(Minghui.org) “Minghui Radio helps me a lot. Through the cell phone app I could listen while driving or doing household chores,” wrote a Falun Dafa practitioner in North America, “Although there are very few practitioners around me, I am not feeling lonely at all. Thanks to Minghui Radio for connecting me with other practitioners and helping me make progress in cultivation.”
Many other practitioners have had similar experiences. Launched in late 2005, Minghui Radio has sorted, organised, and sometimes rewritten articles to present them to listeners. This helps them benefit more from Minghui, through the website, phone app, and shortwave radio.
The Minghui website started in June 1999, one month before the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began to suppress Falun Dafa. Besides the Chinese version, other languages were also added on later. Currently, the website has over 20 languages providing a platform for practitioners around the world to exchange ideas on how to apply the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance in their daily lives. It also serves as a window for the general public to know more about Falun Dafa.
Remaining Diligent
A coordinator of Minghui Radio said dozens of articles are published on Minghui every day and lots of practitioners do not have time to read every article. Consisting of selected articles from the website, Minghui Radio has filled the gap and makes this content easier to access.
There are a variety of programs on Minghui Radio. They include overseas news, mainland China news, spreading Dafa, firsthand accounts of lecture seminars by Master Li (founder of Falun Dafa), cultivation stories, sharing on Fa-rectification period cultivation, China Fahui (online experience-sharing for practitioners in China), collection of reports related to World Falun Dafa Day celebration. In addition, there are programs of young practitioners’ cultivation stories, traditional Chinese culture, and so on.
One of the most popular programs focuses on Fa-rectification period cultivation. Having lasted for 8 years with more than 1,200 episodes, it includes selected articles from daily published content on Minghui. They help practitioners from various continents, including those behind the Great Chinese Firewall, to access the information so that they can stay on track in cultivation practice.
“I like those stories. From them, I learned what cultivation practice is and saw my gaps,” one listener wrote. “Minghui Radio reminds me to be diligent. In particular, I realized studying then Falun Dafa teachings on a regular basis is critical to comply with the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance.”
Special collections on certain topics are also very convenient for listeners. Some examples are reciting Dafa teachings, opposing the persecution with legal tools, getting rid of the CCP culture, and more.
“The CCP officials have abused the law to persecute practitioners,” one listener explained, “With such legal knowledge and how to use them, I learned how to approach officials with the facts about Falun Dafa, that practitioners are innocent, and the suppression is illegal. They help rescue detained practitioners as well as stop officials from doing bad deeds.”
To accommodate young practitioners, Minghui Radio added programs geared toward young practitioners (preschool or elementary school ages) and young (secondary school or college-level) practitioners. Adapted from articles published on Minghui, they were sometimes rewritten for young practitioners, so that they could follow the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance in the family as well as at school. Some of the Minghui Radio broadcasters are also young practitioners. “When hearing these programs for the first time, I already loved them and listened to them over and over again. That is why I want to be involved,” one of them explained.