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Greetings, venerable Teacher! Greetings, fellow practitioners!
I began to practice Falun Gong in 2008. I would like to write down my cultivation experience sharing to report to Teacher and share with fellow practitioners. Please kindly point out anything inappropriate.
Obtaining the Fa
In July 2008, through the introduction of a friend, I got to know practitioners A and B. I felt that their behavior was excellent and different than others. They always treated others with kindness and selflessness. They clarified the facts to me about the persecution, and also gave me DVDs such as "Traveling among Wind and Rain" and "We Will Let the Future Know". Only after watching the DVDs did I come to realize that the “self-immolation” incident on Tiananmen Square was staged and was plotted by the Jiang regime, for the purpose of deceiving the world's people, and inciting hatred and persecution towards Falun Gong. Falun Gong is a high-level cultivation method of the Buddha school. Practitioners hold themselves to the principles of "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance" to improve their mind and body. By performing the simple and gentle movements, their bodies are purified. Through cultivating both body and mind in a thorough way, they are able to achieve the elevation of mind, body, and spirit. Today Falun Dafa has been spread to more than 100 countries and regions. After I learned all of these facts, I was determined to practice Falun Gong. After I talked to Practitioner A about my thoughts, soon enough, she gave a copy of Zhuan Falun.
When I opened up the book, and saw Teacher's portrait, I had a very close feeling towards him, as if he were someone that I had met before.
Through practicing Falun Gong, I enlightened to the answers to many puzzles in my life. I also became clear on the meaning of life, which is returning to one's original true self. Before I began to practice, I constantly fought with others, and as a result I felt exhausted and developed all kinds of illnesses. Through practicing Falun Gong, Teacher cleaned up my body, so that the illnesses that I had for many years, such as high blood pressure, dizziness, and headaches all disappeared. I truly came to have the feeling of being illness-free. I am deeply grateful for Teacher's saving grace.
Assisting Teacher in Fa-Rectification, Saving Sentient Beings
Teacher saved my life and cleaned up my body; beyond that, he has also created this path for me to become a divine being. Given that, how could I still be moved by human attachments and be attached to ordinary people's pursuits? I want to assist Teacher in Fa-rectification and save sentient beings as well. Seeing that Dafa is being persecuted, Teacher is being wronged, and there are still many people not clear about the truth, even though I am a new practitioner, I have benefited from Dafa, and at this critical moment, I should stand up to validate and safeguard Dafa and clarify the facts to people like other practitioners.
At first, I clarified the truth to my family members, and helped them to quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). After they became clear about the truth, my sister and my daughter began to practice Falun Gong as well.
During the Chinese New Year, I went to my uncle's home. At lunch, he treated me with some cigarettes and wine. I told him, "I quit smoking and drinking. I practice Falun Gong now." He was very surprised: "How dare you? The government is against it; whoever practices it will be arrested. In our village, there have been quite a few arrested and taken away. Who knows how they are treated after that!" I smiled at my uncle, "Don't be afraid. People who practice Falun Gong are good people, they hold themselves to the standards of 'Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance' to cultivate themselves. The CCP is persecuting good people, not allowing them to practice, and forcing them to give up practicing by using deadly torture. True practitioners will never give up the practice, do you know why? Because they believe in Teacher and Dafa, and they have experienced the miraculousness of Dafa and Teacher's compassion. By practicing Falun Gong, Teacher cleans up their bodies, so that they achieve the state of being illness-free. Being so grateful to Teacher, how could they possibly betray Him? Take me as an example, since I began to practice Falun Gong, my illnesses have been healed without my taking any medication, Teacher has helped me eliminate my illnesses, so that I feel so comfortable now from being illness-free." My uncle commented, "This is truly amazing!"
I added, "The CCP has been implementing autocracy since it took power, and in every political movement, it has killed so many people. The brutal persecution is still going on. Corruption is so prevalent in every level of the Chinese government, which has upset the public and the heavens. There was a stone formed 2.7 billion years ago in Pitang County, Guizhou Province, which has a phrase imprinted in it that reads 'The Chinese Communist Party Collapses.' Since it formed naturally, as opposed to being man-made, it signifies that Heaven is warning people. Now there are waves of people quitting the CCP all over the world—tens of millions of people. The CCP has committed tremendous sins, and gods will eliminate this evil. The time when Heaven eliminates the CCP is fast approaching; if one does not declare to part with this evil organization, one will be impacted when the time comes. Therefore, one should quit the CCP as soon as possible, so that one will be able to ensure one's safety when the calamity comes."
My uncle was in the army, and had also joined the Youth League. My cousin is a cadre at the county level, and he is a Party member, and my cousin had joined the Youth League as well. All of them have listened to my clarifying the facts to them. Right away, my cousin said, "I will go to my workplace to withdraw my membership." I said, "You don't have to go there to quit, I can help you." My cousin said to me, "My cousin, please help us with quitting. For doing that for us, we should thank you!" I said, "Do not need to thank me, thank my Teacher." Four lives were saved under Teacher's empowerment. Before we parted, I gave each of them an amulet, and asked them to sincerely recite "Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good".
When I clarify the facts to strangers, I had always chosen whom to talk to by looking at their facial expression, which still comes down to the fact that I have an attachment of fear, differentiating people, and I am not being compassionate enough. One day at noontime, I went to a small restaurant to have a meal. Only the owner and her son were there, so I began to clarify the facts to them. When I talked about the great calamity that human beings are facing, I said, "For people to escape from this calamity, the only way out is to agree with Dafa, by reciting sincerely 'Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good', so that one's life can be saved. Only by withdrawing from the CCP can one ensure safety amidst the calamity." However, she said, "We have gods protecting us. We don't believe in anything else." I felt a bit embarrassed by what she said. After I had the meal and paid my bill, I still gave her a copy of a Shen Yun DVD. I said, "When you finish watching the DVD, you'll understand a little bit more." Her son happily took the DVD from me and said, "I will watch it tonight." When I left the restaurant, I had the following thought on my mind: “Let them be clear about the truth and know the truth.”
Another time, a person came to me to handle something for him. I began to talk to him about the fact that as a result of the CCP persecuting Falun Gong and good people who believe in "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance", morality in today's society has declined tremendously. Chinese officials violate the law, and they take bribes easily and become very corrupt. For ordinary people, if they go to appeal to the government, they are arrested, beaten, or sentenced. Their families are broken apart as a result. For such an evil regime that disregards the lives of its own people, it will collapse sooner or later. I also talked to him about the stone, the necessity of Heaven eliminating the CCP, and quitting the CCP. He agreed with what I said, but when I came to ask him about quitting, he digressed and left in a hurry. When I asked him to remember "Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good”, he refused and told me that he was a Christian. After he left, I came to realize that the reason of my clarifying the facts to him didn't go well was because I did not send forth righteous thoughts beforehand. I decided that if he came again, I should make more efforts to save him.
A few days later, he and his wife came to see me again. At first, I asked Teacher to strengthen me, and I sent righteous thoughts to eliminate all the evil interfering with him. I said, "A few days ago, I talked to you about the fact that by quitting the CCP, one's life will be saved. Nothing else could be as important as this." When his wife asked me,: "Why?" I began to tell her about the fact that the CCP persecutes Falun Gong, as well as defames Falun Gong, by fabricating all kinds of lies. I then took out a copy of Minghui Weekly for her to read. I said, "After you finish reading it, please share it with your family members. One article in it is entitled "The Path of Karl Marx Becoming a Devil". Marx was a follower of Satan. The CCP is a believer of Marx, so if you are still a member of it, how can gods protect you?" Finally they understood the truth, and happily quit from the Youth League. I then gave each of them a Dafa amulet and asked them to sincerely recite the two phrases.
On the morning of March 23, 2010, I suddenly felt dizzy. I couldn't move the right side of the body-- the symptom was as if I were having a stroke. My tongue became stiff, I lost the ability to talk properly, and I had incontinence. At that time, I had the thought that I was a Dafa practitioner, and that this was not simply an illness. As a Dafa practitioner, one should not have any illness, so this must be evil interference or persecution from the old forces. Facing such a sudden tribulation, my daughter, who was still very young, cried out of fear first. Then she thought about Teacher and fellow practitioners, so she communicated my situation to other practitioners. Soon enough, Practitioners A and C came to my home to see me. They also agreed that it was interference and persecution by the evil, so they sent righteous thoughts for me right away.
Half an hour later, I could move my hand again, and I could also talk. I truly felt the power of righteous thoughts. It was just how Teacher said in “What’s to Fear?” from Hong Yin II:
“Send righteous thoughts,
and rotten demons explode”
After that, they shared their insights with me for a while, encouraged me to study the Fa more, look inward, and send righteous thoughts more frequently to eliminate the evil. After they left, I could still speak, but could not move my hand again. At that time, I calmed down and studied the Fa seriously, and began to look within. I found attachments of zealotry, showing off, competitiveness, fame, and personal gain. After I found these attachments, I made up my mind to eliminate all of them. I therefore began to send righteous thoughts: Even though I had omissions in my cultivation, the evil is unworthy of persecuting me. Teacher does not acknowledge them, nor should I. I then began to recite a passage from “Explaining the Fa During the 2003 Lantern Festival at the U.S. West Fa Conference”:
"'I'm Li Hongzhi's disciple, I don't want other arrangements or acknowledge them'--then they won't dare to do that. So it can all be resolved. When you can really do that, not just saying it but putting it into action, Master will definitely stand up for you. What's more, there are lots of Fa guardians around Master, there are lots of Buddhas, Daos, and Gods, and there are even greater beings, and they will all participate, because forced persecution that's not acknowledged is a crime, and the cosmos's old laws don't allow it either--irrational persecution absolutely is not allowed, and the old forces don't dare to do it if that is the situation."
Therefore, I kept doing the exercises, studying the Fa, and sending righteous thoughts. Under Teacher's empowerment, my situation improved every day. Within ten days, I was back to normal, and back to work on April 1.
Through this incident, I came to realize: As long as one truly believes in Teacher and Dafa, and has righteous thoughts and actions, miracles will appear.
Since I began to practice, Teacher has been safeguarding me at every moment. Even though I have been doing the three things, I am still not quite on par with very diligent practitioners. From now on, I must study the Fa well, follow the Fa-rectification process closely, cultivate myself well, and return home with Teacher after reaching consummation.
Thank you Teacher!
