(Minghui.org) Greetings, compassionate and revered Master! Greetings, fellow practitioners!
I’m a university teacher, and I began practicing Falun Dafa nearly thirty years ago. I experienced many ups and downs, but I always firmly believe in Falun Dafa: Dafa is my home!
Through studying Master’s teachings, I understood the importance of Fa study, and I always placed great emphasis on it. Through extensive Fa study, I have been able to quickly recognize my attachments and eliminate them.
I was widely recognized as the hardest-working employee at my workplace, both by my coworkers and my supervisors. During the annual selection of outstanding employees, a coworker who everyone knew neglected his work and who frequently played mahjong was selected. I initially didn’t react, but afterward, a surge of resentment welled up: I worked much harder than he did. How could someone so irresponsible be named an outstanding employee?
I realized that this was jealousy, and I quickly corrected my thoughts: I do not want jealousy. Gains and losses in this human world are not important, and what matters most is improving my cultivation. My mind soon became calm.
I had always thought that I was free of jealousy and that I was easygoing. But cultivation is not about making assumptions; just because I didn’t sense jealousy didn’t mean it wasn’t there. It was only when my human notions were touched that they surfaced.
On another occasion, my workplace undertook a teaching reform project approved by the provincial education department. I was responsible for all the actual work, including preparing for and presenting the project’s final evaluation. However, when the project was later submitted to the provincial authorities for an award, my name was placed near the very bottom of the list, while the coworkers who hadn’t participated in the project were listed ahead of me. My workplace even asked me to personally submit the application.
I took the document to the supervisor in charge. After looking at the order of the names, the supervisor tactfully asked me, “Was the order of the names perhaps incorrect?” I replied, “It’s correct.” The supervisor paid attention to the project and knew very well that I did all the actual work. He kindly reminded me, “This could affect your future salary increases, housing allocation, professional title evaluations, and other benefits!”
I smiled and said, “Let’s submit it this way.” My heart remained completely calm.
In July 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began persecuting Falun Dafa. I went to Beijing to appeal to the national leadership and explain the true situation. As a result, I was abducted and taken to a detention center, where I was persecuted. Five days later, under Master’s protection, I walked out of the detention center, and I returned to my hometown.
On one occasion, I met a man who was suffering from an illness and had to take medication every day. After exchanging greetings, I told him that I practiced Falun Dafa. I explained what Falun Dafa is and how wonderful it is, and told him that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) media spread lies and smeared the practice to deceive the public.
As I spoke to him, I saw that the words I spoke were strings of small Falun, flying out from my mouth and landing on his body. I also felt a tingling sensation in my hands. He told me, “When I listen to you speak, I feel very comfortable. It feels as if an electric current is passing through my body.”
I felt that my words were filled with wisdom and logically sound. After I finished speaking, he said he understood everything.
Another practitioner and I went to visit a fellow practitioner who was experiencing a severe sickness karma tribulation. When we arrived, we saw that two of her non-practitioner relatives were also visiting her, a teenage boy and his mother.
The practitioner appeared to be in very serious physical distress. After exchanging a few words with her, I asked, “Has this boy withdrawn from the CCP and its affiliated organizations (the Party, Youth League, and Young Pioneers)?” She replied, “No matter what I say, he refuses to withdraw.”
I kindly asked him, “Why don’t you withdraw?” He pointed to the practitioner lying on the bed, he asked, “What’s wrong with her?” I replied, “For people who don’t practice cultivation, sincerely withdrawing from the CCP organizations can bring them peace and safety. But the requirements for practitioners are higher.” After hearing this, he understood and immediately agreed to withdraw.
I then asked the practitioner about the boy’s mother. She explained, “She is my husband’s older sister. She came from another city to visit me, and she knows Falun Dafa is good.” I began talking with the woman and realized that she had some understanding of cultivation. She also had some understanding about the Fa-rectification period cultivation.
I told her, “You didn't come here simply to visit your sister-in-law. You came here to obtain the Fa. You should begin practicing cultivation!” She agreed with me. I added, “I’ll help you get a complete set of Dafa books!” She was very happy.
This experience shook my notions tremendously. I always believed that when practitioners did not cultivate well, it could affect whether ordinary people were saved and whether they could begin cultivation. This was an understanding imposed by the old forces. I forgot that Master’s power is boundless, and I placed too much importance on the old forces’ arrangements.
This time Master arranged for me to save the relatives in front of a fellow practitioner experiencing severe illness karma to help me break through this notion. Everything is decided by Master. As long as we don’t hold on to our own notions and completely let go of attachments to self, we can help Master save people.
I saw a middle-aged man struggling to push his car while he held onto the steering wheel. I thought his car might have broken down and that he was trying to push it to a repair shop. I immediately went over to help him. When he turned around and saw me, he was very grateful. It turned out that his car had run out of gas, and he was trying to push it several hundred meters to a gas station. I thought I would help him push the car to the gas station and then clarify the truth to him.
Just then, I felt a sharp pain in my lower back, making it difficult to push the car. I strengthened my righteous thoughts and endured the pain as I continued helping him until we reached the gas station. He was extremely grateful and repeatedly thanked me. He wanted to treat me to a meal and exchange phone numbers, but I politely declined.
I noticed that he only purchased a small amount of gas, perhaps because he didn’t have much money. I offered to help him buy more gas and said there was no need for him to pay me back. He firmly refused, saying it was enough gas to get him home. He insisted on treating me to a meal sometime to thank me.
I said, “You don’t need to treat me to a meal. I practice Falun Dafa, and practitioners are all good people. The CCP has been spreading lies about us. If you withdraw from the CCP and affiliated organizations, you can have a safe and peaceful future.” He immediately agreed to withdraw.
He still wanted to treat me to a meal. I said, “Just tell your relatives and friends about what happened today, and that will be your way of treating me.” He said he would.
On my way home, I met an elderly woman. I briefly clarified the truth to her, and she agreed to withdraw from the CCP organizations. She also asked for an informational booklet. I felt my entire body was surrounded by energy.
To let more people know the truth, several fellow practitioners and I purchased an old small car. We used it to travel to rural markets and distribute truth clarification DVDs. We visited almost every market in the surrounding counties. Along the way, we witnessed many touching scenes.
One woman ran nearly a kilometer to catch up with our car and ask for a DVD. People eagerly stretched out their hands to receive the DVDs. Some even gave us things to express their gratitude. We overcame many difficulties and obstacles and encountered many dangers. Under Master’s compassionate protection, we were able to overcome them all safely.
We drove to a market, and as soon as we parked, I sensed that the energy field in that place was very bad. The evil beings in other dimensions that had been trying to obstruct our efforts were attempting to persecute us there. I believe in Master and Dafa. The evil has no right to prevent us from saving people.
I picked up a bag of Shen Yun DVDs (at that time, we could distribute Shen Yun DVDs in mainland China) and I began handing them out to people. Shortly after, a young man who had accepted a DVD asked me, “What are you handing out?” I calmly replied, “It’s a program that showcases five thousand years of traditional Chinese culture. It’s wonderful.” He said, “Come with me to the security office.” I replied, “If you don’t want it, please give it back to me. Other people still want them.” He thought for a moment and then returned the DVD to me.
I continued distributing DVDs throughout the market. He watched me for a while and then left. After we finished distributing the DVDs, we left without incident. I knew that Master compassionately protected us.
On June 8, 2026, the Minghui Editorial Board recommended that practitioners who want to genuinely cultivate memorize Master’s article “Towards Consummation.” I began memorizing it. During the process, I re-examined my fundamental attachments and discovered something I did not know I had: my attachment to science.
Since I had studied science, when I first read Zhuan Falun, I found Master's explanations, which incorporated modern science and human body science, very easy to accept, and they resonated deeply with me.
Only now do I understand that it was my scientific notions that accepted Master’s teachings because I felt that Master’s teachings were consistent with my understanding of science and were “very scientific.” Having grown up in the scientific age and become accustomed to judging everything by scientific standards, I might have found it difficult to accept the teachings otherwise. Master explained the Fa this way to break through the barriers created by my scientific notions and remove the obstacles that prevented me from obtaining the Fa.
I also discovered another deeply hidden attachment. When I first read Zhuan Falun, I was not seeking a cure for my illness. However, after I read the book the first time, my illness miraculously disappeared. This made me realize even more deeply that Zhuan Falun was no ordinary book. The facts spoke for themselves, and my faith in Master became even stronger.
Looking back now, I realize that this faith was based on evidence and personal experience. Digging deeper, I found that it was rooted in the fallacious doctrine long promoted by the CCP: “Practice is the sole criterion for testing truth.”
Besides these two notions, I discovered another attachment: the fear of being destroyed. When I first read Zhuan Falun, I came to understand that humanity would face a great catastrophe and those who had not obtained the Fa and cultivated well might face a terrible fate. I thought that I had to cultivate diligently to avoid this.
This attachment was fully exposed when I went to Beijing in 2000 to validate the Fa, but at the time I failed to recognize it, and it remained hidden. Because I had not done well, I felt deep regret and remorse. Just then, a thought suddenly flashed through my mind: “You no longer have the opportunity to reach consummation. You can never consummate. You will be destroyed!” I felt an enormous substance pressing down on me, like a massive mountain crushing me beneath it. I was overwhelmed by fear and despair.
Then Master sent me a thought: “Master did not teach this!” I immediately awakened and emerged from that state of fear and despair. I now understand that the old forces were testing me by targeting my fundamental attachment, the fear of being destroyed. At the time, however, I only recognized my selfishness and failed to see this deeper fundamental attachment. It remained concealed.
Later, the old forces again targeted this attachment and struck me hard, causing me to stumble badly. Only under Master’s compassionate care did I finally recognize and let go of this fundamental attachment. Only then was I finally able to emerge from the tremendous tribulation in which the old forces attempted to destroy me.
I now understand that behind my fundamental attachment of “fear of destruction” was my attachment to my own life, in other words, my attachment to self. Lives created by Dafa do not cling to the self.
I realized that although practitioners’ fundamental attachments may differ greatly, at the deepest level, they all stem from attachment to self. To eliminate our fundamental attachments, we must follow the Fa taught by Master and remove this attachment to self through cultivation.
Cultivation is a journey of returning home. But where is my home? I am a particle of Dafa. Dafa is my home. I am a particle of the Dafa (Great Fa) created by Master. I followed Master as we descended layer by layer, arriving in the human world within the Three Realms that Master established. We have endured countless hardships for the purpose of validating Dafa, saving sentient beings, and ultimately guiding them back to their true homes.
Thank you, revered Master! Thank you, fellow practitioners!
(Selected submission for the 23rd China Fa Conference on Minghui.org)