(Minghui.org) I am 64 years old and live in the countryside. I began to practice Falun Dafa in 1998. Before I took up the practice, I suffered from stomach pain and I could only eat soft food. I also constantly had a headache because of an injury I suffered when working in a coal mine. Every day I would feel miserable and very pessimistic about life. I thought I would die soon, and worried that no one would take care of my two children after I died.
My wife brought home the book Zhuan Falun in early 1998. I read it and started to practice Falun Dafa cultivation. Soon I recovered from my stomach pain, and I no longer had a headache. I became strong enough for farming work, and my family’s living conditions improved. We purchased a TV, VCR, and speakers. We started to play Master’s video lectures at our home. As Dafa was spreading widely, many people came to our house to watch the video lectures. My house naturally became a practice site in our village.
After the persecution was launched in July 1999, the practice site at my home was forced to disband. As I did not give up my cultivation, I was illegally detained twice, and my wife was detained three times. The police often came to our home to harass us, yet, we did not stop doing what we practitioners are supposed to do. Since 2003, my wife and I have been distributing truth-clarification materials to nearby villages. Whether rain or shine, we have been clarifying the truth for two decades.
After we distributed the materials to the nearby villages, we started distributing them to more far away places. Sometimes we left our home at 2 p.m. and returned at 2 a.m. Some remote mountainous areas had no roads, so we had to walk instead of taking other forms of transportation. The farthest place we walked to was more than 13 kilometers (about 8 miles) from our home. My wife and I would usually go together. Before setting off, we would send righteous thoughts and ask for Master’s strengthening and blessing. Each of us would usually carry a large bag of informational materials. On warmer days, it would take us until midnight to finish distributing two large bags of materials. On winter days, we would usually go out at 7 or 8 p.m. and returned home after we finished distributing all the materials. Sometimes we would arrive home after 2 a.m., having walked 30 to 35 kilometers (or about 18 to 22 miles) total.
Some of the more remote villages did not have street lights, so my wife and I often walked in the dark during the night. Once, after we distributed our materials in a small village with only about 20 households, we walked down a steep slope. My wife fell, hit her head, and slid down the slope. If my wife were not a Dafa practitioner, she would have cracked her head. Yet at that moment my wife remained calm and thought, “I am a Dafa practitioner, and I have Master to protect me.” Indeed, she was not injured.
There were many miraculous experiences like this. For example, one spring night, we went to a nearby village. As we were placing the pamphlets at every house, I suddenly saw that the pamphlets were radiating light! Immediately a thought came into my mind: “These truth-clarification materials can really save lives!” I am determined to continue our effort, and we are so grateful for Master’s encouragement!
Whenever there was a village market in the area, my wife and I would drive a horse cart there to clarify the truth. Every time we went to a market, Master would bring predestined people to us. Sometimes, people would readily agree to quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its youth organizations after we just said a few sentences.
One day, my wife came home from a local materials production site, excited. She told me about the dream a particular practitioner’s daughter-in-law recently had. In her dream, the universe was about to experience a catastrophe, and divine beings came down to earth to get an elixir. In the dream, that practitioner was transformed into a lady of great longevity who was making that elixir. Every pill she made was colorful and crystal clear. In the dream, my wife was distributing the elixir. Because the pills were so precious, my wife was very careful when she distributed them, giving only one pill to each person, and she was not willing to give more to those who wanted more.
My wife and I understood that Master was encouraging all practitioners through the dream. That particular practitioner created the first local materials production site at her home, and she has been producing the materials for 20 years. My wife often picked up the materials from that practitioner’s home. Over the past 20 years, my wife and I have distributed the materials to every village that we were able to reach on foot. At this special period of time when the old universe is being replaced by a new one, divine beings are reincarnating into the human world one after another, waiting for Dafa to save them. Facing the catastrophe, the truth-clarification materials are the elixir that saves people. In fact, the practitioners across the country who produce the materials are elixir makers, and the practitioners who distribute the materials or clarify the truth face-to-face are distributing the elixir. The lives we are saving are not ordinary people, but are representatives of the countless universes and sentient beings.
We practitioners are not doing these things for Dafa, or for Master; we are saving each other, while fulfilling the vows we made before descending to the earth. With His boundless compassion, Master has been giving us more time again and again. My fellow practitioners, do not be obsessed with human things and neglect this sacred responsibility to save more sentient beings. Let’s be diligent and not leave any regrets on the final leg of our cultivation path!
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