(Clearwisdom.net) I had many illnesses prior to starting Falun Gong practice in 1998. I got pneumonia during childbirth. After that, I caught colds all year round and was often hospitalized or had IV injections. After I began the practice of Falun Gong, Dafa and Master purified my body. My illnesses disappeared.
I was involved in Fa-rectification with other practitioners in the city since the onset of the persecution on July 20, 1999. I was convinced that I owed this to Master, but my relatives, co-workers, and the local authorities mistreated me for my actions. Nevertheless, my mind was clear and firm. I continued to explain the goodness of Falun Gong to people and told them about my own experiences of regaining physical health and mental serenity. However, due to the lack of Fa study and being unaware of self-cultivation, I did not respond well to the questions they raised and frequently argued with people. I felt bad when people were not convinced, and I decided to study the Fa better.
I lost the group practice environment after the onset of the persecution, but insisted on studying and practicing the exercises at home daily. Whenever I held the book Zhuan Falun, tears would come down. I said to Master, "Dear Master, you have given me a second life. I will follow you and practice Falun Gong." Fa study helped me increase my comprehension of what the Fa is all about.
I owned a personal service business, and I utilized this opportunity to explain the goodness of Dafa to my customers using personal examples. I was able to respond to tough questions people raised and spent time improving my responses.
Now everyone in my village knows the facts about Falun Gong, and most of them have quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations.
Fa study made me realize that I should not only talk about Falun Gong, but also conduct myself as a practitioner, and be a better person so that people could witness the goodness of Falun Gong. My shop is in a public area. I show up early every day to clean up the public area, regardless of the weather. For nine years I have shoveled snow from this public area, and other practitioners eventually joined me in doing this. The passers-by who knew we were Falun Gong practitioners would say, "Falun Gong is great!"
We created a Fa-study group in 2003. We studied a chapter of Zhuan Falun each night and then practiced the exercises. Most of us are in our 60s, but we rarely missed a session. We were able to see through the CCP's lies, and knew how to look inward and improved as a group. We were able to explain Falun Gong to people without fear. The old forces occasionally utilized family members to interfere with our group practice, but everyone was able to let go of personal emotion and participated in the group study on time.
In 2007, local police arrested three of our practitioners and destroyed our Dafa materials production site. It was a great loss. Nevertheless, five of us from our study group firmly sent righteous thoughts and completely denied the old forces' arrangements.
Once, district officials notified someone to arrest me. I was calm and thought that Master was there to protect me and no one could touch me. I remained calm and did things as usual. I studied the Fa at the shop when business was slow and was prepared to offer more people salvation at anytime. No matter what kind of people showed up, no matter what reasons brought people to me, including police officials, I would treat them as if they came here for me to offer them salvation, which is my mission.
We continued the group study without stopping, and other practitioners sent righteous thoughts to eliminate the old forces. As the result, with Master's protection, I came out safely from danger.
For quite some time, some practitioners assumed police wanted to arrest more practitioners, which they thought was the reason they did not arrest me to begin with. The practitioners were afraid and kept their distance from me. I was distressed for a while. I could not get a hold of "Minghui Weekly" because I lived in a remote village. I had to pull out the old "Minghui Weekly" to make me feel better. One day I thought about asking Maser for help. I was in tears, made the Heshi gesture, and expressed my feelings to Master. That same day, someone delivered the updated "Minghui Weekly" to my home. I cried and thought, "Dear Master, you are always there to protect me, and I should have asked you for help sooner."
At home I pay attention to self-cultivation and doing things according to Dafa. I wanted to illustrate the goodness of Dafa from my daily actions and offer my family members salvation. After the onset of the persecution, I seldom watch TV. My son was not a Dafa practitioner as a freshman, but his class ranking steadily improved after he became one. In one school year, he was seated in the last row. Kids seated in the middle rows made a lot of noise in the class, which bothered him. He called and asked me to talk to his teacher for a better seat. I told him that since you are Dafa practitioner, you should not fight with others. If everyone wanted a good seat, who would sit in the bad seats?
Master said in the article, "Non-omission in Buddha-Nature" (in Essentials for Further Advancement),
"From now on, whatever you do, you should consider others first, so as to attain the righteous Enlightenment of selflessness and altruism. So from now on, whatever you do or whatever you say, you must consider others--or even future generations--along with Dafa's eternal stability."
I also told my son, "You should listen to Master and become a true cultivator." He told me that he understood, but might not be able to do well on the final exams. I told him to focus on cultivation and let go of his attachment to a better test score, and everything will work out. After final exams, he called and told me that he did much better than he expected, raising his class ranking to be second in the entire school. A prestigious university accepted him, and he is doing well at college.
Although my husband did not practice Falun Gong, he witnessed my changes after the Falun Gong practice, believed in Dafa, and did many things for Dafa. He used to be a Mahjong gambler and played day and night. After I practiced Falun Gong, he has not gambled for seven years and is very supportive.
My shop is next to a bus stop. Whenever Chinese New Year rolls around, I would post a couplet on a scroll in front of the door that I wrote. This year I hung up a couplet reading, "Good fortune befalls good people every day; people who do good things will be safe all year round." The horizontal scroll bearing an inscription read, "Truth-Compassion-Forbearance is good." Many people commented on how well made the couplet and the horizontal scroll were. When the town police showed up, I told them that the whole world needs Truth-Compassion-Forbearance, and people who go against Truth-Compassion-Forbearance are in effect turning themselves into bad people. They were speechless. After several conversations, they stopped coming. The other practitioners told me that they would display the same scrolls and banners at their houses the following Chinese New Year.
I am not well educated and never wrote an article before. I attempted many times to write down my cultivation experiences, but failed to do so. Reading the No. 352 issue of the "Minghui Weekly," the experience sharing articles moved me to tears. I told myself that I could tell my story, because Master was there to help me. With my mind on Dafa, I decided to complete the article this time. As you can see, I did it. The writing process helped me let go of many attachments and improved my xinxing. I will never let Master down and will follow Master for the remainder of the Fa rectification period.
