Township Government Official: Four Years of Cultivation

(Minghui.org) Falun Dafa has purified my body and mind, allowing me to find my lost true-nature and walk on the road of returning to my true self. I began practicing Falun Dafa in 2018.

Awakened by an Unexpected Illness

I am a township government official, and my job is focused on the renovation of dilapidated houses in rural areas. I used to have no moral restraints, and became a slave to money. Using the power in my hands, I took many bribes and had a lot of black money. I was enjoying life as best I could.

I went to the hospital in 2017, and was told I had problems with my heart. I went to the provincial hospital and was hospitalized for a Cardiac catheterization, during which an accident occurred. The steel wire leading to the inside of my heart scraped the blood vessel wall, and blood was slowly seeping out.

I fell unconscious at around 10 p.m. My wife told me afterward that my blood pressure was only 20 mmHg (extremely low), and I was pretty much dying. My wife called my older sister, who practices Falun Dafa, and asked for advice. My sister told her that only Master Li (Dafa’s founder) could save me, and she should quickly ask Master for help.

She followed her advice, and within 20 minutes, a miracle occurred and my blood pressure rose to 80 mmHg (the lowest point of ideal blood pressure is considered to be 90 mmHg). Knowing that it was much safer to preform surgery, the doctor immediately took me to have a heart bypass. The surgery took nine hours. 

When I returned to the hospital to have the stitches removed, the doctor told me that only two or three percent of people could survive such an accident. I was so fortunate to have Master save me.

My older sister is a veteran Dafa practitioner, and had tried to persuade me to practice Dafa many times over the years. However, I saw how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) persecuted her for her belief, plus the fact that I was poisoned by the CCP’s lies for many years, I had a lot of negative feelings toward Dafa. I believed Dafa practitioners were foolish.

However, surviving the medical accident, made me rethink my whole worldview. When my sister asked me again to practice Dafa, my attitude had completely changed, and I began to practice Dafa cultivation.

Family Relationships Improve

I used to be short-tempered and would not allow anyone to challenge me at home. If my wife disagreed with me about anything, I would get angry and cuss at her. The atmosphere was really bad. My wife was angry with me, but she never dared say it. Neither she nor our son liked to spend time with me.

Since I started practicing Dafa, I followed Master’s teachings of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance.

Master said,

“As a practitioner, the first thing you should be able to do is to not fight back when you are beaten or sworn at—you must be tolerant.” (Lecture Nine, Zhuan Falun)

After working in the government for so many years, I had formed many very bad habits. I was arrogant, self-centered, and looked down on others. In the first two years of cultivation, I still couldn’t be tolerant. I often got angry and yelled, making the whole family unhappy. But I would regret it later and think: This isn’t right! I have to be tolerant.

I started to apologize to my wife, and gradually I was able to use the Fa to measure myself. But it wasn’t until this year, that I was finally able to be tolerant. When my wife blames me now, I am able to stay calm and not talk back. Sometimes my son even backs me up, and he now recites Hong Yin with me.

My wife had a good understanding of Dafa before I started cultivating. From her sister she knew that Dafa practitioners are kind, and she believed in Dafa. She twisted her ankle badly when she was out by herself. She took off her shoe and saw that it was swollen badly. She sat down and massaged her foot while reciting in her mind “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” She was then able to get up and walk. When she got home, she didn’t take any medicine, and soon recovered.

When my wife was in a bad mood and lost her temper, she believed that it was directly related to my cultivation state. She said she would be in a good mood when I was cultivating well, and in a bad mood when I was not. I really needed to cultivate well and follow Dafa’s requirements. I used to be unable to control my temper, but now I can endure most things without losing it. I also gave up my bad habits such as drinking and gambling, and now come home straight after work.

My family truly felt the beauty of Dafa through my changes. Now, we are very harmonious and my wife, who never worked in the past, is earning an income. She’s spending all her free time taking care of the family and she totally supports me in participating in Dafa projects.

My wife had never said anything good about me to other people, but now, she often speaks highly of me, saying that I have really changed and my temper has greatly improved. I now have a regular routine: I wake up early every morning, pay my respects to Master, do the exercises, and study the Fa.

Letting Go of Self-Interest

I hold a very lucrative position, and often accepted gifts and money and believed that this was all normal. But after cultivating Dafa, I understood the principle of “no loss, no gain” (Lecture One, Zhuan Falun), and knew I should no longer accept anything that isn’t aboveboard.

However, when someone gave me a small gift, I still thought it wasn’t a big deal and accepted it. But then I realized I was wrong and tried to find a way to give it back. When something similar happened later on, I was able to handle it correctly. Sometimes when material interests were very large and easy to get, it would be a truly big test for me. My thoughts would go back and forth, but in the end my righteous thoughts were able to conquer the temptation. When I was struggling with material interests, I was really exhausted physically and mentally. But when I let go of them, all of a sudden I felt relieved and relaxed.

During the 2019 Chinese New Year, a construction team’s lead came to visit me. He walked in and threw a wad of notes on the table (10,000 yuan) and said it was for me to buy something for the New Year. I declined to take it and requested that he take it back. He didn’t, and turned around to leave. I said, “If you don’t take it, I’ll throw it out the window.”

He saw that I was serious, and asked, “Why? Is this not enough?”

“That’s not it!” I replied, “I won’t take a cent from you. It has to do with my faith.” He took the money and left.

During the Dragon Boat Festival, he brought me pork ribs and two large fish, and again, I politely declined. He later recharged my fuel card by 2,000 yuan. After several attempts, I finally managed to get the money back to him. I knew that as a cultivator, I have to follow the requirements of the Fa.

These tests kept coming at me. In 2021, our township took on a large renovation project. I was in charge of this project and could choose the contractor. If I gave the contract directly to the contractor, they would be able to make a lot of money from it. If I awarded the contract to myself, then find someone to do the work, I could earn 20,000 to 30,000 yuan in a month or two.

I really wanted to do this project myself, but since it was government work, all expenditure needed to be recorded, and I would need to cook the books. So I decided not to do it, because as a cultivator, this would not meet the requirements of cultivating “Truthfulness.” Although my heart was fluctuating, I was eventually able to give it up. If I didn’t practice Dafa, I would have no hesitation in taking it for sure.

I used to make quite a lot of black money using my position, but I still had zero savings. After cultivating Dafa, I only had my salary to support my family, yet I had savings and even bought a car. This was a benefit that was brought to me for practicing Dafa and walking on the right path.

Cooperating as One Body to Save People

We lack good transportation to travel to the villages, so I bought a car on May 1, 2019, and made a vow that this car was specifically for taking Dafa practitioners to the villages and saving people. I began to drive practitioners in the countryside to clarify the truth.

My working hours are fairly relaxed. I only have to be in the office for a full day on Mondays. All other days, I just need to go there in the afternoon. So I have plenty of time in the morning to go to the countryside with other practitioners to help clarify the truth.

I felt that Master arranged everything for us. There were many times when it was drizzling when we left, sometimes it became heavier on our way there, but the rain would stop when we arrived. When we were done and driving back home, the rain would start again.

Before leaving one morning, thick clouds loomed over head, and my wife asked if we were still going to go out.

“Don’t worry!” I replied, “It will be sunny in a little while.”

When we arrived at our destination, the sky was bright blue. My wife called me, saying, “What you said was so right. It’s magical!”

“Everything we do is arranged by Master,” I replied. “Master sees that we are eager to save people and is helping us!”

One day in October 2020, a practitioner asked me to drive her to a town 40 kilometers away to deliver desk calendars. During that time, I was taking fellow practitioners to the countryside every day to clarify the truth, so I already had plans for that day. I suggested I take her there in the evening. She agreed.

It was getting dark when we left at 5:30 p.m., and not easy to see, so I didn’t drive very fast. We entered the north side of the village and headed toward the south, which was two to three kilometers away. I said a couple of sentences to the other practitioner, and then she said we had arrived. I checked the time, and thought that it was impossible to arrive so quickly! On our way back, I realized Master helped us.

On our way back from the countryside one winter, the road was covered with heavy snow and ice. I lost control of the steering and slid to the side of the road. We were about to hit a big tree, when a practitioner in the car shouted, “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good!” Just then, the car stopped. The side window was inches away from the tree. It was so dangerous!

It has been more than two years since I began driving to the countryside to clarify the truth with fellow practitioners. We have been to all the markets and have covered quite a lot of ground. The number of people that practitioners helped to quit the CCP ranged from several dozen to over a hundred every day. Each time, we returned home safely under Master’s compassionate protection.

Master said,

“Dafa disciples are now sentient beings’ only, sole hope for salvation.” (“Righteous Thoughts,” The Essentials of Diligent Progress III)

We are messengers of the divine, carrying the hope of sentient beings’ salvation. We are racing against time to complete our mission to save people during the last stage of Fa-rectification.

Final Remarks

If the CCP did not start the persecution of Falun Dafa and saturate the nation with so many lies, I might have started to practice Dafa 10 years ago. I’ve been wandering around outside the door of Dafa for so many years, and I’ve lost so much precious time. I deeply regret it. But fortunately, I did not completely miss this opportunity.

The pandemic is still going on, and the world is undergoing unprecedented changes. I sincerely hope that those who are still deceived by the CCP’s lies will understand the truth as soon as possible, remember the life-saving phrases “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good,” quit the CCP and its youth organizations, and choose a bright future for themselves!

Thank you, Master, for your compassionate salvation! Thank you, fellow practitioners, for your selfless cooperation!