(Minghui.org) I am a retired middle school teacher aged 76 years. I began to practice Falun Dafa in 1997. Before that, I used to have a very bad temper, and be very unforgiving. I worked very hard, and was very good at what I did. But, I had formed bad habits, such as being self centered and not letting others say anything bad about me.
I began to memorize the Fa} not long before the persecution started. Even though I only memorized one lecture, it helped a great deal. I am currently on my sixth round of memorizing Zhuan Falun.
Power of Dafa: Spreading the Facts and Validating the Fa
We still did not have a local material production site as of 2004, and no one was spreading the persecution facts. I obtained some informational materials from practitioners at other places, and posted them by the road.
I was riding a bicycle. After I finished, I had to climb over two steep hills. After a few minutes, I realized that I was on top of the second hill. It was so amazing, and it shocked me. I had only posted a dozen truth clarification posters and Master had already helped me and encouraged me. I was determined to do more.
One day, I finished posting materials and was returning home. I found that my electric bike was running low on battery. It had four battery indicators and all four were off. Then suddenly, one lit up, then the second one followed, and by the time I got to the top of a hill, all four indicators were up. I said thanks to Master again and again. From then on, as long as I was doing something related to Dafa, I never had to think about it. I would just get on the bike and go.
Another time, when I finished putting up truth clarification slogans, I ran into a police car. He saw me and immediately drove toward me. I left quickly on the electric bike, and took a shortcut to get to the road. But then I saw that the police officer was waiting for me there. I couldn’t turn around so I had to go straight. To my surprise, he didn’t start to chase me until after I passed him. So, I was able to turn into a small road and get away from him. Master again helped me.
The year after the Nine Commentaries on the Chinese Communist Party was published, I went to another practitioner’s home to pick up the two boxes containing the books. Each box had 80 books. Then, I distributed 30 books at a time.
Master always helps me when I go out to clarify the facts. I have gradually formed a habit: I always memorize the Fa before going out or doing any Dafa related things at home. Before I go out to clarify the facts, I first do the exercises, send forth righteous thoughts, and ask Master to help me. Then I go out and recite the Fa from memory.
When I memorize the Fa, if there are other thoughts filling my mind, I would immediately eliminate them.
It was a cold night in December, I was putting up posters outside. I then fell into a stream when I tried to jump across it. The water was up to my waist. After I got out, I hesitated a moment over whether or not I should continue, and then I made up my mind to finish posting all the materials. I didn’t think much and just kept on walking, while reciting Master’s poem.
Master said in his 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)
My pants were frozen and made a cracking sound as I walked. But, I did not feel cold. After I got home and took out the cotton-filled pants, they were very hard and could stand on the ground.
I bought a computer and printer and established a Dafa material production site at my home in 2008. I produced a lot of the Minghui Weekly and I delivered them to practitioners. One time, I rode my motorcycle to deliver them to someone 20 miles away and on my way back, my motorcycle was running out of gas. I asked Master to help me move some gas from the gas station, and I would pay more when I go there to pump gas. Indeed I was able to get home. There is really no tribulation that we can’t get through with Master’s help.
Practitioners provided me with a new type of large posters in 2012. They were about four feet tall and written on them were the words “Falun Dafa is good” and “Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” They were red characters written on yellow backgrounds and were very pretty and easy to spot. I then made a tool to hang them very high on tall poles. For a long period of time, I did nothing but posting these large posters and the director of the police station really didn’t know what to do about it. He and several officers came to my home. He was acting friendly and said, “Don’t do that anymore. If you get caught doing it, I won’t have a way to help you.” I smiled and didn’t say yes or no, and I just clarified the facts to them. After they left, I continued just as usual.
The police rented a place next to my home to watch me, but I still found ways to go out. They also attempted to break into my yard with police dogs, but were unsuccessful. With Master’s protection, I did not have any issues.
One evening in 2018, I went out to distribute materials and someone was riding a bike toward me. I was about to talk to him when I noticed that he was wearing a security armband. I looked at him, and it seemed like he couldn’t see me at all. Later I realized that I was hidden from him in another dimension.
Once, I was returning home after distributing Dafa informational materials. It was very dark. I went off the road and fell into the ditch. The ditch was pretty deep and one could easily die from the accident. But with Master’s protection, I was not hurt at all.
I have found ways to deal with all kinds of situations when putting up posters. Sometimes there was heavy dew, and the soles of my shoes fell off due to the loss of the glue, I just walked barefoot and finished the job. When the poles were too tall, I would bring a ladder. When the poles were inside a fence or on top of a hill, I would climb to get to them. On the sensitive days, the officers installed security cameras and had police officers sitting at my door to watch me, but I still found my way out. Dafa is supernormal.
Master hinted, and I began to clarify the facts about Dafa face to face. I asked them to quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 2020. I clarified the facts to my fellow villagers as well as people in other villages. I also helped some officials to quit the CCP.
I then clarified the facts to the director of the police station. I focused on the things that he had trouble understanding, and I made him a booklet with numbers and pictures. After he read it, sometimes he would ask a police officer to come and get more materials from me. Once, I gave him a memory card that had the recording of The Ultimate Goal of Communism. The police officer told me that whenever he went into the director’s office, the director was always listening to that. The director was promoted soon after understanding the persecution facts.
Improving Xinxing
Once, I came back from putting up posters outside and I was very tired. I knocked on the door, but my wife didn’t open it. I was getting impatient. I waited for a little longer, but she still didn’t open it, so I got quite angry and knocked at window very loudly. I completely ignored taking precautions. My wife then opened the door for me. After calming down, I knew I didn’t behave like a practitioner.
Master said,
“Go and truly cultivate yourself—when you get into a conflict or run into some problem you should look at yourself and see what’s wrong, and ask yourself how you should handle it, using the Fa to evaluate things. Wouldn’t you say that is cultivation?” (“Dafa Disciples Must Study the Fa,” Collected Fa Teachings, Vol. XI)
I memorized the above Fa and recited it from memory every day.
After a little while, once again I came back from putting up posters and the door was again locked. I felt a bit upset, but I didn’t get angry. I waited for a little and the door was still locked. I then climbed on the shed and called my wife’s name for a while and she finally opened the door. After I got in, I thought, “Why do I feel a bit upset? Isn’t that because my attachment is still not eliminated completely?” I was determined that if it happened again, I would just sit down outside to look inside myself.
I tried to memorize the above Fa every day after doing the exercises, and always thought about it if I ran into issues. For instance, I hired someone to put metal plates on our roof. Then, several people showed up and told us that we couldn’t do this and couldn’t do that. The person we hired thought that they were wrong.
But then, Master’s Fa appeared before my eyes,
“I have thus said before that Dafa disciples, being cultivators, should view problems in the opposite manner from how human beings do. Some people are unhappy when they meet with unpleasant things. Then aren’t you a human being? How are you any different?” (“Dafa Disciples Must Study the Fa,” Collected Fa Teachings, Vol. XI)
“Isn’t your encountering such adverse things in fact paving the way for you? So why are you unhappy?” (“Dafa Disciples Must Study the Fa,” Collected Fa Teachings, Vol. XI)
Indeed, why wouldn’t I be happy about it? So I just said to the person I hired, “It’s okay. We can just do what they said.” The conflict disappeared.
Another time, my neighbor was rebuilding their house. When they took it down, they also took down the wall between our yards and they promised to rebuild it afterwards. But, then they didn’t do it after they built the house. At first, I was a little unhappy.
Then I remembered Master’s Fa,
“When something upsetting happens, something that angers you occurs, or there is personal gain at stake, or your ego suffers a blow, are you able to look inward and cultivate yourself, searching for your own shortcoming, and even when you find yourself in such a situation and you’re not at fault, are you able to have an attitude of, “Oh, I understand—I must not have done well in some regard. Or if I really didn’t do something wrong, perhaps it’s that I’m paying off karma that I owe. I’m going to handle it well and pay off what I should.”” (“Dafa Disciples Must Study the Fa,” Collected Fa Teachings, Vol. XI)
Master’s Fa showed up in my mind for a while, and my anger disappeared, and I knew what I should do. I found someone to help me, and spent a day to rebuild the wall. There was no longer a conflict, and more importantly my xinxing improved.
I have encountered many similar things after this and I was able to get through them relatively easily. One time, I went to share with a fellow practitioner who was going through a tribulation of illness karma. She rarely looked inside herself but often looked at others. We shared about studying the Fa, but she didn’t want to listen and said to her daughter to walk me out. I didn’t get angry. After we walked out, I just smiled and pointed out her shortcoming to her daughter, who agreed with me.
From memorizing the Fa, my xinxing improved quickly, as I was able to always use the Fa to measure myself when encountering problems. This way, I was able to get through tribulations much more easily.
It was just as Master said,
“Thus, when you encounter a conflict, I would say that it is to transform your black substance into the white substance, de.” (Lecture Four, Zhuan Falun)
Sometimes I was not able to maintain my xinxing when dealing with my wife. I was determined to memorize the Fa well and make a breakthrough. Once, I was changing clothes and she opened my door. At the time, the door of the room across was also open, and Master’s photo was in that room. I was angry and said, “Why did you open the door? Don’t you know I’m changing?” As soon as I questioned her, I realized it and immediately said, “Master, I was wrong!” From then on, I never had another conflict with my wife. I did not want Master to worry about me in this respect. Always looking inside first is really great.
Above is my sharing in cultivation based on my personal understanding. If anything is inappropriate, please kindly point it out.
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