(Minghui.org) I am a veteran Falun Dafa practitioner who had the honor of attending Master Li’s lectures multiple times in the early days.
I still recall listening to Master teaching the Fa in person and experiencing our bodies being purified. I witnessed Master miraculously heal many people suffering from intractable illnesses and critical conditions, including long-term paralysis, with just a glance or a gesture. Master truly descended to the human world to save sentient beings! Those people and their families were so moved that they knelt to express their gratitude to Master for saving their lives.
Like so many other Dafa practitioners, I have followed Master’s guidance ever since. I truly cherish my memories of the early days. Whenever I recall those days spent with our compassionate Master, tears of happiness fill my eyes.
Thirty years have flown by and my cultivation journey has been full of tribulations. During the darkest days of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) persecution, I once signed a guarantee statement and deviated from Dafa due to fear. I let Master down.
Yet, our compassionate Master never gave up on me and sent diligent fellow practitioners to help me return to cultivation—the path of becoming divine through Fa-rectification cultivation. I made up my mind from that moment on to firmly believe in Master and the Fa, keep up with the progress of Fa-rectification, and cultivate diligently to the very end. Below are a few stories from my journey.
Viewing Police Officers with Compassion
I was renovating my house in 2024, wanting to make it bright, comfortable, and stylish. As a result, I studied the Fa less and slacked off in cultivation. As my environment became more relaxed, my attachments to comfort, pleasures, and leading a good life grew.
However, Dafa cultivation is serious. Any attachments can be taken advantage of by the old forces, who are constantly watching us, waiting to exploit our slightest omissions. Danger was looming, yet I remained completely unaware.
When I returned home from grocery shopping one day, a group of police officers were waiting to illegally arrest me. They grabbed me and started dragging me toward their vehicle. Fortunately my neighbors gathered around, preventing them from taking me away. They are all good people. They know Dafa is being wronged and had already quit the CCP.
I thanked my neighbors and told them that protecting Dafa practitioners is a virtuous act of boundless merit. I assured them that they would be blessed with health and safety.
I calmly talked to the police officers, saying, “We are old acquaintances who have crossed paths so many times—we are practically old friends. You certainly aren’t the aggressive people you once were and are becoming kinder. I know some of you openly or quietly protect Dafa practitioners, which we all appreciate. Everyone has a knowing side that understands the truth. The ones who are set on destroying Falun Dafa at all costs belong Jiang Zemin’s regime, not you. Please put away your cameras; you don’t need those things here.” (Editor’s note: Jiang Zemin is the former CCP leader who initiated the persecution of Falun Dafa.)
My righteous thoughts and kind words were effective, and almost all officers began to smile. Only two of them, probably the team leaders, felt frustrated at going back empty-handed and wanted to search my home. My husband stopped them.
I continued to talk with them: “The CCP originated as a gang of thugs, a specter imported from the West. As descendants of traditional Chinese culture, we should not be the soldiers of Marx and communism. You must not blindly follow the Party, as that path leads straight to hell. Please stop persecuting Falun Dafa and Dafa practitioners. Falun Dafa is the great Buddha Fa, an upright, high-level cultivation practice that brings virtue and immense benefit to the nation and its people, with no harm whatsoever. Please remember, throughout history, no one who persecuted the Buddha Fa ever came to a good end!
“Have you heard that police, prosecutors and judges have lifelong accountability for their actions. It is tailor-made for frontline officers like you. The CCP is prepared to shirk responsibility and make you the scapegoats. You can look online to learn about the ‘Hidden Character Stone' in Guizhou Province. The stone naturally bears six characters—‘The Chinese Communist Party Will Perish.’ Heaven will eliminate the CCP and Heaven’s will cannot be defied. You must quit the CCP and its affiliated organizations, erasing the ‘mark of the beast’ to protect yourselves.”
I listed a dozen local examples of personnel in the police department, procuratorate, court system, and the 610 Office who received karmic retribution for persecuting practitioners.
I told them, “You may know some of these people and their stories. It is the CCP that harmed those people in the judicial system. I hope such karmic retribution never happens again. I hope your friends and colleagues can understand the truth, remember ‘Falun Dafa is good,’ and quit the Party. This is choosing a bright future for them and their families!”
In the end, they thanked me for my words, but said I still had to go with them to the police station. So I agreed. Once I arrived, I continued to tell them the truth about Dafa and the persecution, and to urge them to quit the CCP. Very early the next day, after 1 a.m., my family picked me up from the police station. Our compassionate Master once again saved me from being imprisoned.
Later I learned this situation was part of a city-wide coordinated campaign to harass and arrest practitioners. Over 10 practitioners in another district were arrested at the same time. Most were released that night, except two practitioners. We continued sending righteous thoughts for them and asked Master to strengthen us to rescue our fellow practitioners. We did not stop sending righteous thoughts until both of them returned home safely.
I knew in the past I would not have been able to act this way when facing personnel from the CCP’s judicial system. I had fear and resentment toward them because they had repeatedly confiscated my belongings, arrested, detained, intimidated, and tortured me, and heavily fined my family over the past two decades. All this caused me and my family deep physical and mental trauma.
Back then, I viewed this evil persecution merely as human beings persecuting other human beings, failing to realize that they were victims too. They were deceived by the CCP and manipulated by the old forces and the evil communist specter in other dimensions. Through studying the Fa, cultivating myself, and sharing experiences with fellow practitioners over the years, I gradually let go of the resentment and my compassion emerged. Now I view them with mercy.
Cherishing My Cultivation Environment
When I looked inward and evaluated myself against Master’s Fa, I discovered that I still had many human notions and attachments, such as the desire for fame, longing for a comfortable life, unwillingness to accept criticism, resentment, a complaining mentality, looking down on others, and an obsession with other practitioners’ shortcomings.
In particular, I had resentment and suspicion toward a fellow practitioner, feeling displeased with everything she did. I could not let go of this for a long time, even though I was polite to her on the surface. Such duplicity is considered wrong even for ordinary people, yet I failed to eliminate it for years, despite being a practitioner.
This practitioner and I were also work colleagues. We both cultivated Dafa, followed the same Master, and weathered tribulations together. We had risked life and death, followed Master closely, and encouraged each other to forge ahead. This is a profound and sacred bond. As time passed and the environment became more relaxed, however, estrangement and mutual suspicion gradually developed between us.
Once, I saw her talking to another practitioner and immediately assumed she was talking about me. Although I wanted to walk away, I found myself unable to control my impulses. Master taught us,
“But normally when a problem arises, if it does not irritate you psychologically, it does not count or is useless and cannot make you improve.” (Lecture Four, Zhuan Falun)
I restrained myself from arguing with her, but remained resentful in my heart. Soon I realized that I had neither looked inward nor maintained righteous thoughts. This behavior was unworthy of a veteran practitioner who attended Master’s Fa-lectures many times, and unworthy of a Dafa disciple during the Fa-rectification period. I felt deeply ashamed for letting down a good practitioner with whom I had shared life-and-death tribulations. I sincerely admitted my mistake to Master and to the practitioner in my heart.
Later when I met her, I felt she had also changed and was as friendly as ever, as if nothing had happened between us. I understood Master saw that our xinxing had improved and that we both had the desire to be diligent together, so he removed the bad substances for us.
Let us cherish our sacred bonds with other practitioners, cherish our cultivation environment, and cherish the path we have walked together. Let us be even more diligent in the final moments of Fa-rectification and return to our true home with compassionate Master.
Thank you, Master, for your compassionate salvation!
Category: Clarifying the Truth
