PureInsight | May 27, 2002
Sending forth righteous thoughts has become part of our cultivation in the Fa-rectification period, just as studying the Fa and practicing Falun Gong exercises have become our daily routines. It is the most honorable mission for Dafa disciples in the Fa-rectification period to send forth righteous thoughts. Therefore, one must walk the path beginning with making conscious efforts to send forth righteous thoughts until one can send them spontaneously, in order to qualify as a Fa-rectification period Dafa disciple.
During the first global event of simultaneously sending forth righteous thoughts three times in front of local Chinese Embassies and Consulates, a sudden and severe thunderstorm erupted in front of our local Chinese Consulate. All disciples in our region had come to participate in this important mission. During the storm, everyone felt strengthened by a sense of justice, and we felt how important it was to eradicate the evil by sending forth righteous thoughts. Yet a very touching episode took place right in the midst of the thunderstorm. An American woman living nearby brought us steaming hot tea to keep us warm. She had been deeply touched when she drove by and saw us standing in the pouring rain. We are so vastly indebted to Master Li. We felt once again the significance of eradicating the evil.
During the second global event of sending forth righteous thoughts, the temperature suddenly soared unusually high. It was such an unusual meteorological phenomenon that the experience was branded into my memory. This was not the ordinary sun that we were familiar with. The sun was literally scorching our skin every single second. The air, thus, was permeated with the stench of burned flesh. One day, the human side of me revealed itself and I was distracted by the high temperatures on the ground. I brought a thermometer to the embassy only to find the ground sizzling! The very instant the thermometer touched the ground, the mercury jumped to over 120 degrees Fahrenheit and continued to rise. Then the reading completely disappeared, leaving only blankness on the thermometer. I began to ponder the strange coincidences of extremely adverse weather conditions on both occasions, and realized that sending forth righteous thoughts was a battle with the evil, and that the adverse weather conditions had been one of the weapons of the evil. Upon identifying the evil interference, everyone decided to continue sending forth righteous thoughts on a daily basis from then on in front of the embassy.
Thus we began our daily mission of sending forth righteous thoughts in front of the Chinese embassy. Each day, the Chinese embassy called FBI agents or policemen to watch us when we began sending righteous thoughts. It broke my heart to see these law officers, in their uniforms, enduring the heat. The severe weather had no effect on us Falun Gong practitioners, but it did on ordinary people such as these law officers. It was not surprising that the Chinese officials tried to instigate a conflict by constantly calling the police on us at all hours. They knew that we would do nothing but peacefully practice the Falun Gong exercises. Sometimes we would hold a candlelight vigil over the weekend, and even then these law officers were called in to watch us. They had to get up in the middle of the night whenever they received a call from the Chinese embassy. The positive side was that we seized each and every opportunity to clarify the truth about Falun Gong to them. In fact, by doing so we successfully rectified our own thoughts. We should not have worried solely about their physical capacity. Instead, we should regard each time they came as a manifestation of the compassion of the Fa for these law officers to be able to learn the truth about Falun Dafa. The Fa soon melted their hearts, and they became friends of Falun Gong. In fact, one of the law officers managed to find one of us when he discovered a homeless Chinese man on the street. This man turned out to be a Dafa disciple who had escaped from the persecution in Mainland China with serious wounds and burns all over his body, apparently from branding irons. The police officer took the initiative of putting him in the care of the best physician in the best hospital in the city. In addition, he insisted on taking this man into his home for rehabilitation even though they could not communicate. Since then, no policeman or FBI agent ever again responded to the calls from the Chinese embassy. On the contrary, these officers left their telephone numbers for us to contact them in the event of interference from the Chinese embassy. There is no limit to what the Buddha Fa can do. The righteous will always overcome the evil!
One day we were called upon by a gentleman from a department of the government that we had never heard of before. He begged us to send forth righteous thoughts somewhere else because they received complaints from the Chinese Consulate every day. How could we have agreed to a request based on an ordinary person's reasoning? We reported his request to the police, who assured us, "Tell him that this is my jurisdiction, and everything you do there is perfectly legal!" That person never bothered us again. However, we felt somewhat disappointed because that had meant that one department did not know the truth about Falun Dafa. Fortunately Master Li manifested his compassion by arranging an opportunity to clarify the truth in a dignified and upright way. In the near future, we would demonstrate the Falun Gong exercises in that very same department of the government.
Regardless of the weather, there was constant traffic near the Chinese Consulate just as there was a constant group of Falun Gong practitioners there. More and more people got to know about our peaceful appeals. The group of Falun Gong practitioners in front of the Chinese Consulate had become a unique sight in the city. Once I was on the plane returning from a Falun Dafa Conference in New York when the person next to me discovered that I was a Falun Gong practitioner and said, "Oh, Falun Gong! Did you know that I supported Falun Gong? I am a Congressman from […] and signed a resolution that supported Falun Gong. I admire your persistence and perseverance! I saw Falun Gong practitioners in front of the Chinese Consulate every day."
Another day, I went into a grocery store near the embassy and mentioned Falun Gong to the owner, who said, "Oh, I know Falun Gong. You practice Falun Gong in front of the Chinese Consulate every day. You will surely succeed in your mission some day!" This was the grocery store where I often got beverages between the times for sending righteous thoughts. The owner once insisted on paying for my drink. I graciously accepted his treat that day for I knew the drink was not meant as a treat, but as his way of showing support for Falun Dafa.
One day we encountered yet another thunderstorm in which incessant strong wind and rain began to attack us within minutes. We could hardly stand still, but we persisted in sending forth righteous thoughts nevertheless. The next day I received a phone call from a close friend who felt sympathetic toward Falun Gong but had decided it was a no-win battle in which we were unarmed against an entire nation. He had altered his view completely. He confessed, "I happened to drive by the Chinese embassy yesterday and saw your persistence in sending righteous thoughts, completely unaffected by the pouring rain. I have been persuaded by your iron will. You must win the battle, and you WILL win the battle. To [expletive deleted] with Jiang Zemin!"
There was a saying, "Time reveals a person's heart." There is no darkness where the glory of the Buddha Fa shines. The glory of the Buddha Fa shines upon the darkest and gloomiest corners and transforms them into places of splendor.
It has been almost a year since we first started to send forth righteous thoughts in front of the Chinese Consulate. We received a multitude of righteous support, including incessant horn salutes, admiring looks on the faces of grocery store clerks, and the agreeable chirping of birds. We were most happy for the salvation of these lives that supported Falun Dafa, and felt that we experienced something profound in our efforts.
The Chinese Consulate no longer conducts business here. They moved across the street to share a building with a boutique and a bar. That building could not be less appropriate for a consulate. Despite the fact that they marked the old Consulate with a dangling flag and continued to claim the office as foreign diplomatic territory, they eventually abandoned the place and moved elsewhere once again. Since then, there has been a bombardment of demolition noises coming from the building. One day the door of the building was finally opened. The interior view of the building was the most surprising one. There was nothing but several barren supporting beams. The walls had been taken down. The floors were rotten, and the steel within the supporting beams was exposed. Rumor had it that the building was being renovated and that it would take three years to finish the project. It sounded like a story to cover the defeat of evil. If the office of the Chinese Consulate in this dimension had been destroyed, it is obvious what should become of its corresponding representations in other dimensions. Yesterday they took down the two light poles in front of the building. There used to be a surveillance camera installed on top of one of the light poles. Apparently, there is no place for the surveillance camera in this dimension where there are righteous thoughts, because its existence is against the law of the cosmos.
It has been almost a year since we first started to send forth righteous thoughts, but it took me a long time before I could reflect on the past and write down my experiences. To think of what Dafa has given us brings tears to my eyes. Carpe Diem [sieze the day]. Make the best of each day on earth. Carpe Diem. There is no second chance for Fa-rectification. Let's make efforts to advance further on the Fa, and cherish each second of the Fa-rectification.
Translated from:
http://www.zhengjian.org/zj/articles/2002/5/6/15912.html
