(Minghui.org) Although my cultivation experiences are relatively plain, Master’s great efforts and compassionate protection have helped me walk on my cultivation path smoothly up to today. He has endured immeasurable suffering and put in painstaking efforts in my cultivation.

I started practicing Dafa in 1998, when I was only 31 years old. At that time, I often had a sore throat and felt like I had something like a fish bone stuck in my throat. I also had a prickly, itchy feeling in my lower body. Taking medicine didn’t help. An elderly lady saw that I was a frowning all day and said, “Come and learn Falun Gong. This practice is very good.” Only a week after I learned it, my throat miraculously no longer felt blocked, and my lower body was no longer itchy.

Before I started practicing, I didn’t care much about personal gain. After I started practicing, I cared even less about it. I followed Dafa’s principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance in everything I did to be a good person. When I interacted with my relatives and friends, I’d rather suffer losses than take advantage of others.

Before practicing Falun Gong, I was gentle on the surface but carried grudges in my heart. After I started practicing, I followed Master’s teachings and treated people nicely. I was friendly with the other merchants around me and clarified the truth to people I came across at the market. No one ever reported me. Other practitioners also came by to drop off truth-clarification materials, distribute copies of Minghui Weekly magazines, and spend paper currency bills with truth-clarification messages printed on them.

When another practitioner once brought me some Dafa materials, the market manager came by, and I was shocked. I wondered what was going on. He had never come here before. I became afraid but then thought: I am doing the most righteous thing, and Master is protecting me. The evil is not allowed to interfere. As a result, he looked at my stall and said, “Clean the ground” and left. From then on, I often sent forth righteous thoughts to eliminate any evil interference.

A man on a motorcycle stopped in front of my stall and looked at me. He then stopped his motorcycle at the store doorway to my left and kept watching me. I thought, “You do your thing, but what I do has nothing to do with you.”

As I was reading a Dafa book at my stall one day, a butcher passed by and asked me if I was reading that book (referring to Zhuan Falun). Someone else who passed by said, “You read Falun Gong books? I’m going to report you.” I replied, “Don’t say those things. This is a book that teaches people to be good.”

When I explained the truth to an elderly woman, she said, “Don’t hit back when attacked, or talk back when insulted, and be a good person according to Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. Who is able to do that?” I replied, “Only Dafa practitioners can do that.”

I also read Zhuan Falun out loud at the stall, and the person in the stall next to me once said, “What the book says is good!” One stall owner sometimes wanted to use my tricycle, but I didn’t feel comfortable lending it out to them. I then thought, “I am a cultivator and should not be petty. This is a good opportunity to validate Dafa.” So I brought the tricycle over and told the stall owner, “You can use it!”

Over the years, under Master’s compassionate protection, there has never been a safety problem. A fellow practitioner often reminded me that the market is a very important place, as it is a very convenient place for practitioners to communicate with each other, and for us to save sentient beings. I knew I needed to build good relationships with the people around me. One neighboring vendor sometimes took my things when I was away from my stall. I let it go and didn’t take it to heart. I realized from Master’s teachings that perhaps I owed her in the past, and I was paying it back in this life.

More than 20 years ago, my sister-in-law and I bought a home in the provincial capital together. The provincial capital later expropriated the land and the home, and we received 680,000 yuan in compensation. but my sister-in-law didn’t give me any of it. At first, I couldn’t let it go, and I kept thinking about the money. I run a small business, and this is a considerable amount of money to me.

The strange thing is that every time I mentioned that I should get part of the money, I would fall down. But through Fa study, I realized that Master was enlightening me that I should not take any money. Maybe I owed it to my sister-in-law. I let it go completely and never asked my sister-in-law for the money again.

These are my personal cultivation experiences. If there is anything that does not conform with the Fa, please kindly point it out. Thank you, Master, for your compassionate salvation!