(Minghui.org) Greetings, Master! Greetings, fellow practitioners!
I had many illnesses before I began practicing Falun Dafa in 1998, including insomnia, sinusitis, chronic bronchitis, stomach problems, eczema, and arthritis. The worst was my stomach problems—I had no appetite. I ate something before I went to work, and I rested after I came home. I ate a little food before I went back to bed.
Both my wife and I were doctors, and she asked me to be examined in the provincial hospital. I told her it was just a stomach problem, not a big deal. But she was persistent, so I had a gastroscopy. The result showed gastritis, duodenitis, and two ulcers. Fortunately, the results from the pathological examination showed the ulcer was benign. The doctor selected the best treatment and medicine. My wife made sure I took the medicine before every meal.
At that time, my wife started to practice Falun Dafa, but she was busy and had little time to read the Dafa books. I had more time, and I read all the Dafa books she brought home. I forgot to take my medicine, and she forgot to monitor me.
One day she said, “Did you take the medicine?”
“I forgot about it. It’s been several days,” I replied.
“But you look better,” she continued.
“Yes,” I nodded. “By the way, you go out every evening. Can I go with you?”
I started going with her to the practice site every evening.
I used to suffer from insomnia. We returned home at 11:30 p.m., and I immediately went to sleep. I dreamed I went to a place that was quiet and green. The scene was beautiful, magnificent, and I felt comfortable. I previously visited a few tourist sites in China, but I didn’t recognize this place. Then, from far away, I heard, “This is the Falun Dafa paradise.”
I woke up and realized it was a dream. As soon as I fell asleep, I heard the same voice say, “Please hurry and cultivate.” I woke up and checked the time. It was 11:40 pm.
The dreams were vivid, and I still remember them.
After doing the exercises the following morning, I asked the volunteer assistant at the practice site about this.
“What did the voice sound like?” he asked. “Was it similar to the voice in the exercise music?”
I nodded and said, “Yes, the voice was the same.”
“You have a predestined relationship with Dafa,” he told me happily.
After the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began to suppress Falun Dafa in July 1999, the officials at work demoted me, and I was no longer given assignments. But I still had my own office. After I arrived at work, I closed the door and read the Fa (teachings). Looking back, I realized Master was giving me a cultivation opportunity.
Several of us practitioners established a group practice site, and we resumed group study. Reading the Fa with other practitioners helped me a lot. I always prioritized studying the Fa, and I benefited from it.
After the persecution began, Master told us, “On important matters, practitioners must watch the position of Minghui.org,” according to a Minghui Editorial.
But without a computer or the internet, how could I access Minghui? From studying Dafa teachings and reading Minghui Weekly, I learned practitioners should follow Minghui to keep up with Fa-rectification. A practitioner bought me a computer and printer in late 2005, and I learned how to use them.
I initially did not know what Minghui was. After I was able to access the internet, I visited Minghui every day—it felt like I was returning home. Master’s picture on the front page inspired me, and the cultivation sharing articles from practitioners around the world gave me confidence. My first article published on Minghui was related to exposing the vicious persecution in the local area. This also showed me my path.
Reading Minghui every day helped me improve quickly, and I occasionally submitted articles. When they were published, I checked how they were edited so that I could learn and improve. I became a Minghui correspondent. I felt the responsibility of having this role, and I felt motivated to do better. I received lots of support from Minghui in the past 20-plus years.
I was already in my 50s, and I had no computer knowledge. Master said, “Cultivation depends on one’s own efforts, while the transformation of gong is done by one’s master.” (Lecture One, Zhuan Falun) So I felt confident that I could do it. The experience-sharing articles on Minghui every day also helped me tremendously. I submitted articles on experience-sharing, commentary, and news, and some of them were published.
From Minghui, I learned how to produce copies of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party. As the demand increased, we followed the instructions on the manual binding machine. We quickly produced tens of thousands of copies and distributed copies of the Nine Commentaries to every household.
After reading the top feature article: “A Time for Fireworks and Celebration” which was published in July 2011, we did this in my area. After practitioners began to sue former CCP leader Jiang Zemin for persecuting Falun Dafa, we filed our complaints to the Supreme Court and Supreme Procuratorate.
From Master’s lectures, we understood the importance of the Nine Commentaries. So we produced numerous copies and distributed them widely, including every household.
After we read the articles “Practitioners Should Use Their Abilities to Meet the Challenges Falun Dafa Faces” and “Another Big Test in the Battle Between Good and Evil,” published in December 2024, we also intensified sending forth righteous thoughts and reminded other practitioners to do the same.
I know Master always guided me. After I was arrested and my home was ransacked in 2002, I had fear even after I was released. The coordinator asked me to make spray paint stencils out of synthetic leather. I later realized Master arranged this to help me eliminate my attachment to fear.
Six months later, the coordinator gave me a three-way CD burner and blank CDs. He said he provided me with the master disk, but I had to purchase the supplies. He meant that I needed to produce CDs every week. The manuals were all in English, and I could not read them. He couldn’t read them either and said, “You can probably figure it out.” Then he left.
Six people lived in the house at the time, and I couldn’t let my children know what I was doing. Seeing the CD burner tower in the room, I was nervous – it looked like a bomb that might explode at any time. My wife was also worried and said, what if someone found it… I assured her we would be fine.
We began to produce CDs. I still had lots of fear at the time. To avoid pressure on my children, I usually produced CDs after midnight, and it took 7 or 8 minutes to burn a CD. Because I could not read the manual, I didn’t know how to adjust the speed. Every week, I spent over 20 hours burning the CDs. I needed to send forth righteous thoughts, and I needed to sleep, so I was often busy until 3 a.m. After a practitioner taught me how to adjust the speed in 2006, I was able to burn CDs faster.
When these 200 blank CDs were used up, I went to the city to buy more. I didn’t know where to buy them or how much they cost. I just wandered around an electronics market looking for items that looked similar. Over time, my fear weakened, and I learned more about CDs and which ones I should buy.
After the Nine Commentaries VCDbecame available, I began to produce it as well. Each set required six CDs, and my workload increased dramatically. Every week we used hundreds or even a thousand CDs. A child who got up early noticed our burner, and the family knew my “secret.”
To our surprise, our children knew the facts about Dafa. This reassured my wife and me. We realized the fear was ours—we had this attachment.
Master said,
“When I say “the appearance stems from the mind," by that I also mean that the difficulty stems from your overstating the importance of the matter itself and seeing yourself in a lesser light. Don’t take any such things to be a big deal, for with something as significant as saving sentient beings you should just do what you are supposed to do, going about it in a composed manner.” (“Fa Teaching Given at the Epoch Times Meeting”, Collected Teachings Given Around the World, Volume X)
When I browsed Minghui.org one day, I noticed there were local editions of periodicals, pamphlets, and flyers. Minghui Weekly also had local editions. I didn’t know this before, and I was interested in participating. I just learned how to type, and I had no knowledge of editing or layout. After I compared the local edition of Minghui Weekly with the general edition, I noticed I just needed to replace some content with local information. So I gave it a try and submitted it to Minghui. It was published, and I felt confident.
After browsing truth-clarification materials, I noticed most of them contained local information from various areas. Master said,
“Exposing the wicked policemen and bad persons and publicizing their evil deeds is extremely effective at shocking and restraining those irrational, wicked people. At the same time, by clarifying the facts to the people on a local level it most directly exposes, and generates public awareness of, the wicked persecution. It is also a great way to save the people who have been poisoned and deceived by the lies. I hope all Dafa disciples and new students in mainland China will do this well.” (“Comment on a Student’s Article”, The Essentials of Diligent Progress III)
I felt this was important, so I shared my understanding with the coordinator, and he agreed. But first, we need local content. Lots of practitioners were afraid of retaliation from the officials and dared not to write about how they were persecuted.
Realizing this situation, I wrote down my own experiences. After it was published, I included it in a local edition of the truth-clarification pamphlet. After they saw the positive impact it had, almost every practitioner who was persecuted wrote down their experiences.
It was not easy at the time since I knew little about editing and layout. Sitting in front of the computer, sometimes I just clicked here or there, and it worked. When I tried to mimic this process again, sometimes it did not work. From this, I had a better understanding of what Master said, “Cultivation depends on one’s own efforts, while the transformation of gong is done by one’s master.” (Lecture One, Zhuan Falun)
It took me some time to understand the importance of exposing the persecution in our area. In the beginning, I just wrote some articles, such as open letters to clarify the truth. After I had access to Minghui and I browsed the website on a regular basis, I gained a better understanding and decided to give it a try.
I started with an experience-sharing article because I felt it was important. Then I wrote an article that exposed the main perpetrators in this area, both their bad deeds and the consequences they received. There was thunder and lightning that evening, together with wind and rain. It was late April and pretty cold in northern China. So this weather was unusual, and people were surprised.
People talked about the unusual weather the following day. They said a conference room in the government building was on fire, and a fire truck came. When visiting Minghui.org that afternoon, I saw the article I submitted had been published. When the coordinator and I met that evening, the room was suddenly lit up – one lamp that had never worked now worked. I realized it was a battle between good and evil in another dimension. The room on fire in the government building was a place where officials often met to plan the persecution against Falun Dafa. I felt this light that suddenly worked again was also a hint that we did the right thing.
Since I did not know the page settings, we asked another practitioner in the city to help out. He prepared a flyer about what happened, and we distributed it widely in this area. Because the contents were factual and happened in the local area, the result was very good.
Based on this experience, we encouraged more practitioners to write down their experiences. This way, we had more and more articles published. This, in turn, provided more content for our truth-clarification efforts, which helped people to learn facts and helped with our own cultivation.
(To be continued)
(Selected submission for the 22nd China Fa Conference on Minghui.org)