On the Path of Cultivation, Master is Always There to Protect Us

By a Dafa practitioner from Mainland China

(Clearwisdom.net) I obtained the Fa in June 1997. Before that I was sterile, but now I have a family and a child that others are envious of. Exhausting all of mankind's languages I could not express my gratitude towards Master!

In the past, I was a businesswoman, very attached to fame, profit and emotion. After the persecution began on July 20, 1999, I did not realize that, as a Dafa practitioner, I should go to Beijing to stand up for the Fa. I was still busy with business and making a profit. In 2000 a practitioner talked about going to Beijing to protect the Fa. At the time I had only been pregnant for just over a month. I thought it was temporarily inconvenient for me to go to Beijing, so together with several other practitioners we established a material site in a far away mountainous area, using savings that I had accumulated.

By 2001, I decided to go to Beijing alone to defend Dafa. Before leaving, I arranged everything, thinking that if the police arrested me, I would not cooperate with them. Inside Tiananmen Square's entry gate, I posted flyers where many people passed by. One person said, "Why are you posting Falun Dafa slogans here?" At the time I was a little afraid. Later I thought, "There is Master, there is the Fa, nobody can touch me. I am here to validate the Fa, I am not afraid." Then I went to another place, hung up a yellow cloth banner saying "Falun Dafa is Good, Falun Dafa is a Righteous Fa, Return Our Master's Reputation." I finished posting several dozen of them. In the end I safely returned home.

After returning home my son said, "Mom, hurry up to offer incense to Master." When I asked why, he said, "At night I could not sleep because I missed you so much, so I told Master, 'I miss Mom!' Then I saw Master sitting on a flower with many circles. Master seemed to say, 'Your mom is coming home soon.'" I shed tears after hearing that. In my heart I don't know how to thank Master! It is Master who kindly protected me so that I could safely return home. Since then, I no longer feel afraid. I believe that Master is always beside me.

In order to improve as a whole and elevate as a whole, since 2002 we have studied, practiced the exercises, and shared our experiences as a group. Everyone understands the Fa from the Fa, thus some practitioners who were initially afraid to come out began to follow us to post fliers. They said they felt comfortable doing Fa validation work with the group together. This way practitioners at our site, who were at first afraid of coming out, all gradually came out.

One day, two practitioners went to a rural area to post fliers in the morning. After being reported they were abducted by the police. They refused to cooperate. The police found practitioner A's cell phone during a body search, which revealed practitioner A's home address. They raided practitioner A's home around 5 p.m. and took all the Dafa books and Master's photo. At 8 p.m. in the evening, we went to practitioner A's home as usual to study the Fa, and the police caught all of us. They demanded our names and addresses, but we refused to cooperate with them. One practitioner tried to go outside, but the police grabbed her arm and attempted to hit her. I immediately opened the window to shout, "Villagers! Hurry and come here to see! We are good people, and the police have illegally arrested and beat us!"

After several shouts, three officers, maliciously dragged me over for a beating. At that moment I shouted, "Mom" and suddenly recalled what Master said in 2002 Touring North America to Teach the Fa:

"When the evil was beating them they forgot that they were Dafa disciples, and they didn't think, 'I'll ask Master to help me.' Or, when some people did ask Master for help, they had a strong attachment of fear. When they were beaten and in a lot of pain, many of them cried out, 'Oww! Mom!' They completely treated this persecution as a persecution of ordinary human beings against other human beings."

So I shouted, "Master, Master!" The police immediately stopped beating me. My eyes filled with tears. At that moment I deeply felt Master's compassion and the vastness of Buddha's grace.

The police then made some calls to ask for people to take us away. I asked Master to strengthen us. Even if we as a whole had omissions, it was still not up to the evil to test us. There were countless sentient beings waiting for us to save them. We could not be taken away. The calls failed to connect. The police then had to go to the balcony to make the calls. I hurriedly called for practitioner A to unlock the door that was previously locked by the police. I ran outside, the other practitioners following me, and we ran. Just like that, under the protection of Master, we again broke free with righteous thoughts. It is just like "Disciple's Righteous Thoughts Abound, Master's Power Can Regenerate Heaven." ("Grace Between Master And Disciple" from Hongyin II, provisional translation)

Afterwards I was still a little afraid. I went to other practitioners' homes to hide. I first told the group to send forth righteous thoughts. Then I asked fellow practitioners to go to the home of arrested practitioner B to fetch the Dafa materials. But those practitioners did not check carefully, and some of the materials were found by the police, causing unnecessary losses.

The four days that I studied the Fa in a fellow practitioner's home, I carefully looked inside myself. I wondered why, since I had broken through with righteous thoughts while surrounded by the police, why I was still afraid? I was doing Fa-rectification work, I was doing the most righteous work, what was there to be afraid of? Wasn't this what the old forces wanted?

I realized that I should not stay at other practitioners' homes. I immediately went to my own house. After going back home I went to practitioner B's home to check. I carefully searched and found many other Dafa materials. There were still important materials not found by the police. That saved a lot of work and time in our future efforts to do the three things well, thus reducing losses to our Fa validation.

I have written about our experience to advise fellow practitioners to not be careless at any moment, and to avoid causing losses to Dafa. At the same time I am eagerly awaiting the re-establishment of our Fa-study group. This was my personal understanding. Heshi!

December 09, 2005

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2005/12/10/116258.html

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