With Unshakable Faith In Our Teacher and Dafa, I Made Progress in My Cultivation Step by Step

(Clearwisdom.net)

Ever since obtaining the Fa in July 1997, I made up my mind to strive forward and not miss this rare opportunity that only comes along once throughout the ages. I went to the square to practice the exercises every day with fellow practitioners and watched videos of Teacher's lectures. Together we studied the Fa, practiced the exercises, and participated in many experience sharing conferences and open forums. On Sundays we went to introduce Falun Dafa to the public by demonstrating the exercises in public places. As more and more people learned about Falun Dafa more widely, many more new people came to join us at the practice site every day. I lived a happy life with joy filling my heart.

After July 20^th 1999, I was forced to study the Falun Dafa teachings only in the security of my home. Because the Jiang regime forced a blockade on all information and materials related to Falun Dafa, I could no longer obtain and read Teacher's new articles. However, I believed that Zhuan Falun is the highest Buddha Fa [law and principles]. It is as Teacher wrote, "the ultimate Great Fa of the cosmos" ("The Disciples' Magnificence" from Essentials for Further Advancement II), brought by our Teacher to save and help us return to our true origin and true self. Everyday I sat down with a calm mind to read the main text of Falun Gong, Zhuan Falun, reading three lectures a day, and finishing the book once every three days. I also studied Teacher's other lectures and reciting Essentials for Further Advancement. After some time, I obtained some truth clarifying materials from an assistant I knew in the past (but at the time, I did not really understand the meaning of clarifying the truth), and then went out together with other fellow practitioners to pass out the materials. Gradually the more materials that were given out, the more attachments were produced in my mind, and the less time I spent on studying the Fa. Soon after the practitioner whom I usually contacted was arrested by the evil, the channel through which I obtained truth-clarifying material was cut off. At that moment I felt very sad and heavy in my heart. Through studying the Fa, and reciting Hong Yin, I realized that my cultivation state was quite incorrect. Being a true practitioner, a disciple of our Teacher, how could I not be "Assisting Teacher in his journey in this world"? [From "Assisting the Fa" in Hong Yin] But I had no channel through which I could obtain truth clarifying materials, what was I to do? I bought some sticky poster gum, wrote out the truth clarification materials by myself and I went out to post them.

One day I went out to post truth-clarifying materials in a nine-story building. After I returned safely, I found that I had put up seventy-two flyers. I went out every day and put up at least seventeen or eighteen truth clarification posters per day. Every time I came back with no problems. Later on, because of the karma that existed in my body, my legs became very painful, making it hard for me to walk, which consequently forced me to walk with a limp. Under this circumstance, posting materials outside was difficult. I had to find other ways to do it. Waiting for the bus at a bus stop, I met a young man and talked with him about Falun Gong. What I said let him know more about Falun Gong and changed the misunderstanding in his mind toward Dafa. I gained some understanding from this. A little while later I studied Teacher's article "Rationality" and firmly kept in mind that Teacher taught us to "Validate the Fa with rationality, clarify the truth with wisdom, spread the Fa and save people with mercy." I knew I had found a good way to clarify the truth to people -- using my mouth.

Ever since, I went out daily even though I walked very slowly, and occasionally I took buses and clarified the truth on the buses. I used every possible chance to clarify the truth to people I met on my way: merchants, passengers, people waiting for buses, shop assistants, auto mechanics and shoe repairmen, fortune-tellers, garbage men, university students and other pupils, men and women, old, young, and middle-aged people... In other words, I was willing to clarify the truth to every person I came into contact with using however which way I could. The more I clarified the truth, the better I was able to do it.

During the time of the "16^th Party Congress" and the New Year of 2003, my children tried to persuade me to stay home and not to go out to post materials for several days because of the severe situation of the persecution. I remembered that Teacher says in Lecture Six of Zhuan Falun, "As true practitioners, we should look at issues from a very high level instead of from the perspective of everyday people" and "As a practitioner, your xinxing level should be high." I thought, how could the "16^th Party Congress" have anything to do with me? I went out and continued to clarify the truth to people. The number of people I talked to per day was at the most seventeen to eighteen and at the least four to five. On average, I clarified the truth to around eight or nine people per day. Our Teacher says, "However strong the righteous thoughts are, that's how great the power is. Dafa disciples are truly stepping forward out of ordinary humanness." ("Also in a few words" from Essentials for Further Advancement II) Therefore, based on unshakable faith in our Teacher and Dafa, I stepped forward out of ordinary humanness step by step.

My story is quite a common one among practitioners. I hope it could serve some reference for other fellow practitioners. In conclusion, let us firmly keep Teacher's words in our mind: "The Fa can break all attachments, the Fa can destroy all evil, the Fa can shatter all lies, and the Fa can strengthen righteous thoughts." ("Drive out interference" from Essentials for Further Advancement II) Let's study the Fa well and walk every step well on our own path of cultivation.