(Clearwisdom.net) I have cultivated Falun Dafa for over ten years. I lost my parents in early childhood and when I grew up, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) sent me to the countryside. After I married and had children, my husband passed away suddenly and I raised my children alone. I worked at the shop during the day and as a tailor at night. I had many hardships in my life.
I first heard of Falun Dafa at the end of 1996. My daughter-in-law's mother had learned the practice, and she told me about the beauty of Dafa. I was eager to borrow the Falun Dafa books from her and finished reading Zhuan Falun in one day. The book immediately solved questions that I had pondered over my entire life. It was like another world had just opened up to me. I understood that Falun Dafa was what I had been waiting for all my life. When I first started practicing, I paid a lot of attention to studying the Fa.
Teacher said,
“Now, those of us with open Third Eyes can see that this book is full of dazzling colors, and sparkling with golden light, every word is in my Law Body’s image.” (Zhuan Falun)
I have always remembered Teacher's words deep in my heart. I felt that I was in the company of many gods and would never be afraid no matter where I went.
The reason I could break through tribulations so smoothly was because I completely believed in Teacher's Dafa.
Illegal Fine Refunded with Righteous Mindset
On October 11, 2000, three practitioners came to help me distribute truth-clarifying materials. The policeillegally arrested them, but it seemed like the police did not see me, so I was able to walk away. The next day the police came to ransack my home, but they did not find anything. However, they still arrested me and took me to the local police station for interrogation. I felt as if they were very tiny beings, and I did not have any fear at all. I asked them: “Why did you arrest me? What crime have I committed? Do you have any evidence?” One officer said, “The other three people confessed and told us about you.” I said: “ You must have extracted a confession by force. You broke the law while knowing the law and used torture to extract a confession from those three people. I will sue you until my name is cleared of any crime you say I have committed.”
Teacher said:
“When you conduct yourselves righteously Master can do anything for you. If your righteous thoughts are truly strong, if you're able to put aside the thought of life and death, and if you're solid and unshakable like diamond, then those evil beings won't dare to touch you, because they know that other than killing you any type of persecution will be useless. The evil will have no choice but to leave you alone. If in this scenario the evil still persecutes you, then Master will show no leniency. Master has countless Law Bodies, and on top of this, there are countless righteous Gods helping me do things, and they will directly eliminate the evil, too. Didn't I tell you before that each of you Dafa disciples has eight types of Heavenly Law-Guardians protecting you? It's all because you haven't done well enough that all these Gods are being restrained by the old cosmos's Fa-principles and can't do anything, despite their really wanting to help.” (“Touring North America to Teach the Fa”)
Within a few minutes, the two police officers who were interrogating me developed symptoms of a severe illness. One was in a lot of pain and scratched himself all over in a frenzy. The other one said he could not breathe very well and felt like he was suffocating. At that time I did not realize that I should have clarified the truth to them. I said: “Every injustice and debt will be repaid. Falun Dafa cannot be bullied.” At night, the police detained me at the city detention center.
In the detention center, I continuously recited Hong Yin and practiced the exercises every day. The police stopped providing me food for two days because of this, but I still practiced the exercises. The detention lasted six weeks. In the middle of the detention, someone sent me Teacher's new articles. The police found out, but although they searched me, they did not find the articles.
One and half months later, a court officer said that the other three practitioners had been sentenced to prison, but they left me alone. A policeman on duty said: “She is so stubborn. She practiced the exercises every day. Are you still going to let her go?” The officer from the court asked me, “Are you still practicing Falun Dafa?” I said, “If I did not practice while I was here, I would have already died.” The officer asked, “Are you still going to practice when you are released?” I said: “You won't follow me. If I practice the exercises, you won't see it.” The officer said, “The police will take you back home in a few days, but I will assign someone to follow you wherever you go.” I said, “That is great. I will harmonize him with Dafa. I will teach him the exercises and then we can practice together every day.”
The policeman on duty in the detention center heard this and said: “She is so stubborn. You cannot let her go back.” I said, “Isn’t it better for me to go back and be a good person?” The next day, a man from the police station picked me up and took me back home.
Teacher said,
“If you can’t pass the first test, then the second one is going to be really tough.” (Zhuan Falun)
I paid attention to my words and how I spoke in the detention center, and I did not give the evil any chance to take advantage of me.
After I returned home, my son told me that we had been fined 2,000 yuan, but there was no receipt for the charges. I wrote a letter to the city public security department to appeal the fine. In the letter, I listed the crimes that the police had committed, such as how they had arrested me and the other three practitioners without any evidence of wrongdoing, how they had fined me illegally without giving any receipt, how the male police officer had beaten one female practitioner so badly that she lost control of her bowels and became incontinent, and how the police had also ferociously beaten the male practitioner.
Within a week of sending my letter, I received a reply letter, which asked me to go to the police station to get a refund. The head of the police station who returned the money said to me, “It was the town's CCP Party secretary who had ordered us to arrest you and put you in the detention center. Someone had reported you while you passed out the Falun Gong materials.” Later we heard the person who had reported us had an accident within two months thereafter.
The news that I had gotten a refund caused a stir in the local area. Many people asked my son if we had received help from some supporters. He said: “We didn’t. My mom is really tough, and you don’t want to mess with her.” When my son told me this, I said: “We do have great support. Teacher is our supporter. Teacher helped us get the money back.”
In the town where I live, every restaurant has 2,000 to 3,000 yuan owed to them by town leaders, who, as everyone knows, have no plans to ever pay it back. I not only got the fine refunded, but also got back the money that these town leaders owed to my daughter-in-law's restaurant.
This tribulation also became the motivation for me to cultivate more diligently. A fellow practitioner sent me Teacher’s article “Drive Out Interference.”
Teacher said,
“It is indeed difficult for those who haven’t truly done cultivation to come through this. Now you can see why I’ve often told you to read the book more, right?! The Fa can break all attachments, the Fa can destroy all evil, the Fa can shatter all lies, and the Fa can strengthen righteous thoughts.” (“Drive Out Interference” in Essentials for Further Advancement II)
Since understanding the importance of studying the Fa more, I increased my Fa study. In the summer I finished practicing the exercises before midnight, so I’d send forth righteous thoughts at midnight, take a nap until 3 a.m. and then study the Fa until 9 a.m. In the winter, I’d study the Fa from 4 a.m.until 9 a.m. Then I’d eat breakfast and continue to study the Fa until noon. This gave me 8 hours of Fa study each day in winter and 9 hours in summer. After I had lunch, I would do Dafa-related work.
Retrieving Teacher’s Photo
In 2005, some practitioners from another area drove to our town to help us pass the flyers out. The next morning, the town's Party secretary of the CCP politics and law committee led a dozen people to my home, including the town office director, the deputy director of the police station, a policeman, two people from the residential committee, and the principal, the security head, the education group's team leader and the accountant from the school where my son worked.
I asked them calmly, “Are you looking for me?” The school principal said, “We came to look for your son.” I said: “My son went to school. What are you doing here?” He said, “We did not see him.”
I was washing clothes at that time. One person asked me: “Do you still have strength to wash your clothes? Are you that healthy?” I saw the chance to clarify the facts and said, “I practice Falun Dafa, and my body is healthy all the time.”
The accountant said, “You can practice the exercises and read the books at home, but please do not go out and pass out Falun Gong materials.” I said, “If I do not pass out the truth-clarifying materials, I will still speak about the facts.” He said, “You cannot do that.” I said, “Well, it's my mouth, so you cannot control it.”
I continued to clarify the facts and told them about the staged Tiananmen Square self-immolation and the heaven's principle that good is rewarded with good and evil is met with evil. I said, “You should not help evil to do bad things and disrespect gods. If you do, you will receive karmic retribution. Gods are real. It is like electricity: You can’t see it, but it does exist.”
The principal said, “That’s all physics.” I said: “The gong we cultivate is also physics. When our cultivation reaches a certain level, infrared rays, ultraviolet rays, ultrasonic waves, infrasonic waves, electricity, magnetic force, gamma rays, atoms, and neutrons have all been detected in our bodies. Aren't they all matter? The instruments tested the gong my Teacher emitted. The needles of the test instruments reached their limit, and the researchers could not tell how much stronger His gong was. So, the gong that Teacher emits is extremely rich and abundant. This was verified and recorded by the researchers from the former Qigong Research Association.”
The principal asked, “So the gong your Teacher emits can be used to build nuclear weapons?” I said: “My Teacher's gong is merciful. The gong is very powerful, but it will not affect the human world this way. Teacher's gong can rectify all unrighteous factors in the world. If I talk about the heavens and the rectification of the universe, or even some high-level principles in the human world, you might not believe me. So, let me instead tell you about something that has already happened. For example, Teacher enabled a patient who had been paralyzed for many years to stand up immediately. With His powerful gong, Teacher also straightened up a hunchback who had been bent at a 90-degree angle. The terminal cancer patients whom the hospitals had sent home to die made a full recovery after practicing Falun Dafa. These are the facts!”
A police officer said, “Yes. I had read in a qigong magazine what you just talked about.” The atmosphere turned peaceful, as they related to what I had said. Some people began talking about their own points of view. Even the Party secretary changed his attitude. Later this Party secretary either resigned or transferred to another position.
After a while, a new Party secretary of the CCP politics and law committee came to my home. She got very unhappy when she saw Teacher’s photo and Falun emblem in the middle of my living room and a Dafa verse on my front door. She asked me to take them down three times, but I firmly refused. She then incited policemen to come and confiscate all Falun Dafa materials in my home. They unlawfully took away Teacher’s photo, the Falun emblem and some truth-clarifying materials. However, they did not find the machine that produced the materials.
When this tribulation happened, I looked inward, and also asked for Teacher’s help. From my heart, I said: “I will go to the police station alone to take back Teacher’s photo and other valuable Dafa treasures. Teacher, please help me.” I sent forth righteous thoughts continuously for two days. On the third day, as the magpie called in front of my door, I realized that Teacher was encouraging me to retrieve the confiscated Dafa treasures, so I went to the police station while sending forth righteous thoughts on the way.
It was morning, so the police station offices were full of people working. I requested to see the director, but was told that he had gone out and to come back in the afternoon. By accident, I found out that the Dafa treasures were all in one room and intact. I sent forth righteous thoughts and went back home. I returned to the police station at about 2 p.m. All office doors were closed, except for the room where the Dafa materials were. There was nobody inside that room, so I took my treasures and walked righteously out of the police station. This was Teachers’ magnificent arrangement! I just had the righteous thoughts, and Teacher helped me to fulfill my wish.
The next day my daughter, who worked at the cooking oil company, came to visit me. She was carrying over a hundred eggs and seemed very happy. I asked her what had happened. She said the money someone owed her company from over a year ago was finally paid back. My daughter had gone through the official process to solve the problem a year ago, but the person would not admit to taking over 10,000 yuan. A year later, however, that person stopped by and gave all the money back, and soon the company promoted my daughter to a managerial position. My understanding was that since I had strong righteous thoughts, had let go of life and death, and had retrieved all of my Dafa materials, my daughter also benefited.
Clarifying the Truth and Saving Sentient Beings
In the fall of 2007, I went to visit my daughter for a few days. When I came back home, both printers used for producing truth-clarifying materials did not function properly. I looked inward and thought that I had omissions in my xinxing. I sent the printers to a practitioner who knew the technology, and he told me the printers were fine and just needed to be cleaned a little. I did not think about why the printers did not function properly or if there was anything wrong. I temporarily left them at the practitioner’s home.
One day in mid-October at 2 p.m., a dozen police officers from the city 610 Office broke into my home. They said they knew that my home was a Falun Dafa material production site and had orders from an upper-level authority to confiscate the equipment. I immediately realized that Teacher had arranged to have the printers away from my home at this time. I asked them, “Do you have proof that my home is a material production site?” They broke into my bedroom and took away the MP3 player that I used for practicing the exercises and a copy of Zhuan Falun.
One policeman said, “Her equipment must be upstairs,” so they went to search upstairs. As they came into the room, I told them, “You cannot take away Teacher's photo or the Falun emblem.” They really could not touch these items at all. One of them said, “I want to tear down all the papers that have Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance on them.” I immediately sent forth righteous thoughts and asked him: “Why do you hate Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance so much? Even if you've never practiced Falun Dafa, you should not hate these three words. What is the opposite of these three words? It is falsehood, hatred, and violence. Are you saying that you only believe in falsehood, hatred, and violence? Did your parents teach you this? If I meet your parents one day, I will ask them whether they taught you this.” The police officers calmed down and seemed subdued now.
I became more compassionate and told them, “You should not listen to the lies. You should keep your consciousness clear so as to ensure a beautiful future for yourselves.” Only one policeman kept searching the room. He found a box of copies of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, a bag of truth-clarifying materials, and self-adhesive stickers with “Heaven Will Eliminate CCP” on them. He asked me angrily, “Who sent you these?” I said, “Nobody did.” He also found a box of printing paper and asked, “Why do you have the printing paper if you did not produce the materials?” I said, “The package has not been opened yet. How could I have used it to produce the materials?”
Then he found Teacher's photo and the remaining Dafa books. I told him, “Do not take Teacher's photo and the Dafa books.” He said he needed to have something to fulfill his task. I said: “If you want to take these, you have to keep them intact. Otherwise, you will receive karmic retribution.” He said he was not afraid. I had very strong righteous thoughts at that moment and said, “Since you said so, let's see what will happen to you and your children.” I saw his face change color. He said: “I have been in charge of [persecuting] Falun Dafa for many years. Nothing has ever happened to me.” I said: “Your evil actions will end here. I will persuade you to be wise. Are you more evil than the town's Party secretary? He arrested me and took me to the detention center and the following year he drowned while swimming in the Xiang River. The retired industrial and business department head met a similar fate. He reported Dafa practitioners for distributing truth-clarifying materials and then he suddenly developed a severe illness and died. After he died, his eyes could not be closed.”
Even though I hadn’t finished what I wanted to say, I saw that the policeman could not take it anymore. He started frothing at the mouth, and as I sent forth righteous thoughts he ran away. I took this chance to take a few Dafa books back from the police box. Then my son came back home. When he saw the mess in my home he questioned the remaining police: “You broke into a residence in broad daylight. Is this proper conduct of government officials?” They did not say anything and just left.
The head of the 610 Office immediately resigned after this incident. He experienced a form of immediate retribution while trying to confiscate Dafa materials from a practitioner's home and from that he started to truly believe in gods. Dafa disciples' words have energy. I told him that his role in persecuting Dafa was over and then it became true.
In 2008, the Party secretary of the town's CCP politics and law committee ordered police and director of the residential committee to come to my home. When the Party secretary saw me, she said, “You are famous even in the provincial government.” I said “This is good. When Dafa practitioners reach consummation, all of the people will know what Dafa really is. You should not help the evil do bad things, as everything you do will have to be repaid. If you say a just word for Falun Dafa when you see the persecution, on the other hand, you will gain virtue. Why you do not want to do good things? Last year someone sent the police to search and confiscate Dafa materials from my home. Whoever ordered this would have to repay in double.”
It was this Party secretary who had ordered the confiscation of Dafa materials from my home in the previous year, and she was greatly impacted by family conflicts thereafter. This time, she asked whether I ever saw Teacher. I told her that although the vast ocean separated Teacher and me, Teacher protected and adjusted my body all the time. I saw her attitude change and told her that if she ever had any difficulties, she should recite, “Falun Dafa is good!” She accepted this advice. Last summer she met me again. She told me that when she had gone to the city for a meeting, she was asked about my situation. She told the officials there that I just read Dafa books at home. This year I heard that she was transferred to the city and was not the town's Party secretary of the CCP politics and law committee anymore.
As Dafa disciples we should let go of all human notions and should not have any fear while clarifying the truth.
I passed these tests due to my Fa study and Teacher's protection. In the process, Teacher arranged things to help me improve in my cultivation. From 1999 up until now, I have not had any major losses.
Miracles Happen Around Me
One night my son survived a potentially lethal gas poisoning. At that time, my son and daughter-in-law had just opened a restaurant. The coral stove was very close to the bedroom where they slept. One night when my son woke up, he felt his head humming. He tried to wake up his wife, but she was unconscious. My son realized that it was due to gas poisoning and used all his strength to drag his wife outside. He opened up all windows and doors so the gas would escape and immediately took his wife to the private clinic on the other side of the street for treatment. His wife was thus saved and he also escaped death. I told my son, “You and your wife were in the same room, and in this dangerous situation, you were still able to save her and escape from harm yourself. I think that Master Li saved your life.”
Another time, my grandson was disobedient about studying and my son wanted to beat him. I told my son that maybe the child did not have the fate to be studious and asked him not to beat him. My son got angry with me and said something disrespectful about Teacher. A few days later, his teeth were very painful. I said, “It is because you were disrespectful to Teacher. Please recite ‘Falun Dafa is good!’ as soon as possible.” He immediately knelt down on the ground and started to recite these words. His wife saw that he was in a lot of pain and tried to persuade him to pull out his bad teeth, but my son told her that he would recover and soon his teeth were not painful anymore. From then on, he did not dare to disrespect Teacher. He also told others, “Since my mom began practicing Falun Dafa, she has not used any health insurance or needed any medical treatment in over ten years. It is really a miracle.”
A few years ago, my company processed health insurance for all retired workers. Officials said that everyone needed to pay the premium. I said that I already have health insurance. One official then asked me when I had gotten this health insurance. I replied that it was in 1996. He was confused as no health insurance had been given out at that time and asked me where I got the insurance. I said that my Teacher gave me health insurance. He said, “Your Teacher must be very rich!” Another official then said to him: “You are fool. To practice Falun Dafa is to have health insurance.” Many people there smiled.
