(Clearwisdom.net) I want to share my experiences with fellow practitioners and report to Master on how cultivating in Dafa brought me, who was close to death, to life, and how I am offering sentient beings salvation by various means.
I was diagnosed with terminal liver cancer in December 1996, having a 14-centimeter hepatic tumor. I was very sad and disappointed. Nothing cured me, even though I spent 30 thousand Yuan on treatment.
On March 19, 1997 I met someone who persuaded me to try practicing Falun Gong. He helped me to buy Master's book Zhuan Falun. I couldn't stop reading. I read day and night and eventually finished reading all the books in addition to Zhuan Falun: Zhuan Falun II, Explaining the Content of Falun Dafa, Essentials for Further Advancement, and other writings. I just felt that I had gotten the Fa too late, and thought about how lucky I was that Master saved me when I was in a tight corner.
From then on I started to conduct myself according to Dafa by studying the Fa, cultivating myself, and doing the exercises. I gradually got rid of my attachment to curing my disease by doing the exercises. I understood that if I wanted my illness cured, I must pay great attention to cultivation. Fa-study also had me understand that my liver tumor is the result of karma accumulated from my many lives, and I must pay back what I owe. Once I got the Fa, I never had medicine or injections for more than 12 years. Some people tried to persuade me to get a check-up, and I said, "I eat, drink and sleep well. I am very energetic. I am a practitioner and have no diseases at all. Why should I go to a hospital and get checked?" Prior to cultivation, I needed my relative to drive me to and from errands and appointments. Since I got the Fa, I'm in good shape. I became a taxi driver, taking others everywhere. The changes in me are earthshaking. Master has pulled me from hell and given me a second life.
Once two women hired my taxi to ride to a suburban village in our county. When I drove to a corner, I neglected to turn on the turn signal. A huge truck had to sharply jam on the brakes to avoid hitting my taxi. The driver stopped the truck in front of me. Two young men jumped off the truck, dragged me out of my car and said, "Are you trying to get yourself killed? Why did you not turn the signal on?" I kept apologizing and said that I was wrong. The two young men each slapped me twice with full strength and bloodied the corner of my mouth. Then they jumped into their truck and drove away. The two women passengers trembled with fear. I took them to their destination after wiping the blood from the corner of my mouth. I realized that as a practitioner in a conflict, I not only must put up with people humiliating me, but also should thank them with a lofty mindset. If no one has a conflict with you, how can you improve your character? How can you transfer the black substance into the white substance?
I have cultivated in Dafa for 12 years and know profoundly that Master has given me a second life, and that without Dafa, I would no longer exist. I should redouble my efforts and rescue sentient beings with compassion. Since I am a taxi driver, everyone who takes my taxi is a person I should try to rescue by giving them Dafa information, and I should persuade them to withdraw from the CCP and its affiliated organizations. I would also tell them of my cured liver cancer and the miracle that happened after I started practicing Falun Gong. My experiences speak for themselves.
Many people know that Falun Gong is good and are hoping for salvation. Some people even began cultivation themselves. Before, I only distributed Dafa information late at night and clarified the truth face to face among relatives. Now, with the materials in my car, I would tell everyone who takes my taxi the facts, give them materials, and persuade them to leave the CCP. Sometimes when I take patients to or from a hospital, I would give them the materials and tell them how Dafa cultivation helped me recover from liver cancer. Once when driving a middle-aged couple home, I handed them the materials; the husband raised the materials and shouted, "Falun Dafa is good!" Another time I had handed an older woman passenger materials. She took a look and said, "These are just what I need." On another occasion, I handed the materials to several taxi drivers. Later on, one of them asked for more to send to his relatives and friends.
My job as a taxi driver helped me realize the premise for saving sentient beings face to face is that one must first be a good person. Other drivers refuse to drive on unpaved roads, but I do it, and also drive people to right in front of their homes. The biggest thing for any practitioner is to rescue sentient beings instead of only thinking about making money. In doing so, those who take my taxi would trust me and think that I am a good person. When they really think so, they would be happy to listen to my explanations and accept the materials. Once I handed a young man two brochures. He said, "I have seen these two brochures. My old father had taken your taxi a while back and you had given them to him. He is illiterate and took them to police station when he was there for a different reason. The police didn't see the materials, but that incident really scared us. You need to be more careful in the future with these materials."
Once when driving a young woman a short distance, I didn't have enough time to explain to her the facts. I gave her the materials at her destination and said, "I will give you a book; after reading it, you will be safe and healthy." She took a look and said, "Is that about Falun Gong? If you do this, police will arrest you." I said, "I am doing good things. I had liver cancer and was cured after practicing Falun Gong." Having heard my introduction, she took the book. Once at home I was in fear and did not dare to distribute materials the next day. A day later, I realized that nothing happened and resumed handing people the materials again. Later on I studied the Fa and realized that we are rescuing sentient beings, and doing the most righteous thing in the world. No one is worthy of disrupting it. When I feel fear, it means there are still such bad elements in my dimensional field behind it. I must clear out this attachment and do better in offering sentient beings salvation.
During a class reunion, I met many former classmates whom I haven't seen for more than 40 years. Only 23 attended the get-together, and 12 others had died. Everyone at the reunion was asked to speak of a life-changing experience. I mainly spoke of my whole process of Dafa cultivation after I got liver cancer. I told them that if I had never cultivated in Falun Gong, I would most likely be among the dead. I told them about how good it is to practice Falun Gong and persuaded 21 of them to leave the CCP. I have managed to persuade more than 300 people so far to do so.
At present, we need to improve the distribution of materials to nearby rural areas. Sometimes I would drive to the countryside with other practitioners to distribute the materials. In a period of two months, we had gone to more than one hundred counties, towns, and villages to distribute materials to people there. I feel so energetic, and Dafa makes me feel younger and younger.
When I ride my motorcycle, I am usually very careful. Sometimes, the road was steep and I lost control of the motorcycle and fell to the ground. It often happened that the fall abraded the skin on my legs or arms. Once I went to a village beside a steep mountain with a fellow practitioner. When I turned the engine off, the small front-brake handle broke. The front brake did not work when I drove down the steep slope. Then we had to work together, with one stepping on the back brake and the other dragging the back, and thus we walked slowly down from the mountain.
Once another practitioner and I went to several villages to distribute materials. As we still had 60 to 70 pieces left, we went to another village. But halfway there, it rained heavily. We were dripping wet from head to toe, but nevertheless distributed all the materials.
During my efforts to rescue sentient beings, there are sometimes conflicts between doing Dafa work and household chores. But no matter how important the personal matters are, they are actually small affairs. By contrast, rescuing sentient beings, no matter how small the effort, is actually a huge affair. So, all these years I have always put rescuing sentient beings first and cooperated with others unconditionally.
Of course, I have lots of shortcomings. I feel saddened when thinking about so many people in remote, rural areas who don't know the facts. I shall cultivate more diligently and fulfill my prehistoric, grand vow.
