(Minghui.org) I am a new practitioner who obtained the Fa in 2024. I would like to share my cultivation experiences to date with everyone.
Body and Mind Purified
I did not practice Falun Dafa to treat my illnesses, although I had some long-standing minor ailments such as migraines, rhinitis, hay fever, and bradycardia. Those symptoms disappeared after I started practicing Falun Dafa.
Even more miraculously, my mild facial paralysis, which developed after using a beauty device, vanished after I practiced Dafa. There was a popular Zeus beauty device marketed a few years ago. I bought one, but after a period of use, I realized that my left temple and the corner of my eye would twitch involuntarily even when I was not using the device. Each bout of twitching would last a few to a dozen seconds. At first, I thought nothing of it. Yet up to a year after I stopped using the device, my condition saw no improvement and even worsened. I did some research and learned I suffered from mild facial paralysis. At this point, I had started practicing Falun Dafa. Although I had not intended to seek a cure for my condition, this facial paralysis disappeared without me noticing. I only remembered about my earlier condition while writing this article.
Before obtaining the Fa, I cared about my appearance very much, especially my face, which began sagging as I aged. After I started practicing Falun Dafa, I gradually stopped paying attention to my looks. Sometimes I would forget to apply skincare products after washing my face, or I would skip applying face masks because it was better to spend time studying the Fa. After a while, I noticed my face had become fuller, as though I had gone back to my twenties, but even prettier. One day, a fellow practitioner said to me, “I feel like your face has become plumper. It looks better than before.” I replied, “Yes, my cheeks and nose had sunk due to loss of collagen, but now they’re plump again.”
Master has said,
“On a lighter note, young ladies always like to use cosmetics and want to make their complexions fairer and better. I would say that if you truly follow a cultivation practice of mind and body, you will naturally achieve that goal. It is guaranteed that you won’t need to use cosmetics.” (Lecture Five, Zhuan Falun)
I can personally attest that this is true. The beauty effects from cultivating Dafa are truly amazing—far superior to any conventional treatments that use radiofrequency and other technologies.
I used to suffer from severe hay fever. Others might experience itchy eyes and sneezing, but I would suffer from terrible headaches, which were so bad I could hardly move! My husband was taking some leftover herbal medicine for his hay fever this spring when he suddenly asked me, “Don’t you have hay fever too?” I replied, “Yes, but didn’t I tell you that I haven’t had it for these past two springs since I started practicing Falun Dafa? The medicine you’re taking are my leftovers.”
My husband had not supported my practicing Falun Dafa and had refused to believe anything I said about the practice. Facing evidence that the benefits of practicing Dafa are indeed real, he kept quiet.
Changes in My Son and Daughter
My son was a difficult child to raise, crying often to the point of hysteria. Gentle persuasion or harsh punishment had no effect. His father tried to curb his crying by scolding and hitting him, causing chaos at home every day.
After I obtained the Fa, I used the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance to educate our son, and he became incredibly easy to manage. His father had initially opposed my decision to cultivate and was even more opposed to having our children cultivate with me. As I cultivated myself, he saw how the practice changed me for the better and he began to turn a blind eye. I started teaching my son to recite poems from Hong Yin, explaining to him Master’s teachings when we faced issues in life. I started noticing that his father was also listening attentively.
My son is absolutely fascinated by Falun Dafa. Now, whenever his father works upstairs, he plays Master’s lectures and Dafa music on a small speaker downstairs. He even listens to exercise music while doing his homework or playing. He told me, “I like everything about Dafa. When I grow up, I won’t get married. I’ll spend all my money on Dafa books.”
My son strongly believes in Master and the Fa. I fell one day, and failed to think of Dafa at first. Only after getting up and realizing I could not move my arm did I start worrying about doing the exercises the next day. In an instant, my bones started cracking and I could move my arm again. When my son learned about this, he was very surprised: “You didn’t remember? I never forget Dafa when I’m playing. In my dreams, I even recite ‘Falun Dafa is good!’” I was ashamed that I am not even at the level of this young practitioner! He often tells me how he uses Dafa to guide himself while interacting with friends, increasingly displaying the demeanor of a Dafa disciple.
Compared to my son, my daughter was easy to raise and obedient. Yet after my son’s issues were solved, I began noticing particularly prominent problems in my daughter. For example, my daughter displayed extreme jealousy of others. This human behavior was so difficult to eliminate, it took almost a year of effort on my part before she began to improve. As her jealousy decreased, she became more and more beautiful. One’s appearance truly reflects one’s inner state!
My daughter cares a lot about her father’s opinion, so his opposition to our practicing Falun Dafa has caused her much sorrow. My daughter once said to me, “Mom, I wish Dad was also a Dafa disciple.” Actually, her father had already improved a lot from his initial severe opposition to Falun Dafa. I told my daughter, “Dad is an ordinary person. Ordinary people value tangible benefits. He will practice if the three of us show him that practicing Dafa can bring him benefits!”
Cooperating with Other Practitioners to Clarify the Truth
After clarifying the truth over the past few months, I realized Chinese people are easily scared. They refuse to believe in the kindness of Dafa practitioners, reacting to us with defensiveness, disdain, and fear. Nowadays, when participating in truth-clarification events, I encourage them to look at the display boards themselves for a start, so they understand what I am doing. I then head over and try to say a few words. When they seem hesitant, I back off, giving them time to regroup and think. Sometimes I am given an opportunity to return and explain things in depth, and sometimes fellow practitioners step in to continue explaining. And sometimes these people leave without giving us an opportunity to explain further. Most people fail to understand the truth after just one encounter. It requires multiple rounds of interaction, with people absorbing information from practitioners here and there, before they eventually understand enough to withdraw from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations. Clarifying the truth is not a one-off attempt, and a single person’s withdrawal is the result of persistent cooperation from many Dafa disciples.
Our regular truth-clarification spot in Akihabara is in front of the Chow Tai Fook store, where many buses with tourists from China arrive each day.
I remember one occasion when it was just I and another practitioner clarifying the truth. We encountered quite a few tourists that day: a large group standing at the store entrance and even more sitting on benches opposite the store. Some were even standing in the aisle. I felt slightly dizzy just looking at this crowd, so I held up my truth-clarification sign and looked around. I noticed the younger fellow practitioner holding her sign and talking to several people. I immediately went over, started sending forth righteous thoughts, and held up my own sign. As her voice grew louder, the previously noisy crowd quietened down and everyone started listening attentively. When this practitioner talked about the goodness of Falun Gong, I flipped open a copy of Minghui Weekly and showed the crowd a description of the flag of United States flying over the U.S. Capitol in honor of Mr. Li Hongzhi. When she talked about the CCP’s state-sanctioned forced organ harvesting, I opened my copy of The Epoch Times to the article of Xi Jinping [head of the CCP], President Putin of Russia, and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un discussing organ transplantation in front of Tiananmen Square during a military parade on September 3, 2025. I usually distribute all copies of The Epoch Times in Ueno and come to Akihabara empty handed, but I happened to have a copy with me that day, which I believe was prearranged.
Our audience standing in front of the store listened attentively and even carefully examined the articles I held up. When this fellow practitioner started showing signs of exhaustion, I quickly took over. After a while, she recovered and resumed speaking. I turned around and began showing my display boards and newspapers to the row of people seated on the bench behind me. By then I felt that most of them had grasped the truth. But if the first person I approached refused to renounce their membership in the CCP and its affiliated organizations, it would create a psychological barrier for the rest. Moreover, their bus would be arriving soon. I quickly thought of a solution and told them to write their names on slips of paper or bills, or to privately contact Falun Gong practitioners to renounce their memberships. As soon as I finished speaking, their tour guide led them away. This fellow practitioner and I exchanged smiles. We both felt we had achieved excellent results, and the entire group seemed to have understood what we said.
Happily Saving Sentient Beings
When there are enough fellow practitioners at the truth-clarification site, I head to another site in Ueno to distribute materials. Ueno is visited by many tourists from around the world, so I keep many different kinds of materials on hand to distribute, including Falun Dafa books in Japanese and English, The Epoch Times in Japanese and Chinese, Japanese Gan Jing World flyers, Chinese Minghui Weekly publications, and Chinese “Wishing You Peace” periodicals. I need to select the most suitable materials for the person I’m interacting with within seconds and hand it to them. My regular distribution spot was at a busy intersection, which was slightly chaotic with people coming from all directions. It was basically impossible to walk back and forth while distributing materials, so I just sent forth the righteous thought: “May those who are destined to be saved approach me to take the materials.”
One day while distributing materials, I suddenly felt a profound sense of motherly love while observing the people walking before me. Regardless of their age, face, or skin color, these people seemed like children before my eyes. My spirits rose as I distributed materials, and some people even waited patiently for me to hand them materials, like children eagerly awaiting candy. Even my Japanese Falun Gong materials, which were usually unpopular, saw good uptake.
Sometimes, despite encountering many passersby, nobody takes my materials. Knowing that the evil forces are causing trouble, I send forth righteous thoughts to eliminate them. Sometimes my righteous thoughts feel like a sword, firmly pinning down the evil and rendering it immobile. Sometimes my righteous thoughts feel like a large net or transparent shield, constantly purifying my surroundings. After sending forth righteous thoughts for a while, people start accepting the materials again.
Whenever I distribute materials, I think of Master’s words,
“Even when in your daily life you pass by people so quickly that you don’t have a chance to talk to them, you should still leave them with your compassion and kindness.” (“Fa Teaching Given at the 2003 Atlanta Fa Conference,” Collected Teachings Given Around the World Volume IV).
Regardless of whether people accept our materials or not, I always distribute flyers with a smile. This has led some who were initially reluctant to reconsider and accept a flyer after all.
Once, a person who seemingly had some understanding of Dafa, declined to take the materials I offered to him. I smiled as I watched him walking away, only to have him suddenly turn around and gaze at my smiling face with a stunned expression. Just then, someone else walking by caught my attention, and I quickly turned around to hand that person some materials. A while later, the first person came back, took an English flyer from me, then asked if I had a copy of Zhuan Falun on hand. After I told him where he could find and read it online for free, he happily left.
I also run into some Chinese people in Japan. Initially wary of Falun Gong, they often turn down the materials. But after approaching and chatting with them like normal friends, they are happy to take a copy to read.
Although I had not obtained permission to distribute materials at Ueno, I remained unafraid of the police there. Often, four or five officers would walk past me in a row, silently moving on as though I was not there. There were plainclothes policemen in Ueno, but I would see one or two observe me for a few minutes, before leaving without saying anything. They probably knew what I was doing, but since I was not bothering anyone, they did not ask me to leave.
Regardless of their background or profession, I will try to save all people, because Master told us to do so.
Concluding Remarks
After obtaining the Fa, I have come to realize that cultivation is a continuous process that requires constant effort throughout one’s life. Besides clarifying the truth, practicing the exercises, and studying the Fa, our every action, interpersonal interaction, and even our dreams can be considered cultivation.
During the summer break, I stayed home to take care of my children for more than a month. I was unable to go out to clarify the truth, yet I found myself clarifying the truth in my dreams, sometimes with a greater degree of clarity than when I was awake. I even remembered the alias I gave to those who agreed to withdraw from the CCP.
My last dream had me standing beside a bus near the beach. I was clarifying the truth to those queuing to board the bus, when the desire “not to speak” arose in my mind. However, my mouth kept moving and no one withdrew from the CCP. When the bus drove away, leaving the beach deserted, I felt a little lost. I realized this was a dream, calmly sat down to meditate, and instantly realized Master was enlightening me—do not be attached to the results, just speak. Opportunities are limited and when it is truly over, you will be the one who is regretful.
I sometimes have felt reluctant to speak but have encouraged myself to start by saying “hello.” This forces me to continue, as I cannot say “hello” and remain silent.
I do not keep track of the number of people whom I have persuaded to withdraw from the CCP. Rather, I focus on delivering my best when clarifying the truth. I juggle the work and family commitments of ordinary society, while using my spare time to save people. Sometimes, I feel Master is giving opportunities and sacrificing himself to help disciples like me who want to cultivate but have not done enough. I feel really anxious, having started late, so I must try my best to catch up!
I recall a memorable experience while heading to a large group Fa study session. I had spent the day rushing to finish my work, complete the housework, help my children with their homework, cook dinner, and settle everything before leaving home. Yet just as I was about to leave, my daughter suddenly started crying and I had to comfort her. I left later than expected and missed my scheduled tram. The wind was so strong that day, it felt like my scalp was being flayed as the wind threatened to dislocate my head. Every step was arduous, but I fought my way to the platform. I arrived just in time to board the tram and found many vacant seats. It turned out all the trams had been delayed due to strong winds, and the tram I boarded had been scheduled to leave much earlier. I had arranged to meet up and travel to the Fa study session with another practitioner. Coincidentally, I ran into her on that same tram. We sat and she shared with me the various obstacles she had encountered that day. We both realized the difficulties of cultivation. Cultivation requires constant diligence and relentless striving throughout life. Even when hope seems lost, one cannot give up, because you do not know what awaits you until the very last stage. Yet as long as we believe in Master and the Fa, Master will surely bring us unexpected blessings.
I often remind myself that cultivation is similar to the ordeal I faced. My struggles to get up early for exercises each morning, the desire to take a break from truth-clarification work, the battle between my righteous and demonic thoughts, the constant efforts to focus during Fa study—are all steps forward against the strong winds. Yet one should cast aside these obstacles and just keep moving forward on this path to glory.
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