Regarding Dafa as Teacher and Stepping on the Fa-Rectification Cultivation Path
By a Falun Gong practitioner in China
(Clearwisdom.net) 1. Master saved me and gave me a new life I am 66 years old this year. I lost my mother when I was only five years old
and grew up with my stepmother. Before I graduated from middle school, I had
suffered from beatings and scoldings, and grew up without having enough food to
eat and warm clothes to wear. I had many physical problems such as malaria
attacks, severe tracheitis and large amounts of phlegm on a yearly basis. When I
was sent to the hospital for a bleeding purpura during middle school, my
stepmother came to the hospital and scolded me. She even asked why I hadn't died
yet. I felt that life was so meaningless. For a while, I kept thinking of ways
to end my life. I had more problems after I started to work, such as hepatitis, nephritis,
rheumatic arthritis, cholecystitis, cholelithiassis (had surgery to remove the
gallstones), and gynecological problems. I kept taking different kinds of
medicine but couldn't get better in the long term. I suffered from pain around
my liver and on my lower back, and my heartbeat was irregular. My limbs had no
strength and I suffered from dropsy. I didn't feel like eating anything. I was
very thin and only weighed a little over 30 kg. Around the Spring Holiday of
1995, I started having a problem on my cervical vertebra and was unable to move
my head. My cervical vertebra was swollen to the size of a walnut. My rheumatism
started getting worse. I was unable to raise my hands and had difficulty
walking, getting in or out of the bed, putting on clothes, combing my hair or
squatting down. I was even unable to use chopsticks to feed myself. I had taken
medicine for thirty years by then. My old diseases were not cured, and more
diseases came up. The situation became worse and worse. The joints in my hands
and feet and my backbone were swollen and out of shape. I was losing the ability
to take care of myself. I was in extreme despair and no medical treatment was effective. I decided to
give up the medical treatments and give Qigong a try. On December 20, 1996, I
got up very early. When I walked out the door, there seemed to be a light that
was guiding my way. My feet were barely able to move. I arrived at the small
garden in the community. I saw a group of people sitting in a circle on the
grass. They asked me whether I wanted to learn the Qigong that they were
practicing. Without any hesitation, I said I did. Later that day, I listened to
the lecture tapes of Master and got the precious book of Zhuan Falun. I read Zhuan Falun eagerly. The more I read, the more I want to read.
I kept studying the Fa and practicing the exercises everyday. Master
purified my body and took away the unhealthy thoughts in my mind, and gave me
many things that were more precious than life. Just like that, I was able to
cultivate Dafa. The problems I had disappeared without a trace. My nearly
paralyzed hands and feet went back to normal. I was able to use chopsticks
again, which I couldn't do for more than two months. I could step on a ladder to
reach the roof of a shed. The miracle of Dafa changed an old woman with painful
diseases to a happy and healthy practitioner. December 20, 1996 was the day
Master saved me and gave me a new life, and when I attained the Fa. There are no
words to describe the great benevolence Master showed towards me. Although I came to learn Dafa with the purpose of curing my diseases, under
the guidance and protection of Master, and based on Master's teachings, I
understood this was genuine cultivation and not for treating illnesses. I
cultivated myself with the fundamental universal principle of
"Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance" and kept improving my xinxing
and getting rid of attachments to fame and self-interests through cultivation.
Master said, "To tell you the truth, the entire cultivation process for a
practitioner is one of constantly giving up human attachments." (Zhuan
Falun) Through constantly studying the Fa, my attachments were gradually
eliminated. Without Master purifying my body, I would not have been able to do the
exercises. When I was doing the exercises, my hands were unable to hold the
right position. Since my left leg was 2 cm shorter than the right, with
everything that I had to deal with, I couldn't keep my body straight and stand
firmly. However, I felt Master helping me. When I was doing the "Holding
the Wheel" exercise, I could feel myself being held up by Master's hand.
Master also gave me energy. I had the feeling of heat spreading all over my
body. I couldn't raise my hands but I tried my best. With all my heart, I tried
to stand firmly. With the help of Master, I did. The most difficulty I
experienced was sitting for the meditation. My legs kept slipping down. At the
beginning, I was barely able to sit with my legs uncrossed. Twenty days later, I
heard a voice telling me to cross my legs. I endured the pain and started to sit
with one leg up into the lotus position. I worked hard to increase the time each
day from half an hour to one hour. I constantly had pain in my feet and my lower
back during the meditation. Sometimes it was so painful that I couldn't help but
to take down my legs. Later I practiced sitting with the double leg crossing,
which was even harder. I would cry out from the pain. At the beginning, I could
only sit for 15 minutes and my whole body would be soaked with sweat because of
the pain. In fact, I was only able to cross my legs a little bit. I could feel
Falun in another dimension holding my body so that I would not fall over. I
gradually extended the sitting time from 15 minutes to one hour, then to one and
a half hours. Although I could sit with the double-leg crossing, I was still
unable to straighten my back and my chest. Through studying the Fa, I realized
that doing the exercises was not just for the sake of enduring the hardship and
eliminating karma, but also to cultivate and improve "xinxing".
Whenever my xinxing was improved, some of my karma was eliminated. In
fact, Master endured for me so that I was eventually able to truly meditate with
both legs crossed and back straight. During my cultivation, after attaining and studying the Fa, the most I
enlightened to was the mighty benevolence of Master and the mighty power of the
Fa. Master only looks at one's heart and mind. What I am today is all due to
what Master is enduring for me, so that I could have such a dramatic change and
become a Fa-rectification period Dafa disciple. 2. Twice Going to Beijing to Validate Dafa On July 22, 1999, fellow practitioners and I went to the provincial party
committee to appeal on behalf of Dafa. Police put us in a vehicle and detained
us somewhere until 6 p.m. I told the police about how I benefited from Dafa
physically and mentally, and that Falun Gong is something wonderful for both the
country and the people. That evening, I learned that Falun Gong was being
persecuted all over the country. Later I fell for an article that the
authorities made up and claimed to have come from Master, and I didn't step
forward for Dafa again. I stayed at home to study the Fa and to do exercises. I
recited Zhuan Falun. When I heard about fellow practitioners being
arrested, I even said that it's not good because after getting arrested, one
would not be able to study the Fa and do the exercises. After Master published the poem, "The Knowing Heart," I finally
awakened. Fellow practitioners sent me new articles. After studying Master's new
articles, my xinxing improved and I began to understand the meaning of Fa-rectification.
I began my Fa-rectification cultivation. On October 4, 2000, I went to Beijing to appeal for the first time. Five
practitioners in our group were going to Beijing together. However, we were
arrested in the waiting room at the train station and fined 100 Yuan each. We
were detained at Liujiaoting Police Station for three days and two nights.
Succumbing to my human mentality, I wrote a guarantee statement for "not
going out." After I returned home, I knew that Master was in pain for me
and I was anguished as well. That night, police from Liujiaoting Police Station
came to arrest me again and forced me to pay 500 Yuan. I was transferred to
Ertouwan to be detained. At Ertouwan, we were not allowed to visit each other
and forced to plant vegetables and clean houses. We were forced to read
newspapers and magazines that slandered Dafa and Master. I kept reciting Lunyu,
Hong Yin and Master's articles to resist their efforts. At 8 a.m. of the
next day, the police punished those who refused to cooperate with them and made
them stand outside in the rain for hours. At lunchtime, some fellow
practitioners and I refused to eat to support those practitioners. Perpetrator
Jin Zhiping kicked me to the ground, which caused two buttons on my shirt to fly
off. The pain was great, but I firmly refused to fall down. The police forced us
to kneel down in the rain, played a recording of slander, and did not allow us
to go to the restroom. We recited Master's articles and didn't have any fear at
all. We kneeled down in the rain for six hours. With the help of Master, the
rainwater was just flowing down along my clothes without getting them wet. At
around 6 p.m., when we were allowed to stand up, my left leg was unable to move.
I recited the Fa and persisted in doing the exercises. The next day, I was able
to walk again. The police could not believe it. I knew that this was the
manifestation of the mighty power of Dafa. One week later, my husband came to
talk to me and I didn't accept his advice to give in to the police. The next
day, the police lied to me, saying that I was going to be transferred. Later
when I came back home, I found out my husband had used some connections and
provided the guarantee statement to release me. (I later wrote a solemn
statement to announce that guarantee statement is null and void.) Sharing
experiences with fellow practitioners after coming back home, we realized that
as Fa particles, we should stand up and assist Master in Fa-rectification in the
human world. On December 28, 2000, six of us went to Beijing again to appeal on behalf of
Dafa. Later we were illegally detained in an iron cage at Huaqiao Police
Station. I kept clarifying the truth to other detainees, telling them about my
own experiences. At that time, I didn't have any other thoughts and just wanted
to follow what Master had arranged for me, and realized that I shouldn't be
detained there. Under the protection of Master, I was released on January 1,
2001. 3. Breaking through the persecution in the brainwashing class On June 13, 2001, I was illegally locked up in Changqing Police Station for
three days for posting truth clarification materials. My home was illegally
searched, and Zhuan Falun, Master's new articles, several pieces of truth
clarifying materials, and my meditation mat were confiscated. On June 16, I was
transferred to the First Detention Center of Wuhan City Police No. 7 Division,
where I was forced to take off my clothes for a body search. Then I was forced
to answer roll call and recite the prison regulations. The authorities asked my
family to send money, which would then be converted into prison currency.
However, there was a set time period to buy things with it, and at exorbitant
prices. They made sure to make it difficult for us to spend the currency before
it expired. This became a sure way for them to make money from us. We clarified the truth to the prisoners and told them that Falun Dafa is
good. Most of them were receptive and understood our message. In early July
2001, I was transferred to the Jianghan District Brainwashing Class in Wuhan.
The police kept watching us day and night. They forced us to listen to articles
that framed Dafa, forbade us to study the Fa, do the exercises, or send forth
righteous thoughts. One time when I was sending forth righteous thoughts, a thug
named Hu Jiaxiang grabbed my watch. When I did the exercises, he pushed me
against the wall many times. Everyday, fellow practitioners recited Master's
articles, sent forth righteous thoughts, clarified the truth, and exposed the
authorities' lies and slander. One time, we stood up together and refused to
listen to the evil slander, and finally the staff members in the brainwashing
class gave in and let us leave. At the beginning in the brainwashing class, I
did not talk to anybody else, and some staff members said that I was a good
person. I realized from studying the Fa that what an everyday person claims to
be good may not truly be good. I realized that I shouldn't follow the evil's
arrangement. I should eliminate the evil and clarify the truth to save sentient
beings. I thus took the initiative to clarify the truth to the staff members and
police officers. After listening to me, a policewoman said, "The
self-immolation you talked about is just the same as a criminal case we solved.
One close look is all it takes to see through the lies. Dafa is so great, and I
would like to practice it." Some staff members didn't want to listen at the
beginning, but later when they got to know the truth, they changed their
attitude toward Dafa. With my fellow practitioners' encouragement, I took the short time during
supper and went to the fifth floor. I cleaned up all the evil newspapers and the
posters on the blackboard and the wall that smeared Dafa. After finding out
about what I did, the police locked me up in a basement room and didn't allow me
to sit down. I refused to cooperate. When I was walking, I recited the Fa; when
I was eating, I sat down even though they said I could not. Every day they took
turns to persuade me to give up Dafa, but I told them over and over that Dafa is
good and that Falun Dafa is righteous. One week later, I was again transferred back to the First Detention Center of
the No. 7 Police Division. The chief of police told me that so-and-so already
agreed to give up practicing and was released. I solemnly told her that I was my
own person, and I wouldn't be transformed. I also told her how lucky I was to
obtain the Fa and how precious the Fa is, and asked her to treat Dafa
practitioners kindly. She angrily said, "If it were not for the fact that
you are of old age, I would have beaten you. What are you to give me
advice!" I then told her with kindness not to believe the authorities'
lies. Carrying out the persecution of Falun Gong was nothing like carrying out
regular work. She left silently. Twenty days later, I was once again transferred to the Jianghan District
Brainwashing Class. Once there I was told that nobody was doing the Falun Gong
exercises, and everybody was prohibited to do the exercises. I noticed that the
environment was very bad. Fellow practitioners couldn't talk with each other.
Even when a practitioner went to the bathroom, there was somebody following.
Some practitioners were weaving sweaters. Some were playing chess, and others
playing sports or watching TV. I felt very sad. In order to resist the evil, I
did the Falun Gong exercises as usual, even though it was forbidden. In the
evening, they locked me up in an empty room downstairs, where there was neither
bed nor bench. I was deprived of sleep and rest. My cotton quilt had been ripped
apart in the First Detention Center and now was scattered everywhere by a
policeman named Hu Jiaxiang. I then sat on the floor and put together the
scattered pieces on the floor so that I could sleep on them. Every day two
people were assigned for the day shift or the night shift so that they could
watch me day and night, not allowing me to do the exercises or recite the Fa.
Everyday they would ask, "Will you still practice? Stop the practice and we
will allow you to go upstairs." I told them that I would still practice. Hu
Jiaxiang then cursed Master twice. I repeatedly recited in my heart Master's Fa-rectification
formulas: "Fa Zheng Qian Kun, Xie e Quan Mie" and "Fa Zheng Tian
Di, Xian Shi Xian Bao" ("The Fa rectifies the cosmos, the Evil is
completely eliminated" and "The Fa rectifies heaven and earth,
immediate retribution in this lifetime") until he stopped swearing. When I
sat on the floor to recite the Fa and send forth righteous thoughts, the
director named Tang Yan didn't allow me to do so. I refused to cooperate. She
then slapped me in the face and claimed that she would sentence me. She even
brought the handcuffs to threaten me. I shouted, "They are beating me! They
are beating me!" I also went to the door and shouted, "Falun Dafa is
good! Falun Dafa is righteous!" They then closed the door. The next day I
was transferred to the City Women's Labor Camp. In the City Women's Labor Camp, we were given terrible food to eat and
bombarded with foul language. From the bottom of my heart, I told the prisoners
about the wonder of Dafa and that it was Dafa that gave me new life. I asked
them not to believe in the lies on television and in the newspapers, and decide
well on where they stood with Dafa, so that they may have a good future.
Eventually, they were able to understand the facts. Some of them said, "Dafa
is so great, I will also practice Falun Gong after I am free." I helped
them to carry water and clean the room, and rectify their moral standard
according to the principles of Dafa. When they had conflicts, I asked them to
remember "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance", which helped them to
become more harmonious. Thirteen days later, I was again transferred to the Jianghan District
Brainwashing Class. Upon entering the room, they searched my belongings and
body, but they couldn't find a copy of article "Path," which I had
with me. The policewoman Tang Yan asked me if I would still practice. I said,
"Yes, I will." I also said, "You took me from the brainwashing
class to the First Detention Center, then back to the brainwashing class. Seven
days later you transferred me to the women's labor camp and now back to the
brainwashing class again. I would like to ask you, what is wrong with practicing
the exercises and being a good person according to
'Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance.' You'd better think about it for the sake
of your future." They locked me up with a practitioner downstairs. The fellow practitioner's
diligence greatly helped me to improve. We studied the Fa deep into the night,
and we recited the Fa right after we sent forth righteous thoughts at 6:00
o'clock in the evening. In the morning and during the daytime, we persisted in
doing the exercises. Even though they prohibited us from doing the exercises, we
still persisted in our efforts. Many times, a fellow practitioner was forcibly
dragged out from the room to another room for several meters on her bare feet.
She was then slapped in the face repeatedly, leaving bruises all over her face.
She was also handcuffed to the metal frame of the upper bunk. She took off the
handcuffs with her righteous thoughts, rushed to the door and shouted, "The
brainwashing class is torturing me!" At 9:00 a.m. on March 4, 2002, the brainwashing class staff forbade the
fellow practitioner and me from doing the exercises and threw away our mat.
Since the fellow practitioner didn't cooperate, they pushed her down onto the
wet floor and burned her with cigarettes. Several thugs, led by Zheng Rong,
lifted me up from the bed and dropped me onto the floor. They poured water on me
and pressed me down onto the floor. My pants were soaked. They then pulled me to
the door, lifted me up and dropped me to the floor once again. After that, they
dragged me back and forth in the hall. I told them that they would be answering
for everything they had done to me. Directed by Hu Jiaxiang, they forced me to
kneel for four hours. They told me that if I gave up practicing, they would
allow me to stand up. I ignored them and stood up myself after a while. My legs
were freezing and my hip was aching, which made it difficult for me to walk. In order to resist the persecution, the fellow practitioner and I started a
hunger strike starting on March 4. During the first five days, the staff members
in the brainwashing class ignored us. On the tenth day, my heartbeat increased.
They then called the emergency center for help. Later they force-fed me with
rice soup. My clothes were wet from the force-feeding, yet they prohibited me
from washing them. The next day, they called my husband, children, and neighbors
to persuade me to give up Falun Gong. They said, "If you sign the
transformation letter, you can go home right away." They shouted about
transformation all day long, but I did not consider it even for a second. I
continued the hunger strike until April 25. While I was undergoing the hunger
strike, Master protected me and boosted my energy. April 25 was the day for
meeting with family members. They lied to me, saying that my son had come to see
me. After stepping into the meeting room, I was forcibly dragged and pushed into
a taxi. My head was covered with clothes, and I was not allowed to speak. I had
only one thought in mind, that I wanted to be set free unconditionally and go
home with dignity. I called out to Master and did not stop until I arrived at my
home. I asked my husband if he signed anything on my behalf. He said, "They
were afraid that you would die there. They wouldn't wait for even another
day." I found out later that they asked my husband to pay 2,000 Yuan. After
getting back home, I found that my legs were swollen like barrels, a layer of
skin on my feet had peeled off, there was a very uncomfortable feeling in my
mouth, my nose was swollen and congested, my facial features were distorted, and
I had difficulty walking. After diligently studying the Fa and doing the
exercises, I quickly recovered. My feet were free from the edema and my face
became normal again. 4. Cultivation is a serious matter In order to help my relatives, friends and neighbors know the truth about
Falun Gong, my husband and I went back to my hometown of Hongan. By the time we
were back in Wuhan City, I could walk normally again. On October 28, 2003, I was
arrested because someone reported me for distributing Falun Gong literature.
There were many onlookers at the time. When I was dragged and pushed into a car
by several police officers, I spoke out to the people. I told them that Falun
Gong was being persecuted unjustly, and that they should always remember, "Falun
Dafa is the Righteous Way! Falun Dafa is Good!" Hu Jiaxiang found out about my arrest, so later they transferred me to the
Changqing Police Station. The police also ransacked my and my daughter's home
and confiscated Zhuan Falun and other Dafa books. The next day I was taken to the Jianghan District Brainwashing Center. As
soon as I was brought upstairs, five police officers dragged and beat me at the
same time. My arm was injured and sustained bruises. I said loudly, "Falun
Dafa is Good! Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is Good!" The police
tried to silence me by stuffing a washrag into my mouth, but I didn't stop. The brainwashing center is extremely dark and frightening inside, and the
staff members were handpicked by the Public Security and the National Security
Departments. They would trade their conscience for money. In order to achieve
the reformation quota, they followed orders from the 610 Office and
employed a set of vicious methods to brainwash practitioners. I refused to listen and watch their programs slandering Falun Gong or read
their deceitful articles. They then brought in my neighbors and relatives to try
to persuade me to give up, even using my husband and children. I was not moved,
so they verbally abused me, threatened me with prison and get former
practitioners who had gone astray to brainwash me. When I protested with a
hunger strike, they savagely force-fed me with rice soup. Ultimately, their
attempts were in vain. Two weeks into my hunger strike, the police started to deprive me of sleep
for 24 hours while forcing me to stand still for nine hours. Day and night, four
police officers took turns to torment me around the clock. First, they took my
husband to the brainwashing class to live with me. I told him to go home
immediately, and he complied. Then they forced my two daughters to try to
persuade me. I didn't listen to them. Finally, the police did not let me sleep
for three days and two nights. They also brought in my son. With a muddled head
after not sleeping for days, I wrote the "Dissociation Statement." After I got back home, I sank into deep depression. I could not eat or sleep.
Shortly after falling asleep, I would wake up in a cold sweat from nightmares of
being reformed. I was filled with despair. All of this came from the old forces' arrangements to destroy my physical
body or break my will. Cultivation is a serious matter! I had to resist the evil
persecution and not make the same mistake again. I wanted to walk on the path
Master arranged for me. I wrote a solemn statement to nullify my words under
coercion. I studied and recited the Fa every day and paid special attention to sending
forth righteous thoughts at the four set times each day. I also wrote four
articles about my personal persecution experiences in the Jianghan Brainwashing
Center. I felt really scared at that time, but I remembered that Master told us
in Zhuan Falun, "There is another type of person. Someone was told in the past that he
had spirit or animal possession. He felt that way as well. However, upon
having it removed for him, his mind still worries about it. He always thinks
that the condition still exists. He still thinks that it is there, and this is
already an attachment called suspicion." I understood that as long as I had faith in Master and Dafa, had righteous
thoughts and a righteous belief to cultivate steadfastly, Master will help me
eliminate the evil influence. In this way I was able to get rid of my attachment
of fear. It was Master who once again saved me compassionately. My mind and body
recovered, as well. I made contact with fellow practitioners again and returned
to Fa-rectification. 5. Breaking out of a brainwashing center for the third time In the morning of March 9, 2004, I was again arrested for distributing Falun
Gong truth clarification materials. While I was being pushed into a police
vehicle, I told people loudly, "Falun Dafa is Good!" "Remember
Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance!" They took me to the Changqing Police
Station. Later, they searched my place and confiscated Zhuan Falun and Master's
articles. A National Security police officer interrogated me about the source of
our materials, but the interrogation yielded nothing. The next day I was
transferred to the Jianghan District Brainwashing Center. As soon as I got
there, Zheng Rong led a group of people to search me and took away my money and
personal belongings. They wanted me to sign their documents, but I refused. When
they applied the same brainwashing methods on me as the last time, I resisted
firmly. Police officer Qu Zhong and others repeatedly asked me if I would continue
distributing flyers after getting out. I told them, "Yes, because the truth
will offer people salvation." They immediately reduced my food portions and
forbade me to go to sleep before midnight. They also drew circles on the ground
with words defaming our Master. Several of them dragged me to step on it. I told
them doing this was a great sin! Since there are due karmic retributions for
one's behavior, they shouldn't do things that would eventually harm them. They
refused to listen and even tried to pick me up to step on it. However, they
could not move me since my righteous thoughts were strong. They wanted me to write a statement giving up Falun Gong practice. Instead, I
wrote about the truth of the April 25th Appeal at Zhongnanhai and the
staged self-immolation on Tiananmen Square to expose the evil persecution of
Falun Gong. They then forced me to stand still and deprived me of sleep for
three full days. Yuan Aihua from the "610 Office" threatened me,
saying that my daughter would lose her job, but I was not moved. During the day
on March 24, several police officers standing behind me forcibly took my fingers
to put my fingerprints on something they had written. They tore open the sleeve
and pockets of my winter coat in their violent attempt. Because I would not accept their water, police officer Qu Zhong asked if I
was afraid that they had drugged the water. I responded that they knew very well
whether or not the water was drugged. He then acknowledged it with a laugh. When
I advised them not to do bad things, they threatened me with firing my daughter
from her job again. I ignored them and refused to write or sign any of their
documents. The next afternoon my husband came to take me home. 6. Breaking through the family boundary The evil took advantage of my loved ones and tried to use them to make me
stop my cultivation. They also encouraged my neighbors to cause interference. My
husband even threatened to divorce me. I refused to listen and my faith remained
strong. I told them that my determination to cultivate in Dafa cannot be shaken. My husband is a member of the Communist Party and an atheist. His mind was
deeply polluted by the state-run media and the lies in the brainwashing class.
When under the evil's influence, he often badmouthed our Master. I told him that
without Falun Gong, I wouldn't be alive today. This is a fact. Dismayed by my
persistence, he often used violence against me. The party secretary of my
neighborhood and the local police often came to ask my husband about me, so my
husband was even more scared of me going out. He followed me everywhere I went.
Later on he simply locked all the doors and made our home a virtual prison. I
insisted on reading Dafa books, practicing the exercises and reciting Teacher's
poems in Hong Yin. When I recited "Mighty Virtue:" "Dafa never leaves the body, I suddenly became enlightened to the following: How could a non-practitioner
control a Dafa practitioner? I have to break through the barrier and step out to
do the right thing. At the same time, I also looked inward to find my own
shortcomings. I realized that I had to treat my husband with compassion. He can
lock the door, but not my heart. I won't change just because he locked the door.
I also paid more attention to his life. When he saw my determination, he stopped
locking the doors and even gave me the keys. My family situation improved. But
every time I was arrested and later released, he again began to lock the doors
and followed me around. I patiently told him that what he did was done under the
evil's control. He argued that he was trying to protect me from being arrested.
I told him that I am determined to cultivate to the end. My husband is a good
person. When he saw that I would never give up Falun Gong, he was not very sure
anymore about locking me up all the time. Through my Fa-study, I realized that I
had an attachment of sentimentality to my husband, so I was restrained by
something arising out of human emotion. I had to break through the evil using my
family to persecute me. After my realization, my cultivation environment
improved. In fact, when someone can't let go of attachments in cultivation, fear
and all kinds of human mentalities will become locks that prevent us from
continuing cultivation. Only after we abandon the human attachments can we make
progress. 7. Sending forth righteous thoughts, telling people the facts and saving them At the beginning of sending forth righteous thoughts, I enlightened to the
importance of doing this from Fa-study. I continued to do so everyday at the
designated times with practitioners all over the world, and I also tried my best
to do it at the top of each hour. The evil interference caused pain in my feet,
but it couldn't stop me. When taking a bus, I sent righteous thoughts towards
the drivers and passengers. I also did it towards my relatives and friends, my
husband and children, the local police, neighbors and companies that persecute
Falun Gong. I wanted to eliminate the poison in their minds caused by the Jiang
regime's lies and give them a brighter future. I distributed all kinds of truth clarification materials, brochures, CD's,
banners, self-adhesive flyers and a brochure called "Benevolent Predestined
Connection." When we couldn't find enough material, we would use articles
from the Minghui and Zhengjian websites. I even hand copied some flyers. I also
wrote some short statements to post in public places. I distributed flyers to
many places, such as neighborhoods, office buildings and schools. I went to the
countryside twice. Once I wrapped the flyers up and gave them out at a clinic.
Another time during a big snowstorm, I distributed flyers in a rural area. A
policeman spotted me and tried to arrest me. My heart remained pure and calm.
When I looked straight into his eyes, his hand loosened up and he told me to
leave quickly. With Teacher's protection, I continued and finished distributing
all the flyers. Once when I was being followed, I pretended to be a passerby and
was able to get away. One day on a bus, I passed a flyer to an older man. He
refused and asked me, "Do you know what I do?" He wanted to call 110 (police
hotline). I told him that Falun Gong is being persecuted and we are good
people who follow Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance. "What's wrong
with that?" I asked him. Finally he calmed down and did not call the
police. Through my own experience in distributing the truth clarification
material, I realized that as long as we have the compassion to save people and
keep our righteous thoughts and righteous actions, under Teacher's protection,
the truth clarification material will reach the right people and people will be
saved. I took the initiative to clarify the facts to the local police in our
community and told them about the crimes committed in the brainwashing classes.
I also met with the Party secretaries in the community and warned them not to
persecute the Falun Gong practitioners. By doing so, I improved my own
environment. Once when my husband and I went out, I passed out 40 flyers without
his knowledge. Later during another walk, I passed out 50 flyers. In "Drive
Out Interference" Teacher says, "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." My own experience of getting rid of fear and
strengthening righteous thoughts is a testament to the power of the Fa. Dafa cultivation is a serious matter. We must do the three things
well and improve as a whole body. I organized an experience sharing with some
fellow practitioners, and we watched Teacher's nine-day lectures together. A
fellow practitioner had doubts about Teacher's recent lectures and articles and
did not want to study them. After the sharing, he accepted the new lectures and
articles from me. I reminded some practitioners who stayed at home to read
Teacher's words. I tried hard to pass on the book Zhuan Falun and
articles from the Minghui website to a former practitioner who deviated from the
Fa and believed the authorities' lies. Sometimes, it's very difficult to pass on
Teacher's articles to other practitioners. After repeated failures, I looked
inward and sent forth righteous thoughts. After that I was able to deliver them
to the fellow practitioners. I still have a long way to go in fulfilling Dafa's requirements. I have a
pursuit for comfort and sometimes lazy. I must be very diligent and follow the
process of Fa rectification. I wrote this article to share my cultivation
experiences, and I hope that my fellow practitioners will share their
understandings, as well. January 25, 2005
Heart contains Zhen-Shan-Ren;
A great Arhat in the world,
Spirits and ghosts fear the most."
Chinese version available at
http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/2/10/95233.html
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