(Minghui.org) It was my 39th birthday in April 1997. It was also the day I started practicing Falun Dafa. My husband bought quite a few dishes home to celebrate, but I couldn’t consume anything as I suffered from gastroenteritis. I either vomited or had diarrhea after eating. Because of that, I became emaciated.
My neighbor had been encouraging me to practice Falun Dafa and told me that it had amazing effects in healing illnesses and keeping fit. My neighbor saw that I was so worried, and said, “How about if we study the Fa this afternoon? Let me take you there on my bicycle.” I agreed.
Feeling Comfortable the Very First Time of Studying the Fa
There were about a dozen practitioners in the Fa-study group. Each of them held a copy of Zhuan Falun, the main book of Falun Dafa, in their hands, and took turns reading a paragraph. When it was my turn, I couldn’t say a thing for lack of strength, so I pointed to the next person, to have her read it instead. But this practitioner said, “You can go slowly and read as loudly as you can. Take it easy.”
I couldn’t get any sound out when I read the first two sentences, but gradually my voice came back and my words got louder and louder. Then practitioners asked me to carry on reading. These words of the Fa went into the depth of my heart and I felt extremely comfortable. After I finished studying the Fa, I said to my neighbor, “You can go back now. I’ll walk back by myself.”
With continual Fa-study and doing the exercises, I recovered from all my illnesses, such as headaches, severe anemia, gastroenteritis, sciatica, and gynecological problems. I was so thrilled and in high spirits every day. Since then, for more than 20 years, I never needed to take any medication or injections.
Jiang Zemin, a former Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader, launched the persecution against Falun Dafa on July 20, 1999, given the lies and propaganda poisoning the world’s people. For such a wonderful practice, we were not allowed to practice anymore, what Jiang said didn’t count. I wanted to practice. It’s up to me, nobody else should be in charge. I will only listen to my Master (Dafa’s founder).
Master said in his lectures multiple times to study the Fa more, so I understood the importance of Fa-study. Thus, I got up at 3 a.m. to do the exercises and studied the Fa every day after dinner. I have not stopped for a day.
Setting Up a Materials Production Site
When the persecution just began, I talked to people about Falun Dafa during the day and went out with my neighbor practitioner to hang up truth-clarification banners at night. The banners showed the words, “Falun Dafa is Good! Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is Good!” on them. I started to make Dafa informational materials myself in the second half of 2003. Protected by Master, I have been doing this without any problem all these years.
When the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party was published in 2004, local practitioners agreed that it exposes the CCP inside and out and that we should distribute it as extensively as possible. I spent most of my time printing it. I used a small photocopier, which ran fairly slowly. I had to spend as much time as possible on it, and didn’t want my husband to come home for lunch, because I would have to cook for him, taking up my time. The next day, my husband told me that he wouldn’t come back for lunch from then on. I was so happy and said to Master deep down, “Thank you Master for your arrangement.”
I had lost my job, so I grew some vegetables at home and sold them at the market. I was under no pressure as to how many I had to sell, but miraculously, as soon as I arrived there in the morning, people came to me one by one, as if they had been waiting for me.
A vendor next to me said jokingly, “How come you all like to buy vegetables from her? Are hers so special that you don’t need oil to cook them?” She didn’t know, but I was certain in my mind that it was Master who helped me.
For safety’s sake, I never called other practitioners for help when making truth-clarification materials. It was always me making photocopies, compiling, packaging, and then delivering them to the coordinator practitioner at a set time every week. The coordinator then distributed them to other practitioners.
Other practitioners only needed to inform the coordinator how many materials they requested, and the coordinator would tell me. I always made a certain number of materials based on what I was told, and I never had any left. When the ink cartridges were empty, I bought new ones myself. Since I started receiving my pension, I never asked for reimbursement from any practitioner for expenses for the materials production site.
Making Use of Every Opportunity to Clarify the Facts
I made use of every opportunity to clarify the facts and help people quit the CCP. For example, when someone said, “Your vegetables are of good quality. They don’t have withered or dead leaves. You are such a great person.”
I would thank them, and say, “I practice Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. I’m a Falun Dafa practitioner. My Master asks us to be considerate of others and be good people.” I also asked people if they would like to quit the CCP. Most of them did.
I talked to a man about quitting the CCP to ensure his safety, and he asked, “Why would I quit the CCP? I haven’t done anything wrong.”
“You haven’t,” I replied, “but the Party has done too many bad things. Since it took power, it has launched multiple political movements. It instigates a large group of people to persecute a small group of people. First, it labels this small group as the enemy, uses the media to incite hatred against it, and then uses the people to commit crimes against it.”
He said, “I would not listen to its propaganda.”
“You’re wise.” I then asked him, “Have you joined the CCP and its youth organizations?” He had joined the Young Pioneers and the Youth League. I continued, “Then you are counted as a member of it.”
He asked me why I practice Falun Dafa and what are its benefits. “Practicing Falun Dafa can help you get rid of illnesses and keep fit,” I responded. “If you want to have your illness healed, first of all, you’ll have to be a good person and be someone who always puts others first.”
I then gave him an example. “When I was cleaning the floor, I found a ring worth about 10,000 yuan, so I did what I could to return it to the owner. When an 80-year-old man fell on the ground, I helped him get up and took him home.”
“Except for people who practice Falun Dafa, nobody else would likely do such kind things. Please help me quit the Young Pioneers and the Youth League.” He happily left.
With the outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020, villages and residential areas were on lockdown. I was a caretaker, so I made use of this situation to save the people there. Almost everyone I talked to quit the CCP.
When I walked into one area, someone walked up to me, and said, “I have been waiting for you for a while. What you told me before about quitting the CCP to ensure my safety, I didn’t believe it. Now I have to believe it. Please help me quit the Party.”
When I first talked to him about why one needed to quit, he asked me a lot of questions about Falun Dafa. He said, “I have been a veteran Party member for more than 40 years, I can’t betray the Party.” Today, he finally chose to quit. Sentient beings are waiting to be saved.
I have clarified the facts to people in my day-to-day life since 2004, but still lag behind diligent practitioners. I will hold myself to the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, follow what Master wants, and return home with Master with plenty of sentient beings being saved.
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