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A Nun Becomes a Practitioner and Validates Dafa
(Clearwisdom.net) I met this legendary nun practitioner during an
experience sharing conference in October 2003. I had heard about the magic
course of her obtaining the Fa a long time ago. After several years' practicing
in Dafa and benefiting from Dafa, the formerly emaciated woman looked as
youthful as a girl in her 20's though she was already over 40 years old. This fellow practitioner's parents and grandparents used to follow a senior
monk to cultivate in one school of the Buddha Fa. When this practicing nun was
a child, her parents and grandparents often told her the cultivation stories
from their master, and the prophecy of a universal world, one in which
people would cultivate in the same cultivation school passed down from the
founder of that school. They also mentioned that it would be very hard for
people nowadays to achieve True Fruition, even for the nuns and monks in the
temples. In the future there would be a universal world, and one who could
enter this universal world would be very fortunate. Further, her parents and
grandparents often told her, "at that time you must cultivate in that school
and cherish the opportunity which is hard to encounter in millions of years!"
Her father specifically urged her before he passed away, "The one who obtains
this great universal world cultivation method will have to experience several
years of tribulations. When that happens, you'll feel that it is difficult to
either live or die. I hope you will be able endure all these tribulations. It
will be like a chilly winter. After it, spring will come." After the chilly winter comes the spring - such great words! Her parents'
words deeply impressed her young heart. Embraced thus with the respect for
Buddha and looking forward to the universal world, she became a nun in January
1984 in a temple on Jiuhua Mountain in Anhui Province. Since then she had
cultivated in that religion for over a dozen years but still could not find a
true, great teacher. Later, she still suffered many diseases, could not eat or
sleep well, and the pain she endured was hard to describe. While she was in a
maze, a sister gave her a hint, saying something to the effect that since the
religion had declined so far, there must be a true great teacher coming out in
this mundane world. So she waited for this true great teacher while cultivating
in the temple. In September 1997, Falun Dafa was spread to Jiuhua Mountain. The prophecy of
a universal world approaching she had kept in her young heart finally came
true. Dafa had already been spreading all over the world by then. She had
contemplated Dafa and found that was exactly what she had been waiting for, so
she started to cultivate Falun Dafa with determination. Since then, her
longing, waiting heart was comforted and her life became full of vital force.
Shortly after she began Dafa cultivation, all her diseases were gone. Her once
emaciated body became well developed. The beauty of Dafa and the change in both
her mind and body were too amazing to be described in words. The atmosphere suddenly changed on July 20, 1999. Jiang went his own way and
started the vicious persecution of Falun Gong. The deceptive lies pervading the
world and the horrors covered all of China. She pondered, "Isn't this the
tribulation that older people talked about? This is the chilly winter. After
winter comes spring." She was determined that the Falun Dafa she believed in
was not wrong, and that there is nothing wrong with
"Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance" and the great and compassionate Master
whom she deeply respected had come to the world to save people. She decide she
would cultivate to the end and never be deterred. In 2000, the local police unlawfully detained her for five months because
she practiced the Dafa exercises. Then they locked her up in a brainwashing
class for a month. As she refused to give up the belief in
"Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance" she suffered all kinds of torture. The
police attempted to fine her 1,000 Yuan(1) and forced her older brother to pay.
She became nun when she was very young, was always single and had no income. If
her brother refused to pay, they would tear down his house. So, her brother and
sister-in-law had to hand in 1,000 Yuan. After she was released, the police
went "on pilgrimage" to Jiuhua Mountain, Nanjing City and Huangshan Mountain
three times with the excuse of "visiting her." They spent 4,000 Yuan and told
her to pay. She didn't have any money, so they turned to fining the village in
which she lived. The village official had no alternative but to deduct the
money from every villager. In 2000, while in the brainwashing class, because she and her fellow
practitioners refused to give up their belief in
"Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance" and still firmly cultivated in Dafa, the
"610 Office" and the police forced them to stand for a long time under the
burning sun and didn't give them enough food. Once, because they practiced the
meditation, the police dragged eight female practitioners including her
outside, turned on the water faucet, connected the hose and poured water on
their heads for half an hour. The sleeves of a practitioner's garment were torn
off. Several female practitioners had their menses but they were still dragged
out to be doused with cold water. Another time, while they were practicing the
standing stance exercise, the police dragged them out again, forced them to
keep standing for a long time, and forbid them to talk to each other. A
practitioner only murmured several words, but the police beat and verbally
abused her. They took turns slapping her on the face, then dragged all of them
out again to be doused with water. This nun's shirt buttons were torn off, and
her pants were ripped, as was the skin on her legs. In July 2001, she went to Beijing alone to appeal, requesting to restore the
reputation of Master and Dafa. On July 29, Tiananmen Police Station personnel
sent her to the Shengli Police Station, 60 miles from Beijing. The police asked
her name and address. She answered, "A nun doesn't have anything and her home
is anywhere." As they failed to obtain her name, the police incited two strong
men to commit violence on her during the night. One man held her right hand
while another hand choked her neck. Another man slapped her hard on the face
and burned her lips with a lighter three times. A big blister rose up on her
lip right away. Then the villain continued to burn three of her fingers. The
blisters rose up on her index finger, middle finger, and ring finger. They
tortured her for a long time. When the villain was burning her fingers, the
sizzling sound of her searing flesh could be heard, but it was strange that she
didn't feel much pain. She knew that this was due to Master's protection. Her
tears spilled out. The hoodlums were at the end of their wits. So they cuffed
both of her hands on a stool that night and deprived her of sleep. The next
night they cuffed her again for the whole night. It was just like her father had said, that when the evil comes, one would
feel it difficult to either live or die. This lasted until August 1 when she
was transferred to a prison. Several local female practitioners in the cell all
witnessed that two of her burned fingers were decayed. Her two recovered
fingers were deformed and became smaller. Faced with this violence, she
remained determined and never yielded. This nun-practitioner firmly believes in Master and Dafa. No matter where
she is, whether in the evil prison, outside, homelessly wandering around
afterwards, or now in the temple to cultivate, just like many fellow
practitioners, she cherishes this precious cultivation opportunity, fulfils the
mission of a Fa-rectification period Dafa disciple-- validating the Fa and
offering salvation to living beings. (1)Yuan [500 Yuan is the average monthly income for an urban worker in
China.] Posting date: 7/13/2004 |