(Clearwisdom.net) I started to practice Falun Dafa in 1998. Back then, I was an atheist and was very ill. I just wanted to try my luck and I began practicing Falun Dafa while full of doubts. However, within a few days, I was shocked to see the magnificent things that Dafa showed to me! After I finished reading the book Zhuan Falun once, I was angry at myself for stepping into the door of Falun Dafa so late!
I stumbled through the past bloody and brutal eleven years of persecution with my firm belief in Teacher and in Falun Dafa. I deeply recognize that I wouldn't be here today if Teacher hadn't picked me up from hell and purified me!
Eleven years is only a moment in the long span of history, but we have experienced so much. We studied the Fa, practiced the exercises, clarified the truth, and sent forth righteous thoughts. We are Fa-rectification period Dafa disciples. No matter when, where, or what, this is the main thing we have to remember.
During a hot summer, I brought truth-clarification materials to some new practitioners in a suburban area. On my way back, a taxi passed by me with one of its doors open. The door hit me and I fell off my bicycle. I cried out and then lost consciousness. Afterwards I vaguely heard a person calling to me and trying to help me stand up, but I had no strength at all. I couldn't talk and I couldn't even sit up. This person then gave up and sighed. After a while, I seemed to regain my strength a little and tried to get up. The person immediately gave me a hand and I sat up. My vision was blurry, but I could see many people surrounding me and I wanted to stand up. The person again gave me a hand right away and I stood up. I felt like I had sand in my mouth, and as I slowly walked out of the crowd, I spit out some white sand. The person who helped me was the taxi driver. He followed me and said he'd take me to the hospital. Other people followed me as well. I told the taxi driver, "I'm OK. I'm a Falun Dafa practitioner. You can leave now."
One person wearing a red ribbon on his arm said, "You said that you are OK and you're a Falun Dafa practitioner. But your shoulder is so swollen." I then noticed that my shoulder indeed was very swollen, but it didn't hurt at all. That person turned to the taxi driver, "You should give her two hundred yuan as compensation." I quickly said, "No, I don't need money from him. He didn't run me down on purpose. I am a Falun Dafa practitioner. I am OK, but as a taxi driver, you need to be careful going forward." The taxi driver kept nodding and said yes.
The person with the red ribbon on his arm insisted that the taxi driver should give me some money. Just like Teacher said in Zhuan Falun, "Even the bystanders thought it was strange that this lady didn't extort money from the driver." I then walked back to my bicycle. The taxi driver picked up my bike for me. I tried it and it still worked, only the handle bars weren't straight, so I stepped off the bike to fix them. The taxi driver drove up to me and stopped. He asked me to get into his car. I again told him that he could go but he still insisted. I came to realize that he needed to learn the truth about Dafa, so I got into his car. I started to talk about the unfairness and the corruption in China today. The taxi driver said he used to be a head of a department at a company, but the company went out of business. Without any other skills, he became a taxi driver. He had just started, so he often forgot to lock the car doors, even though his wife had reminded him several times already.
I then talked about spiritual beliefs and how magnificent Falun Dafa is. I told him how Jiang's gang and the Chinese Communist Party work together to brutally persecute Falun Gong. In fact, Falun Gong teaches people how to be good and to consider others before ourselves. When we encounter issues, we always look inside. We don't curse or fight back. Then I talked about the truth of the so-called "Tiananmen Square Self-Immolation" incident. The taxi driver said, "After listening to what you've said, I know that Falun Gong is very good." I said, "Yes. Previously, Jiang claimed that he'd eliminate Falun Gong in three months. But so many years have passed. Falun Gong still exists and has spread to and been warmly welcomed in over one hundred countries."
At that moment, the taxi was passing by a hospital. The taxi driver suggested that he take me to the hospital again. I insisted that there was no need to. I told him again that I was a Falun Gong practitioner and I would be just fine. I asked him to remember that Falun Dafa is good and Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good. He said that he was a Christian and that people of belief will indeed have their lives changed for the better. I told him, "Regardless of your specific belief, just remember that Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good."
I got out of the taxi. My left knee felt weird, but I still rode my bike home. When I got home, I found that I had lost a part of my incisor tooth. No wonder my mouth felt sandy. That night, I couldn't double-cross my legs, so I did the single-crossing. Later, I couldn't turn after lying down. I couldn't even breathe deeply, and one of my left ribs hurt badly. Nonetheless I tried to take these things lightly, and kept doing what I should do. After two weeks, everything was back to normal.
A fellow practitioner said, "You have eliminated a great amount of karma." I said, "It's not just karma. It is evil persecution since I got hit on my way back from doing Dafa work. There must be a reason that such a thing happened. I realized that I am a Fa-rectification period Dafa disciple. I should not let pain prevent me from assisting Teacher with Fa-rectification. Indeed, nothing was impacted and I didn't miss anything that should be done to validate the Fa."
Please correct me if I have said anything inappropriate.
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