(Minghui.org) From day one of my cultivation in Falun Dafa, October 25, 1995, I was told to study the Fa. Besides, Master emphasized the importance of studying the Fa many times. Therefore, this thought took hold in my mind, and I took studying the Fa to be of the highest importance.
Memorizing the Fa
The first time I memorized the Fa, I found it was very different from memorizing ordinary textbook articles, because I forgot what I had memorized by the next day. It also took me a lot of time and effort to be able to memorize the Fa. I also feared that I did not have enough time to read the Fa, so I stopped memorizing after I had committed to memory the first lecture in Zhuan Falun.
I later learned from studying the Fa that the Fa remembered by me had already been separated and moved over to the other side. I then focused on memorizing the Fa and finished memorizing Zhuan Falun in six months.
At the onset of the persecution of Falun Dafa in July 1999, I continued to read one lecture a day but stopped memorizing the Fa. As a result, something seemed to block my mind, and all kinds of notions appeared. I could not concentrate on reading and understanding the Fa.
I resumed memorizing two pages a day in 2003. Yet, I still was bothered by a lot of distractions and human notions. It often took hours to memorize just one page.
Sometimes, when I returned home past midnight, I thought about skipping the day of memorization. However I knew that if I followed this notion, I would be even less determined to do it the next day.
Therefore, I forced myself to memorize one paragraph. After doing so, the thought karma of not wanting to memorize the Fa was eliminated, and I wanted to keep going. Many of my notions gradually disappeared in the process of memorizing the Fa. After six months, I could memorize one lecture a day.
I often encounter traffic jams when driving. Whenever I had to wait, I would recite the Fa, and the jam would clear up shortly. I didn't notice at first, but after this happened frequently, I understood that it was the result of memorizing the Fa. This year, I suddenly enlightened that many of my tribulations are eliminated amid my perseverence in studying the Fa.
Persecutors Powerless in the Face of Dafa
In the beginning of the persecution, my workplace refused to let me go home. Each day, a large number of people, including police, would take turns to threaten me if I did not give up Dafa. However, years of continuous Fa study had strengthened my faith. Our company's Party Secretary once admitted during an all-company meeting that he felt powerless when trying to “transform” me. I knew that he was actually powerless in the face of Dafa.
Another time, I was detained in the Qianmen Police Substation for peacefully appealing for Falun Dafa in Beijing. A policeman looked at me with fury in his eyes and was about to strike me with his handgun. I did not feel any fear and just smiled at him. He suddenly turned around and walked away.
I was held in a local detention center after I was arrested in Beijing. Without the book to study the Fa, human notions crept into my mind. I thought of my family, wife, child and what it would take to get me released. I could remember about one third of each lecture. I recited one lecture a day from memory.
We were required to keep a diary and write something every day. I wrote about the truth of what Dafa is and how it is persecuted. The guards and head inmate read the diaries each day and started understanding Dafa.
Food was rationed and thus more valuable than money. However, I never took more than my share of the food. The prison guards noticed my different behavior and asked me what Falun Gong was about. I told them the fundamentals of this cultivation practice and demonstrated the exercises. Shortly after, I was released.
In our city, the authorities considered me a “key member” of Falun Dafa, yet I was released. However, many practitioners were sent to forced labor camps.
We learned how to send forth righteous thoughts when Master published the article “Dafa Disciples' Righteous Thoughts Are Powerful” in April 2001.
The authorities arrested practitioners before “sensitive dates.” Before the mass arrests, I felt an invisible force suffocating me. After I sent forth righteous thoughts for about 40 minutes, the fear was cleared.
Later, I heard some practitioners had been detained, and understood the power of sending forth righteous thoughts. Thus, I sent forth righteous to clear out the evil beings as soon as I felt the invisible pressure.
Before the Beijing Olympics in 2008, my company plotted with local authorities to detain me. I went to the local police substation to send forth righteous every day for a week. I was not arrested.
Learning to Look Inward
After I was released from the detention center, the company's security department tried to take me to the local police substation several times. It was obvious that I could be imprisoned or given forced labor. However fellow practitioners in my place of employment had no such trouble.
I looked inward and found the attachment. While in Beijing, I heard that the detained practitioners in Jinzhou City went on a hunger strike, and that they were released quickly because the persecutors were frightened. I admired them and thought of going on a hunger strike. I realized it was this competitive mentality that had attracted the evil.
For some time, whenever I saw dead or blind people on the streets, the police would try to talk to me. Whenever I saw these things, I would become afraid, thinking the evil would try to do something; these things would then really happen. When I encountered this one day and became nervous, a thought appeared in my mind to look inward. When I did so and identified the attachment responsible, the police would no longer want to talk to me. Afterwards, whenever I saw dead or blind people, I would immediately look inward, find the attachment, and let it go; these illusions then disappeared.
For a period of time, I was very addicted to casual computer games and spent a lot of time playing games instead of studying the Fa. The old force thus found an excuse to persecute me. My company's security department and the local police came to my home one night to detain me, but I managed to escape. My wife later told me that if I go back to the detention center, they would detain me for only a few days until the 16th Party Congress was over; otherwise, I would be sent to forced labor if captured.
I remembered Master's words:
“No matter what the situation, do not cooperate with the evil’s demands, orders, or what it instigates.” (“Dafa Disciples’ Righteous Thoughts are Powerful,” Essentials for Further Advancement II)
I decided to leave home to avoid further persecution. After I found my attachment, I was extremely regretful. The evil kept planting thoughts in my mind that I would persecuted, but I identified those thoughts as not being my own, and recited the Fa to eliminate them. Eleven days later, my colleagues stood in the corridors and applauded my safe return.
Dafa's Powerful Sentences
I found that “Falun Dafa is good” and “Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good” are powerful sentences.
I had been addicted to reading fiction since childhood, and last year I became addicted to reading fiction online. When I was riding on a subway, the desire to read fiction appeared again in my mind. Then, “Falun Dafa is good” and “Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good” appeared in my mind. After I recited them silently a few times, I no longer wanted to read fiction.
I realized that when studying the Fa, one must sit in the full lotus position, one's heart must be calm, and one's back must be straight. Reciting the Fa while walking, driving, or doing other things is very disrespectful to the Fa. However, we can recite the two sentences in any place and at any time. I sometimes recite the two sentences while driving and can feel a large dimensional field around me purified and within my control.
In another instance, I wanted to borrow a magazine from an acquaintance, but she told me she did not have it. I thought she had some grudge against me, so I became resentful of her. The two sentences then appeared in my mind. After I recited them, I no longer felt resentful; when I thought of her again, I held compassion in my heart.
