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A New Cultivator's Experiences
By a practitioner in China
(Clearwisdom.net) I started to practice Falun Gong in February 2006. Due
to a physical disability, I suffered from severe backache. My sister-in-law is a
Falun Gong practitioner. She told me that Falun Dafa is the great way of the
universe, extremely good, and that it has miraculously cured many people's
illnesses. She gave me a truth-clarification amulet and a pamphlet
entitled Choose Your Own Future. As soon as I started to read it I felt
sleepy, however, and I put it aside and didn't pay much attention to it. A few days later two other practitioners told me more about Falun Gong. They
talked a great deal, but I didn't listen to them at all, I only felt tired and
sleepy. That night I couldn't fall asleep. Instead, those two practitioners'
faces and words kept appearing in my head. It was rather strange and curious.
But my backache was so severe then that I could hardly bear it another minute. I
had to remain in bed for days. A few more days passed. One night I had an unusual dream: I went to a
pavilion among some bushes below a temple. As soon as I sat down, a group of six
people in regular clothes also stepped in. They sat opposite me, and each
glanced at me for a second. Once of them wore a coat with rows of golden-colored
buttons. His hair was combed to one side and his face appeared kind. He sat by a
round stone table in the middle of the pavilion, writing. An old man in the
group said to me, "You are only concerned about your back discomfort, yet
don't read the book others gave you. How could your illness be cured?" Then
he pointed to the man writing in the middle of the pavilion and said, "He
is Li Hongzhi." I suddenly awakened from the dream and wondered where I was. I was amazed to
have seen those deity-like figures. I hurried to ask my sister-in-law the next
day and asked, "Who is Li Hongzhi? What does he do?" My sister-in-law
replied, "Li Hongzhi is our Master, our Teacher. How do you know him?"
Then I told her about my dream. She was surprised and said, "How lucky you
are! Even our Master and many gods and Buddha appeared before your eyes! You
must have done something very good in the past! Hurry up and learn Falun Dafa
and don't waste any precious time." Only then did I understand the meaning of my dream. It was Master Li Hongzhi
and divine beings who helped me remember the predestined relationship I have
with Falun Dafa. I felt extremely fortunate and immediately finished reading the
book Choose Your Own Future. A miracle happened! My backache was gone
that same night. I told this good news to my sister-in-law the following day and
expressed my strong wish to learn Falun Gong. I eagerly asked her to help me get
a copy of Zhuan Falun. Because of my sincerity, with the help
of a fellow practitioner, my sister-in-law found the book for me in a few days.
I was so happy that I squeezed in time to read the book earnestly day and night.
Amazing things kept popping up one after another. My husband was also excited about it and began smiling again. He was no
longer gloomy, and a few months later, he obtained the Fa, too. He experienced
extraordinary things as well! One night he was climbing the stairs to go home,
when suddenly a torch-sized bright light emerged on his forehead. He was shocked
and didn't know what to do. Then the bright light disappeared. He experienced
the same phenomenon several times later on. Shortly afterwards, my husband and I went to a fair on a tricycle. Because he
drove too fast, the vehicle and I fell to the ground at a sharp turn. I landed
heavily on the cement, scraping and sliding to the point where hair was left on
the concrete. However, not a single spot on my body was injured and I felt no
pain at all. I know it was because of Master's protection. Another time my husband and I went to dig a well. My husband was working in
the well more than ten meters deep. I operated the pulley to get barrels of
sandstone and muddy water out of the well. Suddenly the air compressor's
high-voltage electrical cord broke. I lost my balance and almost fell into the
well. Just as I was about to fall down, I cried out aloud and landed in a
clearing by the well. Because the power had been suddenly cut off, the barrel
had stopped moving down inside the well and was hanging in mid-air. I was very
scared and realized that had I fallen into the well with the barrel, it would
have been a huge disaster. It was our Master who had saved us again. My daughter and her husband worked in Shenzhen. When they came back home to
visit us last year, I told them about the amazing things we had experienced
after practicing Falun Gong. I also advised them to recite "Falun Dafa is
good," "Zhen-Shan-Ren is good" sincerely, because the words can
protect and help them in difficult times. They remembered my words, having taken them to heart, and my daughter gave
birth to a baby easily without much pain. A few days later, my son-in-law called
me and said that a fortuneteller told them that the child was going to have a
bright future. The fortuneteller also drew a symbol and asked them to put it
underneath the baby's pillow. I thought it was not right because it was against
the teachings in Zhuan Falun. I discussed the issue with my sister-in-law
and she agreed as well. I immediately called my son-in-law. I told him to get
rid of that stuff, and in the meantime recite, "Falun Dafa is good!
Zhen-Shan-Ren is good" and the Fa-rectification formula, until they reached
home. The baby started to convulse the next day. They were so scared and rushed
to call me. My sister-in-law was by my side at that time. We told them to keep
calm and to put the cellphone next to the baby's ear. We and fellow
practitioners sent forth righteous thoughts together. We also asked them to
repeat after us one sentence after another. "Falun Dafa is good! Zhen-Shan-Ren
is good!" Soon the baby returned normal. Another time, my brother-in-law went to work in a field. Just as he stepped
out of the door, he lost consciousness and his face turned blue. His son called
for help and asked us to help him. My fellow practitioner and I helped him using
the same method as with my grandchild. It was because of Master's great
compassion that we could revive him with only a phone call. Because I haven't studied the Fa in depth, I had poor
enlightenment quality. Just as Teacher said in the Lecture Two of Zhuan Falun: "Though you sit here and have begun to practice cultivation, you are,
after all, just beginning from the level of an everyday person with many
everyday people's attachments still not abandoned." My shortcoming was displayed in my everyday life recently when I didn't
cultivate my xinxing. One day I went to buy some lotus root.
The price was two yuan per kilogram. I picked up a few of the best
pieces to be weighed. The seller said that he would charge 2.2 yuan per kilogram
for those pieces. I disagreed and started to argue with him. Why would he charge
me extra? I would not accept it! After the transaction, I went to find someone I
know to weigh my goods and discovered that the seller had given me two ounces
less. I was not happy and went back to complain. The seller had to admit his
wrongdoing and wanted to compensate me by giving me a small piece for free. I
was not satisfied. I found one of the best pieces in the pile that weighed
almost a quarter of a kilogram and self-righteously left. I was pleased that I
had not been taken advantage of. I then went to a butcher's shop and bought one
kilogram of meat. I divided the meat into two parts once I got home, one for
dinner that night and another for the following day. I placed the reserved part
in a pot, together with a bowl of meat soup, and covered it. The next morning when I lifted the lid on the pot, I was surprised to find
that the meat was gone, yet the bowl of soup was intact. There were only two of
us at home. If the cat stole it, it surely would have spilled the soup. But the
soup was untouched and only the meat was missing. How inconceivable it was! My
husband, however, made the following comment: "I have told you not to take
advantage of others but you would not listen. See what has happened! You have
lost more. How could you be regarded as a practitioner!" I suddenly came to
my senses: I must get rid of this shameful attachment of mine and never take
advantage of other people. When I was only a teenager, a relative and I started to cheat others. We did
this until a few years before I got married. As a result, many people suffered
financially. I was trained to play cards for money and learned a trick to always
win. I then performed in front of people and defrauded them. Some lost a lot of
money and some won once in a while, but their chance of winning was less than 20
percent. However, the law of heaven is fair to everyone. I caught a severe
disease and became disabled thereafter. Only after I learned Falun Dafa did I begin to know how to live in the world.
It was our Master that saved my soul. He has transformed me from a person
harmful to society to a person who can save people by telling them about Dafa. |