(Minghui.org) I live in China and I am employed by the state. I also practice Falun Dafa. Ever since I can remember, my family has been interested in qigong. My father, who is a former senior engineer, started practicing qigong before I was born, and had many friends who also practiced.
When I was young, I deeply believed in science and thought that qigong was superstition. However, due to my environment, I learned things about supernormal abilities, such as the Third Eye, the ability of knowing fate, and remote vision. I gradually started to believe that there might be supernatural powers higher than human science.
While I was still attending high school in 1994, my father played a videotape for me of Master Li Hongzhi lecturing and teaching the five Falun Dafa exercises. Although I didn't understand much, I felt it was good, so I followed along with the videotape and eventually learned how to do the exercises.
In 1995, my father handed me the book Zhuan Falun, which I finished reading in one night. I was ecstatic to find out that Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is the Buddha Fa . I realized that it was what I had been searching for. I found Master and a way to escape reincarnation!
Shortly after, I was accepted into a nationally renowned university. During my four years of college, the number of people practicing Falun Gong grew exponentially. Everywhere I looked, I saw both students and professors following the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance in their actions.
People were awakening to the fact that the true purpose of life, returning to one's original, true self, and that true cultivation requires one to follow the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance and constantly correct oneself. Our university started to feel like a pure land amidst the backdrop of a chaotic Chinese society.
The peaceful and compassionate scenes of everyone doing exercises and studying the Fa together back then is still deeply imprinted in my mind.
I graduated in 1999 and went to work at a large research institute. On July 20 of that same year, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began persecuting Falun Gong. It used all kinds of propaganda methods to spread lies to every corner of society.
Since I had been badly poisoned by the Party's warped principles from a very young age, I was accustomed to looking at things through the lens of "class struggle," and I thus became confused by the CCP's lies, and slowly stopped practicing Dafa.
After working in the research field for several years, I applied for a province-level position and was later hired.
I received a phone call one day from an overseas Dafa practitioner, who told me that Falun Dafa had spread to more than 100 countries around the world. After talking to him for a few minutes, I felt like I wanted to continue my cultivation practice. I started reading Zhuan Falun again, and ever since that day I have been assisting Master in Fa-rectification.
I enlightened to the fact that returning to one's original true self is the real purpose of being a human. I became increasingly aware of the preciousness of Master's Dafa and that the breakdown of society's morality will bring untold disasters to mankind. I constantly remind myself that I must be diligent in my cultivation practice and strictly follow the principle of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, be kind to others, and do a good job at work.
My job involves dealing with a lot of cash; however, I never manipulate the accounting records or issue fake invoices. When I go out on my purchasing assignments, I always refuse the sellers' commissions, money, and gifts.
I kindly tell them that as a Dafa practitioner, I would not treat them differently because I didn't accept their gifts. I would then ask them to deduct the value of the gifts that they wanted to give me from the invoice. My supervisors always tells me, “We never look at the receipts that you turn in because we all know how honest you are.”
I try to be considerate and caring for my family members at home. I do housework, help educate our child, and try to get along with everyone. My mother-in-law always tells others, “My son-in-law is such a good person! It's very hard to find someone like him in today's society.” My wife also proudly tells others that I am a good husband and that it is hard to find someone like me.
During my first few years of cultivation, I experienced several bouts of sickness karma. The first time, I felt a lot of pain in the left quadrant of my mouth, which lasted for around ten days, and then suddenly stopped. This reoccurred four or five times within a two-year period. Each time it occurred, it became less and less painful.
The second tribulation I went through involved a small bump on the back-left side of my head. Several days after it swelled up, it began to fester, then started oozing blood. More bumps started to appear, and the pattern repeated itself.
It hurt so much that I could barely fall asleep and often woke up from the pain. I would wake up in the morning with my head covered in dried blood and pus. This lasted for almost a month. I realized that Master was helping me eliminate my karma, and that I was only bearing a small portion of it. The strange thing was that it didn't hurt nearly as much during the day, so I wasn't affected too much at work.
One night, it was revealed to me in a dream that I had been a police officer in a previous life. I had shot a suspect, and the bullet entered his mouth and came out the left side of the back of his head. He died in great pain. When I woke up, I realized why I had been suffering so much with my teeth and the bumps on my head. It was just like Master said,
“Due to karma resulting from past wrongdoing, one has illnesses or tribulations; ...” (Zhuan Falun)
After a month, the skin on the my back of the head was all healed without resorting to any kind of medication. I truly experienced the power of Dafa!
The third tribulation I experienced occurred at work. I suddenly felt a sharp pain on the right side of my stomach. I quickly finished doing the task at hand, then asked my boss for the rest of the day off. I was barely able to drive back home. When I arrived home, the pain continued, and I also had a bad case of diarrhea.
I felt there was something stuck in my chest, and I couldn't eat or drink anything. When I took a sip of water, I would immediately spit it out. My wife was very worried for me and asked me to go to the hospital. I tried hard to endure the pain, and calmly told her that it was a good thing because Master was cleansing my body and helping me eliminate my karma.
The pain continued until about midnight. I then suddenly felt as if a hand reached into my body and took out the thing that was stuck in my chest. I immediately felt relaxed, and the pain went away almost instantly. From this experience, my wife witnessed the power of Dafa, and it also completely eradicated any vestiges of the CCP's atheistic teachings.
I have felt very healthy, from the time that I truly started cultivating up until now. It is just like Master said in Zhuan Falun ,
“The elderly and the young will all feel that the entire body is light.”
Whenever I clarify the facts about the persecution of Falun Gong in China, I want people to know that Falun Dafa is the great Buddha Fa , and that the April 25 peaceful appeal of about 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners in Beijing was a demonstration of their compassion for the plight of fellow practitioners. I also tell them that the so-called Tiananmen Square self-immolation was an act staged by the Chinese Communist regime, and that the Party both promotes and engages in the practice of harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners, which is the worst crime against humanity. I point out that quitting the CCP is the wisest choice that a being can make.
I know that only when Chinese people learn the facts and make a decision to break away from the evil spirit of communism, which acts against the Buddha Fa , can they be protected by divine beings when the Fa rectifies the human world.
While looking for an apartment for my coworker, I got to know the CEO of a real estate agency, who was a perfectionist with very high standards for her employees. She complained to me once about how her workers were not diligent on the job, and that they would often not follow her instructions.
“When a person is born, he is like a blank piece of white paper and is very kind,” I told her. “However, due to one's experiences in life and the education that one receives, they will inevitably change. Therefore, when someone tries to use their own standard to judge others, they will always think that their way of thinking or doing things is correct.
“When we are communicating with others, we need to be compassionate, reasonable, tolerant, understanding, and think of others first, and whether they will be able to accept our ideas. If we do this, we will find that people are often very willing to cooperate with us.”
She quietly listened to me, then said, “What you just told me is so true!” I told her that I'm a Falun Gong practitioner, and that Master had taught us all of these things, including,
“While working, your tone of voice, your kindheartedness, and your reasoning can change a person’s heart, whereas commands never could!” (“Clearheadedness,” from Essentials for Further Advancement)
I then told her about the April 25 peaceful appeal at Zhongnanhai, the staged self-immolation incident in Tiananmen Square, and the fact that Falun Dafa has spread to over 100 countries around the world. I also explained the principle of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, and the fact that good and bad actions will always receive their just rewards, and that the Chinese Communist regime will be punished for persecuting Falun Dafa practitioners.
She said that although her husband was a police station chief, he had never told her about these things. She really wanted to quit the CCP. I then told her that if she recited “Falun Dafa is good,” and “Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good,” she would receive good fortune.
The next day she saw me, she appeared very happy. “Your method works!” she exclaimed. “I was just about to yell at my employees when I remembered to recite 'Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good'. I immediately calmed down. I then patiently and compassionately talked to them and now they all are taking the initiative to work, without me telling them what to do. Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is indeed great!” I was very happy for her and I was moved by Master's compassion for sentient beings.
One of my college classmates, who is now an assistant professor of chemistry in the university where we had both studied, is an avid researcher in the field of computational chemistry, and thus a key employee at the university. When we were studying at the university together, he used his limited knowledge of science to criticize Dafa, and said that Dafa was “superstition.”
After he graduated, he continued studying cutting-edge sciences, such as the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics. As a result, he now has his own set of theories about modern science, and he has thus become increasingly more willing to exchange ideas with me and discuss topics such as microscopic particles, time, and space.
The more we talked, the more he realized that I often gave him very reasonable explanations for things that he has spent years studying and researching. For example, he said that in the microscopic world, when we see electrons moving around the nucleus, it's just like planets moving around the sun, and that there could even be living beings on them.
I then read Master's Fa regarding the “three thousand worlds.” I told him that the universe is both infinitely macroscopic and infinitely microscopic, and that even in a grain of sand there are 3,000 boundless worlds with living beings, just like the human race. As we shared more and more, he agreed with Master's words,
“Throughout history, the issue of whether matter determines mind or vice versa has been constantly discussed and debated in the world of philosophy. In fact, let me tell everyone that matter and mind are one thing.” (Zhuan Falun)
He started to believe in the principle that good and bad actions have their just rewards. “As I continue with my scientific research,” he said, “I find that many things that I believe in are in agreement with what you study in Falun Gong. It is as if I am enlightening to the Tao!”
After I told him about the persecution of Falun Gong, he agreed to quit the Party and its affiliated organizations. He said, “I will never be a part of the Communist Party again!”
The Party had persecuted my father-in-law for many years, because his family were landlords. He is still very scared of the regime; however, after being brainwashed for so many years, he gradually accepted the CCP's violent rule.
When I told him that I was practicing Falun Gong, he strongly disagreed with my decision. Many times he threatened my wife that he would disown her as his daughter if she didn't pressure me to stop practicing Falun Dafa. He also tried to force my wife to divorce me. Last year, when I was released from jail for practicing Falun Dafa, he refused to see me.
I looked within to find the reason why he felt this way towards me. I then realized that I was not as rational as I could have been when I clarified the facts to everyday people, and as a result I was persecuted by the old forces.
Basically, he was very worried that his daughter would be implicated, due to my carelessness. He thought that I didn't care about my family's safety. When I considered his point of view, I felt very compassionate toward him and thus took the initiative to repair my relationship with him.
As a parent, it is very understandable that he would be concerned for the safety of his only child and grandchild. Although his actions did not fully make sense to me at the time, he reacted the way he did mainly because he was afraid of the Party. My compassion eventually moved his heart. He told my mother-in-law many times, “He treats us even better than our own children!”
He now sometimes comes to live with us, and I use those visits to show him basic NTDTV programs, including commentaries on China's current affairs.
I have also discussed with him subjects such as good and evil, karmic retribution, the Cultural Revolution, the June 4th incident, and the persecution of Falun Gong. The more time that we spend together, the more he is changing his views. He now really enjoys the NTDTV commentaries. I am very happy that he is able to truly distinguish good from bad, and knows the facts about the persecution of Falun Gong.
In Journey to the West , there is one passage that particularly stands out for me, “It is difficult to obtain a human body; it is difficult to be born in the Middle Kingdom; it is difficult to encounter a righteous Fa. If one is able to have all three of these situations at once, he cannot be more fortunate.”
I would like to remind my fellow Chinese countrymen that we are very fortunate to have been born while the great Fa of the cosmos is being spread. If you can open your hearts and realize that everything the Party has said about Falun Gong is a lie, you will be able to see the beauty of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance.
Let us treasure the remaining time that's left before the Buddha Fa manifests in the human world. I truly wish that all Chinese people will have a bright future!
