A New Life
By a practitioner in Jiangxi Province
(Clearwisdom.net) This is the first time that I have written about my ten
years of cultivation experience. I do so now for the purpose of reporting to our
great Teacher and sharing with fellow practitioners. I. Personal Cultivation 1) Learning Falun Dafa In August 1997 I was fortunate to begin practicing Falun Gong. The excitement and joyfulness when I obtained the Fa was beyond any description.
In 1996 my husband passed away, leaving me with my son who was only 12 years
old. Soon afterward my son had to have an operation. At that time, I suffered
tremendously both physically and mentally and I didn't want to carry on with my
life. Then a relative introduced Falun Gong to me. She brought me a copy of the
book Zhuan Falun and mentioned that this book could not only
open up my heart, but also could improve my physical condition. The following
day I went with my relatives to a practice site and as soon as I walked into
that practice site I felt very comfortable. At the practice site I bought a copy
of Zhuan Falun, and when I opened it, I found it was a cultivation book,
a heavenly book. My excitement was beyond description. One day my relative asked me to go with her to attend a Falun Dafa
Cultivation Experience Conference held by our local practitioners. Because I had
just recently started practicing, my enlightenment quality was poor and my human
attachments were very strong. Given the fact that my son's inflammation was not
healing, I wanted to take my son to see the doctor on that day. She told me that
it was most fortunate that I had this opportunity so soon after I had started
practicing. She told me this opportunity was hard to come by and I should go to
the conference. She said that she could get my cousin to take my son to the
doctor. She asked me to calm down and she said that everything would be fine. So
I went with her to the Fa conference and as soon as I was there, I forgot all
about what happened at home. After I returned home my son said, "Mom, I
spilled my medication." I immediately became so anxious and asked,
"Why weren't you careful?!? Come here and show me your wound." When I
looked at the wound, it was two thirds smaller than the day before. I called his
cousin over to take a look and he said it was truly miraculous. When he last
changed the dressing on the wound, the cut had looked so big, but it had become
much smaller. Suddenly I understood that our Teacher is a living Buddha.
Therefore I firmed up my faith in cultivating Dafa and following the Teacher to
return home. 2) Being Determined in Eliminating Karma In October 1997 big yellow blisters began appearing on my arms and legs. As
soon as I broke a blister, the flesh underneath it appeared. But when I did my
laundry and my hands were soaked in water with detergent, I felt no pain at all.
It did not affect me doing anything. My left knee developed three big blisters
and both of my legs legs became so swollen that I couldn't walk properly. My
colleagues all tried to convince me to go see a doctor, warning that it would be
dangerous not to. I knew in my heart that it was Teacher who was cleaning up my
body. Teacher said, "When our humankind evolves to this extent today, almost everyone is
born with karma built upon karma, and everyone's body has quite a lot of
karma." (Zhuan Falun) Later the swelling subsided, but the yellow blisters lasted for about six
months. My entire body then became very itchy which made me suffer a lot. "In cultivation practice one needs to eliminate karma, and that is
painful. How can one increase gong comfortably? How can one otherwise remove
one's attachments?" (Zhuan Falun) With a single thought in mind of believing in Teacher and the Fa, in about
three months all my illness symptoms disappeared, my whole body felt light and I
felt extremely energetic. 3) Granted a New Life One day in June 1998, after I finished watching Teacher's Fa lecture video, I
went to drop off my child at school. At an intersection about 150 meters away
from my home a motorcycle began rushing towards me. Suddenly I could not control
my body, as if I was frozen, however, I was conscious and I could hear people
talking around me, "I saw a motorcycle knock her down to the ground and
then landed on her. She must be severely injured." I said to myself,
"I am a practitioner, I should be okay. You can leave now." When I was
thinking about that, I heard bystanders say, "She was wounded so badly and
the motorcycle driver didn't take her to the hospital but instead ran away.
People nowadays lack moral standards and they have no conscience. Write down his
plate number." I was thinking that I wanted to get up and with this one
thought, my whole body became relaxed and I became more aware. I said to those
bystanders that I was a Falun Gong practitioner and I was okay. I couldn't
really speak out. I only waved my hands and began walking unsteadily, pushing my
bicycle home. As soon as I arrived home, I couldn't help kneeling down in front
of Teacher's portrait and crying non-stop. I was truly grateful to Teacher, as
it was Teacher who saved my life and granted me a new life. Teacher said, "We have said that good or evil comes from a person's spontaneous
thought, and the thought at that moment can bring about different
consequences." (Zhuan Falun) If I had any bad thoughts at that time, I would not have been able to get up
from the ground. II. Fa-Rectification Cultivation 1) Going to Beijing to Validate the Fa On July 20, 1999 evil began its unprecedented persecution of Dafa and
practitioners. It was as if heaven fell. As a practitioner, I could no longer
remain silent. In order to safeguard the sacredness of the Buddha Fa, the
dignity of cultivation and justice in the human world, I went with fellow
practitioners to Beijing to validate the Fa. On the appeal form of the National State Bureau Appealing Office, I put down
three requests: 1. Remove our Teacher from the "Wanted List" and reinstate the
reputation of our Teacher2. Release all practitioners who are being
illegally detained 3. Legally publish Teacher's Dafa works and reinstate our cultivation
environment. Later our company took us back home and then illegally took us to the
detention center for persecution. We were all released after holding a hunger
strike for eight days. On December 30, 2000 I again went with other practitioners to Beijing to
validate the Fa. Tiananmen Square was heavily guarded. There were plainclothes
police, uniformed police officers and soldiers everywhere questioning everyone
who went there. It was extremely hard to enter into the Square. After I walked
only a few steps close to the Square, a soldier stopped me and started
interrogating me. With Teacher's protection, a fellow practitioner and I dodged
the police officers and came to Jishuiqiao. We lined up in the shape of the
Chinese character for "eight," then held up a banner and shouted
"Falun Dafa is good!" Less than a meter away, a plainclothes police
officer rushed towards us and then took our banner away. He gagged me and then
dragged us to the police vehicle. After they took us to the police station in
the Square, the other practitioners who had come from all over the country to
validate the Fa were all shouting, "Falun Dafa is great!"
"Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is great!" "Reinstate our
Teacher's reputation!" This truly shocked heaven and earth. I said to
myself, "Since I have stepped out to validate the Fa, I will leave
everything up to Teacher. Even if I sacrificed my life to safeguard the Fa, I
would have no regret." On the afternoon of January 2, with Teacher's
protection, I returned home safe and sound. 2) Setting Up a Fa-Study Group Because of the evil persecution, we were unable to use our cultivation site.
In 2003, when my apartment building was torn down, I was moved to a new
apartment building. When I was looking for fellow practitioners, I ran into a
practitioner whom I knew. In our discussion, he talked about setting up a Fa-study
group. At that time, it didn't even dawn on me to set up a Fa-study group in our
home. Under such evil persecution, we hardly had any place for practitioners to
share with each other. With continuous Fa-study I enlightened that we should
harmonize with Dafa and form a solid and overall body as soon as possible. Group
Fa-study is way that Teacher has arranged for us and it's also an indispensable
environment for practitioners elevating as one body and improving xinxing.
Therefore I invited fellow practitioners to my home to study the Fa. During our group Fa-study, every practitioner improved by varying degrees and
some also set up Fa-study groups in their homes. They went from missing words in
their reading to reading smoothly in their Fa-study. In their sharing, they
could all find their shortcomings, and even practitioners who started practicing
in 2004 didn't lag behind. Fellow practitioners cooperated well with each other
in doing the three things to harmonize the one body. 3) Clarifying the Truth to Save People In Fa-rectification period cultivation, as an element in Dafa, I've been
following Teacher's requirement to do the three things well. With Teacher's
protection, I have been making it through. Even though I didn't have any
outstanding cases, I have been walking solidly on the path of cultivation. In terms of clarifying the truth to save sentient beings, I
haven't done well enough. In terms of helping relatives and friends with the
"three withdrawals," I did fairly well. When in front of strangers, I
didn't do well enough, as I was hindered by my human attachments. In my future
Fa-study, I will try to eliminate those human attachments and follow Teacher's
Fa-rectification process closely. Teacher and Dafa helped me all along the way
and helped me mature during trials and tribulations. I came to deeply enlighten
to Teacher's immense compassion. I will be more diligent. 4) Setting Up a Truth-Clarification Materials Center The process of setting up a truth-clarification materials production center
was a process of eliminating my own ego and also a process of walking towards
godhood. I've been passing along truth-clarifying materials, and whenever I have
leftovers, I try to distribute them. I do this out of the concern that leaving
the leftover materials in my home isn't safe. With more and more practitioners
stepping out, the demand for truth-clarification materials increased as well.
Fellow practitioners who looked after truth-clarification materials were under
great pressure. Then I thought, "Could I share some of their burden?"
This would be a demonstration of my true nature being harmonizing with the Fa,
but my human notions were trying to prevent me from doing it by saying,
"When equipment like computers and other things for making
truth-clarification materials are found, it is proof that allows the evil to
persecute practitioners." I also believed that if my son came home and saw
it, he would not agree with me taking it on either. Not to mention, I knew
nothing about computers and I wasn't sure I could do a good job. My fear and
other human attachments popped up. When those thoughts came up, I asked myself
if I was going to just wait and rely on others. We were all practitioners, so
why did I always ask others to contribute and not contribute myself?How could I
be so selfish? Did I deserve to be called a "Fa-rectification period Dafa
disciple?" When thinking about that, I was filled with regret and I knew I
must be able to do it and do it well. At the very beginning I had many concerns and fears. When I heard people
knocking at my door, my heart pounded. The DVDs I made didn't come out right.
They had bad spots, and the TV didn't work properly either. The evil elements
were taking advantage of my fear by meddling with me. I decided to buy a DVD
writer to make large quantities of truth-clarification DVDs. With more Fa-study,
the Fa theories became more and more clear to me and gradually I stopped
worrying about being persecuted for making truth-clarification materials. Then
the images on the DVDs then became very clear. When I saw that the DVDs I made
were delivered to many households by practitioners, I had mixed feelings. I felt
that without Teacher's care, there was no way we could make such delicate DVDs. The Fa-rectification has come to this stage, and with Teacher's great
compassion and care I have passed many trials and tribulations. In every trial
and tribulation, I have come to deeply understand "Buddha's infinite
grace." Today, Dafa practitioners have cultivated to be more and more
mature. In the time we have left to save sentient beings, on the remaining path,
we will walk well, righteously, steadily, and fulfill our pledges made eons ago.
Fellow practitioners, let's be diligent!
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