(Clearwisdom.net) I have practiced Falun Dafa for nearly ten years and have benefited from it tremendously. Only by cultivating diligently can I live up to Master’s compassionate salvation.
Beginning the Practice
I started practicing in the autumn of 2002. Although I was only in my twenties, I already had numerous illnesses and needed to take many types of medicine every day. My parents-in-law could not understand this and complained about it. We fought with each other all the time, and as a result my husband and I moved to a town far away from them.
I was unhappy after moving to the new place and the illnesses became worse. We later visited my husband’s brother and sister, who are Falun Gong practitioners. In the beginning, I didn't understand them, but gradually I found that practitioners are not as the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) propaganda portrayed them. They were instead very kind, took care of us, and helped us a lot. I asked many questions about the so-called Tiananmen Square self-immolation and other CCP lies, and they answered all my questions one by one. Listening to the clarifications and seeing their health improvement, I began to understand why they practiced Falun Dafa and why they clarified the truth—this is their compassion. Many people's minds have been poisoned by the lies and propaganda in the media, and they need to know the real story.
I then began practicing. I was able to read Dafa books right away, but learning the exercises took some time. One practitioner showed me the exercises several times and gave me a copy of The Great Consummation Way of Falun Dafa. My movements were still not accurate however, which troubled me greatly. One day, when I was half asleep, I saw Master. I asked Him if I would ever be able to do the exercises correctly. Master smiled and nodded to me and said, “Of course you can.”
From then on, I made progress in doing the exercises. Master’s words, “Of course you can” often encouraged me whenever I had difficulty or encountered tribulations. Not only did I become healthy, all my illnesses disappeared. I also became a better person who is more considerate towards others.
Clarifying the Truth
During the time of the Beijing Olympics in 2008, many practitioners in my area were persecuted to various extents. More than twenty agents from the city Domestic Security Division, county 610 Office, and the local police station came to my home on July 26 and arrested me. They took me to the police station and tortured me, demanding that I tell them the source of the truth-clarification materials that they found in my home.
I was held at the detention center for one year. At first I cried every day, missing my child and feeling very upset. The practitioners detained there had practiced longer than I and they advised me to act according to the Fa. I began to look within after sending forth righteous thoughts, and asked Master to eliminate everything inconsistent with the Fa. My mind became steady, focused, and clear, and the righteous field was very strong. I knew Master helped me a lot.
I told the other practitioners that I wanted to recite the Fa. As a result, three of us studied the Fa and sent forth righteous thoughts continually every day. The atmosphere in the detention center had been oppressive and intense, but it improved as we clarified the truth and sent forth righteous thoughts. One month later, one practitioner was secretly transferred. I was a little nervous, but soon calmed down. The other practitioner was then also secretly transferred. By then, my mind was no longer disturbed.
At the detention center, inmates kept coming and going. I knew they came to have the truth clarified to them, which I did. I helped them and advised them to recite “Falun Dafa is good.” The results were very good. They were sympathetic towards the abuse that practitioners are subjected to. From time to time, the calling of “Falun Dafa is good” could be heard at the detention center. Many inmates joined me when I recited the Fa. To help them study the Fa, I wrote all the poems from Hong Yin on the cell walls. Most people I met wanted to practice and many of them said they would join group Fa-study and group exercise after being released.
One day a guard asked me about the inmates in the cell and I told her my impression. She liked what I said, and said that I was impartial. She also told me that she and the other guards sometimes overhead us reciting poems in the cell. She said they liked to listen because the poems were beautiful and our righteous field helped maintain order. She hoped other cells could benefit like this as well.
I then told her about quitting the CCP and its affiliated organizations, and she agreed to quit. I knew that Master was helping me when I clarified the truth.
