(Minghui.org) I began practicing Falun Gong in 2012. I am full of emotion when I look back over the past 13 years, but I often recall a truly awe-inspiring feat that displayed practitioners’ righteous thoughts and actions that I witnessed more than 20 years ago.
Back then, because my father practiced Falun Gong (also known as Falun Dafa), I had a certain understanding of the goodness of Dafa. But after July 20, 1999, due to the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) overwhelming slander and rumors, I was among those who were misled by the propaganda. Master Li had compassionately helped me learn about Dafa, but not long after my misunderstandings were cleared up, my father passed away because the CCP persecuted him so many times. I thus missed the opportunity to truly cultivate and I plunged into ordinary society.
I started working at a local government news office in 2002. That was also during the peak of the CCP’s persecution of Falun Gong. One morning in March, after we got to work, our manager told us, “Yesterday a group of Falun Gong had a meeting at the top of the mountain and put up a lot of stickers along the side of the road. Our task today is to work with public security to investigate this, collect evidence, and record the whole process.”
After the meeting, a coworker and I went up the mountain via the road that the police had mentioned. We saw a lot of Falun Gong stickers along the way. At that time, I thought that these people were truly impressive since they dared to do that so openly when the persecution was so severe. The two of us took photos as we walked, until we reached the hillside where the police had said the meeting took place.
I recall that it was a flat area. We looked around and saw a lot of stickers and cloth banners that read, “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” It looked like they’d used red markers to make the banners. We hurried back after taking the photos. When we were reporting our work to the manager, the police were already grumbling, “Those people will definitely go again tomorrow. We will meet at six tomorrow morning and catch them.”
The next evening, I wanted to know if they had actually caught anyone, so I rode my bike along that route again. I was dumbfounded to see that all the stickers that the police had cleared away the day before had been replaced! I remembered that the stickers were yellow cloth strips with red characters, and they were on almost every tree.
The police had originally wanted us to record how they solved this so-called “major case,” but by the afternoon of the third day they had found nothing. A few days passed and the case was abandoned, left “unresolved.” I had not officially started practicing at the time, but I was very worried about the police catching those people. I was relieved when the police found nothing. I thought it was truly incredible how those practitioners were able to come and go without a trace.
In 2012, due to Master’s compassionate guidance, I officially started practicing Falun Dafa. At first, because I did not know any practitioners, I distributed truth-clarification materials by myself. I still remember my shaking hands and pounding heart when I went out to distribute materials for the first time. Every time I returned home, it took me a while to calm down. I would often recall the stickers on those trees that I saw all those years ago. Thinking about how fellow practitioners were still doing what they were supposed despite such harsh conditions, I did not feel alone.
With Master’s blessing, I later met two practitioners, who helped me a lot. Once after a group Fa study, a practitioner talked about how a local Fa conference had been organized all those years ago. I then realized that this practitioner had participated in that noble feat. Twenty years before, I was a witness; 20 years later, I was sitting right next to this practitioner studying the Fa and cultivating together. What a precious and sacred predestined relationship! I again recalled that hill and those paper slips that read “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” I suddenly felt Master’s compassion and greatness, as well as fellow practitioners’ rock-solid faith in Dafa.
In 2022, I was illegally detained and persecuted by the CCP for practicing Dafa, and it fully confirmed for me that only by believing in Master and the Fa can one overcome ordeals. I know that some veteran practitioners, for various reasons, have currently relaxed somewhat in their cultivation compared to their cultivation state at the beginning of the persecution. Some have even stopped practicing, while others have passed away. One reason I am recording this amazing feat from 20 years ago is to tell veteran practitioners that the path you’ve walked, as well as your righteous thoughts and acts, have already been memorialized in the great history of the Fa-rectification.
The CCP is now facing trouble both at home and abroad, and its collapse is imminent. The CCP is struggling on its deathbed, insanely attempting to launch wicked attacks overseas to extend its persecution of Dafa. It will surely shoot itself in the foot.
I hope that veteran practitioners both in China and abroad will recall their righteous thoughts and actions when they resisted the persecution in the beginning and tell those amazing stories to other practitioners. By doing this, they are both recording history and encouraging more people to cherish that glorious time of cultivation. No matter what kind of persecution or injustice practitioners suffered at that time, and no matter how other people looked at them, as the Fa-rectification is pushing forward, the people who participated in or saw the persecution are all repositioning themselves.
The feats of practitioners’ righteous thoughts and actions at that time laid the foundation for an ordinary person to learn about Dafa and encourage the latecomers, like me, to firmly believe in Dafa. Let us new and veteran practitioners cherish this sacred predestined relationship, let go of human attachments, be diligent together, and walk well the last leg of our cultivation journey.
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