(Minghui.org) I began practicing Falun Dafa in 1997, as a young student, and I am now middle-aged. My 29-year-long cultivation journey has taken me from a state of curious exploration to one of rational understanding. I have deeply experienced the the extraordinary nature and beauty of Dafa. The joy of obtaining the Fa inspires me to share the truth about Dafa with family, friends, colleagues, and classmates. I hope they can also understand the true meaning of life and purpose of being a human.
Obtaining the Fa Brought Me Great Joy
The happiest time of my life was when I first obtained the Fa. In the morning at our college campus, I practiced the exercises on the field with the peaceful music, along with fellow practitioners. We studied the Fa in the evening. After returning to my dorm, I shared my experiences of practicing Dafa with fellow practitioners, classmates, and teammates. I also wrote letters to teachers and classmates far away, to introduce them to Dafa. I was filled with pure joy at that time.
Another practitioner and I found a copy of Zhuan Falun at a Xinhua bookstore near the campus, but we had no idea where the practice site was in our area. When we were about to give up, we miraculously located the person in charge of a practice site at a large factory three miles away. From then on, we walked to the city practice site every weekend and participated in group Fa-study, the exercises, and experience sharing. In winter the temperature often went below -15°C (near 0°F), but when we practiced the exercises in a circle, we didn’t feel the cold at all. It was the opposite; we felt a surge of warmth throughout our bodies, experiencing the wondrous nature of Dafa.
I returned to my hometown during the winter school break and learned that my parents had also begun to practice Dafa around the same time, and many practice sites had been established in my hometown. Our whole family gathered around the stove to study the Fa. Bathed in the radiance of the Dafa, we were filled with boundless joy. These beautiful memories remain vivid to this day.
In the early stages of my cultivation, I felt Master adjusting my body; I felt the Falun vigorously spinning at my forehead and lower abdomen. Many of my chronic illnesses, such as stomach trouble and insomnia, vanished without any medication. I was full of energy while studying. Dafa’s principles gradually changed my values and outlook on life, transforming me from being sensitive and aloof, to being sincere, kind, and tolerant. It inspired me to strive to become a better person.
Firmly Cultivating Dafa While Facing Persecution
The Jiang Zemin faction launched a brutal and frenzied persecution of Falun Dafa on July 20, 1999. Because I had not studied the Fa deeply and still had strong human attachments, coupled with my father being persecuted to death, I got lost in an abyss of pain, confusion, and despair.
However, compassionate Master never gave up on me. In early 2000, I came across a young fellow practitioner on a bus. With help from him and other practitioners, I saw through Jiang Zemin’s defamation and conspiracy against Dafa due to jealousy. I sent forth a firm thought, “I will firmly cultivate Dafa and never betray it!”
With Master’s strengthening, I kept moving forward on my cultivation path, although I stumbled along the way. I endured ridicule and insults from society, was arrested and taken to a detention center multiple times, was forced to leave home to avoid persecution, and was harassed by police and officers from the 610 Office. However, I kept Master’s teaching firmly in mind:
“Be resolute cultivating Dafa, the mind unstirredAscending in levels is what’s fundamentalFaced with tests, a person’s true character is revealedMay you achieve Consummation—Buddha, Dao, or God”(“True Character Revealed” The Essentials of Diligent Progress II)
By keeping this teaching rock-solid in my mind, and with Master’s protection, I have made it to today.
Negating the Old Forces Arrangements and Clarifying the Truth to Save People
Early in the persecution, practitioners in my hometown were relatively isolated and had limited technical resources, so their efforts to go out to clarify the truth to people were insufficient. Then, under Master’s arrangement, I got in touch with fellow practitioners in my hometown and set up a small materials production site in 2023. We rented an apartment and used very simple equipment to make truth clarification DVDs, such as Through Wind and Rain, False Fire, etc. Then late at night and at dawn, we distributed these materials to schools, residential communities, rural areas, factories, mines, and government agencies. We did this despite wind, frost, rain, and snow.
Danger was always averted under Master’s protection. One night at 2 a.m., I had just finished distributing truth-clarification materials in a residential compound for prison guards, and had just stepped out of the complex when I spotted two police officers smoking and chatting around the corner. I sent forth righteous thoughts as I walked past them, and they did not even see me. I knew that Master was protecting me.
As a college student, I took advantage of my free access to the campus to clarify the truth there. I printed the Dynamic Network URL (to break through the Internet blockade in China) onto small slips of paper and put them on a job posting board and dorm entrance. I wrote, “Air is free, water is free—why can’t the Internet be?” on paper and encouraged students to bypass the firewall to learn the truth. Gradually, “Bypass the Great Firewall” became a trend among the college students. More and more young people started to discuss the truth behind events like the “Tiananmen Square self-immolation.”
I maintained a pure mindset during those few years, diligently studied the Fa, and sent forth righteous thoughts every day, focusing on saving people. Although I encountered danger many times, I got through it with Master’s strengthening, and I reconnected with several lost fellow practitioners. I also passed the intermediate-level accountant examination. All of this served to lay a foundation for clarifying the truth in the future.
Cultivating Oneself Well is the Foundation for Clarifying the Truth
I worked at a company in southern China to avoid persecution after I was identified as a practitioner. I resigned on New Year’s Day in 2003, to go to Tiananmen Square in Beijing to validate Dafa. My manager was reluctant to let me go, and didn’t understand why I was leaving. I explained the truth about Jiang Zemin’s persecution of Dafa and shared my own cultivation experiences. My manager understood the truth, and said, “If you can return safely, the company’s doors will always be open to you.” I was truly impressed by his response.
Another incident from many years ago also deeply moved me. Once, while passing by the school’s sewage pit and seeing it was clogged, I rolled up my sleeves and cleared the clogged drain. Afterward, I told my classmate, “If I weren’t a Dafa practitioner, I wouldn’t have done that; it was Master who taught me to be a good person.” It was at that moment, that my classmate truly believed that Falun Dafa was good.
In my work and daily life, I adhere to the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance. I try to treat others with kindness, remain unmoved by losses, work diligently without regard for personal gain or loss, and help my colleagues and friends. Their positive responses helped me clarify the truth about the persecution to them in person. While working at a company affiliated with a prestigious university in Beijing, I helped the company save about two million yuan by researching tax policies, thereby earning the respect of my colleagues. This made my truth clarification efforts more persuasive, leading many people to understand the evil nature of the CCP and accept the truth about Dafa.
When I was arrested again, police from the Domestic Security Division visited my workplace. My colleagues spoke up for me, and they helped my family during that hardship. After I was released from prison, my supervisors asked me to return to work. These experiences made me realize that cultivating myself well was the foundation for truth clarification.
Looking back at my 29 years of cultivation, I have gone from being naive to being steadfast, and from confused thinking to clarity. Dafa’s principles helped me to understand the meaning of life. Master’s compassion guided me through perilous situations. I will continue to cultivate myself well, and clarify the truth with sincerity and kindness. This is to help more people discover the beauty of Falun Dafa, step out of the fog of lies, and embrace a bright future.
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