(Minghui.org) I began to practice Falun Dafa at the end of 1994. I've gained a healthy body and experienced many miracles during my cultivation under Master's protection. I have also helped local practitioners file criminal complaints against Jiang Zemin, the former head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for initiating the persecution against the practice.
I would like to share some of my experiences.
I was taken to the Tianjin Women’s Forced Labor Camp in 2003. Over 20 Dafa practitioners in my ward were coerced to write a guarantee statement denouncing Falun Dafa. The only practitioner not to do it was Yan Yan (alias)! No matter how cruelly the guards treated her, she only wrote: “Falun Dafa is good and is the righteous way. Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” The rest of us thought her behavior was odd and disagreed with what she was doing.
We were forced to do hard labor. One of the jobs was to pick out good beans from huge sacks of beans. Yan Yan just picked up handfuls of beans and poured them into the pot. All of the beans she picked were big, shiny and clean. The rest of us had a hard time picking out the nice beans.
Why was there such a big difference between her and the rest of us? I couldn't figure it out.
I went and sat next to her and found that this wasn't just a one off, it happened on several consecutive days. When the person responsible for checking the beans asked: “Who picked out this pot of nice beans?” The head of the inmates said, “It was Yan Yan.”
Now I realized that merciful Master was giving us a hint that Yan Yan was correct and doing what a practitioner should do! Whereas, the rest of us were driven to write the guarantee statements through our fear and attachments, and tried to find excuses for our actions.
A local practitioner and I were arrested and put in a detention center in 2006.
I clearly remember Master's words:
“No matter what the situation, do not cooperate with the evil’s demands, orders, or what it instigates.”(“Dafa Disciples’ Righteous Thoughts are Powerful” from Essentials for Further Advancement II)
The guards tried to force me to give up my beliefs. I looked inward and found that I harbored hatred toward them. I corrected my thoughts, told the inmates and guards about Falun Dafa with kindness and asked them to quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations. All of the inmates in my ward agreed to quit.
There were only two female wards in the detention center, so I asked Master in my mind to switch me to the other one.
I was transferred that evening.
The people in both wards were surprised. I told them that it was my Master who had arranged for me to come to save them. I then helped all of the people in the other ward to quit the CCP.
I started a hunger strike to oppose my mistreatment. The guards brought 7 or 8 people to force feed me a week later. I didn't cooperate with them and asked Master for help.
They took me to a hospital emergency room. The doctor examined me and told the guards: “Her health is very bad. There is a risk of death if she's force fed.” The doctor insisted that the person in charge would have to sign to take responsibility if they wanted to force feed me.
None of the guards wanted to sign his name. In the end, the guards had to take me back to the detention center and told my family to come and pick me up three days later. Thus, with Master’s compassion, I was released.
I had conflicts with several practitioners for quite a while. I thought I was right and stuck with my opinion. I looked down upon them, was angry and complained all the time. I didn't want to deal with them any more.
I looked for my diary thinking that I should write my thoughts down, but I couldn't find it anywhere. I opened another book and found a paragraph written there, which was a quote from a practitioners’ experience sharing article. It exactly targeted my problem.
Master was wanting me to see this. I realized that a practitioner should not judge things by their appearance on the surface, as conflicts can be used to show us that there are problems with our own thinking and behavior.
Master’s hints help me to understand the importance of looking within. I sent forth righteous thoughts to eliminate all of my human notions. I knew they were not part of me and had to be removed.
I encountered a lot of interference when I decided to write an experience sharing article for Minghui.org. I felt that my cultivation experiences were trivial compared to the miracles that other practitioners had encountered. So I kept delaying writing my article.
I later realized that no matter how trivial my miracles seem, they are still blessings from Dafa and have the power to eliminate the old forces and to help offer salvation to others.
When I began to write the article, I had a vivid dream. I was flying in the sky and could control my speed and height. I felt better as I flew higher. I became elated! I started falling down when I lowered my head to look down, but I could control the speed of my descent. It was like stepping on the brakes.
I glided down to the floor. It was the best dream I ever had! At that point, I decided to solidly cultivate and do the three things well.
In order to reach out to more people to let them know about Falun Dafa and the persecution, I started to phone people using cell phones in 2012. I didn't have much time because of my work, so I used three cell phones to automatically play recorded messages about Dafa.
I then used another cell phone to directly talk to people who had listened to the information for over two minutes. It worked very well. I could help between 2 to 20 people quit the CCP every evening.
I saved some phone numbers of those who refused to quit, even after I had spoken with them many times. I continued to text message them. So far, I have helped over 6,000 people quit the CCP.
In the spring of 2013, another practitioner and I were supposed to meet at a quiet place to call people and help them withdraw from the CCP. However, the practitioner didn't show, and I almost thought about going home.
I knew my thoughts were not righteous and that it was from my fear of being afraid and lonely. I asked Master to stay with me. I then took out my cell phone and talked with people for over 2 hours.
The next day, the practitioner told me that she came near our rendezvous point, but noticed two men following me. She heard one of them say that they would arrest us when the other one showed up.
She walked behind a wall to try to call me but then saw two other men using what looked like a monitoring device. They were walking around in circles, probably looking to pick up a signal. The practitioner decided that the best thing to do was to go back home.
I had put so much effort into talking to people about Dafa and helping them quit the CCP that I had no idea of the danger around me. But it didn't matter as Master was protecting me!
In June 2015, I filed a criminal complaint against Jiang Zemin, the former head of the CCP, for initiating the persecution. Afterward, a practitioner and I helped other practitioners in our city, nearby cities and in other provinces to do the same. Most of them were elderly.
Some came by air, train or bus to my home. Some helped me cook, get groceries and clean the house. My home became the local center for the “sue Jiang” movement. We overcame many difficulties and helped several dozen practitioners prepare and submit criminal complaints against Jiang to the Supreme People's Court and Procuratorate.
I have experienced many miraculous things since becoming a Dafa practitioner. I used to have a hard time getting up to do the morning exercises at 3:50 a.m., but now it's easy for me to do the five exercises early in the morning.
Also, I used to have a hard time crossing both of my legs to do the sitting meditation. Now I can easily do it for 90 minutes. I know this all had come from Master’s encouragement.
I now help over 300 people withdraw from the CCP each month. Last July, I helped 439 quit.
Thank you to all our fellow practitioners.