(Clearwisdom.net) I am an old lady who has practiced Falun Gong for 13 years. These13 years of cultivation have turned out to be long and short; full of hardships and happiness at the same time. However, I have made it this far. I deeply appreciate Master mercifully protecting me. I am writing about a few events that are typical for me in my cultivation to share with other practitioners and to give testimony that Dafa is magnificent, so that sentient beings will learn how extraordinary and splendid Dafa is. I also want to tell of my determination to encourage myself to be more diligent. I hope that practitioners will kindly point out the parts in what I have written that are inappropriate.
Numerous illnesses all disappeared in three days
Since I was little I had all kinds of illnesses. I had to take medicines every day for a long time. Life was bitter and miserable. My health gradually deteriorated. I had illnesses from "head to toe"" Cerebral vascular sclerosis, rhinitis, pharyngitis, pleurisy, cholecystitis, duodenal erosion, colitis, and arthritis. These illnesses contributed to my personality disorder. Whenever something happened that was against my will I would fly into a rage; no one dared to bother me. I had also kicked my children out of my house.
On July 10, 1995, I met a former neighbor. Seeing I was very weak, she told me to study Falun Gong and practice with her. She also lent me a copy of China Falun Gong. I finished the book in a few hours that day and learned the exercises that night. Although I could not remember all the movements that night, Master installed the Law Wheel for me. In bed that night I saw a big, shiny law wheel spinning on my bedroom wall, though I did not then know it was a law wheel. When the wheel spun I could feel my lower abdomen spinning. I felt very comfortable. Three days later after I finished practice I went home and got ready to fall asleep. Just then I heard voices saying, "I'm coming with a sound." There was a "bang" from the table next to my bed. My bed was immediately surrounded by people who talked about something I did not understand. They quickly removed some kind of blackish items from my head and chest. After that they washed my stomach. I felt miserable when they were doing it, but I kept repeating one thing Master said, "When it's difficult to endure, you can endure it. When it's impossible to do, you can do it." ("Lecture Nine," Zhuan Falun, 2000 translation version)
I had to withstand it. Master eliminated my illnesses within three days, just like that. From then on I was full of energy and truly experienced for the first time the feeling of bodily lightness without illness. I told myself that I would cultivate in this magnificent Dafa for my entire lifetime.
Opening the top of the head
At 3:00 a.m. sharp on the first day of the second month of the lunar calendar in 1999, Master opened the top of my head. Before that, my teeth had ached for a few days, and then my head hurt. The night before, all the bones in my body hurt so severely that I could not sit still. Kneeling in front of Master's portrait, I asked Master to lessen the pain for me. However, as soon as I knelt, I realized that it was Master who sent the test for me, to improve. Of course he would not take it away for me. Cultivation is hard. If I could not pass this test, I would be unable to go up a level. Increasing gong is the essence.
At 3:00 p.m. I felt that my head had broken open, and it felt like a little monkey jumped out from inside a rock. I felt much better. At the same time I saw layers upon layers of Buddhas and gods emerging from the cracks. They looked kind and merciful. In the end, Master installed three shiny things, like screens. From then on, when I meditate I can see scenes and beings from different dimensions.
Lightning ignited a fire and burned me, but nothing bad happened
On July 20, 1999, the CCP started its wild attack of Falun Gong; it seemed like the sky was going to fall. What should we do? I had no idea.
On July 22 while I ate lunch, a sudden thunderstorm blew up, and the rain poured. It became very dark inside my house. At that moment I remembered that I had left a copy of Zhuan Falun on the outside window air conditioner. I rushed outside to get it. As soon as I got the book, blue lightning encircled my body. Using my hands I tried to get it away, but the fire followed my hands and burned for about 30 seconds, but I was not burned.
Detained twice, with a different mental outlook each time
On June 26, 2000 I was locked in a detention center. The persecution had been going on for a year, and we had lost our experience-sharing opportunities. We longed to gather to exchange our ideas.
On June 25, 2000, approximately five hundred practitioners went to a park to share experiences. Although we did not do anything, CCP officials were terrified. They sent undercover police officers to spy on us, and they were prepared. The next morning, ready to practice in the park, police surrounded us. Most of us were arrested. After being photographed at the local police station, the practitioners were escorted to their local police stations in the various districts, but a woman practitioner and I remained. We clarified the truth to the guards, telling them that we cultivate Truthfulness-Compassion- Forbearance, and that we want to become good people. We also told them that we had not done anything wrong, and it was wrong for the regime to persecute Falun Gong; they should not treat us like that. As a result, they released us in the afternoon.
Before practicing Falun Gong I was self-centered and had many ingrained habits, and I was strongly attached to competing and showing off and would not give in to anyone. The next morning I returned to the park to practice and was once again arrested. While at the local police station I endlessly and fearlessly clarified the truth to the police. I refused to follow the policemen's orders, but eventually they carried me under force into a police vehicle and escorted me to a detention center. The head of the National Security Team interrogated me. Because I refused to cooperate with her, she failed to get anything from me. After 28 days, local police station officials dispatched someone to take me home in a police vehicle.
During the 2006 Autumn Festival I was once again held in a detention center. My husband and I had planned to return to our hometown to visit an old friend. As soon as we called him he told the county police station officials of our impending visit. We did not know that the CCP had deeply poisoned his mind. As soon as I left his house, police waiting outside arrested us. After an entire night at the police station we were escorted to the County Detention Center at 5:00 the next morning.
The guards at the detention center were vicious. I did not talk to them. Master said, "...just by remaining unmoved you could handle all situations." ("Teaching the Fa at the 2005 Canada Fa Conference") I started to recite Master's lectures every day and send righteous thoughts. Fearlessly I told myself that, since I was already there, I would settle down because there must be someone there, waiting for me to save them.
Master also said,
"Compassion can harmonize Heaven and Earth, ushering in spring
Righteous thoughts can save the people in this world." ("The Fa Rectifies the Cosmos" from "Hong Yin Volume" II)
Robberies and fights always occurred in the detention center. It is a rarity that someone was not beaten. I told the inmates the truth of Falun Gong and that they should not do bad deeds but should harmonize with Dafa, because only by doing so could they assure a future for themselves. They did not beat me, but they did quit the CCP and its affiliated organizations. They benefited from their good deeds. I also wrote notes to male cell inmates, telling them of the beauty of Dafa and that they should believe that "Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good" because if they did, they would have a beautiful future. Soon after the vicious detention center chief was transferred. The new chief was comparatively kind and treated me better. He let me have certain conveniences under his jurisdiction once he knew that I could not eat well and was physically weak.
Six months later, before I left the detention center, the head told me, "You are a good person. You have done a great deal for us and have solved many of our problems, which would have been impossible for us to solve."
Once again at home I studied the Fa and looked for my loopholes at the same time. I corrected my faults quickly and returned to the path of Fa-rectification.
Thank you, Master, for giving me hints and guidance. I will do well in the last phase of Fa-rectification.
May 22, 2009
