(Minghui.org) I began practicing Falun Dafa in February 1999 in Frankfurt, Germany. I was in Frankfurt when Master gave his lecture in May 1998, but I didn’t yet have the maturity to firmly cultivate.
I was at a point in my life of having no hope.
Regarding my background, in our past lifetimes my ancestors and I were deeply involved in evil practices. When I was born in this lifetime I was given another chance. My mother’s contractions suddenly stopped for no reason, during a new moon, and during a complete lunar eclipse, on the 29th of February, a day which doesn’t really exist.
Instead, I was born in bright daylight at noon, which was a completely different arrangement.
I practiced another form of cultivation before I obtained Falun Dafa, but I reached a point where I knew I wouldn’t be able to succeed. When I was in utter despair, I met practitioners in Frankfurt’s city park on a cold, rainy day.
One of my biggest shortcomings at the beginning of my cultivation was that I did not realize the depth, magnitude, and the boundless compassion of Master and the universal Dafa. I still stuck to my supernatural skills to protect myself.
The third week while I meditated, I saw a demon sitting in front of me, repeatedly shooting a poisonous, snake-like, long tongue very close to my face. I grabbed his tongue with my hand in his dimension, and he turned into a puddle of dirty water in front of me.
I would not have been able to do this had I not let go of my previous practice and placed my trust solely in Master and the Fa.
Master mentioned many times not to add things from other schools, as this would cause problems in your ordinary life.
Things got even more intense when the persecution started, and the earth was covered for nine months in pure evil. This time, for me, was truly and literally hell let loose.
The difficulty was that I could not find a veteran practitioner who was able to grasp and understand my situation fully.
Master mentioned a few times that the evil was focusing the hardest on practitioners who were full of fear and who couldn’t let go of their most fundamental attachments.
From the very beginning of my cultivation, my motive was founded only on self-preservation and not to become a kind-hearted, enlightened being. It took me 18 months after the persecution started to stop running in fear, turn around, face the evil forces, and ready myself for my last stand.
I wasn’t sure if I would survive that weekend, but I did. And this was a fundamental turning point in my cultivation! From then on, when I faced and destroyed evil beings and mechanisms in other dimensions, it was out of a wish to safeguard sentient beings and protect Dafa.
Some practitioners learned highly sophisticated computer skills before they were cultivators and were able to use these skills to protect Dafa by using computer software and firewalls. Some practitioners learned professional dance skills and were able to assist Master in establishing the first group of Shen Yun dancers.
In my situation, my background prepared me to safeguard practitioners’ efforts to save sentient beings and block the arrangements of evil entities from sabotaging Master’s Fa-rectification.
For example, our Frankfurt group did the exercises in front of Chinese tourists, and it happened that I saw with my celestial eye that dark black evil beings were ramming black iron bars into the mainland Chinese tourists who were walking by. These tourists were then very hostile or numb towards our truth-clarification efforts.
I eliminated those evil beings, and the situation changed completely. The tourists became curious and open-minded towards our group.
I shared this with the coordinator afterward, but it was not received well.
This was before Master published, “Dafa Disciples’ Righteous Thoughts Are Powerful,” in which he described how some practitioners use Falun and supernatural capabilities to destroy the evil that damages Dafa. The situation with my fellow practitioners became increasingly tense because of my “killing demons in other dimensions.”
Master said in that lecture:
“In fact, some disciples and beings in different realms who are able to use their supernormal abilities in different dimensions have been using their supernormal abilities and gong power (gongli) to take part in eliminating the evil beings that damage Dafa. When some Dafa disciples see evil beings, they send out Falun and divine powers of Dafa to eliminate the evil.” (“Dafa Disciples’ Righteous Thoughts Are Powerful,” The Essentials of Diligent Progress II)
I threw Falun into evil beings and machines. I threw a light rope and a kind of golden snowflake when there was larger numbers of them. I usually just use the hand gesture from the fifth exercise and my willpower, and trust in my supernormal capabilities developed through Dafa cultivation, to rectify the situation. Master hadn’t introduced sending forth righteous thoughts yet, but I felt his presence and his overwhelmingly compassionate, kind energy all the time, especially when things got intense.
I had three breakthroughs in my early development in this regard.
I was close to being overwhelmed by the sheer number of beings and evil, while blocking them from harming sentient beings, and feared for my survival at that time. But I suddenly remembered a piece of advice from a veteran practitioner.
He once told me, when I was in a very critical tribulation, to open Zhuan Falun at a random page and ask Master for help, so I did. I opened the book. It happened to be the page where Master talks about “consecration,” doing the Big Lotus Flower Hand Sign with his picture or book in your hands.
I immediately did this, and suddenly the three sentences of the very first page came into my mind out of nowhere: “Falun Chang Zhuan, Fo Fa Wu Bian, Xuan Fa Zhi Ji!” After I repeated these sentences a couple of times, a thunderous energy suddenly left my body. My tianmu [celestial eye] witnessed not only how the evil beings were being disintegrated, but how a righteous Dafa energy was rectifying many, many spaces in other dimensions.
During this time, and later as well, I often looked at Master’s picture in Zhuan Falun. It became very alive. He had either a warm, encouraging smile or a concerning expression.
The second breakthrough came from memorizing “On Dafa.”
A fellow practitioner once told me that he was able to eliminate his demon nature very efficiently by memorizing “On Dafa.”
I started doing this, too, while having the thought of reducing my demon nature. But it turned into a profound revelation of Master’s mystic Fa-principles.
A side effect was similar to what another fellow practitioner said a while before. He said, “Once you enter the mystic Fa-reality, loneliness will be your only true companion.”
Third, while I was in Munich at the Falun Dafa information booth I met a young man with a very similar background to mine. My family background was demons, but his was aliens.
He was professionally trained by his family, who served these beings by using supernatural abilities. He showed me how to enter their dimension on this earth. We went through quite a lot of very, very intense situations together, and we were able to safeguard humans in this society.
A main operational area was the castle “Neuschwanstein,” built by King Ludwig II in the Bavarian Alps. After a few weeks of doing operations together, we departed. He had just come into contact with Dafa, and the pressure of what we were doing became too intense for him.
I was staying at a fellow practitioner’s apartment at this time. One evening he asked me where I was going in the evenings, and what I was doing. After a while, I reluctantly took him to the kind of dimensional “Acupuncture Points” in Munich, and we started doing things successfully together.
One day, when we were working on a special task to block evil apparatuses from poisoning the ordinary human world, I suddenly couldn’t move my flesh body or Benti, nor was I able to control my bodies and supernormal abilities with my mind. I was completely paralyzed, and could only watch with my tianmu [celestial eye] and listen.
I saw a man in the next dimension walking up the stairs and approaching us. He said to my fellow practitioner, “You both are like a Tai’Chi. You have to decide who is the black, the dark, the negative one!”
My fellow practitioner answered, “No one!” The other being, in the form of a man, repeated his request several times in a very demanding manner, but my fellow practitioner completely refused to cooperate! Then suddenly, everything evil, including the evil being and the evil atmosphere, collapsed and disappeared!
I am very, very thankful for my fellow practitioner’s righteousness! This was probably one of the most dangerous moments in my time during Fa-rectification so far. When we shared afterward, we recalled the same things in the same detail; this was not an illusion.
We not only fought evil beings, but often actually put Faluns in their machines and instruments. The atmosphere, and even the weather, changed instantly. A beautiful warm, sunny environment and smiling, light-hearted everyday people around us were our rewards.
Things then took a turn. He developed zealotry and started talking to our local Munich community about what we were doing. His fiancé joined us and got red pimple-like bumps on her skin the next morning. Some practitioners contacted the German Dafa Association, and some avoided me.
Things became very, very intense, not only for me, but for the Munich practitioners as well. There was so much trouble going on that I was even approached by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) spy-practitioners, who did not reveal themselves immediately. Instead, they talked another practitioner and me into meeting a “good friend,” who later turned out to be a “handler.”
Even after I declined their offer and refused to cooperate with them, they still thought I was one of them because of the big ruckus and the exposure from what I was doing.
I refused to let the evil beings have a free pass and way to destroy humans during Master’s process of saving sentient beings! What I did was similar to cleaning the bathtub which was filled with insects. Again, this was shortly before Master taught us how to send forth righteous thoughts and the hand gestures.
After Master taught us how to send forth righteous thoughts, and during the following years, I was able to smooth out my relationship with the German community and the Dafa Association there.
Looking back, I understood that they acted out of honest concern.
Actually, if everyone had come to me with admiration and curiosity, I definitely would have developed zealotry, lost everything, and been ruined.
What I do is unusual, but definitely not better or higher in any way than the cultivation paths of fellow Dafa practitioners in assisting Master in saving sentient beings. It’s just simply different!
Another thing that helped me a lot was keeping silent about these things.
It just did not help to tell fellow practitioners that I had come into contact with and met five different alien species.
A very challenging part of my cultivation at that time was organizing my everyday life while having one foot, and sometimes two feet, in other realities during the day.
A fellow practitioner who did similar things explained to me that when he was doing his job at his company, he closed his mental door to family and doing things in other dimensions. When he did things in other dimensions, he closed the door of his job, family, fiancé, and community. After he was done with what he was supposed to do, he closed the door of other-dimensional realities behind him completely.
After implementing his advice, my job, my family, and my activities for Dafa became structured and smooth again.
I mentioned earlier about cleaning the bathtub and eliminating the insects in Lecture Seven of Zhaun Falun.
At one point, I started to develop a very dangerous attachment. The lust I refer to here is not sexual desire; it is a demon of lust for merciless combat. This was the complete opposite of Zhen-Shan-Ren [Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance]! It was a completely different attitude and mindset, to either wipe out and clean the bathtub in a humble way for Master, or to enjoy killing the insects inside it.
On the surface, the action itself looked the same, but the heart behind it was completely different! Consequently, I fell hard and painfully until I understood and changed my heart and attitude.
In the later years until today, I dealt with other, let’s say “Not-Our-Dimensional-World-Things,” and at a certain point in my cultivation, it became clear to me that I was very likely on a Qimen cultivation path as Master describes in Zhuan Falun.
I was sometimes able to see and witness the effects of sending forth righteous thoughts in other dimensions. The greatest impacts have been when:
1. My mind was focused and calm, like when making a long-distance shot with a rifle.2. Reading my collection of Master’s lectures about sending forth righteous thoughts.3. With a very serious determination to block out negative emotions, especially towards other practitioners.
I sometimes felt an energy eruption leaving my body, coming out of my cells. It wasn’t necessary to see or feel this. It was like the commander of a submarine, who pushes the fire button and knows the torpedo is on its way. He doesn’t have to “see” how the actual torpedo leaves the boat. He just knows it is on the way to its target.
I sometimes met with a handful of fellow practitioners who were doing similar things. Doing coordinated actions with them felt very serious and solemn. We never had a sense of competition or jealousy. Even after completing a mission, the sense of the group was a kind of calm.
Today, one of my biggest issues is giving in to a too-comfortable, ordinary life. It’s okay to have the ordinary things of everyday life under control, it is even required by Master, but we shouldn’t give in to overwhelming comfort, thus diminishing to a dangerous extent the things we are supposed to do!
I have one last thought. I think that every serious practitioner has thought about what the Tao is. It was a kind of vague concept to me for a long time.
Master has often talked about how we practitioners are “one body.” One day I compared each practitioner to an actual human body cell. Each cell is in a process of constant exchange of substances, water-liquids, and micro-substances with its surrounding cells, which is called osmosis.
This process keeps alive the other cells, the organs they are part of, and actually the whole human body. If one cell stops exchanging with other cells, it becomes stagnant, and then rotten and old inside. This then affects all its surrounding cells as well. Worse, when it’s sucking out its surrounding cells, destroying them in the process, it becomes a cancer cell. The body will fight it at one point, or this cancer cell will transform more surrounding cells into black cancer cells, and in the end this will disable the organ they are part of. If a vital organ fails, the whole body dies.
When single practitioner-cells support each other in smaller or bigger ways, the organs they are part of, like “Shen Yun,” “The Epoch Times,” or “Ganjing World,” thrive. These "Dafa-organs" are Master’s “one body” of Fa-rectification.
This is why it’s so dangerous when a practitioner becomes kind of “toxic” while letting themselves be eaten up by overwhelming grievances and jealousy. They become a cancer cell. A cell that cooperates and supports unconditionally has a long life. It is in the Dao.
Thank you for listening! I’m pretty sure there are quite a few things to point out.
Heshi. Thank you!
(Selected article presented at the 2026 Washington DC Fa Conference)