Recalling Falun Dafa’s Introduction in Our Area

(Minghui.org) I am 65 years old. I used to operate a small business, and have cultivated in Falun Dafa‎‎ for 26 years. I was a coordinator at our local Falun Dafa assistance center before the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched the persecution of Dafa. I was arrested and detained by the CCP for appealing for Falun Gong and was sentenced to imprisonment for distributing materials clarifying the truth about Falun Gong and the persecution.

Below is what I experienced at different stages of my cultivation path. I am sharing in the hope that people will understand the preciousness of Falun Dafa, aka Falun Gong, recognize the evil nature of the CCP, and choose to support justice and goodness.

‎Associating with Professors, Engineers, and Others

In July 1995, a friend told me that there were people practicing Falun Gong in our local area. We decided to go to the practice site the next morning.‎‎‎I got up at 4 a.m., got my motorcycle, and headed to the practice site in the park. I was taught the exercises after I got there. After finishing the group exercises, a practitioner in his 50s talked with me. He told me that the person who introduced me to the site was his high school classmate, a graduate of Peking University, and a senior engineer at a company. He also shared that he graduated from Qinghua University, and was an associate professor at a university in the provincial capital. He told me that he attended Master Li Hongzhi’s (the founder) Fa lecture at the end of 1994. Thinking that Falun Dafa is great, he returned to his hometown with his high school classmate, and a female college teacher, to promote Dafa. Then he gave me ‎‎a copy of Zhuan Falun‎‎, the main book of Falun Dafa.‎

I read Zhuan Falun immediately after I got home. I thought that Zhuan Falun was an amazing book, and I read more than two Lectures at a time⸺there are nine lectures in Zhuan Falun. After I read the whole book, I said to myself, “Great book! Great book!” I knew that this precious book was what I had been looking for!‎

Dafa Spread Rapidly

‎Both my physical and mental condition experienced great changes after I started cultivating in Dafa. I quit drinking and smoking, and stopped playing cards. I recovered from my illnesses, including stomach problems, kidney stones and laryngitis. Before cultivating in Dafa, I was called “uncle.” Although I was only 39 years old, I looked older. After cultivating in Dafa, my facial appearance glowed with health, and I looked much younger.‎

Practicing Falun Dafa greatly improves people’s xinxing, and their physical condition. More and more people heard about Falun Dafa and began to study it. In order to better help them, and to promote Dafa to more people, I was elected as a local coordinator. After our local Falun Dafa assistance center was formed, we went to various counties, towns, and villages to introduce Dafa to people. Sometimes the trip took several days.‎‎‎‎I went to promote Dafa in the county township with a fellow practitioner in March 1996. He was once a deputy secretary of the county CCP committee, and it was arranged that we stay at the county government guest house. More than a dozen people came to learn Falun Dafa at that time.‎‎Falun Dafa spread rapidly in our city. Only a dozen people practiced Falun Dafa in October 1995. But, more than 10,000 people practiced Dafa in public by July 1999. They included the secretary of the municipal party committee, deputy secretary of the county party committee, leading officers of the city and county administrations, personnel of public security organs, procuratorate organs, people’s courts and judicial organs, and ministers of the armed forces. Additionally, there were university professors, teachers from different schools, journalists, as well as students from different size primary schools; bosses, workers, peasants; people from all walks of life.

Eight people from my family started to practice Dafa at that time. About 30 people came to my home every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday evening to read the Fa.‎

In order to help more people learn Falun Dafa, our local coordinators contacted the Falun Dafa assistance center in the province capital and decided to open our local Falun Dafa assistance center in mid-December. On the opening day, some fellow practitioners with celestial eyes opened saw Master’s Fashen (law body) watching the scene above the center, and saw colorful Faluns (law wheels) rotating above them. These special and wonderful scenes were video recorded by practitioners.‎

Four coordinators including myself went to the Falun Dafa assistance center at the provincial capital for a meeting in June 1996. I stayed the night at the home of the professor who had gone back to his hometown to promote Dafa. That night, I felt Master purify my body, and I became taller than the moon. There was a serene scene below me⸺there were mountains, rivers, and farmers working in the fields. I talked to the professor the next morning about the experience. He was happy for me and told me that he had not seen this although he had cultivated it for several years. I realized that Master was encouraging me.‎

Practicing Dafa Taught Me to Consider Others’ Needs

‎Everyone who truly cultivates Dafa starts by being a good person, following the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. There are many such stories.‎

‎As more people came to learn Falun Dafa, the demand for Dafa books increased. The local bookstores did not carry Dafa books at the time, so we had to go to the provincial capital to buy them. I often went to the provincial capital, and sometimes I asked other practitioners to help me.

At that time, there was no expressway from our area to the provincial capital, so the bus ride was quite long. It was often two or three in the morning when we returned. In order to bring back more Dafa books, we often took a carrying pole and rope. Although we suffered a little, we felt happy thinking that the new practitioners could have Dafa books to read.‎

As more and more people started learning Dafa, the demand for books kept increasing. So, we contacted the publisher and arranged for the Dafa books to be sent directly to our local area. Every week I used four tricycles to carry the books from the post office to my home. In the process, I paid our travel expenses, shipping expenses, and the expenses for hiring the tricycles. Later, we contacted a local bookstore and asked them to purchase Dafa books and keep them in-store. This arrangement solved the difficulties of purchasing Dafa books in our local area.‎

A worker at my workplace wanted to borrow 1,000 yuan in mid-June 1996. His hometown was hit by a flood and his house was destroyed; he needed money to rebuild the house for his family. I lent him the money and he rebuilt the house. After returning back to work he told everyone, “Our boss is very good; he always helps us when in need.” We later became friends.‎

When reading the Fa one morning at home in the winter of 1997, I suddenly heard many people shouting outside. I looked outside and saw that a house behind mine was on fire; smoke was billowing from the third floor and two children were crying at the door outside the house. There were six or seven onlookers pointing around, but no one was helping to put out the fire⸺this family did not get on well with their neighbors. They also once threw a bag of used toilet paper onto my roof.

I recalled Master’s teaching, “If you don’t even do anything about things like murder and arson, then what would you do something about?” (The Ninth Talk, Zhuan Falun)

I immediately called the fire department, then told the onlookers to take buckets and help me put out the fire. I asked the two children to open their door and we used the buckets to take water from their water storage pool to the third floor to extinguish the fire. After their water storage pool was empty, we took water from my water storage pool. When the firefighters arrived, the fire engine could not get close to the house because of the narrow road. But luckily, we had already put the fire out. Later, the owner of the house bought me fruit to thank me. I said, “If you want to thank someone, you should thank my Master for teaching me to be good and follow Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. Otherwise, based on our relationship, I would have been an onlooker, like the others.”‎

Our Neighbors Trust Dafa Practitioners’ Good Character

‎Later, I went to live temporarily in the big city where my daughter operated a business. I used every opportunity to go out and tell people about Falun Gong and the persecution. I advised them to quit the CCP and its youth organizations and told them that they would be blessed if they stayed away from evil. Among those who quit the CCP organizations was the director of the education bureau, the director of the family planning commission, the principal of a primary school, public security personnel, and many others.‎

My hometown is in the countryside. We have a house that was built when my father was alive. When our four brothers returned to our hometown for a family reunion, the space was not enough to hold us all. So I discussed this with my brothers in 2017, “The house is not big enough for all of us. We should build another one. If everyone agrees, I will take responsibility for building it.” With their permission, I started thinking about building the house.‎‎The land we considered for the house belonged to someone else. Two families had approached the owner to buy the land but were rejected. However, the owner readily agreed to sell the second time I talked to them. In the end, not only did the owner sell us the land, but three families near us also agreed to sell their land to us.‎

The construction started in October 2017. In order to dig the foundation, we needed to use public land, but the villagers all agreed that we could use it.

‎‎While building, many people who knew us told me, “Don’t build the house with your brothers. Nowadays other families are having trouble dividing property among siblings. It will be very troublesome in the future.” I said, “It won’t; because I am a Dafa practitioner!”

‎By the end of 2018, the house, with a total footprint of more than 500 square meters, was built. One of the builders said to me, “I have built many houses at various places. In our town, there isn’t anyone who builds a house together. Your brothers are great!”‎During the whole construction process, I didn’t forget my mission of saving lives. From the excavator drivers to the masonry workers, from the architects, designers, and builders, to the decorators. From the drivers who transported materials to the business owners who sell building materials, and so on. Except for the four workers assembling reinforcement, everyone listened to my truth clarification. More than 50 people quit the CCP organizations.‎‎‎I am very happy that they learned the truth about Falun Gong and chose a wonderful future for themselves! I hope that more people can hear the truth about Falun Gong and the persecution, quit the CCP organizations, stay away from evil, and make wise choices.‎