(Clearwisdom.net) I am a practitioner from Panzhihua, Sichuan Province and I am 72 years old. I started practicing Falun Gong in February of 1997. Before I started practicing Falun Gong, I had all kinds of illnesses, including rheumatism, heart disease, rheumatic arthritis, gastric disease, kidney problems, edema of my entire body and I had gone through two gallstone surgeries where the hospital diagnosed my state to be critical. My body weight dropped to only 50 Jin (1 Jin = 1.1 lb) and because of my weakened state, I could not stand up straight. I had difficulty even walking and for every step I took, I had to squat down to rest a while before I could walk further. The medicine I had to take could fill up an entire cart. I was at death's doorstep. After I started practicing Falun Gong, all the illnesses disappeared. Here I want to thank Master, again and again, for saving my life.
During this magnificent time, I became a Dafa practitioner of the Fa-rectification period. On the path of returning back to the origin, I am bathed in the enormous and powerful Buddha's grace. Master picked me up from hell and gave me a second life. From the determination I made to follow Master's teachings and as a Dafa practitioner of the Fa-rectification period, I will treasure this cultivation opportunity. On the path of assisting Master in Fa-rectification, I will do the three things well and diligently progress forward.
In the past ten years of being persecuted by the CCP, I was constantly monitored. The police have arrested me six times and my home was ransacked three times. When they arrested and detained me at the detention center, I used the opportunity to explain the facts to the police and inmates, and I did not cooperate with the evil in any way. I sent forth righteous thoughts frequently, recited the Fa from memory and did the exercises. I was unconditionally released within 20 days after I was detained and as soon as I was released, I rejoined the Fa-rectification and did the three things to the best of my ability.
Master said,
"Cultivation is hard. It's hard in that even when a terrible calamity strikes, even when evil madly persecutes, and even when your life is at stake, you still have to be able to steadfastly continue on your path of cultivation without letting anything in human society interfere with the steps you take on your path of cultivation." ("Path" in Essentials for Further Advancement II)
Falun Gong practitioners shoulder the heavy responsibility of saving people and we should treasure this valuable time to save more people.
I arrange my time in an orderly manner. I get up at 3:40 a.m. to do the five sets of exercises with practitioners around the world. Then I send forth righteous thoughts at 6:00 a.m. Afterwards, I read Zhuan Falun for half an hour and then start cooking breakfast. At 8:00 a.m., I go out to clarify the truth face-to-face. I return home at 11:30 a.m. to send forth righteous thoughts at noon. In the afternoon I study the Fa or read Minghui Weekly. I send forth righteous thoughts every hour on the clock and in the evening when it gets dark, I go out to distribute papers, CDs, the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, post fliers, hang banners and so on. I have distributed more than 3300 copies of the Nine Commentaries. There aren't any single story buildings in our area and the highest buildings have twenty floors. I often go to the top floor to distribute informational materials floor-by-floor, progressing downwards from there. Whether it is raining or police vehicles are roaming about with sirens on, nothing can deter me. One evening I went out with a young fellow practitioner to hang up banners. We went back and forth on the streets searching for a proper place for a while, but were only able to hang up two banners. We still had one banner that we had not found a place for. It was almost 5:00 a.m. when we found a tree on the roadside. During the daytime people walk by the tree and there is also traffic passing by, so we decided to hang it there. I climbed up the tree and my fellow practitioner passed me the rod to hang the banner. There was nobody around except a taxi that was driving by. I was not afraid and proceeded to hang the banner high in the tree.
One night, I decided to go to a far and somewhat remote place to distribute informational materials because I knew that no fellow practitioners had gone there. I set out at 7:00 p.m. and in the beginning, the road was smooth, but further along the way the road was getting more difficult to walk on and it was also getting darker too. I kept stumbling along, walking faster. Because I wasn't paying attention to the road, I fell. The fall was pretty hard and the skin on my leg was torn and bleeding. It took me a while before I was able to get up, but I was still not able to walk. It was getting darker and I had to keep going no matter how painful my leg was. I pushed myself to keep on walking slowly, bearing the pain. Finally, I arrived and all I saw were tall buildings. I held onto the stair rails while climbing up slowly to the top floor, and then distributed the materials floor by floor on my way down. In this way, I went from building to building until I distributed all the materials I had with me. Upon finishing, I felt a joy that cannot be described with words.
No matter how dangerous and difficult it is and no matter where I am, my determination cannot be moved.
During the process of explaining the truth and advising people to do the three withdrawals in the past two years, I did not advise many people to withdraw from the CCP because I had fear and little experience. After reading fellow practitioners' sharing articles, now I am able to persuade people to withdraw. After sending forth righteous thoughts, I go out after 8:00 a.m. every day to clarify the truth and to advise people to withdraw. As long as I can initiate a conversation with someone, I can often persuade him to withdraw. I have persuaded more than 4000 people and sometimes I am able to persuade 27 to 28 people to withdraw in one day. I also have slow days when I can only persuade 1 or 2 people. During this process, I also encounter tribulations. Sometimes as soon as I tried to initiate a conversation, some people would say, "I don't believe this. Don't talk to me." Some would follow me and try to get my name in order to report me to the authorities. Others would start shouting loudly, trying to cause trouble.
Because I had done well in persuading people to withdraw from the CCP, I had developed zealotry and did not pay attention to safety when clarifying the truth. This gave the evil an opportunity to take advantage of me. One time, by chance, two other fellow practitioners and I were walking together clarifying the truth to people, and plainclothes policemen noticed us. They first listened to us talking behind our backs and then arrested us for interrogation. We did not cooperate with the evil in any way, so we were released from custody within a month. When they monitored me in a park, I went to a different park to clarify the truth. Otherwise, I went to streets and alleys. I have kept on doing this all along the way.
Practitioners in mainland China who have walked through the overwhelming difficulties till today have done so based on Master's protection and guidance. Master's grace is enormous and powerful! A thousand thank you's, ten thousand thank you's cannot describe our sincere heart towards Master's grace!
Please kindly point out any of my mistakes.
