(Minghui.org) I started practicing Falun Dafa with my mother in 1996, when I was six years old. Every morning and evening, dozens of people from the village did the exercises and studied the Fa together at my home. I recall that whenever a new practitioner joined, I took the initiative to help them correct their exercise movements. It was then that the seeds of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance began to take root in my heart.
My mother temporarily stopped cultivating after the persecution began in 1999. But every day after school, I went to my grandmother’s house without telling my parents. I studied the Fa with my grandmother, and she taught me to recite Hong Yin, and told me about the news she read on the Minghui.org website. She also took me with her to distribute truth-clarification materials. Once, when my grandmother and I were distributing materials, we saw that the streetlight at the east end of the village was on. I thought to myself, “It would be great if this light went out. Otherwise, how can I distribute materials?!” Just as I thought this, the streetlight went out, and my grandmother and I distributed the materials successfully.
After entering junior high school, I stayed in the school dormitory in town and went home once a week. Every Sunday, as I returned to school, I first went to a fellow practitioner’s home in town, gave him the pocket money I had saved from the previous week to help with the materials production site, and picked up some truth-clarification materials for me and my grandmother. At night, after my classmates went to bed, I snuck out to distribute the materials.
When I was in my second year of junior high school in 2005, my grandmother told me that Minghui.org was now encouraging people to quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its youth organizations. After a fierce ideological struggle, I went to school to tell my homeroom teacher that I wanted to quit the Youth League (one of the CCPs youth organizations). The teacher threatened to tell my parents, and said I wouldn’t be admitted into high school. I was unmoved and insisted on quitting. The teacher then directed me to the Youth League secretary, and my request was finally accepted. It was not until I went to high school that I realized they had not withdrawn my membership in the Youth League. Thinking back, I was able to smoothly pass through tribulations one after another, with just my pure and determined heart. Master has always been protecting me!
I went home once a month after I started high school in 2007. As always, I went to my grandmother’s house to hear her talk about the current situation of Fa-rectification. I knew I needed to clarify the truth to people and help them quit the CCP, so I told my roommates about Dafa and the persecution, and helped them quit. At the same time, my environment for studying the Fa improved. After school, I could study the Fa without concern about my classmates.
I once clarified the truth to a bookstore owner who had experienced the Tiananmen Square massacre. The owner agreed with my words and told me to be careful. I sat by the window in the classroom and could see the bookstore. During afternoon class, I heard sirens there. I thought the owner had called the police. I was scared, and kept silently reciting “What’s There to Fear” from Hong Yin:
“If you have fear, they will grab youOnce your thought is righteous, evil will collapsePeople practicing cultivation, filled with FaSending righteous thoughts, exploding rotten ghostsGods are in the world, validating Fa”(“What’s There to Fear,” Hong Yin II)
I was admitted to a university in the provincial capital in 2010, and lost my Fa study environment. I felt extremely depressed and didn’t know what to do going forward. In my sophomore year, my aunt, who was also a practitioner, took me to a Fa study group. From then on, I felt that I had finally found a harbor in this strange city. I didn’t have to practice alone any longer. Many of the practitioners there had attended Master’s Fa teachings in person, and I was extremely envious when I heard them tell stories about those times. I started to study the Fa with the group.
In my senior year, I had not studied the Fa for a long time, and had a girlfriend who was not a practitioner. I became deeply involved in the relationship and could not extricate myself from the love between a man and a woman. I once had a dream where a horse was running toward a cliff. After waking up, I realized that if I did not stop the horse, it would go off the cliff and fall to the bottom. After getting up, I went to the Fa study group to discuss this matter with the other practitioners. The practitioners shared their understandings based on the Fa and helped me to understand some fundamental principles of Dafa. After studying the Fa in the group for a week, my righteous thoughts became stronger and stronger. I then broke up with my girlfriend. A week later, I successfully found a job at a joint venture. Everything fell into place when my understandings were based on the Fa.
I went alone to work in a city thousands of miles away in 2014. In order to have a good environment for cultivation, I rented a house without heating and air conditioning near the company, instead of living in the dormitory assigned by the company. With the money I saved by living without heat and air conditioning I bought a printer, and began to make truth-clarification materials myself and distributed them on my bicycle. The room temperature was only 8 degrees Celsius (46F) in winter and could reach 32 degrees (90F) in the summer. I was very happy despite the loneliness and harsh environment.
In my spare time, I visited the “hidden character stone” that was deep in the mountains of Guizhou Province, climbed Mount Tai in Tai’an, visited Yanmen Pass in Shanxi, Yue Fei’s hometown in Tangyin, Wu Xun’s hometown in Guanxian, and tried my best to go to the places Master had visited.
After practicing alone for several years, I felt lonely, adrift, and helpless. I needed a cultivation environment, and hoped to find a fellow practitioner to be my wife. I flew back to my hometown many times to communicate with the practitioners there. Through studying the Fa, I realized that my foundation must be correct, and that everything depends on Master’s arrangement. After returning to my workplace, I received a job offer from a joint venture company in my hometown, and at the same time, I met a girl from my hometown. As long as the practitioner’s foundation is right, everything will go smoothly.
Before leaving the place where I had lived for four years, I wanted to clarify the truth about Dafa to all the people there. So I told my colleagues about the beauty of Dafa and other things, leaving no regrets!
I returned to my hometown to work in 2018. I joined the Fa study group in my hometown and married my girlfriend. Two years later, we had a baby. We have more responsibilities now, as we need to guide our young Dafa practitioner child, while also cultivating ourselves.
After returning to my hometown, my work went very smoothly, but I have been constantly tested about attachments to power and fame, and the temptation of money at work.
My wife and I are Dafa practitioners, and we attend a group Fa study every week. I also want to catch up with the progress of Fa-rectification and start reciting the Fa.
The above are my cultivation experiences over the years. I wrote this article to share with practitioners who may be experiencing similar things. As long as a practitioner’s foundation is correct, Master will give them everything they deserve.
Back then, we were young Dafa practitioners with the same aspirations. We were fortunate to come to the human world when Dafa was first spread. We brought with us the sincere hope of all sentient beings. We should fulfill our responsibilities as Dafa practitioners during the Fa-rectification period.
I am extremely grateful for Master’s compassion and salvation! We must do the three things well, assist Master, and walk the righteous path of Dafa disciples!
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