(Minghui.org) I started practicing Falun Dafa in 1997. My motivation was very simple and pure: I felt that the practice was great.
Despite the onset of the persecution of Falun Dafa, several practitioners and I decided to practice the exercises outdoors in December 1999. However, two days later we were arrested. We did not stop doing the exercises and shouted “Falun Dafa is good!” The officers punched and kicked us, and then took us to a detention center.
I was first taken home to pick up some personal items. At home, my 10-year-old son was bedridden because of a leg injury. When he saw me, he said he was hungry. I knew it was impossible to cook for him at the moment, so I got an apple for him.
The two officers yelled at me and told me to hurry. Another officer saw the situation. “Look at what is going on at your home,” he said. “Just say you won't practice anymore and you will be released right away.” I proceeded to make arrangements for my family before going with them to the police car.
At the detention center, I clarified the truth about Falun Dafa to the head of the center when he interrogated me. I told him how I benefited from the practice and how it even stopped the conflicts with my husband. I told him that every good thing in my life was possible because I followed Dafa's principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance.
He no longer interrogated me and I was released after 15 days.
My mother turned 80 on September 22, 2004. I decided to go to my hometown for the occasion, and this was a great opportunity to talk to people about Falun Dafa to my family and friends. I took a lot of Dafa informational materials with me.
Many people attended the celebration. I talked about Falun Dafa and the persecution, including the staged “self-immolation” at Tiananmen Square. Everybody was touched by what I had to say.
My nephew got married in 2009, which was another great opportunity to tell people about the practice. At that time my cultivation state was lacking because I had been too busy taking care of my sick sister-in-law and not studying enough. I was also lacking in sending forth righteous thoughts, doing the exercises, and telling people about the practice.
I asked Master for help so I could do well in helping people to understand Falun Dafa at the wedding. I talked about the Tiananmen “self-immolation” incident and the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP's) live organ harvesting from practitioners for profit. I told them about how Dafa had spread worldwide, and I encouraged them to quit the CCP and its affiliated organizations, which some did.
I have cultivated now for over 14 years. I have done much that a practitioner should do, but I feel that I am still so far away from what Master expects of his practitioners. I will be more diligent and do everything a practitioner of Falun Dafa should do.