My Journey of Cultivation, Tribulations, and Blessings

(Minghui.org) I started cultivating Falun Dafa in 1998 and deeply treasure Master’s teachings on Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance.

After the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched the persecution in 1999, I was thrown into a forced labor camp for appealing for Falun Dafa in Beijing. I was forced to do slave labor and deprived of sleep day in and day out. Although I was in my 30s, all my hair turned gray within a few days. The time in the camp was agonizing.

After I was released from the forced labor camp, I found that my former company had gone bankrupt. My husband used to work for a graphic design company owned by his elder brother. It wasn’t well managed and faced financial problems. I needed a job, and his brother suggested my husband and I start our own advertising company.

However, I heard that my husband was having an affair with a female designer as soon as I started working. She was capable and sharp. The sudden tribulation added to my agony. I couldn’t stop crying on my way to pick up my son. The verse for sending forth righteous thoughts came to my mind. I repeated it in my mind and felt that the strong energy blew away a lot of degenerated things in my mind.

I got started in a small office with a table, an old computer, and an old sofa. We had some business as soon as I started. Pretty soon, we bought an old copier and a paper-cutter.

It wasn’t easy for me to see the woman, but I had to take ad design jobs to her every day. I couldn’t talk to my husband about his affair, because he would get mad and sometimes even hit me. What could I do? I couldn’t concentrate when studying the Fa. I didn’t know how to use a computer either. I spent my days in confusion. I begged Master in my mind, “Master, please help me get rid of my attachment to sentiment. My cultivation will be ruined if I continue like this.”

Amazing things happened the next day. Another design company offered lower prices to us than my brother-in-law’s company. We started doing business with the new company. The female designer quit her job and moved to another town. I was so thankful for Master’s arrangements!

A cultivator shouldn’t be separated from the body of cultivators, but I didn’t know any practitioners in town. I grew anxious.

A customer came to make copies one day, and I told him Falun Dafa. He said with a smile, “My wife also practices Falun Dafa. She used to be blind, but her vision was restored after practicing.” I couldn’t wait to meet his wife. I was so happy to find out that they lived in the same residential compound as me.

I wasn’t in a good cultivation state at the time. I begged Master to send a practitioner who could give me some help. I soon met a practitioner. She led us to study the Fa and do exercises in a group. She corrected our movements and helped us send forth righteous thoughts better. She also led us to clarify the truth about Falun Dafa. Her unselfish guidance and care meant a lot to me during that difficult time.

It has been 16 years since I met that practitioner. It’s so important for practitioners during the Fa-rectification period to support each other under the overwhelming persecution. As soon as I finished work, I went to study the Fa with other practitioners. I often skipped meals or completely forgot to have a meal. Despite my busy schedule, I stopped feeling lost because I had the guidance of Falun Dafa and practitioners’ help. I’m so grateful.

Our business took off. We bought a couple of photo printers. A customer told me that he had won a contract to make advertisements for the first subway in another city. He gave the printing business to us and put down a deposit.

My husband and I hurried to get help. I hired a few fellow practitioners to help. We worked for several days to complete the work. We also got a rare order to print advertisements for the Food & Drink Fair. It took us several days to complete. Some asked us if we had any connections at the provincial level. They were curious how we could get these orders. I know that they were blessings from Master.

As our businesses grew, I got busier with work, cultivation, and the three things. My husband doesn’t do any housework. He also drove away my niece and nephew, whom I had asked to help. I begged Master in my mind, “Master, I’ll be content with enough money to make a living.” Master granted my wish. I regained enough time to study the Fa, memorize the Fa, and do the three things. I felt fulfilled every day.

My son graduated college, and we had to face his life events of buying an apartment and getting married. We had been living in a rental apartment. I saw during my meditation one day that the apartment we would buy would be the one right next to our business office. Despite our relatives’ insistence, I wasn’t eager to shop around.

When I was heading downstairs one morning, I saw a real estate agent that I know taking some people to see an apartment. I asked her which apartment. It turned out to be the apartment my husband had wanted to buy. It was listed the night before for a reasonable price. I called my husband right away. He came back and made a deposit to buy the apartment. No one believed that we could buy it at such a good deal. An old friend told us, “Your great practice must have brought you the good luck.” Indeed! It was blessing from Master and Falun Dafa!

My son got married and had a baby. All the big events in our lives have gone smoothly. When we stand on the basis of cultivation, all things head in the best direction, because we have the greatest all-powerful Master!

No language can describe Master’s grace. I must follow Master’s teachings to offer salvation to sentient beings with compassion, cultivate diligently, do the three things well, and treasure my predestined relationship with Falun Dafa.