(Clearwisdom.net) I have not joined any experience sharing in the past because I always thought that I did not do as well as other practitioners, so I did not have much to say. Through continuous Fa study, I gradually realized that experience sharing is also validating and spreading the Fa. It is also the form that we will pass on to future generations and a good opportunity for practitioners to upgrade themselves. Therefore, I decided not to miss the opportunity this time and submit my paper to Teacher.
Benefiting from the Fa and Remembering Teacher's Blessings
I began to practice Falun Gong in 1998. Before that, I suffered from coronary heart disease, cervical spondylosis, bone marrow hyperplasia as well as a slipped disc. Each time when I rode my bike to work, I needed to rest before starting to work. After work and when I returned home, I also needed to lie down to take a break before starting to cook a meal. I felt very miserable due to my illnesses.
After I learned to practice Falun Gong, all my illnesses disappeared without my noticing it, and I felt extremely light. My husband's cirrhosis also disappeared and his face regained a healthy glow. He was over 70 years old but looked only about 60. Our whole family benefited from me practicing Falun Gong.
Our daughter also joined us and practiced Falun Gong. She was almost blind as a result of a car accident a few years back. When going upstairs or downstairs, she needed to hold on to the wall. All of this caused a lot of inconveniences in her work and life. However, after she began to practice Falun Gong, she miraculously recovered. Even our neighbors were amazed by her speedy recovery and one of them said, “Look, when you went upstairs before, you had to hold on to the wall. When did you recover?” Her visual acuity improved as well. Members of our family, who used to suffer from serious illnesses, also recovered under Master’s infinite grace.
It was Teacher who saved my whole family, and I feel that Falun Gong practitioners are the most fortunate people in the world.
Letting Go of Fear and Distributing Truth-Clarification Materials
Teacher said,
“The entire cultivation process for a practitioner is one of constantly giving up human attachments.” (Zhuan Falun)
When I first started to hand out informational materials about Falun Gong, DVDs or while posting self-sticking posters, I was often afraid. Each time, I brought only one or two pieces of the materials, and my hands were shaking and I was perspiring. However, this was also a process of letting go of my fear. Each time, when I finished handing out these materials, I felt happy for saving sentient beings and living up to the expectations of my mission.
After studying the Fa more in-depth, I gradually eliminated my fear. I always send forth righteous thoughts before I go out to distribute truth-clarification materials. I ask Teacher for help, “I am Teacher's student and am doing the most righteous thing in the world, so no one is in a position to interfere with me.” During the process of distributing these materials, I constantly thought, “Wherever I go, there should be no human interference, not even a dog should bark.” Thus the result was just like that.
One day, when we got off the bus, we noticed a parked police car. My fear returned, and several practitioners encouraged each other and recited Teacher's following poem together,
Should you have fear,
it will seize upon you
If thoughts are righteous,
evil will collapse.(“What’s to Fear?” from Hong Yin II)
After we were finished, the police car left. We swiftly and successfully finished our task. I realized that it was only an illusion, meant to help us to let go of our fear.
Breaking Through Human Emotion and Saving Family Members
My older sister and brother-in-law are over 70 and were members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Though I clarified the facts about the persecution and about Falun Gong, they still thought that the weaker could not contend with the stronger. This happened because they were deeply brainwashed by the CCP and were scared after going through repeated political movements. They became extremely scared after I was persecuted. Thereafter, whenever I mentioned withdrawing from the CCP and its affiliated organizations, they became very angry and told me not to distribute information about Falun Dafa. They also told me not to do this or that, and told my husband to watch me. I thought, “Teacher is looking after me, so no one else has the right to tell me what to do.” At that time I failed to maintain my xinxing and began to argue with them. As a result, our relationship became very tense.
I was regretful and looked inward. Through studying the Fa, I realized that I had too many attachments toward my older sister and her family. I treated them as my family members, and not as sentient beings. My starting point was wrong, and at the same time, I had this attachment to competitiveness in order to protect my name. I should instead persuade them to withdraw from the CCP for their own good. Teacher said,
“If you are free from this sentimentality, nobody can affect you. An everyday person’s mind will be unable to sway you. What takes over in its place is benevolence, which is something more noble. ” (Zhuan Falun)
Thereafter, I treated my sister's family as sentient beings and with compassion. I sincerely used the Fa principles to explain my purpose for talking to them, and I sent forth righteous thoughts in order to eliminate all the evil beings and factors behind them.
When I went to their home, they happily withdrew from the CCP.
Guiding My Husband to the Fa
My husband worried about me because of the persecution of Falun Gong. Therefore, whenever I went out, he asked me about my destination and then followed me. At the beginning I was very much annoyed and angry with him. However, the more angry I was, the more trouble he made for me. I thought that if I wanted to change the situation, I had to change myself. First of all, I must be compassionate and guide him toward gaining the Fa, since only Dafa can change people's hearts. Therefore, I decided to study the Fa together with him.
When studying the Fa, I either failed to read fluently or felt very sleepy due to interference. My husband fell asleep and snored. I wanted to change the situation, so I sent out a powerful righteous thought to eliminate all interference in our Fa study. After the interference was eliminated, our environment for Fa study improved. However, it was still the same pattern: I read and he listened. I thought it did not matter, and that he would change as long as he listened to the Fa. Gradually, his status improved and he raised some questions, as well. What's more, he began to do one hour of the exercises every morning.
Every time when we went to the fair in the city, I asked my husband to take me there with his motorbike. I used buying vegetables as an opportunity to clarify the truth and persuade people to withdraw from the CCP and its affiliated organizations. My husband changed from opposing to supporting me. All these changes happened imperceptibly. After witnessing the happiness of people after they were saved, my husband no longer urged me to hurry up and leave. Instead, he gave me hints to hand out information about Falun Dafa. Sometimes he even helped me to clarify the truth. Sometimes, after I had just finished talking to a person, he waved me over to him and said, “Talk to this person please.”
Clarifying the Truth Face to Face and Saving Sentient Beings
Teacher said,
“Right now, one important thing that needs to be attended to is the matter of how to save more sentient beings, and it is something Dafa disciples are to accomplish during their current process of achieving Consummation. This is Dafa disciples' mission, a duty that cannot be shirked, something that they must do and must complete.” (“Fa Teaching at the 2007 New York Fa Conference”)
I recognized that clarifying the truth and persuading people to withdraw from the CCP and its affiliated organizations is the most important thing for a practitioner. That very process is also the process for us to let go of our attachments.
Every time someone came to my home to repair something, to deliver something, or to collect waste materials, I took the opportunity to save them. One day when I saw several people working on a building, I sent out a thought, “I want to save them”. I then went and greeted them, “What you are doing is a very hard job. You must pay attention to your safety!” They all smiled at me and nodded in agreement. I discussed the facts about Falun Dafa with them, gave them some Falun Dafa materials, and asked them to remember “Falun Dafa is good” and “Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good,” which will bring them blessings. I also helped them to register their withdrawal from the CCP and its affiliated organizations. Before leaving, I gave them some more materials and DVDs, and they kept thanking me. One of the young lads even saluted me. I felt the urgency of saving sentient beings after seeing their happiness from being saved.
A Small Flower Blossoms
I learned from Minghui Weekly that a practitioner who was over 70 years old set up a materials production site. I thought, I am younger than him. What's more, it was Teacher who asked us to do that, so surely I could do it.
When I first learned to use a computer, it took me the whole day to learn how to turn the computer on and off. When I learned to browse the Internet and saw the Clearwisdom and the Pureinsight websites, I was extremely happy.
Typing became another obstacle. I did not know pinyin and could not pronounce some of the words correctly. Therefore, I bought some related books and tried to memorize them while learning. I thought, what I am doing is the most righteous thing, so I must learn it. The result was that these righteous thoughts brought wonders. At the beginning, it took me more than an hour to type a dozen or so names, but now I can finish it in a few minutes.
When I successfully sent the list of people who had withdrawn from the CCP and its affiliated organizations, my family said, “You bought a computer only for reading a few articles and sending some names?” I thought to myself, “This must be Teacher using their mouth in order to give me a hint. I must do more with my computer.” After sharing with fellow practitioners, I bought a DVD burner to produce copies of DVDs. At that time, we needed a large quantity of Shen Yun DVDs. In this way, I did what I should do and saved sentient beings. Though the flower that is my production center is still small, its colors are radiant. I hope this flower will grow and blossom even more brilliantly.
I thank Master for his compassionate care and arduous salvation
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