Diligently Cultivating and Fulfilling My Prehistoric Vow

(Minghui.org) I have been practicing Falun Dafa for 26 years, and I am 80 years old now. I am very grateful to our compassionate Master for saving me. I write this article to report to Master about my cultivation experiences over the years.

I Experienced Dafa’s Special Power the Very First Time I Practiced It

In 1998, I was suffering from many illnesses. By then I’d had three work-related injuries, which left me with several aftereffects of a concussion, including cerebral arteriosclerosis, cerebellar atrophy, and insufficient blood supply to the brain. The injuries also resulted in an untreatable fracture on my fifth lumbar vertebra, causing frequent back pain. Moreover, I had rheumatoid arthritis since I was a child, and later developed gastroenteritis. There were not many healthy places on my body. Every year I had to be hospitalized for one thing or other.

One day in 1998, as I struggled to walk to the market to buy vegetables, someone came up to me and said, “You don’t seem to be in good health. You should practice Falun Dafa!” I told her that I had practiced many forms of qigong, but not one was effective. She continued, “Falun Dafa is different. It is a Buddhist practice. It is miraculous in curing illnesses and improving health!” When I heard the word “Buddhist,” I immediately became interested, because I’d always worshipped Buddha since I was a child and always wanted to go to heaven.

I went out to look for a Falun Dafa practice site, and finally found one after three days of searching. When I was learning the exercises for the first time, as I was doing the second exercise, I felt as if a small tornado was rising from my neck, and then spiraling around my body. It was very comforting, and I experienced the miraculous nature of Dafa.

On the fifth day, before I finished learning all five sets of the exercises, I already felt like a completely different person. All my ailments disappeared without a trace! In the past, it would take me half an hour to walk up the stairs to the fourth floor where I lived. But after practicing the Dafa exercises, I was able to get there in two minutes.

Not long after I began to practice Dafa, I slipped and fell while walking on the road, and I couldn’t move. I opened my mouth, but couldn’t even speak. People saw me fall and called an ambulance to take me to the hospital. After staying in the hospital for a few days, my son took me home. I stayed in bed for nearly half a year. But after that, I felt like I was reborn. I was completely healthy and I have not taken any form of medicine since then. I was like a young person, able to sleep and eat a lot. I was full of energy, and my skin tone looked much better.

The changes in me after practicing Dafa were incredible, and I was so happy. Before practicing Dafa, my life was almost coming to an end. Now, at the age of 80, I am still walking around the streets to clarify the truth under the light of Dafa.

Master Enlightened Me in My Dreams

After I’d practiced Dafa for a period of time, Master opened my celestial eye, and I saw many wonderful and magical scenes in other dimensions. I personally experienced the “three flowers gathering above the head” and “the Placement of the Mysterious Pass” mentioned in Zhuan Falun. I also had other supernormal abilities. At that time, I felt a little complacent and had the mentality of showing off. I thought that in a few years, I would be able to achieve consummation and return to heaven.

Master saw these human attachments in me and enlightened me. In a dream, many practitioners and I were looking for the way home together. After we walked to the foot of a mountain, there was no more road, but a vast ocean. There was only one male practitioner with me at that time. He was sitting there looking very sad. I said to him, “You can’t swim. Wait for me here. I’ll fly over and take a look.”

I flew to the other side of the ocean. I walked up a road and saw many people repairing the road, from the foot of a mountain to the top, and then from the top of the mountain into the sky.

I was very surprised: how did these people stand in the sky to repair the road? Some of them were hammering nails, and some were tying chains, making clanging sounds. I continued to walk along the road and saw a large temple with a small river next to it. There were three stone arch bridges over the river, and there were iron chains. I suddenly remembered that the front part of this temple was where we came down from.

I walked over and took a look, and I felt extremely sad: the road was very wide when we came down, but now it could only fit one person, and it was full of weeds. I walked back while crying. I flew back to the place where the male practitioner was waiting, but I couldn’t find him anymore. I shouted, “Where are you? I have found our way home!” I cried and shouted until I woke up.

I gradually realized that Master was enlightening me in this dream: Cultivation is very difficult. We came here from heaven and have gotten lost and been polluted by things in the world. But fortunately, Falun Dafa has paved a way for us to return to heaven. We must cultivate in Dafa, cleanse the dirt from our human bodies, and do the three things well so that we can return.

Another time, I dreamed that several of us were doing the three things together. I suddenly turned around and found that I was the only one there. I kept walking forward by myself. I then saw a dazzling golden light shining in front of me, which was extremely magnificent. Suddenly, three children came down from the sky and came to me. I asked them how beautiful it was up there. They said that it was a heavenly world, and of course it was very beautiful and glorious. I asked them why they came down here to play. They told me that they were knocked down because they did not meet the standard, as they were only enjoying themselves and did not do well.

After waking up, I knew that this was Master enlightening me. I was too attached to enjoying myself, and did not do the three things well, and did not meet the standard. How could I return to heaven? Moreover, I still had a mentality of overly relying on others, and I did not want to endure hardships. From then on, I was determined to be more diligent in cultivation.

Clarifying the Truth to Save People

On July 20, 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began to persecute Falun Dafa. Initially, I didn’t know what to do.

In 2000, I obtained my first truth-clarification pamphlet titled “Kindhearted People, Please Come and Understand the Truth about Falun Dafa.” I had only one copy, and I cherished it very much. I bought a lot of carbon paper and made copies of it with a ballpoint pen. Each time I traced it, I could only make three copies. After I made a lot of copies, I put them in the newspaper racks on the street. I thought that many people would read what’s in the newspaper racks, and more people would learn the truth about Dafa.

After doing this for a while, I bought a photocopier to copy the materials. However, because I was too anxious and wanted to make more copies, I ended up breaking the photocopier. I then went to photocopy shops to make copies. But many shops did not dare to make copies for me. Then I found one that would, but it was very expensive and cost one yuan per copy. I made 300 copies, and distributed them myself.

Later on I could not find a photocopy shop that dared to make copies for me. Just as I was feeling anxious about it, there were fellow practitioners who began to make truth-clarification materials. I was very happy. I always carried materials with me and distributed them in markets, train stations, parks, residential buildings, and wherever there were a lot of people.

In 2008, I was going to set up my own truth-clarification materials production site. However, before I even learned the basic skills, my home was ransacked by the police, and all the equipment was taken away. I was detained for nearly a month.

After returning home, I went to the police station to ask for my belongings, but they only returned my computer. I bought another printer and started making materials and distributing them with another practitioner. I made materials on weekends, and we distributed them on weekdays. On average, each of us distributed nearly 100 copies a day. We did this for several years.

In my nearly 20 years of face-to-face truth clarification, there were many touching stories. Here are just two examples.

I once talked to a vegetable farmer at an open-air farmers market. I told him about the beauty of Falun Dafa, Dafa’s miraculous effects of curing illnesses and improving health, and that it teaches people to be good. Then I told him about how Jiang Zemin launched the persecution of Falun Dafa, fabricated the Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident, and used the entire state machinery to arrest, beat, detain, and sentence Falun Dafa practitioners. Some were beaten to the point of being disabled, some were beaten to death, and some had their organs harvested while still alive. Then I talked about the hidden character stone in Guizhou Province, as well as the many terrible crimes the CCP has committed throughout its history.

He listened very carefully and then said, “In the past, we farmers were also greatly harmed by the Communist Party.” He agreed to quit the CCP and thanked me. I asked him to thank Dafa’s Master, and he immediately said, “Thank you, Dafa’s Master!” I gave him a Dafa amulet, and told him to recite the nine words, “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” He said he would definitely recite those words.

After some time, I went to this farmers market again to clarify the truth. When the vegetable farmer saw me from a distance, he shouted loudly, “Falun Dafa is good! Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good!” I shouted the words with him. I noticed that he had changed a lot. His face was rosy and he seemed very energetic. He told me that he recited, “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good” every day, and everything became easy and smooth for him.

I once clarified the truth to a couple in a park. They were so happy that they insisted on giving me some fruit. I then explained things to them in more detail. I started by telling them how I came to practice Falun Dafa, and how it cured all my illnesses and taught me to become a better person. The gentleman interrupted me and said, “I want to practice it! Can you teach me?” I said I could, and asked for the couple’s address, mobile phone numbers, and names, which they gave to me.

I brought them my copy of Zhuan Falun, and said to them, “This is the copy of Zhuan Falun that I read. I will lend it to you. When I get another new copy, I will bring it to you.” I also told him to respect the book, and to respect Master and Dafa. He understood. A few days later, I got a new Dafa book and took it to the couple.

When we met, I couldn’t believe my eyes. The man had just read Zhuan Falun for a few days, yet he had changed completely. His complexion had turned rosy, and he looked at least 10 years younger. He said to me with excitement, “As I read Zhuan Falun, I saw golden light shining in the book. After reading the book for a few days, my health got better. I am so fortunate!”

Saving People With a Sense of Urgency After the Outbreak of the Pandemic

In early 2020, after COVID-19 broke out, Dafa practitioners felt that saving people was ever so urgent!

A few days before the city was locked down, I went out to pick up some truth-clarification materials. I accidentally fell on the way there, and severely injured my left foot.

Because I had arranged to meet a fellow practitioner who would give me the materials, I endured the pain and managed to get up, dragged my left leg, and took the subway to the place where we agreed to meet. The practitioner saw me and was surprised that I could continue on to meet her. I took the materials and dragged my leg back home. After I got home, I studied the Fa and did the exercises. My family wanted me to go to the hospital, but I told them, “I am a Dafa practitioner. Master will protect me. I will be fine.”

The most difficult thing was to do the sitting meditation, because my left leg was swollen to the knee. When I wanted to sit in the full-lotus position, I had to pull the leg up little by little. It hurt so much that I cried, but I was able to do it.

With Master’s blessing, I was able to go downstairs and move around in about a month. I thought to myself, “I can’t be trapped at home like this. With the pandemic, saving people is most urgent! I have to go out to distribute materials and help Master to save people.” So I went out to bus stops and sat on the platform bench to distribute materials. My foot recovered very well, and I continued to go out to clarify the truth every day.

There have been so many miraculous experiences like this over the years while clarifying the truth. I know that our compassionate Master is doing everything, and it is Master who is saving these precious people! Thank you, Master!

At this final moment in history, I have already let go of my selfish thoughts of whether I can go to heaven and whether I will achieve Consummation. I only want to save more people. I am happy from the bottom of my heart for every life that understands the truth and is saved!

Thank you, Master, for your compassionate protection and for giving me the sacred mission of assisting Master in saving people. I will be more and more diligent and fulfill my vows.