(Minghui.org) I accepted Falun Dafa materials from a practitioner outside a store in 2007. This gave me the chance to ask for a Dafa book, information about the persecution of the practice and college students being persecuted. She told me that she could provide me with everything I asked for.
I returned after a few days, and the practitioner had left the materials for me at the store. The package included a copy of Zhuan Falun, exercise instruction tapes, CDs, truth clarification materials and much more. It took me 10 days to go through all the materials, after which I knew that I had found my destiny by obtaining Zhuan Falun.
Once I decided to cultivate in Dafa, I encountered a lot of interference. One person brought me the bible and asked me to read it. After I read it I knew that it was not written by Jesus. I said to the person who gave me the book, “This book should not be considered Fa.”
It took me until 2008 to truly become a practitioner. My ex-wife called and said, “Your practicing Dafa will impact our daughter’s school and future. If you want to work out and be healthy, you can find some other qigong.” I told her that I had made up my mind to practice Falun Dafa.
After I read Zhuan Falun several times, I began to do the exercises. The first time, I could do the sitting exercise for only 30 minutes because it hurt so much. My legs and feet were cold and they turned black and purple after I was done. I was determined to pass this test and soon I could sit for over one hour without a problem.
To catch up with fellow practitioners, I studied the Fa as often as possible. I measured my actions and behavior against the Fa and looked for shortcomings and attachments.
Through Fa study, I understood that Master purified my body and eliminated my karma. He also opened my celestial eye. This Fa is so profound.
As I entered the practice after the onset of the persecution, my personal cultivation, sending righteous thoughts and telling people the facts about Dafa and the persecution were done concurrently. I felt great pressure because there was so much to do and so little time.
In the beginning I distributed Falun Dafa materials like brochures and CDs, and put up posters. After studying the Fa some more, I started clarifying the facts face-to-face and advised people to quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliates.
Since I own a business, I used every opportunity to tell my customers about Falun Dafa.
A police officer came to my house in the summer of 2014. Since I was not home, he left his business card. I called him and asked him to come and meet me. Fellow practitioners said that I should not have given him my phone number for safety reasons. I did agree, but what was done was done. In my mind he was not a bad person, but someone I could talk to about Dafa and the persecution.
When he came to my home, I talked to him about Dafa for over one hour. At first he did not want to listen, but I convinced him that he would greatly benefit, so he sat down and listened attentively.
We had a long and productive talk. I cleared up many misconceptions about the role of the CCP from his mind. He agreed to quit the CCP. Before he left he said that he understood what he should do now, and that he would come back and talk to me some more after he retired.
I decided to talk to a court official about Dafa and went to his house. After listening to me, his first reaction was, “For such a smart person like you, why are you involved in this?” I said, “You are absolutely right. Because I’m smart, I can see that Dafa is great and that is why I accepted the practice.”
Since he was an intellectual, I talked to him from an angle he could understand and answered his questions. He said, “This Dafa is so great and profound. I never knew anything of what you told me today.”
After an entire morning of talking to him he agreed to quit the CCP. Then he invited me for lunch at his house because he wanted to hear more about Dafa in the afternoon. He asked to borrow Zhuan Falun. When I dropped off the book, he insisted that I stay. I talked to him for another full day.
My water heater had problems and I needed to find some parts. One store had only one part, so I went to another store, which had both parts at a better price. But, because I had not clarified the facts in the first store, I only bought one part, talked about Dafa, and returned to the first store.
After I paid for the part, I handed out Dafa amulets, but only an elderly gentleman accepted it. Then, I talked about Dafa and said that practitioners follow the principles of “Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance.”
I explained why I returned to the store and bought the part although it was more expensive. Although some of the people had argued with me about Dafa before, they now listened attentively. In the end, all the people that I talked to quit the CCP.
Studying the Fa well is the foundation to all Dafa activities. We also need to cultivate well and let go of our attachments. We need to maintain a benevolent mind, clarify the facts with wisdom and not miss any opportunity.