(Clearwisdom.net) I started to practice Falun Dafa in October 1998. I own a small garment business. Since July 20, 1999, when the persecution of Dafa began, I have been arrested and held at the Public Security Bureau several times and have been detained at the custodial station twice. Each time I walked out in a noble and dignified way due to my determined belief in Master and in the Fa. Here I'd like to share with you some of my experiences.

1. Fully Using Opportunities in the Workplace to Clarify the Truth to People

Since July 20, 1999, I have been clarifying the truth to people face to face at my workplace. At the beginning, my righteous thoughts were not very strong and I was not able to clarify the truth with ease. Sometimes I missed opportunities. But I always put truth-clarifying cards (or notes) into the pockets of new clothes which read, "Remember Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance, and you will be safe and have happiness," or, "Falun Dafa is good. The Tiananmen self-immolation and crimes blamed on Falun Gong were staged." I have been doing this for two years and have achieved good results. Most people accepted them when they saw the cards and said to me, "You people have belief and are very righteous and honest." They said that they like to come to me to have their clothes made and they enjoyed talking to me.

Once, I was illegally detained at the local Public Security Bureau. One of the police officers said to me, "You make clothes and put paper slips in the pockets and write stuff like 'Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance,' don't you?" I replied, "Isn't Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance good?" The officer said, "Isn't Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance Falun Gong?" I said, "Falun Gong teaches people to be good and to behave according to the principles of 'Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance,' isn't it very good? If people all over the world could adhere to the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance, this society would be so much safer!" Hearing this, he didn't say a word. People nowadays don't differentiate good from bad. No matter where I go and no matter how high a person's social position is, I always clarify the truth to them. When I was illegally detained, I clarified the truth to the director of the police station, the director of the Public Security Bureau, the policemen, and the inmates. I said to them, "Falun Dafa is the righteous way, and it is very wrong that Falun Dafa is being persecuted." I also adopted a popular saying and said to them, "The programs on TV are all lies except the program 'Animal World.'" In this way I made them aware that they shouldn't believe the slanderous lies about Falun Gong on TV.

Clarifying the truth more deeply face to face and through sharing with other practitioners, we learn from each other and use everybody's skills and make up for everybody's shortcomings. The more we speak, the better the results we achieve and the more smoothly can we clarify the truth. Since the publication of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, we have been clarifying the truth and encouraging people to withdraw from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) face to face, and the results have been good.

As I keep clarifying the truth and offering salvation to sentient beings, the environment around me has had some subtle changes. Once, a fellow vendor named Dawei, who was at the booth opposite me, forgot to give over ten dollars in change to a customer and the customer was unaware of it. When Dawei found this out, he rushed to chase down the customer and return the money to her. When he came back, he said to me, "I have to listen to Big Sister (referring to me) and remember 'Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance' and be a good person." Whoever comes to me to have clothes made is certain to hear the facts about Falun Gong and the persecution. Within these past several years, the number of people who have heard the truth and who have withdrawn from the CCP through these encounters exceeds several thousand.

2. Believing in Master and the Fa and Passing the Test of Sickness Karma

In June 2005, I suddenly bled heavily on the day I had my period. At the beginning I didn't pay any attention to it, but four or five days passed and it did not let up and I was also very weak. Unrighteous thoughts came to my mind. I thought to myself: Since I started to cultivate, I have been diligent in studying the Fa, practicing the exercises and spreading the Fa. I went to Beijing to validate the Fa and walked out free from the detention center several times. I had been walking my cultivation path in a noble and dignified way. Then why did these symptoms come up? (Subconsciously I had doubt in Master and in the Fa.) My heart was moved.

Fellow practitioners came to share with me and said that my thoughts were not right and asked me to adjust myself and to look inward. When I had unrighteous thoughts, the evil strengthened them. I kept looking outward and didn't enlighten. As a result, my health became worse and worse daily. In the end I couldn't see clearly and I looked terrible. My feet and legs were swollen and couldn't fit into my shoes. Fellow practitioners were very worried about me. They shared with me from the Fa. Only then did I calm down and carefully look within for problems. I must certainly have xinxing problems that allowed the evil to take advantage of me. They used to interfere with me and persecute me; But where was my omission?

Looking back, I found that for a long time I had been overly concerned about my safety, even though I had been doing the three things as Master required us to do. After the evil started the persecution, I had been arrested several times and had been detained several times. My family and relatives were under great pressure. Therefore I was not doing things nobly and with dignity as Falun Dafa practitioners were supposed to do. When I practiced the exercises and sent forth righteous thoughts, my mind was not focused. Because I was not diligent in the Fa, my heart of laziness and seeking comfort appeared. It was my slackness that allowed the evil to take advantage of me and then this improper physical state appeared. Especially when problems came up, I didn't look inward and I blamed Master instead. Just like Master said in Lecture Four of Zhuan Falun,

"He may think that his gong has been increasing well and the practice also goes very well. Why are there suddenly so many problems?"... "This person himself might not get it."

"Therefore, a lot of these cases often take place when people regard their suffering in life as being unfair."

"Why do you encounter these problems? They are all caused by your own karma."

"We have said that good or evil comes from a person's spontaneous thought, and the thought at that moment can bring about different consequences."

At last I understood. In my heart I begged Master to help me and I reinforced the intensity of sending forth righteous thoughts to eliminate any evil factors that persecuted and interfered with me. I said to the evil, "I am Li Hongzhi's disciple and I will walk the path my Master has arranged for me and I will negate and deny all other arrangements." At the same time I studied the Fa more, practiced the exercises more and sent forth righteous thoughts more. Two weeks later gradually I bled less and less. But my feet and legs were still swollen and my face was still pale. I disregarded all these. As long as I could walk, I went out to distribute truth-clarification materials with fellow practitioners at night. It was hard for me. Sometimes I was out of breath after walking a short distance and felt like I was choked and couldn't breathe. I had to sit down for a while. After I recovered a little bit, I then continued on my way. Fellow practitioners also encouraged me and helped me to step forward. During the day, I went to work as usual. But my main purpose was to clarify the truth to people and encourage people to withdraw from the CCP.

People who knew me asked me as soon as they saw me: "How come you look so pale? Why are your ankles so swollen?" Friends and relatives also tried to persuade me to go see doctors. One of my good friends who worked in a hospital was surprised to see me like that and said to me, "Look at your face. You only have a few grams of blood left. Hurry up and have analeptic medicine and blood supplementing foods." In my heart I knew that worldly things would not have any effect on me. I smiled at her and said, "There is no problem with me. After a while I will be all right." Despite my physical discomfort, I helped the local practitioners set up a home-based truth-clarification materials production site. With the help of Master and fellow practitioners, I finally got over the tribulation and broke through the test of sickness karma.

I realized that cultivation is serious and cannot be taken lightly. The old forces are watching any omission Dafa practitioners have. Once they find one, they will drag you down fiercely. Superficially it was a test and it was very hard and difficult; they'll drag you down even to the point of death. Fundamentally they want to destroy you. I also realized the higher level Fa principles that "Your main consciousness should predominate" and, "Your mind must be right" (Section headings in Lecture Six of Zhuan Falun). I hope that practitioners can learn lessons from me. When problems occur, we must look inward immediately. As long as we rectify ourselves according to Master's Fa and do the three things solidly as Master requires, and negate the arrangement of the old forces, there's no test we cannot pass.