New Practitioner: Not Lonely in Cultivation Thanks to Minghui.org

(Minghui.org) In the past two months I clarified the truth to 11 people and helped them quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations. This really isn’t unusual for Falun Dafa practitioners who are in a good cultivation state. But for a new practitioner like me, who has been mostly cultivating alone, it was quite a big breakthrough.

Three years ago, I was introduced to Falun Dafa by a teacher of a class in spirituality. I learned the truth about Dafa and was given a USB flash drive containing Master’s Fa teachings as well as other Dafa materials. From then on, I started practicing Dafa.

After studying the Fa for three months, I understood the importance of clarifying the truth, and began to try to find suitable people in my area to talk with. Because I was a bit naive at the time, I encountered two dangerous situations while clarifying the facts to two friends. After they quit the CCP, they also wanted to study the Fa, and so I gave them some informational materials. But those materials were discovered by their husbands, and they threatened to report me. After that, I became very cautious when clarifying the truth, and I only dared to talk with my relatives and friends who I knew very well.

Many people in the same spirituality class began to practice Dafa also, but they were scattered about in different places in the country. For a long time, I mainly studied the Fa on the USB flash drive. Only a few of us started to get on the Minghui website through the circumvention software.

At that time, I didn’t have a dedicated computer for Falun Dafa and I was too scared to get on Minghui with my regular computer. Occasionally, a fellow practitioner from another area brought me copies of Minghui Weekly. I could learn more from fellow practitioners’ articles, which was very inspiring and gave me more confidence to move forward.

In August of last year, I finally bought another computer to use for accessing Minghui and other Falun Dafa information online. But shortly thereafter, I experienced a major downturn in my life when I lost a lot of money due to a failure of an investment project. Moreover, because I had introduced a few friends to participate in the investment, these friends were also blaming me for their losses. 

The situation was very difficult for me, but through studying Master’s Fa and often reading fellow practitioners’ sharing articles on Minghui, I was able to make it through.

After all this finally passed, I came to understand that these sudden misfortunes were all targeting my opinionated nature, arrogance, hypocrisy, cunning, caring about fame and fortune, and excessive sentimentality. When I let go of the resentment that I had accumulated in my heart toward these friends, I was able to look at them from a new perspective. My heart became peaceful and calm again. I was determined that in the future, I would walk on my cultivation path cleanly and purely. I would not try to get my friends to do investments, because there was so much fame and gain mixed into that. Money cannot save people; only truth-clarification, or spreading the Fa, can save people.

As far as I know, from 2018 to 2019, over one hundred people learned about Falun Dafa in those classes, but only a handful were still practicing. All those who were able to continue had access to the Minghui website. Master has mentioned the importance of Minghui many times in his lectures. Therefore, for new practitioners, especially those who are in a state of cultivating alone, it is crucial to regularly go to Minghui and read the sharing articles. The articles can help one to improve in cultivation practice.

If I cultivate just by myself, it is very easy to slack off. But when I see how veteran fellow practitioners cultivate themselves and clarify the truth so diligently, I will unknowingly get encouraged and pushed to become more diligent. I was also able to learn their ways of clarifying the truth, and I incorporated those into my way to help friends and relatives quit the CCP and its affiliated organizations.

I wanted to learn how to safely clarify the truth to strangers. I once saw a sharing article on Minghui about a veteran practitioner who often went shopping in a vegetable market, so that she could get connected with the people there and clarify the truth to them. So recently, I also deliberately shopped here and there to purchase things, and used the opportunity to get to know the owner and the service people so I could then clarify the truth to them. I successfully helped four people to quit the CCP this way.

In addition, I formed good relationships with co-workers, which enabled me to more effectively clarify the truth to them. Even if some people did not agree to quit the CCP right away, at least they understood that Falun Dafa is good and what the Communist regime said about Dafa were all lies. This laid a good foundation for them to be saved in the future.

I sincerely hope that more new practitioners who are cultivating by themselves can go to the Minghui website. They can then keep up with the process of Fa-rectification, and maintain an open communication with Dafa disciples all over the world. In this way, even though it may seem that they are cultivating alone, they are not lonely, as they are still part of the one body of Dafa disciples. With Master’s compassionate protection, and fellow practitioners’ valuable experiences, lessons, and reminders, we will not be left behind. In the final critical period of the battle between good and evil, we will have more courage, confidence and strength to play our individual roles. We will follow Master, assist Master in Fa rectification, save the predestined people, persist to the end, and return home with Master.