(Minghui.org) In the fall of 1994, my company organized a tour to Mount Emei in Sichuan Province. I only slept for five hours in a hotel that night but had a very clear dream:
I saw a giant, golden Maitreya Buddha. I pressed my palms together and worshipped Maitreya from just a meter away and kept repeating, “Please bless me, please bless me.” Maitreya took me up and we flew very high into the sky. I was totally unafraid.
When I came back from my trip to Mount Emei, I told a lay Buddhist my dream. He said, “What a wonderful dream! I have never had a dream like that even though I have practiced Buddhism for many years.”
Then, in 1997, my husband and I were fortunate to find Falun Dafa.
Nothing Can Force Me to Give Up Dafa
The longer I practice Dafa and the more I study the Fa, the more I understand: Master (Li Hongzhi) has been taking care of us practitioners for a long time. He found us in this secular world, picked us up from hell, awakened us, and will take us back to Heaven.
As soon as I started to cultivate, I seemed to be connected to a power source. Although I don't understand everything, I am very devout and believe in Master and Dafa absolutely.
At the beginning, I was cheerful every day. I quickly memorized 56 verses in the book of Essentials for Further Advancement. I stopped doing things Master said not to do and tried my best to do well what Master asks us to do.
I was tolerant when it came to conflicts. If I became attached to something, someone would soon scold and hurt me for no reason. I knew it was all about improving my xinxing.
I often felt Master purifying my body. It was either in the evening when I slept or even just standing around during the day: a warm current would flow through my body. After practicing Dafa for three months, Master arranged for a fellow practitioner to tell me to double-cross my legs to do the sitting meditation. I could only do this for half an hour at first. It hurt so much that tears pooled in my palms. But I was determined not to take my legs down. Soon after, I could meditate for an hour and all my ailments were cured.
After July 20, 1999, many practitioners were persecuted. So was I. In retrospect, I was grateful that I did what Master asks us to do in the first two years of my cultivation, because it laid a solid foundation for improving my xinxing.
I successfully established a truth clarification material production site, talked to people about the persecution, and sued former Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Jiang Zemin. Under Master's compassionate care, I have stayed on my cultivation path. I am grateful to Master! Nothing can make me give up Dafa and return to being an ordinary person.
Once my son went to the United States on a business trip and asked me what I wanted. I said, “I don't want anything. I just hope you can meet some Falun Dafa practitioners. If you do, ask them for one favor: to help me send a greeting to Master. That is what I want.” After he came home from the trip, he called and said, “Mom, I did what you asked!” I was so relieved to hear that! This strengthened my determination and confidence in cultivation.
Improving My Cultivation Through Conflicts
When my sister's son graduated from college, he looked for a job in Beijing. My sister and he lived in one of my apartments, and I didn't ask them for a penny. Four years later, my nephew planned to get married.
From the standpoint of my cultivation, it was not appropriate for them to occupy my apartment because I wanted to use it for Dafa projects and was concerned for their safety. But I couldn't tell them that specifically. I discussed it with my sister in good faith.
Unexpectedly, she didn't let me fully explain and started to cry, saying that I had no human feelings. My youngest sister, who was also part of the discussion, was not on my side either.
Because my relatives had not all withdrawn from the CCP, failure to deal with this matter properly would really affect their hopes of being saved. But if they didn't move out, it would affect my doing what I should do, so it would be even worse for them. I was really in a dilemma!
One day during the sitting meditation, I asked Master Li, “What should I do?” One sentence showed up in my mind: “Do what you are supposed to do.” Then and there I made up my mind: No matter how things turned out, the people in my life were here to help me improve my xinxing, and the end results would be good.
I told my sister, “I practice Dafa, but what I do is still far from Master's requirements. If you think I haven't done well, that is my problem. But you must respect Dafa and Master. After you recited 'Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good,' your legs recovered and your rhinitis was gone.”
They finally agreed to move out. Afterward, I went to visit them and gave them 2,000 yuan.
In the process of my sister moving out, I saw that I had a lot of attachments: being easily upset, holding grievances, fear of losing face, etc., which were actually good things for me to have to face.
I am the eldest child in our family and have sacrificed a lot for my two sisters and a stepbrother. We received a considerable amount of money for relocating from our former home, and I didn't take a penny of it. Our old neighbors who’d lived there for many years thought this was unfair. In any case, those who had predestined relationships with me, including their children, had the opportunity to be saved. This was the most important thing.
Considering Others First
One day something happened at that apartment. I don't live there, I just go there to work on Dafa projects. One evening after 10 p.m., the neighbor there called and said that water from my apartment was leaking into their apartment. I panicked. That had never happened before. There must be a big loophole in my cultivation because that was where I worked on Fa validation projects.
Because my husband was elderly, I asked my sister to go with me. I quickly sorted out what to do along the way: If the water leaked from my apartment and damaged other people’s property, I would follow the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance and compensate them for all their losses. If water came from upstairs and damaged my apartment, I had to consider others first. Resolved, I quickly settled down.
It was almost midnight when we got there. When I opened the door to my apartment, I saw an ocean in the living room.
My downstairs neighbor came up and said, “It's clear now that the water is coming from the upstairs apartment.” It turned out that the water meter in the apartment above me was cracked and nobody was there, so water had been leaking for several hours.
Everyone came to my apartment to help mop up the water until 3:30 a.m All the furniture in the apartment was soaked, the range hood fan motor was dead, and there was no electricity in the wall sockets.
After everyone was gone, we discovered a strange thing: all the rooms but one had filled with water up to four inches deep. But the bedroom was dry, even though the threshold was the same height as all the other rooms. I remembered that I'd lefty printing paper and ink cartridges on the floor in that room. I went in and checked: the paper was dry.
All my important things were in that bedroom, and I was both surprised and touched and no longer sleepy. I really felt that compassionate Master Li was with us.
The next day when I checked the apartment, there weren’t even any stains on the ceiling. My sister said, “I witnessed it with my own eyes. Otherwise, I would not have believed it if you’d told me.”
I didn't ask the neighbor upstairs to pay me a penny and even returned the two boxes of milk and fruit they brought me. I knew that Master had turned a bad thing into a good thing. It had allowed me to improve my xinxing and to help save my neighbors.
Master, thank you for your salvation! How lucky I am to be your disciple. There is no way I can adequately express my gratitude. And I can't repay your magnificent salvation. I can only study the Fa well, cultivate myself, and fulfill my vows.
