(Minghui.org) Within a year after I started cultivation practice in Falun Dafa, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started persecuting practitioners. I was arrested for distributing materials informing people about the persecution and was sent to a forced labor camp. Because my understanding of Dafa was limited, I did things in the labor camp that a practitioner should not have done.
After returning home, I had a heavy heart and experienced severe interference. To improve my cultivation state, I hand-copied Zhuan Falun nine times. However, I still could not discard my fear mentality when going out to distribute truth-clarification materials. I was distressed and blamed myself. This went on for several years.
While studying the Fa, I came to understand that it was dangerous for me to continue on like this. I prayed in my mind, “Master, I want to go home with you. I want to do well. Please help me.” Master saw my heart and arranged for me to join a practitioner named Ling to study the Fa and to help her make truth-clarification materials. Ling had a materials production site at her home. She was usually home alone except when practitioners visited her, as her child worked out of town. Ling worked very hard and made a lot of materials every day. I helped her to bind them and burn CDs.
There was a lot of need for truth-clarification materials. Sometimes, when practitioners came to get them, we didn’t have enough. We had to print the materials while the practitioner waited, and the printing took time. I thought, “If I could print materials, we would be able to make enough for all the practitioners’ needs. Whenever they come, whatever they need, there would be enough materials for them.”
Master helped me, as fellow practitioners bought me the equipment, which included a computer, printers, and a CD burner. Ling taught me to surf the Internet, download information, print, and burn CDs. My daughter took notes for me and watched me operate the equipment. Although I had a limited education and had never touched computers before, with Master’s blessing and practitioners’ help, I quickly learned to use the equipment. This “little flower” blossomed in my home.
Since I started making truth-clarification materials, I kept in mind Master’s teaching,
“With any project or any task, if you decide not to do it, then don’t do it; and if you do decide to do it, then you definitely have to do it well and carry it through to the end.” (“Fa Teaching Given at the 2010 New York Fa Conference,” Collected Teachings Given Around the World Volume XI)
Before producing the materials, I always study the Fa first. I experienced a lot of interference at the beginning, such as clogged print heads, missing colors, and so on. I looked inward each time a problem occurred, and then asked for Master’s help. As I kept cultivating myself, the interference became less and less. The printers I used were high-speed models and never had major problems. Sometimes they stopped after working long hours or for some minor issues. After cooling down, or tending to some minor maintenance, they started working again. One of the printers had printed over a million copies. After some maintenance, it printed another 300,000-plus copies.
Whenever a printer encountered a problem, I looked inward for the reason. When I found my attachment, the printer would start working immediately. As I kept studying the Fa and cultivating myself, I came to realize that I should not just look inward only after a problem occurred, as I would be passive in that manner. I then demanded myself to live by the Fa’s principles all the time and actively cultivate myself. After I started doing so, the printers had much fewer problems.
I printed booklets and leaflets, made calendars, and burned CDs. I produced them in large quantities and put them in boxes. Just before one Lunar New Year, practitioners needed a lot of materials. I was busy making them and the binding work rubbed my fingertips, almost making them bleed. It was very painful. My daughter saw my hands and said, “It’s almost the [Lunar] New Year. What can we do?”
I said, “It’s okay. Master protects me, and my fingers will be fine tomorrow.” The next day, the pain was gone. I was able to cook and clean for the New Year.
I spent all my time making materials, except when studying the Fa and doing the Falun Dafa exercises. I kept my life simple. I cooked simple meals all year long and only made dumplings on New Year’s Day. Sometimes, I had to buy ready-made dishes for my family to eat.
We have no TV at home. In the early days, it was because we didn’t have money to buy one. I later worried that watching TV would take time away from my studying the Fa, doing the exercises, and making materials. Over the years, my husband and daughter have gotten used to living without a TV. I realized that making materials and helping Master to save lives was my mission, and I feel fulfilled and happy. This is how I’ve lived for the past 10 years.
In recent years, my husband has been ill and was often hospitalized. I needed to take care of him. However, no matter what happened, as long as I turned on my equipment to make materials, my mind became focused. I cherished everything that Master arranged for me, and made the materials with all my heart. I feel that doing this is a very sacred task.
I insist on high standards to make the materials. The materials I make are clean, neat, and colorful. Fellow practitioners have said they looked as if they had never been touched.
I have kept the wish I made before I started making materials—to have the materials ready before practitioners come to collect them. Over the past 10 years, whenever practitioners come for materials, I am able to satisfy them in terms of quantity and style.
Over the past 10 years, a practitioner named Xia bought almost all the equipment and consumables I needed to make materials. She also delivered everything I made to other practitioners. This kept my production site safe. My home is at the foot of a mountain, and I keep the door to my yard closed to prevent uninvited guests from coming in, as the printing is noisy. Every time Xia comes, I wait inside the door and open it as soon as she arrives. This way, she doesn’t need to knock and disturb the neighbors.
In 2015, while practitioners were filing criminal complaints against Jiang Zemin, the former CCP leader who initiated the persecution of Falun Dafa, I sent a petition to the Supreme People’s Court and Supreme People’s Procuratorate and used my real name on it. I was worried afterward that the authorities would come to harass me. While thinking about where to hide the printers, Master’s teachings echoed in my mind. My righteous thoughts got stronger, and I realized that hiding the printers would postpone the printing and slow down practitioners’ efforts to save people. I held onto my righteous thoughts and continued with my printing.
During the time practitioners were being harassed and arrested for suing Jiang, the police station and the village committee sent people to harass me several times. I never opened my door when they knocked. After they knocked for a while without getting a response, they shouted a couple of times and then left. I safely passed this test and know Master protected me. I’m honored to be able to cultivate Dafa in this lifetime!
With Master’s strengthening and protection, and with fellow practitioners’ help, my home materials production site has operated smoothly for 10 years. In the remaining time, I will study the Fa, look inward more diligently, and strengthen my sense of responsibility, so that this “little flower” in my home can bloom more brilliantly and help practitioners save more people.
Thank you, Master!