(Clearwisdom.net) I started practicing Falun Dafa in 1997. On the path of cultivation I was tempered through difficulties and hardships and have come this far with the compassionate care of Teacher. During these ten years of persecution, I succeeded in "following Teacher closely and steadfastly cultivating Dafa." I have enlightened to the meaning "Cultivation depends on one's own efforts, while the transformation of gong is done by one's master."

Since I was one of the coordinators in our area, I became a target of the Chinese Communist Party's persecution. They put me under surveillance, and the police and my work unit repeatedly tried to get me to write a guarantee statement promising not to practice Falun Gong again. They also ordered me to tell them the names of all the practitioners in our local area. At the time I kept one thought, "I am a Falun Dafa practitioner, a great life of the universe, so I will never do anything that would harm Dafa and Teacher." Therefore I never cooperated with the evildoers. Instead, I clarified the truth to them. The police said, "This woman is so bold and dares to say such things even now." My relatives and friends all advised me to restrain myself. However, nothing could change my mind. I recited the poem "Nothing Kept" from Hong Yin:

"In life, nothing sought,
In death, regretting naught;
Washing away all wrong thought,
Buddhahood, with less
adversity, is wrought. "

I also recited the poems "Benevolent Might" and "Real Cultivation." Everyday I practiced the five sets of exercises as usual and spent a lot of time studying the Fa. As a result I became a lot clearer in my understanding of the Fa principles and never doubted Dafa and Teacher.

Owing to the enormous pressure, a lot of practitioners did not dare to continue practicing the exercises and did not dare to contact each other. I thought that, since I was an assistant, I shouldn't just think about myself, but I should also be concerned about other practitioners. Therefore, I contacted several other assistants. After a good sharing, we set up a group Fa study site at my home, which made it possible for the local practitioners to form one body very quickly. In studying "Teaching the Fa at the Assistants' Fa Conference in Changchun" Teacher gave me a hint, telling me that whenever I wanted to do something, Teacher would help me. Very quickly the practitioners from abroad contacted and helped us. They told us about the development of Falun Gong outside China, which helped to strengthen our confidence. We knew that Teacher was helping us. As a result, most of the practitioners from our area stepped forward to go to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, to validate the Fa at Tienanmen Square, and to clarify the truth to everyday people. The practitioners were subjected to varying terms of detention, however, they were very diligent. They continued to do whatever they should do as soon as they were released. I was detained three times from 1999 to 2001, but I did not yield to the evildoers. I managed to walk out of the detention with righteous thought and Teacher's help.

We were lacking truth clarification materials at the time, but all the practitioners, acting on their own initiative, were like coordinators. They contacted fellow practitioners in other parts of the country and brought back copies of the "Minghui Weekly" and other materials. Very quickly we were able to obtain Teacher's new articles and fellow practitioners' sharing articles, which helped us to be even more diligent. At the time the wicked CCP staged the "Tienanmen Self Immolation" and fabricated all kinds of lies to deceive people. We clarified the truth and distributed the truth-clarification materials to save the sentient beings who had been poisoned by the CCP.

Approaching 2002, the CCP's persecution of practitioners got even worse. Several practitioners wrote truth clarification information on little flags and planted them all over our area. The CCP was so intimidated that they called in the police from other areas to investigate the incident, but they failed to discover anything. Then the police reported, "Falun Gong is really powerful. The authorities had to call in so many people to encircle the area."

In the summer of 2002, when nine practitioners went to the countryside to distribute the truth-clarification materials, they were reported and then arrested. Mr. Liu Zhibing was sentenced, but he refused to yield to the evildoers. He died as a result of a severe beating.

Teacher repeatedly asked us to study the Fa and do the three things well. Under the compassionate care of Teacher we set up our own material processing center, which helped us to do a better job in clarifying the truth. Nearly all the practitioners did things they should do. Though we ran into many setbacks, we were moving forward steadily.

During the process of clarifying the truth there were a lot of touching stories, especially when promoting the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party to save people. The practitioners in our area worked together and distributed the truth-clarification materials as well as the Nine Commentaries. Our practitioners spread these materials far and wide to save the sentient beings, which provided a bright future for those who understood the truth. One day a practitioner carried a big bag of truth-clarification materials to be distributed in a mountainous area. That area was far away and the road was hazardous. She went from one village to the next. When she opened her bag she was stunned because the bag was sending out a dazzling light. She instantly realized that it was Teacher helping her. She was very exited and her confidence increased. As a result she handed out all the truth-clarification materials she had brought.

An elderly practitioner went out at night to distribute materials. Since it was a mountainous area she got blisters on her feet, but she never complained. One day when two practitioners went to mountain villages to clarify the truth, they traveled to five or six villages before arriving at the home of a relative of one of our practitioners early in the morning. This relative knew the truth about the persecution of Falun Gong since he had already read the materials. When he learned that the practitioners had traveled more than 25 kilometers at night, he was very moved. He said, "You are really great. With your spirit it seems that the CCP will really collapse. From now on you don't need to walk anymore. Next time when you come, I can take you on my motorbike where you want to go. Since I am familiar with the roads here, it would be quicker and you can distribute more truth clarification materials." Later, he helped our practitioners to distribute the materials to each household in his village. By doing that he also created a nice future for himself.

With practitioners' concerted efforts and the help of practitioners from other parts of the country, we have managed to distributed the truth-clarification materials to almost all the villages in our area so that the villagers can learn the truth.

Thank you, Teacher! Thank you, fellow practitioners!