Minghui Accompanies Me on My Cultivation Path

(Minghui.org) I started practicing Falun Dafa in September 2005. My initial motivation was to cure my illness. At the time, I was in my final year of high school in China. I had been diagnosed with acute leukemia at the Changchun Hospital and had seven rounds of chemotherapy.

Six months after I was diagnosed, I started practicing Falun Dafa when a relative introduced me to it. I stayed with fellow practitioners for a few days and studied Zhuan Falun and practiced the Dafa exercises with them. Because my motivation was to cure my illness, my understanding of cultivation was hindered.

In those early days of practicing, I did not know about clarifying the truth to people, validating the Fa, or sending forth righteous thoughts. I also did not truly integrate into the one body of practitioners. After my stay with those practitioners, I only occasionally read the book and did the exercises. I told only my close friends that I was cultivating and wrote a letter to my teacher, telling him about my situation and what I had learned about Dafa. He called me and agreed with what I wrote, saying that one of his relatives also practiced Dafa, so he knew a little bit about it. But due to fear, I did not tell my relatives how my health improved after I began practicing.

Being Protected by Master Li

For many years after that, I was not in contact with other practitioners, and my initial will to cultivate gradually weakened. But even though I was lost, Master Li was still watching over me. So, whenever I encountered critical moments, I still thought of Dafa and awakened in time. For example, when I was in my junior year of college, my Korean language teacher was a member of a certain religion. During summer vacation of that year, some members of his religion came from Korea and preached to us under the pretext of improving our language skills. One of them asked us to close our eyes. I heard him start to speak in Korean, and as he spoke faster and faster, he began to tremble. He seemed to be possessed, and I couldn’t hear what he said clearly. I realized it was not good. I rejected it, thinking, “I’m a Falun Dafa practitioner and didn’t want this bad thing.” This person then slowly returned to normal. After those people returned to Korea, the Korean teacher said that the person in charge said I was rejecting them in my mind. I was a little surprised at the time. Now I understand that Master helped me to block those bad things.

In 2013, when I applied for a teacher’s qualification certificate, I had to go to the community office for an approval. I was told to fill out a form to say that I was not a Falun Dafa practitioner. I felt uncomfortable, but I signed it against my will for the sake of getting the approval. As a result, I was unable to deny the arrangements of the old forces during the following years. I had a lot of fear and was not able to clearly understand the evil nature of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) persecution of Falun Dafa.

Minghui Helped Me a Lot

In 2014, I came to Japan through my husband’s connections. I still did not actively return to cultivation and only occasionally read Dafa books and practiced the exercises. In the spring of 2016, I watched a Shen Yun performance in Japan. I cried during the show. I felt like a lost child who had found her mother after many years.

In February 2019, I started to regularly read articles on Minghui.org. I did not know that I could purchase Dafa books in Japan. I saw information on Minghui about the Tianti Bookstore in the United States, so I ordered a copy of Zhuan Falun. I later ordered The Essentials of Diligent Progress III from the Tianti Bookstore in Taiwan. It was not until 2021 that I discovered I could purchase Dafa books in Japan. Looking back, I really took a lot of detours. If I had initially become part of the one body with other local practitioners, I would not have gone through so many unnecessary twists and turns.

I read the Editorial notice “What All Dafa Disciples Must Know” that was published on Minghui on June 30, 2018, which urged deleting certain social media apps, such as WeChat. After briefly thinking about it, I resolutely deleted WeChat and QQ. It was indeed a little inconvenient at first, but I did the right thing. With Master’s help, my family back in China didn’t say much about it, and my husband also understood. This also gave me a lot more time to study the Fa.

The night I deleted WeChat, I felt there was something in my eyes that really bothered me, and I kept rubbing my eyelids. I looked in the mirror but couldn’t find anything in my eyes. I kept rubbing them until something came out, and I immediately felt a lot better. But I still didn’t know what it was. I later realized that it was probably some bad substance accumulated from reading WeChat. Master helped me remove it.

Through Minghui, I also learned about doing the second exercise for one hour. I thought, “I missed doing the exercises for so many years; I must catch up quickly.” So I downloaded the audio file for the one-hour version and started doing the second exercise. At first, it was very difficult for me, and I had to endure a lot of soreness. My arms became fatigued and shook uncontrollably. But I was determined to not give up and gradually made the breakthrough. When listening to Minghui Radio, I also heard fellow practitioners sharing their experiences of doing the second exercise for one hour, and this strengthened my confidence. Since then, I’ve been doing the second exercise for one hour whenever time permits.

Master said:

“Dafa disciples’ sending forth righteous thoughts at this special historic period—in order to reduce the evil beings’ persecution of Dafa, Dafa disciples, and the people of the world—has played a very critical role.” (“Righteous Thoughts,” The Essentials of Diligent Progress III)

As I read Master’s other lectures, I understood more about the importance of sending righteous thoughts. So I carefully read Minghui’s editorial on how to send forth righteous thoughts and when to do so. Although I can’t see or feel anything in other dimensions, I still send forth righteous thoughts and try to do it four times a day.

Clarifying the truth is something I find difficult to do. I don’t know many Chinese people here in Japan. I have only met a few Chinese parents when I took my children to the children’s center. But I didn’t know how to start a conversation with them. I told one mother whose child often played with mine about how I was cured of my illness through practicing Falun Dafa, and then I told her that Dafa’s reputation was smeared by the CCP. I didn’t know what else to say to her, so I printed out some materials about the persecution and asked her to read them. This family returned to China later on, and I didn’t have another opportunity to clarify the truth to them. I can only hope that they meet other Falun Dafa practitioners in China who’ll clarify the truth to them further.

I watched some videos, such as False Fire, Now and For the Future, and Through Wind and Rain and gained a better understanding of the CCP’s persecution of Falun Dafa. After learning the importance of people quitting the CCP and its affiliated organizations, I showed my husband some of the programs mentioned above and helped him quit the CCP. My mother came to Japan to visit in 2019, and I helped her quit the CCP. Afterward, I tried my best to find opportunities to clarify the truth to the other Chinese people I knew and ask them to quit the CCP.

Although I did not help a lot of people quit the CCP, I tried my best to clarify the truth within my ability and let them know how wonderful Dafa is. Among them, my eldest son’s violin teacher went to see Shen Yun this year, and she really liked it. My mother stayed in my house for a few months this year, and she also went to see Shen Yun. During this time, I played Minghui Radio and other truth-clarification programs for her every day. She benefited a lot from them and gained a comprehensive understanding of the CCP’s persecution. As I continue to study the Fa and gain a deeper understanding of the principles, I hope I can clarify the truth better and not miss any more predestined people.

Finding an Exercise Site

In August 2022, my entire family of four had symptoms of COVID. My husband’s symptoms were the worst. He had a high fever for many days and tested positive at the hospital. My children and I did not get tested. My children only had mild symptoms and recovered quickly. I had a fever, back pain, fatigue, and the taste of iron when I ate. In my heart, I did not acknowledge that I was infected with COVID. I knew that, as a Dafa practitioner, I would not get infected.

Afterwards, I looked within and felt I should change my state of cultivating alone and become part of the one body with local practitioners. So I searched on the Minghui website for exercise sites in Japan and found one six miles away. I got in touch with the contact person. My husband isn’t a practitioner, and he initially had some concerns, but he went with me once and was reassured. In order to not make him uncomfortable, I tried to go to the exercise site once every two weeks, sometimes by myself and sometimes with my children.

Later on, we moved and my parents-in-law came to Japan, and I didn’t contact the exercise site near my new home. And just like that, another year passed.

In the blink of an eye, it was 2024, and my mother came to visit. She started practicing Dafa in China, but she also had not yet become part of the one body of practitioners. One day, she had a sore back. It was very difficult for her to walk or sit, so she had to lie down. I then contacted the exercise site near my home and took my mother there to meet other practitioners. One of them said to my mother, “You didn’t send forth righteous thoughts, and you didn’t save the sentient beings you should save!” She also reminded me that I shouldn’t have waited so long to take my mother to the group Fa study to share with fellow practitioners. I realized that my state of mind was keeping my mother from understanding the true nature of cultivation practice and catching up with the pace of Fa-rectification.

Becoming Part of One Body

By looking within and reflecting on my cultivation, I gradually realized that my fear prevented me from integrating into the one body of practitioners, which, in turn, caused many tribulations and detours. During the time that I cultivated alone, our compassionate Master helped me by having me listen to fellow practitioners’ sharing on Minghui to help me keep pace with the Fa-rectification. If it weren’t for Minghui, I would still be improving slowly, like cultivating in a cave. I now realize I should improve together with fellow practitioners and do what I can to validate the Fa.

Minghui has been accompanying me since 2019. Sometimes when I had a xinxing issue, I would read an article that was very similar to my situation. My child was once crying for new toys, and I was very annoyed, so I yelled at him. I was listening to Minghui Radio at the time, and, as soon as I finished yelling, I heard on the radio, “The child is crying for toys.” My husband laughed and said, “Isn’t this to enlighten you?” When I was not motivated to study the Fa and slacking off, I happened upon articles by fellow practitioners about making sure to study the Fa and the consequences of neglecting Fa study. After reading and listening to fellow practitioners’ sharing about memorizing the Fa, I also started doing it, and now I’m memorizing Zhuan Falun for the third time.

I listen to Minghui Radio most of the time when I do my housework. I have listened to articles that helped me learn about the Fa-rectification situation, articles by practitioners about their experiences on various aspects of cultivation, articles recalling Master’s Fa-teaching in China in the early days, as well as Fahui articles that allowed me to learn from diligent fellow practitioners and reflect on my shortcomings. Thank you, Master, for using Minghui to encourage me to move forward and guiding me step by step to join the one body of practitioners.

I hope that my sharing can provide some reference for fellow practitioners with similar experiences and that we can all integrate into the one body as soon as possible.

Due to my limited level, if anything is not in accord with the Fa, please kindly point it out.