(Minghui.org) I am a Falun Dafa practitioner from Master Li Hongzhi’s hometown in Changchun, City. It’s been 26 years since I began to practice. In the beginning, Master continuously cleansed my body. I knew cultivation practice was good, but I got tied up with doing business and couldn’t keep up with doing the exercises every day.
In 1999, when Dafa was subjected to the persecution, due to my strong fear, I could not let go of self-interest and felt I could not keep up with my practice. So I lagged behind the pace of Fa-rectification cultivation. However, whenever one of Master's new articles was published, fellow practitioners always gave me a copy. I then took them home to read. I occasionally read Zhuan Falun as well.
Master never gave up on me. In 2010, a fellow practitioner visited and brought me some experience-sharing articles from the Minghui website. She also had a lengthy conversation with me. She mentioned that the sentient beings in my heavenly world were all waiting for me to save them. If I didn’t practice anymore, what would they do? I was shocked. Right then, I decided to return to cultivation to fulfill my vow.
Since returning to Dafa cultivation, I have persistently studied two chapters of Zhuan Falun and the new lectures every day. When I felt sleepy, I stood up or knelt down to study the Fa. Sometimes, when I couldn’t stay focused, I revisited what I just read. I also managed to finish doing the five exercises every day and send forth righteous thoughts at the four set times.
Because I worked and had to leave home at 6 a.m., I got up at 2:50 a.m. in order to do the exercises. I went to bed at 9:30 p.m., then got up again at 11:50 p.m. in order to send forth righteous thoughts at midnight. Afterward, I went back to sleep for a couple of hours before getting up to do the exercises. I have had this schedule for many years. Even though I only slept for a few hours, I didn’t feel sleepy during the day, but felt very energetic instead. After the new exercise music came out with an hour-long version of the second exercise, I did the morning exercises for two and a half hours in total. Regardless of whether it was a weekday, weekend, holiday, or during my vacation, I always managed to finish all the exercises.
There were also xinxing tests. Sometimes, when the alarm went off, I didn’t want to get up at all. However, I remembered that I am a practitioner; if I can’t endure this little bit of hardship, how can I reach consummation (enlightenment)? So as soon as I heard the alarm, I got up immediately. I could also adhere to sending forth righteous thoughts at the four set times. If I ever missed one, I’d find the time to make up for it.
Every week, practitioners delivered truth-clarification materials to me. I made use of my afternoon or evening to hand them out. No matter how far I had to walk, or how many stairs I had to climb, I always felt very light and I never felt tired. Regardless of whether it was windy, raining, or freezing, whether the roads were icy or full of snow, I always went out to hand out materials to save people.
I attended a Fa-study group once a week. In 2018, a practitioner suggested that everyone recite two paragraphs of Zhuan Falun during the study. I felt it was a bit hard to memorize two paragraphs each week. I thought: How can I memorize a book with so many pages? In the beginning, I didn’t put my heart into memorizing the book; nor did I realize the importance of it, or look inward.
It didn’t matter whether I could recite passages properly, as other practitioners would always prompt me. So all I did was to go through the motions. After a while, I realized that this mentality was not right, as I didn’t treat memorizing the Fa seriously enough. I then made a commitment to memorizing every paragraph and did not allow myself to make any mistakes.
I treated every sentence as a passage, and I memorized Zhuan Falun sentence by sentence. I had to recite each sentence multiple times before moving onto the next. I then revisited the previous sentence(s) and recited them together, until I had no problem memorizing the entire paragraph. Through reciting the Fa diligently, I learned a great deal when I ran into difficulties; I knew how to look inward and put others first. This process also helped me to eliminate many attachments.
A few years ago, my son and daughter-in-law planned to buy a villa. Because they were short on a down payment, they asked me to sell my house to help, then move in with them. I didn’t think much about it and just agreed. The new house was spacious. I had my own bedroom and bought new furniture. I even tidied up the house. Everything seemed to be fine, and they were not against my doing the three things.
However, after the outbreak of COVID-19, lockdowns occurred everywhere, and everybody was in a panic. They were concerned that I’d go out to clarify the truth and bring the virus home and impact them. So they didn’t allow me to go out anymore. I patiently told them that practitioners have Master to protect us, and we’d be fine, but they didn’t listen. So, in order to not let them affect my saving people and avoid putting too much pressure on them, I decided to move to a small house they owned in the suburbs.
Even though I made that decision myself, in thinking back, I still felt upset about it. I thought: I painstakingly brought up my son, yet he treated me like this. Right then, a paragraph of Master’s Fa came into my mind:
“Contrast that with the following view: coming to this world is like staying over at a hotel, which we quickly leave after a short stint. Yet some people are so caught up in this place that they have no interest in leaving. They have forgotten their true homes.” (The Ninth Talk, Zhuan Falun)
I then became clear, I am a practitioner, how could I get attached to ordinary matters? My final goal is to return home with Master. I now have my own cultivation environment. So I felt truly grateful about it. My resentment and feeling upset immediately vanished.
When the pandemic first broke out in early 2020, we all felt the urgency of saving people. In order to help people learn the truth, we intensified our efforts. A fellow practitioner and I worked together to hand out brochures and post sticky notes that told people how to avoid the pandemic. We covered every residential area with this information.
We went out two or three times every week regardless of the weather. We put the informational materials in gift bags of various colors and handed out anywhere from a few dozen to one hundred copies each time. We went household by household and hung the bags on doorknobs or used magnets on each door. On our way, we didn’t discuss anything irrelevant to saving people. We only recited “On Dafa” and poems from Hong Yin, as well as cleaned up the dimensional field of the places we visited. We also asked for Master’s empowerment, to have the people who received the materials to treasure them and share them with their relatives and friends, so as to choose a bright future for themselves.
When I used to hand out truth-clarification materials by myself, I saw surveillance cameras installed at some households. So to protect myself, I stopped going to those households. If I saw someone coming out their door, I didn’t dare to hand them out and quickly ran downstairs.
After I started working with the fellow practitioner, I told her there was a surveillance camera on a door. She said, “It can’t do anything to us; we are on a divine mission.” Her words touched me greatly. Then I realized that my saving people had been conditional. When I felt insecure, I stopped doing what I was supposed to do. If I didn’t save those people who had a predestined relationship with me, as well as the sentient beings who placed infinite hope in us, could I still be counted as a practitioner? I truly appreciated this practitioner’s righteous advice. By comparison, I clearly saw my selfishness.
Recently, when I was distributing brochures, I saw a message on the wall saying “You have entered into a surveillance zone.” But I didn’t take it to heart or feel frightened. I knew Master was right by my side. After I finished, I still felt very calm. Once, when I put the materials on a doorknob, I saw a man coming toward me. I knew he saw me, but I was very composed and said to him, “I’m here to bring you blessings.” He didn’t say anything, and his facial expression was kind. I then continued hanging packets on the doorknobs floor by floor without feeling scared.
For the past 10 years, I have held myself to the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance and kept elevating my xinxing. While studying the Fa and doing the exercises every day, Master continuously cleansed my body. So I went through transformations both mentally and physically. I’m 62 years old and look younger than people my age. My skin is very delicate and smooth, with very few wrinkles, and a rosy complexion.
I also feel very light when walking. When I went up more than 30 floors without taking an elevator to hand out brochures, I didn’t feel tired. I only sleep five hours a day, but I’m very energetic. I have personally experienced the kinds of transformations that happen to cultivators as described by Master in Zhuan Falun – especially after we began memorizing and reciting the Fa in our study group.
In 2019, my company set up medical check-ups for all the staff. While getting an ultrasound, I said to the doctor, “How does my belly look?” (I’d had a hysterectomy 20 years ago.) She told me, “Everything is fine.” Starting from November 2020, I began to have my menstrual period on a regular basis. It has continued like this for almost a year. When I had the surgery 20 years ago, the doctor told me, “You won’t have periods after the uterus is removed.” At that time, I was only 40 years old. It was a shock for me, and I felt a lot of pain. Now I get my periods as normal. This is not only a medical miracle, but also the miraculous manifestation of Dafa in the human world! Dafa goes beyond science, and our Master is omnipotent!
I can now diligently walk my cultivation path because of Dafa and Master’s protection. He saved me from Hell and cleansed my body so that I can return to my original, true self.