(Minghui.org) I started practicing Falun Dafa (Falun Gong) in 2008, and this is the first time I have submitted a sharing article. Please kindly point out anything inappropriate.
I used to serve in the military, and had a pretty bad temper. After I was demobilized, I went back to my hometown, but couldn’t find a proper job. Driven by a strong pursuit of money, I gradually went down the wrong track and frequently engaged in unlawful activities.
A national crackdown on crime soon swept through our area, and I was sentenced to three years in prison on charges of robbery, extortion, and other crimes associated with carjacking.
I wasn’t locked up for long, as I paid more than 100,000 yuan in bribes to make the case go away and have my criminal record expunged.
Still, the sentence was a devastating blow. As well as costing me a lot of money, my wife also divorced me, so I lost my family. For a long time, I remained trapped in a state of despair, drifting through life in a daze, and thinking from time to time about how to get revenge against the system.
A few years later, I got into trouble again in a brawl that left one person seriously harmed and two others with minor injuries. I ran away to avoid being arrested, but everyone else involved got arrested.
That was how I used to be before I obtained the Fa—a typical street thug with a shady character. I had no direction, had lost hope, and had little understanding about the meaning of life.
To escape punishment, I moved to Sichuan in Southwest China, and started working for a small-scale real estate developer. As I liked keeping my hair short, I went to a barber shop almost every week. Gradually, I became quite good friends with the owner.
One day, when I went for a haircut, the owner was busy with something else, and told me to wait for him at his house. His parents were very nice and chatted with me. They talked about the chaos in society, official corruption, and the evil nature of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). They also encouraged me to quit the CCP organizations I had joined.
At first, I was somewhat resistant to what they were saying, but gradually I began to understand, and agreed to quit the Young Pioneers and the Communist Youth League I had joined years ago.
They also told me about Falun Gong, and showed me a copy of Zhuan Falun. I took the book home and started reading. By the time I finished it, I felt like I’d suddenly begun to understand the meaning of life. From that moment, I took the path of Dafa cultivation.
While reading Lecture Four in Zhuan Falun, I realized that I must refine myself from my heart. I completely gave up the idea of taking revenge against the system and began to reflect on my own life. I was horrified by my disgraceful behavior in the past.
Had I not come across Dafa, it’s hard to even imagine where I might have ended up. Most likely, I would have continued down the path of moral degeneration, ultimately ruining my own life and harming many others, too.
Dafa offered me a new life and awakened my innate kind nature, guiding me to turn over a new leaf. Thank you, Master! Thank you, Falun Dafa!
At that point, I was still a fugitive on the run. I decided not to continue living like that, and that I should make amends for the wrong things I had done. Only then, could I practice Dafa cultivation openly and with dignity.
So, I risked being arrested and went back to my hometown. It turned out that I had been sentenced to three years in prison, but was not yet listed online as a wanted fugitive. I wasn’t sure if I should turn myself in or try to find a way to resolve the situation.
Later, I thought I might give it try and see if the case could be resolved somehow. To my surprise, without much hassle, the court agreed to suspend my three-year prison sentence for two years. I knew in my heart that Master had helped me resolve the problem.
Enduring Suffering to Eliminate Karma and Purify My Body
As I started practicing during the Fa-rectification period, when the focus shifted from personal cultivation to helping to save other sentient beings, I encountered a couple of major karma-reducing tests.
The first incident happened about a year after I started practicing. One day, my left eye suddenly became very painful. I had suffered a serious eye disease when I was 12, and the doctor said I would have gone blind if the treatment had happened half an hour later.
I knew that Master was digging out the root cause of my eye disease to further purify my body. So I thought to myself: “No matter how painful this is, I firmly believe that it’s not a disease, and I’ll be able to pull through.”
The pain in my eye became so intense that I was rolling around on the floor. I gritted my teeth and endured the agony. That time, the cleansing of my body lasted a whole week. I didn’t take any medication, but when the pain stopped, my eyesight seemed much clearer.
A year later, I started having pain in my right eye, along with a headache. Again, I was rolling on the floor in excruciating pain, and could not see my hand clearly even when it was only 15 centimeters (six inches) from my face.
When the pain became unbearable, I knelt down in front of Master’s portrait and sincerely repented of my sins, saying, “Master, I have accumulated enormous karma, but it’s really hard for me to pull through this time. Please help me. I want to clarify the truth to people and help save them.”
Seeing my sincere heart, Master reduced the pain to a level I could bear. The karma-reducing process lasted two weeks. Since then, my eyes have been completely fine, with crystal-clear vision.
Clarifying the Truth to People and Helping Them Quit the CCP
Not long afterwards, my former boss in Sichuan called, asking me to give him a hand. So I went back to Sichuan and began my new journey to clarify the truth to people and help them quit the CCP organizations.
This time, he wanted me to work as his assistant, which meant I had a lot of spare time during the day. I thought this must be Master’s arrangement, and I should make the best use of this opportunity to help save more people.
Every day, I made time to distribute truth-clarification materials to people and encourage them to quit the CCP. I had no fear, and each time would carry a big bag of materials to give to all the people I met, including Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party and CDs of Shen Yun performances. I would share them wherever I went, whether in the street, in parks, on construction sites, or at traffic lights while people were waiting to cross the road. I also handed out materials to the traffic police. Later, I started to encourage people to quit the CCP organizations as well.
It’s incredible that in the past 10 or so years, I’ve never come across any danger while clarifying the truth to people. Of course, there were people who refused to quit the Party, but none of them threatened me or reported me to the police.
One year, I decided to visit my hometown. As the train was not due to leave for over two hours, I made use of the time to talk to people about Dafa and the persecution. I came across a man from my province, so we started chatting. He was a Party member and kept praising the CCP, going on about how good the situation in China was.
I realized that this was the evil at work, preventing him from learning the truth, and that I had to do something to stop it. So I replied, “Yes, but all those who are corrupt and abuse their power for personal gain are CCP members.”
The man went quiet, and then I told him about the Quit the CCP movement. He became clearheaded in the end and agreed to quit the organizations he had joined. On that trip, I helped eight people quit the CCP.
When I went back to my hometown after so many years, I started clarifying the truth to people in one village after another, regardless of the weather. If I had spare time, I would go to places a bit further away on my electric bike, or if time was tight, I would clarify the truth to people in my own township.
I often went out to clarify the truth at markets, banks, and hospitals, as well as at the local police station’s household registration office. Over the years, I estimate that I have helped well over 20,000 people quit the CCP organizations.
I am deeply grateful to Master and Falun Dafa!
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