Study the Fa to Strengthen Faith and Take Righteous Actions on the Fa-Rectification Path
(Clearwisdom.net) Greetings to our revered Teacher! Greetings to my fellow practitioners! 1. Personal Cultivation: I was born premature, and I had been physically weak and feeble since I was a
child. I was diagnosed with osteomalacia from lack of Vitamin D. In P.E.
classes, I never passed any tests. Later I had arthritis of the joints and
bones. When I was transferred to do manual labor in the countryside as an
Educated Youth, I began to have rheumatism, which progressed into chronic
rheumatic heart disease, and caused stenosis (narrowing) of my two heart valves.
I had to take leave from the university for half a year. For treating my
disease, I was often given steroids orally or by injection, thus I became
overweight and out of shape. Starting from 1986, the small bone joints of all my extremities were swollen.
After tests, "rheumatoid arthritis" was the doctor's diagnosis. For
more then 20 years, I had never stop taking anti-rheumatoid pain pills of all
sorts, which damaged my stomach. Nightly, I had to take painkillers to fall
asleep. Early the next morning, I was awakened from pain. All of my fingers were
distorted, and the constant pain I suffered changed my temperament and
personality. In 1992, I was bedridden and almost paralyzed for several months
because the nerve endings of my slipped lumbar discs were inflamed. In the '80s, I came into contact with qigong, and, very soon, I was able to
do "Self-Emitting-Gong." Later for the purposes of mitigating pain, I
went to learn all types of qigong that were coming out. Prior to attaining Dafa,
I had practiced six to seven kinds of so-called Daoist, Buddhist, and Tibetan
Tantrist qigong, one after the other. I became extremely interested in all sorts
of qigong; I bought and read many books. With the notion of "selecting the
best from all practices," I spent a lot of effort studying the Book of
Changes (The I Ching) and Buddhist scriptures with an intense heart
of pursuing knowledge, healing illnesses, and developing supernormal
capabilities. After following this and that, my sicknesses weren't cured, but my
state of mind was in turmoil, and my thoughts were worse. My exploration in this
domain serious conflicted with what I have been raised in within the materialism
educational environment. I was full of questions, not only to what manifested in
my own self, (I realized what animal (evil spirit) possessions and the cosmic
languages were after studied Dafa,) but also more as to the origin of life and
the confusion over the significance of human life. Often times, just the word
"I," gave me splitting headaches. When I had questions I read more
books, from which I was only left with more questions. One day in the fall of '95, I came across a book Zhuan Falun.
I could not put it down since turning the first page, and I knew in my heart
that the answers to my questions were all in this book, which is what I've been
searching for. Eagerly and seriously, I read on: The principle of Dafa deeply
nurtured and purified my thoughts, and opened up my heart. I felt a lot of the
words were directed at me. Up to the third day, all aches and pains from my
ailments turned up anew. I tossed about in bed (I could neither lie down nor sit
up) because of the pain--I tried to ignore the pain (at the same time, I was
reading the book) and I realized in my heart that Teacher was purifying my body,
eradicating of the disease from its root--I should bear this bit of pain. About three days later, all of a sudden, I no longer had pain anywhere in my
body! From that day on, I have never taken any pill for rheumatism. It had been
more than 20 years since I knew what pain-free felt like. Words could not
express my infinite joy and excitement; not just because I was no longer
physically in pain, but, as I later realized, it was because I could conclude my
experience in four characters: "Attained [the] Fa [and] Be Saved." Finally I was enlightened to where life comes from; the purpose and meaning
of human life; what genuine cultivation is; how to cultivate; and the
fundamentals of how to be a good person. I firmly bore in mind what Teacher
said, "To tell you the truth, the entire cultivation process for a
practitioner is one of constantly giving up human attachments." (Zhuan
Falun) I realized that the most fundamental characteristic of the universe,
Truth-Compassion-Forbearance, is the highest expression of Buddha Law, and it is
the standard that determines what is good and bad in the universe. A person
should return to his original, true self--that's actually the true purpose of
being human. The only way is to abide by the standard of Zhen, Shan, and Ren to
return to your original, true self. I realized that a true cultivator must focus
upon cultivating one's xinxing. The most supreme law, pulled me back
from the difficult muddy crossroads, like the sun penetrates the dark night and
shines on my heart and the path (of cultivation). I firmly believed in the
Teacher and set my mind on cultivating Falun Dafa. When I finished reading Zhuan
Falun for the first time, I no longer had any questions about life, or any
pursuit in this world. From then on, I just could not part with Zhuan Falun.
Before long, I took part in the Teacher's Videotaped Nine-Day Fa Lecture and
Exercises Workshop. Pursuant to the workshop, I seriously read of all Master's
books a few times. With my continuously studying the Fa and practicing the
exercises, the atrophied muscles, from a slipped lumbar disc pressed against
some nerves, which caused numbness my right leg, was gradually restored to
health. On April 25, 1999, I wrote to the Provincial and Municipal Physical Education
Committee respectively, telling them about the benefits of Falun Dafa in my own
experience: In the cultivation of Falun Dafa, not only did I regain my health,
but I also further understood how to be a better person and the significance of
human life. We follow our Teacher's teachings to assimilate to the standard of
"Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance" in all things we do. We do not
return punches when hit; we do not to talk back when cursed; we accept any
responsibilities with no complaints in the workplace; we do not seek personal
gain; in conflict with others, we look inside our own hearts to find problems;
we always consider others before ourselves; we strive to be a good person in
home life, at work and in the society. Now, I'm disease free, my character and
temperament have improved; my relatives and friends all say that I have become
kinder and kinder. In fact, every true Falun Gong practitioner strives to
maintain a high moral standard. On July 20, 1999, Jiang's regime started the full-scale persecution of Falun
Gong and Falun Gong practitioners. All of a sudden, the evilness overwhelmingly
pressed down: all propaganda machines were fabricating lies and defamatory words
to frame Falun Gong, like dark clouds falling down from sky. In the face of
great danger, threats, criticism, isolation, mail checks, phone tapping and so
on, I was able to keep a clear head always. Although I didn't know the reason
for this persecution yet from the Fa, I had an unwavering faith in our Master.
He is absolutely righteous and Dafa is absolutely good, so nothing could shake
my belief and nothing could make me renounce my practice. One day around noon,
while under pressure for refusing to write any statements of giving up my
practice, I opened up my book Zhuan Falun. Staring at this precious book
and thinking about the sufferings of our innocent Master and Dafa, I felt very
sad. With tears, I held Zhuan Falun up and said aloud: "Teacher, I
shall never betray you!" Immediately after I said these words, I saw a fast
rotating colorful Falun in front of my eyes. I was very excited and also quite
amazed. I closed my eyes and I still could see the rotating Falun. I know that
it was Master who was encouraging me. 2. Fa-rectification Cultivation Since July 20, 1999, no matter how evil the environment was, I never stopped
studying the Fa. I repeatedly read Zhuan Falun and all other Dafa books.
The more I read them, the more unshakable my faith in Master and Dafa
strengthened. I also never stopped grasping any opportunities to tell others
about the greatness of Falun Gong and the greatness of our Master using my own
experiences. I told them that all the slanderous programs on TV were lies. After
I heard about the Self-immolation incident on Tiananmen Square, my first
reaction was it was definitely not the conduct of Falun Gong practitioners.
Whoever mentioned the incident, I would tell him our Master's teachings about
killing and his words that even suicide is considered as committing crime. I
also told people about this teaching of our Master in later truth
clarification work. At that time, I didn't know that telling others the
truth is saving them. I had no specific goal in my mind, thus I did it as if out
of my own nature. In the winter of 2001, a fellow practitioner secretly gave me a hand-written
copy of Master's lecture in 2000 entitled "Teaching the Fa at the Western
U.S. Fa Conference." I was very excited. It had been a long time since I
heard Master's new teachings. I hurried up to finish reading it and returned it.
I bore in mind Master's teachings that the Fa created all in the universe, and
that everything in the universe has deviated from the Fa and Master is
rectifying the Fa; nobody can damage Dafa and no one is worthy of testing Dafa.
A true cultivator must safeguard Fa. I am a particle in Dafa. To tell others
about the truth of Falun Dafa is to save him, so I must go to do it. I also
realized that I needed to improve and be more diligent in many areas. However,
that I was able to keep a clear mind amidst of this big test was due to my Fa
study. The first time I learned about other practitioners' stories in validating the
Fa was in the winter of 2000. One night I was working overtime with a colleague.
I told him about the truth of Falun Gong by sharing my story of health
improvement. I told him that it did not only happen to me. Many other
practitioners in our work unit have benefited both physically and mentally by
practicing Falun Gong. The Chinese Communist Party always stated that one should
respect facts, but now in front of these many facts, why didn't they acknowledge
it? I talked a lot and my colleague smiled at me while listening. In the end, he
whispered to me that earlier that day after he walked out of his apartment, he
saw a flyer on his door saying: "Return innocence to Dafa; Return innocence
to our Master." I was encouraged and said repeatedly: "Very good! Very
good!" At the beginning of 2002, I finally made contact with fellow practitioners
who had stepped forward to validate Fa. When I first saw the pictures of the
brutal persecution of practitioners in China and the spread of Fa outside China,
I couldn't keep from crying out loud. I was deeply moved by the great stories of
practitioners in China who had been persecuted to death as well as those of
overseas practitioners. I felt that I was not alone. Since then, I could access
Master's new articles and Minghui Weekly (Collection of articles from the
Minghui/Clearwisdom website). Fa study and reading articles from Minghui Weekly
have enabled me to keep up with Master's Fa-rectification process. Each time I
got an issue of Minghui Weekly, I read once again Master's teaching in the Essentials
for Further Advancement II article "Rationality" printed on the
front page: "Validate the Fa with rationality, clarify the truth with wisdom,
spread the Fa and save people with mercy." ("Rationality," Essentials
for Further Advancement II) After I saw Master's poem in Hongyin II with the title "Hurry Up
and Tell Them", I often recited it in my heart, "As Dafa disciples tell people the facts, It's like sharp swords
shooting out together from their mouths, Shredding apart the rotten demons'
lies. Lose no time and save them, hurry up and tell them." When I was walking, I often thought in my mind that I should go to tell these
precious Chinese the truth about Falun Gong. Master has told us in
"Teaching the Fa at the 2003 Atlanta Fa Conference:" "Also, with those people that you run into by chance, who you run into
in daily life, and the people you run into at work, you should all clarify the
truth to them. Even when in your daily life you pass by people so quickly that
you don't have a chance to talk to them, you should still leave them with your
compassion and kindness. Don't lose those who should be saved, especially
those with predestined connections." In the past several years, I was able to tell the truth of Falun Gong to
people from all walks of life including intellectuals, officials, military
workers, students, medical staff, armed police, police, peddlers who repair
shoes, street vendors, shop clerks, insurance agent, beauty salon owner, taxi
drivers, workers, peasants, contractors, small private business owners and so
on. Towards anyone I ran into or I visited on purpose, I had only one thought in
my mind: "hurry up to tell them the truth." Since I have talked to so
many people, it has become easier for me to speak to anyone, regardless of age,
sex, or occupation. I learned how to bring up the topic, how to clarify the
truth from their point of view and how to respond appropriately based on their
feedback. The effort of overseas practitioners validating Fa have greatly
encouraged and helped practitioners in mainland China. During my truth-clarifying process, I had a strong sense that with the
elimination of evil, people became more and more clear-headed and more willing
to listen to the truth. They also became more and more appalled by the
persecution of Falun Gong and Falun Gong practitioners by Jiang's scoundrel
regime. Some people spread the truth to others once learned it themselves, and
some told me that they shared the VCD with their relatives and friends after
watching it and would also like to learn Falun Gong. Particularly, since 2004, I
felt it became much easier to clarify the truth. Many people thanked me after
hearing it. Almost all people acknowledged that Jiang Zemin is bad. I was often
told that they had received a VCD from Falun Gong practitioners before and
already knew the truth. I was moved by my fellow practitioners each time I heard
it. To distribute truth-clarifying materials, we carried a few with us whenever
we went out and gave them to people on our way; sometimes, we chose an area and
took materials to every residence there. No matter whether we did it alone or
with a couple of other practitioners, we sent forth righteous thoughts each
time, targeting our destination before we went and during the distributing
process. It works well to have two people to adapt to instant changes; one
distributing the materials and the other one watching out and sending forth
righteous thoughts. The best times for us were the hottest noon in summer, the
coldest night in winter, windy, rainy and snowy days, midnight, dawn, and the
meal time and rest time of people. Each time we received materials printed using
practitioners' own money, we would read it over once first, then fold them into
colorful papers, so that it would look nice and be waterproof. This way, people
with mental barriers would not discard it casually without taking a look at it.
We took extra care when distributing truth-clarifying VCDs; most of the time we
delivered them to people in person. We felt that the distribution process would
be smooth whenever we had enough righteous thoughts. At the beginning, I had a
thought that I would not tell the police the source of materials even if they
beat me to death once caught. But later on, after I studied the Fa, I realized
that this thought was a loophole in my cultivation because I didn't completely
negate the old forces' arrangements. Master doesn't acknowledge the old forces,
and what we are doing is the most righteous thing because we are saving people.
If we have righteous minds and thoughts, completely deny the old forces'
arrangements, they would have no way to take advantage of our loopholes.
Furthermore, we are truly negating the old forces' arrangements from our
understanding of the Fa, not because we had deep fear to cover and wanted to
avoid being arrested. January 19, 2004 was 12/28/2003 on the lunar calendar. According to the
weather forecast, the temperature of the next two days would drop to 29 degrees
below zero centigrade. According to my plan, I would distribute truth-clarifying
materials and VCDs in my residential area. In the daytime, I needed to look
after my elderly father who was ill. There were patrol police and computer
monitoring in my neighborhood. I became quite anxious because I wanted to
distribute them before the New Year' Eve so that people had time to see them
during the holiday. After sending forth righteous thoughts at midnight, I could
not fall asleep. From my window, I could see the holiday decorations brighten
the whole residential area. But I had only one thought in my mind: No matter
what, I would distribute all of the materials. Before 4 a.m., all the lights
went out. I got up quickly and walked outside putting on only an overcoat. In
order not to disturb my family members, I closed the door carefully. After
distributing all the VCDs, on my way home, I started to recall the weather
forecast, but I didn't feel cold at all. I had only pajamas on underneath my
coat without a mouth cover, hat, scarf, gloves or socks. I really didn't feel
cold at all. Looking up the sky, there was no moon, but it was full of stars.
With a warm breeze, it felt like spring. I suddenly realized that it was all
because of Master's arrangement and compassionate help. Instantly, a warm
current ran all over my body. The next day around noon, when I went outside, a
strong north wind blew hard. I still felt chilled after bundling up. In the last several years, several of us practitioners have been sharing
experiences together based on the Fa, cooperating and encouraging each other on
the path of Fa-rectification. In 2003, I brought some truth-clarifying VCDs with
me to attend an alumni party of about 30-40 people. Before my departure, I went
to a fellow practitioner's place and only asked her if she had more VCDs
available. At the party, I was able to clarify the truth of Falun Gong and
distributed all the VCDs that I had. The fellow practitioner mentioned to me
later that she had been sending forth righteous thoughts the whole evening
during the party time period. Whenever one of us needed improvements or were not
diligent in cultivation, we would discuss with an open heart and point things
out sincerely and compassionately. With help from one another, we made progress
together rapidly. When anyone had a new understanding from the Fa, we all felt
happy for that practitioner from the bottom of our hearts. One practitioner said
whenever she saw other practitioner making real progress, her heart felt like a
flower in blossom. She was happier than for that practitioner than she was for
herself when she made improvements. Each practitioner has her own unique
cultivation path. The attachments displayed in ordinary society are different
too, but we are all cultivating ourselves while validating the Fa. We must do
things according to the Fa and constantly improve our xinxing. I have truly seen
the changes and improvement of my fellow practitioners. I deeply felt that Minghui Weekly has played an extremely important role in
helping practitioners to study the Fa well, correctly understand important
issues, improve as a whole and keep up with Master's Fa rectification process.
In the environment of mainland China, we could not hold experience-sharing
conferences very often. It was impossible to have a large Fa conference, even to
gather a few practitioners together was difficult. Reading articles on Minghui
is like attending a global Fa conference. Sometimes I had an attachment that I
didn't realize on my own. When it was mentioned in a fellow practitioner's
article, his understanding from the Fa about the issue immediately enlightened
me and I was able to correct myself too. In particular, I was often moved to
tears by fellow practitioners' understandings from the Fa and validation of the
Fa through their righteous thoughts and righteous actions. 3. Have righteous faith in Fa study and completely eliminate the evil
possession of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) After the Fa conference in New York City, I read the first and the second
part of the "Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party." During the
reading process, I was greatly shocked. I grew up with the education from the
CCP. Although I have a clear understanding of the CCP because I had personal
experiences with "The Cultural Revolution" and the "June
4th" incident, and now the brutal persecution of Falun Gong and Falun Gong
practitioners, I never thought about the evil nature of it, thus I viewed the
CCP and opposed it while using its way of thinking. Furthermore, I have read all
the classic works of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin and Mao Zedong. So I accepted
them all naturally, thus I was deeply poisoned by it. In my mind, I always
thought the CCP was good at the beginning but degenerated later on. However, the
articles "On What the Communist Party Is" and "On the Beginnings
of the Chinese Communist Party" helped me realize that the Communist Party
is an evil specter and the CCP began by gathering all the evil of the world,
Chinese or foreign, past or present The huge contrast, those trenchant analysis
with arguments and facts that were totally different from what I learned before
from my history book, stirred up a big wave in my mind and I could not fall
asleep the whole night. In fact, there was a big battle between good and evil in
the layers of other dimensions of my body. At the beginning, when I looked at
things using a human mind, the influence of the evil party culture began to take
over. I could hardly keep reading once I reached Part Three of the "Nine
Commentaries." In the meantime, I suddenly shivered all over my body and
fell asleep with my mind racing. I felt that evils were encompassing me and I
suddenly realized that I had been taken advantage of by the evil because I had a
loophole in my cultivation and I was being persecuted by the evil. So I sent
forth righteous thoughts and my body recovered quickly. However, my mind
remained in a chaotic state for a few days. So I studied the Fa a lot and
recited Master's words in my heart: "The Fa can break all attachments, the Fa can destroy all evil, the Fa
can shatter all lies, and the Fa can strengthen righteous thoughts."
("Drive out Interference" in Essentials for Further Advancement
II) One day, a question suddenly appeared in my mind: "Do you not believe in
your Master now? No, I believe him!" Then instantly from the most
microscopic particles to the most macroscopic particles of my life, I felt a
powerful force drive out the sleepiness that entangled me for the past few days.
I picked up Part Three and read it smoothly. As I was writing this experience-sharing article, I carefully read the
"Nine Commentaries" five times. Each time I read it, I felt that I was
cleansing out the evil spirit possessions of the CCP in the layers of my body;
cleansing out the evil party's logic; getting rid of the poisonous factor and
imprint of its culture. Each time I read it, I had a deeper understanding of its
evil cult nature that opposes nature, heavenly law, human nature and universe.
Each time I read it, I felt that it was a rectification and cleansing process of
the sources of my thinking, a process to save my soul and purify my spirit. I
have awakened and passed the tribulation. I called my fellow practitioners in
China and told them my experience. I hoped that they could learn from it, and
that if they could access the "Nine Commentaries," no matter what,
they should read it seriously. It would be a process to remove the poison of the
CCP evil spirit possession injected into us. For those of us who have lived in mainland China for several decades, only a
tiny portion of families have not been persecuted by the CCP. Even if your
family was lucky, your neighbors had all experienced it. Many people of my
parents' generation, the people I saw with my own eyes and I myself have had
their human nature twisted, conscience eliminated and life taken away. Yet I
didn't realize that all these disasters, sufferings and crimes had come from the
CCP. My personal understanding is: as a Dafa disciple, purifying our mind first is
very important. How could a person with the Communist Party evil spirit
possession and its poison in their thoughts and mind still be called a true Dafa
disciple, let alone reach Consummation? To break away clean from the restriction
of the Communist Party evil spirit possession is no doubt a necessary step on
the Fa-rectification path of each Dafa disciple who has been poisoned by the
Party's culture. Have unwavering faith in Master and study the Fa, there are no
impassable tribulations. I am a life born in the old cosmos and all lives in the old cosmos have a
selfish nature. So my life was selfish too. Without Master's merciful and
arduous salvation, without cultivation in Dafa, without Master renewing me from
the most microscopic part of my life, I would still be playing with mud inside
the garbage pile of the cosmos and never could return to my true homeland. I
also know that any single remaining human attachment would not enable me to
return. Our benevolent and revered Master has taken on all of our sufferings but
in the meantime, bestowed upon us the most wonderful things. The little bit of
work we do to validate the Fa is not for our Master or the Fa, yet Master has
given us this unprecedented huge honor in return. Whenever thinking of Master, I
cannot hold back my tears. Words cannot express my gratitude to our Master. The Fa-rectification is progressing rapidly and the time for rectifying the
Fa in the human world is coming. I will cherish this time period and do well the
three things Master has told us to do. On the basis of the Fa, we
must validate the Fa, not individuals. We must maintain righteous thoughts and
righteous actions and walk the remaining journey. My personal experience is: Righteous action comes from righteous thoughts,
righteous thoughts comes from righteous belief and righteous belief comes from
Fa-study. Thank you Master. Thank you everyone.
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