(Clearwisdom.net) I started practicing Falun Gong in October 1996. During the past twelve years, my experience of walking my cultivation path, although I have stumbled and fallen, has manifested the boundless Buddha's graciousness and the mercy of Dafa. I also feel shame and sorrow for the tortuous path I have walked because of my inability to perceive and understand higher truths of the Fa. I have experienced a lot. Here I would like to share some of my experiences. I hope that my fellow practitioners can point out any of mistakes due to my limited understanding.

1. Creating a Cultivation Environment at Home with the Benevolence Cultivated from Dafa

Because I started practicing Falun Gong and knew that I should be a good person following Master's teachings, I paid special attention to being strict with myself and kind to others in my daily life. Therefore I have a very good relationship with my family and with my relatives and friends, and they trust me very much. My husband also witnessed Dafa's miracles that had happened to me with his own eyes. My family installed an NTDTV satellite receiver and the NTDTV programs also helped my husband to further understand the beauty of Dafa and the viciousness of the evil Party. These things created a good environment for me to clarify the truth and to save lives during the Fa-rectification period. I am sharing my experiences of clarifying the facts and persuading people to withdraw from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations.

I recently visited my maternal home for a holiday. My younger brother and sister, as well as my cousins were all there. During my visit I persuaded more than twenty people to withdraw from the CCP and its affiliated organizations. One cousin (a younger brother from my uncle's family) among them was doing administration work and was poisoned deeply by the evil Party. When I talked to him about withdrawing from the CCP and its affiliated organizations, he kept shaking his head and refused to withdraw no matter what I said to him. My father was also present at the time. Watching him behave that way, my father told me to give up on him and not to try to persuade him any longer. I thought that I must save him and I would not give up on him. I told my father, "Dad, don't worry. He will withdraw once he understands."

I invited this cousin to join us for lunch at my father's place. While eating, I sat next to him. I kept sending righteous thoughts at a close distance to disintegrate all the evil elements that interfered with him. I chatted with him while eating. I asked him whether he had read the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party. He told me that he had not but he knew the viciousness and mendaciousness of the CCP, and he told me that in his work he could only report false information in his monthly report and there was no other way for him to write his report. While we were chatting, he suddenly said to me with a bitter smile, "I listen to you. Please help me withdraw from the CCP and its affiliated organizations!"

My father was very surprised. He looked at me and said, "Why did he change his mind?" I said, "We grew up together and I knew that this younger cousin would certainly distinguish between right and wrong and between good and evil, and he would certainly choose a good future for himself." In my mind I knew that it was my powerful righteous thoughts that had disintegrated those behind the scenes evil communist spirits and rotten ghosts, and awakened his mind.

2. Saving Lives in My Daily Work Environment

I run a store and the people I come into contact with are either the neighbors or customers. I used all the possible opportunities to explain the truth to them. My husband recognizes Dafa and supports my cultivating Dafa. However, he is not a practitioner and in the past he has interfered with me and hindered my truth-clarification work whenever he was afraid. Therefore I missed some of the predestined people. I then thought that it would be great if our work was not tied together!

I realized that the passage, "Cultivation depends on one's own efforts, while transformation of Gong is done by one's master." (Zhuan Falun) was indeed true. When I had that thought, Master arranged things for me. Since the store's lease had increased and business was not running very well because of the bad economy, my husband thought of doing something else. We gave up the store space and my husband went to do something else. I moved the goods to a new store space in an alley. The new store space was small and the business was not as good, but the lease price and other costs were reduced by more than half. I then had enough money to run the business. More importantly I could run the store without much effort by myself and I gained more freedom. Meanwhile, I also had new neighbors and met people with predestined relationships.

After I started the new store, following Master's words (Because one time when I was doing the exercises, I suddenly heard a voice saying "follow the mechanisms." I understood that Master was giving me a hint not to do the truth clarifying work in a rush with an anxious mind) I did not rush into truth clarification activities right away. I started by making harmonious relationships with the neighbors and did everything to show the kindness of a Dafa practitioner to them. Every morning when I arrived at the store, after I opened the door I used a broom to sweep clean the whole alley which was several dozens yards long.

As time went on, the neighbors gradually became familiar with me and they started coming to chat with me. They asked me why I was so kind. I smiled at them and naturally told them that I was a Dafa practitioner and that our Master taught us to be good everywhere. Over time they quietly and gradually learned the beauty of Dafa.

My new store was smaller. At the beginning it was mostly my old customers who came to buy things and I had contact with a very limited group of people. I begged Master in my mind to bring the predestined people to me. Gradually, new customers started to come. My store's business got better and I also saved more people. My husband even said good words about me being capable of running the business! I knew that all this was done by Master; I only had the wish to clarify the truth.

3. Rejecting Interference with Righteous Thoughts during the Olympic Games Period

During the Olympic Games period, I as usual talked to the people I met about withdrawing from the CCP and its affiliated organizations and about the beauty of Dafa. Probably because there were more evil elements during that period, when I talked about withdrawing to the owner of the drug store at a distance from my store, she told me that she did not join any of the organizations and there was nothing for her to withdraw from! I then told her sincerely that it was for her own goodness that I told her all this and that if she really had not joined any of the organizations, then please remember "Falun Dafa is good and Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good!" Several days later, she said to my husband, "You better control your wife. Ms. Chen of the Residential Committee said that the superior administration wants to put all the Falun Gong practitioners into 'Study Classes' during the Olympic Games period. Tell your wife to control herself."

As soon as my husband came back home, he said to me in indignation, "From now on, don't behave like a mentally disordered person and talk about the withdrawing as soon as you meet a person without taking a look at what kind of person she is." I knew that the drug store owner had "ignited" him. I thought in my mind that what we were doing was the most righteous thing and it must be the evil that was controlling her and causing her to interfere. I then increased the intensity of righteous thoughts I sent to eliminate all the behind-the-scenes manipulators, the rotten ghosts and the communist evil spirits that were interfering with the saving of lives. Subsequently, until the end of the Olympic Games, nobody dared to touch me. My husband witnessed again the dignity and holiness of Dafa. Because I often inspired his righteous thoughts. I explained the principles of the Fa that he was capable of comprehending every time a miracle occurred, and gradually he was able to help me when I explained the truth and achieved very good positive effects.

One time, my husband and I visited my schoolmate's family. When I talked to them about withdrawing from the CCP, six of them shouted at me all together. I then stopped talking and sent righteous thoughts. At the same time I also pulled on my husband's clothes. He understood what I was asking him for help, and probably Master gave him wisdom. With several words, he refuted them and they became speechless. My schoolmate finally found some words and said, "OK, you win. All your family members have become Falun Gong practitioners!"

Another time, a manager and two clerks from an insurance company invited us for a meal one night. I thought, "Maybe they want to listen to the truth?" I accepted their invitation and went with them. When they started discussing their work, I started sending righteous thoughts silently to clean up the spacial field while I was eating and drinking. When I thought that they had almost finished their discussion, I held up my drink, stood up and proposed a toast to express my appreciation to them. Then I changed the topic and asked them whether they had heard about the withdrawing from the CCP and its affiliated organizations. Several of them said that they wanted to withdraw. However, the manager's husband said with a strange expression, "Sister, no wonder you look very kind. You are a Falun Gong practitioner! Have you heard that by reporting one Falun Gong to the authorities one would be rewarded with 500 yuan?" My husband heard his words and warned him seriously, "With the thought of treating Dafa kindly, one will be rewarded with happiness and peace by heaven!" As soon as he heard my husband's words, he immediately said with an apologetic smile, "Just a joke. Do not take it seriously!" My husband has played a positive role in many other cases too, and I will not count them here one by one. In my mind I am very happy that my husband has positioned himself well.

I know that I am still far away from Dafa's requirements and from Master's expectation. I am confident that with Master's protection and with Dafa's merciful guidance, I will do better and cultivate more diligently.

May 8, 2009