(Clearwisdom.net) I am 58 years old and was grateful to obtain the Fa in 1996. I changed from a person struggling between life and death into a Dafa disciple who feels physically light as I walk on the path to godhood. I feel so lucky and so proud. Master has been taking care of us all the time and directing us on this difficult and great path of cultivation. Although the things that I did were very common things that Dafa disciples are supposed to do—and far from the requirements of the Fa—I still want to share with fellow practitioners the part that I have been trying hard to do well.
1. Studying the Fa More Has Allowed Me Walk Steadily for Over Ten Years
Beginning on January 1, 1999, I made up my mind to study the Fa more. I told myself I would read all of Zhuan Falun once every three days, which meant I had to squeeze in time to read Master’s lectures at other times. I set a very strict requirement for myself. Sometimes when I was not able to meet my goal, I would make it up for the next two days. Somethings I did not sleep if I could not finish the reading. Between January 1 and July 20, 1999, I read Zhuan Falun over 100 times. Because the Fa was in my heart, when the red terror of the persecution descended, I thought of the Fa. Master said:
“Others have said to me, 'You’ve made their cultivation so easy. People just have that little bit of adversity of their own, and there are just those little things between people. There’s a lot of attachments they still aren’t able to get rid of! We still have to wait and see whether your people can understand your Great Law when confusion and chaos arrive.' There’s this issue, so there will be interference, and there will be trials.” (Zhuan Falun)
I thought this might be the test for us in this big confusion. At that time, my home was the place for Fa-study in the afternoon. We faithfully studied the Fa every day. Later on when no one dared to show up, I still continued to study at least three lectures of the Fa every day.
When we met with interference, I was neither scared nor fearful. I had no complaint or hatred. When my colleagues or the police came to my home, I was always smiling, and, with sincerity, I told them about the Fa and its benefits of healing and fitness. When they asked me whether I still practiced the exercises, I smiled and said, “I do. It's such a good practice, how could I not practice it?”
Ever since I have made good use of my time to study the Fa more and study it well. Very often I will study three lectures per day, so by now I have read Zhuan Falun over a thousand times. I do not count anymore. My home is very often the location for the Fa-study group, and I continue to study every day. With the power of the Fa and with righteous compassion, the evil was dismantled. In clarifying the truth and saving the sentient beings, with Master’s care, Dafa’s instruction, and compassionate and strong righteous thoughts, real danger does not exist, so I have been walking the path of Fa-rectification cultivation over ten years.
2. Letting Human Attachments Go and Saving Sentient Beings with a Determined Heart
After the persecution started, I knew my life was given to me by Dafa and that I should continue to cultivate 'till the very end. I listen to Master, and whatever Master asks us to do, I do it. On the path of validating the Fa for the past ten years, in order to validate the Fa and save sentient beings, usually I don’t wait to see what other practitioners have done, and I just do whatever the coordinators ask me to do. It is while studying the Fa that I enlighten to what I am supposed to do, and I then volunteer to do it with my fellow practitioners. We have been walking a path of a “Great Way Without Form.” I do not do things following my own will. I do well what Dafa requires, and I place Dafa as the first priority.
Since inside China we have to pay special attention to safety, only a few people know what I am going to do at any given time. It is only when they do something with me that they realize what we are actually going to do. In the process of doing things, I always handle the difficulties and make it convenient for my fellow practitioners. We always send forth righteous thoughts until we return home.
From delivering “truth-clarification” materials in the evening to doing it in the daytime, from delivering the materials to preparing the materials, from being a large material production center to having material centers everywhere to organizing small material centers, from clarifying the truth face-to face in the city to clarifying the truth and persuading the people to quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations, from giving out Shen Yun DVDs in the city to giving out Shen Yun DVDs door-to-door in the countryside, I have done it all. I've never needed anyone else to assign me the job. I always overcame all the difficulties and let go of my human attachments, and I stepped forward on my own to do it. I have followed closely the Fa-rectification process and helped Master save the sentient beings with all my heart.
3. Letting Go of Myself, Cooperating with the Whole Group
On the path of validating the Fa, whatever I was enlightened to, I would cooperate with fellow practitioners. After some time, I formed the attachment of being attached to myself, and I was not even aware of it. In the winter of 2008, we were in the urban areas to clarify the truth face-to-face and persuade people to quit the CCP-related organizations. When we heard that practitioners in the countryside were going door-to-door to persuade people to quit the CCP, I enlightened to the fact that it was a slack time for farmers, so we should also go to the countryside to meet them and persuade them to quit the CCP. I shared this with fellow practitioners in my Fa-study group. We all agreed and went to look for practitioners in the countryside to learn from them and went with them to see how they clarified the truth. We divided into different groups and cooperated, and the results were very good.
We were them assigned to go to the countryside in our area to clarify the truth door-to-door. We took the bus or taxi, and we walked between villages. In a town that was assigned to us, there were 90 villages, with only one road in and one road out. After we went there several days in a row, I thought it was dangerous to keep going to the same place. There are so many place in the countryside . It would be the same if we went somewhere, since we were saving sentient beings wherever we went. I went to a relatives’ country village to clarify the truth. We went door-to-door. The three of us divided up into two groups. I went by myself and the other two went together. We started at the far side of the village. When we were halfway along, the person I was talking to told me to please make sure that I did not go to the far side of the village, since there were police staying there, and that we should leave as soon as possible. Also, two other practitioners had already been at her house and clarified the truth. The other two practitioners appeared just as we were going to look for them. I told them what the villager had told me, and they said that they had, indeed, gone to that household already. There were six adults and one child in that household. One of them mentioned that we had come at the right time, since his elder brother had just left. If he had been at home, things would have not gone well. When we were discussing the issue of quitting the CCP-related organizations, we asked them whether they were Party members or Communist Youth League members. One of them said that all six adults were Party members. And all six of them agreed to quit the CCP. In this village we helped over 40 people quit the CCP and its affiliated organizations.
After returning home, we reported to our coordinator what other areas had been covered by fellow practitioners. The coordinator was concerned that we might have duplicated our efforts, so they decided that we should meet as a larger group with the practitioners from the countryside to proceed on a larger scale. I thought it would not be safe if there were too many of us in one town. Also, there were only three of us who went there often. One of us had a night shift job, the other one a day shift. Every day I had to pick up my granddaughter after school. With so many practitioners, it would be difficult. I did not obey. I overcame the difficulties and went back to the villages and towns that were assigned to us to continue.
In the spring of 2009, several of us offered to go door-to-door to the villages and towns that were assigned to us to give out Shen Yun DVDs. We gave out one set of the DVDs every three to four households. We either took the bus or taxi, or walked between different villages. One group could give out the DVDs to three or four villages. One day the coordinator asked us to join a group discussion and share our experiences. We understood that a group of practitioners who went to the countryside experienced interference and were arrested. Fellow practitioners supported them with righteous thoughts. The coordinator had hardly finished what he was saying when the practitioners who were interfered with chimed in that it was us who visited where they had already been that were causing the evil interference. I thought this reasoning was not right. So I said, “Yes, in the past I did go somewhere that other fellow practitioners had gone, but not this year. However, your reasoning is not correct: there is nothing wrong with further clarifying the truth. Even if someone’s relatives went to clarify the truth, wouldn’t that work as well? It also happened that the village we were assigned was very big and we couldn't cover everyone all at one go and had to return several days later to continue clarifying the truth.” Eventually some practitioners were still not satisfied with what I said. Looking inside, I found out that it was because I did not take the arrangements of the whole body into consideration, and I put too much emphasis on my personal understanding.
In understanding the importance of overall coordination, later on when we gave out Shen Yun DVDs in our area, I offered to look for other practitioners in other areas, asking them to help me find their coordinators (since the coordinators were kept secret, I did not even know some of them). Through the coordinators we learned where else we still needed to give out Shen Yun DVDs. With this coordination, we went out to over 100 villages to give out the DVDs again. We heard that there was still one town where there were many villages where no one gave out Shen Yun DVDs yet, so fellow practitioners and I went out to look for other practitioners in that area. A practitioner agreed to take us there (sometimes at night time, he went to the countryside to do the distribution), and we gave out DVDs in another eight to nine villages.
This incident made me find my own shortcomings and correct the attachment of being attached to myself and the bad habit of doing whatever I wanted. This spring after the Shen Yun DVDs came, we finished our assigned areas in the city. When there was no one going to the countryside to give out Shen Yun DVDs, I went to talk to the coordinator and asked for a map showing the assigned areas. I asked the coordinator whether he could find us a motorcyclist, and the coordinator replied that in the day time, everyone went to work. I talked to the motorcyclist who had gone with us the year before. We went there once, but he went out of town and was no longer available. When we could not find someone to take us, we met a fellow practitioner who rode a motorcycle to work. I was very happy to see him riding his motorcycle. I said we needed to go to the village to give out Shen Yun DVDs, and it was hard find a motorcycle. I asked him whether he could go with us. He said he could and brought his motorcycle.
He would get up early and go to work early so that he could come home early. We went in accordance with his schedule. When we did not go, we would clarify the truth face to face in the lanes locally.
With our strong righteous thoughts and with Master’s compassionate care, in the daytime, we went door-to-door to give out Shen Yun DVDs. We gave out one set of the DVDs every three to four households. This year, we gave them out to over one 160 villages. This is what I have done after letting go of myself and cooperating with the coordinators to harmonize as one body.
