Returning to Falun Dafa Cultivation

(Minghui.org) In 1996, during my college years, I was introduced to Falun Dafa by a classmate from high school. I read Zhuan Falun over and over again every day, and found answers to some of life’s questions that previously puzzled me. My mind suddenly became clear. I benefited physically and mentally from practicing Falun Dafa, and several of my family and friends who support Dafa received blessings. I would like to share this with fellow practitioners and sentient beings who are still lost, to demonstrate the extraordinary power of Dafa.

I Was Fortunate to Enter Dafa Cultivation

I used to be introverted, cowardly, extreme, and an arrogant person. After I started cultivating Dafa, I followed the standards of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance to be a good person in my daily life and gradually became cheerful and kind to others. During my time at school, I took the initiative to be responsible for getting the hot water for my dormitory. Thus, every day I carried four or five thermoses to the boiler room that was far away to get hot water. I also took the initiative to clean the dormitory. I cleaned the floor very carefully and was rated as excellent when I was on duty to clean the campus.

When doing the exercises at the group practice site, fellow practitioners patiently corrected my exercise movements, and they made a meditation mat out of cotton for me upon seeing my thin mat. I was happily immersed in the Fa. When I returned to school after the winter break in 1997, my fellow practitioner classmates told me that my appearance had changed a lot in just over a month, and the chronic skin condition that I had completely disappeared.

Forced to Give Up Cultivation During the CCP’s Persecution of Dafa

I graduated from college in 1998 and started to work in a state-owned enterprise. I found a practice site near my workplace, and I participated in group exercises there. I also studied the Fa and did the exercises by myself in my workplace dormitory at night. Because I had just started my new job and had a lot to learn, I gradually participated in the group exercises less and less, and I studied the Fa on and off.

In July 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began to persecute Falun Dafa. The leader at my workplace talked to me and asked me to give up practicing Falun Dafa. At that time, I was not clear about the difference between clarifying the truth and “engaging in politics” because I was affected by Party culture thinking, having grown up in it, and being educated in the Party culture. So I gave up practicing Falun Dafa, assuming I would practice again after the government had time to figure out what was going on, and allowed me to practice again.

I now understand that “engaging in politics” is for the purpose of finally obtaining political demands. However, Dafa practitioners have no political interests. Dafa practitioners' peaceful appeal on April 25 and our truth-clarification efforts are to prevent the world from being deceived by the CCP, thereby preventing them from committing crimes against Dafa. Dafa practitioners clarify the truth to the world and help people quit the CCP. They are saving people, and not participating in political struggles.

After I stopped practicing Dafa, I gradually became like ordinary people. I no longer held myself to the standards of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. I happily accepted gifts and shopping cards from subordinate companies and even squandered the money from the sale of used equipment replaced by my workplace. I was lost in life once again.

Master Guided Me to Return to Dafa Cultivation

In 2007, my wife was diagnosed with dermatomyositis (a rheumatic immune disease with symptoms of muscle weakness, which can lead to death in severe cases). During her hospitalization, the doctor told us that this disease requires lifelong use of hormones or immune preparations. My wife was only 30 years old at the time, so this news was like a bolt out of the blue for both of us. After being discharged from the hospital, my wife took a large amount of hormone drugs every day, and she had to go to the hospital every ten days to check various blood indicators.

I was depressed and felt I had no hope in life. I spent my time browsing Buddhist websites every day. One day, I saw a video on the discovery of Udumbara flowers in a Korean temple and the staged Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident posted by Dafa practitioners on the Internet. I learned that the CCP created and staged the self-immolation incident to justify persecuting Falun Dafa. Plainclothes police even beat Liu Chunling, who pretended to be a Falun Dafa practitioner, to death on the spot. I was shocked! How could a political Party and a government be so shameless! I decided to return to Dafa cultivation and start studying the Fa again.

Later, I got in touch with a high school classmate, a fellow practitioner, whom I hadn’t contacted for many years. He gave me the Freegate software to bypass the Internet firewall. I started to go to Minghui.org to read Master’s new lectures, download truth-clarification materials, and clarify the truth to my family and colleagues and help them to quit the CCP.

I Benefited Physically and Mentally from Cultivating Dafa

After returning to Dafa cultivation, I held myself to the standards of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. Thus, I treated others with kindness at work and did not work for my own benefit. I always put the feelings of others first. My superiors and colleagues had a good impression of me. Many people were asking me for help even if they were in a different area. During the holidays, I politely declined any gifts and shopping cards given by my subordinates. When I couldn’t refuse the gifts, I converted all the gifts and shopping cards into cash and donated it. I also no longer submitted false invoices to get reimbursed for medical expenses that didn’t incur, which is part of welfare benefits. In submitting invoices for the annual heating fee benefits, I only submitted the invoices actually paid by my family, which was lower than what I could actually get for my position. The difference between these two expenses adds up to about 2,000 yuan each year, which is not a small amount over a decade.

At first, I couldn’t let go of these things. However, I knew that I was a Falun Dafa practitioner, and getting reimbursed for medical expenses and heating expenses that I didn’t actually use was reducing my virtue in exchange, which was even more inconsistent with the standards of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. So I couldn’t keep doing that. As I deepened my cultivation, I slowly let go of this attachment to profit. My colleagues knew that I had not been reimbursed for medical expenses for so many years, and they all advised me to submit invoices for reimbursement. I didn’t explain too much about it. I just smiled and let it go.

After I returned to Dafa cultivation, the symptoms I had of various illnesses gradually disappeared. I had been troubled by rhinitis for more than 20 years. When it was serious, I used a pack of tissues a day. In the past, I was afraid to put my hands in cold water in the fall because once I touched cold water, my skin would chafe and crack. That situation lasted for nearly 10 years. In recent years, as my xinxing improved, I continuously rectified myself in Dafa. As of two years ago, I am no longer afraid to put my hands in cold water. In the past, when the cold wind blew, I felt that it was drilling into my joints. However, in recent years, this symptom also disappeared. Now in winter, when the temperature was colder than ten degrees below zero, I only needed a shirt and a thin down jacket to survive the winter.

Family and Friends Agree with Dafa and Receive Blessings After Quitting the CCP

When I first returned to Falun Dafa, my wife strongly opposed my practice. She didn’t talk to me for many days and called my parents in my hometown to ask them to persuade me to give up the practice. My mother called me and asked me to give up, saying my wife would divorce me if I didn’t give up practicing Falun Dafa. I kept clarifying the truth to my family and gave them truth-clarification materials. Gradually, my family no longer opposed my practice. They just told me to be careful. Later, my family quit the CCP one after another.

At my suggestion, my wife read Zhuan Falun several times and did the exercises with me for a period of time. Master cleansed her body. Although she did not continue to practice, she stopped taking hormones soon after she read Zhuan Falun and did the exercises. Until now, her dermatomyositis has not recurred. This was also a blessing she received after studying the Fa and understanding the truth about Dafa.

My parents moved to my city in 2013. I put truth-clarification messages on paper bills and gave some to my mother. She used them when buying things when she went out. She chose to support Dafa in her own way and accumulated blessings. In recent years, she has also listened to Master’s lectures and Minghui podcasts, such as “Divine Culture”. Although she has not started cultivation, she is almost 80 years old, but her hair is still very black, and her face has fewer wrinkles than her peers. She looks like she is in her 60s.

After clarifying the truth to two of my friends several times, they finally agreed to quit the CCP. One of my friend’s children went to a regular university and majored in a very ordinary major, but the child was still admitted to work in a state-owned enterprise in the provincial capital. Another colleague was promoted to the head of a section-level department last year. He was 49 years old. According to the current practice at his workplace, the probability of promotion at his age is very low. These were blessings they received for quitting the CCP and supporting Dafa.

The above are some ways that my relatives and friends have benefited from Falun Dafa. I would like to say a few words from the bottom of my heart to people who still have a conscience and good intentions: My personal experience has confirmed that Falun Dafa is a great and virtuous practice. If you truly practice according to Dafa, your moral standards will rise again. Don’t listen to the lies of the CCP and don’t have bad thoughts about Falun Dafa. The painful lesson of Buddhism disappearing in India is a lesson for us all. When you meet Falun Dafa practitioners who tell you the truth about Dafa and ask you to quit the CCP, you must seize the opportunity and declare your withdrawal from all of the CCP’s organizations as soon as possible, thereby choosing a bright future for yourself. And to those practitioners who practiced Falun Dafa in their early years, and then took a detour like me, but have not yet returned, hurry up and return to Dafa cultivation. Don’t miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Thank you, Master, for your compassion and salvation.