(Minghui.org) I started practicing Falun Dafa before the persecution began in 1999. Because I did not study the Fa in depth, I stopped practicing for a long period of time, missing lots of precious opportunities to improve myself. I regret very much that I missed the opportunity to validate the Fa with other practitioners. But thanks to Master's great compassion, I was able to get back onto the path of cultivation.
After I resumed cultivation this spring, I learned from the Minghui website that practitioners should do the three things, so I started to work on them one by one to rectify myself. Although I cannot see anything in other dimensions, I still witnessed miracles brought about by Dafa, as well how Master protects us.
Overcoming Interference to do the Exercises in the Morning
In the beginning, I followed my old schedule before 1999: performing the standing exercises in the morning and completing the sitting meditation at night. After a while, I learned from the Minghui website that many practitioners get up at 3:50 a.m. to do all the exercises together. I felt ashamed. I considered clarifying the truth to be the most challenging, so when it comes to waking up early in the mornings I thought that it couldn't be as difficult as clarifying the truth, so how could I shy away from taking part?
That night, after sending forth righteous thoughts at midnight I prepared the alarm clock. However, I suddenly did not feel like sleeping at all. I could not fall asleep until 3 a.m. When I woke up, it was already 7 a.m. I did not hear the alarm clock at all. It was bizarre since I usually wake up easily.
After two days, I suddenly realized that it was interference from the old forces. I decided to give it another try. That night after I set the alarm clock, I could not fall asleep again. I started to send forth righteous thoughts to reject it. I told the old forces: “This time, I am prepared, you won't be able to interfere.” However, I still could not fall asleep. At 3 a.m., I felt sleepy again. I realized that it was interference. I decided to start the exercises right away.
While I was doing the standing meditation, I suddenly felt a stomach pain. Sweat quickly drenched my clothes. I held on and told the old forces: “I am not afraid of you. The interference won't work.” Immediately my stomach started to convulse, very similar to the symptoms of acute gastroenteritis that I had years ago. My righteous thoughts were strong at that moment: “Master has already removed the sickness karma. This is interference from the old forces trying to prevent me from doing the exercises.” The pain became more and more severe. Finally I fell onto the couch, rolling around, followed with diarrhea and retching. I almost passed out. I only had one thought at that time: “This is a battle with the old forces. I must overcome it.” I rejected the arrangement of the old forces in my mind, and at the same time shouted: “Master help me!” Suddenly, the retching stopped, and the pain ceased in an instant.
I left the bathroom sweating. With tears, I said: “Thank you Master!” Then I finished the rest of the exercises. Since then, I've never had any problems doing the exercises in the morning, even when I was on business trips.
Through this small incident, I came to a deeper understanding of:
“What's important for cultivators is righteous thoughts. When you have strong righteous thoughts, you are able to withstand anything and do anything. ” “Master can help you when your righteous thoughts are sufficient.”
(Teaching the Fa in the City of Los Angeles)
Indeed, as long as we are righteous in our thoughts and actions, there is nothing that we cannot overcome, either small or large interference.
Clarifying the Truth to Save People with Predestined Relationships
One day, my mother's foster daughter called me from my hometown, telling me that she wanted to visit my parents in the city. I thought this could be an opportunity to clarify the truth. However, on the second morning, it started to rain. My father thought driving on the highway was dangerous, so he told her to come another day. She agreed. At noon, the rain stopped. To our surprise, before dinner time, she came with her high school aged daughter. The girl told us right after she arrived: “My mom insisted on coming right away, even if we had to travel at night.” I knew that they came to be saved.
After dinner, I gradually led to the topic of “quitting the CCP”. To my surprise, right after I clarified the facts about Falun Gong and about why the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) slanders Falun Gong and persecutes practitioners, the girl started to tremble and her front teeth chattered.
She kept asking me: “Why do I suddenly feel like crying.” I gently patted her back to calm her down, “It is good. Your knowing side has been waiting for today, that is why you are happy and excited.” She burst into tears. Both mother and daughter quit the CCP without hesitation.
At night, they planned to go to their place in the city. Soon after they left and went downstairs, they called us: “We had a car accident in the parking lot.” I immediately went to them. In the elevator, I was puzzled as to why they got into an accident right after they quit the CCP.
In the parking lot, I saw their car tightly jammed into the adjacent parking space. The front of their car was all dented in. It was very strange since the mother was an experienced driver. It was very unlikely for her to make such a mistake. She told me: “I just backed up the car, then hit it.” Then she said: “It is probably a good thing, maybe as such I've avoided a bigger accident tomorrow.” I immediately understood, “You are right, just after you quit the CCP, you've been blessed.” She totally agreed with me.
After we waited for an hour, people from the insurance company came and did the paper work, but the car was still jammed and could not move no matter how we tried. The car repair shop in the district happened to be open, so we found the owner. The owner said: “You are so lucky, I stayed a little late today. If you would have arrived a minute later, I would have left.”
Finally we got the car out. The repair shop owner checked the car. Although it was quite damaged, it could still be driven on the highway and be repaired later on. The property manager told us that the parking lock of the adjacent space needed to be replaced since it was damaged. I replied right away and said “I will pay for it, for sure.” But no one came to us for money because the parking lock, which was not damaged at all, was installed back to the original parking space.
On the second morning, both mother and daughter came for breakfast. My niece told me: “I dared not sleep last night. Once I closed my eyes, I felt like floating. I was a little afraid. Finally, I decided to just hold my mother's hand so that I would stop floating.” I was startled since it was the first time for me to see someone gaining supernormal powers after simply learning the truth about Falun Gong. They were probably people with a predestined relationship. I gave her my MP3 player, which had Master's lectures, telling her: “Once you carefully listen to Master's lectures, you will know why.”
After they left, my mother, who is also a practitioner, and I both had feelings about this. Clarifying the truth to them not only allowed us to experience the miraculousness of Dafa and strengthen our confidence, but the most important thing is that it allowed us to understand why Master asked us to save more people quickly.
Master said:
“... the people of the world actually do know. And why do I say they do know? Because every being has a side that knows; he knows what Dafa is all about.” (Teaching the Fa at the Conference III - Teaching and Explaining the Fa at the Metropolitan New York Fa Conference)
These beings are waiting to be saved. They are waiting for us to clarify the truth to them.
I used to lack the courage to write about my cultivation experiences. Compared with many other practitioners, my cultivation state is not good enough. I have merely allowed a limited number of people to understand the facts about Falun Gong and my understanding is still shallow.
However, there is a feeling of responsibility that has pushed me to start writing.
Years ago, I moved to this city for work, and I could not find a single practitioner. Learning from the experience sharing articles on the Minghui website has been my main driving force of improvement. From these articles, I found my shortcomings, rectified every mistake, and encouraged myself to be diligent.
Since I have gained so much from the articles, knowing that practitioners' articles can enlighten other practitioners so much, isn't it selfish not to share my own experiences?
