(Minghui.org) I am a 55-year-old female Falun Dafa practitioner who grew up in the countryside. I was born into a poor family. My mother was often ill and unable to work. Thus, I only went to school for five years, after which I returned home to farm the land. Perhaps given my family situation, I became rather introverted. As I became older, I became increasingly self-conscious, and lived each day in worry and hardship. My mother was constantly in pain due to illness and often said that she didn’t want to live anymore. To ease her worries I took on all the household chores—carrying water and soil, spraying pesticides, and doing whatever needed to be done. It was exhausting work, so I became stooped at a young age. When I became a little older, my mother began to worry as we didn’t have money to get me married.
To make a living, I left my hometown and went to southern China with other girls from the village to get a job. Over the years, I developed many ailments, including headaches, stomach problems, cholecystitis, intestinal issues, sinusitis, and more. My body was weak, and working long hours only made things worse.
Fortunately, I encountered Falun Dafa, and soon I became healthy in body and mind. My life became smooth from then on. I am deeply grateful to Master and Dafa for allowing me to bathe in the light of the Fa for these past 27 years.
Since I’m from the countryside, my jobs changed from time to time, and in recent years, I have been doing cleaning work. I often meet predestined people at work, and clarify the truth to them. In the residential complex where I’m working, initially when the owners began their renovations before moving in, there were lots of delivery workers. Sometimes when they were struggling to push their carts uphill, I would help them, and talk to them about Dafa. Most of them were honest farmers. When I told them about Dafa, many of them accepted the truth about this cultivation system.
Once, I was only five minutes away from getting off work. I saw a delivery man pushing his goods and hesitated for a bit before deciding to go help and speak with him. I said, “We ordinary people make a living through hard labor, and it’s not easy. If the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials weren’t so corrupt, we ordinary folks would all be living good lives.”
He immediately replied, “The CCP has done so many bad things.” Seeing the opportunity, I told him about Dafa and helped him withdraw from the CCP.
Another time, a delivery man came and needed to cut away the packaging around the goods he was carrying so they would fit in the elevator. But, his knife fell into a small hole by his truck, and he couldn’t get it out. I lent him my knife and also helped him retrieve his with my tools. He was very grateful. I wanted to tell him about Dafa, but he went upstairs and didn’t come down. I really regretted not talking to him about Dafa right away. Some time later, he came again with another delivery. I didn’t immediately recognize him, but he greeted me warmly and said I was a good person. I told him I practice Falun Dafa, and Dafa’s Master teaches us to be good people. I asked him to quit the CCP and its youth organizations, and he immediately agreed. He even said that if I ever came to his area to distribute truth-clarification materials, he’d help me distribute them. I thanked Master for bringing another predestined person to me.
I’ve met painters, tile workers, and other cleaners, and I try to clarify the truth to all of them. Once, one man said he was a village Party secretary. After I told him about Dafa and offered to help him quit the CCP, he told me that he wanted to use the name Guang Ming (Brightness) for quitting.
As the renovations finished, the homeowners began moving into their new homes. During my daily cleaning, I always greet them warmly. I do my job well, and they are very pleased.
At work, I sometimes developed resentment, attachment to personal gain, and feelings of unfairness, because sometimes I think that I’m doing so much while my coworkers are just idling around. I’ve even said to them, “This job isn’t supposed to be all mine.” I sometimes feel tired and unwilling to keep going. But then I remind myself that I am a cultivator, that I should always think of others first, and that enduring hardship eliminates karma. So I carry on without complaint.
Once, I was cleaning the underground garage and needed water to wash the floor. My job was to sweep the water away. A security guard would spray the water while two of us cleaners swept, but that time I had to do all the sweeping alone. It was not easy work, and even with two people it was exhausting. By the end, my arms hurt so much I could barely move them. It was almost time to get off work, and I really wanted to stop, but no one else would do it if I didn’t. Suddenly, I remembered Master’s words, “Eating bitterness treated as joy.” (“Tempering One’s Heart and Will”, Hong Yin). A miracle then happened: my arms stopped hurting immediately, and I finished the work before my shift ended.
Most residents in this complex are from rural areas who bought homes so their children could attend school in the city. Many senior people are simple and kind, but they’re less tidy, as they’re used to rural habits and often don’t clean up after themselves. The younger ones, seeking convenience, often leave packaging materials from deliveries everywhere. The management can’t control it, so it’s left for me to clean up. Though I felt upset about it, I still did it.
There’s a woman named Sun who came from her hometown to help take care of her newborn granddaughter. When she first arrived, she didn’t even know how to use the elevator buttons, so I taught her. She told me she had once had a near death experience and had actually died for a few days and then came back to life. She also said that she had many health problems and couldn’t sleep well. I said, “Let me teach you an effective method,” and I taught her to recite “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.”
She said, “I believe it, but I can’t remember it.” So I gave her a Dafa amulet that had this phrase on it, and told her to have her husband teach her to say those words.
A few days later, I saw her again. She said, “Whenever I wake up at night, I recite those words out loud, and my daughter-in-law doesn’t object. Even my granddaughter smiles when she hears it.” During the busy farming season, she went home to work the fields, and people in her village were amazed that a person once so ill could now work again!
Every time I saw her, she treated me like family, and always offered me good food. Even her young granddaughter would smile when she saw me. One time, during a strong wind, a glass window near her high-rise apartment wouldn’t close properly, and her hand got caught and badly bruised and swollen. She immediately thought of reciting, “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” Then, her hand didn’t hurt at all. Her daughter-in-law wanted her to see a doctor, but she said it was fine, and it soon recovered. Her family witnessed the miracle of Dafa. Later, I helped her husband and daughter-in-law withdraw from the CCP, too. Her husband had back pain, and once he started reciting “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good,” his condition improved.
There are so many examples like this but I can’t list them all. Each time after I clarify the truth to people, I always remind them to do good deeds. They, in turn, tell me the good things they’ve done, and I feel happy for them. I thank Master for arranging for these predestined people to come to me so they can hear and understand the truth about Dafa. As a Dafa practitioner, I will continue do the three things well.
Thank you, Master! Thank you, fellow practitioners!
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