(Minghui.org) John Raymond, a mechanical engineer in Victoria, Canada, said he came across information about Falun Dafa on the Internet a few years ago, and then began to practice. Not only did he become healthy, but he stopped worrying and felt peaceful.
“I first heard about Falun Dafa when I was looking at videos on social media and saw Shen Yun,” he said. “I was interested in it. Then information about Falun Dafa started coming up. Later, I saw Falun Dafa on my social media page and I was interested in learning more.”
“My parents took me to church when I was young but I didn’t really believe back then. As I got older I had four opportunities to get back onto a spiritual path, but I never did.”
When he found Falun Dafa, he thought, “Well, I keep hearing about Falun Dafa. I might as well enter the door and start cultivating to see where it goes. Because this is where I believe I am supposed to be.”
“I started reading Master Li’s (Dafa’s founder) book Zhuan Falun. When I started reading it, what he said actually spoke to me. Because it is very simple and straightforward, and it made sense. I just started reading it more and developed more faith, so I just kept going down this path.”
Extraordinary Experiences
After Raymond began practicing Falun Dafa, his friends noticed that his persistent ringworm disappeared, his complexion became fair, and he looked younger. When others were sick with colds he was fine.
Raymond began having extraordinary experiences which manifested one by one. He saw what no one else could see.
“I saw that I had a pure body,” he said. “I once saw my body being repaired. I saw the Falun (law wheel). My body was covered with them in that dimension, and my body was being purified.”
By reading Zhuan Falun, Raymond knew that through cultivation, people can see scenes in other dimensions. Master Li has mentioned this kind of cultivation state in Zhuan Falun. “It gives you the confidence to keep going,” Raymond said. “Everything in the book is true.”
Raymond also clearly felt the energy in his body. He said that as he continued to practice, the energy became stronger. He experienced many things that Master talked about in the Fa. This inspired him to keep practicing.
About eight months ago Raymond saw an infant in his body. “I think it may be my immortal infant,” he said, Although it cannot be completely confirmed, the phenomenon that appeared in him is similar to Master Li’s description in Zhuan Falun about the mysterious pass.
“Since then, I have felt the movement (in my body), and I believe what Master called ‘The Placement of the Mysterious Pass’ (Lecture Four, Zhuan Falun) was happening in my body. I had an uneasy feeling in my throat, and then I couldn’t see anything with my celestial eye. After a while, I felt my head was swollen—I really experienced many things that Master described.” He continued, “After a month, the mysterious pass moved upwards in my body. Then down and back again.”
Although Raymond can see many things that non-practitioners cannot see, he emphasized that he would not pursue these things, which is what Master Li clearly requires in the teaching.
Beyond the Extraordinary Experience
Raymond said that he used to think that he was an upright person. But after practicing cultivation and looking at the way he handled situations with a higher standard, he felt that integrity actually had limitations. “Before I practiced Falun Dafa, I was selfish. I often had fear and tried to pursue many things. After I learned Falun Dafa, when I started to truly practice, those things gradually went away from me.” In addition, a digestive ailment that troubled him for many years disappeared.
Raymond not only felt the changes in his body, but more importantly, he became calmer and optimistic. He said, “What’s more important is that I have a peaceful mind and I don’t worry anymore. I used to worry quite a bit. Now that is gone, because I know that I am protected. What I have to do is just follow the teachings, and just go about my day. And things will be good. Whatever troubles come up, are meant for me to overcome and I will overcome them.”
Raymond said that practicing Falun Dafa brought him a huge change, “I look at life quite differently—I am not afraid of the future.”
Hopes More People Will Learn Falun Dafa
After practicing Dafa, Raymond embraced a new world full of hope. “I use my time more diligently.” He gets up early to do the exercises in the morning, reads the Fa at home in the evening, and listens to the Fa while driving.
He is saddened by the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) persecution of Falun Dafa, which made many Chinese people afraid to learn about Dafa. He hopes that they can learn the truth and recognize the CCP’s lies in the media, which is under its control.
Background: What Is Falun Dafa and Why Is the CCP Persecuting It?
Falun Dafa (also known as Falun Gong) was first introduced to the public by Mr. Li Hongzhi in Changchun, China, in 1992. The spiritual discipline is now practiced in over 100 countries and regions worldwide. Millions of people who have embraced the teachings, which are based on the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance, and have learned the five exercises, have experienced improved health and well-being.
Jiang Zemin, former head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), perceived the spiritual discipline’s growing popularity as a threat to the CCP’s atheistic ideology and on July 20, 1999, he issued an order to eradicate the practice.
Under Jiang’s personal direction, the CCP established the 610 Office, an extralegal security organization with the power to override the police and judicial systems and whose sole function is to carry out the persecution of Falun Dafa.
Minghui.org has confirmed the deaths of thousands of practitioners as a result of the persecution over the past 24 years. The actual number is believed to be much higher. Countless practitioners have been imprisoned and tortured for their faith.
There is concrete evidence that the CCP sanctions the harvesting of organs from detained practitioners, who are murdered to supply China’s organ transplant industry.
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