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Greetings, Master! Greetings, Fellow Practitioners.

I began Fa study in January 2000. Soon after I had read Zhuan Falun a few times and had not yet started to do the exercises, years of various illnesses, gynecological diseases, kidney problems, migraines, and hemorrhoids vanished. My body felt light, and I had no discomfort. The miracles Falun Gong produces on practitioners' bodies and minds have had a great impact on me. I have now stepped on the Dafa cultivation path. Master says in Zhuan Falun: "To tell you the truth, the entire cultivation process for a practitioner is one of constantly giving up human attachments." From the beginning of my cultivation practice, being a good person while gradually increasing my understanding of the Fa as I study, I realize how lucky I am to be a Dafa disciple during the Fa-rectification period, being given this precious chance to practice cultivation. I became more clear-minded in doing the three things well as a Dafa disciple during the time of the Fa-Rectification, and truly engaged myself in assisting Master in Fa-rectification and saving sentient beings.

The Chinese Embassy located in Canberra is a crowded den of evil, a major battlefield where practitioners persist in eliminating the evil, but more practitioners should be present to send forth righteous thoughts. The local practitioners are very few, and there is a need for practitioners from Sydney to be there for added support. I have been going to the Chinese Embassy in Canberra since 2002 to send forth righteous thoughts and clarify the truth. With Master's protection and fellow practitioners' help and support, I was able to cultivate and improve myself as I was "clarifying the truth" and saving sentient beings. I would like to share my experience with fellow practitioners:

When I first started my mission in Canberra, I did not think about it a lot. Many other practitioners have family commitments and cannot commute to and from every week, but I am single with a daughter who also practices and understands me, so I can carry it on to the end.

Originally, I took my daughter on the mission. She traveled back and forth with me for over a four-month period. Due to her involvement in other projects, she could no longer leave Sydney on the weekends. I had no choice but to leave her home and resolutely carry out my mission in Canberra. At the time, my daughter was only 16 years old. Oftentimes, I was physically in Canberra, but I thought of her all the time, worrying about her. My mind and heart were not at rest. Once back where I was staying at night, I often phoned her, asking about this or that, and I did not feel assured about things going around her. Practitioners with me saw this strong attachment of mine and said to me, "We need to let go of all attachments because they will lock you and you won't be able to ascend with any one attachment still not relinquished." Abandoning sentiment toward my daughter was a process of eradicating my attachment, an attachment that felt like it was engraved in my heart and bones. Weekend after weekend passed, and I was able to take it lightly, gradually going from feeling anxious to basically not thinking of her. When I let it go, I realized that my daughter wasn't as I imagined, lonely in a dark room with fears and no meals. On the contrary, she was enjoying the freedom of being alone at home. When I am at home more, she feels vexed. Without me, the mother next to her mumbling, she was happier. She also became more understandable. One weekend evening I came back from Canberra, and she had already prepared dinner, even though she had never before cooked a meal herself. After dinner, she wouldn't let me wash the dishes, saying that I should go take a shower and rest after two days in Canberra in the wind and baking sun. Though superficially it is very tiring to commute between Sydney and Canberra, it is Master who watches over us in our cultivation practice. I should discard attachments and let go of sentiment. We, mother and daughter, became more considerate of each other, leading to a more harmonized life.

When I first began my mission to Canberra to send forth righteous thoughts, I was just stepping out from cultivating alone at home. Though I came to some enlightenment, it was still just at the beginning of my cultivation. After a while, I felt very tired, especially in winter, when the temperature inside is the same as outside. Fewer and fewer practitioners went to Canberra to clarify the truth, and I felt myself slacking off as well

At this time, fellow practitioners called me to share the importance of sending forth righteous thoughts in front of the Embassy, particularly the sharing during the three-hour journey to Canberra on how to keep up with the pace of Fa-Rectification. After living among ordinary people for a week, the sharing on the way to Canberra in the car makes me feel as if I am purifying my body. At times, we argued until we were red-faced, but because we are all in the Fa, we soon came to the same understandings. The sharing and inspiration of fellow practitioners helped me be persistent in clarifying the truth in front of the Embassy. One day when I was doing the Falun Standing Stance exercise in front of the Embassy, I saw a bridge a very short distance away. On the other side of the bridge were shining beautiful scenes, only one step away from the path home. I realized that Master was letting me know that the path I had taken was correct. One day I heard a Dafa song, "Master, Thank You for Taking me Home." I was moved, and tears covered my face as I truly felt wonderful following Master home. This is the connotation behind the Dafa song. My predestined relationship made me catch the last train. It was like Master's verse in "Predestiny Leads Back to Sacred Fruit:"

"Seeking Master for how many years,
One day seeing him in person,
Obtaining Fa, cultivating to return,
Reaching Consummation, returning with Master." (Hong Yin, translation Version B)

Many practitioners who have carried out the mission for years in Canberra are not financially well-off, and the groceries in Canberra are very expensive. So I undertook the task of buying groceries for Canberra practitioners. The process of selection is time and energy consuming. Practitioners living in Canberra are scattered to the east, west, south and north of the city with different life habits and tastes. After a long while, some practitioners developed certain notions, and some even said that I always bought rotten vegetables for them to eat. When I heard this, I felt wronged, thinking about how, to save some money for everyone, I had made several trips around to find the groceries at good prices. Carrying them back and forth, plus expending so much effort and time for everyone, I still got complaints. Master said,

"...normally when a problem arises, if it does not irritate a person psychologically, it does not count or is useless and cannot make him or her improve." ("Lecture Four" from Zhuan Falun, 2000 translation version)

I realized that everything in this human dimension is forged and fake. When conflicts surface, we need to upgrade our xinxing and raise our levels. I recalled that I did not discuss with others about what to buy. It was my own fault. I now often discuss things with others and the problems naturally diminished.

In the meantime, I also see the noble quality in Dafa disciples who clarify the truth in front of the Canberra Embassy year in and year out. The majority of them are older practitioners, with the eldest having reached the age of 80. They seek no fame but persist in their mission there with one thought, "As long as the situation is not rectified, we will not go home." A son of a 70-year-old practitioner wanted to visit his mother who stays in Canberra all year around. She determinedly said no to her son, who is not a Dafa practitioner, thinking that he may not understand why his mother sleeps on the floor. A plain sentence shows how the elderly lady holds firmly to the Fa. Several years' truth clarification in front of the Embassy impressed the local residents who always honk their horns to pay respect. There was a teacher who came to hold a banner with us during his vacation. He said, "I want to clarify the truth about the persecution of Falun Gong to all the people I know."

One day when I sent forth righteous thoughts in front of the Embassy, I saw a lot of Chinese walking down stairs and eventually the water submerged them. I realized that Master was giving me hints to save these Chinese people with every opportunity. Their lives have gone to the verge of extreme danger, and Dafa disciples are their only hope of being saved today. Facing the commuting tourists, we must grasp this instantly vanishing opportunity to save these precious Chinese people. The tourists that go to the Embassy all seem to be very nervous. In order to make them feel at ease, we try to communicate with them about mundane things, which loosens them up a bit. If a tourist comes from Northeast China, I will initiate a conversation with, "Are you a Northeasterner? I feel warm and close when I see our Northeasterners, for I am myself a Northeasterner." People from similar hometowns feel for each other. One person stepped back, pulling away from me. I said to him, "Look, you are really intimidated by the evil Party, and you are afraid of being persecuted back home. This shows that the Party has indeed intimidated our Chinese people."

A tourist guide deliberately shouted, "Long live the evil Party" and then laughed. After thegroup finished taking pictures, I said to them, "In fact, we all know in our hearts what the evil Party is." Instantly, there was no sound. I said, "These days, the corrupted Party members have brought China to the verge of collapse. Many descendants of those corrupt officials overseas have three BMWs to drive around. Where did they get the money? From people like you, people who work and pay taxes." Their eyes and the expressions on their faces indicated that they all agreed. Thus, the situation was rectified. Master said in "Teaching the Fa in San Francisco, 2005:"

"On top of that, as you go about clarifying the truth, the benevolence you exude and the righteous thoughts you project disintegrate the evil, awakening those lives you save and causing them to recover their very selves, and that can lead a person to truly come to rationally see these things for himself."

I realized that exhorting people to quit the CCP is a test that every Dafa disciple is facing. While speaking to them, we are eliminating their negative things. It is easier for them to accept quitting the CCP when those negative lives are removed. If practitioners' xinxing is a bit inferior, they have difficulty convincing people to quit the Party.

During the process of truth clarification, my wisdom is constantly flowing. One time, several officials were walking to a vehicle, and I followed behind them. One of them turned around and blocked my way, saying that there was something wrong with my mind. I smiled and replied to him, "Do you think that a mentally disabled person can say these things? You should feel lucky yourself. If you were in China now, where on earth would you have such a chance?" They all laughed. I approached closer, so as to clarify the truth further. "Do you think that we are here just to kill time by saying these things to you? We are cultivators and tell you imminent news. We know what is about to happen. We ask that you quickly quit the Communist Party, the Youth League, and the Young Pioneers so to save yourselves from the mishaps that are about to happen." Then I said to the person next to me, "I will use the name 'Xiaojun' to quit the CCP and all its affiliated organizations for you. What do you think?" He agreed.

One day, tourists got out of a minibus to take some photos. They all listened to us, and the tourist guide was also very good. They went back inside the vehicle and left the door open to listen. I went up the stairs and told them, "I am counting, 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8. I will help all eight of you to quit." They smiled and agreed to quit.

On October 1, a huge crowd of tourists arrived, because it was the yearly Flower Day in Canberra. Some practitioners went to distribute flyers. There were only two holding the banner while the other two were clarifying the truth. I said to the tourists, "Do you know the recent Party recruitment effort is actually a reaction to the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party? One was pointing at the other and said that he was the director of the Party Committee. "You go talk to him, since we all listen to him." Just as I went up to him, and he self-righteously sang the Party's National Anthem.

Clarifying the truth in Canberra actually improves our xinxing, and also helps us harmonize and support each other during many xinxing tests. On one occasion, one of the practitioners hung up a banner with Master's name outside the Chinese Embassy. The rest of us didn't feel it was appropriate. We asked her not to hang it up again. But she insisted on holding it herself. In the evening, all of us came to share with her. Everyone expressed their own opinions. We tried to discuss it with her from the basis of Master's Fa, but it seemed like we were just being critical. She said as soon as she came in, "I won't take it down no matter what you say." I then shared the changes I had see in this practitioner. When I first knew her, I didn't have a good impression of her, but after three years, when I looked at her again, I found she had changed greatly. I tried to discuss those good changes and look at her good side. Without criticizing and complaints, we are in a field of harmony. After that night's sharing, that practitioner herself said that she would like to cook the next day, and that banner hasn't been hung up since. I enlightened that we need to look at a problem positively. Seeing the good side of a practitioner will in fact bring out the compassion of that practitioner. This was also a xinxing test. Our surrounding environment depends on ourselves.

In recalling the past several years of my truth clarification journey in Canberra, while stumbling in my cultivation practice, I made some efforts, but my upgrade in cultivation practice and improvement has far surpassed the efforts I have made. It makes me truly feel that Master has been watching and leading us upward along the path. I appreciate Master for giving me and other fellow practitioners such a good cultivation environment, and my gratitude to Master goes beyond words. Only by more diligently and soberly cultivating myself during the last phase of the Fa-Rectification period, cherishing every opportunity Master has arranged for us, and continuously doing the "three things" well, can we not let down our compassionate Master's benevolent salvation.

Thank you, Master! Thank you, everyone!