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Benefits from Cultivating
I am in my 60s and live in a rural area in northern China. I began to practice Falun Dafa in 1997. Before that, I used reading glasses for over a decade, but after one year of practicing Dafa, I could read without glasses.
I have benefited greatly from Dafa. Once my husband and I went to the field with our donkey pulling a large, heavy stone roller. On our way back, the donkey suddenly shied and started running. It ran over me and pulled the roller with it. My husband was in shock and screamed that I would die. However I got up on my feet, dusted the dirt off my clothes, and told him that I was fine.
Another time my son and I were loading wheat onto our tractor. I was on top of the wagon. When the wheat was about two meters high, my son moved the tractor forward a little bit. I lost my balance and fell to the ground. I was not hurt at all.
Everyone Must Learn the Facts about the Persecution
After the persecution of Falun Dafa began in 1999, my son and daughter, also practitioners at the time, went to Beijing to peacefully appeal for justice for Dafa. The village head and officials from the township government accused me of encouraging my children to oppose the government. Fellow villagers looked down on my children.
I knew in my heart that Dafa was good and the persecution was unjust, no matter what others thought about it. My children were illegally detained when they returned home, and persecuted. Eventually, they gave up Dafa, because of pressure from local government officials.
I have not given up. I often go with fellow practitioners to distribute informational materials and talk to people about Dafa and the persecution. I have done this for over a decade. On a snowy winter day, we went to another village. It was dark and we could not find our way. All of a sudden, a beam of light came down from the sky, and the village paths appeared in front of us. We could not find the source of the light, but we did see our shadows in the light.
When the village head found out that two practitioners were talking to people about Falun Dafa, we were arrested and first taken to the township police station, and then the county police station. The police extorted 5,000 yuan from each of our families.
A bail fee is illegal, as we did not break any law. Therefore, I went for several days in a row to talk to the police officer responsible for persecuting Falun Gong. In the end, he got mad, detained me again, and confiscated my copy of Zhuan Falun and my cellphone. I was transferred to the city detention center.
While I was detained, fellow practitioners put up banners and stickers with facts about Dafa in residential neighborhoods, including the one where that officer lived. Other practitioners made phone calls to key officers in the police station and detention center. Several practitioners prepared documents to file a lawsuit against the responsible officer for his illegal conduct.
As a result, he returned half of the money he had extorted and released me. Instead of going home, I went straight from the detention center to the police station to talk to the officer, and he finally agreed to return my cell phone, but still kept Zhuan Falun.
“Please Send Our Greetings to Master”
I met a young man at a construction site. When I gave him a Falun Dafa calendar, he said, “I know about Falun Dafa. Falun Dafa is good! Truthfulness-Forbearance-Compassion is good! Thank you, Master!”
Several of his co-workers also wanted a Dafa calendar. I gave out every single one and when I ran out, I gave them Dafa informational materials. They all got something and said to me, “Falun Dafa is good! Thank you, Master. Auntie, please send our greetings to Master.”
Once I went to a village and saw some people chatting and playing card games under the trees. I gave them a copy of Minghui Weekly and some flyers and then told them that they should quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations. When they asked me what they should do if they had never joined the CCP, I told them just to remember that Falun Dafa is good and keep a positive attitude toward Dafa.
A man who was a CCP member then joined the crowd. I talked about the disasters the CCP had brought to the Chinese people, and he agreed to quit his memberships.
“The CCP is coming to its end. It's important to know that we can be safe,” he said.
A fruit vendor in an open market accepted the Minghui Weekly, and I told him that it was a Falun Dafa newspaper. He asked me to help him quit the Youth League, which is one of the CCP organizations, and he asked for a DVD with information about Falun Dafa. Holding the newspaper and the DVD, he said loudly, “Falun Dafa is good! Falun Dafa is good!”
I shared these stories because I want to encourage myself, as well as fellow practitioners, so that we stay focused on our cultivation.
