(Minghui.org) I started practicing Falun Dafa in 1999. With the support and encouragement of fellow practitioners, I am writing about my experiences to share them with everyone.
The Whole Family Practices
Our family had a lot of conflicts before we started practicing Falun Dafa, especially my father-in-law, who lived with us. My father-in-law drank every day. After he drank, he cursed at people, threw things, and complained about his dissatisfaction with society.
I went to work, took the children to school, cooked, and did laundry after coming home. I washed my father-in-law’s clothes every day because he insisted that clothes be washed on the same day he took them off.
After learning Dafa, my husband and I studied the Fa and practiced the exercises. I learned to look inward when I encountered conflicts. Gradually, my father-in-law changed and started studying the Fa and doing the exercises with us. He stopped smoking after decades of doing so, and he stopped drinking. Dafa is so powerful! If I hadn’t learned Dafa, I don’t know what would have happened. It was Dafa that saved our entire family.
Jiang Zemin persecuted Falun Dafa because he was jealous and saw that so many people were practicing. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) suppressed Dafa and slandered our Master. We bought a printer, produced truth-clarification materials, and distributed them door-to-door. Sometimes we also talked to people face-to-face. I was illegally sentenced to three years in prison in 2004, for distributing information with fellow practitioners.
My Father-in-law Cultivated Away the Attachment to Profit
When my father-in-law was 86 years old, he was hit by a car at the gate and fell off his tricycle. The driver stopped and helped him up, and wanted to take him to the hospital. My father-in-law said he was okay. He got up and told the driver, “Drive slower in the future and watch carefully.”
The driver didn’t expect to meet such a nice person. He took a thousand yuan from his car and gave it to my father-in-law. My father-in-law said, “I don’t want it. I practice Falun Dafa.” The village gatekeeper saw this, wondered why my father-in-law didn’t want the money, and said that he was stupid. I clarified the truth about Dafa to the gatekeeper when I arrived at the gate, and asked him to remember, “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.”
My father-in-law did what Dafa requires. He was thinking of others, and following Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. If he did not practice Dafa, he would not have done that. Dafa changed him. After he started practicing, he no longer lost his temper. He passed away peacefully at age 93.
Clarifying the Truth in the Detention Center and Urging People to Withdraw from the CCP
In May 2020, someone reported that I was distributing truth-clarification materials, and I was arrested and taken to the local detention center. This was during the pandemic, so no clothing could be brought in. For four months, I wore the same clothes I had on when I got there.
I was asked to take off all my clothes during a prison clearance. I said that I had not broken the law, and refused. I said that Falun Dafa required practitioners to follow Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, and I hadn’t done anything wrong. The other inmates had all taken off their clothes, and were waiting for me. I just wouldn’t comply.
The guards ordered the inmates to take off my clothes. The inmates said, “Sister, please do it. We have all done it.” They also said, “If you don’t do it, the guards will punish us,” but I still refused. Six inmates together took off my clothes. Such was the CCP’s hooligan behavior. Because I didn’t cooperate, they put handcuffs, shackles, and anklets on me the next day. They cuffed me to the wall for three days and left the cuffs and shackles on me for 15 days.
The weather was the hottest in July, and the ground was wet. I was soaked with sweat every day, my quilt was wet, and I smelled bad. Everyone in the cell knew that Dafa practitioners were good people, and some people used towels to help me dry off.
The inmates also apologized for taking off my clothes that day, and said they had no other option. I told them it was okay, and that I didn’t blame them. It was the CCP guards who instigated it, and the inmates were all victims as well. I helped everyone in the cell quit the CCP and its affiliates.
Clarifying the Truth After My Pension was Suspended
I was released in 2024, and the Social Security Office suddenly stopped my pension six months later. I went to the office and asked for an explanation. I said I had been retired for ten years, and I had no way to live without the pension. They said they didn’t care.
I clarified the truth to them about the “Tiananmen self-immolation,” which was all staged by Jiang Zemin and his gang. If the little girl who was burned had her trachea cut open, how could she sing and speak three days later? They were all surprised upon hearing this. I also told them to remember, “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” They all happily agreed and walked me out.
I went to the Social Security Office several times, and everyone there changed over the course of my visits. They suggested ideas and solutions. Their hearts were kind, and they could distinguish between right and wrong. I also told the manager and the director “to raise the muzzle by one centimeter,” and that one should act according to one’s conscience. Gods are everywhere; good deeds will be rewarded with good and evil deeds will be punished with evil.
The director said, “We will have a meeting to discuss your matter. I’ll give you a call afterwards.” I realized it was Master’s mercy that allowed me to use this opportunity to clarify the truth and save people. I wrote a truth-clarification letter, and gave a copy to the secretary of our village, and another copy to the Social Security Office. I clarified the truth to the secretary of the Judicial Office, and gave him a copy of the letter. I also mailed the letter to the director of the Social Security Bureau. I asked them to remember, “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.”
Cultivating Away Jealousy and a Fighting Mentality
Reflecting on my own cultivation process, I was doing okay on the surface, but I found jealousy when I really looked inward and dug deep. My niece was admitted to a university and went abroad, but my daughter didn’t. My niece’s annual income was hundreds of thousands. My daughter’s income was not as high, and her living conditions were also not as good.
I still have a fighting spirit. I was illegally sentenced by the evil CCP, who also implicated my daughter. She did very well at work, but was fired twice without being given a reason. She blamed me. I replied, “Would I be so good if I didn’t practice Dafa? I have brought up your two children.” What a terrible mindset of fighting and seeking reward. Today I am exposing it to eliminate and disintegrate it.
I will practice diligently in my future cultivation, study the Fa more, look inward when encountering problems, think of others first, have righteous thoughts, and conduct myself righteously. I will do the three things well, follow the cultivation path arranged by Master, and go home with Master!
If there is anything inappropriate, please kindly correct me.
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