(Minghui.org) I began to practice Falun Dafa when I was 50 years old. I am now 80. Being able to cultivate such a great Dafa is the most glorious thing in my life! Before that, I suffered a lot of hardship! After I became a cultivator, my life was filled with joy. My life really changed!
Encountering Dafa
I used to suffer from poor health. I often had the flu and coughed, my joints hurt, and my eyesight was so bad that I had blurred vision.
Life became even harder after I got married. I had three children. My oldest son, Xiao Wei, fell ill for no reason after he came back from sweeping tombs during the Qingming Festival when he was six years old. Luckily, a famous doctor treated him, and he took a turn for the better in the few years after he started working. However, he died unexpectedly of carbon monoxide poisoning, and I was devastated. In the eyes of everyday people, I started behaving almost like a lunatic.
A friend came to my house one day, saw me in that state, and, without mincing words, said, “You are torturing yourself. You need to get out and see people. Starting tomorrow morning on, you can come with me to do exercises. Okay?” I did not even reply.
After some time, she came to see again and said, “Many people are doing a practice that benefits your health. It is called Falun Gong, and those who practice it cultivate Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance. It has miraculous effects on healing illnesses. Do you want to go?” I turned her down again.
A few days later, I suddenly thought I’d get up early, go to the square, and see if the Falun Gong that my friend had mentioned was really that good. At 6 a.m., I headed out to the square. Along the way, I met lots of people going to exercise together in groups. After reaching the square, I saw that there were a variety of groups of people doing exercises, including those who practiced various kinds of qigong.
Without knowing exactly where to go, I walked over to one group at random. A woman saw me, stopped doing her exercises, smiled, and said, “We are practicing Falun Gong. It is a universal Dafa that teaches people to cultivate Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance and become kind people. As long as we cultivate ourselves based on the requirement of Dafa, Master Li will help us to adjust our bodies and the healing effects are very obvious.”
A Joyful Experience Cultivating Falun Dafa
After I encountered Falun Gong, amazing things kept happening, and I experienced joyous and wonderful things.
That first morning I encountered Dafa, I listened to a practitioner’s brief introduction and then followed along to learn the five exercises. As I started learning the movements, I felt energy around my body. When I moved my hands up and down in the third exercise (chong guan) for the first time, I felt the energy around my body intensify and rotate. Whether my hands were moving singly or together, there was an obvious floating feeling in my body, and I felt so comfortable and wonderful.
The second time I did the up and down movement with both hands, something miraculous happened. The power of the movements lifted my whole body up off the ground. I felt like I was standing over a foot above the ground, floating in mid-air. My hands did the up and down movements together about four times before I returned to the ground. The whole episode lasted more than a minute. I thought, “This practice is so great. I should have listened to my friend and come here earlier. I will definitely cultivate and do it well.”
There were several flowerpots at my front door. A year after I started to cultivate, several practitioners came to my house one day. While they were admiring the flowers, they discovered tiny white flowers blooming on a pink orchid cactus. One practitioner said, “Isn’t this the udumbara flower that only blooms once in 3000 years? This is great. This is really a great joy!” Excited, I said, “It is Master encouraging us to cultivate Dafa solidly.”
Winter came and I moved the flower pot inside. I put it on the shelf under Master’s portrait. I offered incense to Master, studied the Fa, and did the exercises in this room every day.
One late night the following spring, I became exceptionally calm and very quickly entered a state of deep stillness when I was doing the meditation. After entering that state of stillness, I saw an amazing scene with my celestial eye. Master wore a yellow kasaya and came out of his portrait. He floated over to that flower pot to admire the blooming udumbara flowers. Being in a deep state of stillness, I was very excited and shouted in my mind, “I saw Master, I saw Master! Thank you, Master, for your benevolent salvation. Thank you, Master! Thank you, Dafa!”
Cultivating Myself After I Suffered a Loss
My parents had opened an inn with money that they had saved through hard work before 1949 [the year that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) seized power], so we did not have to worry about food, clothing, daily necessities, and housing. Because it was an inn, apart from the furniture, we had vases, calligraphy, and paintings. We also had valuable antiques, old coins, the family tree, and other memorable items.
A few years ago, I came to live in the big city while my youngest son stayed in our old house in my hometown. It was almost the Chinese New Year when he called to say that he had moved to a new house. It was only then that I remembered to ask him, “Did you keep the furniture, antiques, old coins, and family tree from the old house?”
He replied, “Those things don’t have much use, so I asked the movers to take them all away.” That really upset me. In my mind, those were things that the older generation had left behind so they were precious. How could we not want them anymore? How could we let someone else take them? I was so angry that my hands and legs went numb, and I couldn’t speak. I only said, “Son, that is such a huge thing. Why didn’t you call and tell me about it? You’ve really made me angry!”
I started to sulk over it. I locked myself at home, did not leave, refused to talk to anybody, and never let anyone know where I was going. I was so upset that I did not feel like eating and vomited whatever I did. I got so weak that I could not sit up and even became bedridden. I started to feel cold all over and my head felt dizzy, as though the whole world was turning. I could not move and simply could not get out of bed. I had to study the Fa every day. Initially, I could not get the Fa into my head no matter how I tried. After that, I had no strength to hold the book, so I listened to Master’s recorded lectures. However, there still seemed to be something keeping me from absorbing the Fa. During the last few days when my health deteriorated, I just listened to the Fa as I slept.
It was 10 days later that I recalled what Master said:
“Not only you, but also many Western millionaires and wealthy people have discovered that there is nothing left after death. Material wealth does not come with birth, and neither will it go with you after death—it is very hollow.” (Lecture Nine, Zhuan Falun)
My mind cleared up a lot, and I truly realized that I was a cultivator so I should not be attached to those things. When I realized that, my whole body felt so relaxed. I'd overcome the attachment!
That very day, just as the sun was setting, a young female practitioner came knocking on my door. I struggled to get out of bed to open it. My appearance frightened her, and she said, “What did you do? Why are you so thin?” I just said, “I want to eat some porridge. Can you go to the market and buy me some Napa cabbage while I cook some porridge?” That night, I ate half a small bowl of Napa cabbage porridge. My health was restored, as though nothing had happened. Everything went back to normal.
Clarifying the Truth and Saving People
Over the past over 20 years, I’ve been handing out Dafa information wherever I go, whether I’ve been in my hometown or this big city. That has been the primary way I’ve carried out my historic mission to assist Master in saving sentient beings. I have also removed slanderous slogans, hung truth-clarification posters, and put up truth-clarification stickers.
Rural areas are vast and sparsely populated. When we go to the villages to distribute materials, we usually do it in pairs. We would start off from the county town at night and return to the county town the next morning. My partner and I agreed about where we would start going our separate ways and where we would meet after that. Then we would either walk or take public transportation and return to the city together.
One morning after I’d finished distributing my brochures, I went to the meeting place at the agreed time, but she wasn’t there. I went to look for her and saw her at someone’s door just as the owner was opening it. When he saw she was giving out Falun Dafa information, he caught hold of her and wouldn’t let her go. He said, “I am a police officer in charge of handling Falun Gong affairs.”
Seeing what was happening, I quickly headed her way, sending righteous thoughts at the same time to not allow a bad person to do wrong. The man loosened his grip to make a phone call, but no one answered. The moment he relaxed his grip, I sent righteous thoughts toward him to make him immobile and grabbed my fellow practitioner, saying, “Let’s go! Go!” And we escaped .
There were also times when I went to villages by myself. Often after I finished distributing materials, I could not figure out where I was. But after I calmed down, I would see a public road straight ahead or someone would appear in front of me so that I could ask for directions. Once after I finished distributing materials, I really did not know where I was. I begged Master in my heart for help. Just then, a woman suddenly appeared not far away. When I asked her for directions, she said, “That’s where I’m going. We can go together!” I thanked her, and we headed off together.
Slanderous slogans often appear where many people pass by, such as schools, hospitals, communities, on the way to the county government, and near public security bureaus and police stations. They mislead the public and poison people’s minds, so whenever we discover such slogans, we remove them. We either cooperate and work together or do it individually. We usually go there in the day to observe the situation before we go to get rid of them in the middle of the night.
We were having group Fa study when a practitioner mentioned that there were three places on the way to the county government where slanderous slogans were being put up. After the Fa study ended, we discussed how to remove them at night. In the end, we managed to remove them all.
After coming to the big city, distributing truth-clarification materials, removing slanderous slogans, and hanging truth-clarification posters has become easier. As the number of surveillance cameras increased, I paid special attention to studying the Fa and sending righteous thoughts before I left the house to do these things.
All this while, I have been able to keep up with distributing truth-clarification materials and assisting Master to save sentient beings.
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