True Cultivation in Falun Dafa with a Diamond-Solid Will

(Clearwisdom.net) Since I obtained the Fa in 1998 I have deeply experienced Master's profound mercy. My eyes fill with tears whenever I think about it. Before cultivating in Dafa, I had many illnesses. But merely one month after I began practicing, magical things happened to me and I was completely healed. Back then, I could not find any words to express to Master how grateful I was. I am writing down my 13-year-long personal cultivation experiences to thank Master for His merciful salvation and protection. I will walk well on the path to its final destination.

At the beginning of the persecution, my faith in Master and the Fa was pure, even though my understanding of the Fa was still shallow. I knew clearly what I had experienced and what was right and wrong.

1. Going to Beijing to Appeal

Hearing that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was gearing up to persecute Falun Gong practitioners and, as a result, take away our basic human rights, I decided to go to Beijing on July 19, 1999, to appeal for justice for Falun Gong. I wanted to tell the government officials that persecuting Falun Gong practitioners was wrong, and I also wanted to tell them my personal experiences, to prove to them that Falun Gong was good for everyone.

While waiting for the bus, a stranger told me, “You’re planning to go to Beijing to appeal, right? There will be checkpoints on your way. If the police stop your bus, get off and walk along a cornfield, which will take you back to the main road.” I did not pay too much attention to what he said. However, after the bus had traveled about 10 miles, a gang of police officers and a few local government officials stopped the bus and ordered everyone to get off. I turned around and saw a cornfield right next to me. Before the police noticed, I ran into the field, wandered around, and then went back to the main road again. Yet, I knew that there must be more checkpoints down the road. I told Master that I really wanted to go to Beijing because I could use my personal experiences to prove that Falun Gong was extraordinary. That one righteous thought helped me; from then on no one spoke with me or demanded to check me at checkpoints. No one even looked at me.

Still, it was hard to buy train tickets. When a policeman asked me for my ID, I told him that I did not have it with me. He told his partner that I did not have an ID. Yet, no one paid any attention to him somehow, so he walked away. Finally I boarded the train to Beijing. When the train stopped at the station before Beijing the atmosphere in the train became tense. A gang of police officers came on board to check everyone’s ID. Of course, when he tried to check me, I did not have any ID. He shouted, “This one doesn’t have an ID.” However, the other police officers did not respond. Thus I survived another checkpoint.

Finally I arrived in Beijing. When I was near the exit of the train station, I saw policemen with batons and dark faces checking people’s tickets and IDs. Refusing to be intimidated, I walked straight forward toward the exit. As I was approaching the checkpoint, a voice suddenly shouted from behind. When everyone turned around to see who made that sound, I exited the train station.

Among all the practitioners in my area who traveled to validate the Fa at that time, I was the only one who successfully arrived in Beijing. That event alone proved the mighty virtue of Dafa. It also helped me establish a solid foundation and gain confidence to validate the Fa. I knew what I should do. In the past decade, I have experienced Dafa's miracles numerous times. We can use different ways to validate the Fa. When difficulties happen it must mean that we have done something wrong. It is our conventional thinking that we have accumulated in this dimension that blocks our true selves. If our faith in Teacher and Dafa is not solid enough, it can restrict our cultivated sides from validating the Fa.

2. Compassion

While sending righteous thoughts one morning in the fall of 2002, I sensed that an evil force was approaching my residence. Immediately I told the practitioners who were with me, “They’re coming. Gather our righteous thoughts to eliminate them. Don’t be interfered with.” Then someone knocked on my door. We continued sending righteous thoughts. About 30 minutes later I opened the door. The head of the Armed Forces Division was at the door, along with a gang of thugs from the township government. The person in charge said, “The political head wants you to go to the township government to talk to him.” I replied, “I’m not going. After practicing Falun Gong, I don’t compete with anyone, and I have not violated any laws. Isn't that a good thing? Why don’t you appreciate Falun Gong? Why do you harass us instead?” As I spoke them I was saying to Master, “Help me! I’m not going to that place. It’s not a place for me to cultivate. I need to rescue more people.” I clearly saw two words in my mind, “Tell them.” After that, two police cars and several motorcycles surrounded my home. More and more villagers came to watch. During the entire time I sent righteous thoughts to eliminate the evil forces that controlled the persecutors.

I told the villagers present, “You all know how I survived all the illness that I suffered from before. Since practicing Falun Gong I am very healthy and am still alive. However, they don’t allow me to practice Falun Gong, and if I do, they’ll put me in jail.” Some of the villagers began to complain. Without saying a word, the government officials who were there to arrest me squatted down, with their heads on their knees. They did not move. Having finished what I wanted to say, I walked away. I found out later that most of the practitioners in our township who were involved in {{clarifying the truth} about Falun Gong were incarcerated during that round of the persecution.

3. Offering Sentient Beings Salvation with the Truth of Dafa

Lies obscured the entire sky on July 20, 1999; Dafa and Master were slandered and accusations were fabricated. No matter where I went, if people started to say bad things about Dafa, I would clarify the truth to them. As time went by, nobody said anything bad against Dafa to me anymore. I did not have fear. In fact, I wrote letters to the TV stations, radio stations, and the Law and Politics Bureau, using my personal experiences with my real name and address. I wrote of the magnificence of Dafa and also clarified the truth about the persecution in those letters.

Once when I was told to go to the local police station, I did go. Once there I told the head of the police station about my cultivation experiences. He said, “Maybe my wife should practice Falun Gong. There’s no hope for her illnesses to be healed.” After that I often went to speak with those police officers. The township head was pressured to harass the practitioners. I told him, “Isn’t it true that where there’s a rule, there’s a way around it? Why can’t you think of a way to get out of it?” In the entire county, our township officials persecuted Falun Gong practitioners the least.

4. Miracles at Tiananmen Square

Another practitioner and I decided to go to Beijing once again to appeal for Falun Gong on May 1, 2001. With Master's protection we made it to Tiannamen Square safe and sound. Not knowing how to get to the Office of Letters and Appeals, I thought that, since so many practitioners were coming to Tiananmen Square to clarify the facts every day, it would be great if I could meet a practitioner who knew the way. I spotted two people sitting down at the eastern side of the square. They looked a lot like practitioners. After chatting with them I found out that they were indeed practitioners. Sitting down with them in a circle we took turns reading Zhuan Falun.

As soon as we began reading, a miracle happened. It seemed that the air had been frozen and the things and people around us had been altered; people had actually slowly withdrawn from us. We were left alone within the 20-meter-radius. A police vehicle parked outside the radius, and they did not even open their doors. The sound of us reading Zhuan Falun filled the air, spreading the mercy of Dafa to sentient being and demonstrating to the evil forces the solemnity of Dafa. After we finished reading over an hour later, the radius around us was immediately filled with people again, and the police got out of their vehicle.

5. Solid as a Diamond

After July 20, 1999, the persecution of Falun Gong was exceptionally tragic; nearly all practitioners in our area were interfered with or persecuted in some way. Our village Party head initially came to my house several times a day. He also designated people to watch me because he was afraid that I would go to appeal for or tell others the truth of Falun Gong.

After July 20, 1999, local Science Bureau people used some scientific tactics, trying to convince me to give up Falun Gong. When I told them about the paranormal phenomena of Dafa and how my body was purified after I practiced Falun Gong for over a month, they looked at each other and were speechless.

Concerned about my safety, a few practitioners told me to leave our town and hide for a short while. I told them, “Master has not taught us in any part of the Fa that we should be destitute and homeless. Only fugitives run away and become homeless. I am a practitioner of Dafa, and I should demonstrate to the world that the mighty virtue of Dafa practitioners is as solid as a diamond.”

Even though the persecution has been going on for 12 years, I have been able to walk upright in the face of tests and tribulations. I have been able to face everyone I have met and tell them kindheartedly, “Falun Dafa is good; Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.”

6. Feeling the Mighty Mercy of Buddha

To bring all practitioners in the local area on board with the Fa-rectification since the beginning of the persecution, I carried on the task of coordinator for our local practitioners. Every single step that I took in the past 12 years all demonstrate the bountiful mercy of Dafa and Master's guidance and protection. Once I was driving to a practitioner’s home to deliver materials. On my way there my car stopped running for no apparent reason. I was soon able to re-start the car and then drove to the practitioner’s home. When I got there I found that her residence had just been ransacked and the policemen had left right before I arrived. The practitioner asked me if I had met any policemen on my way there. I said no. But we both knew that the result would have been unimaginable had my car not stopped for a while on my way there.

One day on my way back from out of town with truth-clarifying materials I ran into the deputy head of the police station. Thinking that I was doing the most righteous thing and no one should be allowed to interfere, I passed him with a smile on my face. Nodding at me, he simply smiled back.

With Master's protection I was able to maintain a merciful mentality for the past 12 years and treat people rationally. As a result, people who know me can feel the miracles of Dafa. Because of that, they also got an opportunity to learn the truth.

I have never been persecuted personally in the past 12 years. I am able to cultivate in a peaceful environment, which helps the ordinary people around me to eliminate their fear of the evil forces. As a result, they are able to have a positive view of Dafa and learn the truth. A practitioner’s son was going to take the college entrance exams. He would try to stop his mother from practicing Falun Gong because he was afraid the Communist regime would deny his admission to college. Seeing that my child was admitted to a college without any problems, the mother and son's confidence grew. After he was admitted to a college, he told everyone that Falun Gong was good and tried to help others to obtain the Fa.

During the process of cultivation over the past 12 years, I have changed into a more mature and rational practitioner. How much we enlighten to in the Fa determines how much cultivation will benefit us.