(Clearwisdom.net) In May 1995, I started practicing Falun Dafa. I had previously suffered from several illnesses, including heart disease, stomach disease, kidney disease, paraplegia from myelitis, spinal disease, and dizziness. For many years I could not survive without medication. My co-workers joked that a breeze would blow me down. Not long after I started practicing Falun Dafa however, I enjoyed happiness without illness. It was Master and Dafa who gave me a second life.
With Master's protection and under the guidance of the Fa, I never wavered during my fourteen years of cultivation.
Study Well--The Fa is the Basic Guarantee for Fa Validation, Clarifying the Truth, and Dissolving Evil
When the evil became rampant on July 20, 1999, many practitioners were persecuted. One company official told me to give up Falun Dafa and turn in my Dafa books. I refused and said, "I have nothing to submit. If I did not practice Falun Dafa, I would not be this well today. How else could my illnesses have been cured?" I thought that as long as I am around, no one will dare to touch my books. He left after hearing this. Other leaders just wanted me to pay attention to my safety and had good intentions. Everyone at my company knew that I had become healthy because of practicing Falun Dafa, so no one made further trouble for me. Later I spent a lot of time studying the "Fa." As I studied, I realized why Master asks us to study the Fa more as well as the importance of studying the Fa. Just like Master's words in "Drive Out Interference" from Essentials for Further Advancement II:
"The Fa can break all attachments, the Fa can destroy all evil, the Fa can shatter all lies, and the Fa can strengthen righteous thoughts."
In late 2000 I quit my job and went to Beijing to validate the Fa. Before my departure, I arranged my work, finished the year-end accounting ahead of time, and submitted all accounting statements and forms to the company leaders. They tried to get me to stay, saying, "If you think your salary is not high enough, we can consider giving you a raise. If you think you don't have enough days off, we can let you have two days off every week. You can also bring your child to work if you need to." They tried to get me stay and not go to Beijing. They all knew Falun Dafa was good but were afraid I would be persecuted.
I had, however, made up my mind. I went home and told my husband my decision. He was very angry. He was very supportive when I practiced, but he was strongly against my going to Beijing. He cursed me and asked for help from my parents to try and stop me. Both of my parents are Dafa practitioners and are very supportive. My husband became angrier, shouted even more and threatened me with divorce. He told me to bring my child if I wanted to go to Beijing. My child was only eleven years old and would have a final exam soon. No one could change my mind. When he realized this, he left me alone.
I arrived at Tiananmen Square without any fear. I held up my banner and shouted from the bottom of my heart, "Falun Dafa is good! Falun Dafa is righteous! Restore our Master's honor!" For this I was arrested and detained. In the detention center, I told them the truth about Falun Dafa and told them that Dafa saved my life, and if I had not practiced Dafa, if I were even still alive, I would not be able to get out of bed. Before practicing, I couldn't walk as a result of paraplegia from myelitis. I didn't cooperate with the evil and was able to return home a week later.
After my company heard that I was back, they re-hired me and also gave me a 200 yuan raise. I also had two days to help my child prepare for the final exam. Just like Master said in Zhuan Falun,
"If something is yours, you will not lose it. If something is not yours, you will not have it even if you fight for it."
From 2000 to 2005, every day after work, I first worked on printing truth clarification materials, putting up posters, and distributing information. Then I went to my parents' home to send forth righteous thoughts with them. Later I went home to do housework and take care of my child. There were interference and dangers, but with Master's protection, nothing really dangerous happened.
In the winter I was distributing fliers about Falun Dafa in a residential building. There were only four sections in the building. When I finished the last section, I saw two angry young men with shovels in their hands. One of them was holding the poster I had just put up and was staring at me. I thought they were going to hit me with their shovels. I remembered Master's words in Zhuan Falun:
"I am rooted in the universe. If anyone can harm you, he or she would be able to harm me. Put simply, the person would be able to harm this universe."
I started to send forth righteous thoughts and asked for Master's help to eliminate all the evil elements behind those two people. I wanted to immobilize them. They were looking at me blankly. After I passed between them and went through the gate of the courtyard, I heard them shouting, "Stop her! She put up Falun Dafa posters!" I didn't turn my head to look back, and I continued to finish distributing the rest of the posters. On the path of cultivation, I have witnessed Master's compassion and Dafa's miraculous, power which I cannot describe in words.
Eliminating Attachments, Taking on the Task of Making Dafa Materials
In September 2005, several materials production sites in our area were destroyed and fellow practitioners were arrested. I was very anxious. Fellow practitioners needed to read copies of "Minghui Weekly" and sentient beings needed to have Dafa materials, so I decided to set up a truth-clarifying materials production site at home. With the help of fellow practitioners, I bought a PC, a printer, and a DVD burner. In several days I learned how to get on-line, download, type, and print, and even make DVDs. I have also printed the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party. As long as you want to do Dafa work, Master will arrange everything and give you the wisdom. The process of making the truth clarification materials is a process of cultivation. I know very well that I need to study the Fa well and cultivate well, and then I can do well with the truth clarification materials. Only then will I not be interfered with.
In the beginning, I didn't know much, and there were many difficulties. All of my attachments surfaced, including emotions of fear, complacency, showing off, competition, the attachment to "doing things," and impatience. Most notably the attachment to "doing things" was very strong. I acted just like an everyday person. My loopholes were take advantage of and I experienced illness tribulations. Symptoms of kidney disease, dizziness, and stomach problems--all those illnesses that existed before I began the practice--resurfaced to interfere with my Dafa work.
One day my child asked me, "Mom, do you feel better?" I said, "Yes" She asked me, "Do you know why this is happening? Because the evil doesn't want to allow a truth clarification materials site to be set up. You should get rid of it. Then you will be okay." I understood. Master was giving me a hint through my child's words.
I sent my child to school and sat down to send forth righteous thoughts. A thought came to mind, "I think I am a Fa-ratification period Dafa practitioner. It's my mission to make truth clarification materials, save sentient beings, and assistant Master in Fa-rectification. No one can stop me. You are not qualified to persecute me." With this thought, I felt something like cool water pouring from my head through my neck and shoulders and into my body. My head was clear right away. I no longer felt dizzy. Through this, I realized that as long as I believe in Master and the Fa, no test is too hard to pass.