(Clearwisdom.net) I am a veteran practitioner who started practicing Falun Dafa before the persecution in July 1999. I am nearly 70 years old. That year I had leukemia and the hospital said I would only live for 40 more days. So I stayed at home and did nothing except wait for my death. One day, my husband forced me to walk with him. I saw Falun Dafa practitioners doing the exercises in the park. That is how I met Dafa. Soon after I started practicing, I became healthy again. After that I had heartfelt trust in Master and Dafa.
After July 20, 1999, when the persecution started, no matter how hard it was, I never gave up cultivation. I have been faithful about doing the three things.
I have twin grandchildren. Because both my son and daughter-in-law have to work, I have to watch the twins all day long and do all the housework. Besides those things, I study the Fa, practice the exercises, and clarify the truth every day. Every week I also go to a forced labor camp to send righteous thoughts and distribute articles and copies of the Minghui Weekly. Over these years, I have never stopped. Every day I only sleep for two to three hours. Although it is quite hard, I am truly happy. I wrote down some of my experiences to report to Master and share with fellow practitioners.
In the beginning of the persecution, I was arrested with other fellow practitioners. In the police car, I put my palms together and said to Master, “I shouldn’t go to a brainwashing center. Master, please help me.” After a while, I suddenly passed out. The police called my family to pick me up. After we got home, I appeared to be on the brink of death. My family found the police and questioned them. But after an hour, I woke up and was hungry. After that the police never came to harass me again. The other practitioners were all forced to do hard labor. After that I trusted Master more and was inspired to save more people.
One night I was out until 3 a.m. distributing materials. My husband was afraid of the persecution, so he was against my practicing, but he could not stop me. I still studied the Fa, did the exercises, validated the Fa, and distributed informational materials. But that night he locked the door after I went out. When I came home he wouldn’t open the door. He cursed me, calling for my death before I did any harm to the family. I stood outside the door, put my palms together, and said to Master, “Master, please help me open the door.” Then I heard a sound, and the door opened. After I got in, my husband asked in surprise, “How did you get in? Who opened the door?” I said that Master did. He didn’t believe me and asked me to do it again. I said to him, “This is not a joke. It is serious.”
Another time when I wanted to take an article to another practitioner, my husband locked up my bike and hid the key. I asked Master to open the lock for me. I picked up a stick and opened the lock.
One day I wanted to go to a fellow practitioner’s home to send righteous thoughts for him, but my husband got in front of me and tried to stop me. I pointed to him and said, “Don’t move. You can only move after ten minutes.” He couldn’t move at all. After I went out, I had a thought that I should release him. After I returned home, he told me he felt awful when he couldn’t move and that he would never try to stop me again. After that, when I wanted to do something for Dafa, he never tried to stop me again.
One day I went to Yanta Square. Right after I sat down on a bench, an old lady came over and sat next to me. She favored one leg, saying to herself, “That hurts!” I told her to recite, “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” She agreed and recited it a few times. Then I told her that she had to quit the CCP. She agreed and quit using an alias. Then she brought her husband over to quit the CCP, to which he agreed. I was about to leave, when I heard the lady say, “My leg doesn’t hurt anymore. Falun Dafa is so wonderful. I am going to practice Falun Gong, too.” I found out that they were from Anhui and were on a trip to Xi'an.
When I walked back, I saw a lady sitting on a bench. She asked me to sit down and rest. I talked to her about Falun Gong. After a few words she quit the CCP and believed that Dafa was good. She put her hand on her chest and said, “While talking to you, my heart feels good! You are so wonderful! Please tell me more.” I found out that she had heart disease, that she always had pain in her chest. I told her that it was Dafa’s power. I clarified the truth to her further and stood up to leave. She stood up, too, and said, “I will walk with you for a while. Please talk to me more about this.” She walked with me for a while, learned more about Dafa, and then left reluctantly.
On another day I saw a kind lady sitting down who looked tired. I wanted to save her, so I went to talk to her and found out she couldn’t get a good night's sleep. I told her to recite, “Falun Dafa is good” and she did it right away. Then she quit the CCP, too. She also told me that she wanted to practice Falun Gong, and she wanted me to teach her. There were few people in the street, so I demonstrated the five exercises to her there. I told her to meet the following week so I could bring her a copy of Zhuan Falun and the exercise video. The next week when I saw her, she took the items and told me she had slept well the very day we met. I told her to finish reading Zhuan Falun in two days, otherwise she might be interfered with. She agreed. The third week when I met her, she told me that she finished reading the book in a day and a half. She also said that Zhuan Falun was a great book. She did the exercises, and since then she never had insomnia again.
There have been some obstacles on my path, too. One day I went to a scenic area to clarify the truth and saw a 50-year-old lady sitting on a bench. She looked fierce. I sat down not far from her and talked to two people, convincing them to quit the CCP. As I was giving them brochures, that lady suddenly ran up to me and shouted, “Falun Gong! What are you doing? I am going to report you!” I said, “I didn’t do anything bad. I just clarified the truth and saved people, and that is not against law. Why would you report me?” She didn’t listen to me and continue shouting. Because there were a lot of police nearby and I didn’t want to get entangled with her, I left.
After I walked for a while I saw a young man. I clarified the truth to him. Just as I was about to talk to him about quitting the CCP, the fierce looking lady showed up and shouted at me, “Are you aware that I work for the government?” I turned away and tried to lose her, but she followed me and grabbed my shoulder. I said to her harshly, “How dare you grab me! Let go!” She loosened her grip but still followed me. I went into a public restroom, but she still followed me. I was about to try to save her, but when I saw how fierce she looked, I made up my mind up to freeze her for 20 minutes. When I came out, I saw her still squatting nearby, so I left.
I am not able to do big things, but I insist on doing what I can. I talk to people and save them one by one. As long as Dafa needs me, I will do it, and as long as fellow practitioners need me, I will help them. I know that what I have done is not enough. From now on I will do better with the three things from my heart. No matter what hardship I face, it cannot stop me from cultivating.