(Clearwisodm.net) On May 13, 1992, Teacher Li Hongzhi began formally promoting Falun Dafa to the world. From that day on, the mighty Buddha light has illuminated the universe. Within the process of degeneration and destruction, there was new hope for sentient beings.
I was studying in college at the time and secretly searching for a "genuine law" or "Tao" for many years. I read a lot of books and still could not find what I was looking for. When Teacher began teaching the Fa, although I had not yet become a Falun Gong practitioner, Teacher was already protecting me and giving me hints. Sometimes when I was alone doing a sitting meditation at night, I would have a thought that I should be kind to others, with no clue where it came from.
On a winter day between 1995 and 1996, I was looking at the newspaper and noticed that the Beijing Evening News had a bestseller list and the first one on the list was Zhuan Falun. The small but eye-catching words leapt into my eyes. I thought that it would be nice if I could get a copy.
Not long after that, I visited a bookstore mall. I walked directly to a small bookstore that I would never have gone to before. Once I entered, I was stunned to see two rows of shelves packed with copies of Zhuan Falun directly in front of me. I browsed those books hungrily, bought a copy, and went home. I read it over and over again. I felt so fortunate, and since that time, I've never put down this valuable book.
After reading the book, I wondered where I could find a practice site. Almost immediately, I saw a coworker wearing a small Falun pin, smiling at me in the sunshine.
On April 21, 1996, a practice site was setup where I live. I then luckily stepped on the road of Falun Dafa and became one of Teacher's practitioners. No matter how the environment changed, I have never changed my initial decision.
Like thousands of other practitioners, I became disease-free once I began to cultivate. Dafa reveals its extraordinary nature and miracles to practitioners. Teacher takes infinite pains for practitioners and sentient beings, never asking for anything in return. I still remember the wonderful experience I had when Teacher helped me cleanse my body. That day, I was riding a bike on my way to work. I was wearing headphones as usual, listening to Teacher's lectures. I was listening to the part where Teacher asked people to think about an illness and then stomp their feet. I didn't hesitate at all, stopped my bike, got off, and stood there thinking about the arrhythmia (irregular heartbeat) I had had since I was a teenager. I followed Teacher's directions and stomped my feet. That disease that I had had for many years went away instantly. Only because practitioners have the wish to cultivate, our great and benevolent Teacher endured a lot for us. Who can imagine how immense that mercy is?
I strictly followed Dafa's principle of Truth-Compassion-Forbearance. My mind nature improved quickly in cultivation. I experienced many cultivation opportunities and tests. Sometimes when I was riding a bike, a stranger would spit in my face for no reason, yet I took it lightly. Sometimes while I was taking a public bus, the cashier would accuse me of not buying the correct ticket in front of everyone on the bus. I did not argue with her. Sometimes, my colleagues would intentionally say something nasty and then make things difficult for me. I only gave some necessary explanations. My heart felt very calm. Most of the time, I tried to maintain good mind nature, endure hardships, and be diligent in cultivation. Under the care of our Teacher, I passed tests one after another. In the chaos of the world, my cultivation demonstrated the extraordinarily good part of Dafa.
I am lucky to live in a family of cultivators. My husband and son also practice and improve themselves in Dafa. When we had conflicts at home, we all followed Teacher's requirements and looked inward. We did not look outward and accuse others. I remember when I had an ultrasound scan during my pregnancy, the doctor looked for quite some time, bewildered. Finally he said, "This baby is very strange. Why does he keep sitting cross-legged?" I smiled and said, "He is doing the Falun Gong exercises."
Before April 25, 1999, I heard the news that some Tianjin practitioners had been arrested. Such a good practice only teaches people to be good by following Truth-Compassion-Forbearance, plus the five sets of simple exercises, and helps people achieve the goal of eliminating illnesses and becoming healthy, constantly improving to higher levels. Why had the government arrested good people?
On the morning of April 25, I went to the Appeals Office located on Fuyou Street, to express my feelings as an ordinary cultivator who practiced and benefited from Falun Dafa. I hoped that we would be allowed a legal and public environment to study the Fa and do the exercises. I hoped that the Tianjin local government would release those innocent practitioners. Many practitioners went there, but we remained orderly and stood along the sidewalk so as not to disturb traffic or pedestrians. Some passersby stood there, watching us out of curiosity. Practitioners took the initiative to maintain order and make it easy on pedestrians. Everything was calm and peaceful. I remember when the Prime Minister met our representatives, he indicated that he would resolve our issues. That evening, practitioners cleaned the surroundings before they left. The ground was clean and practitioners were so pure.
On July 20, 1999, Jiang Zemin and the evil Chinese Communist Party (CCP) pursued their ulterior motives and began persecuting the universal Dafa. Once again, I went to the Appeals Office in Beijing. When I arrived, I saw the street full of police, but as a Dafa practitioner, there was no turning back. I wanted to use my personal experience to ask for justice for Dafa. I was illegally detained for one night. Police officials wanted to repeatedly broadcast slanderous fabrications against Dafa in front of the practitioners, but they failed because that particular channel couldn't receive any signals--even though other channels were online. Even the police officials thought that this was strange. In the face of the outrageous intimidation, ridicule, and verbal abuse from the officials, I kept reciting Teacher's poem:
"In life, nothing sought,
In death, regretting naught;
Washing away all wrong thought,
Buddhahood, with less
adversity, is wrought." ("Nothing Kept" from Hong Yin, Version A)
Teacher reminded me, looked after me, and strengthened my righteous thoughts. When I returned home that afternoon, my mother told me that a bird with colorful feathers had recently perched outside my bedroom. It had kept chirping and wouldn't leave. My mother said that when she saw that bird, she felt that I would come home soon. I went to my room and saw the bird still perched there. I had never seen this type of bird anywhere in the North before. The bird's feathers were red, yellow, blue and green--it was really beautiful. It seemed that when the bird saw that I'd returned home, she looked reassured, then flew away.
Teacher is compassionate to all sentient beings and does not want to see so many lives being eliminated. Teacher's wish is the responsibility of his disciples. Dafa practitioners--Dafa's manifestation in the human world--walk the road of clarifying the truth and assisting Teacher in saving sentient beings.
The year before last summer, I saw Udumbara flowers blooming on pine needles in a pine forest where my son normally spends his playtime. Those small and pure stems moved slightly in the breeze. In Buddhism, Udumbara flowers bloom every three thousand years. When Udumbara flowers bloom, it means that the King of the Golden Wheel has appeared in the human world and saves sentient beings. According to Buddhist teachings, "Udumbara is the product of ominous and supernatural phenomena; it is a celestial flower and does not exist in the mundane world. If a Tathagata or King of the Golden Wheel appears in the human world, this flower will manifest due to their great virtue and blessings."
At present, Udumbara flowers are blooming everywhere in the world. The Holy King who turns the wheel has arrived in the human world. His messengers are also saving sentient beings. What an eternal opportunity it is. It will last for a very short time, so we must pay attention. Human beings, please open your eyes, listen carefully with your heart to cultivators' voices and your own self: Falun Dafa is good.
