(Minghui.org) I began practicing Falun Dafa at the end of 2005 and I am now fifty-seven years old. I’ve encountered numerous trials and tribulations over the past twenty years, a journey marked by many ups and downs. I would like to share some of my experiences and insights from my cultivation, both as a report to Master and as an exchange with fellow practitioners.
Printing Truth-Clarifying Materials for 17 Years
In 2009, I bought a small Epson printer and began visiting the Minghui website. I downloaded and printed truth-clarification materials. At first, I only made enough for me to distribute locally.
In 2013, a major local materials production site was destroyed and practitioners were arrested. I took on the responsibility of providing materials for nearby practitioners. One printer was no longer enough, so I bought a Canon printer, and later, a third printer as the demand kept increasing. Every September, when I make truth-clarification calendars, I need four printers.
For seventeen years I have maintained this materials printing site and I’ve tempered my xinxing through the work. The tasks look simple, but because they are part of my efforts to validate the Fa, they’ve offered many lessons and cultivation opportunities. When I study the Fa well, the printers run smoothly. When my mind is unsettled or selfish thoughts arise, the printers flash red and report errors. It truly feels like “before fixing the machine, one must first fix oneself.”
Over the past two years, as my xinxing improved, the printers almost never malfunction. Even when a problem appears, I can stay calm because I know that as long as my mind is aligned with the Fa, Master will show me where the issue is. Once I follow that lead, the problem will be resolved instantly. Many times, I quietly study the Fa while the printers work beside me.
Over the years, the printers I’ve used most are the Canon 2780. It’s slow, but the print quality is clear and the colors are bright. At first, I bought a vendor modified continuous-ink version. After using two of those, I bought a second-hand factory original unit and installed the ink system myself. It worked, so I continued using this second-hand machine that cost me only about 120 yuan.
Many remarkable things have happened with this second-hand printer: it could handle 160-gram photo paper without feeding issues, and it reliably produced nearly a thousand truth-clarification calendars every year. A practitioner from another area saw the finished calendars and said they looked almost professional.
Some practitioners told me I didn’t need to be such a perfectionist since it took too much effort and time, and “good enough” was fine. But my thinking has always been: as a Dafa practitioner, if I choose to do something, I must do it well. I want people who receive the materials to see something clean, beautiful, and refined, just like the image of a Dafa practitioner. This has been my guiding intention for seventeen years.
The Big Dog Was Immobilized
For over a decade, whenever I had time, I have gone out to distribute truth-clarification materials, covering every residential subdivision in the county where I live. In recent years, as many private cars are parked along the streets, I also place these materials on vehicles. Throughout this process, I have encountered several situations that were potentially risky but ultimately turned out fine.
One midday, I was placing booklets on a large truck. I clearly saw no one in the cab, but each time I tried to set the booklet on the windshield, it wouldn’t stay, and I grew anxious. Suddenly, a man sat up inside the cab, startling me.
I immediately apologized: “Sorry, I didn’t know you were inside. If I had known, I would have handed it to you directly. I practice Falun Dafa, and these are the truth. Please don’t believe the slander on TV. Dafa practitioners are good people. I hope you can learn the facts, distinguish good from evil, and choose a good future for yourself.” The driver accepted the booklet gladly, and we parted.
One afternoon about a month ago, I went to a newly developed residential subdivision to distribute truth-clarification materials. After finishing, I took an unfamiliar path that I thought was an exit, but it turned out to be a dead end.
Just as I was about to turn back, a large dog suddenly sprang out from the roadside and charged at me, barking fiercely. In that critical moment, I shouted, “Falun Dafa is good! Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good!” A remarkable thing happened. The dog froze in place and did not take another step forward.
Still shaken, I quickly left the subdivision. Thinking back, without Master’s protection, the consequences could have been unimaginable.
Over the past twenty years, no matter how much I have done to validate the Fa, I have never tallied up in my mind what I have done for Master or for Dafa. This is because I am clearly aware that my renewed life is for the sake of the Fa. With Master and Dafa being persecuted, and sentient beings being poisoned by lies, it is a Dafa practitioner’s duty to step forward without hesitation to validate Dafa and save people.
Fifteen Minutes of Righteous Thoughts Make a Difference
In recent years, I’ve often sent forth righteous thoughts for fellow practitioners struggling with severe sickness karma. I began practicing after the persecution started and I always felt that my cultivation level was lower than that of veteran practitioners and I often doubted whether my efforts really helped. But an experience earlier this year changed that perception.
The practitioner I was helping was suffering intense cancer-related pain. That morning, seven or eight practitioners had already spent two hours sending forth righteous thoughts for her, yet her condition hadn’t improved. I went to her place alone to send forth righteous thoughts in the evening. By then she had been in pain for nearly ten hours.
After about fifteen minutes, her pain suddenly eased.
At first, I couldn’t understand why my short 15-minute righteous thoughts worked when so many others and longer righteous thoughts had not. Later, I realized it wasn’t because I was more capable or cultivated better. It was because I had just met her so that I had no emotional entanglements and no negative thoughts. In that moment, my mind was completely clean and focused and this was the reason why my righteous thoughts helped.
Trusting in Master and the Fa While Facing Sickness Karma
I have gone through many trials of sickness karma, some minor, some major, since I began cultivating, but two of these instances were the longest and most difficult.
Once, I experienced difficulty urinating accompanied by a burning pain. I had to go to the restroom every ten minutes or less, making it impossible to sleep through the night. Later, I developed a high fever and an intense pain in my lower back, to the point where even turning over in bed was difficult, and I required my husband’s assistance just to get to the restroom. These symptoms persisted for three weeks before gradually subsiding, and it took six months for the symptoms to disappear completely.
Another instance of sickness karma was a headache. Without any warning, just as I got up in the morning to open the curtains, I felt a sharp, electric-shock-like pain in my left temple. The intensity was terrifying. I stood frozen in place, my heart constricting, my blood seemingly running cold, and all sound fading away. I initially thought it would pass quickly, just as I began to catch my breath, the suffocating, electric-shock pain struck again. Once, twice, three times... I watched the clock on the wall: the pain recurred roughly every three minutes, with each episode lasting half a minute.
I couldn’t sleep, day or night; I could only manage brief naps during the short intervals between the bouts of pain. I experienced “worse than death” firsthand. This condition persisted for three weeks, after which the intervals between the attacks gradually lengthened, eventually allowing me to sleep through the night. This entire ordeal lasted four months. When it finally ended, I felt as though I had been reborn.
Throughout the countless trials of sickness karma, no matter how much mental or physical suffering I endured, I never thought of going to a hospital. This is because Master has already told us,
“In cultivation one needs to eliminate karma, and that is painful. How can one increase gong comfortably? How can one otherwise remove one’s attachments?” (Lecture Six, Zhuan Falun 2014 English Edition)
Regarding the question of whether fellow practitioners in severe sickness karma should go to the hospital: I realized through studying the Fa that by choosing to go to the hospital, where you listen to doctors describe your condition as dire, and see alarming medical test reports, aren’t you essentially adding difficulty to an already difficult situation? Perhaps this is one of the reasons why some practitioners eventually passed away after they went to the hospital.
Looking back on twenty years of cultivation during the Fa-rectification period, my deepest realization is this: only by studying the Fa more, studying it well, and diligently cultivating oneself, can one focus wholeheartedly on doing the three things, eliminate interference and persecution, negate all the arrangements of the old forces, and successfully walk the path of cultivation arranged by Master.
Thank you, revered and compassionate Master!Thank you, fellow practitioners!
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