(Clearwisdom.net) I wrote this article to share a few significant things that I have experienced during my cultivation practice.
An Amazing Experience
I began to practice Falun Gong in December 1998. On July 20, 1999, the evil began to persecute Falun Gong for no reason. My relatives and friends were scared and asked me to stop practicing Falun Gong. My husband even beat me to try to prevent me from practicing. At that time, since I did not have a deeper understanding of Falun Dafa, I stopped.
Not long after, I began to cough and the cough became worse and worse. I continued coughing for more than ten days. On July 22, I saw a brochure on one of the tables in my house. In the brochure, it mentioned how Bodhisattva Guanyin and Buddha Amitabha will protect those who believe in them. On the last page, a line of eye-catching words read, "One will reach consummation practicing Falun Dafa." I thought about those words whenever I coughed severely. I decided then to resume my practice of Falun Dafa.
I still wonder about that brochure. Before and after July 22, I did not ask anyone for any kind of leaflets. Nor did any other practitioners come to my home. My husband was against my practicing Falun Gong and he would not bring home a brochure like that. How did it end up in my home?
On May 3, 2001, after lunch I went to pick up my son from school. Right after we left the school gate, I saw a big, colorful ring of light about two meters above my head. I noticed that wherever I walked, the light ring followed me. It stopped moving if I stopped walking. The light ring followed me until I arrived home. Then it stopped in the sky not far from my home. It disappeared only after a long time. My husband also saw this amazing phenomenon.
Before my divorce, I taught my son to practice Falun Dafa. He could recite many poems from the book "Hongyin." One day while I was studying the Fa on the bed, my son was sitting next to me. Suddenly, he pointed in front of him and said, "Mom, look. Why don't you look?" I followed his finger and looked but did not see anything. I told him, "That is something from your own time and space dimension. I cannot see it. Can you tell me what you saw?" My son said, "I saw a very tall man wearing yellow clothes. He looks very kind. He told me that Falun Dafa is the orthodox Fa. You will fight against demons just like Sun Wukong."
Fa Study and Cultivation
I realized that if I want to reach my highest level and achieve consummation I need to spend more time studying the Fa. Therefore, I read "Zhuan Falun" whenever I have time. If I have more time, I read three lectures a day. If I do not have too much free time, I read at least one lecture a day. I have kept a record of every time I finished reading Zhuan Falun. Until now, I have read it 393 times. I also spent some time reading Teacher's other articles, especially Teacher's most recent lectures.
Previously, I did the exercises every morning at 3:00 a.m. Since this April, I began to get up at 3:30 a.m. In order to participate in group practice. When I first did the sitting meditation, my legs hurt a lot. Sometimes it was so painful that I could not stop my tears, and my whole body shook. I thought about what Teacher said: "Once the legs are put down, one's practice is in vain." (Zhuan Falun, 2000 translation version) I gritted my teeth and persisted and only put my legs down when the music was over.
From Teacher's Fa lectures, I realized that cultivating one's mind nature is the most important thing in cultivation practice. I try to follow the cosmic characteristics of "Truth, Compassion, Forbearance" at home, at work, and in society. In the face of personal gain and conflicts with other people, I followed Dafa's principles. I did not fight with others for personal gain. When I was wronged, I would not mention it. I tried to improve my mind nature and pass one test after another.
Imprisoned
In 2004, I went to the square by the city's train station to distribute truth-clarification materials. Because I did not send forth righteous thought beforehand, I did not realize that I had given a plainclothes officer a flyer. After he read it, he shouted, "You practice Falun Gong!" Then, he jumped up and grabbed my left hand. Right when he grasped my hand, his right thumb started to bled. I told him, "See, you are getting your retribution. Don't touch me. I have my Teacher's protection. I want you to know the truth of Falun Dafa and how good Falun Dafa is and how good 'Truth, Compassion, Forbearance' is." I shook his hands off me and quickly ran away. A boy on his bicycle was riding by, and I ran into his bicycle and fell down. The police officer rushed over and grabbed me.
I was taken to the district police station. The police interrogated me. I did not know why, but when they were interrogating me, I had the need to use the restroom. They ordered a person to follow me to the restroom. The same thing happened every time the police tried to interrogate me. As a result, they did not get a chance to ask me too much. They had to give up the interrogation. It was Teacher who was protecting me.
Around eight that night, they sent me to the city detention center. I did not cooperate with their arrangements. As soon as we entered the detention center, I knocked on the metal door with my shoe brush and asked them to let me go. When I saw they did not respond, I carried a sand bag over and sat next to the metal door and constantly knocked on it. I continued knocking for two days and started a hunger strike. They could not bear my knocking any more and handcuffed me to a chair. In the morning on the fourth day, they interrogated me and also brought my husband in.
The officer who interrogated me was named Lao Liu. He asked, "Where did you get your materials?" I replied, "From the sky." He then asked, "Who else did you do your practice with? Who do you contact?" I said, "Nobody. I practice by myself at home." He asked again, "Are you going to continue with your practice?" I replied, "I will."
My husband got very angry and said, "I will kick you to death. I will divorce you." He told Lao Liu, "Help me prepare a divorce request." He then called my father. My father scolded me on the phone, and said, "Why can't you just say you will stop practicing?" I said, "I am a Falun Dafa practitioner. I cannot say that I will stop practicing. I will not give in to the evil." When Lao Liu saw that I was so dedicated in my belief, he shook his head, collected the paper work, and left.
During my illegal detention, I recited the Fa and did the exercises every day. One day, a group of people came to the detention center to investigate the jobs and sanitary conditions. When they came to the cell in which I was detained, I was doing the second exercise, the Falun Standing Stance. They stopped and looked at me through the window. They did not say anything and left. Neither the prison, the cell, nor the shackles could prevent me from believing in Teacher and Falun Dafa. No matter where I go, I will continue with my practice.
After I was detained for 11 days, the detention center released me and told me that they did not have enough evidence. With Teacher's kind protection, I walked out in a dignified and upright manner. However, the detention center extorted 4,000 yuan from my parents, claiming it as a deposit for my release.
November 01, 2007
