(Minghui.org) After former leader Jiang Zemin used the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to launch a massive persecution against Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, many people with predestined relationships continued, amidst the terror, to start practicing Falun Gong.
In September 1999, I went on a business trip to Yantai, Shandong Province. While having lunch in a hotel by the ocean, I heard a hotel employee in her 50s telling her coworker, “If I didn't practice Falun Gong, I would have never taken on these hard and nasty tasks.” I was very excited to run into a practitioner while away from home, so I walked over and said hello. I told her I also practiced Falun Gong.
She said she started practicing Falun Gong because she wondered why the media (TV programs) was always so negative about Falun Gong. This made her curious about it, so she asked a relative who worked in the police department to find a copy of Zhuan Falun for her to read. She liked the book so much, she decided to follow what was written in the book as a standard for how to conduct herself. However, she didn't yet know how to do the five sets of exercises.
Because she was needed by her coworkers and hotel guests, I had to stop chatting with her. I wished her to walk her path well.
Helping Those at Work
My coworker was an engineer. We started working together on a project in 2004. I burned truth-clarification CDs during breaks, and he helped me by packaging the discs and organizing them, as well as sampling them for quality checks. Thus, he naturally learned a lot of truth this way. He slept poorly at night, so I suggested that he practice Falun Gong with me. He agreed.
I gave him a copy of Zhuan Falun, and he learned the five sets of exercises during a business trip with me. We practiced cultivation together for two unforgettable years. During my illegal detention in the detention center, he suffered a lot of pressure. Later on, he and his family immigrated to Canada, and he can freely practice cultivation now.
During a business trip in January, my boss, another coworker, and I took the opportunity to tour a famous mountain in the area. While approaching the summit, my boss suddenly developed symptoms of a heart attack and lost all her strength. No one was at the site at the time, and the situation was very critical.
I told her to lie down and chant “Falun Gong is good” in her heart. It was noontime, so I sent forth righteous thoughts. When I was done, she had already sat up and looked normal. She didn't say much about how she felt, but she asked to learn Falun Gong on the way down the mountain. After that, we watched a lecture each day of Master's lectures in Jinan together, and I taught her the exercises.
I once gave another coworker of mine a ride to somewhere while I had Pudu playing in the car. She said she liked the music and found it very soothing. I told her it was Falun Gong's music and told her the wonderfulness of it. I suggested she read the book when she had a chance, and she agreed. I gave her a copy of Zhuan Falun and told her to finish reading it from cover to cover, and return it to me if she decided not to practice.
After a period of time, she told me that before she could finish reading the book from cover to cover, her husband hid the book because he was afraid, and she didn't know what to do. I suggested that she handle it rationally, find out the reason why he was afraid, and clarify the facts to him. A few days later, she told me she found the book, and her husband stopped interfering. She also learned the five sets of exercises in her spare time.
Inmates Learn to Practice
On a business trip in 2006, I used my personal time to hand out truth-clarification CDs to people on the street. I was reported by someone and taken to a detention center. There were also several other local practitioners detained there. Their righteous actions had earned admiration from the guards and inmates, so the environment was relatively relaxed. I could send forth righteous thoughts and practice the exercises every day.
More than a dozen inmates learned the five sets of exercises from me, and among them was a fellow named Li, who was in his early 20s. He was a temporary worker at a construction site, and while pleading for wages owed to him by the contractor, he got into trouble for how he handled it. According to the guards, his case was very simple, and he should have been released long ago, but he had been detained there for a year-and-a-half.
When Li was learning the exercises, he could immediately sit in the double lotus position. In a month, when he was practicing the sitting meditation in bed, he elevated into midair and landed on the floor with his legs still folded. He and all the inmates were shocked. I explained to him what Master taught in Zhuan Falun about this kind of situation.
Li and I were together for half a year. I realized the reason his case dragged on for so long was perhaps because he should obtain the Fa here.
Helping More Employees
After I was released from the detention center, I quit my job because of the pressure from my workplace. I started working in a private company. Soon, most of the staff there learned the facts of the persecution. The boss took the lead to quit the CCP. On a business trip, three coworkers learned the exercises. Among them, one has persisted practicing, and another one became my coworker again at another workplace and started to practice again.
He said that when he was exposed to Falun Gong the first time, he knew it was good, but his mind could not calm down. He said that this time he realized just how precious Falun Gong is and didn't want to miss the opportunity again. In half a year, his wife became a practitioner, too.
Two years later, I moved to Shanghai for work. Before long, the project team needed to work together exclusively for a period of time. So we found a hotel at a mountain. We lived together, and everybody became closer to each other. Three coworkers wanted to practice Falun Gong with me. So we studied one lecture of Zhuan Falun a day and learned the five sets of exercises during our break time.
After we read only two lectures, I was asked to book a trip to Inner Mongolia. Yet I wished the trip could be postponed so I could finish reading Zhuan Falun from cover to cover with everybody. When the day of the trip arrived, the trip was indeed postponed for “business reasons.” So we were able to finish reading Zhuan Falun from cover to cover, and everybody grasped the essentials of the five sets of the exercises.
We did the exercises on the mountain before dawn every morning, and everyone had experienced great physical and mental changes, which helped them become more effective at work. A post-graduate student among us had even spent a lot of money seeking a cure for the acne on her face, but without success. However, after only two weeks into the practice, her skin became much smoother. Everybody congratulated her.
My Family Learns the Practice
I started cultivation practice in 1996. I was so excited and wanted all my family to practice. It took me a year to be able to sit in the double lotus position, but my wife, my child, and my mother-in-law could do it even without being practitioners. My child sometimes could calm down and listen to Master's lectures, but my wife still would not believe in Dafa.
At the practice site, I envied those who showed up as an entire family. But the more anxious I was, the less likely my wife would believe in Dafa. When the CCP started the persecution in July 1999, it became even harder for my wife to practice Dafa. And when I studied the book and practiced the exercises with our child, she would interfere. I argued with her because I didn't want our child to miss the opportunity.
Later on, in a seemingly occasional opportunity, our child went to study overseas ahead of plan. I never lost faith in getting my wife to practice Dafa.
With my wife getting older, gynecological diseases continued developing in her. Surgery or medicine couldn't cure her completely, and as a result, she had severe anemia and difficulty walking. She tried a variety of remedies, but didn't see improvement. When she lost faith in medicine, she decided to give Falun Gong a try.
A few months after she started practicing Dafa, her health had undergone significant improvements, and her hemoglobin level has returned to normal. Now at every important occasion throughout the year, she makes electronic greeting cards for Master to express her gratitude.
We have reminded each other to study the Fa, practice the exercises, send forth righteous thoughts, and clarify the facts to people. We have built more trust and harmony with each other.
There are quite a few other such experiences that I haven't included in this article. I wish that all sentient beings come to cherish this opportunity that doesn't come in thousands of years, learn the truth, and not to let down our Lord Buddha for His boundless sufferings and merciful salvation.
