(Minghui.org) I’m in my 60s and I live in the countryside with my family. I began to practice Falun Dafa just before 1999. I’d like to share some of my cultivation experiences and thoughts about letting people know Falun Dafa is good.
When I first started to practice Falun Dafa, I did not know how to cultivate my xinxing. When a neighbor bullied my family I forgot I was a cultivator—I was angry and I fought with them.
A few days later I read this sentence,
“... as a practitioner one should not fight back when being punched or insulted ...” (Lecture Four, Zhuan Falun)
I was ashamed and I realized, that I’m practitioner, and it’s wrong to fight with others. But I couldn’t let go of my pride and bring myself to admit I was wrong.
As I continued to study the Fa I decided to write a letter of apology to the neighbor. I wrote: “I failed to follow Falun Dafa’s principles of Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance. I apologize to you and your elders for the insults I shouted at you. I was wrong. I’m so sorry! I upset you over a small piece of land. It was my fault. I will correct myself. Please remember that Falun Dafa is good! Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good!”
I asked my son to deliver the letter. The neighbor was touched after reading it. We buried the hatchet and reconciled.
I had a stall and sold items a few years ago during the slow season at work. I was in my usual spot at a market fair when another stallholder deliberately picked a quarrel with me. The woman spoke in a completely unreasonable manner. I thought, as a cultivator I should not quarrel with her. Seeing that I remained silent, she shouted: “I’ll throw you into Old Dragon Bay to feed the fish!” She grabbed my scale and I was unable to sell my goods.
I remembered the story about Han Xin in Zhuan Falun. Master said he endured the humiliation of crawling between someone’s legs. I kept reminding myself: “Endure it! Just endure it!”
I endured, and I did not fight with this woman. I knew Master was helping me. She stopped making a scene and returned my scale.
A few days later I saw the woman on the street. She looked a bit embarrassed as I began to talk with her calmly. “To tell you the truth, I used to have a terrible temper. Do you know why I didn’t fight back?” I continued, “Because I practice Falun Dafa, and I try to follow the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance. So I tried hard to endure. Please remember that Falun Dafa is good and Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good! I hope you will have a bright future.” Her face flushed and she kept nodding.
After the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched the persecution, out of fear, my parents-in-law scorned me since I practiced. When the police harassed or illegally detained me, my mother-in-law went around the village telling everyone: “Why would the CCP be afraid of my daughter-in-law? What’s the point for her trying to convince them of anything?”
She looked at me was as if I were a freak. My husband was timid. He always obeyed his mother and never dared to speak up for me. I believed that only by following Dafa and being a good person, would their prejudice toward Dafa be changed.
I began to pay attention to the smallest details, to demonstrate my kindness and that I cared for them. I bought them a refrigerator and an air conditioner. I purchased whatever they needed. Although our family was still quite poor, every few days I bought a young chicken for my in-laws and I had my child deliver it to them. Gradually, they were won over. They stopped speaking ill of me to the villagers and even began to say how filial I was.
Now, my in-laws say Dafa is good. All my husband’s brothers and sisters withdrew from the CCP organizations they joined. I realized that only by cultivating myself well can I help more people understand Falun Dafa.
During the early years of the persecution, my two brothers believed the CCP’s lies that were broadcast on TV. I tried to tell them the true story but they refused to listen. One of them even destroyed a Dafa book.
I later understood that my feeling toward my brothers was affection for family members, not compassion. I stopped trying to convince them. Instead, I followed Falun Dafa’s teachings and tried to be kind to them. I helped without hesitation whenever they needed my assistance. And when it came to financial matters, I would lend a hand in any way I could. Their attitude underwent a drastic change, and they understood Dafa is good. Both of them published statements on the Minghui website sincerely apologizing to Master for any disrespectful words they said or anything improper they may have done.
Now every year they ask for calendars which have information about Falun Dafa. I sometimes give them booklets about Dafa and they are happy to read them. One brother has already installed a satellite dish so he can watch NTD Television, and the other brother is about to do the same.
Last December, I saw a mobile phone lying on the street. My first thought was: “Thank you, Master! This is a good opportunity to save people.”
I picked it up. A little while later, a man called the phone. He said the phone was his girlfriend’s, who was very worried, and she would come to get it shortly. I told him I would wait at the entrance of a certain residential area.
A woman in her thirties arrived. She was very touched, saying she did not expect to find the phone. She kept thanking me, and asked for my address and phone number so she could buy me something to express her gratitude.
I told her she didn’t need to thank me. “I am a Falun Dafa practitioner. Any practitioner would do the same. Just remember that Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.”
I then advised the woman to withdraw from the CCP organizations. She immediately agreed and asked me to help her boyfriend withdraw as well. I emphasized to her that to withdraw from the CCP, the person himself must agree. She assured me that he would. After talking with her further, I gave her a keepsake which had in formation about Falun Dafa. With tears welling in her eyes, she repeatedly expressed her gratitude.
I was carrying two cotton quilts home. While waiting at a traffic light, a woman asked me, “Where did you have those made?” I knew immediately she came to hear about Dafa. I enthusiastically told her where I had them made, how many pounds of cotton went into them, and so on. Then, I quickly switched to the topic of withdrawing from the CCP organization. Without hesitation, she agreed to withdraw from CCP’s Youth League and Young Pioneers.
One evening last year, it was past nine o’clock when I was returning home from a group Fa study at a fellow practitioner’s home. I met a young man selling pancakes from a van. I bought some from him, and then I talked to him about Dafa. He agreed to withdraw from the CCP’s Youth League and Young Pioneers. A few days later, I passed his van again and bought more pancakes.
The young man recognized me and said cheerfully, “Auntie, thank you for the other evening! I went home and talked with my girlfriend. We decided to use the name ‘Shun Fa,’ which you gave me to use in quitting the CCP, as the name of our new shop.”
I was very happy and said, “Don’t forget to tell your girlfriend and your family to frequently recite, ‘Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good,’ so that they may be blessed.” He agreed.
Master said,
“Dafa disciples are humankind’s only hope for salvation.” (“To the Fa Conference of Europe”)
The people we encounter are given an opportunity to choose their future. We just need to set aside our fear and talk to them.
When I meet people, my first thought is: “They are are arranged by Master, to come to learn about Dafa and withdraw from the CCP.” Whenever I had this thought, I gained strong righteous thoughts. I’m able to tell them about Dafa and help them quit the CCP .
Whether I’m grocery shopping, coaxing the children out to play, or even selling scrap materials, buying steamed buns, or getting clothes mended—in short, whenever there’s an opportunity to strike up a conversation, I know it’s arranged by Master, and I rarely let it pass me by. We know from the Fa that all the people in the world were once Master’s family, and they are all waiting to be saved.
I will continue to validate the Fa and do the three things well.
Thank you, Master!