(Clearwisdom.net)
Greetings to esteemed Master!
Greetings to Dafa disciples all over the world!
I am a young Falun Dafa disciple in China. I am very glad to have the opportunity today to share my experience with other Dafa disciples all over the world. I hope we will be more diligent and together improve our understandings from the Fa.
I was a weak child and often got sick. My family went to a lot of trouble to take care of me, but my health didn't improve. In the spring of 1998, my whole family obtained the Fa with great joy. I was four and half years old then. Within six months of beginning to practice Falun Dafa, my health greatly improved. Master constantly cleansed my body. Dafa had deeply taken root in my young heart. I was quite young and didn't know many Chinese characters. So my mom taught me to read Zhuan Falun, one word at a time. I listened carefully and memorized it carefully. Before long, miraculously, I was able to read Zhuan Falun by myself.
My mom not only studied the Fa with me, but early every morning, she took me to a park to attend group exercise practice. One morning, when we were practicing the second exercise, it started to drizzle. Gradually, it rained harder and harder. My grandma didn't regard it from the perspective of the Fa. She was afraid that I would get sick if I stayed in the rain, so she took me in her arms and ran home. I remembered what Master had taught us in Lecture Six of Zhuan Falun,
"You just feel it's odd and don't think about it further. ... and it serves the purpose of stopping you from doing the exercises."
I attempted to free myself from grandma's arms, but grandma just held me tight. I became anxious, and shouted to her, "Master told us to 'not even flinch when thunder sounds.'" Grandma was suddenly awakened by my words. So she held me in her arms and went back to the practice site. We continued to do our exercises. Now I have truly understood this other meaning of "not even flinch when thunder sounds." No matter what kind of interference or persecution we may encounter, we should always keep our righteous thoughts. Our firm belief in Master and in the Fa should be as solid and unchangeable as diamond. Master said in Lecture Six in Zhuan Falun that,
"'It doesn't matter what so-called Buddha, what Dao, what Deity, or what demon it is--they can't sway me.' When you're like that there's definitely a good chance you'll succeed."
I always have a hard time handling myself well and guarding my character. I often lost my temper with my mom and grandpa, and didn't search within myself until afterwards. One day, my grandma and I were putting on our shoes and getting ready to go to the practice site in a park. I accidentally heard someone saying to me, "Be gentle and soft. Be gentle and soft." I felt strange and asked grandma if she heard anything. Grandma said, "I don't hear anything. Hurry up, put on your shoes and go downstairs." I wondered, "Who could that be? Who was talking to me?" When I went downstairs, I suddenly realized it was Master. Master was reminding me to be gentle and soft, not to lose my temper easily and to be tolerant. Master has said in Zhuan Falun that, "If you have a bad temper then just change it."
Several years have passed in a flash. I have gone through many difficulties and gradually grown mature. Cultivation is not smooth sailing. Since July 20, 1999, the CCP has constantly persecuted Dafa and Dafa practitioners. It cooked up many lies to slander Dafa, including the staged "Self-Immolation" [1] incident on Tiananmen Square that shocked the world. Dafa disciples must clarify truth to people deceived by the CCP.
At first, it was so hard for me! I had a lot of fear and dared not clarify the truth to people. When I was studying Zhuan Falun, what Master said awakened me: "With this fear, he failed again. Fear is also a kind of attachment." I gradually understood that all attachments and fears are human thoughts; they are interference by the evil old forces. The purpose of the old forces is to destroy all sentient beings and to prevent them from being saved. That's why they created fears in my mind. Fear naturally goes away as long as I eliminate all evil beings, dark minions and rotten demons in the other dimensions that interfere with me in saving sentient beings.
One day, mom and I went to Tiananmen Square to send forth righteous thoughts. We brought some small slogans with us and planned to put them up in Tiananmen Square. I kept on sending forth righteous thoughts to eliminate the evil. I asked Master to help us. I had no fear in my mind at all. We put up all of the banners we brought with us and went home safely under Master's merciful protection.
The Fa-rectification process is speeding up constantly. Now, the Nine Commentaries have been published. Dafa disciples and some ordinary people have understood the true nature of the evil communist party. However, many ordinary people have not heard of the truth yet and are still controlled by the evil CCP.
What the elementary school students learn in schools (in China) are all texts produced by the CCP. The songs they sing are songs of the CCP. Every day they have to wear the red scarf of the Young Pioneers. I know the evil spirit of the CCP is controlling them. I, too, am an elementary school student. However, I am not a member of the Young Pioneers, because I have voluntarily withdrawn from all organizations led by the CCP. However, every student is required to wear the red scarf at school. If I don't wear the red scarf, I will be fined. The teacher even criticizes me for not wearing the red scarf. I thought, "The evil specter of the CCP is controlling people to commit sins. I am a Dafa disciple. I cannot be controlled by the evil CCP specter." So I sent forth righteous thoughts and asked Master to help me. I sent forth righteous thoughts every day. Gradually, the teacher no longer mentioned wearing the red scarf. I don't attend the flag-raising ceremony every day, and the teacher no longer requested that I wear the red scarf. This shows how important it is to send forth righteous thoughts.
In the end, let me quote Master's article to encourage each other:
A Will That Ebbs Not
(in Song Dynasty poetic form)
Surpassing time and space,
Fa-rectification dashes forward
Massive is the challenge,
but your will is firm
Unbridled are the wicked,
yet you keep your bearings
Purging evil as if but whisking dust away
My disciples,
walk straight the path of Dafa
May your radiance grace the human world,
as you transcend the Three Realms
Disciples of Fa,
be diligent, with a will that ebbs not
The countless years of hardship were all for this time
I have shared some of my understandings of the Fa from the past few years. Please kindly point out anything inappropriate.
(From the Second Written Experience Sharing Conference for Practitioners in China)
[1] Reference: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/special_column/self-immolation.html
