(Clearwisdom.net) I began practicing Falun Gong in 1996. At that time, one of my friends helped me buy the book Zhuan Falun and the Illustrations and Explanations of the exercise movements.
I have never attended school, so I was unable to read. I asked my daughter to read the movement explanations to me. After that I learned the five sets of exercises and began to do them. My daughter was busy with her work and had little time to read the Fa to me. She could only read ten pages to me per day. I was very anxious to study the Fa more. As I did the exercises the morning of the fourth day, I saw a golden halo over Master's portrait in the book that showed pictures of the exercises movements, and the golden halo was rising. My enlightenment quality was poor then and I did not know the reason for this happening. Later on I came to understand that Master was encouraging me. When I went to the Falun Gong practice site to do the exercises, I saw Falun filling up the field of the practice site. A fellow practitioner told me that my Celestial Eye was open, so I was able to see scenes in other dimensions.
One night a month later, I returned home from work at 10:00 p.m. My daughter and son had fallen asleep. I held the book in my hands and scrolled down, although I was unable to read. Then I saw Master's portrait smiling at me. I held the book and said, "Master! How wonderful it would be if I could read the book!" I closed the book and went to sleep.
When I was drifting off to sleep, I saw that Master was walking out from the book, opening the book and letting me read it. I said that I was unable to read. Master took a step back and turned a page. He then asked me what the words looked like. I replied that they looked like paper-cutouts for window decoration. Master laid down the book and patted me on the head three times, and poured something into my ear. And then Master disappeared. I shouted, "Master! Master!"
The next day my daughter studied the Fa with me. When she read the words in the first line, I felt I was able to read the words in the second line. When I told my daughter that I was able to read these words, my daughter said, "How miraculous this is! I will test you with a few words." While being tested I was able to read every word. I was so joyful and in tears. From then on I began to read Dafa books by myself.
On July 20, 1999, the Chinese Communist regime began the persecution of Falun Gong. When I saw how the TV propaganda was slandering Master and Dafa, I cried. I decided to go to Beijing to validate Dafa. On April 20, 2000 another practitioner and I went to Beijing. The policemen arrested us at Tiananmen Square and took us to the Tiananmen Police Station. I clarified the facts to them. I said, "Cultivating Falun Gong has many benefits and does no harm." I also explained how I began to practice and was previously unable to read, but after practicing Falun Gong I was able to read. The policemen did not believe it, so they tested me. I knew all the words they tested. They then asked the other practitioner who was with me if I was unable to read in the past. She confirmed it, and the policemen said, "What a miraculous thing this is!"
We were taken back to our workplaces. The person in charge ordered me to write a guarantee statement to not practice Falun Gong. I refused. They intended to extort 3,500 yuan from me. I said, "I have no money. I have not done anything wrong; why should I pay you?" Several other practitioners paid them money. They eventually took us to a shelter. The next day they wanted to photograph us, but I refused. They asked me to hold up a board that had slanderous words about Dafa on them. I resolutely refused, because in this world, Dafa is the most righteous. The guards tried to force me to be photographed but I refused each time, and threw the board away four times after they forced me to hold it. Later, when several guards came and grabbed my head, I still did not cooperate with them to have my photograph taken. I said, "You cannot succeed in taking my photograph!" Also, I did not fill in a form like they wanted. I stared straight at them. A guard told me not to stare at him because he felt afraid. His hands trembled and he could not go on writing. After the photo they took of me was printed out, my image was not there. They failed to take my photograph because of Dafa's power. They continued to push me to be photographed one more time. I said that if they removed the words on the board, I would consent to being photographed, and they did so at once. At that time my enlightenment quality was poor. Actually, we should not cooperate with the evildoers at all.
When I returned to the ward, the guards savagely beat me. However, I had no marks on my face, which surprised the practitioners. I realized that benevolent Master had taken on a lot for me. I was immensely grateful towards Master. I held a hunger strike for a week, and in the end they released me.
610 Office agents and those from the Public Security Section of my workplace held several brainwashing sessions at my workplace. They no longer bothered me because they said it was useless to put me in the brainwashing sessions as I would not reform, and would affect their ability to brainwash others.
I had strong attachments to emotion and self-interest and eventually gave up cultivation for two years. Benevolent Master gave me hints many times during that period. One time I dreamed that a practitioner told me that the practitioners had all completed cultivation, and he asked me to hurry up; the practitioner extended a hand and levitated, but I fell down in mid-air. I sat in meditation on the ground, pressed my hands together in front of my chest and wished for the practitioners to succeed in cultivation.
Later, Master gave me another hint in a dream: I had to pass over a big river on my way to my hometown. The bridge was damaged, and nobody could pass over the river. Suddenly, a ladder came down from the heavens and let people cross the river. They did not dare to climb up the ladder, but I did. My son then shouted at me. When I turned my head, I fell into the river. Master used a wooden pole to save me.
In August 2004, I returned from Shanghai. As soon as I returned, I wanted to practice Falun Gong again. However, I was not diligent. I thought Master would not watch over me because I had given up cultivation for such a long time. In September 2004, I regained my menstrual period, so I felt Master was still watching over me. This time I made up my mind to cultivate again, but by then my family environment was not good. I had to take care of my daughter's child and was busy all the time. I had no time to study the Fa. Later on I told my daughter to let her mother-in-law take care of her child, and I would go out to work. If I worked outside, I could contact more practitioners and get Falun Gong materials.
A friend of mine introduced me to become a home-helper for others. When the employer's daughter came to meet me, I said, "I am a Falun Gong practitioner, and I will study the Fa and do the exercises wherever I stay. Can your family accept that? The salary is not important." She replied, "I can accept it, but I am afraid my father cannot accept it, because he was a Red Army soldier before and is now a factory director."
After I went to her home, I clarified the facts to her mother. She understood the facts quickly. She had a broken thighbone, was unable to move and was bed-ridden. I told her to recite, "Falun Dafa is good! Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance is good!" After she had recited "Falun Dafa is good" for four days, she could walk again. Later on she began to study the Fa and do the exercises together with me. She told everyone she met that Dafa and Master had saved her, and she was grateful for Master's salvation.
When the father saw his wife walking, he was quite astonished. He said, "This is so miraculous!" He then told his son-in-law the good news. He did not believe this and arrived that night to see for himself. When he saw this first hand, the son-in-law said to me that I was a person sent by the heavens to save his entire family. After I finished clarifying the facts to them, all of her family members withdrew from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In addition, they threw away all the statues with possessing spirits that they once had in their house.
I eventually went to another family to help in the household. My work was to take care of two children. After I told the potential employer that I was a Falun Gong practitioner, she felt afraid and dared not to let me take care of her children. Her mind was deeply poisoned by the CCP's terrible propaganda, by the staged "self-immolation incident" and news of "suicides" spread by TV programs that horrified and deceived a lot of people. Another practitioner and I clarified the facts to her. Finally she said I would be hired on a trial basis for three days. The next day she decided to hire me. I continued to clarify the facts to them, and they all understood. Later on they not only had a good attitude toward Dafa, but also withdrew from the CCP, and even some of their relatives and friends quit the CCP.
One day, one of their relatives came to visit. When her child saw that person, he cried loudly and said he was afraid. At night he was sick and could not fall asleep and kept crying. The mother remembered what I told her, so she said, "Master, please help save our family and cleanse my child." As soon as she finished speaking, she saw a bundle of golden lights rotating around, and then her child no longer cried. After that, they believed in Dafa more resolutely and understood that Master was saving people. From then on, when her husband and her older child found Dafa materials and copies of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party that others had discarded, they would pick them up.
Nowadays, I am trying my best to do the three things well and rescue more sentient beings. If I have time, I will go out to clarify the facts face-to-face, and will try not to miss any predestined person. Whenever I take a bus, go out to buy vegetables or make phone calls, I will clarify the facts to people that I run into.
I have helped about 300 people withdraw from the CCP. I will continue to do the three things well until Master's Fa-rectification is over.
With my experience I want to tell the former practitioners who have given up cultivation to continue cultivation, and not to miss the precious opportunity that only comes once in millions of years. If they give up, they will regret it deeply.
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