Recalling the First Time I Stepped Forward On My Own
By a Dafa practitioner from Fengcheng, Liaoning Province
(Clearwisdom.net) I am 62 years old now. On February 17, 1999, I came across
Falun Dafa and started my cultivation joyfully. I can still clearly remember
the first time I distributed some materials containing the true facts about
Falun Dafa on my own. At around 8:30 p.m. on the night of July 2, 2003 of the Chinese lunar
calendar, I went by myself to a mountainous area to distribute some Falun Gong
materials. The moon was high in the sky, and I walked for over a mile before I
could see a few houses scattered around. On my way, there was a narrow valley
entrance, where a landlord had been beaten to death a few dozen years ago.
Everyone from our village was scared when they passed by it, and no one lives
around that area. I am a pretty timid person, but I thought about those
practitioners who went to Tiananmen Square to peacefully appeal for Falun Dafa:
they are not even afraid of death, so what can I still be afraid of? I began to
send forth righteous thoughts, and my mind immediately calmed down. At that time it was the rainy season, so the dirt road was pretty muddy. I
struggled along, while distributing Falun Gong materials. I finally reached the
valley, where there were about twenty houses. I distributed all of the
materials that I had on me, and I also posted all the truth-clarifying labels I
had. In the valley, every house has dogs, yet none of the dogs barked when I
approached the houses. When I almost reached the other end of the small valley,
I saw a house with some lights on from far away. When I reached the house, the
light suddenly turned off for a while. I took the opportunity to post my last
labels on the electric post nearby. After I finished, the light in the house
was turned back on. At around eleven at night, I safely returned home. I think
that only practitioners who distribute leaflets know how I felt at that time. On the next day, someone from the valley where I had been came to see me (I
am a doctor). The patient said, "Last night, every single house in the valley I
live in received Falun Gong leaflets. Two people must have distributed the
leaflets on a motorcycle during the night..." I laughed to myself, and I told
the patient to read the materials carefully. Although it's only a small incident, to me, this was the first step forward
that I took on my own. I came to understand through this experience that as
long as we have righteous thoughts and are without fear, Teacher is always
standing by us and protecting us.
Chinese version available at
http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/6/25/77950.html
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