(Minghui.org) I’m 93 years old and started practicing Falun Dafa (Falun Gong) in August 1997. I have suffered numerous hardships to find this righteous way. As a Dafa disciple in the Fa-rectification period, I consider myself to be one of the luckiest lives in this universe.
My motivation to begin the practice was to improve my health. I used to suffer from several illnesses, including pulmonary tuberculosis, pleurisy, myocarditis, and rheumatoid arthritis. Due to the side effects of various medications, I suffered greatly. I could neither afford to die nor manage to live and just wanted to wait out my final days.
One Sunday morning in August 1997, I decided to go to a park to get some fresh air. While I sat on a bench, I noticed a group of people exercising. A man came over and asked me, “Do you want to join us?” I asked him what type of practice they were doing and if it could improve one’s health. He replied, “This is Falun Gong, a high-level Buddhist practice, and it has a miraculous effects in improving health. Even some cancer patients have regained their health!”
I decided to join them in and later bought the book Zhuan Falun. In the following days, I also purchased The Great Way of Spiritual Perfection. Every morning, I studied the Fa, and did the Dafa exercises with practitioners. My moral level (xinxing) was elevating, and my health was improving as well. Within three months, all my illnesses disappeared, and I finally experienced what it felt like to be illness-free.
Master Li saved me! Dafa saved me! I couldn’t have been happier. I was on the verge of death but was now full of hope.
Letting People Know the Truth About Dafa
At the beginning of the persecution, I put up truth-clarification banners and posters to let people know the truth about Dafa and dispel the lies and propaganda put out by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). I then started delivering materials to homes and, subsequently, began talking to people face-to-face.
After sending forth righteous thoughts one morning, I went to a market to shop and tell people about Dafa. I wanted to buy some green beans, so I grabbed a bunch and put them in my bag. The woman selling the beans was surprised, “Why aren’t you picking through them like most people? You can do the same.”
I replied, “If I pick out all the big ones, how are you going to sell the small ones left over? I’m a Falun Dafa practitioner. My Master teaches us to think of others in any situation and always be a good person.”
I then took the opportunity to tell her the truth about Falun Dafa and helped her quit the CCP and its affiliated organizations. I proposed using a pseudonym, but she responded, “No! I want to use my real name to quit.” I was very pleased and handed her a Dafa amulet and some materials. Before I left, I told her, “Please remember ‘Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.’ It will bring you divine blessings and protection.”
Another morning, I went out for grocery shopping and saw an older man sitting on a concrete slab by the roadside. He looked like a retired official. I approached him and started a conversation.
He told me he had a son and a daughter. They were both married with children. He and his wife lived by themselves. He complained that young people nowadays did not care about the elderly, unlike when he was young.
I replied, “The children today are all the same because the moral level of the entire society has declined. Corrupt officials are everywhere. The country’s leader is like this, so even his subordinates are doomed.”
I then told him the truth behind the staged Tiananmen Square self-immolation in 2001 and the current CCP’s forced organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners. I said, “The CCP is now killing Falun Gong practitioners for profit. And now our children might even be killed for their organs. The CCP never treats people like human beings. During the pandemic, we were forced to take vaccine test samples, like mice in a laboratory. The CCP has no bottom line when it comes to doing bad things. Isn’t that evil?”
He did not totally agree with me and argued that the CCP gives us our pensions. I replied, “That’s our taxpayers’ money. If you didn’t contribute your wages, you won’t get any pension. How come the beggars on the street don’t have pensions? The salaries of the CCP officials also come from our taxes. You should quit the CCP to ensure your safety. So when the CCP is eliminated by heaven, you’ll have nothing to do with it. Don’t be its scapegoat!” He understood and agreed to quit.
When we parted, he exclaimed: “Today, I finally see through the CCP’s lies. Thank you!”
“No need to thank me,” I replied. “You can thank my Master. He asks us to tell people the truth and help save them.”
“Then I thank your master, and I thank you too.”
Cultivating Away Self-interest
During the COVID pandemic, some practitioners planned to store food for emergencies. One practitioner told me that her neighbor could buy good-quality rice from the countryside. I told her I wanted to buy vacuum-packed small-grain rice. She said she could take care of it and also mentioned she had a place to store the grain.
When she brought the rice over to me, the vacuum bag had lost its seal. I then opened it and saw that the grains were a mix of small and big ones, with dead and living rice weevils. I said to the practitioner, “If I were your boss, I would fire you.” The practitioner replied, “Should I tell my neighbor?”
“No need. I will take care of this.” I was not happy, but thought I should study the Fa and look within for my own shortcomings.
I spent a lot of time studying Master’s new articles for several days. I then thought that it was a good thing for this to happen. It helped me recognize my attachment to self-interest.
I also realized I did not cultivate my speech. I should not say, “If I were your boss, I would fire you.” I behaved like an everyday person instead of like a practitioner. I realized Master used this incident to help me improve and was able to calm down.
I sincerely thank Master for his careful arrangements. I am determined to be more diligent in cultivating my heart and speech and safeguard the Fa with righteous actions. I will treasure the precious time Master has extended for us to cultivate, walk well on my path, and return with him to my heavenly home.
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