The Truth Clarification Point is my Cultivation Site

(Minghui.org) I am honored to have been practicing Falun Dafa for almost 30 years. Despite the social environment in Hong Kong changing drastically, I will not leave or give up. I truly cherish this environment, because Master’s Dafa teaches us to cultivate in ordinary human society, and eventually return to our original, true selves.

On this occasion of the 30th anniversary of Dafa’s great spread, I have put together some of my past cultivation experiences. I would like to share them with fellow practitioners.

From Seeking the Fa to Spreading the Fa

I started practicing Falun Dafa in 1994, after learning a simplified form of Tai Chi in the early 1980s, which had no cultivation teachings, so it was just like doing physical exercises. At that time, my older sister in Guangzhou City was hospitalized with cancer, and all I could do was teach her the Tai Chi I learned, hoping it could help her recover. Although she had a strong will, sadly she died at the age of 33. I felt that life was so fragile.

My daughter was in poor health when she was a child. She suffered from asthma whenever the weather changed. She went with her aunt who had been suffering from asthma for more than ten years, to get treatments from various forms of qigong. They also met up with many fake qigong masters. Unfortunately, their health did not improve.

We finally encountered Falun Dafa in 1994. My wife was very fortunate to attend Master’s Fa lecture classes in Guangzhou City. The first time I saw the movements of the meditation exercise she was doing, I felt that it was different from other qigong practices, and the Buddhist mudra was so beautiful. I also listened to the recorded Fa lectures.

I began to practice Dafa along with my wife. At the time, my daughter and I were in Hong Kong, where my daughter was attending elementary school. On weekends, I went to Guangzhou to participate in the group exercises and Fa study. There was once a heavy rain during the meditation practice, and some people left to take shelter from the rain. But we endured, and persisted in finishing the hour-long exercise. By the time we finished the exercises we were completely soaked.

We found the Shatin group exercise site after 1997, where we began to study the Fa and do the exercises in Hong Kong. During our free time, we went to various places in Hong Kong to do the exercises, and spread the Fa with fellow practitioners. We went to Tai Po, Fanling, Shatin, Kwai Chung, and Kowloon Park, Tsim Sha Tsui waterfront, and other parks. We also went to Taiping Mountain and Lantau Island to do the exercises.

The day for the monthly Hong Kong city-wide group exercises in Kowloon Park was November 1, 1997. However, the night before and early morning, my daughter had a severe asthma attack. She went to the hospital emergency room at midnight, but she was still suffering a lot after returning home. In the morning, we decided to do the group exercises and then go to the hospital. My daughter participated in the group exercises, and then played with many of the fellow practitioners’ children. She was no longer suffering from asthma.

My daughter later began to study the Fa and cultivate with us. She understood the principle of eliminating karma. When she felt uncomfortable again, she was able to endure it, and her health gradually improved. Amazingly, she mainly felt uncomfortable on weekends. She would then recover after doing the exercises and studying the Fa, and could go to school again on Monday. Since then, she has not visited a doctor’s office, or taken medicine for more than 20 years.

I had not seen Master at the time. Master told us to take the Fa as the teacher, and I knew that Master was always by our side, and watching over us.

Hong Kong practitioners participated in the Singapore Falun Dafa Cultivation Experience Sharing Conference in August 1998, where I was so fortunate to see our compassionate Master for the first time. Master taught the Fa and answered questions during the conference. After the conference, Master was happy to take group pictures with Dafa practitioners from different regions. The atmosphere was warm, lively, sacred, and peaceful.

A Hong Kong television (TV) program talked about the amazing health benefits practitioners of Falun Dafa experienced in early 1999. By that time, there were more and more people learning the exercises at the group exercise sites in Hong Kong. In China, there were even more people, and the main book of Falun Dafa, Zhuan Falun, was in short supply.

Due to the large number of Falun Dafa practitioners, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began to spread lies in an effort to suppress the practice. In Tianjin, more than 40 practitioners who went to educational institutions to clarify the truth were arrested. After that, on April 25, 1999, the 10,000-person peaceful protest took place in Beijing.

I saw Master for the second time at the Fa conference in Australia on May 2 and 3, 1999. At that time, Master looked very serious, and he told the Chinese and foreign reporters who showed up that they should understand what Falun Dafa is before writing about it.

Persecution Started: Lost My Job

The CCP launched the persecution against Falun Dafa and started to arrest Dafa practitioners on July 20, 1999. The communist regime’s television channels were broadcasting lies about Falun Gong (also called Falun Dafa) both day and night. This was also a big test for practitioners in Hong Kong. Hong Kong practitioners went to the “Xinhua News Agency” (the predecessor of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government) and Chater Garden in Wanchai to peacefully do the Dafa exercises, and clarify the truth about Dafa. We were hoping that the Hong Kong government and all the Hong Kong citizens would be able to understand that Falun Dafa only teaches people to cultivate their hearts and be good people.

After the staged “Tiananmen Square Self-immolation Incident” took place in January 2001, when we saw the article on Minghui that exposed the truth about the staged “self-immolation,” we printed it and distributed copies to the public. We also began to clarify the truth at various popular tourist sites.

I also clarified the truth to my manager at work. However, in 2004, my company invited someone from a bank in Shenzhen City to be the CEO. When they saw me doing the exercises at the pier, they demanded that I choose between continuing to practice Dafa and keeping my job. Even though I had been working in this company for ten years, I definitely was not willing to give up my belief. The company offered me two months salary to resign, but I didn’t leave immediately. The CEO thought I didn’t want to leave, but in fact, I was following the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance and I wanted to make sure the transition to the next person was smooth. I worked with him for a few days and then left the company.

Many practitioners went to Manhattan, New York, to clarify the truth in 2004. I went there for a month and helped with distributing newspapers and playing videos on TV that clarified the truth. I was very fortunate to see Master on the Mid-Autumn Festival that year.

Star Ferry Pier is the Cultivation Site Master Arranged for Me

After returning from the United States, I went back to the truth clarification point at the Star Ferry Pier to continue to do the exercises and clarify the truth. Our exercise site had display panels and televisions, which were very powerful. The evil forces had been trying to suppress us and drive us away throughout all the past years. There were several times where they poured red paint on our display panels, kicked the display panels, and broke the televisions.

The evil gangs organized by the CCP arrived in 2012. They covered all of our truth-clarification photos and banners, and blocked the view of our display boards and televisions. When we were doing the exercises, they also stood in front of us to keep people from seeing us. They also used loudspeakers on the side to say very evil things. A senior gentleman pointed to the leader of the gang and said, “I didn’t support Falun Dafa in the past. But I absolutely can’t stand what you are doing.”

How should we deal with these issues? We had also gotten angry at times, but Master told us to forbear. We must be rational and wise instead of fighting with them. We followed Master’s teachings, and when they attacked us, we just did the exercises peacefully. We showed to people what the peacefulness and preciousness of Falun Dafa is, and we were not moved, because that was our cultivation site. In the end, the evil gang left and we were still there.

Newspaper Stand Salesperson: “Twenty Years Have Passed, and You Still Look so Young.”

The authorities stopped us from putting up display panels and banners in late May 2021, but we could still do the exercises. When seeing us doing the exercises, many people knew that we were Falun Dafa practitioners, and those who didn’t know could find out. Sometimes people would do the Dafa exercises along with us. A salesperson in a nearby newspaper stand said to me, “Twenty years have passed, and you still look so young.” In fact, I’m already 65 years old.

After the implementation of the “Hong Kong National Security Law,” many Hong Kong citizens have been worried about their future and wanted to immigrate. But some people were very surprised when they saw us doing the exercises, “Falun Dafa is still here? Since you are still here, we now feel a lot more at ease.” People of all ages are happy to see us there.

Neither the Evil CCP nor the COVID Could Stop Practitioners

The COVID pandemic has been rampant since 2019. During the most severe period in Hong Kong in March this year, many people were infected, and people were afraid of the government closing down the city. The days were cold and rainy, there were only a few people at the pier, and even bus services were stopped. But we still did the exercises there as usual.

Why did we insist on being there? For me, I realized that this was my cultivation site, and it was arranged by Master, so I can’t give it up.

Practitioners do not take days off. We come to the pier to do the exercises regardless, including on weekends and holidays. Even the street performers like to stay close to us. Many people like to come and talk to us.

Falun Dafa teaches people to be better people, and the citizens feel at ease there. Someone said to us, “I wanted to learn Falun Dafa ten years ago, and now I want to buy the book.”

Epilogue

During our cultivation, we have met people who supported us, but also those who rebuked us, but we did not get angry. When the evil forces tried to threaten and intimidate us, we were not moved. When we faced false accusations from the CCP’s evil gang, ordinary people would have been scared, but as cultivators, we understood that we were just following Master’s teaching to be good people, and that we must let go of our fear.

I have practiced Dafa for nearly 30 years. Thank you fellow practitioners for cultivating together! I still have to do better dealing with the tribulations I encounter at work and in my body, and I want to return to my true home with Master.

The above is from my personal sharing. If anything is inappropriate, please kindly point it out.

Thank you, Master! Thank you, fellow practitioners!

(Presented at the 2022 Hong Kong Falun Dafa Cultivation Experience Sharing Conference)