(Minghui.org) I have practiced Falun Dafa for 20 years and am pleased to share my experiences during the 22nd China Fa Conference on Minghui.org.
I started to practice in early 2006. By that time, the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Partyhad been published for over a year. Realizing the importance of helping people know the facts, another practitioner in the family and I worked together on this. Everyone on my side of the family, over 20 people in all, renounced their memberships in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) organizations, including the Party itself, the Youth League, and the Young Pioneers.
I knew I needed to clarify the truth to my husband’s side of the family. I visited them only once a year, so I wasn’t sure how to talk to them. Practitioners have a project where they send automated calls with prerecorded messages, so I sent these messages to them. Then I invited another practitioner to call each one. But none of them agreed to quit the CCP organizations. I knew I had to explain to them in person how important it is to quit the CCP.
Fortunately, one of my husband’s sisters was hosting a party. I put together packets of DVDs, software to overcome the internet blockade, and copies of a short letter. I decided to talk to them individually and started with my husband’s two nephews. It went well, and they readily quit the CCP. With confidence, I then approached two of his nieces.
Both nieces are government officials, and I’d tutored them for free in the past. Influenced by the CCP’s persecution policy, one of them dared not say anything but quietly agreed; the other was reluctant initially, although she agreed in the end. I plan to tell them more in the future so that they’ll fully understand the current situation.
Talking to people my age was much easier, including my husband’s siblings and their spouses. No one objected, probably because they had heard the facts on the prerecorded messages, or they’d witnessed my positive changes. After I began practicing Falun Dafa, I became nicer and more considerate. They also accepted the Dafa materials I brought.
They received blessings later on. One niece had lymphoma, and she had to sell her apartment to cover the medical expenses. Her health improved significantly after she quit the CCP organizations. My nephew and his wife had successful careers after they severed ties with the CCP. They then had two children, a boy and a girl. No one on my husband’s side of the family is out of job or in debt.
I used to lead a teaching and research team before I retired, so my former colleagues respected me. They withdrew from the CCP organizations without any problem. One of them is Fen, a good friend of mine. Shortly after we began to chat, I mentioned Falun Dafa and the persecution. She understood the situation and asked me to help her entire family quit the CCP organizations. I told her that they had to agree, and she said she would confirm it with them. She later told me her husband was reluctant to agree.
Fen lives near me, and I ran into her and her husband on the street one day. After chatting with them, her husband agreed to quit. Her entire family quit the CCP organizations over 20 years ago, and Fen’s family has benefited tremendously. They made money selling several apartment units. Their daughter and son-in-law went abroad and then had two children. The entire family seems content.
Qing divorced her husband after a fight, but she later regretted it. When I talked with her about renouncing the CCP, she immediately agreed. She also helped her son, her daughter, and a friend quit the CCP organizations. She and her husband remarried, and their children have good jobs.
Rong, another coworker, quit the CCP organizations after I talked with her and so did her daughter. Rong’s performance at work was average, but she was promoted to “senior professional” earlier than others more qualified. Her pension is also high because of a pay raise right before she retired. Rong told me she was amazed.
Two other coworkers, Gang and Jian, had heard about Falun Dafa from me from time to time. When practitioners outside of China called to encourage them to quit the CCP organizations, both of them agreed.
There are many stories like this. By the time I retired, most of my coworkers and friends had severed ties with the CCP. They also agreed that the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance are good.
People really like class reunions. I’ve attended more than 10 elementary school, secondary school, and college reunions, including 30-year and 40-year reunions.
I always find opportunities to tell people about Falun Dafa and the persecution. I used to be a student officer and made good grades, so others liked me and they are surprised that I practice Falun Dafa. It was natural to move the topic in this direction. Especially when we take group photos or made toasts, it’s easy for my former classmates to quit the CCP organizations. One said, “Many people have talked with me about it in the past, but I never agreed. I trust you and I will say yes today.”
Many years have passed since we graduated, and some classmates are directors, Party secretaries of the Discipline Inspection Commission, chief physicians, principals, and schoolteachers. I am grateful to Master Li (Falun Dafa’s founder) for giving me these opportunities to help people learn the facts and be saved.
For our 50-year reunion, the organizing committee planned some performances. They did not involve me in the planning because they said they couldn’t reach me by phone. On the day of the event, I noticed the agenda listed two pro-CCP songs that were popular during the Cultural Revolution: one was a solo and the other was a group song. My classmates had already quit the CCP organizations. Why would they do something like this, I wondered.
I went to the classmates who were going to sing the group song and explained my concern. They agreed to drop that song. Then I went to the soloist and told the her the song she was scheduled to sing was based the CCP’s propaganda. She also understood and decided not to sing that song. I was happy for them.
After I retired, I no longer paid my Party dues. According to the Party constitution, anyone who doesn’t pay their dues for six months is automatically expelled. But after I sued former CCP leader Jiang Zemin for persecuting Falun Dafa in 2016, officials started to harass me. They demanded I pay my Party dues and criticized me during a campus-wide conference.
Knowing this was a major test, I remained calm and wrote letters to the principal, Party secretary of the school, Party secretary of the Retirement Association, and 610 Office director. I told them the benefits of Dafa, refuted the CCP’s slanderous propaganda, and exposed the persecution, including the forced organ harvesting.
The next day, the Party secretary of the Retirement Association thanked me for the letter and said she would retire soon. After that, no one asked me to pay Party dues.
Besides family, friends, and relatives, I go out with other practitioners to tell people the facts about Dafa. One middle-age man was very interested. He asked many questions and wanted to learn the exercises. We talked for more than an hour.
I spoke to a well-dressed, middle-aged businesswoman. When I mentioned renouncing her membership in the CCP organizations, she said, “I once saw an internal video about June 4, 1989. The CCP’s People’s Liberation Army opened fire on the students, and there were rivers of blood. After that, I stopped paying Party dues.” She was glad that I could help her quit the CCP organizations.
A man I met at a park said he’d seen Master Li during a nine-day lecture series in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province. “I worked there,” he explained. He recalled those happy days and asked for Dafa books to read.
Some experiences made me nervous. At a bus station, I noticed a man looking at me, and he said he’d been watching me for a while. After I talked with a few people about Dafa and was ready to leave, he grabbed me and said, “I know who you are. I know what you are doing. I worked for the Political and Legal Affairs Committee (PLAC), but I am retired. Now I know what you practitioners are really doing. Please be careful.”
I was very moved.
Another time, I met a man who was exercising and told him to remember “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.”
“Are you still practicing that?” he asked.
I didn’t know how to answer. He then asked if I had ever seen Mr. Li Hongzhi, and I said I hadn’t.
“If you ever do, please say hello to him for me,” he said.
I was relieved and talked to him about quitting the CCP. He agreed.
I argued with my husband. Afterward, when I went out to talk to people about Dafa, someone wanted to report me to the police. Fortunately, I was able to escape. Another time, I failed the test of lust. When I was asking people to quit the CCP, an old man wanted my phone number. Looking back, it seems these incidents were all related to my attachments.
To change this situation, I spend more time reading Zhuan Falun, doing the exercises, and sending forth righteous thoughts. It helps a lot. Right now, very few people respond negatively, and the number of people quitting the CCP organizations has been increasing.
One time I met a veteran who’d joined the CCP about 60 years ago. His daughter is a practitioner, but he hadn’t renounced his Party membership. He knew Dafa was good, but he did not want to quit the CCP because he had been affiliated with it for so long.
I told him how the CCP has harmed the Chinese people in its numerous political campaigns and why staying with the regime would lead to dire consequences when the CCP is held responsible and must pay for the sins it has committed. He agreed and thanked me for helping him.
These are my personal experiences. Please point out anything inconsistent with Dafa’s teachings.
(Selected submission for the 22nd China Fa Conference on Minghui.org)