Canada: Falun Dafa Practitioners in Ottawa Thank Master for His Grace and Wish Him a Happy Mid-Autumn Festival

(Minghui.org) On the occasion of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Falun Dafa practitioners in Ottawa, the capital of Canada, conveyed their greetings and thanks to the founder of the practice, Master Li Hongzhi. They said that following Truthfulness-Compassion- Forbearance and practicing Falun Dafa gave them new lives.

Practitioners in Ottawa wish Master a happy Mid-Autumn Festival.

Falun Dafa Eliminated My Severe Depression

After she began practicing Falun Dafa, Su Jiawen went from being severely depressed to being cheerful.

Su Jiawen began practicing Falun Dafa nine months ago. When she was a freshman in China, she was diagnosed with severe depression. She didn’t like to talk, and she avoided her family.

She majored in dance, practiced from morning to night, trained a lot in a closed environment, and ate very little. These pressures and the lack of counseling left her very anxious about her appearance, and she felt confused and negative about her life. She even had thoughts of suicide.

When she moved to Ottawa, she learned about Falun Dafa. After reading Zhuan Falun she sighed, “This book is so good—it resolved all the doubts I’d had for 20 years. Isn’t this what I have been looking for?”

After she began practicing Falun Dafa, she understood the meaning of life, as well as why there are human beings and how they should live. She emerged from the haze of depression and became lively and cheerful. Under her influence, her brother, who is five years younger, quit his bad habits.

She said, “My depression is gone. In the past, I didn’t have any friends, and I didn’t talk to anyone except my mother. But now I can communicate with everyone and share my cultivation experience, which was unimaginable before.

“I understand that I can no longer wander the world in a daze, that I have Master, and that I know what I need to do. I believe that, as long as you firmly follow the path arranged by Master, you don’t have to worry about anything.”

She wished Master a happy Mid-Autumn Festival and said, “After obtaining the Fa I became a good person. The Fa purifies my body and mind. My brother is no longer rebellious. He found direction in life, and is no longer addicted to mobile phones and the Internet. Cultivation is a huge improvement for oneself and one’s family.”

Truth and Goodness

Kathy Gillis expressed her sincere respect and gratitude to Master.

Ottawa-based painter Kathy Gillis’s childhood dream was to become an artist. After college, she worked in education and held solo exhibitions. In 1998, practicing Falun Dafa became an important milestone in her life.

She feels that cultivation has made her artistic works and what they seek to convey more unified and meaningful. “Since practicing Falun Dafa, my ability to think creatively has become clearer, and the materials and meanings of my creations have suddenly become clearer.”

Gillis believes that, during this period of time when the CCP is persecuting Dafa, her responsibility is to accurately record the cultivators and their efforts to expose the persecution. She invites the public to visit her art exhibitions every month, “I want to speak through my paintings so that people can understand the truth and the kindness of cultivators.”

Many of Gillis’s works have been exhibited in the “Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance International Art Exhibition.” On the occasion of the Mid-Autumn Festival, she expressed her sincere respect and gratitude to Master.

Blooming Udumbara Flowers

Ms. Huang Yanzhen expressed her sincere gratitude to Master.

Ms. Huang Yanzhen, a retired middle school teacher from Taiwan, learned about Falun Dafa many years ago at an “International Art Exhibition of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance” held in Vancouver, Canada. When she and her husband visited the exhibition in June 2005, they learned that Falun Dafa had health and fitness benefits, and she decided to practice immediately. She and her husband began to do the exercises in the park and later participated in a nine-day Falun Dafa class, and they both became practitioners.

Huang Yanzhen said, “After reading Zhuan Falun, I knew that Dafa was very good, and I made a wish: In this lifetime I wish to practice Falun Dafa.”

In September 2008, Huang Yanzhen saw udumbara flowers on two apples in her home. She said the udumbara flower is not found in the secular world and that seeing such a flower is auspicious. She said, “I am grateful to Master for encouraging me and increasing my confidence in cultivation.”

She expressed her gratitude to Master from the bottom of her heart: “After I began practicing, old problems of many years were gone, but the most important thing is getting rid of my attachments through cultivation. I thank Master from the bottom of my heart and will continue to follow his teachings, be more diligent, and measure everything with Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance.”

A Restaurateur Understands the True Meaning of Life

Someone else who saw an udumbara flower was Ren Jian, the owner of a Japanese restaurant. He was a child in China during the Cultural Revolution and said that, at that time, no one taught children how to behave and the streets were filled with political slogans. After the 1980’s, following the trend of “everything is about money,” he drifted with the tide and gradually lost his direction.

A friend told Ren Jian about Falun Dafa and he read Zhuan Falun. The book drew him in like a magnet. Zhuan Falun answered the questions that had puzzled him for many years, and he suddenly understood the meaning of life. He knew that he had to be a good person in accordance with the requirements of Dafa.

After practicing Falun Dafa, Ren Jian’s personal life and family experienced earth-shaking changes, and his physical and mental health and morality improved. Soon after he began practicing, he saw udumbara flowers in his house. After he started to practice Dafa, he was in three major car accidents, but he was not injured in any of them.

As a cultivator, he has little regard for material things and desires. He treats his employees and customers fairly and tries to improve the quality and taste of the food he serves to satisfy his customers and not just to make a profit. He also volunteers in his spare time and has been involved in distributing the Epoch Times newspaper for many years, so that more Canadians can know the truth.

Ren Jian wished Master a happy Mid-Autumn Festival and expressed his heartfelt thanks: “It was Master who changed my life and taught me how to behave. Cultivation is of great significance in my life.”