(Clearwisdom.net) I have met many practitioners since starting to practice Falun Dafa. They have determinedly walked the path of assisting Master in Fa-rectification. I would like to write about their cultivation experiences and encourage myself and other practitioners to be more diligent.
Clarifying the Truth, Rain or Shine
Practitioner A has practiced Dafa since 2004 and had a good understanding of the Fa principles from the beginning. She wholeheartedly believes in Master and has been very strict with herself in following the Fa principles.
Her everyday schedule is basically this: She starts practicing the exercises at 3:50 a.m.; sends righteous thoughts at 5:55 a.m. and walks out the door at 7:00 a.m. to clarify the truth. She never stops, rain or shine, and clarifies the truth wherever she goes.
One snowy and rainy day in the winter of 2008, she walked for over ten hours along the streets and got more than 100 people to quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Her shoes were covered with mud and melted snow. But she said she was happy because the weather did not stop her from rescuing people. She is in her sixties, but she has a rosy complexion, she feels warm even in cold weather, and does not feel tired even after walking outdoors for a whole day.
One day a young man came up to her, grasped her hands and said, “Auntie, do you not recognize me? You told me to quit the CCP several days ago. Thank you. I’m so happy to see you again.” An old lady knelt before her in gratitude after the practitioner told her to sincerely recite, “Falun Dafa is good," and "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good,” to stay safe.
After a child’s mother heard the truth, she pulled her child over, who had stood far away from them because of fear, and said, “Listen to this lady! She is sincerely doing this for the sake of our safety.” A driver who was asking for directions quit the CCP after the practitioner clarified the truth to him. He said to her, “Thank you sister!”
A young practitioner’s parents were resistant toward Dafa. They even threatened the young practitioner, saying they would sever all ties. Practitioner A heard about it and went to the parents’ house. After a long talk, she helped them resolve things. When practitioner A left, they thanked her many times for helping their family to be more harmonious.
There are many other examples like this. Of course, there were also people who did not want to listen; some even cursed at her. But the practitioner was unaffected and continued with one thought, “I will listen to what Master said and rescue sentient beings with my sincere heart. These illusions won’t interfere with what I’m doing.”
Oftentimes, just like this, she does not get to eat for the whole day and is still full of energy. At night after the evening meal, this practitioner, who lives alone, reads the Fa by herself, or sometimes other practitioners join her. She sends righteous thoughts every hour on the hour. After sending righteous thoughts at 10:00 p.m., she practices the exercises. She sends righteous thoughts at midnight. After that she often reads a lecture of Zhuan Falun. Then she takes perhaps a two-hour nap and wakes up for the morning exercises. This is how practitioner A persistently walks the path of validating the Fa and rescuing sentient beings.
Having Steadfast Faith; Thinking of Offering Sentient Beings Salvation
Practitioner B was illegally sentenced to a forced labor camp for three years several years ago for validating Dafa. In the labor camp, with her firm belief in the Fa and Master, she safeguarded the Fa peacefully and with determination. A labor camp monitor found out once that practitioners were passing around Master’s lectures in the camp and reported it to a guard. When the guard asked practitioner B where the lecture in the toothpaste box had come from, to protect fellow practitioners practitioner B said she just happened to find it somewhere. The guard said, “How come I did not find it?” Practitioner B said solemnly, “This is Dafa. Something this precious can’t be found by just anyone. Plus, even if you saw it, would you dare to pick it up? You would have been scared away.” The guard did not know how to respond and said, “Ok, you can leave now.”
The guards attempted to use emotional appeals to coerce her to “reform.” They attempted to force her to choose between her family and Dafa. She said with determination, “It is not up to you. I want Dafa. I want my family too. No one can take away the things that belong to me.”
While detained in a cell, she happened to hear her husband's voice. He had traveled hundreds of miles to visit her, but the guards refused to give him access. She waved at her husband from behind bars and said, “I’m fine. Do not worry about me. Go home and take good care of our children.”
She often spoke with the guards, clarifying the truth and telling them the heavenly principle of “good is rewarded with good, and evil leads to karmic retribution.” One of the guards said, “Only this woman dares to clarify the truth to us.” The day her three-year term was up, several guards held her hands and said, “It’s sad to see you leave.” She said, “What kind of a place is this? If I had not been arrested, why would I have come here? However, you should all remember, 'Falun Dafa is good,' and 'Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.'” The guards smiled.
After she returned home, people from the street committee, the police station, and the residential committee often called, monitored, or came to “visit” her, attempting to get her registered or be photographed. She and her family resisted their tactics. After several rounds, these people did not return again.
To offer more sentient beings salvation, she looked for a job to get to know more people. Just that one precious thought led to her finding a job, despite her inexperience and minimal education. She has been at this job since. This practitioner follows the Fa, is strict with herself, and resists temptation for money or benefits. For things that were lost while she was on duty, she used her own salary to make it up. Her co-workers have seen this precious side of her -- a practitioner's side that comes from Dafa, having assimilated to the characteristics of the universe.
This has also laid a good foundation for her truth-clarification at the workplace. She encourages new employees to quit the CCP and gives them Shen Yun CDs and the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party. The coworkers went from being afraid of her and avoiding her to liking and respecting her. Her managers have changed many times, and the general assessment from her managers is that she is great.
Practitioner B walked her own way on the path of validating Dafa. Because of her influence, her non-practitioner family members also validate Dafa to their coworkers and persuade people to quit the CCP, and have thus built a good foundation of obtaining the Fa and cultivating in the future.
Becoming Wiser and Promoting Technology
Practitioner C has only an elementary school education and was illiterate prior to learning Dafa. When she saw other practitioners reading Zhuan Falun so fluently, she became anxious. She went in front of Master’s photo, thinking, “Master, I want to be able to read so that I can understand Zhuan Falun.” As a result of that one thought, she is now able to recognize every single word in Zhuan Falun.
After July 20, 1999, in order to better keep up with the progress of Fa-rectification, she learned how to use a computer without too much effort. She can browse the Internet, download and print materials, and perform other computer tasks. In her own words, “Master made me more skilled.”
She also taught practitioners around her. Most of them are minimally educated elderly practitioners, and it is challenging to teach them. But practitioner C was not discouraged. She first helped the practitioners buy computers and then visited them in their homes and guided them through the instructions, step by step.
When the Minghui website published information on how to use cell phones and voice messages to clarify the truth, practitioner C again immediately grasped the technology and became one of the technical support people for this project in the area. This project requires a high level of security and cannot be taught at home. She took practitioners to a small noodle restaurant and taught several of them together while they were eating noodles. Sometimes they borrowed a classroom and asked other practitioners to come there and teach them. Soon enough, before she went out early in the morning or right after she came home in the evening, there were practitioners visiting her for questions and technical support. With practitioner C's help, several hundred cell phones used for truth clarification were purchased. Because of her effort, many “small flowers” of truth clarifying centers bloomed in our area. I am one of those who can get onto the Minghui website and independently make truth-clarification materials, which has significantly increased the rate of rescuing sentient beings.
Practitioner C's finances are poor. She only makes several hundred yuan per month and also has to take care of her grown son. When the cell phone truth-clarification project started, she bought two cell phones with her own money. When I saw her strained financial circumstances, I wanted to set up my own business to hire her as my assistant, to help her out. But she declined and said, "Time is very tight now to do the three things every day. Making a little more money is not worth it to me. Although I am financially in a tight spot, Master lets me make enough for food and clothes.”
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There are many practitioners around me who have righteous thoughts and perform righteous acts. Some clarify the truth to government officials with dignity; some play the Nine Commentaries and Shen Yun CDs or DVDs in their own stores and hand out the CDs to predestined people; and some try their best to send their young practitioners abroad.