(Minghui.org) I live in a rural area. I started practicing Falun Dafa in 1998 in an attempt to improve my health. At that time, I had many different ailments, including arthritis, heart disease, and severe back pain. I could barely make my bed and could not walk at night. After I studied the Fa for three days, my health improved, and within a month, all my ailments disappeared. I experienced the beautiful feeling of being healthy. I felt that the practice was magical.
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“Compare in studying, compare in cultivating”(“Solid Cultivation,” Hong Yin, Translation Version B)
Several of us were studying the Fa and doing the exercises prior to July 20, 1999, but I was the only one left after the persecution started. I knew that I had to endure hardship, so I decided to walk more than seven kilometers every day, back and forth to a Fa study group in a nearby town.
My husband was upset with me at first. He verbally abused me for going. He asked me, “Would you die if you didn’t go? Hmm?” I just ignored it. He has now become supportive. He makes breakfast in the morning and I leave soon after I finish. He cleans everything up. This kind of practice does not come by in tens of thousands of years. I cannot slack off in my Fa study. I have been going to the study group for over ten years.
There were times when it was unbearably hot in the summer and frigid in the winter. When I was tired, I recited Master’s poem:
“A Great Enlightened One fears no hardshipHaving forged an adamantine willFree of attachment to living or dyingHe walks the path of Fa-rectificationConfident and poised”(“Righteous Thoughts and Righteous Actions,” Hong Yin Vol. II, Translation Version A)
Although I was tired and suffered many hardships, I felt happy, immersed in the Fa. Rain or shine, nothing could stop me. I came to understand that Master was beside me and protecting me all the time.
Despite the distances I walked (and when it rained, I had to take detours), I did not feel tired. When I was asked where I was going every day, I told the villagers that I was going to study Falun Gong. They were amazed that I did not feel tired. They said that I would live to be 100-years-old (I am 78-years-old now.)
I once walked with my daughter to visit a friend. She commented that she didn’t feel tired when she walked with me, though she had to take a few breaks when she walked on her own. I joked that next time she should make sure to call me to go with her. I had this thought: Master said,
“Obtaining Fa, one is already immortal”(“Saving Beings Far and Wide,” Hong Yin, Translation Version B)
How could I be tired with Master’s protection?
I have never been caught in the rain all these years. Sometimes when the rain was about to come down, I said to Master, “I have to go home. Please, let the rain go somewhere else. For now, don’t let it rain on my way home.” Only when I got to the village and had shelter would the rain begin to fall. It was the same with sandstorms. I asked for Master’s help when they were about to come. The wind would blow in a different direction. My family would sometimes plead with me not to go when a sandstorm was about to come. I said to them, “That is nothing!” and went anyway. We had a snowstorm one year, and even opening the door to a foot of snow did not stop me. Nothing could have stopped me. I was the first to walk on the road. I carved out a path for other people.
One day, it was late by the time I got to the railway tracks where there were woods, but I felt very light as I was walking. I felt that I was floating with the wind blowing near my ears.
In addition to reciting the Fa on the way, I wrote on the lampposts, “Falun Dafa is good.” Someone once saw me and threatened to call the police. I said that I was not worried because the police knew the truth. I talked to people about the truth and helped them quit the Chinese Communist Party whenever I could.
Another time, I was halfway through preparing flyers to distribute in other villages when my foot hurt so much that I couldn't walk. I said, “It is not me that is in pain. I need to assist Master to rectify the Fa. I must save sentient beings. You cannot interfere with me.” After that, I was fine.
I am so grateful to our magnificent Master and the great Fa, which have bestowed upon me what I have. No matter how far the destination is, I will walk without wavering and do the three things well. It has been a great honor to be a Dafa practitioner. I must live up to Master’s merciful salavation and return home with him.
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