(Clearwisdom.net) I first heard about Dafa at the end of 1996. At that time, I began practicing in order to heal illness and keep fit. Very quickly, the practice had a significant effect on me, and I began reading Zhuan Falun. That was the first time in my life that I heard about "cultivation."
I immediately accepted the teachings in Zhuan Falun. I persisted in studying the Fa and doing the exercises and thus I had gained some foundation by the time the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began irrationally persecuting practitioners on July 20, 1999. I persisted in practicing cultivation, and I was thus dismissed, demoted with a deduction in salary and expelled from the Party in 2001. I was "transformed" when I was abducted to the brainwashing center twice. However, with the benevolent encouragement by Master and help from fellow practitioners, I quickly pulled myself together and moved on. With ups and downs all along the way, it has been 13 years now.
1. Safeguard Dafa and save sentient beings
During July and August in 2005, many local practitioners were forcibly taken to the brainwashing center. Meanwhile, officials from the 610 Office put up many posters all over the city to attack Dafa and slander Master Li. They also announced rewards for people to report practitioners: for example, if you turned in one Falun Gong leaflet you would be awarded 100 yuan. On the poster, they also encouraged people to turn in practitioners or reveal their gatherings. The minimum award for reporting a materials production site was 9000 yuan.
When I saw the posters, I thought: this is so evil! And this is also too tempting and too poisonous for sentient beings! I must tear them down as soon as possible!
Then one practitioner reminded me, "The evil will certainly be watching here, waiting to take more practitioners to the brainwashing center." I said, "No matter what the circumstances are, we must think of a way to destroy it!" So in my spare time during the day I traveled through the streets to look for good spots. Then at night a practitioner and I went to tear the posters down, with a third practitioner sending righteous thoughts at home. Usually, the evil posted their announcements either in front of the residential committees, police stations or community centers with people guarding them or at the plazas and major junctions where a lot of people were passing by. So tearing the posters down could not be done too early nor too late, and we could not do it when there were too many pedestrians around. Through our observations, we found that around 8: 30 p.m. was the best time. We had to be very swift and quiet. Usually one practitioner kept watch and sent righteous thoughts, and I pretended to be walking. When the distance between pedestrians was far enough, I wiped the poster with a wet rag and walked away. After three to five minutes when the paper was soaked (so we could tear it down without making noise), I took another chance to grasp it quickly and destroyed it. In this way, we tore down 18 posters in one week.
Around May 2008, one day as I passed by a billboard in front of a police station I found there was a full-page bulletin with content attacking Dafa and Master. And it was facing a large plaza with many passers-by. As soon as I saw it, I knew I could not let it continue to exist to poison more sentient beings!
Because I was one of the faces that was familiar to the relevant departments, I had to hold an umbrella if I wanted to tear down that bulletin. In the following days, I often sent righteous thoughts towards that place, praying for rain. A few days later when I had gotten up at 3:30 a.m. for morning exercises, I found it had rained the night before, and it was still gloomy and overcast outside so it would be acceptable if I went out with an umbrella. I hastened to communicate with two other practitioners and both of them were very supportive. So they sent righteous thoughts at home and I went there by myself with an umbrella. After I arrived at the police station, the door was open, and there was a person lying on his stomach in the duty room (perhaps asleep). I found the billboard and opened the glass door. However the bulletin was so firmly attached to the board that I could not tear it down, so I pulled the whole board down and took it back home.
On the eve of the Beijing Olympic Games, the head of my work place said to me, "The City Central Committee found that the display panel about Falun Gong in front of a police station had been destroyed. They investigated the video records and found that you had been to that site a few days ago, so they may want to speak to you." I said, "That place is a major traffic hub with so many people coming and going. It's quite normal if I occasionally passed by." After this happened, I looked inside and found the loophole I had when I did this, so I sent righteous thoughts to disintegrate the multiple attempts from the evil to look for me. Finally they no longer pursued the matter due to insufficient evidence.
One day in late April 2009, another practitioner told me that there was a large banner attacking Dafa in a certain place. That morning I went to the nearby county, and from the bus I could see a big red banner by the sidewalk in front of the county court: It was 10-meters long, and was stretched out between two trees at two meters height. I said to myself, how many sentient beings would be poisoned by this if I don't destroy it!
However, I could not observe the environment by walking by but had to take this route back again to look around. After observing the environment, I sent one thought: Rain as soon as possible!
After I came back I discussed the situation with another practitioner. She said that in recent months the county practitioners have done several things that greatly shocked the evil. So a dozen practitioners were taken to either the brainwashing center or the detention center. It was said that the police had invited an expert from the security department. The location of the banner was so dangerous, we needed think about it and plan it well before we did anything. At that time I agreed with her.
After dinner that day, it began to rain very heavily. I was surprised because according to the weather forecast, there would only be light rainfall over the next two days. Was it the sign from Master that I should do it now? So I decided to go by myself. Then another practitioner said to me that my legs had not fully recovered, so she insisted on going with me.
We arrived there at about 8:00 p.m., standing on the roadside opposite the evil banner. The rain was quite heavy, and there were a lot of pedestrians walking by in the rain and buses came and went continuously. We wanted to find a place to wait for a chance. However, after we entered a residential area, we found there were two infrared cameras both inside and outside the two gates, so we went back. Furthermore, after we took a walk around that area, we noticed that they had installed infrared cameras in front of the county government offices, the county court, as well as the county armed forces, police station, banking unit and the bus stop. Later on, when we came to a small alley next to the court, after just a few steps, I even noticed there was a camera right above my head. I was surprised, there were more than a dozen cameras in just the 50-60 meters range! Although I was holding an umbrella, who knew if they had recorded me on the video or not. My mind was unsettled for a while, resulting in having a thought of giving up.
Then I had a righteous thought, "I am a Dafa disciple in the Fa-rectification period, I have to do everything I can to safeguard Dafa and save sentient beings. How can I give up at such a crucial moment!" The longer it existed, the more sentient beings would be poisoned. So I adjusted my mind and the other practitioner and I sent righteous thoughts: Let all the cameras fail to record us, and we must take this evil banner down tonight!
At this time, the other practitioner pointed out, "We should change our plan. First we should go together instead of you going alone, I will hold the umbrella in front to protect you. Secondly, it was too obvious if we cut off the whole banner, how about we just lacerate it with a knife. After they find it tomorrow, they will take it down themselves. The result is the same." I thought we should be rational, wise and her suggestion was safer and more secure under such circumstances, so I agreed with her.
We followed a pedestrian for about 7-8 meters and slowly walked ahead. The practitioner repeatedly reminded me: You should never walk in big steps, once you do that, you would limp very badly and will draw attention to yourself. So I followed her, raising up high one hand and walking on my toes. This way I was able to reach up and use the knife to cut the banner into several strips while I walked along.
When we were leaving, about 30 meters away from the iron railing fence of the court, a man suddenly shouted very loudly, "Who are you? What are you doing?" I used my peripheral vision to take a glance: About 10 meters away from us, there were four or five people standing on the steps under a building with high walls. The one who shouted at us was a tall and strong young man. Since we did not respond, he came down two or three steps and yelled again, "What are you doing? Who are you?" We continued ignoring him and moved away slowly. He stopped, not daring to come further. The entire time we were calm. At the end we walked in front of them, walking slowly and steadily right under the camera on the roadside, and returned home safely. Although my pants were all wet, my shoes were filled with water, and my knees still hurt, I felt steady and sure: I fulfilled my vows of "safeguarding Dafa and saving sentient beings!"
During the last five or six years, I learned a lesson from not studying the Fa well. By improving the quantity and quality of my Fa study, my mind has reached the pure state of "caring about Dafa and the safety of sentient beings." Faced with the situation where Dafa is attacked and sentient beings are being poisoned, I will stop them instinctively. In the process of doing these things, many attachments of "fear" that originated from selfishness were exposed. Through abundant and frequent Fa study which strengthens my righteous thoughts, my attachment to fear has been removed, and my xinxing has improved!
2. Setting up a truth-clarification materials production site
After July 20, 1999 I still remained in a position of personal cultivation, and I didn't step out to clarify the truth to non-practitioners. After I studied Master's new lecture titled, "Towards Consummation" and some other lectures, I then realized the meaning of the Fa-rectification, the responsibilities of a Dafa disciple in the Fa-rectification period and our great missions.
At the beginning of my clarifying the truth, I started by doing so only with family members, friends, and colleagues who I generally spoke to in daily life. The contents of my truth-clarification and the people I could contact were very limited.
Afterwards, fellow practitioners sent materials to me. Although the quality of the materials was not good at the beginning, the content was pretty good. Due to my introverted personality and my job, I chose to clarify the truth by distributing those materials.
Before the end of October 2005, all our informational materials were provided by fellow practitioners. We just needed to work hard to distribute them; we did nothing to assist in making those materials.
After I read a fellow practitioner's experience sharing article titled, "Establishing Small-Scale Truth Material Sites 'Like Flowers Blossoming Everywhere'", I also wanted to make the materials. Therefore, I bought one ink-jet printer at the end of October 2005. I didn't know how to use the printer at first. So I just chose some good materials and then made more copies of them. I also provided these materials to two other practitioners. My truth materials site operated like this for more than one year.
However, at the end of 2006, a practitioner who was being persecuted in the brainwashing center couldn't bear the harsh torture and then reported us to the police. As soon as I got this news, I had to hide my printer.
Due to this incident, we went back to the previous situation where we waited for materials from others, rather than making them ourselves. During that time, the conditions in my local area became very serious. Many truth materials sites were interfered with by the evil; therefore the materials became fewer. After studying Master's lecture "Fa Teaching at the 2007 New York Fa Conference", I deeply felt the urgency to save sentient beings. Thinking that I couldn't wait for materials anymore, I desired to restart my materials site.
Master knew my eager heart and then arranged for a fellow practitioner to help me. In April 2007, fellow practitioner A, who was skilled at making truth-clarifying materials, had to leave her home and came to my city. She contacted me. Then, I rented a house and started to reuse the printer and disc-burning machine. I bought new supplies and restarted my materials site. At first we only made materials for ourselves. We made them during the day and went out to distribute them in the evening. Because we did not have enough materials in my city and some fellow practitioners hoped to get materials from us, we then added more equipment and enlarged our materials site.
We made a great variety of materials, including the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, colorful booklets, weekly publications, discs, Minghui Weekly, Master's lectures, and Dafa books.
Once, an older practitioner brought the materials we made to the provincial capital, but was arrested by the police. Officials took away her materials, and asked her, "We have confiscated so many Falun Gong materials in the past years. None are as beautiful as yours. Therefore your materials must be from overseas." Afterwards, the police didn't create any difficulty for that elderly practitioner.
We operate our truth materials site alone. Due to safety concerns, we never let outsiders know our site location. Except for three to four fellow practitioners, no one else knows that we make truth-clarification materials at my home.
Besides making truth-clarification materials, we also paid much attention to distributing them. Fellow practitioner A does it almost full time. Usually, we go out to distribute materials three to five times a week. During the past few years, we have distributed them on every street. Sometimes fellow practitioners have brought our materials to the provincial capital and Beijing. Some have been mailed to many places. In addition, we sent lists of names of those who quit the CCP and some persecution information to the Minghui website and the Epoch Times website.
In the beginning of April 2009, practitioner A, who lived at the materials site, suddenly went missing. I searched for her for two days, but I could not find her. I immediately discussed this matter with fellow practitioners and decided to transfer the materials site at once. I moved the equipment to practitioner B's home, and sent the supplies to another practitioner. We sent out strong righteous thoughts to "Disintegrate all evil factors and asked Master for help," and we took three days and nights to safely manage the transfer.
3. Truth-clarification materials site reopens after disaster and achieves great success
Two weeks later, we still didn't know practitioner A's whereabouts. At the same time, practitioner C was arrested. Moreover, practitioner B's house, where we stored equipment, was ransacked by the police. The equipment, for which we spent more than ten thousand yuan and took great risk to keep, had all fallen into the hands of the police. In addition, practitioner B was summoned by the court. (Luckily she was not at home at that time.) After hearing all this news, I felt numb, and the pain in my knees became serious. I was overwhelmed in body and mind.
At this time, a fellow practitioner kindly advised me, "Your situation is too dangerous. Maybe you need to leave home to hide for a while." I thought about it and then said, "I won't leave here. Having practiced Dafa for so many years, although I cannot foresee potential accidents and cannot change what has already happened, I should be able to face anything! No avoidance at all. This is my firm belief in Master and Dafa."
Later on, I often exchanged insights and experiences with fellow practitioners. We often asked, "Why did our site suffer this disaster? We have suffered a great loss of both manpower and materials."
It is the case that in the past several years, truth-clarification materials sites have been destroyed one by one. Fellow practitioners who made these materials have also suffered persecution. However, despite facing the serious situation, more and more practitioners have bravely stepped out to clarify the truth. I remember one practitioner saying, "Our materials sites are places where persecution most seriously occurs; they are also the places that Master and Gods protect the most. They are the most dangerous places and the safest places at the same time!" Through calming down to study the Fa, I understood that safety depends on whether each practitioner connects with the whole body and on each practitioner's xinxing and righteous thoughts. By looking within, I found many loopholes in myself and in our one body. For instance, we paid more attention to doing things than practicing cultivation. Sometimes we didn't calm down to study the Fa. When encountering problems, we often blamed others rather than looking within. Sometimes we didn't coordinate well with each other, and so forth.
I often thought how I should walk my path of cultivation and whether I should continue the materials site. By studying the Fa and upgrading my xinxing, I made my decision, "My cultivation environment and the economic conditions at home are pretty good. Making materials is a powerful means for saving sentient beings. We cannot drop it. We should continue the materials site at my home!"
We finally solved where to house the materials site two months later. In order to make as good materials as we did before, we needed at least one color printer. However, it was not easy to get a high-quality color printer in a short amount of time. I was worrying about it at that time.
Then, practitioner B sent me a message from another place, asking me to go to see him. He told me, "I learned yesterday, only more than ten minutes before the police ransacked my home, that my family members had peremptorily transferred some equipment. They asked me to immediately take them away." At that time both practitioner B and I didn't know exactly what equipment they transferred. I used several big braided bags to pack the parts of the equipment and brought them back by taxi in the evening.
When I assembled the equipment after I came back, I found that they included a CD-burning machine, a printing head, and the color printer that I needed urgently. I tested them and found that they worked very well. I also found a DVD-Rom drive. After testing them, I succeeded in printing a cover of Shen Yun Performing Arts on the disc. Holding this disc, I couldn't help saying that, "It is amazing!" It is usually said that the ink-jet printer gets broken easily and that the printing head gets blocked easily. But my ink-jet printer was excellent and worked very well (although it was moved from place to place several times and stopped for more than four months). I was moved to tears when I discovered I again had the equipment to produce truth-clarification materials!
This is Master's benevolent arrangement! It is Master who benevolently restored our materials site!
We soon produced beautiful materials. Through this experience, I have become more mature. From now on, I will walk better on my cultivation path. This holy materials site will have borne the rich fruits of saving sentient beings!
