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The Joy of Listening to Master Teach the Fa
I was fortunate to attend the last Fa-teaching held by Master in China in 1994. My husband and I went to Guangzhou to attend this class in December 1994. There were more than 5,000 attendees, and all of the seats in Guangzhou Stadium were filled. On the first day of the class, we jumped the line and rushed to the first row. Many other people did the same in order to sit in the front. However, after listening to the first lecture, everyone’s minds were changed, and nobody jumped the line the next day.
When Master walked in, He walked around the lecture hall and compassionately looked at each practitioner with a smile. Everyone tried to shake hands with Him.
Master sat up on the platform. A golden and shining luminous ring of light surrounded His head. While listening to the lecture, Master’s words went into the depth of my heart. I was often moved to tears. Sometimes I fell asleep; but I could still hear Master, without missing a single word. It was exactly as Master said in Zhuan Falun,
“A few individuals may fall asleep and wake up as soon as I finish my lecture. Why is that? It is because their brains have illnesses that need to be treated. One will be unable to stand it if one’s brain is worked on. Therefore, one must be put into a state of anesthesia or become unconscious. Nevertheless, some people do not have a problem hearing me. Though they may sleep soundly, they hear everything without missing a single word.” ("Lecture Two", Zhuan Falun)
After the nine lectures, I felt as if my brain had been purified and my mind had nothing unclean in it. Master said,
“I think that those who can listen to my lectures in person, I would say, honestly... you will realize in the future that this period of time is extremely precious.” ("Lecture One", Zhuan Falun)
Whenever I think of this period of time, I always feel so fortunate. I can hardly find words to express my happiness.
The Changes in My Family after I Obtained the Fa
I suffered from many illnesses since I was little. I often had headaches. When the headaches came upon me, I perspired and was in extreme pain, as if my brain was about to explode. When I had heart palpitations, I could hardly breathe. I was pale and had cramps in my hands and feet. After I got married and had my son, I suffered from lumbosacral strain. When I tried to continue working, I got severe back pain that rendered me unable to stand. Moreover, with my anemia and other illnesses, I was in severe pain and in a fractious mood every day. I often quarreled with my husband. After I obtained the Fa, all my illnesses disappeared, and I saw great benefits in my mind and body. My family also benefited.
My father-in-law had a very bad temper and was very full of himself. He often scolded me and made me angry. I often felt it intolerable and contradicted him. He then exploded with rage and kept the family awake all night. Therefore, we had a lot of anger and hatred towards each other.
After I attended Master's lectures, I told my husband, “I want to practice Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. I’ll cultivate myself and improve my relationship with your father.” I looked inside and realized that I used to complain about how badly my father-in-law treated me, and I got angry whenever I thought of it. However, I never thought about how I treated him. I was his junior; how could I contradict him? Since then I decided to treat him kindly.
As I studied the Fa and cultivated my xinxing more, all my illnesses disappeared. Whenever there was a holiday, my husband and I visited his parents and took care of their meals. They were very happy, and my father-in-law didn’t scold me anymore.
After the persecution began in 1999, I was arrested and incarcerated in a forced labor camp. My father-in-law and mother-in-law went to visit me with food several times. After hearing that I was on a hunger strike, he burst into tears, saying that the family couldn’t go on without me. This was the first time I saw him cry.
My son was stubborn and unruly when he was little. He once kicked the guests who were visiting us and even took the neighbor’s chick and killed it. I was so angry about this that I spanked him. After he started school, his teacher often reported his misbehavior to me. When I visited his school, his classmates gathered around me and complained about how he was so mean to them. I often got mad about this and spanked him. However, he had no fear at all of this kind of discipline. Whatever I yelled at him, he always contradicted me.
When Master taught this Fa principle in Guangzhou, I felt that Master was talking directly to me. Master said,
“Some people will lose their temper in disciplining children and yell at them, making quite a scene. You should not be that way in disciplining children, and neither should you, yourselves get really upset. You should educate children with reason so that you can really teach them well.” ("Lecture Nine", Zhuan Falun)
I understood that the way I disciplined my son was unreasonable. I thought that maybe only Dafa could change him for the better; so I began to teach him to practice Falun Gong. He quickly learned how to do the five sets of exercises. However, he was too lazy to practice the exercises and did not study the Fa.
Once, my son got several large red spots on his back, and there were many pustules as large as soybeans on the red spots. He was in pain and asked me for help. I advised him to to study the Fa for half an hour every day. He asked to read for 15 minutes. I agreed. I usually went to another practitioner’s home in the evening to watch the video of Master teaching the Fa. My son wanted to do the same and went with me every night. Five or six days later, all the spots and pustules disappeared, leaving his skin pure and smooth. I was very excited when I saw this and told him, “Master has taken care of you. You need to do well in cultivation!” He nodded happily.
After that, my son attended the local Fa-study group with me every evening. After he returned home from school, he finished his homework first and then went with me to the Fa-study group. This started in October 1998 and lasted until the persecution began in July 1999. After that, my husband and I were arrested multiple times, and our Falun Gong books were taken away by the police. My son therefore lost the cultivation environment and gradually stopped studying the Fa. However, he benefited a lot from Dafa. Facing extreme pressure from the regime's authorities, he was strong and calm. He continued going to school and finally entered college successfully. My father-in-law and mother-in-law were so proud of him. When our relatives and friends praised my son and said that he'd changed a lot for the better, I told them, “It is all because my son studied Zhuan Falun and learned Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. It is Master who saved my son.”
The Manifestation of Miracles
During the process of my cultivation, I have continuously experienced the manifestation of miracles. Below I would like to share a couple of my experiences.
While listening to Master teach about the issue of the Celestial Eye in Guangzhou, He mentioned that each of us could feel that our forehead was tight and the muscles felt like they were piling up and drilling inward. Then Master asked us if it was so. Everyone answered “Exactly!” I thought anxiously, “Why didn't I feel this?” Later, after the lecture, when I finished doing the exercises, I leaned against the bed with my eyes closed. Suddenly, something very bright appeared in front of my eyes. I saw a small mountain of piled-up gray slate stones. Each stone was very clean as if it had been washed carefully. And the sky was extremely pure. I suddenly realized that my Celestial Eye was opened. I felt so happy. I knew it was Master telling me that even though I felt nothing in my forehead, He had already opened my Celestial Eye.
I once practiced the fifth exercises at home before daybreak. When I did the strengthening divine powers gesture, I saw that the bones from my palm to my arm were glowing like a fluorescent lamp. This reminded me of Master’s words,
“When seen from another dimension, genuine guanding makes one’s bones look like white jade from the head to the feet. It is through gong or the high-energy matter that one’s body is purified from the head to the feet.” ("Lecture Four", Zhuan Falun)
I was arrested and sent to a detention center in January 2000. I was detained for four months. Although the Chinese New Year was approaching, the guards wouldn’t release me. Instead, they transferred me to a forced labor camp. I was very sad and depressed because I was unable to study the Fa for a long time. One day when I walked in the hallway, two Faluns appeared in front of me. They were shining and about one foot ahead of me. As I walked ahead, they moved ahead of me and continued shining. I immediately cried, and my face was full of tears. I thought of Master. It was Master’s constant care and encouragement that guided me to where I am today!
People Awaken During the Persecution
After July 20, 1999, officers from my local police station often came to my home and harassed me. Sometimes they broke in at midnight to search my home. This seriously disturbed my family. My mother-in-law was often frightened. My father-in-law was so angry that he couldn’t help quarreling with them. My son even wanted to fight with them. Master told us, “Of course, cultivators have no enemies, …” ("Turning the Wheel Towards the Human World")
I kept Master’s words in mind; therefore, whenever the police came, I always spoke to them kindly. As a result, they came less often than before. After a while, they didn’t come anymore.
When I was held in a detention center, a female guard once asked to speak with me. I told her what Falun Dafa is and shared my cultivation experiences with her. I also told her why I persisted in cultivation practice. She eventually came to understand and said, “You practitioners are gold. Gold will shine forever.”
My husband was taken into custody shortly after the persecution started. My mother-in-law was so scared; she was afraid for my safety and stood at our gate at 4:00 a.m. every day to stop me from going out to do the exercises. In addition, she tried all means to rescue her son from detention.
After my husband was released, we were both arrested at our home in September 1999. The police sent us to a detention center and ordered my mother-in-law to sign a paper acknowledging that we had disturbed the social order. She refused to do this, regardless of how the police threatened her. She insisted that her son and daughter-in-law hadn'd disturbed the social order at all.
My mother-in-law was cautious and anxious during those years. Unable to withstand the extreme pressure from the regime's authorities, she fell ill in 2006. Before she left this world, she asked me to fetch a white bag from her cabinet. I found the bag. It held several pictures of me practicing the exercises and some clothing that had “Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance” printed on them. I thought that they had been taken away by the police. But it turned out that my mother-in-law saved them for me. I was moved to tears by her support.
My father was very concerned about me. When I was held in the detention center, he came to visit me with my mom and brought meals they had prepared for me. When I went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution, he was worried and hurriedly came to see me. He was not reassured until he saw that I was still in very good spirits. He told my family, “My daughter is still energetic even though she hasn’t eaten for four days. It is really miraculous!”
I was arrested again in 2004 and sent to a forced labor camp. After I was released and returned home, my father said to me, “If you have truth-clarifying materials to post, let me do it! I’m already old; I don’t care if I am arrested by the police. But you cannot be taken away by them anymore!”
Many people around me have awakened to the truth. They can distinguish good and evil under the communist regime’s false propaganda, and they kindly support Dafa practitioners during the persecution. I am impressed and very happy for their having been saved. Moreover, I appreciate the great compassion of revered Master!
From the Call for Submissions to Commemorate the Twentieth Anniversary of Falun Dafa's Introduction
