(Clearwisdom.net) I'm 74 years old this year. Since I obtained the Fa 14 years ago, I have always set high standards for myself to study the Fa more. There were wonderful changes in my body. During the past 14 years, I have read through Zhuan Falun every three days, recited Zhuan Falun paragraph by paragraph four times, and written out Zhuan Falun once. In addition, I have studied Master's lectures from around the world and finished reciting Hong Yin every half a month.
Amazing Changes Continuously Occurred
Several diseases I had that couldn't be cured in the past disappeared without my thinking about it. My weight, which had increased to 105 kilograms (approx. 231 pounds) due to illness, returned to about 60 kilograms (approx. 132 pounds), and I recovered my normal shape. My wrinkles became fewer, and my skin became delicate, making me look much younger. I had gone bald when I was in my 50s; but new black hair grew in without my thinking about it. A new tooth also grew in, even though I had lost the tooth more than 20 years ago. My menstrual period had stopped 13 years ago; two years after I started practicing Falun Gong, I regained it even though I was 62 years old.
After I practiced cultivation, my body was changed from head to toe, and from the inside to the outside. No words can express my appreciation to Master. I decided in my heart, "Follow Master's words, and take every step well and steadily on the path to Consummation."
When I read, "Why can't you let go of that mind of an ordinary person? Why are you reluctant to make a further step forward?" ("Further Give Up Attachment" from Essentials for Further Advancement) in 1998, hot tears welled up and ran down my cheeks. I enlightened that Master was pointing at me; I was moved by Master's benevolent salvation.
My children all witnessed my physical changes. My daughter-in-law often told her friends, "Regardless of how others have commented on Falun Gong, we support her practice as long as she stays healthy."
Stepping Out to Validate the Fa
The Chinese Communist Party has persecuted Falun Gong since July 20, 1999. As a Dafa disciple, how should I safeguard Dafa? I shared my confusion with fellow practitioners, but didn't get any clarity.
One morning in late June of 2000, I heard a sound when I was not quite awake, "Falun Dafa is good." I enlightened that I should go to Beijing to do Dafa justice. In the following several days, whenever I remembered "Falun Dafa is good," I wept in spite of myself. When my son came back for a meal at noon on June 29, I told him, "I want to go to Beijing." As soon as he heard it, he at once stopped eating, and left with his child, who was sleeping then. Later on, my daughter-in-law came to tell me, "Your son was crying all afternoon. Don't you love him?" I understood that my son was worried about my safety. I told my daughter-in-law, "I must go to Beijing." My son returned in the evening, asking me, "Mom, why do you have to go to Beijing?" I said patiently, "It is because of Master that so many illnesses I suffered before have all disappeared. Master bears all of them for me. Today, Jiang Zemin so seriously slandered Dafa. But then if I don't dare to do Dafa justice, and Master tells me one day that I have reached consummation, I cannot with any grace meet with Master." My son agreed. Then I gave my keys to him, telling him, "If I don't come back in one month, you can spend all the money in my pay card." At that time, I truly let go of the fear of death.
I went to Tiananmen Square several times in the beginning of July 2000, but I didn't encounter any fellow practitioners. Then I thought, "If I don't encounter fellow practitioners tomorrow, I will sit in meditation and do the exercises in the center of the square. After that, I will shout out 'Falun Dafa is good,' and the police won't see me."
I went to the center of Tiananmen Square the following morning. As I was about to sit down after putting down a plastic bag, a young woman came to me and said, "Go there." I asked, "Why?" She answered, "The energy field there is strong!" At once I understood that all of them were Dafa disciples. They all sat in the center of the square, two to three persons to a group. I asked them where they came from. They replied, "Don't ask; we are just Dafa disciples."
A female practitioner brought some T-shirts, with "Falun Buddha Law" printed on them, out of her bag and asked us to put them on. Some of us then did the second set of the exercises; some held the banner that read, "Falun Dafa."
The police then came to snatch the banner. Fellow practitioners stopped doing the exercises and all got together to safeguard the banner. Fellow practitioners in the surrounding area of the square also came. At that instant, the "Falun Dafa" banner was safeguarded by a lot of practitioners. We were fighting against the police in the center for quite a long time. As we safeguarded the banner, we shouted together, "Falun Dafa is good! Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good!" The shouts even touched the skies. One policeman said, "Why are we pulling it for such a long time, but to no avail?" There were also many non-practitioners looking on with curiosity; they moved with us.
Afterwards, the police surrounded us and took the banner away. We were all put into the police cars. Then we clarified the truth about Falun Gong to the police in the car and told them we were all good people. The driver who understood the truth slowed down the speed. We opened the windows again and shouted out together, "Falun Dafa is good! Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good!"
At the police department, a policeman asked me where I came from. I said, "I'm a Dafa disciple. After I practiced Falun Gong, all of my illnesses disappeared. All Dafa disciples are good people; we are selfless and always think of others first."
Practitioners recited from Hong Yin together in the yard of the police department, and shouted, "Falun Dafa is good! Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good!" We also shared our cultivation experiences, studied Master's lectures, and did the exercises together.
When the sun started to set, the police officers sent practitioners car by car to a detention center, leaving behind ten female practitioners, including me and a young man with a child. We were released, and then we returned home separately.
We didn't eat or drink anything during that day; but we didn't feel hungry or thirsty at all. We didn't go to the bathroom either. It wasn't until I returned home, that I discovered that my right forehead was swollen as large as a peach-stone, and my left arm was too painful to lift for two weeks.
Since July 2000, I have continued to clarify the truth and distribute informational materials to people in my local area, face to face. I also distributed materials to fellow practitioners. Moreover, I bought a computer, printer, and recorder, and I set up a truth-clarifying materials production site.
Negate The Old Force's Arrangements With Righteous Thoughts
The directors of my company forcibly sent me to a local brainwashing center on March 5, 2001 and declared that my son was fired. (We worked in the same company.) They wanted to use my family members to pressure me by implicating them. However, my son never complained to me and still treated me very well after he was fired. At the brainwashing center, I thought, "I need to leave!" With just this thought, and under the help of Master, I successfully walked out of the brainwashing center under everyone's sight. I went out of town by taxi, and I rented a room and bought daily necessities.
One night in my dream, an evil being wanted to bully me. I said "Freeze," and successfully froze the evil being. I enlightened after awaking, "There is nothing wrong with my being a good person according to Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. In addition, I have supernormal abilities. Why do I fear the evil? Why do I have to leave my home? I would like to go back!" I gave all the things I bought to the landlord and fully paid my rent. Then I went back home. Three days after I returned home, the directors from my company found me and told me to go to the brainwashing center. I asked them, "I practice Falun Dafa and am a good person. Why do you want me to transform? I had so many illnesses before; but they all disappeared after I practiced cultivation. It is well-known here. Let me tell you a heavenly principle, Treating Dafa and Dafa disciples well will bring you good rewards; while persecuting Dafa and Dafa disciples will bring you retribution." They were afraid after hearing that, and then they left.
In the afternoon on June 28, 2002, I was followed by the police who were waiting outside my home. Then they arrested me while I was distributing truth-clarifying materials. My home was also ransacked. I protested by going on a hunger strike, and I exposed their evil deeds to them, face to face. They then sent me to a local detention center on the following day.
In the detention center, a doctor asked me, "What illnesses did you have in the past?" I said at random, "I had high blood pressure." He then tested me and found my blood pressure was very high (up to 180). The doctors at the detention center didn't want to receive me, and they told the police, "We will release her if you don't pick her up within five days." I continued to go on the hunger strike in the detention center, and refused to sign anything or take any photos. I told the people there how wonderful Dafa is, and I exposed that the Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident was fake and was arranged to slander and persecute Falun Gong. During the five days in the detention center, I recited "Lunyu" and "A Righteous God" every day, and I disciplined myself according to the content of "A Righteous God." For example, I checked whether what I thought and did today were from righteous thoughts and righteous actions and whether I was diligent and eliminated evil interference.
Five days later, I was sent back to the brainwashing center. The next day all my children came to visit me. My elder son-in-law, who didn't practice cultivation at that time, persuaded me to give up practicing Falun Gong in the presence of the police. I asked my children, "If I don't practice cultivation, all my illnesses will come back again! Who will take care of me then?" My daughter-in-law said, "I will look after you for 40 years." I asked, "Who will pay for everything?" My elder daughter said, "I will." I said, "How much will you pay? When will you pay? You need to sign your name and make your mark." My elder daughter cried at once, "It sounds like I am not filial." I said, "After I practiced cultivation, Master got rid of all my illnesses and made me healthy. I am fine, regardless of whether you come to visit me. If I don't practice cultivation, all the illnesses will come back. Then you'll have to come to the hospital to look after me every day. How will you take care of your business then? Your business and your careers will be all destroyed then." After hearing this, the police at once left. On the following afternoon, my children took me back home.
One day in the middle of July 2005, I was on my way back home and randomly put some truth-clarifying flyers in several bike bags. Later on, a police car suddenly crossed in front of me from my right side and stopped two meters in front of me. Another police car also suddenly appeared and stopped on my right. At once I realized they were coming to arrest me. Master's words came to my mind at that moment, "...just by having your heart unaffected you will be able to handle all situations." ("Eliminate Your Last Attachment(s)" in Essentials for Further Advancement II) As I continued to walk, I sent out righteous thoughts towards the police car in front of me, "Eliminate all the evil!" As soon as I sent out righteous thoughts, that police car at once drove away to a main street on my left. I continued to walk forward freely. When I walked two to three meters away, I looked back, and found that the police car that had stopped in the front had already driven quite far away, and the police car that stopped on my right side was still stopped there. I told the stopped one in my heart, "Go away. Don't persecute Dafa disciples anymore."
Although this scene just happened in a flash, it allowed me to personally witness the power of Dafa, firmly believe in Master and Dafa, and have my heart become unaffected by the evil.
Thank you, Master! Thank you, fellow practitioners! Heshi
