Through Cultivating in Falun Dafa, I Am at Ease, Free, and Joyful

(Mingui.org) While waiting for a bus in 1996 on my way to visit my husband, who was diagnosed with late-stage liver cirrhosis and hospitalized in the provincial capital, I met a Falun Dafa practitioner.

I was a Buddhist, so in my hands I held prayer beads. She asked me if I believed in Buddhism and I said yes. She responded by telling me about the wonders of believing in Falun Dafa. As she talked to me more about Dafa, I felt as if I was being hit by an electric current.

I decided then and there that I wanted to practice Dafa.

Body Purification

On the bus, I read Zhuan Falun Volume II. Every word in that book touched my heart and purified my thoughts.

In the hospital, I said to my husband that if he would read the Dafa books, he would become healthy. He did not believe me.

The next morning, I felt that I must learn the exercises. I found a practice site and practitioners taught me the exercises.

While doing the Falun Standing Stance, I suddenly felt as if my heart stopped and everything around me turned dark. However, my mind was clear and I was not scared in the least; instead, I felt a special kind of joy. I had a sense that Master was purifying my body, and by the time I completed the four sets of exercises, I felt cleansed.

After the exercises I rode home on my bicycle and did not feel tired at all. I actually felt energetic. While relaxing after I got home, many small colorful Falun appeared in front of my eyes, and I saw about three Law bodies adjusting my body.

Looking Within During Conflicts

After my daughter-in-law became pregnant, she was picky about food. She asked me twice to get her a live chicken, which I reluctantly bought, although I felt bad in my mind.

When she asked me the second time to get a live chicken, I decided to look within for why this was happening. I realized that I developed a grudge against her in recent days and wanted to leave her home. Then, I had a dream that she had a miscarriage, which told me that I should not leave. This was a hint that I was not compassionate and had an ordinary people’s mentality, because I did not want to take care of her.

So I sent righteous thoughts and read about five lectures of the Fa every day to help me get rid of my attachments. What's more, she needed good food because she was pregnant. Therefore, my way of thinking should not match her way of thinking. Once I improved my xinxing, she no longer asked me to buy a live chicken.

After the baby was born, my daughter-in-law criticized me because I held the child in the wrong way. I rebutted by asking her why she was so picky.

“You are upset over such a trivial thing,” she said. “How do you cultivate yourself? You were not this way in the past.” Then, her mother said that she did not think that I was truly cultivating.

This ordeal hit home and I was stunned. I wondered if I really did not cultivate well and looked within. This time I found that I could not take criticism, so I worked hard on letting this attachment go as well.

Getting Rid of Mental Clutter

When everyday thoughts began streaming through my mind, I realized that I should no longer watch television.

Master said,

“People may say that it doesn’t matter what they see with their eyes, and that they can just stop looking at something if they no longer want to see it. But that’s not true. When your vision makes contact with something, that thing has entered. That’s because any thing can replicate itself in other dimensions, so the longer you look at something, the more it enters. No matter what it is, be it on television or on a computer, it enters once you look at it.” (“Fa Teaching Given at the 2010 New York Fa Conference”)

When my daughter-in-law and her mother invited me to watch television, I told them that I no longer watched television because it cluttered my mind. Through television, I may get into conflict with them again.

Gradually, my daughter-in-law’s mother stopped watching as well and instead read Dafa materials.

When I let go of my ordinary people’s mentality, my daughter-in-law and her mother moved closer toward Dafa, and we lived together harmoniously.

One Cultivator Benefits the Entire Family

From day one of my cultivation, I believed in the Fa and was certain that my family would become harmonious.

For example, my son used to have a bad temper. His bad temper dissipated while his grades got better. He later passed the college entrance examination and was admitted to a prestigious university. He got a good job with good pay after graduation.

My daughter got sick the day before her Teachers College entrance examination, and she felt that she had forgotten everything. I told her, “Your mom cultivates in Dafa and the whole family benefits. You will be well tomorrow and you will be admitted.”

She went for the test, got excellent scores, ranked in the top 10, and was admitted to a Teachers College will a full scholarship.

My daughter had twin boys and I babysat for them. When they turned three, I taught them to recite,“Falun Dafa is good; Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.”

When one of the boys had a cough, he recited these two phrases and the cough went away quickly any medicine.

When one of them had a fever, I read Hong Yin III with him. I read one sentence and he repeated what I said. After three poems, he told me that his fever was gone.

Wisdom Opens Up

Since I began to cultivate, I felt that I had righteous power, which eliminated bad things in my body and gave me the wisdom to overcome difficulties.

When my son gave his laptop to me, he asked me if I knew how to operate a computer. I said that I would use it and thought that for a practitioner, nothing is too difficult—as long as it is something needed for Dafa.

After I received the laptop, I started learning how to use it with the help of my niece, a fellow practitioner. Gradually, I, a farmer’s wife in her 60s with only 4 years of elementary school education, learned to surf the Internet as well as to download and print materials.

We moved to a different city where I met local practitioners when I went out to tell people about Dafa and the persecution. Thus, my cultivation environment improved. I still babysit and take the stroller and the baby along to distribute Shen Yun DVDs and other Dafa materials.

True Freedom

Nearly 19 years as a Dafa cultivator has changed me into a different person, helped me grow spiritually, and taught me how to let go of many of my attachments.

While I was writing this article, a fellow practitioner told me that when one practices Dafa, one achieves a state of great freedom. She asked what topic would be best for our articles. The first thought that entered my mind was “Through cultivating in Falun Dafa, I am at ease, free and joyful.”