(Minghui.org) I am 53 and work as a manager at a private company. Despite the ongoing persecution, I began to practice Falun Dafa in 2008. I feel extremely lucky and cherish this opportunity.
I didn’t practice Falun Dafa to heal my illnesses, but my chronic stomach pain, sore throat, neck pain, and lumbar muscle strain went away after I began practicing. For the past 17 years I have not needed any medical attention. I joined the company I work for 17 years ago. At the time I was the oldest employee. Recently we went mountain-climbing together, and I was the first one to get to the top. I knew that Falun Dafa has kept me healthy and strong.
A lot of amazing things have happened in the past 17 years of my cultivation, and I’d like to share them with you.
Starting to Practice Falun Dafa
My husband began practicing Falun Dafa 15 months before I did. Before I started practicing, he repeatedly encouraged me to practice. I always refused. After he stopped mentioning it, I thought, “Why not give it a try?” That evening I had diarrhea. However I felt very comfortable. The diarrhea lasted a few days, and it only happened at night. During the day, I felt just fine at work. As soon as I got home, I had the runs.
Because I often overheard Master’s words when my husband studied the Fa, I knew that the diarrhea was a way Master used to cleanse my body. I asked my husband to show me how to do the exercises. When I did the second exercise—the Falun Standing Stance, I felt Falun rotating between my arms, and the energy was powerful.
At that moment, atheism had no place in my heart. I went from being an atheist to a Falun Dafa practitioner. I had no doubt that Master Li came here to offer salvation to everyone, and it was an unprecedented opportunity for me to cultivate.
At first my husband didn’t think that I should read Master’s lectures other than Zhuan Falun because he thought that I would not understand what Master said, and I’d give up practicing. In order to not argue with him, I read the lectures when he wasn’t home.
The more I studied the Fa, the more I realized that it was my responsibility to let people know about the persecution of Falun Dafa. I started a Falun Dafa informational material production site at home, and went out to distribute the materials on weekends.
Discerning Incorrect Thoughts
When I started handing out Falun Dafa materials, I didn’t know much about the old forces and how to negate their arrangement. When I went out to clarify the truth, a thought kept emerging, “If the police arrest me, I’ll fight them this way and that way....” I couldn’t stop the thoughts from coming, until I further studied the Fa.
Master said,
“Our Falun Dafa will protect students from deviating. How does it protect you? If you are a true cultivator, our Falun will safeguard you. I am rooted in the universe. If anyone could harm you, he or she would be able to harm me. Put simply, that person would be able to harm this universe.” (Lecture One, Zhuan Falun)
I knew that I must be a genuine practitioner before Master could protect me. From then on, whatever I did, I would first contemplate how a genuine practitioner would act and think in that situation. Gradually I knew that the stubborn thought of fighting the police wasn’t a practitioner's mindset, because Master never arranged for a practitioner to be arrested or to be in any dangerous situation. I should only walk the path Master arranged. The thoughts of being arrested and interrogated didn’t come from me, it was a path arranged by the old forces.
Often I reminded myself, “I don’t accept anything that doesn’t come from Master.” One time a thought emerged, “I will negate the old forces’ arrangement and I am not afraid.” At the moment I believed that it was a righteous thought. That night in my dream a bad person was chasing me. I wasn’t afraid and hid under a bridge. The person spotted me right away.
The dream made me look within. Being chased by a bad person was an arrangement of the old forces. Thinking “I am not afraid” was an everyday person’s courage, and a thought that existed after I acknowledged the existence of the persecution. An everyday person’s thought couldn’t negate the old forces’ arrangement. I needed to have faith in Master and the Fa, and fundamentally eradicate the thoughts of being arrested and persecuted – this was truly negating the old forces’ arrangement.
Following Master’s Arrangements
The thought of “walk only the path Master arranged” saved me from numerous situations.
Soon after I began practicing, my niece was accepted to a school in my city. She wanted to live with me instead of staying in her dorm room. So, after I came home from work, I had to watch my toddler, cook, do chores, and take care of my niece. This left me with very little time to study the Fa.
One day I said to Master, “I don’t know if Master arranged for my niece to stay with me. If so, I completely accept the responsibility, and I’ll fulfill my responsibility. If not, I don’t accept this arrangement.” That day my niece told me that she decided to live in the dorm.
In 2010 local practitioners decided to focus on handing out Shen Yun DVDs. For a few years we prepared the DVDs at night and handed them out on weekends when we clarified the truth to people face to face. We cut back on giving out other materials including Minghui Weekly, and eventually stopped. When I rode the bus one day, I asked myself whether it was right to stop giving out other materials.
The bus came to a stop and people started to get off. From the bus I spotted a young man carefully reading a Dafa pamphlet. He didn’t take his eyes off the pamphlet the entire time the bus was at the stop. I burst into tears. Besides feeling happy for a young man who was learning the truth, I was grateful to Master for showing me that I must continue to make these materials.
I will do my best to deliver flyers in apartment buildings, hand out flyers to people, talk to people face to face, post flyers on bulletin boards, and hang up banners. These are all ways that I can use to tell people about the persecution, and Master will arrange for different people to learn the facts through different ways.
Sometimes the old forces exploited my gaps. One Saturday afternoon in June 2013, several practitioners and I went out to deliver Shen Yun DVDs. We saw two police officers at our destination, so we began to send righteous thoughts. The officers left. We started to hand out DVDs to passersby, and things went well. I handed out all the DVDs I brought, and I took more from another practitioner. When I had the last DVD in my hand, several police officers showed up and arrested me and two other practitioners. At the police station, I decided not to follow their orders. I clarified the truth to the officers when they wanted to listen, and sent righteous thoughts when they didn’t.
I thought about what happened that day as I looked within. The scene when the officers left after we sent righteous thoughts popped up. Looking at their backs, I thought, “This place could be dangerous.” When I admitted that danger existed, it did. My incorrect thought brought danger to me. I confessed to Master in my mind, “I know that I did wrong, and I will remember this lesson and do better.” After ten days in the detention center, the three of us were released unconditionally and safely.
While we were detained, we helped 18 people quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations. I tried to talk to everyone in the cell except for the head of the cell because she was a drug dealer and I didn’t think she was a good person. One day she had a stomachache, and I thought perhaps it was a hint Master arranged for me to tell her about Falun Dafa. I whispered to her, “Sincerely recite ‘Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.’” She did, and the pain immediately stopped. Later I talked to her about quitting the CCP, and she had no problem doing so.
From this incident I saw my notion of judging people. Falun Dafa practitioners’ mission is to tell people about Falun Dafa and give them a chance to choose a good future. Master wants to save everyone.
Toward the end of the year, practitioners worked together to make next year’s calendars so that we could hand them out as we talked to people about Falun Dafa. I often handed them out on my own because I had to work on weekdays.
One day it was snowing, and there wasn’t anyone on the street. Carrying the calendars on my back on an empty street, I started to feel sorry for everyday people, “You are so lost in this world, running around for personal interest and fame, forgetting why you are really here. So sad...” Right away an old man pushing a cart appeared in front of me. I walked up to him, handed him a calendar, and talked to him about the persecution. He gladly agreed to quit the CCP. Soon after I saw a woman. I talked to her and she agreed to quit without hesitation. I met one person after another, and it didn’t take long before I handed out all the calendars.
This incident reminded me that practitioners’ state of cultivation is closely related to whether they can effectively save people. Our compassion and righteous thoughts come from the Fa. It’s important for us to study the Fa well if we want to accomplish our missions.
When COVID broke out in 2020, the lockdowns prevented practitioners from coming to my home to study with me. They were also unable to come every week to take the materials I made. I made over 800 copies of booklets regarding the pandemic. I couldn’t have given them all out in the small community I lived. I asked Master to help me get into other communities.
Because I have a job, the work permit allowed me to get in and out of my community relatively easily. Each time I carried dozens of booklets with me. As I walked along the streets, I was able to spot openings where I could easily enter other communities. I finally was able to deliver all the booklets thanks to Master’s help.
On the path of validating the Fa, I constantly felt Master’s presence. When I had doubts, I talked to Master and something would change the situation for the better. One night I went to the family housing area of a university to distribute booklets. The gates were locked and I couldn’t get in. I asked Master to help me. I heard a cough coming from the second floor of a building next to me. I knew that someone was coming downstairs and the building gate would soon be opened. I hurried to the gate and as soon as I got there, the door opened and I entered the building.
Looking back, in the last 17 years I have eliminated numerous notions and attachments in conflicts, unjust situations, and tribulations. Each test was an opportunity for me to let go of my notions. I will continue to walk well the path Master arranged for me, help Master rectify the Fa and save people. I will try my best to fulfill my mission and responsibilities.
(Selected submission for the 22nd China Fa Conference on Minghui.org)
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