(Minghui.org) I have practiced Falun Dafa for 17 years. Words cannot express my gratitude for Master’s magnificent compassion.
I want to report to Master some of my experiences and the understandings I have gained from my cultivation practice.
When I was five or six years old, a sore showed up on my right side and began to fester. My parents were poor and couldn't afford to take me to the hospital. They could only rely on herbal remedies to treat my condition. The remedies didn't seem to work and my condition only worsened. They later told me that they really didn’t know how I managed to survive.
I joined the army when I grew up. We were felling trees on top of the mountains for a national defense construction project. A sizable tree trunk came rolling down the hillside straight towards me. There was no way I could have run out of the way fast enough, but somehow, the tree trunk hit a rock just in front of me and veered off slightly, just enough to miss me.
I spent most of my adulthood in the army, and ended up with all kinds of physical problems due to the strenuous work that we had to do.
From the age of 30 to 60, I had so many different illnesses, including neurosis, insomnia and atrophy. My life was miserable.
I was assigned to the Procuratorate when I retired from the army. The leadership there were aware of my service in the army and my honesty, so they loaded me with work, including difficult tasks that others had declined.
Since I was already ill, the workload practically pushed me over the edge. I truly wanted to put an end to all my misery.
My health was very poor. I had sought out nearly every remedy and treatment. I had prayed to all kinds of deities. I had practiced many forms of qigong before, but no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t escape the pain and suffering. My condition became more and more serious. I was so devastated by my ill health that I really didn't want to live any longer.
In March 1997, when I was in extreme agony and struggling between the decision to live or die, a friend gave me a book called Zhuan Falun.
After reading it through, I felt awakened. I realized that what I had been praying for and searching all this time turned out to be Falun Dafa.
All my illnesses disappeared a few days after I started practicing Falun Dafa. Relatives and friends remarked on how I was a changed person. Master Li Hongzhi scooped me up from hell and cleansed my body. Dafa saved my life.
I came to understand that my pain and suffering was to pay off karmic debts owed from all my reincarnated lifetimes.
Master pointed out to me the road to return to my original, true self. Starting from working on being a good person, to not fighting back when wronged, not seeking fame or fortune, not being attached to human sentimentality, to consider other people first in all things, and to look inward when conflicts arise.
I realized that it is with continuous cultivation practice and xinxing elevation, and through diligently studying the Fa and doing the exercises, that I will be able to attain and maintain my physical well-being and become an extraordinary person.
The persecution of Falun Dafa was rampant in 2000, with practitioners illegally arrested, sentenced, thrown into detention centers and labor camps. Many were tortured to death.
After the photograph of Master sitting on the mountain, looking in contemplation on the world below, was published on the Minghui website, coordinators contacted me and other practitioners to write to government agencies at all levels to let them know the truth about Falun Dafa and the persecution.
When the Epoch Times’ editorial series, the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, came out in booklet format, especially when Master’s recent article “Turning the Wheel Towards the Human World” and others were published, it was clear that it was Master’s wish that Dafa disciples go out to let people know the facts about Falun Dafa and to offer them salvation.
Many coordinators were anxious about doing this. The informational materials about Dafa were accumulating at materials production sites, but many practitioners had not come forward to distribute them in the efforts to save people.
I thought: Our district has tens of thousands of practitioners. Wouldn’t it be great if all of us come out to clarify the facts?
I took some informational materials and went to my hometown to look for practitioners.
When practitioners and I met up, we were in a flood of tears. Some said to me, “You’re courageous. You're extremely brave to come here.”
Others said, “Nobody has come here from the big cities for several years. We have no idea what’s happening about Dafa. We have no news of Master or of the situation in the outside world.”
We all wept bitter tears and questioned, “Why is it so difficult to be a good person in China?”
We studied the Fa together. Then, we bared our hearts for some honest exchanges of our cultivation states. We arrived at a decision to set up a small Fa study group and exercise site. I would be responsible for bringing Master’s Fa lectures and other publications from the Minghui website. I would also return to participate in Fa studies and exchanges whenever possible.
That year alone, our Fa study and exercise site helped 32 people quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations.
I had been repeatedly detained and sentenced over the years, and had to take refuge from the persecution in my son's home on three separate occasions.
The first time I was at my son's, I was able to remain persistent in studying the Fa and doing the exercises. However, the second and third times, I allowed the old forces to take advantage of my attachments to fear and sentimentality, and ended up devoting almost all my time to taking care of my grandchildren and doing the household chores.
I became an ordinary person in no time, and had almost giving up on studying the Fa and doing the exercises.
My body returned to the state of having illnesses, and I couldn’t get relief through medical treatment. My health quickly worsened.
Master tried to hint at me through my dreams that I must return to Dafa. After repeated reminders, I finally awakened. Master saved me and extended my life not to have me live the life of an ordinary person but to cultivate Dafa, so I can return to my original, true self.
I must make clear to the world the truth behind the persecution of Falun Dafa. I must let everybody know that Dafa is being framed and besmeared by the CCP's lies and propaganda.
With help from fellow practitioners, I finally returned to diligent cultivation. Master gave me back my physical health and saved me once more.
The materials production site in our district suffered a great loss in 2007, when several main coordinators were arrested and sentenced. Our Fa study and exercise site was also in a paralyzed state.
Master repeatedly enlightened me in my dreams that I must reverse this deplorable situation.
Falun Dafa saved my life, so my life belongs to Dafa. The life that Master has extended for me must be used to validate the Fa.
I still had the attachment to fear, but I firmly believed that with Master by my side I could do anything, so I decided to take up the responsibilities of coordinator for our district.
With help from other practitioners, small Fa study and exercise groups were formed one after another in our urban and rural areas. Several practitioners set about to learn computer skills, and gradually family-run materials production sites sprouted everywhere.
We later received technical training and mastered the art of printing copies of Zhuan Falun and producing other Dafa publications.
We continue our effort to disseminate information about Dafa to society and to save people in our region.
For over a decade, practitioners have worked tirelessly to clarify the facts. We are distributing leaflets, banknotes, CDs and pamphlets, using cell phones to send out messages, engaging in face-to-face communication, hanging banners and working on other Dafa projects.
Our hard work has helped many people with predestined relationship to enter into Dafa.
Falun Dafa has saved my life. Fa-rectification is nearing the end. Time is getting tight. I have to make good use of the time Master extended for me to cultivate diligently and to save more sentient beings.