Practicing Diligently Through the Years

(Minghui.org) I was born in a rural family, and my mother had Buddha statues in our home. I learned from her to offer incense to Buddha and respect Buddha.

When I was a child, I often heard music coming from somewhere, which puzzled me. After I started practicing Falun Dafa and listened to Pudu and Jishi. I was amazed: This was music I heard when I was a child!

I Begin Practicing Falun Dafa

A neighbor gave me a copy of Zhuan Falun. Before I even finished reading Lunyu, I felt what Master said was very profound. I thought, “This is what I’ve been looking for,” and I began practicing. That was in 1997, and I’m now 83 years old.

I joyfully studied the Fa and did the exercises every day. In the summer, we sat under a big tree and read the Fa. In winter, the weather was very cold, but we still did the exercises outside. I occasionally smelled a unique fragrance. It made me feel as if I was in the vast universe, and it was really a miraculous feeling.

My home later became a Fa study site, and we studied the Fa, did the exercises, exchanged cultivation experiences, and watched the videos of Master’s Fa lectures. My neighbor’s celestial eye was open, and she told me, “I saw Buddhas and divine beings walking into your home, and your husband waved at them to welcome them.” I was very excited to hear that, because those were the other practitioners who came to my home to study the Fa.

Before the persecution began in1999, we all understood what cultivation was and what the purpose of cultivation, and it laid a solid foundation for us during the Fa-rectification period.

Safeguarding the Fa

Just as we were enjoying the happiness of practicing Falun Dafa, on July 20, 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began the persecution and arrested many practitioners.

At first, we were at a loss for what to do. But then we saw an article on Minghui.org and realized that we must resist the persecution. We immediately took action. We posted truth clarification slogans, hung banners, distributed materials to people, and wrote messages on walls with chalk. Fellow practitioners set up a material production site, and I donated money to buy supplies. When the site was discovered and destroyed by the police, we started a new one elsewhere. Just like that, we moved forward and have come to this day in a relay-like manner.

I’m usually timid, but at that time I wasn’t scared. At night, I went to the top of the mountain alone to put up banners, and went into communities alone to distribute materials, and I did not feel scared even when it was completely dark. I didn’t know where I got the courage from. I later realized that it was because Master was right beside me. Once, I went to a far away community to distribute truth clarification materials. It was dark and there were no street lights. I got lost on my way home, but I didn’t think too much about it. I just kept my head down and walked. Before I knew it, I was home.

One late night in the fall of 2006, a practitioner and I went to post “Falun Dafa is good” on the bridge piers. We also posted slogans on electric poles. This bridge is a famous bridge in my area. There were many people walking, and the lights on the bridge were dazzling. We chatted and laughed, and quickly finished the piers on both sides. I said in my heart, “Sentient beings, come and see it. Dafa is here to save you!” Just as I had that thought, I suddenly saw Master’s Fashen (Law body) right next to me. I was surprised and very happy. I told the other practitioner and she was happy too. We were doing the work of helping Master to save people on such a busy bridge, but we were calm and at ease, without any fear. We knew that Master gave us the courage and strength.

Resisting the Persecution

When I was distributing truth clarification materials in 2002, the old forces took advantage of my attachment to zealotry and I was arrested. That evening, my children and other relatives came. The police ordered me to sign a document to promise to stop practicing Dafa, but I refused. My granddaughter cried to see me being held in the police station. I let go of sentimentality to the family and made up my mind: I am a true Falun Dafa practitioner and I will not sign. The police didn’t let me go that night because I refused to sign. My family left, and I stayed in the police station overnight, with my hands cuffed to a chair. It was the coldest time of the year, and there was no heat in the room, but I didn’t feel cold.

The next morning, when I looked up, I saw a big Falun (Law wheel) rotating in front of me. I knew Master was protecting me. My children returned, but the police still refused to let me go and tried to force me to sign their document again. I told them that they don’t get to decide whether I stay or leave. I told my children, “Let’s go home.” The police station director looked at me and said, “You can go.”

When people began filing criminal complaints against Jiang Zemin, former CCP leader, for initiating the persecution of Falun Dafa, all of the practitioners at our material production site participated. Some family members who were not practitioners signed the petition to sue Jiang as well. For instance, all three of my daughter’s family signed. We also went to the homes of senior practitioners and those who were illiterate to help them write and submit their criminal complaint letters.

Overcoming the Tribulation of Sickness Karma

Before I practiced Falun Dafa, I had a hereditary disease—trigeminal neuralgia. My three cousins all have this disease. I appeared to have it again, and my family wanted me to go to the hospital for surgery. But I didn’t go because I knew as a cultivator, Master would take care of me. I knew the disease was a false appearance, and interference from the old forces. So I stayed in my room and studied the Fa out loud, while enduring the pain. It was so painful that I burst into tears, but the more it hurt, the louder I read the Fa. After a long time, I told the pain, “Are you tougher or am I?” The pain disappeared, and I felt so wonderful as if I had entered a different world.

One morning around 3 or 4 a.m., I clearly felt Master doing guanding (strengthening) for me for half an hour. Another time, when I was doing the sitting meditation, I saw Master removing my left kneecap and replace it with a new one.

Around 2008, I had something like herpes around my waist. It didn’t hurt, and only felt a little itchy. Practitioners said that if an ordinary person got this, it would be very painful. At that time, I didn’t know how to look inward, but I knew not to acknowledge this false appearance, as I did not have an infection.

I used to have a mouth ulcer. Once, when I was sending forth righteous thoughts, I saw two worms coming out of my body. After that, the ulcer disappeared.

I overcame all these tribulations of sickness karma because I didn’t pay too much attention to them. I continued to do what I was supposed to do—I did the exercises and studied the Fa. I did not let it stop me from helping Master to save people or making truth materials. Many times when Master removed various bad things from me, I could see them clearly. I knew what they were and the false appearance of sickness they caused.

Establishing a Material Production Site

I went to stay with my daughter after my husband passed away in 2008. Her neighbor is a practitioner and she showed me how to make truth clarification materials. A year later, I returned home and started a material production site. From then on, I spent my money on saving sentient beings, and haven’t stopped.

I made all kinds of truth materials. At one point, the demand was high, and my small printer simply couldn’t handle it. I then had the idea of changing to a large printer, and Master gave me a hint to ask a technical practitioner for help. When I got there, he said, “I’m about to give this big printer away. Do you want it? This printer is very good quality and prints beautiful materials, but it’s expensive to use.”

I was a bit scared, and I said to myself, “I am an old lady in my 70s. Can I handle a printer this big?” I looked up and saw Master’s picture on the wall. I put my hands together in front of my chest and asked Master in my heart, “Master, do I want this printer?”

I heard Master’s voice saying, “Yes!” So I took the printer home.

Improving with Fellow Practitioners

In order to make more truth materials, some practitioners came to my home and helped me. Some worked very late, until 8 or 9 p.m. In the process of cooperating with other practitioners, I eliminated my resentment, the desire for perfection, and the desire to force others to do what I wanted them to do.

On January 20, 2023, Master published the article, “How Humankind Came To Be.” We studied it together and shared our thoughts with each other. I enlightened that distributing Master’s teachings cannot be like distributing truth materials. First, we must clarify the truth to people before giving them flyers, and we should not force them to take it. We must also give it to them in person. Second, the packaging must be attractive, and we cannot use plastic bags. We should not hang them on door handles, or place them casually like other materials. We are saving people, and cannot destroy them because of our improper ways of doing things. We must be careful and do our best.

During those times when we couldn’t exchange experiences as a group, I talked with fellow practitioners individually. When some of us encountered a tribulation or test for improving our xinxing, we would quickly pass Master’s lecture along after sharing with each other based on the Fa.

I go to the Minghui website every day and read practitioners’ articles. When practitioners encounter tribulations, I recommend relevant articles I’ve read to help them improve. Once, Master enlightened me through my daughter, asking me to not only cultivate myself, but to take good care of fellow practitioners at the material production site in my home.

There is a senior practitioner in his 80s who often carries a heavy load of materials on his back, and goes to the rural market, streets, fields, and vegetable greenhouses to let people know about Dafa and the persecution and help people quit the Party. He has done this for many years.

Some materials are taken by practitioners who distribute them to others. Some are taken by practitioners who pass them to other practitioners, who may then pass them to more practitioners. Just like this, we have formed channels to pass on materials, and these channels form an invisible one-body. Although we do not know each other, our hearts are connected by the Fa, and our goals are the same—to assist Master in Fa-rectification and save sentient beings.

Seize Every Opportunity to Clarify the Truth

I now mainly make truth-clarification materials, and don’t go out much to let people know about Dafa. But whenever I do go out for something, I try to talk to the people I meet. When people come to me, I seize the opportunity to clarify the truth to them. For example, when housekeepers or workers come to install things in my home, I clarify the truth to them and most of them quit the Party. When I met my children’s classmates or colleagues, I always try to help them quit the CCP.

My child’s friend once hosted a dinner for his friend, and I went. His friend was a government official from another city, and was in his 30s. I thought it wasn’t coindental that we met, and I should find an opportunity to let him know about Dafa. After dinner, I stood outside the hall and he came to chat with me. I said, “You are a CCP member, right?” He said he was. I continued, “You should quit it. You know better than me all the bad things the CCP has done. Heaven is going to destroy it.”

He replied, “It doesn’t matter whether the CCP exists or not. I’ll quit it.”

Handling Money

My monthly pension is 3,000 yuan. Every week, my children buy me groceries and daily necessities. Most of my money is used to make materials, and my children know it.

My children went from being afraid at first to supporting me in my cultivation. One year, during the Chinese New Year, one of my daughters-in-law gave me 5,000 yuan and said, “Mom, I donate this to your cause.” I was so happy that people are awakening. The next year, she also gave me 5,000 yuan. She has received blessings for her actions. In her workplace, they all had to take a senior professional title exam. Her colleagues all failed it for several years before passing it, but she passed the exam the first time she tried.

I’ve always strictly separated the money for making materials and the money for personal life, and I put it in different bags. Although the money is earned by me, I feel that it’s a Dafa resource and it is most meaningful only when it is used to help save people.

Following the Path Arranged by Master

I live by myself in an apartment of more than 80 square meters, with three bedrooms and one living room. My home is also a being, and has a mission. Each of my three rooms is filled with machines, equipment, supplies, and various tools for making materials. When the persecution was severe, some material production sites were forced to move, and practitioners suggested that I move and hide. But I thought I should follow my path arranged by Master—I should stay here and not go anywhere.

Master’s portrait is in a prominent position in my home, and people can see it as soon as they enter. When ordinary people see Master’s portrait, they also put their hands together and bow to Master. Some have told me, “Your home feels very comfortable.” This is a manifestation of Dafa’s compassion.

There are truth clarification posters on all the walls in my home. The largest picture is more than one meter long. All these items are beings who came for the Fa. They have assimilated to the Fa, and are all emitting positive energy. Some practitioners think that having truth clarification materials can be problematic and may become evidence for prosecution, but I think all Dafa materials are for saving people and are weapons to resist the persecution.

Over the years, my biggest cultivation insight is to ask for nothing, and let go of everything. The mind of a cultivator must be righteous. One righteousness thought can suppress all evil factors. We must look at problems from a high level and we should not look at them with ordinary people’s concepts. When we’re able to do this, the evil factors will become nothing.

Master, I will give my best effort to do the three things well on the final leg of my cultivation path.