(Minghui.org) After I began practicing Falun Dafa, I told my relatives and friends all about it. I have seen over the years that despite the many years of the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) illegal persecution and slander, many Chinese people still have a good understanding of Dafa. I see more and more people supporting Dafa with their hearts while acknowledging that the evil persecution of Dafa is a crime against humanity.
I offer several examples of this in the following paragraphs, describing how I encountered Falun Dafa first myself, and then ultimately ended up sharing the practice with friends and family.
Obtaining the Fa
I first learned about Falun Dafa during the rainy season in the spring of 2001. I was in upper management at a state-owned company. Due to the company's financial problems, I was being held at the local detention center. Some said that I'd dropped down from heaven to hell. But I always accepted the consequence peacefully. I felt that somewhere, there was a force supporting me.
I learned traditional education at home since childhood, and I always thought of myself as a good person compared to others. When I first took on the management position in the state-owned company, I often told myself to be cautious in my words and actions, and not indulge in corruption.
Yet corruption is rampant in China under the evil CCP regime. In a society full of human desire and materialism, I gradually lost myself and I acquired stronger and stronger attachments to fame, personal interests, and excitement. I even took illegal income and developed some improper relationships, as I thought it was safe.
On the surface, it looked like no one knew my problems. But when my attachment of fame and personal interests became extreme, the once prestigious company suddenly collapsed.
A group of influential personnel in the company, including myself, were held in a detention center, awaiting trial. Later, after I obtained the Fa, I understood that maybe this was to stop me from generating more karma, and to give me a chance to find Dafa.
I recall how the CCP was brutally persecuting Falun Dafa back in 2001. Many practitioners were detained in the detention center, and were then sentenced to prison or forced labor. The imprisoned Dafa practitioners included farmers, government officials, and renowned intellectuals.
I had thought in the past that Falun Gong was just a kind of qigong to strengthen the body, and I could not understand why practitioners would not give up their beliefs even under the evil CCP's brutal persecution. I ended up meeting practitioners from different walks of life, and they all told me of Dafa's principles and spoke of many miracles they had witnessed or heard about. This explained why they wanted to clarify the truth to others about this peaceful spiritual practice.
The farmer clarified the truth from the aspect of being a good person and getting rid of sickness and strengthening the body. Many of her incurable diseases disappeared after cultivating in Dafa.
The practitioners' minds were very pure. They told me that if someone saved our life, we should speak up for justice for them as a human being with conscience.
The practitioners with higher social status either worked at government offices or had a good income like me. They clarified the truth from other angles, such as how Christianity and Buddhism were persecuted.
Some practitioners had their third eye open. Their experiences and stories allowed me to gradually eliminate my atheist belief that I’d had for many years. I gradually learned that Falun Gong is a way of genuine cultivation and is a ladder to heaven for people to return to their true selves.
Benefits Come Soon After Beginning to Practice
At that time, I did not have an opportunity to read Zhuan Falun. I read only some of Master's new articles. I memorized the new articles and practiced the exercises along with other practitioners. Although nothing magical happened to me, I could feel that my health had improved after a while.
In the detention center, the food and daily life were significantly inferior to my outside life. But my health was better than before. I had many health problems, even at a young age, such as high blood pressure and breast hyperplasia. Even through I’d had such a dramatic change of lifestyle in the bad environment of the detention center, my health surprisingly got much better. I truly experienced Falun Gong's great effect of strengthening the body and eliminating the illness.
As my understanding of the Fa grew deeper, I gradually learned the true meaning of life. The ultimate goal of life should be to return to our true selves at higher levels. Everything in the human world is just an illusion.
So, as my case was processed, I had a very peaceful mind and cooperated with the investigator. When the investigators heard that I cultivated Falun Gong, they all said they wouldn’t interfere with my practice. I also tried my best to let them know that I was cooperating with them willingly because I had started practicing Falun Gong. They said they wouldn't stop me from practicing Falun Gong.
Recalling this, I realized that Master had helped me by creating a relatively easy cultivation environment so I could obtain the Fa and keep cultivating.
Later, a practitioner left the detention center and sent me the book Zhuan Falun. During my two years of detention I read Zhuan Falun many times and I gradually came to understand the Fa principles. My mind also became more and more peaceful. When the case was over and I was released, my friends and schoolmates came over to comfort me. Surprisingly, they found I had an optimistic attitude toward everyone.
I told my friends that I practiced Falun Gong in the detention center, and that I was in such good mental and physical health because I cultivated Falun Gong. But I was still afraid of telling the people who did not know my situation, as I still had a strong attachment of fear. Yet the way I showed a positive attitude to my relatives and friends helped to build a foundation for me to clarify the truth to them later.
Since I enjoyed a high social status before I acquired the Fa, I used to look down on my friends and relatives, especially my husband's relatives who came from countryside. After I started practicing Falun Gong, I changed the way I treated them, and also helped them financially. This also built a foundation for me to later clarify the truth to them.
My Daughter Obtains the Fa
My daughter was physically weak since childhood. She caught colds and coughed easily. Over time, she gradually developed chronic bronchitis and chronic rhinitis. Due to my being so busy at work, I did not take good care of her. After I was released, I had more time to take care of my daughter.
When I was released, my parents and my husband were all exhausted by my case. The evil CCP was still brutally persecuting Dafa, and my husband did not let me practice due to his fear. I was also afraid of contacting other practitioners.
Since I didn’t know how to use a computer, I didn't know how to access the Minghui website. I was cultivating completely alone. I was afraid of clarifying the truth of Dafa to others, so I clarified the facts to my daughter first.
Since my daughter had been poisoned by the lies and slander about Dafa in her school textbooks, when I first clarified the truth to her, she looked at me with fear. After I gradually clarified the truth, read Zhuan Falun to her, and taught her the exercises, her mind gradually changed and her body also grew stronger.
Since I could not access the Minghui website, I was very anxious. Master saw my heart and arranged for a practitioner who knew how to break through the Internet blockade to install the Freegate software for me. I gradually learned how to download the truth-clarifying materials to pass out. Sometimes my daughter also helped me to hand them out.
My daughter has been practicing Dafa for five years now and she is now much more healthy than others her age. She doesn't get cold in winter and doesn't need to wear heavy winter clothing. Her classmates often ask whether she feels the cold. During the flu season, many students in her class get sick and the school has to close down. But my daughter remained totally healthy.
While in elementary school, my daughter's grades were average. In middle school, she got into a key class in a very good school. For the three years in middle school, her scores were still average. Before the entry exam for high school, she was very nervous and was afraid that she would not get into a good high school.
I helped her to study the Fa and told her that Master would arrange everything after she started to cultivate Dafa, and all she needed to do was to study hard without pursuing the result. In the end, she got the best score in all of her three years of study, and got into the best high school. We all agreed that she benefited from cultivating Dafa.
Helping My Sister and Brother-In-Law to Obtain the Fa
My sister and brother-in-law got married many years ago but they had not been able to have any children. My sister had many examinations, but the doctors could not find anything wrong. I persuaded my sister to study Zhuan Falun.
In the beginning, we all had the attachment of wanting her to get pregnant through practicing Dafa. My sister's inborn quality was very good and she had reactions immediately after practicing the exercises. At night, she could feel her body floating up while she was half asleep. She said she was a little afraid that she could float by herself. After she studied Zhuan Falun she soon understood the principles of cultivation.
My sister has now been practicing Dafa for three years and she truly cultivates diligently. Every day she reads the Minghui website and sends forth righteous thoughts. On weekends, she goes out to make phone calls to clarify the truth.
My sister used to have a hot temper and she controlled everything at home. She usually rebuked her husband like he was a child. She also did not have a good relationship with her father-in-law and always told us how bad her father-in-law was in front of us, or even in front of her husband. I was a bit unbearable, and we tried to persuade her to change her ways. But she could not change.
After acquiring the Fa however, she changed greatly. She talked much more gently to her husband and did not get angry all the time. She also improved her relationship with her father-in-law and often went back to visit him.
My brother-in-law saw the changes in her and experienced Dafa's miracles. He supported my sister's Dafa cultivation. Later, he also obtained the Fa. Although he did not actively study the Fa and practice the exercises, he usually helped my sister in technical work related to our truth clarification.
Since he is a computer expert, he helped us solve some technical difficulties. He believed the Fa sincerely and benefited from the Fa.
Prior to cultivating Dafa, one night he was riding home on a bicycle. A car struck him from behind and he flew off the bicycle. He felt at the time that his body was very light. He hit the ground on his hip, but no bones were broken, and he was not injured at all. He stayed in the hospital for observation for a few days, but since nothing wrong was found, he returned home. He later told us about this accident. It happened that the driver was drunk and did not see him. We all said that Master had already helped him even before he started cultivation.
Right now my sister and brother-in-law still have no children. But they are no longer attached to it. They walk steadily on the way of validating the Fa.
My Husband Changes His Attitude and Begins to Practice
My husband sacrificed a lot during my two years of detention. He had to take care of our daughter, and he also helped with my legal case. Since China's judicial system is very corrupt, a charge like I had is usually a way for the judicial system to make some illegal money.
My husband encountered much pressure. When he learned that I had started to practice Dafa, he was very scared. After I returned home, he said to me very seriously, “It's fine if you practiced in detention. Please do not practice anymore now that you have been released. If something happens to you again, we just won't be able have a life.”
Since I was afraid of him worrying again, I did not say yes or no, and just tried to avoid the subject. When I had chance, I read the electronic versions of Dafa books. I got up early in the morning to practice the exercises, and in my everyday life, I was strict with myself in following Dafa's principles. I took good care of my husband and tried my best to do more housework. He also noticed my changes.
In the past, I usually didn't do housework or cook. I always asked him to do these things and I even got angry if he did not want to do them. My changes led him to feel emancipated. Before, when he went out for dinner or to play mahjong with others, I called him many times to get him to come home. Now, when he goes out, I use the time to study the Fa and print truth-clarifying materials. So no matter how late he returns, I never question him.
When he went out to play mahjong every weekend and got up very late the next day, I went to the forced labor camp on those mornings to send forth righteous thoughts in close proximity to the evil for an hour. I then returned home to cook breakfast for my husband. After a while, he also experienced the greatness of Dafa. He just did not acknowledge it verbally.
I always thought that my husband had good inborn ability. He was originally an atheist but he also liked qigong. He told my daughter and me many cultivation stories and so I always had a wish that he could cultivate the Fa too. My daughter and I also tried to clarify the truth to him. But he was poisoned by the CCP's lies accusing practitioners of “participating in politics,” and he didn't want to get to know Dafa more profoundly.
In order to have more time to clarify the truth, when my daughter was in her third year of middle school, we rented a small room near the school. I told my husband it was so our daughter wouldn't have to travel so much. Since the apartment was small, there wasn't room for him. So it was just my daughter and me. It was thus more convenient for me to produce truth-clarifying materials.
In the beginning, my husband was not against it. He was just not very happy about it. He said that our home was not that far from the school and it was wasteful to rent another home. I think he didn't want to stay alone at home since he was afraid of loneliness. I told him we would come back every weekend. He barely agreed.
During that year, I had a lot of time for truth-clarifying work. I bought a printer and searched online for where the judicial system officials lived, and I went to those places at night to send forth righteous thoughts. I knew those community districts that had tighter control and the people who lived inside usually had less opportunity to read our truth-clarifying materials.
After a while, my Dafa-related work went smoothly and I developed the attachment of complacency, which was taken advantage by the evil. It manifested in this dimension as my husband becoming too lonely at home, getting angry, and not wanting us to stay away from home.
He was so angry that one night when we went back home, he locked the door and would not let us in. In addition, I also found out that he had been chatting online with other women with flirtatious language. When I questioned him, he said carelessly, “You won't stay home with me. I didn't go out and do anything bad. I just chatted to relieve my loneliness.”
The tribulations at that time were big. I almost stopped living away from my husband. I calmed down and found many attachments, such as to my daughter's getting good grades, complacency, and a competitive mentality. I did not think of my husband from his perspective. He was still an everyday person and he could easily get lonely living alone. He also didn't eat well. I thought only of ways to clarify the truth, and ignored his feelings. I did not conform to the way of everyday people while cultivating. But these were also illusions.
I made up my mind to insist on clarifying the truth and fully utilize the one-year's time. In addition, my child and I went back home for a visit in the middle of the week. Sometimes I also cooked a lot of food and left it in the refrigerator for him to eat at home. I gradually rectified the environment, and I could do my truth-clarifying work with a calm mind. During that year, since I had plenty of time during weekdays, I either produced truth-clarifying materials, or went out to hand out truth-clarification materials or Shen Yun DVDs.
One year passed, and my daughter got an excellent score in the high school admission exam. My husband also started to cultivate Dafa for health reasons. After the admission exam finished, my daughter and I moved back home. During a routine physical exam at work, my husband was diagnosed with a heart problem. Later, it got worse and worse.
He went to the hospital for an examination and the doctor prescribed many medicines that did not work at all. He still often felt palpitations and chest tightness. I gradually clarified the truth to him about Dafa's miraculous effects in strengthening the body and eliminating illness.
I told him that I actually had not given up cultivation and that was why I was so healthy, even though I had not taken any medicine for many years. At that time, I also sent forth righteous thoughts for him in high intensity doses. He finally agreed to try and practice Falun Gong.
My husband's inborn ability was good. As soon as he started to practice the exercises, he had reactions. I could hear his abdomen making sounds (which never happened prior to his practicing the exercises). After he read Zhuan Falun just once, he understood the principles of cultivation, and he was very clear about the Fa. He also had a dramatic change physically.
He used to have frequent insomnia, but he could now immediately fall asleep after he finished studying the Fa. His heart palpitations, gastric ulcer, and chronic pharyngitis disappeared. He truly experienced the greatness of Dafa.
He now practices the exercises more diligently than me. He gets up on time every morning at 3:40 a.m. for morning practice. Sometimes when I am lazy, he calls me up so we can practice the exercises together. After we read Master's Fa lectures after July 20, 1999, he also knew the importance of clarifying the truth, and started making truth-clarifying phone calls and producing Shen Yun DVDs. He caught up very quickly.
Friends and Family Learn the Truth
After my husband obtained the Fa, we gradually began clarifying the truth to his brothers and sisters. He still has the attachment to saving face and hasn't started to persuade people to withdraw from CCP yet. He gave one of his brothers some truth-clarifying materials and the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party video, and mailed the video of Master's lectures in Guangzhou to his brother. His brother watched the lectures and told him the contents of the video were very good.
One of my husband's aunts had a stroke and then broke her legs. She could not undergo surgery and her legs were so painful that she could not fall asleep. We clarified the truth to her and asked her to recite “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” I was with her for the night and she recited the words for the entire night. In the early morning, she no longer felt pain and she slept for three hours. She felt that it was miracle.
We then showed her Master's Fa lecture videos. Since she had very little education, she did not understand the Fa principles very much, but she firmly believes that Falun Dafa is good. She usually no longer has leg pain, and she can sleep well at night.
I witnessed my relatives and friends around me gradually acquiring the Fa. I see Dafa enlightening more and more people's hearts even under the evil persecution, just like a spring rain gently falling upon everything in the world. Actually, when we clarify the truth to someone and he understands the truth, he may tell his relatives and friends. So more and more people will understand the truth, and clearly see through the evil Chinese Communist regime’s lies, and be saved.
Thank you Master for your compassionate salvation!
