(Minghui.org) I was a freshman at a university in Liaoning Province in 2013. At the beginning of the new semester, we had a month of military training, where students were indoctrinated with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) culture. Although we were given textbooks, half of our classes during the first half of the semester were brainwashing classes. For example, the Military Theory course taught the absurd theory that the Party was superior to the state and the military. The textbooks were filled with distorted history and lies. Under the pretense of imparting knowledge, the CCP poisoned the students’ minds with Party culture, just as these students were developing their own worldviews and values. The students might forget the course content later, but the Party culture and its distorted concepts would influence their thinking and behavior.
I want to share a story from that time that still affects me to this day, about a Falun Dafa practitioner putting up truth-clarification posters.
The weather was very cold that November. The Military Theory course was almost finished. One day in class, the teacher was lecturing on content from the textbook when he suddenly began talking about Falun Dafa. He said he refused to listen to Falun Dafa practitioners. His hysterical tone caused the students to burst out laughing, which changed the atmosphere in the classroom. The students became restless and began to whisper.
As someone who knew the truth, I felt extremely saddened by what I saw. Poisoned by the lies, more than 100 students in the classroom had different reactions. I’d never seen anything like this before and I couldn’t maintain righteous thoughts. I felt flustered and didn’t dare challenge what the teacher said. My head was filled with negative thoughts.
I still couldn’t calm down that evening and I kept thinking about the incident. I understood even more how evil the CCP is and how deeply the teachers and students had been poisoned. The evening self-study ended around 8:30 p.m. and I walked back to my dorm alone. I could feel the weather getting colder—it reflected my state of mind.
I walked along the main road that ran south-north through the entire campus. I walked fast, head down, wanting to get back to the dorm quickly. Suddenly, I glanced up and saw something that shocked me. There were truth-clarification posters on every single light post! The posters were bright yellow, about 10 inches long and five inches wide, printed with the characters “Falun Dafa is good! Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good!” A blooming lotus flower was printed below the characters. The posters were at head height, shining brightly under the cold street light, stretching as far as the eye could see from south to north. They were very eye-catching, and many students were looking up at them.
The posters had been put up that very evening! Although there were students constantly passing by on the main road, a practitioner put up these posters to tell the truth to the world, in spite of the risk of being reported. These posters greatly encouraged me when I felt lost and lonely. I felt these posters were enormous floating lamps, shining brightly and illuminating my heart.
I feel moved whenever I remember that scene. Ten years later, I began to practice Dafa, and came to understand that every practitioner during the Fa-rectification period has the responsibility to save lives. I started telling people about Dafa and the persecution. In the process, I learned that many people already heard the truth and read our flyers and materials. This is due to the righteous thoughts and actions of countless practitioners over the years, and especially due to our compassionate Master’s immense endurance and sacrifice.
I also came to understand that, even if we sometimes feel that our truth-clarification did not have any obvious effect when we talk to people, it still might have an impact. Our words may change some people’s thoughts, or turn the situation around in other dimensions. At some point in the future, it may have a huge impact.
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