Remaining Diligent No Matter What Happens

(Minghui.org) Before I began practicing Falun Dafa in June 2014, I was riddled with illnesses: hereditary heart disease, enteritis, frozen shoulder, adnexitis, gynecological problems, diabetes, kidney disease, severely swollen eyes, toenail fungus on my big toes, and more. Two Dafa practitioners gave me a small fan, which had truth-clarification messages on it and asked me to read it. I then understood what Falun Dafa is. I began accompanying them when they went out to clarify the truth and I listened as they talked to people.

My sister who practices Falun Dafa, visited me. She told me that Falun Dafa is amazing, and that practicing may help resolve illnesses. She also explained that when one practices Falun Dafa, the main consciousness cultivates, unlike other schools of cultivation where the assistant consciousness cultivates. But I was attached to the Buddhist statues that I worshiped for 10 years. My sister came every morning and talked to me about Dafa. Seeing that I wasn’t listening, she gave me Falun Dafa’s main book, Zhuan Falun.

I thought what she said made a lot of sense, so I decided to read the book. At the time, I worked at a restaurant on a rotating shift schedule. After finishing the day shift at 5 p.m., I read Zhuan Falun until midnight. After finishing the night shift at midnight, I read until 7 a.m. After I read the book, I understood that illnesses are caused by karma, and one must eliminate it and repay one’s debts. I believed in Master and the Fa, and threw away all my medicines and health supplements.

Shortly after I began practicing Dafa, I stood on a 1.5-meter-high table to clean the kitchen tiles, and it toppled over. I fell headfirst to the floor and lost consciousness. When I woke up, I said, “Falun Dafa is good! Master, please save me!” I got up and found that although my neck was stiff, the rest of my body was fine. My coworkers urged me to go to a hospital, but I said I would be fine. Through studying the Fa and doing the exercises, I soon recovered. Falun Dafa is truly miraculous.

After I finished reading all of Master’s lectures given in various places, I went to the marketplace to talk to people about Dafa and the persecution. The first time I was able to help 12 people quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its youth organizations. On the way back, my nose ran and thought I caught a cold. Another practitioner told me, “Master is purifying your body.”

The restaurant owner and his wife were devout Christians, and after I clarified the truth to them they both quit the CCP. Their two children and the other waiters and waitresses all quit the Party.

Once, at a beer festival, I clarified the truth to two girls who agreed to quit the CCP. A man across from us pointed at me and said, “You practice Falun Dafa!” I said yes. He repeatedly took out his phone and then put it back in his pocket. I didn’t know what he was doing. In the end, he left when someone called him over. Only later did I realize that he was trying to report me to the authorities, but Master was protecting me.

Before I began practicing Falun Dafa I sold health care products and I was very persuasive. Because of my work I had many connections in different places. I started calling these contacts and asking them to quit the CCP. After I convinced a friend in Tianjin to quit, he said, “You’re wasting your skills—you should return to selling health products.”

I said, “I now use my skills to tell people about Falun Dafa.” I called every one of my old contacts and most of them quit the CCP.

I am Persecuted

In January 2018, while clarifying the truth at a large marketplace, another practitioner and I were reported and arrested. From 11 a.m. until 9 p.m., while in the police station, I continuously sent forth righteous thoughts to eliminate the evil forces in other dimensions that controlled the persecution of Dafa practitioners. I knew the police station was not where I should be, and I needed to go home and help Master save people. I silently recited what Master said,

“If you are a true cultivator, our Falun will safeguard you. I am rooted in the universe. If anyone could harm you, he or she would be able to harm me. Put simply, that person would be able to harm this universe.” (Lecture One, Zhuan Falun)

I experienced illness symptoms and I couldn’t stand for long periods of time. Yet that day, I stood all afternoon without any pain and I even felt light. When the police tried to take me to a detention center, Master protected me by making my blood sugar and blood pressure levels appear abnormally high during the health examination, so the detention center refused to accept me. The police granted me bail pending trial, which required a deposit of 5,000 yuan. On the way back from the detention center, I clarified the truth to three officers and they all quit the CCP.

The police called me soon after I returned home, and said a court hearing was scheduled. In order to avoid being persecuted I left home and stayed with a classmate. Every day I studied the Fa, did the exercises, and examined myself to see what cultivation issues I had. I also resumed clarifying the truth face-to-face. I later felt that staying away from home was walking on the path arranged by the old forces, so I decided to go back.

In April 2021, two officers from the police station came to my home. I clarified the truth to them for two hours and they both quit the Party. In June, I was indicted by the procuratorate, and both the procuratorate and the court contacted me. I was arrested in September and taken to a detention center.

Saving People Wherever We Are

At the detention center, I silently recited the Fa from memory and sent righteous thoughts every day. I realized that I needed to save the people around me, so I began clarifying the truth to them. I asked Master to bring people with predestined relationships to me.

A month later I was transferred to a different cell, and Master arranged for a young practitioner to be there. She was illegally sentenced to four years and three months. Over time, she forgot much of the Fa-teachings and asked me, “Can you recite the Fa from memory?” We recited the Fa and clarified the truth to the new detainees. For those who already quit the Party but still didn’t fully understand why the CCP was persecuting Dafa, we explained the situation to them until they understood. Together, we helped nearly 100 people quit the CCP, and we managed to send the list to practitioners outside the detention center.

When the COVID pandemic broke out we guided others to practice Falun Dafa, in order to help them. One detainee who had breast cancer and a sallow complexion, began reciting poems from Hong Yin with us and gradually recovered. Another detainee, a liberal arts college student who was sentenced to 14 years, also recited Hong Yin with us. After her appeal during the second trial, her sentence was reduced to nine years. She was overjoyed, and believed it was due to the power of Dafa. She said she wanted to read the Fa and practice Falun Dafa after she was released.

By summer, the small cell was crammed with nearly 40 people. Everyone had to sleep sideways. Out of the 40 people, 38 were infected with COVID-19. No matter which direction I faced, someone was coughing on me. One day, an officer came by and asked the cell leader, “Is everyone in your cell infected?” The cell leader replied, “The two Falun Dafa practitioners are not.” In June, I was transferred to the provincial women’s prison, and the following September I was released.

When I arrived home, I couldn’t see beyond half a meter and was unable to take care of myself. My son took leave from work to care for me. I extended the length of time I did the exercises and studied the Fa. I did all five sets of exercises at night, and in the morning, I did exercises one to four again. My hands felt light as if they were floating. In the morning, I watched one video of Master’s lectures. In the afternoon, I memorized the Fa, and read Master’s other teachings. My eyesight kept improving, and I felt like a newborn baby. After 20 days, my son saw that I could cook for myself, so he returned to work. Now I can clearly see even the fine print on my rice cooker.

I have been practicing Dafa for over 10 years and embarked on the heavenly path! After countless lifetimes of reincarnation, longing for divine salvation to return to heaven, I finally boarded the Fa boat and set sail home. I am deeply grateful to Master for watching over me lifetime after lifetime, and in every moment of my life. I have no way to repay his compassion except by diligently cultivating, improving myself, saving more people, and fulfilling the vow I made to Master.