(Minghui.org) I began to practice Falun Dafa in 1994. I would like to share some of my cultivation experiences from the past 31 years, to report to Master and share with fellow practitioners.
Master Cleansed My Body and Showed Me the Way in Life
One day in August in 1994, I received a copy of Zhuan Falun from a colleague. After reading the book, our family of three sat on a brick bed (kang) to try sitting in the lotus position. My daughter and I had no trouble, but my husband couldn’t do it. He said, “You two have an affinity with this practice, go to Yanji to listen to Master Li Hongzhi teach the Fa.” So, my daughter and I went to Yanji.
After listening to Master’s first Fa lecture, small bumps started appearing all over my body, especially around my neck and under my arms. I knew that Master was cleansing my body. After the second lecture, I began to have diarrhea, just like what Master explained in the lecture; on the third day, all the bumps disappeared, and my skin became even smoother than before. By the fourth and fifth day, my whole body felt very light, in perfect heath.
My world outlook also took a complete turn and I understood the true purpose of lives in the human world. I also learned to look inward when encountering conflicts, and no longer felt anger. I was happy every day.
Miraculous Experience When Doing the Exercises
During postpartum after giving birth to my daughter, I was exposed to coldness. Since then, I always had pain in my arms and legs, and my arms felt numb and weak. When I woke up in the morning, my fingers were always stiff, making it very difficult for me to get a good grip on anything.
Doctors said that it was incurable, and could get worse as I grew older. For eight years, I visited many doctors and took many medications, but nothing helped.
After I started practicing Falun Dafa, while doing the second set of the exercises one day, I felt a bit sore around my shoulders, where I could also feel Falun rotating. I knew it was a good thing, because Master was purifying my body again.
I felt Falun rotating from my shoulders down to my elbows, then to my forearms and fingertips, and then they left in a flash. All my pain also disappeared. It’s truly amazing! My eight-year-long misery disappeared in less than ten minutes!
Seeing the extraordinary power of Dafa, my husband also took up the practice. We stopped arguing with each other, and our entire family was living in happiness and harmony thanks to the grace of Falun Dafa.
Guiding Students by Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance
I was working as a head teacher in an elementary school in my hometown at that time. I always tried to guide my students with Falun Dafa’s principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, even after the evil CCP started persecuting the practice in July 1999.
When many of my students failed to finish their homework, I looked inward and said to the students, “Many of you didn’t finish your homework. It’s not your fault and I don’t want to blame you, because as your teacher, I didn’t explain to you the disadvantages of not taking homework seriously.”
The whole class became quiet as I was talking. I explained to my students patiently the benefits of taking homework seriously instead of criticizing them. Since then, the students became more interested in learning and understood the importance of independent learning. They also learned to look within themselves when issues occurred.
Once, as I walked into the classroom, I saw a usually quiet boy crying. He was holding a stick and looked angry, ready to hit someone. The other students all sat down when they saw me walk in. The boy also dropped the stick, and stood there with his head down.
“Why do you want to hit someone?” I asked him quietly.
The class monitor stood up and said, “Teacher, please don’t blame him. It’s my fault. I insulted him, and then he lost his temper.”
The boy also said, “Teacher, I was wrong, too. I should have been more tolerant, instead of wanting to hit her.”
I was quite touched and thought: What lovely students they are!
From that point on, a sincere, friendly, and uplifting atmosphere was established in the class. Our class was the biggest in the school, with more than 40 students. When I was busy, the class monitor would help arrange for their self-study and homework.
One teacher said to me, “I thought you were in the classroom. All your students were quietly doing their homework.”
My class was recognized as a model of civility, and their graduation exam results also ranked among the top in town. The principal said, “Their teacher practices Falun Gong and let go of personal fame and gain. She even declined the Excellent Model award and let it be given to someone else.”
After the persecution started in July 1999, due to fear, I slacked off in Fa study and failed to behave as a Dafa disciple. As a result, I began to show false appearances of sickness karma.
To reduce my workload, my school arranged for me to teach a preschool class, in which I played CDs suitable for children and taught them to recite poems in Hong Yin. By the end of the term, the children could recite up to 30 poems. When school leaders came for inspection, they didn’t say anything when they saw what I wrote on the board.
Once, during the class break, I heard children shouting, “Falun Dafa is good! Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good!” while playing and chasing each other for fun on the playground.
Pulling Through a Test at Home
My husband gave up Dafa practice after the persecution started due to fear, and he tried to stop me as well. As soon as he saw me studying the Fa or doing the exercises, he would hit me or curse at me.
Due to my poor enlightenment quality and attachment to fear, I failed to uphold righteous thoughts and tried to practice in hiding. I didn’t dare to contact fellow practitioners either.
I went to a fellow practitioner’s place only occasionally to pick up new teachings from Master, which I read quickly and hid away. Without proper Fa study, I couldn’t do things based on the Fa. For example, even after I bought a ticket to go to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong, due to my fear and impure heart, my husband caught me halfway there and took me home.
In early September 2007, I began to show serious symptoms of sickness-karma. I felt a bit confused and failed to regard myself as a Dafa practitioner. I even found a cunning excuse for myself: “It’s normal for everyday people to get sick, and they just need to see doctors.”
I went to a local hospital, and an authoritative doctor said, “She has tumors inside, which have already become purulent and require urgent surgery in the county hospital.”
At the county hospital, a doctor said, “The blood test shows the patient’s white blood cell count is several hundred times above normal. Where is the patient?”
“I’m right here.” I said. Seeing me standing in front of him, the doctor said, “Patients with such a high white blood cell count would be lying on a stretcher. You’re incredibly strong!”
That night, my abdomen was badly bloated, but doctors couldn’t tell why. They wanted to perform surgery, but I refused. On the third morning, the doctor in charge told me to go to the provincial hospital for treatment, where I undertook a number of examinations. Doctors said that I had a lot of abscesses in my abdomen and that I needed surgery.
However, they were not in any hurry to treat me. My husband thought he might not have offered them enough money, so he went to ask a doctor, who said that my condition was very rare, and if the surgery wasn’t successful, it could cause relapses, or even worse. They preferred a conservative approach and wanted to further monitor my condition. I stayed in the hospital for over 20 days before I was discharged.
After I got back home, I still suffered constant pain in my abdomen, and had to take medication to keep going. Once, I went to my father-in-law’s house for his birthday, but soon after I got there, my pain returned and we had to go home.
My husband invited a doctor to our house, who took my pulse and prescribed a lot of Chinese herbal medicine for me. Later, I had to have injections seven days in a row. Life was really miserable for me and a day seemed like a year.
One night in November 2008, I thought: I mustn’t go on like this. I want to cultivate diligently.
The next day, a fellow practitioner called me and asked me to come over and watch the CD “Eternal Story” and the video “Fa-Teaching Given to the Australian Practitioners.” I watched with tears the whole time.
I began to uphold righteous thoughts and was determined that I would cultivate in Dafa with dignity. I was no long afraid of my husband, and refused to give in when he tried to stop me from practicing Dafa. I practiced the exercises openly at home, studied the Fa with fellow practitioners, and went out to clarify the facts to people about Falun Dafa and hand out materials.
I also threw away all the medication, and soon regained good health. Seeing the positive changes in me, my husband stopped holding me back, too. Since then, I have joined other fellow practitioners in assisting Master in saving people.
Suing Jiang Zemin
In 2015, along with many fellow practitioners, I also filed a criminal complaint against the former CCP head Jiang Zemin with the Supreme People’s Procuratorate (SPP) and the Supreme People’s Court (SPC), and received an acknowledgment.
One day in June, police in our city started arresting Falun Gong practitioners, and around 20 practitioners from various villages were arrested in our township. When my husband heard the news the next morning, he called a taxi and sent me to a relative’s house out of town.
When I returned home, these arrests were still taking place. The principal told me, “There is a spare classroom being used for storage. If police come here, just go to that classroom. I will tell them you didn’t come to work.” I was thus protected by the school leaders.
One day, a leader from the Township Education Commission Office came to our school and said, “People from the Township Government and the police department were waiting outside the school gate.”
“You’d better hide somewhere.” a colleague said to me.
“No, I won’t hide this time. I haven’t done anything wrong, and I’m not afraid of them.” I said calmly.
As it turned out, those people came for something else. I was very grateful to Master for giving me the opportunity to let go of my attachments.
Continue to Clarify the Truth in Japan
My daughter settled in Japan, and when I visited her in 2019, she applied for asylum for me, and I now live in Japan. I know that Master has arranged another opportunity for me to do the three things well, and so almost everyday I go to tourist spots to hand out truth-clarifying materials.
I go out to work four mornings a week. I would leave home before 6:00 a.m. It takes over an hour to get to my workplace by bus. After work, I would go to tourist spots to hand out truth-clarification materials, and get back home after 4:00 pm. In the evening, I join group Fa-study online or participate in group sharing. Every day feels meaningful and fulfilling.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, I joined the online phone-call platform to clarify the truth to people. Later, I distributed materials in letter boxes with other practitioners. At the beginning, I didn’t know how to read maps, but later I was able to take other practitioners to distribute materials.
I have become quite independent living in Japan, and can even give my daughter a helping hand when such a need arises. When my husband came for a visit, I took him to a number of tourist spots by bus or train with no trouble. Dafa has given me wisdom and ability. Thank you, Master!
I will continue to cultivate myself even more diligently in the remaining limited time, and try my best to do the three things well to assist Master in saving more people and return to my true home with Master.
The above is only some of my personal experience and understanding. Please kindly point out anything not in line with the Fa.
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