(Clearwisdom.net) When I started cultivating Falun Dafa in 1996, both my mind and body were totally purified. Currently, as a teacher, I spread the Fa to my students and colleagues.
Before I started practicing Falun Dafa, due to bad nerves I had to take sleeping pills each night in order to get two or three hours of sleep. These pills left me drowsy and lethargic during the day, a condition which seriously affected my life, particularly my memory. On top of that, I was bothered by inflammations of both the shoulder and the spinal vertebra. I felt like I was constantly at the mercy of these illnesses.
After six months of practicing Falun Dafa, however, all my illnesses were gone. Even more important than the physical changes, Falun Dafa helped me to understand how to be a good person, a better one than I had been. I understand now how to be a good mother, wife, daughter-in-law and daughter, as well as how to be a good teacher.
I always use "Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance" to guide my behavior and continuously upgrade my mind in order to establish the image of a Falun Dafa disciple, and to allow my relatives, friends and colleagues to learn to accept Falun Gong by seeing evidence of its goodness.
Since 1999, when the evil forces started making slanderous remarks about Falun Dafa, tens of millions of Chinese people's minds have been poisoned. The fabricated incident of "self-immolation" in Tiananmen Square created hostility in Chinese people's minds towards Falun Gong.
I remember a bogus news release that many students in my class witnessed, and how some of them talked about the Tiananmen Square "self-immolation." My heart ached when I saw how those innocent and lovely children's minds were poisoned. I asked the class quietly, "Are all the TV news reports real? You should not blindly believe everything you see on television. Instead, you should use your heads to think about what is being said." I then discussed some of the questionable points of the alleged "self-immolation" to let them know that it was a hoax. I also told them some touching stories about Falun Gong to introduce a different perspective.
After I finished, one student asked, "Teacher, can news reports be fabricated?" To respond to this question, I said, "Did you know Chairman Liu Shaoqi was once accused of being a traitor, a secret enemy agent, and a scab? The news at the time said that the evidence against him could be stacked as high as a mountain. When history showed how things really were, people came to realize the truth. The so-called 'mountain' of ironclad evidence turned out to be all lies. In another example, the "June 4 incident" (Editor's note: known in the west as the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989) was a peaceful movement by college students appealing to their government to do something about the corruption they witnessed. Did they do anything wrong? It ended so tragically." These examples helped the students to understand the truth. One student asked me: "I found a booklet about Falun Gong. Can I read it?" I answered: "Of course you can. I believe that after you have read it, you'll have better understanding about Falun Gong."
After this incident, I realized that mine wasn't the only class being poisoned by such lies, and that I needed to clarify the truth to the teachers around me, especially those in charge of each class. My school once invited the head of the judiciary to give a speech, during which he made slanderous remarks about Falun Dafa. After he finished, I hurried to find the teachers in charge of each class and said to them, "You all understand Falun Gong and know that it helps people to become good. Please tell your classes the truth so that they are not poisoned by these lies." Several teachers earnestly replied, "We will tell them."
In order for students to further understand the truth, I left some truth-clarifying pamphlets, VCDs, and CDs in classrooms from time to time. With the cooperation of several fellow Falun Dafa practitioners in the school, the environment was greatly improved.
One time I saw some pictures slandering Falun Dafa posted in the Moral Education classroom. I immediately went to see the teacher in charge, told him how Falun Dafa was being spread all around the world and clarified the truth about Falun Dafa. He said, "I will remove those pictures when I redecorate the room. Can you loan me some books about Falun Dafa?" I was so happy to see the change in him.
Of course I have taken only a small step forward in my passage of the Fa-rectification. In the future I need to examine myself more diligently, do well the three things Teacher told us to do, study the Fa harder, carry righteous thoughts and a righteous mind, and clarify the truth even more deeply to save sentient beings.
