(Clearwisdom.net) I have practiced Falun Gong since 1996 and cultivated on the right path under Master’s protection and with help from other practitioners. I would like to share my cultivation experiences.
Getting Up When I Fell Down
I was seized and illegally arrested in 2004 and then detained for two years. During that time I was forced to write a statement indicating that I was giving up Falun Gong in order to be released. I was confused for more than six months after I returned home. With a practitioner’s help, I resumed my cultivation. I was encouraged to memorize Zhuan Falun and started to do so in the fall of 2006. I have continued to do this ever since. From that moment, I realized that I had started real cultivation.
Explaining the Facts to People and Offering More People Salvation
In 2007 I started a Dafa materials production center at home by utilizing the time after work, and I started clarifying the truth to people face to face. The first time I asked people to quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), I was so scared my hands were shaking. My reactions made those I spoke to scared, too. The more I talked, the less fear I had. During the whole process, I improved my cultivation state. I own a shop, and all my customers are people who need to be saved.
Once an older customer, who was not an easygoing person, showed up. However, when I brought up the topic of quitting the Party to have good fortune, he listened carefully and believed it. He told me that he did not participate in any Party organizations, but that his father did and was a Party member. I was surprised and moved by his reaction, and realized I could not judge him using ordinary standards. Regardless of how he appeared, we should not avoid offering him salvation. On another occasion, my computer speaker on, playing the song “Falun Dafa Hao” in the store. Then an accountant came to check my account profits. I asked him what he thought about the song. He said that he could not hear it very well, but could feel that it was beautiful. I told him the lyric was “Falun Dafa is good!”
One day we posted a position for a cook at the shop. Two ladies showed up for interviews, and I knew that they had predestined relationships with Dafa. I then explained the goodness of Falun Gong and about the CCP persecution to them after the interview. They seemed to understand.
I used to be a schoolteacher and can express myself well. After reading cultivation experience sharing articles online, I felt that I needed to make a significant change to clarify the truth to people face-to-face. In the past, I only sought out relatives, and it took a long time to touch on the right topic. Therefore, I was not being efficient when I compared myself to what other practitioners did. I decided to make an action plan. I stepped out of the house one day and walked down the street, but I let several people pass by me. I could not open my mouth. So I asked Master silently, “Master, I cannot waste any more time, I have to talk to people. Please give me a chance.”
A worker approached me. I said hello to him. He stopped, looked
at me, and said “What's up?” I said “Nothing.” He was disappointed
and said, “I thought that you had something to say.” As he started
to walk away, I struggled, realizing this was Master’s arrangement
and that I should not miss it. I caught up to him, told him the
facts, and asked him to quit the Party and its affiliated
organizations. As a result, he did quit—without hesitation—and
learned about the goodness of Falun Gong. I was grateful after the
fact and was moved to tears. I thanked Master for helping me to let
go of my attachment of fear so that I could talk to people face to
face.
Recently, I started talking to students about the facts of Falun
Gong. There is a school with thousands of children in my
residential area. Children are innocent and open minded, and they
easily listen. I chatted with them and gave them an example. If you
saw blood on the street, would you like to wear something on your
neck that was colored to reflect its being soaked with blood? Of
course, we would say no. I also told them that the red scarf was
colored to symbolically reflect its being soaked with blood. By
doing so, it would bring one bad luck. Many of the kids ended up
quitting the Young Pioneers. I also told them to be a person with
Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, and I reminded them to
remember that Falun Dafa is good and
Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.
A couple days ago, a boy who was not in the same class as my child stopped by and wanted to get to know my child. Realizing that he might have a predestined relationship with Dafa, I told him the facts and asked him to quit the Young Pioneers. I tried to give him an alias, so I asked him what he would like to be. He thought about it and said that he wanted to be a good boy. I ended up using “Good Boy” as his alias.
On another day, a boy biked by me when I was clarifying the truth to a little girl. The boy suddenly stopped because the bike chain fell off, and he tried to fix it. I knew that he might have a predestined relationship with Dafa, so I went over to help him. In the meantime, I told him the facts, and he ended up quitting the Young Pioneers. Although I did not even know how to ride a bike, when I touched the chain, it fell back into the proper position and the bike was fixed.
Clarifying the truth to people is part of the Fa-rectification cultivation process. Any distraction or attachment will prevent us from offering more people salvation. For some time, I told people the facts, but they did not accept it. I studied the Fa, looked inward, and discovered my attachment to pursuing the number of people who quit the Party. After I let go of my attachment, the situation got better. Whenever I tell people the facts, I also tell them about the goodness of Falun Gong, the great principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, and that the Tiananmen Square Self-immolation was a staged hoax.
Studying the Fa
I know the importance of Fa study from my own experience. For four years I have been memorizing Zhuan Falun. I also study Master’s other Dafa lectures. While memorizing the Fa, I close my eyes, yet I see the words one by one in front of me. I am able to concentrate better. I have the thought to send Falun to dissolve any distractions. After memorizing the Fa, I feel that my body is warm and light.
Letting Go of Myself
I usually practiced along with my family, so I had less contact
with other practitioners. However, while working with the other
practitioners, many of my attachments were gradually exposed, and I
learned to get rid of them one by one.
I had hired a nanny (who is also practitioner) at home to take care of my child. But the nanny complained that she did not have enough time to take care of her own child, that she went home too late, etc. I initially responded with ordinary thinking--that I paid her enough for her work, and this was what a nanny was supposed to do.
Master has said:
“From now on, whatever you do, you should consider others first, so as to attain the righteous Enlightenment of selflessness and altruism. So from now on, whatever you do or whatever you say, you must consider others--or even future generations--along with Dafa's eternal stability." ("Non-Omission in Buddha-Nature" in Essentials for Further Advancement)
Master also said:
“If you’re going to be real practitioners, you have to look at things from a really high level, and you can’t use ordinary people’s opinions to interpret things.” (“The Sixth Talk” in Zhuan Falun)
So I thought about my being selfish and unreasonable. Many practitioners want to have more time to produce Dafa materials, just as she did. This nanny created the production center two years earlier and was responsible for Dafa materials distribution. She did spend a long time at my house. Why couldn't I think about her first, and why couldn't I change my schedule to accommodate hers so that she could go home early? As a result, I reduced my work hours so that she could go home in the afternoon instead of the evening. This made her happier and me, too.
I am now able to look inward whenever there is a conflict and try to improve my xinxing. Once I identify my own problems, the person in opposition will change his or her attitude, too. I realize that we can get rid of the evil elements and offer more people salvation when we look inward.
There are no words to express the gratitude I feel for the great compassion from Master. I will do the three things as Master requires and not let Master down.
