Persisting in Cultivation and Helping the Next Generation

(Minghui.org) Although I have stumbled from time to time in my cultivation, I have never slacked off in doing the three things that Master Li asks us to do. I am 77 years old and began to practice Falun Dafa in 1996.

I am especially grateful for Master’s saving grace when I see the long lists of names of people who decided to renounce their memberships in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its youth organizations.

My husband passed away a long time ago. My three sons used to live with me, but they moved out one by one after they got married. I have lived alone since I retired.

My day typically consists of doing the Falun Dafa exercises in the morning, going out to clarify the facts, and attending group Fa study in the afternoon. At night, I read Master’s new lectures and Minghui journals. Time was at my disposal!

Losing My Relaxed Environment

However, this only lasted a few years. With the birth of my first granddaughter in 2003, my life and cultivation took a serious hit. Since both my son and daughter-in-law worked, they wanted to task me with babysitting their child. Given that I was retired, I took this on without saying a word.

But my responsibilities seemed to grow very quickly. Not only did I have to take care of my granddaughter, but I was expected to cook for the entire family and do the housework. I ended up working nonstop to the point that I didn’t have a chance to take a break, let alone study the Fa, do the exercises, and clarify the facts. I was totally exhausted. What was I going to do? I was so worried.

I knew my becoming a practitioner wasn’t accidental and I should treasure the opportunity. I didn’t give up cultivation when I was held in a police station, detention center, or brainwashing center. How could I allow babysitting my granddaughter and taking care of household chores affect my cultivation?

Master said,

“If Dafa is being cultivated in the ordinary human society, and the number of cultivators is great, they have to maximally conform to the ways of the ordinary human society while cultivating” (“Dafa Is All-Encompassing” in Essentials for Further Advancement II)

As my environment changed, I realized that I had to change. I quietly told my son that I needed to go home at night so I could get a good rest. I reassured him that I would come back early in the morning and leave late. Later on, when I helped babysit my other grandchildren, I also followed this routine and returned home at night.

I got up early every morning to do the exercises. After I finished sending forth righteous thoughts at 6 a.m., I took a large bag of truth-clarification materials with me and headed out to my son’s home. On the way, I went to the buildings in my son's residential area and handed them out. Sometimes, when his family took a nap at noon, I went out to distribute Dafa pamphlets. I also had some stickers and put them up wherever I saw fit. While waiting for the bus on my way home, I used the time to talk to people about Dafa. I then studied the Fa at night and went to bed after sending righteous thoughts at midnight.

Clarifying the Facts

I was able to speak to a lot of people when I took the bus. I spoke about the corruption of CCP officials, how the CCP persecutes practitioners who uphold their belief in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, and its crime of harvesting organs from living Falun Dafa practitioners, which has been condemned by governments around the world.

I told them that the hidden character stone has shown that Heaven will soon eliminate the CCP. Members of the Party, Communist Youth League and Young Pioneers are part of the CCP, so if they choose not to withdraw from these organizations, they would be counted as being a part of the CCP and held accountable along with it.

But as long as they could renounce their memberships in the CCP and its youth organizations, and sincerely recite “Falun Dafa is good” and “Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good,” they would be protected by Buddhas and Gods, and their safety would be ensured.

My home was three miles away from my son’s. I handed out pamphlets and amulets on the buses and could help over 10 people quit the CCP every day.

Teaching My Grandchildren

I understood that every child born into my family came to obtain the Fa. Since they were little, I had them listen to Master’s lectures and Dafa songs, and watch Dafa videos. When my eldest grandson was three years old, I read Zhuan Falun aloud while he played. One time, I read,

“He floated up and dropped down with a loud thud, multiple times. A blanket that was folded next to him was even bounced off, onto the floor.” (“The Eighth Talk,” Zhuan Falun)

When I finished this passage, my grandson came to me and exclaimed, “What!?” He then repeated Master’s words, “A blanket that was folded next to him was even bounced off, onto the floor.” He had been listening to every word!

When my grandchildren were able to talk, I began teaching them to recite poems in Hong Yin and sing Dafa songs. By the time each child turned three, they could recite many poems from Hong Yin, and they did so on the way to and from school every day. Since childhood, they have immersed themselves in the Buddha Fa, and Master opened up their wisdom. When the three children attended school, they were excellent students.

From going to daycare to graduating from primary school, they helped me distribute Dafa materials. We didn’t miss a single household. If a pamphlet wasn’t placed properly the first time, they would go back and make it right. They said, “This is for saving people!”

My three sons lived in three different districts in the same city, they were all big districts with large populations. I led each grandchild through the various apartment buildings in the community and delivered materials to each household. All in all, we covered every building in these districts multiple times.

My Grandchildren's Experiences

When I took my oldest granddaughter out, we got on a rental tricycle. She sang “Falun Dafa is good,” and the driver praised her for her beautiful voice.

She thanked him and said, “Please remember ‘Falun Dafa is good!’ I’d like to give you an amulet to keep you safe.” When the driver thanked her, she clapped cheerfully, turned to me and said, “Grandma, I know how to save people now!”

When my granddaughter finished school one time, we passed by the senior center, where I saw a dozen residents chatting. I asked her, “How about we go to clarify the facts to those seniors?”

She walked up to each one of those seniors, with informational brochures in hand, saying, “Granny, can I give you a small storybook to read? Please remember “Falun Dafa is good” and “Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good!”

When I took my eldest grandson to the daycare center one time, he suddenly stopped and squatted down when he saw some ants on the ground. He began to talk to them, “Please don’t fight with each other and remember ‘Falun Dafa is good’ and ‘Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good!’”

One time, he told me, “Grandma, Master gave me some biscuits at the daycare. After I ate them, they went down to my chest (he was patting his chest), and I kept growing and growing.” When he was five years old, he said to me, “Grandma, if people from all over the world could recite ‘Falun Dafa is good’ and ‘Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good,’ the world would be free from disasters.”

As my son was transferred to another city for work before my youngest granddaughter was born, I didn’t get to babysit her. She turned five years old this year. Only when I went to visit was I able to tell her something pertaining to Dafa. Every time I called her on the phone, she always started off with, “Grandma, are you calling to remind me to say ‘Falun Dafa is good?’”

She was doing the second exercise with me once, and as soon as she began to hold her arms up (in the wheel position) she told me, “Grandma, Master stood on auspicious clouds and came in from my brother’s window. He looked at me with a smile, and I smiled back.”

She also enjoyed reciting the following passage:

“My roots are planted in this universe, and so someone would have to be able to harm me in order to harm you, which means that they would have to have the power to harm this universe.” (The First Talk, Zhuan Falun)

She could recite Master’s words many times a day.

Her favorite animation movie was “Heaven Kid.” She could sing every song from that movie. She saw that the children in it all came from Heaven and said, “Grandma, we all came from Heaven, including myself. Earth is good, but not as good as the lowest place in Heaven.” She said this when she was only five years old.

Even my youngest grandson knows that Falun Dafa is good.

Life With Dafa in My Heart

I was so pleased the roots of Dafa have been deeply planted in all my grandchildren’s hearts since childhood. From January 2003, when my eldest granddaughter was born, up until the end of last year, I have brought up four grandchildren. I have always managed to incorporate cultivation into my daily life and treated saving sentient beings as the first priority.

My grandchildren are now grown up, and I live by myself again. I study the Fa and talk to people about Dafa every day. I am truly happy to be immersed in the Fa!

I will always remember what Master said,

“...Validate the Fa with rationality, clarify the truth with wisdom, spread the Fa and save people with mercy...” (“Rationality,” Essentials for Further Advancement II)

I never pick and choose whom I clarify the facts to. No matter who they are, as long as it’s someone whom I run into, they are people with predestined relationships with me, and whom Master has arranged to come and listen to the truth.

Over all these years, I have clarified the facts to farmers, students, laborers, medical staff, civil servants, soldiers, officials, and police officers.