bicycle, in order to appeal for Falun Dafa. Because practitioners fight the persecution peacefully, rationally, and persistently, the CCP’s lies have been exposed to the world.”
The director listened to me like an elementary school student, and kept nodding. In the end, he said, “I’ve always believed you are different from other people. I felt righteousness coming from you.” He quit the CCP and kept thanking me.
Truly Saving People
I used to think a person was saved as long as he or she agreed to quit the Party. I sometimes only had time to tell people that quitting the CCP would bring them protection and blessings, but they did not really understand the truth about Dafa.
Last March, an acquaintance came in whom I hadn’t seen for over a year. I brought up the topic of the CCP. She was praising the Party’s leader, and said that the leader believes in God.
“If he believes in God, why are so many innocent people locked in prison?” I responded, and started to talk about the persecution of Dafa practitioners.
She said coldly, “Those people were detained because they are trouble makers!”
I was surprised to hear her say that. She had quit the Party a year ago, but she did not understand the truth about Dafa at all. I had obviously failed to clarify the truth well enough. I went on to explain more details this time, including organ harvesting. She was shocked, and kept thanking me for telling her about it.
Master said:
“...I just want to tell you that, as Dafa disciples, you should know how enormous your responsibility is, and this is not a child’s game. This undertaking has already come to the last stage, and I am extremely worried, yet you still do not treat it seriously. In the end, however, it will be too late even if you cry. Everything in the human world was arranged purposefully so as to arouse people’s attachments; there are so many things that prevent you from being saved. You do not consider yourself a cultivator and follow along with those things?! You are the hope for all sentient beings, and you are the hope for lives in your area!” (“Fa Teaching at the 2016 New York Fa Conference”)
Last year during the pandemic, I put in more effort to make sure people truly understood Dafa. I usually started from the pandemic itself, then explained the reason why the pandemic started in Wuhan and was so serious there. Right before the persecution, Luo Gan, former secretary of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Committee, gave Wuhan Television Station the task of making a program defaming Falun Dafa. The then-director of the TV station went out in person and made a “documentary” slandering Dafa’s Master. Jiang Zemin showed the “documentary” to the Politburo Standing Committee. The persecution was then officially launched. The “documentary” was soon broadcasting in Wuhan, and then the entire nation.
I went on to talk about ancient Roman’s persecution of the Christians, which led to four great plagues that eventually brought down the Roman Empire. I continued to tell people how the CCP staged the Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident, and how cruel the persecution on Falun Dafa practitioners has been. I told people the best way to ensure their safety was to quit the Party and distance themselves from the CCP.
Many people expressed their anger toward the CCP and became understanding of Dafa practitioners. I also told them that reciting “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good!” would bring them blessings.
I talked to a policewoman who told me that she used to work in a detention center and knew a guard who was cruel toward practitioners. One day, this guard suddenly died in the restroom. Looking quite scared, she said, “He must have been punished by gods!” After I explained how one can be saved by reciting “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good,” she looked relieved.
I met a local high official who quit the CCP after I clarified the truth to him. This time, I talked more about the pandemic. I reminded him that he, his wife, and their three daughters should quit the Party in order to be saved. He asked me to help them quit. I told him why it was important that they each must agree to quit. He assured me that he would explain everything to them and they would definitely want to quit. As he was leaving, he gently put the amulet I gave him into his pocket and told me repeatedly not to forget to help his family members quit the Party.
In order to help Master save more people, I tried to attend as many local gatherings as possible, so I have more chances to talk to people. Many agreed to quit the CCP after I spoke to them.
When I was clarifying the truth to people, I often heard a voice saying to me, “Your words are like lotus flowers.” I know this was Master’s encouragement!
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