(Minghui.org) I began practicing Falun Dafa in March 1998, and have benefited a great deal under Master’s compassionate protection. I am 67 years old, and was never subjected to severe persecution.
When I read cultivation sharing articles on the Minghui website, I’m always touched and inspired. I feel bad because I’ve never written down my experiences.
Benefiting Physically and Mentally
After a relative told me about Falun Dafa I began to practice in order to recover from my illnesses. I had multiple ailments back then, such as Neurasthenia, heart problems, rheumatoid arthritis, and severe headaches. Neurasthenia tormented me so much that I barely slept. My heart problems were also very serious, and my heartbeat was accelerated. Every joint was swollen because of arthritis. I had trouble holding up my arms to comb my hair. My swollen hands and neck felt like they were burning. I had constant headaches and I couldn’t stand the sound of footsteps, or doors opening or closing.
Two months after I began cultivation, I recovered from all my ailments. I was illness-free and my body felt light. In the beginning, I didn’t know what the Fa was. I just knew that Falun Dafa was great. I shared my experiences with my relatives and neighbors, telling them that following the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance one could recover from one’s illnesses, and one’s moral standards would elevate.
Before the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began persecuting Falun Dafa in 1999, I visited every local village to tell people about Falun Dafa. One day, I walked 25 miles, but my feet didn’t hurt. Before that, I couldn’t wear shoes or walk very far due to the pain in my joints.
Clarifying the Facts
I was never seriously persecuted, and I knew Master protected me. When the CCP began to persecute Dafa in 1999, practitioners and I decided to appeal to the government, but we were stopped halfway to Beijing. I was taken to the local police station, and held there for half a day. The police were busy going in and out, nobody seemed interested in me, so I just walked out and headed home.
Village committee members often came to my home to harass me. They also sent people to the entrance of my residence to monitor me. I ignored them. All my illnesses were gone given my cultivation in Dafa, so I would never stop practicing. I continued to do what a practitioner is supposed to do.
The CCP slandered Dafa and poisoned Chinese people’s minds with their lies and propaganda. In order to have people understand the truth, we used all kinds of ways to clarify the facts. My home was quite spacious. Whenever a family in the village held a wedding or get-together after a funeral, I’d offer my home for them to use. As they waited for meals to be served, I used the opportunity to play truth-clarification DVDs for them.
The village accountant went to the town, and talked with the police. He told me that an officer told him that I played Dafa DVDs. The officer said, “We all know. We just don’t care.”
In order to create a cultivation environment and an environment for validating the Fa, it was necessary to clarify the facts to people in charge of the village. After the persecution began, the first secretary of the Party Committee often came to my home to harass me. I clarified the facts to him, and lent him Dafa books to read. He later said Falun Dafa was good. When his wife heard something or any messages were passed down, she informed me.
When the next village Party secretary came, practitioners and I were out distributing informational materials. It was 9 p.m., and some families lights were still on. The new village secretary saw me. I didn’t greet him, and just kept walking. He followed me, and eventually caught up with me. I stopped, and asked him, “What are you doing here?”
He exclaimed, “It’s you!”
“Yes it is,” I replied, “But please don’t worry about it. Just pretend that you didn’t see me [delivering Dafa materials]. It’s beneficial for people to read our materials.” That was the end of the conversation.
We later had another Party secretary. He didn’t accept the truth about Dafa, but knew what I had done all these years, but since both previous secretaries turned a blind eye to it, he didn’t care about it either. As to the director of Public Security Bureau, I said to him, “We’ve always done this [clarify the facts], please don’t worry about it. We are helping people learn the truth and be saved. We are here for your benefit.” He didn’t give us trouble either.
In the first few years of the persecution, as soon as we started putting up Dafa informational materials, people either watched us, or tore up our materials. Those people received retribution. For example, the person who was sent by the village to monitor me at home was almost killed in an accident by an ox cart. Someone who often tore up truth-clarification posters, died of liver cancer when he was only in his 40s. Another person was tasked to put up posters defaming Dafa on the bulletin board, which we later removed. He also tore up our informational materials. We told him, “Please don’t do that, it’s not good for you.”
He told us that he got paid 20 yuan per day to do it. I said, “For this 20 yuan, you’ll lose a lot more.” He raised an old sow that was pregnant. When she waddled out the pigpen, the gate squeezed her piglets, and all of them died. He later understood that the things he was doing were not good for him, so he never did them again.
When the villagers heard what happened, they also did fewer bad deeds. Hardly anyone defamed Dafa, and we could do whatever we felt appropriate to help save people. Most of the villagers learned the truth. Our Fa-study site was open and everybody knew it.
I have done many things to let people know that Dafa is good. The villagers all used to laugh at me, thinking I would get arrested, but nobody came.
Quite a few practitioners were arrested for clarifying the facts, so how did I stay safe? I told the other practitioners, “I don’t have any attachments when I do things, I just want to save sentient beings, and clarify the facts. When it came to team up with practitioners, other people were picky about whom they wanted to work with. I went with anyone. Whichever village they asked me to go to I’d go.” Every time when I went out to clarify the facts, I always thought like that. This set my heart right.
Taking on a Coordinator’s Role
The town coordinator saw that I was progressing in cultivation, was willing to do things for Dafa, and that practitioners trusted in me. He asked me to serve as coordinator for our village and a few other villages.
I set up a material production site in my home in 2009, to supply Minghui Weekly and informational materials for practitioners in a few villages. When Master’s new articles were published on Minghui, I had to put in quite a lot of effort to get them delivered to practitioners in a timely manner. With Master’s protection, I came out of danger safe and sound. The police came to my home to harass me, and Master’s portrait was hung up on the wall. I thought: If they search my home, won’t they look in every room? But they did not.
I always took the lead. I had little fear, but other attachments flared up, such as jealousy, and complaining. When the persecution was most severe, I didn’t have any complaints, and delivered materials to practitioners diligently. Later my attachment to comfort flared up. I was in my 60s, had to ride my bicycle to those villages, and most were uphill. I complained in my mind: Why don’t they come to get the materials. I felt unbalanced in my heart and my attachments to comfort flared up.
When a few local practitioners passed away, some senior practitioners said they didn’t want to practice any more. I said, “Some individuals passed away, but we don’t know why. My personal understanding is that, one, it was a test for us; and two, it was a result of the persecution. Let’s not to be interfered with. Each of us has our cultivation path. Our goal is to stick it out to the end.”
A few elderly practitioners in our village had very strong attachments to jealousy. They didn’t want to be criticized, and easily got upset. They said they didn’t want to cultivate any more. I patiently reminded them, “You have cultivated for so many years. Your illnesses have all been healed. We’ve come to the very end already. Since you’ve come this far, why do you want to stop?” Such conversations happened multiple times. It’s not easy to being a coordinator.
However, I had another thought: Wasn’t this a good thing? When I saw practitioners like that, I should look at myself. I must have this attachment too. Fellow practitioners are a mirror, I should look at myself and look inward. Why was I upset when others didn’t cooperate with me? Everyone’s cultivation state is different. They provided me with so many opportunities to improve, which were all good things. I should be tolerant and look inward when running into things and see where I could improve.
Breaking Through Sickness Karma
I experienced three bouts of sickness karma since 2012, and I later realized they were all caused by my attachments. Master helped me through it all.
The first time was when I was installing a satellite dish to receive New Tang Dynasty TV programs. I had some discomfort in my heart and felt weak. I felt it was caused by my resentment. Practitioners later came to help with the installation, and I accompanied them to other villages and households to clarify the facts. When I told them about my situation, they said they didn’t see anything wrong with me.
The second time was in the fall of 2013. I had a high temperature, coupled with my heart feeling like a lead weight, and I felt weak. My heart pounded very fast, and my temperature lasted for about four days. I just studied the Fa and did the exercises as usual. No one knew about my situation, except my husband. If I did not maintain righteous thoughts, and fully believe in Master and Dafa, the consequences would have been very serious.
I didn’t dare to close my eyes, as I was afraid I’d pass out. I began to look inward. I raised some geese, and one of my relatives came to kill them. I realized this must be the reason for my tribulation. Master told us about the principle of raising or killing animals. This tribulation started a week after the geese were killed. Practitioners came to help send forth righteous thoughts, and I soon recovered.
The third time was between August and September 2018. My lower back felt cold, and my belly was bloated. It felt as if something was wrong with my kidneys. I wondered what triggered this tribulation. I didn’t use my cell phone much, so I hardly had any apps installed. But sometimes things would pop up, and I looked at them. One time, it was something to do with lust. I looked at it briefly. A few days later I had a high temperature which lasted for over a week. My mind wasn’t clear, and I slept very little at night.
I meditated, sent forth righteous thoughts and studied the Fa. I didn’t tell the other practitioners, thinking that I could get through it by myself. I already made some breakthroughs in cultivation and I wanted to move forward. I knew that because I didn’t do well I was in this situation.
I almost couldn’t endure it, so compassionate Master enlightened me in a dream. I saw something which was 1.3 inches long, shaped like a spiral coming out of my body. The substance of lust left me. Looking at the lustful scene on my cell phone caused the tribulation. I saw the left side of my waist had become steel sheets, which fell apart as soon as I touched them. Master had me see that the right side of my waist was a piece of ice. Also, upon touching it, it broke into pieces. That’s why my waist was so cold. The next night, Master said to me, “Rebuild your golden body! I clearly heard His voice. I woke up with tears in my eyes. I said, “Master, you are so compassionate, could you rebuild a golden body for me!”
I stood in front of Master’s portrait and thanked him for letting me feel his compassion. I got dressed, and meditated. I fully recovered in just over two weeks.
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