(Minghui.org) I would like to share some of my cultivation experiences as a Dafa practitioner in China.
While I was back in my hometown on holiday in April and May of 1999, I went to my parents’ place and watched videos of Master’s teachings in Guangzhou. I deeply felt that this is a righteous practice, and what Master Li Hongzhi said is so true! Since then, the Falun Dafa principles explained in the lectures have become deeply rooted in my heart.
I was in my early 20s then, and due to poor health since I was a child, I’d developed an introverted personality and didn’t have good communication skills.
Back when I was at university, I came across a number of qigong practices and theories, and I even practiced a phony qigong for a few days. I also got in touch with an older lady who had some supernatural abilities. Yet I still had so many questions, and no answers, until I watched Master’s Fa lectures.
“This is what I have been looking for,” I told myself, and so established a sacred affinity with Falun Dafa.
Just a few months later, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), directed by Jiang Zemin, its former leader, started the vicious nationwide persecution of Falun Gong. I hadn’t yet finished learning all the exercises, and my understanding of the Fa principles was still shallow. I had no one to share my feelings with and felt very distressed. I didn’t know what to do.
Even worse, my then-husband was terrified of the persecution and tried to stop me from doing the exercises. He even tore up my Dafa books. I felt really miserable and helpless.
Later, when my mom came over to help look after my child, she left me a copy of Zhuan Falun and recordings of Master’s lectures. Once again, I had the opportunity to reconnect with Dafa.
Once, while my then-husband was out of town for some training and study, I took the opportunity to listen to Master’s lectures whenever possible and practiced the exercises by following the exercise tapes.
I made rapid progress every day and had the sensation of something drilling inwards in the area of my celestial eye. I felt my body going up and down when doing the sitting meditation, just as Master explained in his teachings.
My body also improved significantly, and my skin looked fair and rosy. All my colleagues said I looked really healthy.
I continued on my bumpy path of cultivation, falling down from time to time, before picking myself up again and continuing. Master has never given up on me and has always helped me.
Due to my attachments to doing things, and my tendency to go to extremes and not being rational, the CCP took advantage of my loopholes, and I was put in jail for five years.
I felt rather depressed at the beginning, but later I began to look within and let go of many of my attachments. I kept reciting all the teachings I could remember, and gradually I started to strengthen my righteous thoughts. I made up my mind that no matter where I was, I would show the wonderfulness of Falun Dafa to people around me.
An inmate convicted of financial crimes liked to hear me recite poems from Hong Yin, and sometimes she would recite them with me. She told me one day that she saw Master in her dream. She said he came to see me and talked to her.
Even though I can’t see anything through my celestial eye, I know that Master is looking after us all the time.
Another inmate who was jailed for harboring a criminal was very depressed. She was in her early 50s, but all her hair had turned white. I chatted with her and encouraged her with the Fa principles. She changed gradually and often recited “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” She treated me as a confidante and believed that Dafa could help her resolve all her troubles. She felt much better and more hopeful for the future.
Another inmate, a deaf-mute woman who had been jailed for stealing, was often bullied by other inmates. She always tried to be next to me because she knew that I would be kind to her.
I communicated with her by writing things down, telling her what is good or bad, and that she should stop doing bad things once she is released. I wrote “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” She nodded and spelled out “Falun Dafa is good” in sign language, with a big smile on her face.
There were two other hot-tempered inmates who often got into fights. One day, they each picked something up and were about to start fighting again. I went up to them and quietly said “Dafa is good.” They both calmed down and left.
The guards thought this was very strange and asked me, “What is it about you? You look graceful and delicate, but all these people like listening to what you say and want to help you.”
How could they possibly know that it was all thanks to the power of Dafa!
Some “baojia” (criminal inmates assigned by prison guards to monitor and abuse Dafa practitioners) also changed their conduct after seeing the selfless kindness of Dafa practitioners. They wanted to learn about Dafa and quietly recited poems from Hong Yin and Essentials for Further Advancement and sang Dafa songs with me. They were all convinced by the teachings of Falun Dafa.
One of them was very good at whistling, so she often whistled the tune to “Be Saved” during the breaks. Her whistling was loud and clear, the sound traveling far and wide.
Dafa practitioners are a light everywhere they go and bring brightness to people, because we always have our compassionate Master beside us. We have the guidance of the Fa in our hearts and carry the sacred mission of assisting Master in awakening sentient beings.
A colleague’s husband was paralyzed and bedridden. I gave her a music player so that her husband could listen to some practitioners’ programs, such as “Traditional Culture,” and “Heavenly Pure Music.”
Her husband enjoyed the contents very much, saying, “How come they are so wonderful?” Practitioners’ kindness and compassion can indeed dispel the fog in the minds of all beings, and celestial melodies can wash away the darkness in their hearts.
Later, I also gave them recordings of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, The Ultimate Goal of Communism, and Stories of Reincarnation. My colleague told me that her husband really enjoyed listening to them all, and he would ask for them as soon as he woke up.
They both quit the CCP organizations, and her husband often recites: “Faun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.”
During the pandemic, neither of them tested positive, and my colleague kept saying that they were blessed by Dafa.
Another colleague hung a picture of former leader Mao Zedong in his car. I said to him, “You have read the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party and quit the CCP organizations. You know that during Mao’s reign, as many as 80 million Chinese died unnatural deaths. With so many restless spirits around him, it’s really not good for you to have his picture in your car.”
I gave him a beautiful pendant with a Dafa message for his car, and he immediately took down Mao’s picture and replaced it with the pendant. Another colleague also replaced his car pendant with one carrying a Dafa message, believing that it would bring him blessings.
I have a female colleague whose parents were persecuted by the CCP in the past, and she was also affected. She is scared of the CCP, and each time I tried to persuade her to quit the CCP organizations, she turned away due to her fear.
She tested positive during the pandemic and was very sick. She still suffers some lingering after-effects and feels physically weak.
I didn’t give up on her and kept telling her to recite “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” Gradually, she changed her attitude and began to appreciate my kindness.
I said to her, “Only by quitting the CCP organizations can you break away from the CCP. This isn’t about playing politics, but to free ourselves from the grip of evil and to break the poisonous vows we once made, so that we can be protected by heavenly gods and Buddhas.” Eventually, she understood and happily quit the CCP organizations.
Once, she had an accident and was admitted to the hospital. I went to see her and told her to keep reciting in her heart, “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” She did so and experienced a rapid recovery.
My mom bought a small music player in 2010. It was attractive and sounded very clear. She used it for years to play the Falun Dafa exercise music. A few years ago, she had trouble charging it and wanted to throw it away.
I couldn’t bear to throw it away and brought it home. It only worked when it was plugged in and would stop if unplugged. So I kept it plugged in when I played the exercise music. Later, the screen on the player went blank. I plugged it in, fiddled with it a bit, and it started playing again.
Nowadays, I only use it to play the Dafa music Pudu and Jishi. It still produces a clear, beautiful sound, and the sacred melodies constantly flow through my home.
In today’s era, when humans and gods coexist, when all beings bathe in the radiance of the Fa, everything becomes harmonious.
We are Dafa disciples, connected together via the Falun Dafa website Minghui.org. Our historic mission requires us to be compassionate towards all beings. We must guard every single thought we have and let go of all human attachments. This way we can keep purifying and rectifying ourselves through cultivation, until we return to our true self and our true home with Master, along with all sentient beings.