Righteous Thoughts Come from Solid Cultivation in Dafa

(Minghui.org) Reflecting on my over 20 years of cultivation, I truly feel that it is due to the guidance of the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance that I have become what I am—a happy, healthy Falun Dafa practitioner who upholds traditional moral values and always considers others in whatever I do. I would like to share some of my experiences to validate the greatness of Master Li.

Starting to Practice

I started to practice Falun Dafa on April 28, 2003, when the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) persecution of Falun Dafa was at its worst and when all kinds of fake news and slander aimed at deceiving the general public were being published and broadcast.

Before I took up the practice, I was very ill. I suffered from gynecological problems, neck problems, bone spurs, cholecystitis, insufficient blood supply to the heart, a rapid heartbeat, and chronic fatigue. I spent most of my time seeking different forms of treatment, but with little improvement.

One day, I saw a lady in my village who practiced Falun Dafa. She used to have many health problems, too, and her family members took her to different doctors and even shamanistic rituals, but her health remained poor. I heard that all her health problems disappeared after she began practicing Falun Dafa.

Whenever I saw her, she always looked happy and in very good spirits—nothing like what was said on TV about practitioners, such as that they killed or committed self-immolation. She was very kind and friendly and got along with her neighbors.

“Is Falun Gong easy to learn?” I asked her. I told her I wanted to give Falun Gong a try and described my lingering health problems.

“No problem. Just come to my place when you have time,” she said.

I was really happy and told my mom and my husband, both of whom were very supportive of the idea.

I went to her place that afternoon to learn Falun Dafa. She lent me a copy of Zhuan Falunand asked me to read it, after which she would teach me the exercises.

“Why do I have to read the book first? Is Falun Gong hard to learn? Are the movements difficult? Do you think I’ll be able to do them?” I asked.

“Don’t worry,” she said with a kind smile. “Just read the book and try to read it all. Otherwise, you might be interfered with. It’s not that easy to obtain a righteous Fa at this time.”

After dinner that evening, I started to read the book. By page 132, my outlook on life had completely changed. I thought, “Wow! What a wonderful book. It explains so many things I had never heard about before.” I felt so happy that I decided I would practice Falun Gong.

I went to her house the next day to learn the exercises. Three days later, I had a dream. In the dream, she asked me, “Why do you want to learn the exercises?” as if she was reluctant to teach me. That made me resent her, and I said, “I’m determined to learn Falun Gong.” Then I woke up.

The next night, I dreamed I was pregnant. In the dream, I told my husband, “The baby is ready to be born.” So I bore down and pulled out a slippery thing that looked like a weasel. It was as big as a newborn lamb. It was dead, and its eyes were closed. Later, after reading Zhuan Falun, I understood that Master had removed a possessing animal that had attached itself to me.

I didn’t own a copy of Zhuan Falun because the book was hard to get at that time. Many people in my village also started practicing Falun Dafa and didn’t have the book. So I started copying the book by hand, which took me three months. During that time, all my health problems disappeared.

Letting Go of Hatred and Resentment

I was adopted. My biological mother lives in the same village, not far from me, and when I was young, I sometimes went to her place to play with my older sister.

I was seven when my neighbor told me I was adopted. The neighbor said that my mother had pushed me away and refused to take care of me because she wanted a son. My current mother later adopted me.

It was a heavy blow to me at that young age, and I began to hate my biological mother and her entire family. I stopped going to her house and refused to speak to anyone in her family. I hated and resented them.

My biological mother sensed how I felt about her and was really embarrassed. I hated her whole family from then on.

It was a long and difficult process for me to let go of my hatred and resentment for her and to start treating her and the others like family.

My biological father’s field is next to my adoptive father’s. At lunchtime one day, everyone went home to eat. I stayed in the field to guard the persimmons.

Just then, I saw my biological father pushing a cart full of garlic out of his field. There was a puddle on the path. He tried several times to maneuver the cart through it but wasn’t able to.

If it had been anyone else, I would have offered to help right away. Finally, he had to ask, “Please give me a hand.” I went over and reluctantly helped him lift the cart over the puddle. Then I left without saying a word. I still hated his whole family for giving me away.

It was only after I began practicing Falun Dafa that I started to let go of this strong attachment to hatred and resentment—it took three long months to do so.

Learning to Be Kind

Seeing how I went from being sickly to healthy, my family, my biological family, and people in my village all witnessed the extraordinary power of Falun Dafa, and many of them also started to practice, including my biological mother.

We read the Fa together in the same study group. At first, we didn’t talk to each other, but we later chatted and shared our understandings of the Fa principles. We became close as practitioners, and at long last, I let go of all my hatred for my biological family.

Sometimes my biological mother comes to study the Fa at my place, and sometimes I visit her. The two of us have established a sacred affinity with Dafa. The hard ice of hatred that had been buried deep in my heart has completely melted away.

When I heard that my biological father was ill, I went to see him with presents, which made him very happy. His whole family was surprised by my visit and happy, too. I went to see him twice more before he passed away.

By then, all their other children had left home, leaving my biological mother on her own. I often go to see her and ask if she needs anything or help with household chores. She is very touched and often tells her other children how I have helped her. Her other children and I now get along very well, like a family again.

If I had not begun practicing Falun Dafa, I would never have spoken to her again. Dafa has changed me and guided me to let go of hatred and resentment and to become a kindhearted person.

Conducting Myself by the Fa Principles

My husband is one of four brothers, and his mother isn’t financially well-off. Her eldest daughter-in-law, who was childless, adopted a daughter two months younger than my second son. Her youngest daughter-in-law’s daughter is eight months older than their eldest daughter-in-law’s adopted daughter. Because there are babies in every family, finances are tight all around.

Very often, their youngest daughter-in-law would bring her daughter to her mother-in-law’s house before going to work in the fields. Sometimes she also ate there or took this or that home, trying every way to save money.

I live in the same courtyard as my mother-in-law’s eldest son’s family, and my mother-in-law lives opposite her youngest son’s house. We were a bit annoyed by his wife’s conduct.

My eldest sister-in-law often complained to me, “We’re all daughters-in-law. Why is she allowed to behave that way? Our mother-in-law is biased and always favors her youngest son’s family.”

Her husband cut in and said, “I went to Mom’s house the other day and saw my sister-in-law there eating noodles. Mom asked me to join them. I don’t think she is biased.”

I said to my eldest sister-in-law, “If we all went to our mother-in-law’s place to eat, she would soon run out of food. She is getting old and doesn't get much from the field. She would die of hunger. Also, it’s hard enough for us to take care of just one baby. How could she possibly take care of four if we also leave our children at her place?” That made her laugh out loud.

I’ve always managed my family’s affairs by myself and tried to solve our problems without bothering anyone else. I have never taken any advantage of my mother-in-law. Because of that, my eldest sister-in-law respects me a lot.

I understand the Fa principle of “No Loss, No Gain” and that any benefit one takes from someone else must be repaid with virtue. A Dafa disciple should rectify everything that is not righteous. This is also our duty, as Master said in this poem:

“... Dafa, the solution for a troubled world,Puts a stop to its downward slide.”(“Illuminating All,” Hong Yin II)

However, we must act righteously to begin with and set an example for others. This is also what Master expects us to do.

Paying Attention to Sending Righteous Thoughts

Shortly after I began to practice, a practitioner showed me how to send righteous thoughts. I didn’t take it seriously at first, mostly because I didn’t believe I was capable of having any effect. I thought, “How could I have any gong since I’ve just started the practice?”

When she sent righteous thoughts, I followed her and did the same. But when I got home, I didn’t do it on my own.

One night in a dream, I saw dark clouds rolling across the sky like waves, almost touching my head. I was terrified. Many people lay motionless in a trench. I stood there, staring at the pressing clouds. A bolt of lightning struck a gigantic lobster, sending it crashing to the ground. It fell near our farm land. It was about 200 meters (219 yards) long.

When I woke up, I realized that Master was giving me a hint to break away from my human notions about sending righteous thoughts. Master had already given me supernormal abilities, and my righteous thoughts could eliminate evils. Since then, I have taken sending righteous thoughts very seriously.

I heard that the CCP was going to check each household for Falun Gong practitioners by claiming they were searching for explosives. Our Fa-study group started sending forth righteous thoughts together to dissolve the persecution. In the end, the CCP did not carry out this plan.

On another occasion, the CCP wanted to check to see if anyone had installed an NTD-TV satellite dish. Again, our Fa-study group sent righteous thoughts together. Nobody searched our village.

We heard later that people from the city were coming to our county to harass Falun Gong practitioners. Our Fa-study group sent forth righteous thoughts together. We later heard that the people sent to our county left without doing anything untoward.

We all realized the importance of sending forth righteous thoughts and started doing so very seriously. That was how we dissolved the evil persecution again and again.

In 2015, many practitioners in our village participated in the movement to sue Jiang Zemin. A village cadre called a number of practitioners’ family members, telling them that people were coming to investigate.

A few days later, a practitioner told me that a relative told him that people would come to our village the following week to harass and maybe arrest a few of us. He told us to be prepared to answer their questions.

I thought about what I would say for a long time that night and was still thinking about it when I was doing the exercises the next morning. Two others said that they had also been thinking about what to say. We realized we had been seriously interfered with, so we began studying the Fa together. Suddenly, a thought occurred to me: Being harassed is persecution.

I became clear-headed: If we answered whatever they asked us, wouldn’t we be acknowledging the persecution and the old forces? If it is persecution, we should send righteous thoughts to destroy it.

I shared my understanding with the two other practitioners, and we all came to the same conclusion. We made up our minds to form one body and improve together in cultivation. Another practitioner joined us later, and the four of us spent all our spare time studying the Fa and sending righteous thoughts.

Meanwhile, another practitioner and I went out to put up stickers to expose the evil. The stickers glowed with beautiful colors. The practitioner told me she also saw beautiful colored lights when she handed out flyers and other truth-clarification materials.

We feel that Master is always by our side, encouraging us when we go out to save people, especially when we face persecution and pressure.

The four of us sent righteous thoughts together for five days to dissolve the evil elements in other dimensions. In the end, no one from the county came to our village.

One Sunday, however, a fellow practitioner’s family member who works with the village committee warned us that people from our township would arrive the next day. So I stayed the night at the practitioner’s house, and we kept sending righteous thoughts. Monday arrived and was uneventful; no authorities visited our village.

Right now, evil forces outside China are falsely accusing Master and trying to interfere with Dafa’s mission to save people. Practitioners around the world, especially those in China, should form an indestructible body, make full use of the supernormal powers Master has given us, pay more attention to sending righteous thoughts, and do so well to eliminate the evil forces and bring an end to the ordeals we are facing. We look forward to the day when Master can return to China.

The above is just some of my shallow understanding. Please kindly point out anything not in line with the Fa.