(Minghui.org)
I had been practicing Falun Gong for three years when the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began persecuting the practice in July 1999.
In 2001, I was arrested and sentenced to three years in prison for my spiritual beliefs. After my release, I was harassed and monitored by local police, as well as personnel from the 610 Office and neighborhood committee to the point that I could not live a normal life. So I sold my apartment and moved back to my hometown.
My hometown was an unfamiliar environment as I had not lived there since childhood. I did not have much contact with local practitioners so I initiated three projects on my own.
I collected 80,000 email addresses and sent over two million emails. The emails introduced Falun Gong and talked about why the practice is wrongly persecuted, as well as the importance of cutting off any ties with the CCP and its affiliated organizations. I received many favorable replies. All the information used for the emails came from the Minghui website.
My second project was extracting and organizing details of Falun Gong practitioners who had been persecuted in China. All the information was from the Minghui website. I used it to write articles and sent them to Minghui.
This project was very labor intensive. Once the extent of the persecution was exposed on an international level, I noticed the number of practitioners being arrested decrease dramatically in my area.
The third project was producing flyers and DVDs. I downloaded articles from Minghui, printed them and distributed them in the surrounding areas. I would search for solutions on Minghui whenever I encountered difficult technical problems.
The Value of Minghui in My Personal Cultivation
The Minghui website publishes all of Master's lectures and articles. Whenever a widespread issue appears among practitioners, the Minghui editorial board will post an article to address it. Being constantly exposed to the CCP's propaganda in such a demoralizing society, we would not be able to stay on the path of our cultivation without Master, the Fa and Minghui.
Minghui has guided me through loneliness and sickness karma. Other practitioners' sharing articles have helped me solidify my righteous thoughts and enlightened me when I needed to improve in my cultivation. They have also kept me informed about other practitioners' cultivation states.
To quote one of Master Li's lectures:
“Disciple: Minghui has continually published articles asking people to stop disrupting the Fa, but some students in China still haven’t gotten clear about it.
Master: Indeed. They are being controlled by the evil, and they even oppose Minghui. Do you know why I publish information on Minghui? It is to tell you that it is trustworthy, that it is a platform via which Dafa disciples can communicate. Speaking from another angle, Master is also keeping an eye on it, and it won’t have any major problems.” (“Fa Teaching at the 2013 Greater New York Fa Conference”)
Cultivation is serious. May I recommend that practitioners who do not recognize the importance of Minghui reflect upon any fears or issues that may be holding them back.
Category: Improving Oneself
