(Clearwisdom.net)

1. Obtaining the Fa

November 3, 1998, is a day that I will never forget. It was on that day that I found Falun Dafa. Before that, I actually had passed by Dafa twice. I copied the book China Falun Gong in 1994, but laid it down and never looked at it again. A friend of mine lent me a copy of Zhuan Falun in 1996, but after I read it twice, I returned the book.

The first time I watched Master’s lecture videos, my stomach hurt intolerably and beads of sweat broke out on my forehead. The volunteer coordinator said, “Don’t worry, Master is watching over you.” After I went home that night, I continued to perspire. Furthermore, my head hurt so severely that I was unable to sleep and rolled back and forth in my bed back all night. From then on, however, I felt refreshed and energetic, and I have enjoyed good health with no illnesses.

My most difficult year was 1998. My mother passed away in 1996, and I used up all my savings. I then lost my job in 1997, and the owner of the factory where I worked did not have enough money to pay our salary for the Chinese New Year in 1999. In February 1999, I was referred to a construction company by a consulting firm to provide technical support. When the project was over in July, I received only 1,500 yuan as compensation for my five months of work, but a large portion of my salary went to the consulting firm as commission.

Master’s Fa opened my mind, and I understood that everything a cultivator comes across has a reason, and if I did something wrong to someone before, I should pay back what I owed them. I realized that Master had arranged that incident for me to let go of my attachments to fame and profit. When I paid back the money that I owed to a friend three years later, the amount that I paid back was the same as the amount deducted from my paycheck as commission. That could not have been a coincidence.

2. Persecution

A fellow practitioner, who often saw with his third eye, discovered that Master protected the area where we practiced the exercises with his law body and many lotus flowers. The large number of practitioners created a peaceful and harmonious atmosphere, which I will never forget. It helped me to establish a solid foundation so that I could study the Fa and practice the exercises on my own.

I saw a colorful Falun turning at noon on July 20, 1999, and I could feel that something unusual was happening. As I had expected, our local volunteer coordinator notified us: “We cannot practice the exercises and study the Fa together anymore. The evil CCP is planning to persecute Falun Gong. Fellow practitioners should protect Dafa books, Master’s portrait, and other materials.” Fellow practitioners temporarily left the recordings of Master’s lectures in my house.

I began to study the Fa earnestly. “In Teaching the Fa at the Assistants' Fa Conference in Changchun" Master said,

"The reason you haven’t studied the Fa well enough is not that you haven’t studied or that you don’t spend enough time on studying—it’s that you study with an ordinary human mindset. You pick out those parts that meet your psychological needs. You think those are good and you selectively read them. If you skip those parts that you think don’t meet your needs, have nothing to do with you, or even don’t agree with your own notions, and you read selectively, then you will never be able to ascend in cultivation. Although some matters that I discussed in Zhuan Falun might not seem to have anything to do with your cultivation or your xinxing, the book covers things at different levels and in different forms. Even when it appears as though I’m talking about gong, to tell you the truth, what I’m discussing includes things related to xinxing. The book is systematic. It won’t work if you skip even one chapter. If you can’t change that mindset of yours it will truly impede your improvement, impede your Consummation."

I read this lecture many times and felt that my mindset about studying the Fa had been rectified.

In the past, I always wanted to find out in Zhuan Falun how I should act during the persecution, but found nothing. I changed my mentality while studying the Fa and noticed that all of Master’s lectures were talking about me. The current vicious environment is actually a cultivation environment for us to be elevated from ordinary people to divine beings.

3. Rectifying the Fa

I lost my job one more time in August 2000. A friend then asked me to go help him solve a technical problem. After observing the problem thoroughly, I told the senior engineer there was a defect in the heating system that had caused the factory to consume a large amount of energy. The friend then asked me to stay and work for them, and told me that she knew my situation. I replied, “You know that I’m a Falun Gong practitioner, right?” I told myself at the same time that if she dared not to keep me, it would be fine. However, she replied, “Some of my family members also practice Falun Gong.” To support my family, I began to work for her.

The Communist Party secretary in charge of registration of part time employees in the factor asked me, “Any religious faith?” I knew that the chance had come for me to clarify the truth to him, so I said, “I believe in Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance and practice Falun Gong.” He said, “An engineer also believes in superstitions?” I said, “There are Falun Gong disciples with doctorate degrees and masters' degrees and who are professors. Falun Gong teaches us to be good people. Without spending a penny, the illnesses that I had suffered for many years were all healed after I practiced Falun Gong. What the media said about Falun Gong are fabricated lies. All Falun Gong books and materials have been destroyed because the communist regime had to cover up the truth.” That person was convinced and said, “You can just practice at home secretly then.”

Afterwards, I came up with a brand new design for the heating system for the factory. When I studied the Fa and practiced the exercises, the right solutions for some of the technical problems came to my mind by themselves.

Based on the models manufactured for other factories, I created a new design and obtained a patent. When I began to have the attachment of zealotry, I remembered what Master said,

"So Dafa disciples, you must not get bigheaded if you've acquired some little human skills. They're nothing to get bigheaded about. The fact is, you've learned what you've learned because you had that wish and accordingly arrangements were made for you back in the past since it would be needed in validating the Fa, that's all." ("Teaching the Fa at the 2004 Western U.S. Fa Conference")

While I was having lunch with my fellow workers on January 23, 2001, someone called out for me to watch TV. My first glimpse of what I saw that day told me that those who were setting themselves on fire at Tiananmen Square were not Falun Gong practitioners; the way they sat and what they shouted were not right. The state-run TV station then claimed that one of the people was seriously burned, but his body was all wrapped-up. I recalled, however, when the Party secretary of the company that I used to work for was burned two years earlier, his affected areas were all exposed when we went to see him in the hospital. From then on, when I clarified the truth to people, I mentioned how the CCP had ignored medical knowledge and lied to the Chinese people by accusing Falun Gong practitioners of self-immolation. At that point I was very cautious about whatever I said. I knew that our righteous thoughts and deeds could be applied to rectify and safeguard Dafa.

After I went back to my hometown in October 2001, I learned how to send forth righteous thoughts. When I read “What Are Supernormal Abilities” (in Essentials for Further Advancement II), the following line from Zhuan Falun appeared in my mind, “As you continue to practice cultivation in the future, you, yourself will know things at higher levels, how to practice cultivation, and cultivation practice’s forms of existence.”

In February 2002, I decided to quit my job and start my own business. A private company had agreed to use my invention. Their general manager liked my design and asked me to patent it so that they could help me to promote the product.

My business is getting better, and my life has been improved. Whether my business is successful or not is closely related to my cultivation status. If I do a good job clarifying the truth to people and helping them to withdraw from the Party, my business goes smoothly, and I can easily collect money from my customers. If I fail do to well, however, my business is not smooth at all.

I have also had opportunities to let go of my attachments. After I got the patent for my design, one company intended to collaborate with me to promote my product. If I had signed the contract with them, I could have become a millionaire in a few years, but because they refused to let me tell people that I was a Falun Gong practitioner, I refused to work for them.

Master helped me to find a stable job when I was 50 years old. The new job helps me to get to know more people so that I can do the three things well.

4. Clarifying the truth and helping people to quit the CCP

After I visited my hometown in May 2005, I learned that I should help convincing them to quit the Party. Since then, with the help of Minghui Weekly, I've learned different ways to help people quit the Party.

The owner of the company that manufactures my products was my elementary school friend. On May 13, he wanted to learn Falun Gong after seeing the great changes that I had gone through. I lent him my only copy of Zhuan Falun to him and told him several times to read it through from the beginning to end. Eventually he became a practitioner.

After reading Master’s new lectures lately, I've learned that clarifying the truth and helping people to quit the Party is to save people. Everybody who directly works with me—workers, technicians, and the factory manager—have all received Falun Gong materials and have quit the Party.

A company general manager first heard me tell him the truth about Falun Gong five years ago, and he has now finally quit the Party.

Through writing this experience sharing article, I have learned that writing down my experience has given me the opportunity to improve. I believe that as long as we understand the Fa in a righteous way, we can learn everything and do things well. This is because Master has created Dafa disciples with his own hands.

My level is limited. Please point out any parts that are inappropriate.