(Minghui.org) I started practicing Falun Dafa in 2011. I did not know what Dafa was all about before I listened to Master's nine lectures in Guangzhou. The lectures told me that one can return to one's origin through cultivation. After reading Zhuan Falun and other Fa teachings, I learned that I am a Dafa disciple during the Fa-rectification period.
Teachers Understand the Facts about Dafa
Someone at the school where I was a student put up a poster that slandered Dafa and asked the students to participate in drawing defamatory cartoons. I went to the teacher who gave this assignment and told her that Dafa was blameless and that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) had lied about it.
I made sure she understood that she should not persecute Dafa and that I would not draw such a cartoon. She replied that she had heard the facts about Dafa and that I did not have to participate.
A banner and cartoons that slandered Dafa were posted in the school dining hall. I studied the Fa a great deal during that time, and my studying and validating Dafa all went well. I also listened to the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party on a DVD.
I then drew a cartoon that conveyed the facts about Dafa and posted it over the defamatory banner at 6 a.m. the next day. When I passed the dining hall, I saw that the banner was gone. My cartoon was placed where the banner had been. Someone had understood the facts about Dafa.
The slanderous cartoons were gone by the afternoon, but so was my cartoon. For the school recruitment for the second semester, I made a large poster that showed the facts about Dafa and put it on the bulletin board. I noticed that people read the poster. A teacher told me in the afternoon that she had read the poster and thought it was good.
I talked to other teachers about Dafa, and one knew what the Communist Party really was like. He told me about someone who was arrested during the “June 4 Movement” and had disappeared seven years ago. He told me to be careful.
When another poster that slandered Dafa appeared, I openly took it down. I asked the teacher not to put up banners that slandered Dafa. The teacher said that I had violated his human rights.
I told him that the CCP violated human rights and that no one has the right to slander Dafa. I told him that the CCP has killed many innocent people. He said that he had read some Dafa materials but did not believe that Falun Dafa was being persecuted. He told me that he would be away for a while but would talk to me after his return. He never talked to me again.
Society Needs People Who Dare Tell the Truth
When I was studying the Fa, a classmate asked me what I was reading. I told her that I was reading the Falun Dafa book. I talked to her about Master and Dafa. She had never heard of Dafa and asked me to tell her more. I told her that Dafa teaches people to be good and asks them to live by the principles Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. I explained that the CCP did not allow people to be good. She said that the CCP lies, deceives many people, and is really bad!
One day, she talked to her brother about the CCP and Dafa. Her brother told her that society needed people like her who dared tell the truth about Dafa. After graduation, she went to a different school and took Dafa books with her.
Eliminate Wrong Thoughts by Keeping Up with Fa Study
Fellow practitioners and I exchanged cultivation experiences a lot when I began to study the Fa. What impressed me the most was that they told me to “study the Fa more, study the Fa more, send righteous thoughts, and tell people the facts about Dafa.”
I stumbled when I studied the Fa less. I studied the Fa a lot when I first started practicing Dafa, but gradually I deviated from the Fa. I studied the Fa less, thought I knew more, felt great about myself, and considered my human thoughts and my attachment of showing off as myself.
When I got lazy and did not study the Fa diligently, my health, schoolwork, family environment, and xinxing level returned to how I was before practicing Dafa.
Then I began to study the Fa again and looked within. I knew I had to give up attachments. As soon as a bad thought appeared in my mind, I eliminated it right away. Thought karma can be eliminated during Fa study, and wrong thoughts formed over time can be eliminated by keeping up with Fa study.
Sharing Experiences Is Not Fa Study
When I was studying the Fa, a few words appeared in my mind: “Great way without form.” I enlightened that I had been controlled by human thoughts and my CCP upbringing. I liked to go extremes. A great way is without form; I must examine myself with Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance and become one with Dafa.
Sharing experiences with other practitioners is not the same as Fa study. Sharing experiences is a personal understanding of the Fa that cannot be imitated. Studying the Fa diligently enabled me to look at my relationships with fellow practitioners rationally, hold righteous thoughts, not be influenced by human thoughts, be a qualified Dafa disciple, and have the ability to do everything I am supposed to do well.
"Cultivation depends on one’s own efforts, while the transformation of gong is done by one’s master." (Lecture Two in Zhuan Falun)
There is no role model to follow in cultivation. I enlightened that Master has arranged a cultivation path for every disciple. Only Dafa and Master direct our cultivation.
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