(Clearwisdom.net)
Because my whole life was so tumultuous, I found reading a great joy. At 9 years of age I began reading in earnest. My father managed a school library, which gave me a uniquely advantageous environment. I read any and all types of books, that is, except for qigong books. I thought such stuff was too far removed from me, but I still liked to read myths and legends. I always believed they were real.
Near the end of 1995 my coworker gave me a copy of the book Falun Gong, and recommended it highly. I could not refuse so I took it and casually flipped through it. The precious opportunity had come to me without my awareness. On April 13, 1996, a colleague came to me saying that his wife had tried to reach me 3 times earlier that day to watch a Falun Gong video that she said was very good. His wife had heart disease. In 1995 I got diabetes, high blood fats, fatty liver, left brain hardening, retina pathological change, etc. I had been hospitalized for over 100 days and because she was also a resident patient I saw her frequently. Now she could climb to 4 floors to look for me - I was moved by her sincerity. I could not refuse again. Thus my destiny was changed.
(1)
When I first saw Teacher, I felt closeness and familiarity. Teacher was energetic. His voice and way of speaking were very kind, solid and natural. Teacher would used the plainest words to disclose principles, and many things that I did not understand previously I now clearly understood. It was as if pure water flowed into my dry heart.
Sitting there listening to Teacher's Fa, I felt comfortable over my whole body. After listening to half a lecture, some thick phlegm surged and when I coughed it came out. I felt strange because I did not understand that Teacher was purifying the body.
From the age of 8, because we were poor, I had to go out to dig wild vegetables to provide food for my family. When I was 14, I began to work on the farm. When I was 20 years old, I worked 2 years as the loader in a sugar factory. I would haul from 800 to 1000 pounds of beets a day to the factory for processing. Under such a heavy work load, I contracted tuberculosis and bronchitis. At regular intervals, while listening to the Fa, my shoulders would raise up very high and I would cough up honeycomb shaped phlegm.
After finishing Teacher' first lecture, I borrowed a veteran practitioner's cultivation experience paper and quickly ran back home. I had contracted nervous diarrhea when I gave birth to my child. If my mind had any thoughts, I would have to run to the restroom. After I arrived at home, the stool was mostly bloody. After a while I had another two episodes with stool that was mostly purple-black clots and something like pus. Afterwards I immediately felt light all over my body; so light that I wanted to jump.
After reading the veteran practitioner's cultivation experience, I went to sleep. Just after I closed my eyes, I heard a noise like "bam." When I opened my eyes I saw a black-and-white photo about 2-inches high show up on the wall just above my head. On the photo there was a Buddha with curly hair. Then I felt my body rise up about one meter. It was really amazing.
In the course of nine days I coughed up 9 honeycomb shaped gobs of phlegm. Afterwards, my shoulders were relaxed and the diarrhea disappeared. It was then that I started my cultivation.
(2)
Teacher said in the second lecture "The Issue of the Celestial Eye" in Zhuan Falun,
"Then, at what level do I open your Celestial Eye? I will open your Celestial Eye directly at the level of Wisdom Eyesight. If it were opened at a higher level, your xinxing would not be adequate. If it were opened at a lower level, it would severely disturb the state of ordinary human society. With Wisdom Eyesight, you do not have the ability to see things through a wall or see through a human body, but you can see the scenes existing in other dimensions. What benefits does this have? It can enhance your confidence in the practice. When you indeed see something that everyday people cannot see, you will think that it certainly exists. No matter whether you can see something clearly at present, your Celestial Eye will be opened at this level, and this is good for your practice. A true Dafa practitioner can obtain the same result by reading this book, provided that he is strict with himself in improving xinxing."
At the very beginning of my cultivation, I saw the "big eye" that is our real eye. It was furry and very amusing. I could not tell others about it, so every morning during exercises I would watch that eye. My celestial eye was constantly upgraded in levels. Later we moved our exercise site to a place facing the south, halfway up the mountain, and it was very spacious. When I was doing the second exercise, as both hands slowly lifted up, right in front of me the whole sky was a wheel sort of like a big sunflower. It was beautiful and magnificent. It would turn clockwise 9 times and counter-clockwise 9 times. I could not remember the detailed design, but I remember the color was very bright, and of a different color from the ordinary human dimension.
I experienced this wonderful scene every day. My celestial eye was constantly moving up in levels. Finally one day I felt it dashing out of a round hole. Then I was able to see everyone's bodily conditions. The upper half of some practitioners' bodies were white, while the lower halves of other practitioners' bodies were white. Some were white all over. Amazingly, one morning I found a young, tall male standing by my side. I was surprised. Who was he? Myself? No! Was he that practitioner who was cultivating well? He was standing far from me. Regardless of who he was, it was a good thing. It was later that I came to understand that the immortal infant that Teacher mentioned in Zhuan Falun truly exists.
(3)
Teacher said in Zhuan Falun,
"A few individuals may fall asleep and wake up as soon as I finish my lecture. Why is that? It is because their brains have illnesses that need to be treated. One will be unable to stand it if one's brain is worked on. Therefore, one must be put into a state of anesthesia or become unconscious. Nevertheless, some people do not have a problem hearing me. Though they may sleep soundly, they hear everything without missing a single word." (Lecture 2, Zhuan Falun)
Before cultivating I had neurasthenia, trigeminal neuralgia and cerebral arteriosclerosis. During group Fa-study, I could only stay awake for 5 to 10 minutes before falling to sleep, but I could hear people reading the Fa. Even as I watched the videos of Teacher's lectures, it was like that. I knew listening to the Fa while sleeping is not polite, but I could not control it.
Once when I was watching the video of Teacher's lectures, I again fell asleep. In a dream I saw a place like a farmer's one-story house, with Teacher sitting on a table wearing a blue Chinese tunic suit. Teacher was tall and was lecturing on the Fa. One practitioner and I were sitting on the southern edge of the bed, while another practitioner was standing on the ground. Then I again fell asleep in the dream, and almost fell down from the edge of the bed. I saw Teacher extend His big hand and support the top of my head, and I immediately felt a warm current flowing down my whole body. The practitioner standing on the ground also came to help me. Then I woke up from the dream. From then on during Fa-study I no longer fell asleep, and I no longer had headaches.
(4)
Teacher said in "How Should Falun Dafa Practitioners Spread the Practice" (Zhuan Falun)
"Our exercise sites are better than any other qigong exercise sites. As long as you go to our exercise sites for practice, it is much better than your treating your own illness. My fashen sit in a circle, and above the exercise site is a shield on which there is a big Falun. A large fashen guards the site above the shield. This site is not an ordinary site, and neither is it a site for an ordinary qigong practice: It is a site for cultivation practice. Many of our practitioners with supernormal abilities have seen that this Falun Dafa site is shielded with red light, and it is red all over."
When I read this part, I came to understand one thing. On July 27, 1994, at 9:15 p.m., my son (12-years-old at that time) shouted to me from the yard, "Mom, come here quickly!" I immediately ran out and saw redness all over the far end of the horizon towards the west. Initially I thought something caught fire, but then I felt this was not the case. How come there was only red light but not smoke? It was already late in the day; it could not be a sunset glow.
The red light became stronger and stronger, and brighter and brighter, gradually rising up in the sky. Slowly the entire western half of the sky became red. The color was very pure and dignified. Soon a red auspicious cloud filled half the sky, and a big golden red bird emerged. Its head was towards the southeast, its two legs and tail were all hidden in the red cloud in the northwest. Its neck was big and round, somewhat like the head of a pigeon. Its mouth was straight and long. Two big eyes were very round and constantly winking. Its golden eyelashes were furry and I could see them clearly. Its head, neck, and breast were full and its feathers were neat and shiny with a golden red color (beyond my description), with two big wings blocking half of the sky.
Too mysterious! Too magnificent a sight! I read the ancient books since I was young, so I knew this was one kind of celestial phenomenon. Only in Zhuangzi – Xiao Yao You and The Complete Story Telling of Yue Fei did I read this kind of description, but those accounts were glossed over without details. Now I personally saw it. My son said, "Mom, let's borrow a camera and quickly record it." But it was very late and not very convenient. Besides, with such a vulgar thought this precious eternal marvelous sight quickly disappeared. My son and I shouted out loudly in the residential community, "Come, rush to take a look!" Unfortunately no one came out.
At 9:45 p.m. the bird's two wings increased strength and fluttered - it was going to fly. That kind of shock to my mind is truly beyond my description. All I could do was keep telling my son, "Remember this! Remember this scene and draw it out when you grow up." Then a breeze came, in the breeze, the skeleton of the bird was clearly seen (I could not describe it). Slowly the red cloud faded, and this heavenly bird vanished in the curtain of night.
Over the following days I searched many materials, trying to write this mysterious scene out and pass it down to the human world, but I could not write it. Later I remembered in the ancient books that there was such a saying that if you saw a mysterious scene, you should not tell others. So I let go of this. When I read Zhuan Falun, I was able to understand all those mysterious scenes.
Through this I came to the enlightenment that from the ancient times to the present, many mysterious things did happen, but due to various reasons they were not passed down.
(5)
Teacher said in Zhuan Falun,
"I have taught you the Fa; it is up to you whether you can conduct yourself properly. What I have addressed is one of the situations. Don't let your mind be disturbed when you see an enlightened person from another school of practice. Stay with only one school of practice. Whether it is a Buddha, a Tao, an immortal, or a demon, they should not move your heart. In conducting oneself this way, success is bound to be in sight." (Lecture 6)
After I obtained the Fa in 1996 I had a dream. I can still remember it. As soon as I fell asleep, someone told me to come with them to see my master. On a green lawn, over twenty Buddhas, Taos, and gods gathered. Some I seemed to recognize. Many I had seen in drawings. Their appearance, age, race, nationality, and clothes were very different and obvious. They were tall, short, fat, and thin. The female gods were wearing Tang dynasty clothes, one was an immortal... It is too long for me to remember clearly now, but one thing for sure, the drawings of Buddhas, Taos and gods in our human world are all real. The common nature of them was that they were all benevolent, all demonstrating a god's lofty manner. They formed two lines, and all smiled to welcome me. Some even joked with me, "Am I your master?" I kept saying, "Li Hongzhi is my master, Li Hongzhi is my master!" I shook my head and tried to pay attention, carefully passing over them one by one.
After I woke up from the dream, my first thought was to feel pleased to have conducted myself well given the situation. My second thought was that when Teacher talked about Buddhas, Tao, and gods it is all true!
(6)
Teacher said in Zhuan Falun,
"I do not talk about healing illness here, and neither will we heal illness. As a genuine practitioner, however, you cannot practice cultivation with an ill body. I will purify your body. The body purification will be done only for those who come to truly learn the practice and the Fa."
When I obtained the Fa in 1996 I had diabetes for about 15 years already, and I had illnesses all over my body. In July when I was cleaning windows, my head knocked the corner of the window. Since there was no blood I did not pay attention to it, but quickly a bump about the size of a duck egg appeared. A doctor at a private clinic on the street sliced the bump with a knife, and my whole head and face immediately swelled. My eyes swelled almost shut. My children forced me to go to the city hospital to have it treated. At night I went to a practitioner's home to listen to Teacher's lectures. Amazingly, on TV Teacher raised His head while giving the lecture, paused after seeing my head was fully wrapped with bandages, and then continued giving the lecture. I found a place to sit down, and I felt there was something like ants moving to that bump. I understood that Teacher was purifying my body. Soon I felt that stuff like ants surrounding the bump. Afterwards, I clearly felt a big hand take the bump from the top of my head. My head immediately felt relieved. After that Teacher looked at me one more time and then continued lecturing.
The next day in the morning the bump on my head diminished and quickly sealed. After it disappeared, on the top of my head there was a place about the size of a duck egg that did not have hair at all. I was very worried. But within less than a month, hair started growing again. I was amazed!
In July and September of 1997, my left ankle joint had inflammation and my legs were rotting with broken skin. Besides, there were quite a few holes on my legs. First, in July I had 18 infusions, and I had 38 infusions in September. In the end, the needle could not inject anymore and there was a penicillin smell all over my body. Even I could not stand the smell. It was truly like what Teacher said in Zhuan Falun,
"We have a practitioner who broke a few needles at a hospital. In the end, the liquid medicine squirted out, and the needle still would not penetrate. He came to understand: 'Oh, I'm a practitioner, and I shouldn't have injections.' He just realized that he should not have an injection. Therefore, whenever you come across tribulations, be sure to pay attention to this issue." (Lecture 5)
In November, my left ankle again had inflammation and my whole left foot swelled. I realized Teacher had given me two opportunities to improve already. This time I was determined not to have an injection. One night my swollen foot burst open and pus and blood flew out. Amazingly, down under the rotten flesh there was new flesh already there.
At that time Teacher's lecture Lectures in the United States had just arrived. Teacher said,
"But although you can't see me in person, as long as you practice cultivation, I'm actually right by your side. And as long as you practice cultivation, I can be responsible for you all the way to the end; what's more, I'm looking after you every single moment." ("Teaching the Fa in New York City, March 23, 1997)
I truly felt Teacher was beside me. My whole family was blessed by the "Buddha-light rectifying all abnormalities." I used a bandage to wrap my foot and continued to exercise. I felt a big Falun rotating on top of my head. Three days later my left foot was healed.
(7)
In the song, "Eulogy for Master's Grace," it says, "Recollecting from an ancient memory, curtains unfolded, sonorous pledges still resonate near the ear, sacred vow still remembered in the heart. We come for the sentient beings, assisting Master in Fa-rectification we are not afraid of the bitter sea." When I listened to this song, I was full of tears.
Soon after I obtained Fa in 1996, I had a dream in which I was visiting my neighbor. While there I saw Teacher wearing a blue Chinese tunic suit, sitting near the table, with a pen and a notebook writing something. There were also two other people there. I said, "Teacher Li came!" Teacher called my name and said, "Why didn't you come until now?" A group of people continuously approached through a door. Then I woke up.
For so many years I always felt happy that I was able to see Teacher in my dreams. Now I understand that Teacher was recording the disciples who would go to the human world to assist Teacher with Fa-rectification. Those who went through the north door are those practitioners who came down to the human world to assist Teacher with Fa-rectification. Without doubt I now realize that I am one among them.
(8)
Teacher said in The Great Way of Spiritual Perfection,
"What extent should genuine Opening the Top of the Head reach? A person's crania have to be opened completely and then forever be in a state of automatic opening-and-closing. The brain will be in constant communication with the vast universe. Such a state will exist, and that's real Opening the Top of the Head. Of course, we're not talking about the cranium in this dimension--that would be frightening. It's the crania in other dimensions."
In the beginning of 1999, whenever I did the sitting meditation exercise for over one hour, my celestial eye would automatically open. I would see scenes in other dimensions. I could feel the top of my head open just like a lotus flower with petals opening and closing. I noticed a huge column extend from the top of my head, but I was not scared. From then on I often saw the words "Falun Dafa is good," and "Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance" very large, as if filling the whole cosmos. The letters were in official script style, the same font that Teacher uses.
In 2005, when for the third time Clearwisdom unified the "sending forth righteous thoughts" time, this state showed up again. I could often feel Falun rotating on the top of my head; sometimes I could hear the sound of Falun rotating near my ears.
(9)
Teacher said in Zhuan Falun:
"What is Precognition and Retrocognition? It is that someone is able to tell another person's future and past. With a strong capability, one is able to tell the rise and fall of a society. With a greater capability, one can see the law of all cosmic changes. This is the supernormal ability of Precognition and Retrocognition."
"In other words, after this supernormal ability develops, there must be another one that serves as a carrier to reflect the scenes from other dimensions. Consequently, it can be seen by this Celestial Eye. One can see very accurately a person's future and past. No matter how well the fortune-telling works, it cannot tell the minor events and their details. This person, however, is able to see things very clearly, including the time of year. The details of changes are all visible since what one sees is the actual reflection of people and things from different dimensions."
"With the constant upgrading of your level, the capability of Precognition and Retrocognition will naturally emerge. This scenario will occur in your future cultivation practice." (Lecture 2, Zhuan Falun)
On April 20, 1999 after I did the sitting meditation exercise for an hour, my celestial eye slowly opened. Two mountains showed up. They were very steep and rising up to the clouds. There were deep ravines in the middle. There was a rocky platform on the right side of the mountain, and a Taoist was in sitting meditation there. There were weeds and tree branches growing out of the top of his head. I could not see his face clearly. His clothes had many knots and were flying with the wind. It seemed that he had sat there for a long long time. Who was he? Was he me? Had Teacher enabled me to see the original me? In the following 4 to 5 days, as long as I did the second exercise in the morning, I would see this scene in my celestial eye.
These mysterious experiences laid a solid foundation for my later cultivation. Whenever I felt hesitant, scared, or did not know what decision to make, they would show up scene by scene, confirming Teacher's benevolence and the existence of Dafa, encouraging me to continue on my path of cultivation.
I remember feeling jealous of the Gods in the ancient books, yet now I wholeheartedly follow the greatest Master in the cosmos. I had sicknesses all over my body -- from inside to outside, from skin to blood. The top of my head had pus boils, the bottom of my feet had pus, and my hands and feet bore much illness. Teacher purified my body and suffered for me innumerable times. How could one word of "thanks" cover this? Teacher's great compassion is beyond compare. I am truly blessed! I'd like to shout out loud to the sky, to the earth, to human beings, and to countless descendants, "Falun Dafa is wonderful! Li Hongzhi Teacher is wonderful! Teacher is wonderful!"
