(Clearwisdom.net) I'm close to 70 years old, and have never attended school or received any education. From the day I began practicing Falun Gong, I have felt that Dafa was wonderful and extraordinary. I feel that I have been walking on the path of the divine, that Teacher has been protecting me all along, and that I have been walking better and better on my true path. Thinking back, there have been so many miraculous stories that have happened during my cultivation journey. The following are a few examples:
1. Obtaining the Fa
In Spring 1996, I was fortunate to obtain a copy of the book Zhuan Falun from a fellow practitioner. I heard from other practitioners that for the purpose of cultivation, I had to read the book, but I was illiterate. I held the precious book without knowing a word that it contained. I was so worried. I had a dream that evening, where there was a white-haired elderly person who was holding a whisk, and had bound hair. He came over and talked to me. He waved the whisk on top of the precious book I was holding, to let me know that I could read. He then waved the whisk up, to signify that I could go up to the sky, so I flew. In the sky, I saw a boundless forest, and it was very quiet. At the time, I thought to myself that this is not a place where I should stay. Right away, this elderly person who was under me waved the whisk down, and I dropped down. After that, he disappeared, and I woke up. I was holding the book, and oh my goodness! I could read every single word in the book! From every line that I was reading, all the words were extruding out. From then on, I began studying the Fa and doing the exercises. Miraculously enough, even now I can read only Dafa books and Teacher's new articles. When I try to read books written by everyday people, it is the same as before, I can't read a word.
2. Enlightenment
After I obtained the Fa, I kept running into xinxing tests. One time, on my way to a supermarket, I saw someone selling plums by the road, so I grabbed one and tasted it. It tasted sour, so I didn't offer to buy any. Seeing that, the person who was selling the plums began cursing at me. Upon hearing the very bad cursing, I left with him 50 cents and was ready to leave. He didn't take my money, but he kept swearing at me. I became angry at him, and began arguing with him quite vigorously. On my way home, I fell to the ground really hard. The corner of my pants ripped, the bone in the joint of my left arm was smashed, and my lower arm was fractured. The bone had fractured and completely dislocated, and the muscle contracted. As a result, my left arm became shorter than the right one. However, I felt no pain. When I arrived home, my children were in a big panic. I said to them that I was fine, and asked them to take it easy. From this lesson, I enlightened about the practitioner who was hit by a car and was fine, as mentioned in Zhuan Falun. In contradiction, I had such a big fall and was wounded so badly because I didn't listen to Teacher. I failed to maintain my xinxing well and I ended up fighting with others. I thought to myself, "Teacher, your disciple knew what she did was wrong." Because I didn't feel any pain, I still did everything that I could, and in a few days, the bone re-connected without my noticing. I understood that it was Teacher who was undertaking the suffering for me and protecting me. One day, a practitioner asked me to carry a very heavy stone with her. Apparently, she didn't know the tribulation I had run into. I didn't refuse her, but walked up and gave her a hand. Because I was using a lot of force, my bone became dislocated again. I didn't mind, and still did whatever I could do. In a few days, it got connected again. Now everything is back to normal. I enlightened that it was Teacher who was safeguarding me.
3. Listening to the Fa
After the persecution began on July 20, a few practitioners and I went to Beijing a few times to validate the Fa. Even though we had no education, at the National Appeals Office, I could clarify the beauty of Dafa along with fellow practitioners in an dignified manner. Moreover, people there thought that I was the leader. After I returned, one day I received a new article "The Knowing Heart." At first, out of habit I thought that I was illiterate, so I began asking around for help, but the people I asked were all illiterate as well. I became so worried. Right then, Teacher's voice came into my ears,
The Knowing Heart
With Teacher guiding the voyage, the Fa saves all beings,
One sail is hoisted, one hundred million sails follow.
With attachments left behind, the lightened boats sail swiftly,
With a preoccupied human heart, crossing the ocean proves arduous.
The wind and clouds suddenly change, and the heavens seem to crumble,
The mountains shake, the seas churn, and the ferocious waves billow.
Follow Teacher closely, steadfastly cultivating Dafa,
With attachments too strong, bearings are lost.
Some flee for their lives, deserting capsized boats and torn sails,
As the mud and sand are completely sifted, gold shines forth.
Grand talk counts for naught when it comes to life and death,
Actions reveal what is true.
When the day of Consummation arrives,
The great disclosure of the truth will leave the world in amazement.
(Essentials for Further Advancement II)
It was resonate, clear, and at a fast speed. After that, I could read Teacher's new article. After reading it a few times, I was able to recite it. This new article got into my heart. I thought to myself, "Teacher, you have been taking care of illiterate me, on my cultivation path guided by you, I must strive forward vigorously." This experience moved me to tears.
4. Handcuffs Opened
One day in 2002, I went to my hometown in the countryside to hand out truth-clarification materials. Unfortunately I was reported by someone. Police officers arrested me and handcuffed me to a chair very tightly. Initially, I treated this persecution with a human heart, so I was shouting, "Let me go! Let me go!" The more I tried to get out of the handcuffs, the tighter they became, and as a result they cut into my flesh. The scar can still be clearly seen to this day. Police officer A sarcastically shouted at me, "Call your Teacher for help! Let Falun help you get out of it!" I immediately thought about Teacher mentioning in his Guangzhou lectures to ask for Teacher's help amidst tribulations, so I began asking for Teacher's help in my heart, "Teacher, please help me! please help me!" Then the miracle happened. The handcuffs opened! This scene shocked all the police officers, especially officer A, who was dumbfounded. At noon, they all came back from lunch, except for officer A. From their conversation, I gathered that he was hit by a motorcycle on the street. For that, I recited Teacher's article to them.
When the Fa is Right
When people do not have virtue, natural calamities and man-made disasters will abound. When the earth does not have virtue, everything will wither and fall. When heaven deviates from the Dao, the ground will crack, the sky will collapse, and the whole universe will be empty. When the Fa is right, the universe will be right. Life will flourish, heaven and earth will be stable, and the Fa will exist forever. (Essentials for Further Advancement)
After hearing that, they all became quiet and lowered their heads.
5. Righteous Thoughts
A few years after the persecution began, because I had been to Beijing to validate the Fa, local police officers were monitoring me, yet I wasn't afraid of them at all. Because I was walking the most righteous path, and had only Dafa in my heart. I still went out to hand out materials and clarify the truth, and never stayed home for a day. One day, two police officers came to my home and knocked very hard on my security door. I knew that they had came to harass me, so I sat down in the lotus position and erected my hand. I stared at them through the security door while sending forth strong righteous thoughts. I only had one thought in my mind, which was, "This is a practitioner's home. Teacher looks after his disciples, no evil can break into it!" At that time, both of the officers turned around and left, and from then on, the police no longer came to harass me. So, once again I truly came to enlighten on Teacher's words, "Dafa Disciples’ Righteous Thoughts are Powerful."
Article Chosen from Call for Papers, "Divine Occurrences in the Human World"
