Practicing Falun Dafa: Illnesses Resolved, Improving Xinxing

(Minghui.org) My brother and sister-in-law introduced Falun Dafa to me in early 1999, when they told me about Dafa’s miraculous effects in healing illness and helping people keep fit. 

They had both recovered from their illnesses after they began the path of Dafa cultivation. My brother used to suffer from a serious lower back injury, couldn’t stand up, and he could not work. Even though he had been treated at the hospital for more than a month, his condition did not get better. However, he returned to work after he began practicing Dafa. This made me wonder why the practice was so powerful. Thus, I borrowed a copy of Zhuan Falun, the main book of Falun Dafa. 

Recovered from Illnesses Through Dafa Cultivation 

In the beginning, I only wanted to find out what Dafa was about. But when reading Zhuan Falun, there were many principles that awakened my wish to cultivate, such as: Why would a person get ill? How to become a good person? The relationship between loss and gain, and so on. I immediately decided to cultivate in Falun Dafa. My sister-in-law gave me a copy of Zhuan Falun, and then showed me how to do the Dafa exercises. 

Since then, whenever I had free time, I read Zhuan Falun. I gradually came to understand that it is a book to teach people to cultivate and return to one’s original and true self. I came to understand the purpose of life, and deeply felt the beauty of Dafa. No matter how busy I was, or how many things I had to take care of at home and work, I kept reading the Fa and doing the exercises. 

One night, about six months after I began practicing Dafa, I came down with a terrible pain in the belly. I vomited and had diarrhea, coupled with a fever. The symptoms were just like when I had kidney stones. I was in so much pain that I rolled around in bed. But I believed it was what Master mentioned about eliminating karma. My husband was still worried and asked me to go to the hospital for a checkup. 

I said to him that Master was in charge and was helping me eliminate karma, and I didn’t need to go to the hospital. My husband let me be and did not say another word. When the pain got even more intense, I asked him to turn on some Dafa music for me. While I was listening, my pain was slowly alleviated and I fell asleep. When dawn came, I felt better, and I fully recovered within two days. 

Later, I appeared to have recurring symptoms of a cold. I had a cough, sore throat, and fever a few times a year. Every time, I didn’t take it to heart and got over it within a few days. Since I began Dafa cultivation, I’ve never had to take any medications. I truly came to feel the beauty of being illness-free. 

Being Steadfast in Dafa Cultivation

The former Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader, Jiang Zemin, launched the brutal persecution of Falun Dafa on July 20, 1999. They used the entire state machinery to defame and slander Dafa, cruelly persecute Dafa practitioners, and fabricated lies to poison people who weren’t familiar with Falun Dafa. Facing such a sudden evil persecution, I kept saying to myself: “What I cultivate is a righteous Fa; I walk a righteous path. There is nothing wrong with following the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, and I will never give up Dafa cultivation.” Every day I turned a blind eye to the propaganda on TV and the Internet, while remaining clear-minded at all times. 

I am a teacher. The leaders at school knew I practiced Dafa and came to talk to me. In the beginning, they tried to test me and see if I was serious about practicing Dafa. When they asked me about my understanding of Falun Dafa, I told the principal and Party secretary that Dafa could help heal illnesses and keep people fit. Besides, Dafa also teaches people to be good people. I talked about a few cases where practitioners had gone through positive transformations both mentally and physically. After they learned that, they no longer said anything. 

In 2008 the principal told me that someone reported me for practicing Falun Dafa, by sending a message to the website of the CCP’s office in the district. Under pressure from his supervisor, the principal talked to me about having to give up cultivation. He also came to find my colleagues, friends, and my husband, to have them put pressure on me, yet I wasn’t moved. In the end, both the principal and the Party secretary came to talk to me again. I kept sending forth righteous thoughts deep down with a firm thought: “I will be steadfast in Dafa and not listen to you.” No matter what they said to me, I remained quiet, so they had to wrap up the conversation quickly. 

During that period, other practitioners also helped me send forth righteous thoughts. Therefore, the evil influences behind the school administration were eliminated. There were also other practitioners conveying the message to practitioners outside of China about me. Those practitioners also called the school to clarify the facts. 

It seemed that the administration truly learned the truth. After that, the principal came to talk to me in person. He told me that he’d received calls from overseas, then apologized to me, saying that his tone hadn’t been very nice when he’d talked to me before.

I said, “I didn’t take any of that to heart, and I don’t resent you.” Then he said, “The district manager was going to come. But since I told him that I could handle it and he didn’t have to come, he didn’t come.” Since the principal had learned the truth, he helped me get over this tribulation. 

Improving Xinxing and Taking Fame and Self-Interest Lightly

At work, my school ran a quality and final exam every term, then did the rankings within each grade. After I learned Dafa, I relinquished the pursuit of fame and self-interest. When my class didn’t do well on exams, I looked inward. I used my spare time to help any students who were lagging behind. Sometimes I used my time off of work to help them with their homework. 

There was one student who had transferred in from another province. His mother had passed away and his father was too busy with work to look after him. So I took him home every day to make sure he finished his assignments. In addition, I bought him food and took care of his laundry. 

To thank me for the help I gave to the students, many parents wanted to give me something in return, but I declined. When I did accept gifts, I’d buy other gifts and give them in return. When Chinese New Year arrived, I gave my students small gifts, and encouraged them to study diligently. I got along very well with my students and their parents.

I often reminded myself that I am a Dafa practitioner, and I should hold myself strictly to the requirements of the Fa, as opposed to following along with the downward trend in today’s society. As to problem students, I often called their parents and communicated with them. Then they wanted to compensate me by refilling my phone card. After I found this out, I returned the money to them immediately. I also told them that I practiced Dafa, in order to take this opportunity to clarify the truth about Dafa to them. 

I guided students to be honest, to care about their classmates and to respect their teachers. I told them that when they ran into a conflict, they should take a step back and be tolerant. They not only learned how to be good people, but also enjoyed their studies. The few students taking on the mentors’ roles didn’t compete for their academic ranking in class, but still always ranked at the top. Due to my outstanding performance, no matter who became my supervisor, they recognized the excellence of my work. They knew I practiced Dafa. My excellent work performance and positive mental state demonstrated the beauty of Dafa. 

I was repeatedly rated as the backbone of the district and municipal teaching before the leaders knew I was a Falun Dafa practitioner. After they learned I practice Dafa, even if my work was excellent, they no longer commended me or recognized how I helped the school. However, I had completely let that concern go, as I am a practitioner. 

Saving Sentient Beings at Work 

I used every opportunity at work to help people around me understand Falun Dafa and the persecution, including my colleagues, security guards, students, and their parents. I delivered informational materials, truth-clarification calendars and Shen Yun DVDs to them. Sometimes when I couldn’t find the opportunity to clarify the facts face-to-face, I’d write down what I wanted to tell them about Dafa on slips of paper, and I helped them quit the CCP. 

One time, content slandering Dafa was broadcast throughout the school at noon time. After I heard it, I quickly went to find the teacher in charge, asking her not to commit crimes against Dafa by poisoning students and teachers. After she understood, she switched to delivering other information. 

Another time, the school was required to put up posters with comics defaming Dafa in every class. I cleaned up the ones posted in my class. However, there were other posters in other classes. I waited until the students went home before taking them down one by one. Soon enough, we were given information sheets defaming Dafa for students to take home to have their parents sign. The other classes all followed suit. At that time, I was in the office and refused to take the information sheets. The next day, when I was in class, the Party secretary knocked on the door, asking for the sheets. He knew that I didn’t pass them round to students. I said, “I’m teaching class, let’s talk when I finish.” 

After class, he didn’t come back to look for me. That afternoon, when I went to another class for a meeting, the secretary communicated the matter to the principal. After the principal finished the meeting, he asked me to come to his office and asked me about the information sheets. I said to him, “Falun Dafa is good. When you distributed the evil and biased information sheets to students and their parents, didn’t you harm them?” After hearing that, he didn’t say anything, but acknowledged that a person should be allowed to have their belief. He also cautioned me to pay attention to my safety. 

Saving sentient beings through helping them understand Dafa is the sacred responsibility and historical mission that a Dafa practitioner shoulders. The Minghui website encouraged practitioners to set up truth-clarification materials production sites in a variety of places. In 2005, under the guidance of practitioners with technical backgrounds, I bought a computer and printer and set up a home-based printing site, which supplied practitioners around me with truth-clarification materials, as well as the Minghui Journals.

I also went with practitioners to the courthouse to send forth righteous thoughts in close proximity to practitioners who were subjected to illegal trials. And I went to other cities to hand out truth-clarification materials, put up truth-clarification sticky notes, and hang truth-clarification banners. I also used cell phones to make automatically-dialed calls to help people quit the CCP. In addition, whenever I ran into people face-to-face, I’d clarify the facts to them and help them quit the CCP. 

I am fortunate enough to have become a Dafa practitioner. I will treasure this precious opportunity and continue to do the things a Dafa practitioner is supposed to do, fulfilling my mission.