With Continuous Righteous Thoughts, Challenging Tests Are No Longer Challenging
By a Falun Dafa practitioner from Shengli Oil Field in Shandong Province
(Clearwisdom.net) Greetings, Revered Teacher! Greetings, Fellow
Practitioners! Having gone through the past seven years of the evil Chinese Communist
Party's (CCP) persecution, the most vicious so-called "test" in
history, every Dafa practitioner has chosen a path for himself. Each test of
life or death and each test with spiritual challenges witnesses the cultivator's
path, as well as the wonder, superiority and miraculousness of Dafa. The following are my experiences validating the Fa. I'd like to share them
with everyone. Like many other assistants at assistance centers in China, I have been
arrested many times, brainwashed, sent to forced labor camps and forced to leave
home, going into hiding during the evil persecution. Some of these tests I
passed easily, some with great difficulty. However, my righteous belief in
Teacher and Dafa is diamond-solid and unshakable. A. Rejecting Old Force Arrangements and Returning Home Openly I left my home and went into hiding for over a year. Though I wanted to
return home every day, it was very difficult for me to take the first step.
Though I studied the Fa every day, I did not resolve the fundamental attachment
in my soul. I had asked myself repeatedly, "Why are you hiding here? Why
don't you go home? What are you afraid of? Aren't you just afraid of being
persecuted by the old forces? Isn't this just following arrangements made by the
old forces?" A Dafa practitioner must always follow the requirements of the
Fa. That can never be skated over. At that time, the Minghui website, the
Chinese version of Clearwisdom.net, published many articles exposing the evil.
Teacher also told us in "Rationality," "The actions they are now adopting in the persecution of Dafa and its
students are extremely evil and shameful, and they fear these will be exposed.
You must let the world's people know about their evilness--this is saving
people, as well." After discussing with other local practitioners, we decided to immediately
write articles to expose the persecution of my family, how my husband was taken
to a forced labor camp, how I went into hiding and how my son was left home
alone. Not only did we send the article to the people who created the disaster
for our families and their bosses, but we also distributed the materials to the
public to let the people know the truth and expose the evil. The evil could not
stand it. They asked people to bring a message to me saying it would be OK for
me to return home to take care of my son. So I returned home openly. First I
visited the leaders of the offices that were involved or related to the
persecution of me and told them about the persecution of Dafa practitioners and
the wide spread of Falun Dafa to over sixty countries in the world. I also
called the head of the 610 Office, reminding him that goodness
begets goodness and that evil will be punished. After they understood the truth,
they said that they would no longer persecute me and that I could stay home and
practice Falun Gong. They understood the difficulties created for me and my
family in the past few years and were willing to help me if I ran into any
problems. I was joyful to see these sentient beings being saved and felt sorry
for the time I wasted and the opportunities I missed during the year that I had
been hiding. After rejecting the old force arrangements, I was delighted to return to the
cultivation environment of assisting Teacher in rectifying the Fa. Looking back
over my cultivation during the past few years, I saw that every time I fell, it
appeared to be caused by the evil persecution, but at the root it was my
attachments that I needed to eliminate. The torture against me exposed my many
shortcomings, gaps and potential problems. To be honest, my determination in
assisting Teacher to rectify the Fa is solid as a diamond and unshakable, but my
heart was not pure enough to reach the Fa's standards of selflessness, and
always considering others first. I needed to truly consciously assimilate myself
to the Fa to make my body undergo fundamental changes. I also understand clearly that to walk every step well and correctly, one
must study the Fa well. No matter how the ordinary world changes or how crazy
the evil is, that's just the cultivation environment for us cultivators.
Everything in the Three Realms is set up for Fa rectification at this time. In
this environment, we must unconditionally look inward at ourselves. If we can
firmly follow Teacher's lessons and arrangements, we can reject the old force's
persecution at its root. B. Understanding what is meant by "Cultivation Is up to You, Gong Is up
to the Master" 1. Eliminating Fear When Buying Supplies for Truth Clarification Materials Setting up truth-clarification materials centers everywhere is Teacher's
request to Dafa practitioners in the Fa Rectification period. It is also a
special cultivation form for us to validate the Fa in the ordinary world. Thus
it is a path that we must walk well. There had not been enough truth-clarification materials in our area, and many
materials requiring higher technical skills such as small booklets and Dafa
bookmarks were mainly provided by practitioners from other areas. Via Fa study
and discussions, our local practitioners came to the conclusion that we need to
eradicate our old ideas of selfishness such as waiting for, relying on, or
asking of others. We should create those materials by ourselves and reduce the
burden on Dafa practitioners from other areas. So we pooled our money together
and bought the equipment. However, buying the raw materials became a challenge.
At the meeting, several older practitioners in their fifties and sixties looked
at each other, and finally all looked at me. I just came home from hiding,
should I take this "risky" task? Then another thought came into my
mind, "You are a Dafa practitioner in the Fa Rectification period. You must
do well the three things. Are you returning home to enjoy
life?" I was tested with the fight between righteous and evil and the
options of moving forward or stepping back. "A forward move, myriad things come into being. A step back, all turns
to nothing, forever to be a mystery." ("Nothing" from Hong
Yin Volume II). Saving sentient beings is our sacred task. I cannot back out but must be
responsible for them. So the next day I took a long-distance bus to a city that I was familiar
with. I came to a high-tech shopping center and told a store owner that I wanted
to buy paper, ink, CD's, etc..., he stared at me for a while, then asked,
"Ma'am, what do you need these things for at your age?" I told him
that I was running my business, but my heart beat like a drum. I recited in my
heart, "A Great Enlightened One fears no hardship. Having forged a
diamond-like will, free of attachments to living or dying. He walks the path
of Fa-rectification, confident and poised." ("Righteous Thoughts and
Righteous Actions" from Hong Yin Volume II) ...to keep myself calm. The owner did not ask me anything else. Under
Teacher's strengthening, they packed ten boxes of materials for me. I took a
taxi to bring them to the bus station for my return trip. I removed the box
label (but it could still be recognized). The bus driver was a very nice person.
While helping me load the boxes, he said softly on on my ear, "Ma'am,
please do not deal with these things in the future." I smiled. During the
whole trip, I had kept sending forth righteous thoughts to eliminate my selfish
ideas and fear as well as any hurdle on our path of Fa validation. When I
finally reached home, my thunder-beating heart calmed down. I could feel that my
mind nature had been enhanced and raised up in the Fa. When I got off the bus, I
saw Teacher's Law Body was next to me, smiling. After the first experience, it became very easy for me to do it again. After
getting rid of fear, my path was easy to walk. The store owner is in his
thirties, and after a while, we cooperated well and have a tacit understanding
of each other. Once, he said softly to me, "Ma'am, there are cameras around
here." I patted on his shoulder, "It is not able to tape me." He
smiled. Such words seemed to come out naturally, but it is when we have
cultivated to the level that Teacher described as, "If you are not afraid, the factor that would make you afraid will
cease to exist." ("Eliminate Your Last Attachment(s)"). How much Teacher has done benevolently to protect us! 2. Studying the Fa Well and Fulfilling My Responsibility Difficulties are not only hurdles on our path of Fa validation, but they are
also touchstones of our cultivation process. We clearly understand that we are
not overcoming difficulties doing ordinary people's jobs, but cultivating via
breaking the old universe's Fa and the old force's restrictions and to return to
our true selves and reach Consummation, becoming a new life meeting the new
universe's standards. Because of that, the things we do are sacred, great, and
full of mighty virtue. It was extremely difficult to set up the truth-clarification materials
center. Not only did I not know how to connect to the Internet or print, but the
managers from my company also frequently visited my home to show their concern
for me (my husband was sent to a forced labor for refusing to give up
cultivation). Once in a while, the police would come to my home to look around
and harass me. Under such an evil environment, the Dafa truth-clarification
materials would not be created should I not have a righteous belief in Teacher
and the Fa. I knew clearly that this was not just doing things but cultivating. "Somebody who truly cultivates up to high levels has to let go of all
the different attachments he has." (Zhuan Falun) Fear is a human attachment that needs to be eliminated during cultivation.
When the evil CCP persecution started on July 20, 1999, I said to Teacher in my
heart, even if I was the only practitioner in our area, I would continue
cultivating to the end. With indestructible righteous thoughts, I took the
equipment home and started fulfilling my responsibility of saving sentient
beings. My education was limited. I had no prior knowledge of computers, not to
mention printing. But once I had the wish to save sentient beings, everything
was taken care by Teacher. "Cultivation depends on one's own efforts, while the transformation of
gong is done by one's master" (Zhuan Falun) Via continuous Fa study, Dafa kept giving me wisdom. It was quite incredible
for ordinary people to believe. When the computer and printer came to my home, I viewed them as my Fa-implements
and cherished them. I told them that they came to my home for the Fa, so they
should cooperate with me. It was Teacher who told me how to print. I knew
nothing about computers. All we had was a flash memory card containing
truth-clarification material created by practitioners from another area. When I
first turned on the machines, I stared at the monitor, not knowing what to do.
All of sudden, a voice sounded in my head: click on "My Computer,"
then click..., then click... I followed the instruction to click through and put
paper into printer, then the printout came out! Because I did not set up the
paper tray, the pages came out quickly and flew all over in the room. But I was
afraid of stopping it for I might forget how to do it again. Then a voice in my
head told me to press the Pause button... Therefore, I learned how to print
single page material. Gradually, Teacher also told me how to make a small
booklet. It was just a pure miracle. One evening after I had just learned how to make small booklets, someone
knocked on my door. When I opened it, several policemen burst in. They searched
my home without saying anything. I asked them what they were doing. They
answered savagely, "Ransacking your house." They took my MP3 player,
my PDA and a printout of Teacher's new articles. They asked me to "go with
them." I did not want to go, but then I thought that I should not stay at
my home to deal with them, otherwise they might find my printer (I always boxed
it up after I used it). So I decided to go with them to clarify the truth, I
kept sending forth righteous thoughts. I was very rational, clear and calm,
feeling my body was surrounded by a strong energy field. I sat on a sofa as a
guest, because they had "invited" me there. I said in my heart that my
Teacher sent me to save you. At the same time I sent forth the righteous
thoughts to eliminate the evil factors behind the policemen. They saw that I was
very calm and pounded the table. I told them calmly, "You can't do anything
to me. I did not do any thing wrong. I am just a cultivator following the the
principles of 'Truthfulness, Benevolence, Forbearance.' My family was broken
apart by the CCP's persecution. I have only myself now and have nothing to
fear." Then I started to tell them the truth of the persecution of Dafa.
They realized that they could not handle me so they just kept quiet. One
policeman said, "Take her back home now. See? She is not afraid of
anything." Within an hour, they took me home. Once I came into my home, I
picked up my phone, "I am going to report to your supervisors that it is
illegal that you ransacked my home. You are supposed to enforce the law but
instead you broke it." The two policemen rushed to take the phone from me,
"Please do not call. If you want to practice Falun Gong, just do it in your
home. We will not come here to bother you any more." Since then, no
evildoers have come to my home to interfere with me. When in hardship or in a
challenge, as long as we truly believe in Teacher and Dafa, having a firm belief
will vaporize the evil. Actually the evil is nothing at all. This understanding
came from solid Fa study. As the Fa Rectification advances, the Fa requirements of me become higher and
higher. When writing this article, I realized my shortcomings in Fa study and
the shallowness of my article. At the same time, I also found shortcomings and
gaps in my cultivation. Let's advance together by focusing on our study of the
Fa and cultivation.
Chinese version available at
http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/10/26/140724.html
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