My Cultivation Journey Is a Testament to Master’s Protection

(Minghui.org) Looking back at my cultivation path I realize that every step I’ve taken was protected by Master Li (Dafa’s founder). When I came across dangers in cultivation, Master protected me. When I went through hardships, Master strengthened me. When I was at a loss for what to do, Master gave me hints. Thanks to Master’s protection, I have been able to cultivate diligently and forge ahead fearlessly.

Shutting Down a Brainwashing Center

Three years after the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started persecuting Falun Dafa practitioners, the officers from the local 610 Office, the Political and Legal Affairs Committee, and the Police Department set up a brainwashing center in our city to persecute practitioners. They tried to arrest practitioners in the city, counties, and villages and send them to the center. Our cultivation environment became harsh.

Some practitioners felt there was a lot of interference in other dimensions which caused this harsh environment. They suggested that we dissolve it by hanging up banners and painting slogans in the brainwashing center’s compound. Everyone agreed. The coordinator held a meeting and we decided that one couple would get to know the terrain of the brainwashing center.

They went to the brainwashing center by bicycle after our meeting and entered it without any problem. They managed to draw a map of the center’s grounds.

During our second meeting, we divided into two groups. One group sent righteous thoughts outside the building. The other group formed three teams. The first team would paint slogans on the walls. The second team hung up banners on the clothing line near the second floor. The third team would hang up banners on the tree branches. As soon as each team finished their job they would leave the brainwashing center and wait outside until all of us finished and we would leave together.

After the meeting, the practitioners started to prepare. Some went to buy paint and others made banners. The coordinator called us together after we finished our preparations. We went to a practitioner’s home which was close to the brainwashing center and sent forth righteous thoughts until 2 a.m. the next day and then we departed for the brainwashing center. One practitioner suggested that we send righteous thoughts to stop two dogs barking, and have them cooperate with us so they could choose a good future for themselves. Another practitioner hoped it would rain so that our steps would be muffled by the water dripping from the eaves.

We asked Master to help us and strengthen us so that it would rain. A miracle happened. There were no clouds in the sky, but it started to rain soon after we sent righteous thoughts. It rained from 12:30–2:00 a.m. Then it gradually stopped.

This reinforced our confidence. We departed at 2 a.m. When we arrived at the outside wall, the dogs were quiet. They didn’t bark the entire time we were there. It was amazing. Some practitioners jumped over the wall. The practitioners outside sent righteous thoughts. The practitioners spray-painted “Falun Dafa is good” and “Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good” on the wall of the cold storage building, the main building, and the glass door. A light was on inside the first floor of the main building, but no one was inside. One practitioner hung up a banner on the clothesline on the second floor. Some practitioners hung banners inside the pavilion and the trees in the yard. Then most of the practitioners left. The last five practitioners were about to leave after they hung the last banner on the tree, but something unexpected happened. A car drove in and parked in front of the cold storage building. Several people came out. The practitioners sat down under the tree and asked Master not to let them find us or the banner and have the people leave immediately. As a result, these people didn’t look around and walked straight into the building. We left.

The next day the brainwashing center officials found the banners and slogans. They were outraged. The leaders of the city government, the police department of the upper level, and the 610 Office all came to the brainwashing center and criticized the director. They told him that they would treat this incident as a big case. The brainwashing center was disbanded the next day. Thanks to Master’s protection, all the practitioners were safe.

Looking back, we realized everything that happened that night was interference by negative elements from other dimensions and that the practitioners were safe because of their righteous thoughts and Master’s protection. One person in the brainwashing center wanted to go to the toilet which was located outside. She was afraid and didn’t dare to leave the room. This showed how strong the righteous energy was.

The local 610 Office didn’t stop there. They planned to set up more brainwashing centers in the villages. Each time the officers arrived at a village, practitioners did the same thing. They spray-painted slogans on the outside walls of the brainwashing center and hung banners with, “Falun Dafa is good” and “Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good” on all the telephone lines throughout the village. The next day one perpetrator said he felt uncomfortable and told the 610 officer that he could no longer stay there. That brainwashing center was closed. Later on all the brainwashing centers in our city were closed.

Sending Master’s Articles to Practitioners in Prisons

After one practitioner was sentenced to prison his wife said that he reminded her to ask local practitioners to send righteous thoughts more often. I felt sad when I heard this. This practitioner was in prison yet he still worried about other practitioners’ cultivation states. He was so selfless. I thought he must be yearning to read Master’s lectures. If Master’s articles could be sent to him, it would reinforce his confidence in cultivation and his righteous thoughts.

I discussed this with his wife and she agreed. So we printed Master’s articles onto a piece of cloth and mixed it together with other daily necessities. I felt uneasy the day before we went to see the practitioner. I couldn’t relax and didn’t fall asleep until 2:30 a.m. I reminded myself that I must send the articles to him because he desperately needed to read Master’s articles.

The next day his wife and I took the bus to the prison. I pleaded with Master to strengthen me and said, “Master, please strengthen me. I can let go of everything as long as other practitioners require it and Dafa requires it. I must send the articles to that practitioner at any cost.” When I had this thought, I felt a warm current flow through my body. I was full of righteous thoughts. Thank you Master for your compassion. Tears rolled down my face.

When we arrived at the prison, we saw many guards at the security checkpoint. My heart beat faster. I looked within and asked myself why I was afraid. Did I fear death? At that moment a warm current flowed through my body. I thanked Master again. I felt completely at ease and had no fear. I sent forth righteous thoughts for his wife. I said to the guards in my mind: “Our Master lets us come to save you. You will have a good future if you help practitioners.” The guard picked up the items we brought in and scrutinized them. He didn’t find the articles. Master’s articles were sent to the practitioner smoothly.

On another occasion, a female practitioner who was very determined in her belief in Falun Dafa was detained in the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp and was brutally tortured there. She believed in Master and the Fa completely. The guards were not able to transform her. I accompanied her brother when he went to see her. At first, her brother was not willing to visit her. He said that he was not allowed to see his sister if she was not transformed and that the trip would be in vain. I talked to him many times. Finally, he agreed to go and visit his sister with me.

I put Master’s articles into the daily necessities we were bringing her. I asked one practitioner to seal the bag for me. He agreed but didn’t come. I asked my husband to help me but he got angry. In the end, I had to take the train with the bag still open. When I arrived at the train station, one thought flashed through my mind: “The evil elements who want to interfere with me have been destroyed.” I realized that all the troubles I came across were interference. Master saw my determination and dissolved it for me.

I asked Master to help me seal the bag. I bought double-sided tape in a supermarket and then boarded the train. When I was seated, one word came into my mind: “seamless.” I immediately understood how I could seal the bag with the double-sided tape seamlessly. After I sealed it, it looked seamless.

On the way to the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp, I asked Master to strengthen me. A team leader at the camp was notorious for persecuting practitioners. I asked Master to let her bring in the articles and thus give her an opportunity for redemption.

After arriving at the camp we were told that we couldn’t see the practitioner because she was not transformed. Her brother said that we’d better leave. I was not moved and stayed there and negotiated with them. Later on, the team leader came out and told us to leave because the practitioner refused to be transformed. I asked her to take the eggs and other daily necessities inside. She looked at the goods and brought them in.

She uncuffed the practitioner from the iron bar and let her down. She then handed the goods to her. The practitioner picked up a package with toiletries and gave it to another practitioner saying that she didn’t need it because she was not allowed to wash. Master’s articles were inside that package. The other practitioner found the articles and gave them to her secretly. She then passed them to another practitioner after she finished reading them. So Master’s articles were circulated in the Masanjia Forced Labor Camp.

Thanks to Master’s help I passed the articles to the practitioners in the forced labor camps and prisons six times.

Cooperating to Successfully Rescue Practitioners

One day before World Falun Dafa Day in 2011, the practitioners in my area cooperated with each other and stepped out to validate the Fa. We hung up banners and put up posters. The police were stationed at the main roads that night and arrested four practitioners. One of them was my relative. The next day the family members of the arrested practitioners gathered together and discussed how to get them released. We notified the practitioners in our areas as well as the adjacent areas to send righteous thoughts for us. We went to the Domestic Security Bureau and the Police Department to clarify the truth and demand the practitioners be released. Both departments claimed that it was the responsibility of the 610 Office.

My relative’s child wrote a letter explaining why her mother practiced Falun Dafa, how she benefited from it and what Falun Dafa was. I brought the letter with me and went to the local 610 Office which was located in the municipal government building.

We asked Master to strengthen us. The purpose of our visit was to clarify the truth and save sentient beings. There were many government departments on the second floor of the building. We visited every office, gave them the letter and clarified the truth to them. We told them how we benefited from practicing Falun Dafa. If the offices were not open, we left the letters underneath the door. We met the director of the 610 Office and clarified the truth to him. He was badly brainwashed and refused to listen to us. Other practitioners put up his photo near where he lived and other places. The next time we saw him he mentioned he was aware that his photo was everywhere.

When we learned that the practitioner was undergoing karma elimination (in the form of sickness), we went to the detention center to talk to the director. He was harsh and arrogant and screamed at us. We were not moved and clarified the truth to him. Other practitioners helped by sending righteous thoughts. As we clarified the truth further, his attitude gradually changed. Finally, he said, “I know Falun Dafa practitioners are good people. But we only look after them and are not involved in any other matters. Your relative’s case was just sent to the prosecutor’s office. You’d better quickly go there.” We thanked him and went to the prosecutor’s office.

The security at the prosecutor’s office didn’t let us in. We came back the next day. A family member clarified the truth to the security at the gate while the other practitioners went to the second floor. They found the officer who handled the case and clarified the truth to him. He didn’t give us a definite answer. A neighbor later told us that this person was not directly in charge of the case. The neighbor said that he would take us to see the person in charge. I asked Master to strengthen us.

When we arrived at the prosecutor’s office, we cooperated with each other. While one person talked the others sent righteous thoughts. When we met the leader in the prosecutor’s office, I told him how I benefited physically from practicing Falun Dafa, how Dafa is practiced around the world, how the Tiananmen Self-Immolation incident was staged, and how the CCP committed crimes of harvesting organs from living Falun Dafa practitioners. He listened attentively. He asked me the detained practitioners’ names. He said, “I know your case. I will try my best to help you. Go home now.” Later on, we learned that he indeed helped us a lot. He was blessed and got promoted. The practitioners were released after they were detained for 28 days.

I would like to thank those practitioners who sent righteous thoughts for us. They sacrificed a lot. No matter what time it was, practitioners went there after they received notification from the coordinators. Most of them didn’t know us, but this didn’t affect our cooperation. Many practitioners didn’t leave until they saw the detained practitioners walk out of the detention center.

We could successfully rescue practitioners simply because local practitioners supported each other and worked together as a whole body. Thank you so much, practitioners!

Saving Sentient Beings in Areas Where There Are No Practitioners

Local practitioners divided the entire area under the jurisdiction of our city including the towns, townships, and villages into sub-areas. Each group of practitioners took charge of one sub area. Our group was in charge of four townships. Each township had about ten to twenty villages. We downloaded the street maps from the Internet and then went to each village. We planned our routes to make sure that we didn’t miss any households. We drove there one night and followed the route we planned and put materials in front of each house. We didn’t leave out a single household. At the end of the year when we distributed the truth-clarifying calendars, we visited every household and clarified the truth to them, and encouraged them to quit the CCP organizations they joined.

One township was on an island. There were six villages on the island and nearly a thousand households. It was remote and no practitioners lived there. Most of the residents didn’t know the truth about the persecution. When I decided to go there, the evil factors in other dimensions started to interfere.

One day my husband drove his bicycle and our child rode in front. I rode my bicycle behind him and I had truth-clarifying materials. He suddenly braked abruptly and turned his bicycle aside to avoid a hole in the road. I didn’t pay attention and ran into his back wheel. I lost my balance and fell to the ground. My head struck a small stone and bled. The materials were scattered everywhere and I hurriedly picked them up. I pushed the bicycle with one hand and held my head with the other hand all the way home. My husband urged me to go to the hospital. I didn’t listen, instead, I sent righteous thoughts. Then I looked within to see where I fell short. I realized that I had the heart to seek credit and honor. I sent forth righteous thoughts to eliminate these attachments. When I identified my problem the bleeding stopped.

I didn’t go to the island. I made several arrangements to go in the following months. Due to the interference—either rain or other things, I was not able to go. When I read the Fa, I realized that I shouldn’t go along with this interference. I was determined I would go no matter what. The day I decided to go, the weather was perfect. I took my child with me and went with my relative practitioner and her family. We took the boat in the afternoon and arrived at the island. We stayed with a relative who lived there. He lead the way for us that night. The four of us were divided into two groups and carried 500 copies of pamphlets. We started from one end of the island and didn’t finish until 3 a.m. The next morning the whole island was in an uproar. The township announcer screamed over the loudspeakers that all the Falun Dafa pamphlets must be handed in. Many people were afraid because they received the materials for the first time. Some didn’t dare to read them. Some handed them in while others burned them.

We distributed materials in October on the island every year. Later on, the island became a tourist site and many hotels were built. We stayed in the hotels and went out to distribute materials at night and came back at dawn. As we kept distributing materials, the people on the island gradually changed. They were no longer afraid to receive the materials. Sometimes we saw people reading our materials on the ship. We were so happy for them. It was worthwhile no matter what hardships we went through.

As I wrote this and recalled my cultivation path, I got emotional. I had joy and gratitude as well as regret. Master protects me all the time while I walk on the cultivation path. When I came across hardships or dangers, as long as I asked Master to strengthen me, things changed for the better and I stayed safe. Thank you Master for your protection. I will remember my sacred vows and mission. No matter what happens or how hard it will be, I will bravely forge ahead as I have always been on the remaining leg of my cultivation path.