(Minghui.org) The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) led by Jiang Zemin, former party secretary, mobilized the entire state apparatus and launched a brutal crackdown against Falun Gong practitioners on July 20, 1999. The core principles of Falun Gong are Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, yet the CCP was determined that “Falun Gong will be eradicated within three months!” Fourteen years have passed. Falun Gong practitioners around the world have persistently and peacefully worked against the persecution and exposed the sinister nature of the CCP. Through clarifying the truth, more and more people have become supportive of Dafa and some of them have even begun to practice Falun Dafa. Xiao Jin, a software engineer of a Swedish company, is among one of them.
Xiao Jin participated in the peaceful Falun Gong march held in Copenhagen, Denmark on July 20, 2013
First Encounter with Falun Dafa
Xiao Jin was born in the 1980's. She has always loved to read since she was young, and yearned to find the true meaning of life. She used to have a lot of imagination, curiosity and wonder about the world. The first time she heard of Falun Gong was in 1997, while her uncle visited her family. He was chatting with the adults in the living room while she was studying for her exams in her bedroom. Suddenly, her uncle brought up a very interesting topic—Falun Gong—which aroused her curiosity. She immediately stopped studying and listened attentively to what he said.
Her uncle said that he knew of a lady who was a bus cashier. She used to be very sick and pale. However, he barely recognized her when he saw her recently. She looked so young. Her face was rosy and she had a healthy complexion. Her uncle was very surprised to see the changes in her and thought that she must have found a great doctor who gave her very good health advice. When he asked her what had transpired, he was surprised to hear that she started practicing Falun Gong. Out of curiosity, her uncle soon bought a copy of Zhuan Falun, the main text of Falun Gong, and started reading it.
After her uncle finished telling the story about the lady, Xiao Jin sincerely wanted to read Zhuan Falun. As time went by, she prioritized her school work first, thinking that she could read it after her exam was over. Nevertheless, she completely forgot about reading Zhuan Falun after she took the exam.
Turning Point: Learning the Truth about the Persecution
In 2008, Xiao Jin met a Falun Gong practitioner on the street. The practitioner clarified the truth to her about the “self-immolation incident” at Tiananmen Square which was staged by the CCP to defame Falun Gong. After hearing the truth, Xiao Jin agreed to quit the CCP and its affiliated organizations. As the conversation with the practitioner continued, Xiao Jin felt that the practitioner was a very kind and sincere person. Several days later, she decided to borrow Master's lectures in Dalian City from the practitioner and watch them.
When she first watched Master's lectures, she encountered a lot of interference. She said, “In the past when I listened to the music in my room, no one could hear me. When I watched Master's lectures, my family complained that I turned the volume up too loud (although I didn't have it on high) and urged me to turn it off. But I managed to keep watching it anyway. After I finished all the lectures, I felt that Master had spoken so well on the Fa principles that I had found all the answers to the puzzling questions I used to have in life. I decided to take up cultivation practice in Dafa!”
Even though a decade of time had passed by since she was first drawn to Dafa, Xiao Jin finally entered the door of cultivation practice. Shortly after she started cultivation she underwent tremendous physical and mental changes. She became a kinder and more gentle person. The cervical pain that used to bother her for so many years disappeared almost overnight. Her parents, due to lies instilled by the CCP, used to oppose her choice to practice, but were also amazed after witnessing the changes in her.
At the beginning when she started the practice, Xiao Jin didn't have any Falun Gong books. She borrowed a photocopied version of Zhuan Falun from a practitioner. She spent almost a year trying to type up the whole book in her computer in order to have her own copy. After she finished, she proofread it three times and still found some typos.
When she recalled the experience, she smiled and said “I was very sad back then, wondering why was it so hard for me to obtain a copy of Zhuan Falun . One day, before I went to sleep, I begged Master for a copy of Zhuan Falun . The next day, I miraculously received an electronic version of it. Soon, without much difficulty, I also found all of Master's books and lectures online.”
Xiao Jin was later hired by a Swedish company. After moving to Sweden, she met many Dafa practitioners there, and her cultivation environment has thus undergone tremendous changes.
Greatest Joy of My Life
Xiao Jin sighed with emotion: “Although I haven't been practicing for too long, I feel Master has constantly looked after me. When I was still in China, and needed to pass a test in my cultivation, Master always helped me find the right articles to read guiding me through the tribulation. After I came to Sweden, Master has always arranged practitioners to share with me so that I can see my inadequacies. At work, Master uses my colleagues to remind me to be more diligent.
“One day, my boss asked me to work overtime, but he soon changed his mind. When I arrived at work the next day, my desk was empty. My colleagues told me that a section of ceiling crashed down on top of my desk shortly after I left the company. They said that if I would have worked overtime the previous night, the consequence would have been unthinkable. I know that our compassionate Master helped me escape the disaster.” '
After Xiao Jin moved to Sweden, she quickly became involved with efforts to raise awareness about the persecution against Falun Gong. She hopes that people will soon awaken to the truth that the CCP has always used lies and propaganda to launch political campaigns, violently persecuting its own people. She also hopes that all people will cherish this rare opportunity to learn about Falun Gong.
Xiao Jin said, “Becoming a Dafa practitioner is the greatest joy of my life.”
