From Starting My First Truth-clarifying Materials
By Guiying, a Dafa disciple from Henan Province
(Clearwisdom.net) Greetings, Master! Greetings, fellow practitioners! When I saw the call for papers for the Fifth Internet Experience Sharing
Conference for Practitioners in China, I thought about how this was a platform
that Master created for disciples. Although what I have done are mainly small
things, with nothing really remarkable, I still want to participate. In sharing
my experience with fellow practitioners and reporting my cultivation status to
Master, I can find out where I am lacking and cultivate more diligently in the
future. 1. Personal Cultivation Period I started practicing Dafa in May 1997. I loved Dafa as soon as I found out
about it, and I made up my mind that I wanted to reach consummation. I told my
daughter, "I will only read this book from now on." My daughter
laughed at me and thought that I was too excited. Master saw my strong desire
for cultivation and encouraged me by giving me hints. He let me feel the
spinning of Falun in my lower abdomen. When I read the book, he let one line
stand out and shine green. My celestial eye was open and I could see that the
sky was full of small Faluns. I knew this was a book from heaven and I studied
the Fa and did the exercises even more diligently. Every day, except for working
and doing household chores, I studied the Fa, reading two or three lectures each
day, and did the five exercises as well. In the beginning, I could not do the
sitting meditation with my legs double crossed, so I held my legs with big
bricks until I could. Master said, "I have infused my abilities into this Dafa. As long as you study it,
you will undergo changes. As long as you study it, you will be improving. As
long as you practice it to the end, you will be able to reach
Consummation." ("Teaching the Fa at the Eastern U.S. Fa
Conference") I soon realized that I had learned to control my temper, all my diseases had
disappeared, and I had stopped fighting with my husband. 2. Crying for No Reason I retired during the summer of 1999. Since I was previously busy with my
work, I didn't have much contact with other practitioners except with the group
exercises. I knew little about the interference with Dafa in different places,
nor did I know much about "April 25" incident. However, I didn't know
why since April 25, I had cried while doing the exercises and reading the book.
I usually don't cry very easily, but at that time, I always wanted to cry. I
felt great pressure every day. It was an extremely heavy feeling. Later, after I
read Master's teachings, I realized that I cried because my assistant spirit saw
that the evil planning to do bad things to Dafa in other dimensions. 3. Setting up My First Truth-clarifying Materials Production Site After the persecution began on July 20, 1999, the group cultivation
environment was disrupted. Some instructors were arrested, some fellow
practitioners were too scared to continue cultivation, some only practiced at
home, and some diligent practitioners went to different government organizations
and Tiananmen Square to clarify the truth. Later, some practitioners
who stepped forward to clarify the truth were sent to detention centers or labor
camps. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) TV and radio broadcasts attacked Falun
Gong with their full strength, as if the sky was falling. When we clarified the truth to the government, they didn't listen and sent us
to the police station. We therefore began explaining the truth directly to the
public and saved sentient beings directly. At first, we didn't have anything
tangible and the authorities were arresting us. I could only write some short
phrases about the truth on paper and distribute them or hang them up, but their
influence was very limited. Later, I bought some handkerchiefs and wrote "Falun
Dafa Is Good" and "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance Is Good" on
thousands of them and distributed them to different homes. How did I get
Master's teachings? I went to the capital of our province to get an original
from practitioners that I knew before, made copies, and shared them with other
practitioners. In January 2001, the practitioner in the capital was persecuted
and we could no longer get Master's teachings. Several of us were very anxious.
Without the guidance of Master's teachings, we couldn't move an inch in that
kind of evil environment. I wanted to set up our own materials production site,
but didn't know how to do it without technology and equipment. It happened that a fellow practitioner who worked in other areas came to
visit her parents. Her husband graduated from college with a major in computer
science. We invited him to help us set up the production site. Local
practitioners donated money to buy a computer and the technology-minded
practitioner brought a printer. The practitioner left after he taught some
things to a relatively young practitioner. However, the younger practitioner had
lots of interference from family, and I took on the responsibility voluntarily.
Since I knew nothing, I took a computer class. I was busy with my business
during the day, and seldom went to bed before midnight. The persecution became even more severe. The practitioner who was responsible
for helping me download information was too scared to do it. What should I do? I
thought, "A great enlightened One fears no hardship At that time, in front of my eyes, I saw how happy fellow practitioners were
after receiving teachings from Master and how diligent they were after reading
"Minghui Weekly." I also saw that sentient beings needed to
know the truth in order to be saved. I made up my mind to keep it up no matter
how difficult it was. I set up the Internet connection and learned how to
download myself. I couldn't find people locally to teach me so I called a
practitioner from another region to help. I learned how to access the Internet
in one afternoon. I downloaded materials myself and made materials myself until May 2002. The
authorities were planning to persecute me. We didn't know, but Master knew. If
it were not for Master's protection, the results would have been unimaginable. It happened like this. On April 30, 2002, at 6:00 a.m., my second son called
me from another area and said, "Mom, they were checking the
computers." After breakfast, my older son called me and said, "Mom,
someone introduced me to a girl. Her mother wants to see you and talk to
you." At noontime, I was not at home. My supervisor at work came to my home
and told my daughter that my superiors were having a meeting and it was quite
serious. In the afternoon, my supervisor came to my home again to tell my
daughter how serious and scary the situation was. At 8:00 p.m. my second son called again and said, "Mom, they checked the
computer quite intensively here." But I was still not thinking about
transferring materials. I just wanted to clean up a little bit and come back in
a few days. It was about 11:00 p.m. when my daughter told me, "Mom, I'm
scared, I'm scared." I said, "OK, I will transfer the materials and
you delete everything from the computer." I cleaned up and transferred
things to safer places and only left the computer. The second day, I left home in the rain to visit my older son in another
city. The second day after I left, the police searched my home and found nothing
but a paragraph of Dafa content, since my daughter had not deleted everything.
They took the computer away. In the end, it was not like what my older son told
me about some girl's mother wanting to see me. Later I realized that this was
meticulously arranged by Master to protect a disciple. That was the first
materials production site that I set up. 4. Creating Another Materials Production Site The first truth-clarifying materials production site was damaged. After the
practitioner who worked in another heard about it, he taught two more younger
practitioners in our area to make materials again. Later, through the
coordination of a regional instructor, I took the responsibility of receiving
and distributing materials. I received the materials from them every week and
distributed them to fellow practitioners in our area. It was going well until
February 2004, when we suffered a great loss in our area. Over ten materials
production sites were destroyed at the same time, many practitioners were
arrested, the whole region was under the dark influence of the evil, and many
pieces of equipment were damaged. We didn't know what to do. We were all
particles of Dafa, and assisting Master with Fa-rectification was our mission.
After sharing and some preparation among several practitioners, we set up a new
materials production site in March 2004. At that time, one practitioner knew how to access the Minghui website
(Chinese version of Clearwisdom.net). I therefore discussed it with several
practitioners. Everyone seemed to have an adequate xinxing
level, in their understanding regarding the importance of assisting Master with
Fa-rectification. We shared the responsibilities. Some practitioners were
responsible for downloading, some for making the materials, and some for
distributing them. Doing things this way was less noticeable and safer. We can
now make materials like Master's teachings, regular truth clarification
materials, the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party,
Zhuan Falun, amulets(1), and DVDs, and have basically
satisfied the needs of fellow practitioners. Since practitioners could read Master's teachings and Minghui Weekly
in time, and their xinxing improved very fast. Some who were slow caught
up again, and those who had stayed home have come forward. Connections have also
been made between cities and the countryside. We have grown from several dozen
to several hundred practitioners, and have formed a whole body from the city to
the countryside. Fellow practitioners can follow what Master has required of us,
do the three things well, clarify the truth and save sentient
beings. We basically are able to reach Master's requirement of "not
omitting a single area where there are people" ("Let Go of Human
Attachments and Save the World's People") 5. Tribulations Before the Olympics, the authorities illegally arrested many Dafa
disciples in order to "protect" the Olympics. In May, they
commandeered my home and took me to a detention center. I kept on reciting the
Fa, sending forth righteous thoughts, and doing the exercises every day in the
detention center. I explained to the police the physical and mental benefits
that I had gained after becoming a practitioner. Master said, "If we determine that it is interference or damaging, when we deal
with the specific problem we should try our best to be calm and kind to those
people who are at the surface, because when the evil uses people, they usually
aren't aware of it themselves (although the people who are used are usually
either people whose thoughts are bad or people who have bad thoughts arising).
As for the interference by evil from other dimensions, we must seriously
eradicate it with righteous thoughts." ("Fa-Rectification and
Cultivation" from Essentials for Further Advancement II) I didn't hate the policemen. I looked upon them as poor victims. One night
when I was sending forth righteous thoughts, a giant stood in front of me. Its
waist was as so big around that two people holding hands would have been needed
to encircle it. It was very tall and black from top to bottom. Its face was also
black. I wasn't frightened. I just thought, "Eliminate the evil" and
it disappeared immediately. I continued sending forth righteous thoughts in the
detention center. They tried to force me to "transform," saying that they would make
my son leave the army, take away my salary, and do things to my relatives, etc.,
if I didn't. I put down fame, personal interest, and sentimentality. My heart
was as peaceful as still water. I said, "Let it be whatever it is."
They had nothing to say. They didn't give up, and called in some of my family
members for a second time. My family cried and tried to persuade me. Since I had
put down fame, personal interest, and sentimentality, my heart remained as calm
as still water. I told my family, "This is a test on the path of my
cultivation. It's going to be OK. Please don't be scared." I also told my
children not to write anything that promised I would "transform." I
smiled and watched them leave. The authorities still didn't give up and threatened to present me with an
arrest warrant if I didn't "transform." I thought, "I didn't
prepare to leave once I got here. I will verify the Fa no matter where I am. I
will not 'transform' even if you arrest me." My heart was still very calm
with no wavering. They were very angry, "Are you thinking about
consummation?" I laughed in my heart. Two days after they gave me the
arrest warrant, I was released. Everything was false. I convinced three people
to quit the CCP Youth League during the 15 days I was in the detention center
and asked everyone in the prison cell to remember that Falun Dafa is good and
Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good. Through this tribulation, I realized that it was just as Master said, once
you put down fame, personal interest, and sentimentality, no one will be able to
move you. I have now returned to the mainstream of helping Master with the Fa
Rectification and saving sentient beings. During my nine years of cultivation in Fa-rectification, local fellow
practitioners, coordinators, and I have done some things well, but there many
things that need improvement. All those things that we did well were due to
Master's protection. For all the things that we did not do well, we will look
inward, improve ourselves, and walk the last of our paths well and steadily and
follow Master home. Heshi to Master! Heshi to fellow practitioners! Please correct me if any of my sharing is not on the Fa. Note: (1) Amulets -- In China, practitioners sometimes "clarify the
truth" by giving people something small to wear or cherish, bearing a few
words reminding them of the goodness of Dafa.
Having forged an adamantine will
Free of attachment to living or dying
He walks the path of Fa-rectification
confident and poised"
("Righteous Thoughts and Righteous Actions" from Hong
Yin II)
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