(Minghui.org) While out buying breakfast I saw people doing exercise while listening to a calming music in the morning of the summer of 1999. I saw a store clerk there whom I knew. He handed me a book and encouraged me to read it.
I took the book home, but there were many unknown words, and did not quite understand what was said in the book called Zhuan Falun, the main book of Falun Dafa, so I returned it the next day. The same store clerk told me the people I saw that morning were doing the exercises of a cultivation practice called Falun Dafa.
A few days after I joined the group exercises, Jiang Zemin initiated the persecution of Falun Dafa. He persecuted and arrested practitioners. I was afraid, and so were my family members. They asked me to stop practicing Falun Dafa, and so I did.
But, compassionate Master watched over me and guided me. I found a copy of the Minghui Weekly under my front door on a morning in July 2007. I also found a Falun Dafa flyer on the street the same day. My immediate reaction was that Master was looking for me. I cried.
I began to look for fellow practitioners. I went to look for the store clerk who had lent me the book but did not find her although I tried three times.. I found the husband of a fellow practitioner whom I knew before the persecution, and learned that she had stopped cultivating. I did not give up and got her contact info. I called her twice, but she stopped answering the phone on my second call. I found another practitioner. I formally joined Dafa from then on.
Master Li Honghzi protected and guided me after so many years, and I cherished the opportunity to return to Dafa. I was diligent in studying the Fa, and telling people the facts about Falun Dafa. I immersed myself in the three things that Master asked us to do. I felt fulfilled and joyful.
Through studying the Fa and doing the exercises, I recovered from my nephritis, insufficient blood supply to the heart and brain, and rheumatism without treatment. I felt healthy and light, wanting to skip when walking. I was so happy! I felt that I had to tell others about such a good practice.
Telling People the Facts about Dafa
My uncle is a secretary of the Chinese Communist Party(CCP). He is so knowledgeable about party affairs that he can give information about it off the cuff, and needs no preparation when giving lectures on the subject. I took the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party – Nine Commentaries for short) to his home one day, and told him, “Uncle, people said this is a wonderful book. Why don’t you read it?” He flipped it and read about the CCP’s torture methods. He said angrily, “Nonsense!”
I said quickly, “Don’t be upset. You know I don’t read well. Why don’t you read it and let me know exactly what is said in it.” He said, “Okay, I’ll read it.”
I returned to his home again a few days later. I asked, “Is the book’s description accurate?” He said, “I did experience some of the things it described.” I said, “The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has committed so many atrocities. Heaven will destroy it. Why don’t you quit it?” He said firmly, “For sure,” and also asked for a Falun Dafa amulet. He was saved for accepting the truth.
Once I met a 70-year-old man when I went to a village with another practitioner. The practitioner told the man that the Tiananmen Square self-immolation was staged, that the CCP killed Falun Dafa practitioners for their organs, and that the CCP had killed 80 million Chinese people during its past campaigns. She urged him to quit the CCP and its youth organizations.
He said he used to be the village party secretary. He had seen through things now, understood the atrocities committed by the Party. and agreed to quit the CCP.
I asked him if he had read the Nine Commentaries. He said he had only read a few pages on a briefly borrowed copy, so told him I’d find a copy for him.
We brought over a copy of Nine Commentaries for him a few days later, when he was working in the yard. He took the book respectfully and thanked us.
He took us into the house. His wife was on the couch because of many illnesses. We began to tell her about Dafa and asked her to recite “Falun Dafa is good. Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” We told her the facts about the Tiananmen Square self-immolation. She understood and was supportive but did not need to quit the CCP because she had never joined any CCP organization. We gave her a protection amulet.
The other practitioner noticed that his family displayed many pictures of CCP leaders on the wall. The practitioner told him that these pictures were not good, but he did not quite agree. I noticed he also wore a button with a Mao Zedong’s picture. I said, “You should not wear this.” His wife also said, “Toss it out.” He was reluctant to toss it. I said, “It is a lowly spirit. It is a ghost. Toss it as soon as you can.”
As I was talking, the button fell off and to the ground. We were all stunned. I said, “Do still want to keep it?” He answered, “No!” It was a true power of Dafa.
We passed by his house again on our way back. He was working in the field. I went up to him and gave him a USB disk and asked him if he could view it. He said he couldn't, but his son could. I told him to ask his son to view it, and show it to his friends and relatives.
We met two woman in their 60s in a village one day. I told them that Falun Dafa practitioners cultivate Buddhahood, and is most beneficial for one’s mind and health. We asked them to recite “Falun Dafa is good. Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” Then, another five to six women arrived. They have all heard the facts about Falun Dafa. We gave them some calendars.
Master’s Gift
I was someone who was ill, bad-tempered, and selfish. Dafa changed me. I now am healthy, think of others first, and look inward for my own deficiencies during conflicts. My son saw the changes in me and supports my cultivation. We make Dafa brochures at home. He buys papers and delivers calendars for me. Sometimes he offers fruit to Master. He often cautions me against cold weather when I go out to clarify the truth about Dafa. He recovered from illnesses, such as mouth ulcers, hemorrhoids, and wrist tenosynovitis because he helps me cultivate.
My daughter-in-law did not want me to tell her colleagues about Falun Dafa due to her fear when she and my son first got married. She gradually changed as I kept looking inward, cultivated myself, and cared about her. She began to tell people facts about Falun Dafa for me.
She gave Falun Dafa calendars to her colleagues every year. Sometimes she invited her colleagues to our home to listen to me and welcomed fellow practitioners too. Because she supports Falun Dafa,she recovered from a heart condition, kidney disease, and her vertigo,
Master said: “...with one person practicing, the whole family benefits ...” (“Teachings at the Conference in Australia”)
Local practitioners were arrested and held in jail in 2008. Practitioners suggested to come to my house to send forth righteous thoughts. I said, “My home is very cold.” The fellow practitioner said, “It’s ok. Practitioners are not afraid of a cold house.” I was moved, and thought, “It would be good if I have a large warm house. Fellow practitioners can come and study the Fa and send forth righteous thoughts.”
With my having this thought, Master helped me. I bought an apartment unit the next year. My husband passed away and I was a poor single mother. The unit was bought at an incredibly good price.
The unit is at the top floor. No one took care of the building. The stairs were filthy, the walls had spider webs, the floors had thick dust, and the edges and corners outside the building had feces. I took over the responsibility to clean the building over the last 13 years.
I changed so many light bulbs in the stairways that I lost count. I cleaned up the walls, hand rails, and ground. Many people in the building praised and thanked me. Many of them listened to me explain the truth about Falun Dafa.
Aside from the stairways in the building, I also cleared the snow along the 200-foot road outside the building every year. I did it for both light snows or heavy blizzards. People smiled at me or thanked me when they passed by. I did all these without any complaint. I am a Falun Dafa practitioner. I am a golden light in a dirty world.
I will work hard and be diligent in saving people and studying Fa.
Thank you, Master, and thank you, fellow practitioners.
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