Young Practitioner: Walking on the Path of Solid Cultivation

(Minghui.org) I’m a young Falun Dafa practitioner from Northeastern China. Benevolent Master Li has protected me on my cultivation path for over a decade. I feel truly grateful for Master’s saving grace.

I found my predestined relationship with Dafa in primary school when I visited a relative who was a practitioner. I was very pure at that time. We did the exercises together, corrected each others’ movements, recited the Fa, and posted truth-clarification materials together. I had recited about two-thirds of Zhuan Falun but stopped when I had to go back home to celebrate the Chinese New Year.

A miraculous thing happened during the Chinese New Year. On the eve of the New Year, I was preparing for dinner with my family, and the TV was on. The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) new year celebration program started at 8 p.m. I thought it was okay to watch it, but after a little while, I unexpectedly looked to the right and saw the paper on the wall that read “good fortune” was turning into a golden pig.

The pig kept jumping up and down, looking very lovely. But as soon as I watched the program, this golden pig had an unhappy expression. I thought to myself, “Okay, I will not watch it then.” When I looked at the pig again, it smiled and resumed jumping up and down. I wondered if I was dazed, so I asked my mother who was also a practitioner, “Mom, look at the words ‘good fortune.’ Did they turn into a golden pig?” My mother said, “I don’t think so.” I later checked with other practitioners. None of them saw the golden pig. They told me that Master was enlightening me.

Afterward, my father became opposed to me practicing Falun Dafa and beat me for the very first time. I clearly remember when he kicked me, he was bounced back by a force as soon as he touched me. I didn’t feel hurt at all. I knew this was Master protecting me.

I then stayed at the home of another relative who was an everyday person. With the change in my cultivation environment, I behaved like an ordinary person. I began to date someone and became addicted to my cell phone and watching TV.

Under Master’s arrangement, I went back to stay with the practitioner relative and studied at the same school as her daughter. Yet, I didn’t treasure the opportunity. My relative also encouraged me to do the exercises and study the Fa. She said that otherwise I would regret it. Even so, I was still very lazy and obsessed with my cell phone. However, the fact that I knew Dafa was wonderful was still deeply rooted in my heart.

My Mother was Arrested When I was in High School

My teacher came to the classroom when I was taking a lunch break at school, and called me out. From the look on his face and his tone, I kind of knew what happened. Sure enough, what concerned me most did happen. The school director hastily ran up to tell me that personnel from the police department were on their way to find me. The matter concerned my mother.

After a while, another school director came by, asking to escort me back to the classroom to gather my things. They planned to take me to the Domestic Security Department, then go to my home. Under Master’s empowerment, I got away from the school director and hid my house key in a flower pot in the hallway.

I then got into a police vehicle outside the school. They told me to take them to my home. I knew deep down that I would not do that, but I wasn’t sure what to do instead. I even thought about jumping out of the car. I directed them to a random place. After I got out of the car, all I said to them was, “I can only take you here.”

Those Domestic Security personnel were caught off guard, but one of them then snarled at me, “I’ll arrest everyone in your family.” They pushed me back into their vehicle and took me to an interrogation room at the police department, where they had me sit on a plywood stool. They grabbed my school bag and emptied it, then realized there was no house key.

They also had me view the regulations they alleged I violated. I’m not sure why, but when I sat on the stool, I suddenly didn’t feel like saying anything. When I took a glance at the clock, I had this thought come forth: I should be able to leave here after 4 p.m. I felt this was Master empowering me, and I no longer thought about anything.

After a short while, the head teacher brought the deputy school principal to see me. They took me to a break room and tried to comfort me for a while. I’m not sure why, but I squatted down in a corner and started crying helplessly. The deputy principal who had crossed his arms and was somewhat indifferent, then seemed like he couldn’t take it anymore, so he stood up and said, “Let me go talk to them.” The head teacher then accompanied me alone in the room.

The deputy principal then returned with a police officer, saying that we could go home. I also noticed that his forehead was sweaty, and his hair was somewhat wet. It seemed to me that he must have tried his best to communicate with the police.

As we left, the head teacher held my hand tightly. When I got outside the entrance of the police department, I couldn’t hold back my tears. When she saw that, she said to me, “It’s okay now.” Another female teacher was waiting for us in her car nearby, ready to take us home. It was about 4 p.m. I thanked compassionate and wonderful Master for his protection and safeguarding.

Excelling Academically in College

I was successfully admitted to a university and had the top grades. When I checked my scores after the exams at the end of the first semester, my roommate told me that I had gotten first place. I joked with her, “What? From the bottom of the list?” I had felt it would be good enough if I could pass the exams and graduate, since a few of the subjects were a bit tough. When I saw my scores, I couldn’t believe it; I ranked the highest. I knew it was Master who gave me everything, as I could never have had such great scores through my own effort.

Because I excelled, I was granted a scholarship every term. I was once a team leader. When the teacher came to class, she began to check our assignments. When she checked the team before us, she wasn’t very happy and ended up scolding them, which made me quite nervous. But when she came over to check our team’s assignments, she was very happy with what we had done and allowed us to leave early. I wasn’t prepared for this. Only after confirming this with her did I leave class. While the other students were still confused about how to do their assignments, our team had already finished the assignment. They looked at us with envious and bewildered expressions.

A Cultivation Path Abroad

After I graduated, I didn’t immediately start looking for a job. I went to study language instead, thinking I wanted to go abroad. After studying nearly two years of language, I went abroad in 2018. As my family wasn’t financially well off, I brought a lot of food and living necessities with me. After my flight, I took the subway, then walked to the apartment, which wasn’t that close to the subway. After I arrived, I was so tired that I didn’t feel like eating.

When I went to buy necessities, I always looked at the map on my cell phone and tried to walk to the supermarkets rather than spend money on public transit. I also spent very little on groceries. I lived a fairly hard life. When I returned home every night, I was so exhausted that I didn’t feel like doing anything else.

The first Dafa group activity I participated in was group exercises in a park. As soon as I sat down to do the seated meditation, I became teary. I felt so happy! I participated in many activities, including parades, handing out flyers, sending out short video recordings of greetings to Master, and handing out The Epoch Times newspaper. It was a very hot summer. When I was handing out the newspapers, I carried them on my back and in my arms; I was soaked with sweat. Since I was short of money, I sometimes didn’t want to buy a bottle of water. So before I finished handing out flyers, I already felt dehydrated. I often had to sit down to take a break before moving on.

When I was overseas, in order to earn my tuition and living expenses, I took on some labor work. It was sometimes early morning when I finished working, and my legs were extremely stiff. Even so, that period of time was the most memorable and wonderful time in my life. Although I had to endure hardship, I could freely do things to validate Dafa.

Due to various reasons, I later returned to China. Under Master’s empowerment, I received offers from two very good companies. One of them was the best company in my field in our area.

Beginning to Cultivate Diligently

I became very diligent in my cultivation starting in November 2020. I dated a boy whose parents were practitioners. But something happened that was hard for me to accept. In thinking back about it, this came down to my own attachments, and I shouldn’t have blamed him. However, I felt very bitter and couldn’t snap out of it without Master’s help.

Through continuously studying the Fa and looking inward, I gradually became clear and more open-minded. One day, I suddenly thought, “I have practiced Dafa for so many years and through all of my most painful and difficult times, Master was always by my side to give me hints. Even though I didn’t do well, Master never gave up on me. But how can I keep seeking benefits from Master and Dafa? I should also do something to repay him.”

I then began to make breakthroughs in my cultivation. I studied and recited the Fa, and did the exercises. Every time I watched the video of Master’s teaching in Australia, I became teary. The last time I watched it, I saw the part at the end where Master looked worried, and I felt very sad. I made up my mind to have Master worry less about me. I’d cultivate my xinxing well based on the Fa’s principles and correct myself so as to do better next time.

I felt very bitter when I went through xinxing tests with my family. My mother often had temper tantrums, and said very sarcastic and mean things to me. I always wanted to talk back. I realized I had the Communist Party culture mentality of wanting to get revenge and have the other person feel what I felt. But after enduring and looking inward, I gradually became more calm and composed. Over time, I realized that going through a xinxing test was no longer that painful.

I later understood that I should always maintain a heart of feeling grateful, not only for Master’s compassion and saving grace, but for Master not giving up on me, and having given me such a healthy body. Many things then became simple, and I could even treat my family with a smile.

Before that, I felt that the most difficult thing was doing the exercises. I had no problem staying up late, but it was rather difficult for me to get up early. So I seldom finished the five sets of exercises, except for when I was off work.

Another practitioner often said to me, “Do the exercises more diligently, otherwise your body won’t be fully transformed into high energy matter, and you’ll have trouble elevating.” I didn’t say anything, as I knew how hard it was for me to get up in the mornings. By the time I got up, it was already time to go to work. After work, I felt very tired and didn’t feel like moving; I only thought about lying down. At times, I felt I wasn’t even as good as an everyday person in this regard.

However, from the 2021 Chinese New Year until now, I have been strict with myself and try to finish the five sets of the exercises every day. Sometimes, it is almost 1:00 a.m. by the time I finish. When I miss doing the exercises, I take note of it and make up for it when I have time. In my spare time, I can even do more, which was absolutely impossible before. Unfortunately, I could only do the second exercise for half an hour, and I couldn’t do the sitting meditation for an hour. But I will gradually make breakthroughs in those areas.

Master said true practitioners must clarify the truth to others, whereas I was someone who was not eloquent and a bit shy. Yet Master encouraged me greatly. When I went out to clarify the truth with fellow practitioners, there were either people coming up to me to ask for directions, or for change. When I felt like talking to them, I did so. If I felt my cultivation state wasn’t optimal, I’d seek help from the other practitioners.

The first person I clarified the facts to worked in a supermarket, and he was a CCP member. When I talked to him, I could clearly feel Master opening up my wisdom, as I felt my logic was very clear. I knew to care about and encourage him from his standpoint. I then naturally introduced the basic truth about Dafa, the staged “self-immolation incident at Tiananmen Square,” and how the corrupt CCP officials are harming people. Before I left, he held his fist up and said, “I ran into someone noble. I was sitting here so upset before you came. Now, I’m totally fine! Thank you!”

When I met up with the other practitioners, I said, “Oh my, I was so nervous. My legs are still shaking, I almost couldn’t stand up. Let me take a break.” It was because I hadn’t clarified the facts to people face-to-face for a while. Through working with one another, we clarified the facts to people and sent forth righteous thoughts together to help them understand the truth about Dafa so they can have bright futures.

Thinking back about my past ten years of cultivation, I feel I haven’t done well and wasted a lot of precious time. Going forward, no matter how long my cultivation path is, I hope I can be more diligent and keep making breakthroughs to validate Dafa and save sentient beings more effectively, so as not to let Master down.

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