(Minghui.org) I have always regretted that my daughter, a police officer, did not become a Falun Dafa disciple like I did. However, she believes in and greatly respects Dafa and its founder, Master Li. She has never wavered in her support of me practicing Dafa, even in the face of the Chinese Communist Party’s persecution of the practice. While she’s concerned about my safety when I go out to raise awareness of the persecution, she never burdens me with her worries. Instead, she often says, “I’ve got your back!”
Every day when I study the Fa, I read it to my daughter. From time to time, I would show her experience sharing articles by fellow practitioners published on the Minghui website. When I have time, I would play recordings of the 2009 and 2011 Shen Yun Performing Arts Choir for her, and she always says, “These songs are so beautiful.” She can sing many of the songs from the CD.
My daughter once hand copied the book Zhuan Falun and many poems from Master’s poetry collection Hong Yin. By doing that, she got to learn a bit about Falun Dafa, but never became a Dafa practitioner. However, I knew that Falun Dafa’s teachings have been deeply rooted in her heart.
At times, she also conducts herself as a practitioner, aspiring to be a good person who is kind to everyone. When she was wronged, she would look inward at herself: “Did I do something wrong? I need to take a good look at myself.” When she encounters something difficult, she can face it calmly, which sometimes makes me feel inferior to her.
My daughter has a Dafa truth amulet, a transparent teardrop-shaped pendant with the words “Falun Dafa is good” engraved on it. She wears it around her neck on a thin red cord. The small red cord has been replaced many times because its color would fade, but she never leaves it behind. One day, the amulet was lost, and she searched everywhere but could not find it. Seeing my daughter’s frustrated look, I comforted her, “Since you like it so much, maybe one day Master will get it back for you!”
Then one day, she called me and said, “Mom, I have good news for you!”
“What’s the good news?” I asked.
She said, “No, I found my amulet! I saw it on the washroom counter at my workplace.” She thought it was amazing to find it after so many days. I heard her cheerful voice and could feel how much she cherishes Dafa.
My daughter would often buy fruits, wash them clean, and place them in front of Master’s portrait. On New Year’s Day, my daughter would offer incense to Master, kneel down and kowtow to him. Sometimes she would also ask Master to grant her some small wishes.
Sometimes, when my daughter heard people say bad things about Dafa, she felt very frustrated. I remember one New Year’s Eve, I tried to clarify the facts to our family members about the Tiananmen Square self-immolation hoax. Because they were poisoned by the CCP’s slanderous propaganda, they rejected the truth and said some unpleasant things. I didn’t know what to say to help them understand.
At that moment, my daughter stood up and said, “Falun Dafa is really wronged. The CCP is making false claims and lying to the people. In the future, you will understand!” Hearing what she said, I felt shocked and was empowered all at once. I knew it was Master who saw the helplessness of his disciple and had my daughter help me.
Over the years, my daughter has also clarified the facts to her classmates and friends in her own way, and has persuaded several people to withdraw from the CCP. Sometimes when we go shopping, I would urge the shopkeepers to quit the CCP and she would be very happy if they did; if they didn’t, she would say that I didn’t do a good job, and should do better next time.
My daughter was on duty by herself one day when she encountered a mental ill patient who was having an episode, screaming and smashing things. The patient’s husband and mother couldn’t pull her away, and there were many onlookers. When they saw my daughter with her police gear, one onlooker said, “Cuff her!”
My daughter saw the woman’s husband and mother’s sorrowful face and could not do it: “It’s painful for anyone to have a family member in this mess. If she was handcuffed, wouldn’t her mother be even more distressed! What to do?” My daughter saw that the psychiatric patient’s eyes had a vicious look, as if something bad was manipulating her from behind.
My daughter remembered the verses of sending righteous thoughts:
“The Fa rectifies the Cosmos; the Evil is completely eliminated.” (“The Two Hand Positions for Sending Righteous Thoughts,” The Essentials of Diligent Progress II)
She then began to recite it silently. When she recited it the third time, the woman slowly squatted down. Finally, she left with her husband and mother. My daughter said, “The verses are amazing!” I thought it was miraculous too––her righteous thoughts combined with her kind heart made it work.
From school to work, my daughter has come under the compassionate protection of Dafa's Master. In high school, her academic performance was not always good. In the few mock exams before the university entrance exam, her score always hovered around 400. But when she took the real exam, she scored 537 and got accepted into a very good university. After graduating from college, she got into civil service. My daughter often says that she is always blessed at critical moments.
After passing the civil service exam, my daughter was assigned to a very small county. Since our family lives in the city, it was very inconvenient for her to commute. Many of her college classmates who were assigned there together were transferred back through connections. Sometimes she became very anxious, saying: "Let’s also find someone to help, and it’s okay to spend some money. Otherwise, when will I come back?” I said, “Since I practice Dafa, you will also benefit. You have Master taking care of you. Master will arrange it for you.”
Then one day, my daughter told me that she had a dream: a big turtle came up from the sea and crawled to her side. It was wearing a police uniform. When I heard this, I said to her, “You are going to be transferred back through the regular channel.” I felt that the word “turtle” in Mandarin pronounces the same as the word “return,” and wearing a police uniform means that it was a formal, regular return. Within two months, my daughter was really transferred back.
My daughter has not taken any medicine for many years, and she has never taken minor illnesses to heart. She would often get over a cold or fever the next day. She said that “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good” are manifested through her personal experience. It is truly magical.
My daughter grew up dancing and she loves it, but she didn’t keep practicing. In April 2019, I saw a report on the Minghui website about Shen Yun Performing Arts going to Taiwan, so I told my daughter about it. She said, “Let’s go and see it, as we don’t know if there will be such an opportunity in the future.” Soon, my daughter took her leave and the paperwork for going to Taiwan went smoothly.
When we arrived in Taipei, we saw many buses with posters promoting the Shen Yun performance. However, when we checked online at the hotel, we found that the show in Taipei had ended and the dance troupe had arrived in Taoyuan City. We rushed to Taoyuan City. As soon as we got off the bus and were still some distance away from the Taoyuan Arts Center, I felt a powerful energy surrounding me, as if every cell of my body was shaking, and I couldn’t stop the tears from flowing down my face. During the performance, my daughter kept shedding tears. She said she was very excited and couldn’t tell why. She said she felt as if she had entered the world of heavenly beings.
Although my daughter has never been able to enter Dafa practice, she constantly encouraged me. Sometimes when I don’t do well, she points it out to me; when I can’t get up at midnight to send righteous thoughts, she wakes me up. Sometimes when the weather is cold, or I don’t feel well, or when the truth-clarification is not going well, I get intimidated, and she can sense it. She would say, “Why are you dawdling, not stepping out the door?!”
In fact, I know she is very worried, but she never shows it for fear of burdening me. Every time I go out to clarify the truth and come back late, she will look from the balcony. She often tells me: “You are doing the most sacred thing, Master will protect you, so are the guardians. And I’ve got your back. No one dares to touch you!”
After I finished the first draft of this article, I showed it to my daughter. I didn’t expect that her reaction would be so strong, and she cried a lot. She said, “If you hadn’t written it, I wouldn’t have known that Master had been protecting me all along.” She said I had written so little and there were so many amazing things I hadn’t written about. She also asked me to take this opportunity to thank the compassionate and great Master for protecting her.
I am grateful to compassionate Master for repeatedly extending the end of the Fa-rectification so that we disciples still have a chance to mature and more sentient beings can be saved.