(Minghui.org) I’d like to share a recent cultivation experience on introducing Falun Dafa to people on a cruise. This is to report to benevolent great Master and also share with fellow practitioners so that we can cultivate diligently together.
A few months ago, I took a long vacation with my husband on a cruise trip. Before the trip, I set out a plan for myself, which was to study one lecture ofZhuan Falun every day, study Master’s other lectures, and complete the five exercises every day.
Every room on the cruise ship has a transparent letterbox, which is the main way for the ship’s management to convey messages to passengers. The day we boarded, I put a Chinese Falun Dafa introductory flyer and a Shen Yun introductory flyer in the letterbox, hoping that passersby would see them and take them. When I did the exercises on deck, I would occasionally hear tourists who spoke Cantonese or Taiwanese-accented Chinese whispering as they passed by, “That is Falun Gong” or “She is practicing Falun Gong.”
Gradually, the relaxed and joyful environment on the cruise nurtured and enlarged my hidden attachments to comfort and laziness, and I was less and less diligent about sticking to my initial plan.
On the afternoon of the day we reached Easter Island, someone knocked on our door. Only the housekeepers had ever knocked on the door before and never any other passengers. When I opened the door, I saw a beautiful Japanese woman pointing to the Shen Yun flyer in the letterbox without saying anything.
I saw that the name tag she was wearing was in Japanese, but I don’t know how to read Japanese. I said in Chinese, “Shen Yun will go to Taiwan in March and April. You can see it there.” After that, she pointed to the Falun Dafa flyer. I did not wait for her to reply and said, “Yes, many performers in Shen Yun practice Falun Dafa.” She looked very excited and asked, “Are you a practitioner?” I replied, “Yes! I am a Dafa practitioner!” She said, “Can we have dinner together tonight? I met another Japanese practitioner (Banzai) on Easter Island just now.”
Ayumi was a member of the crew. She told me, “My Japanese manager asked me if I was the one who had put the Falun Dafa introductory materials between some of the books in the library. It wasn’t me and I said so, but then I was very excited because I knew that there must be a Dafa practitioner on board.” She sent out a thought, “I want to find this Dafa practitioner and promote the Fa and clarify the truth with him or her.”
I asked Ayumi how she met Banzai. She said, “On Easter Island, Banzai told me about a familiar website and gave me a small card with the website address.” Through this encounter, they realized that they were fellow practitioners.
That was how the four of us met! Together, we planned a series of activities to clarify the truth to the passengers on board.
After the ship’s crew learned that Ayumi practiced Falun Dafa, they told her that she could promote Falun Dafa on board but advised her not to write out the three principles (Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance) because the ship was owned by the children of a rich Chinese and the tour company rented the ship from them.
We decided to teach the exercises in the aerobics classroom for an hour every evening. New people joined every night. One time, over 30 people learned the exercises all at once. Around 10 people came regularly to learn and practice the exercises. Most of them were Japanese.
When newcomers came to learn the exercises, we first clarified the truth to them individually. There were not many tourists from Hong Kong on board, but the ratio of Hong Kong tourists who came to learn the exercises was very high. When we started to explain the facts about Dafa to them, they all said that they already understood, because Falun Dafa practitioners raised awareness in Hong Kong everywhere. Taiwanese also came to learn the exercises. People in Taiwan all know about Falun Dafa, because they often see Dafa practitioners doing the exercises in the parks near their homes early in the morning.
An older woman from Thailand came to learn the exercises. On the first day, she couldn’t stand and had to sit in a chair. The next day, she was already able to stand to learn the third exercise. On the third day, she did not need a chair anymore. After everyone had left that night, she asked us why Falun Dafa was so amazing. Before learning about Falun Dafa, she could not hold still with her hands together even for five minutes. However, she was able to persist an hour every day for three days when she came to learn the Falun Dafa exercises. She was even able to stand without any discomfort. That was really amazing!
A Japanese woman said that her limbs had been cold, making it hard for her to fall asleep at night. However, after learning the exercises, she was able to sleep very well that night.
There was also a woman from Taiwan who had practiced other traditional exercises. As she was doing the second exercise, she felt a big ball turning between her arms. She wanted to feel it, so she pressed on it lightly, and her hand bounced back. She did this twice and the same thing happened both times.
Another woman, who had meditated for over 10 years, said that her qi energy would sometimes get stuck somewhere and could not pass through while she was meditating. What amazed her was that, when she was practicing Falun Dafa’s fifth exercise for the first time, the qi in her whole body flowed very smoothly and she felt exceptionally strong energy. She had many amazing experiences!
Benevolent Master adjusted the bodies of these people with affinity.
We also held a lecture with simultaneous translation in Chinese and Japanese to share our cultivation stories. About 70 passengers from different countries came to the talk. We started by telling everyone that our meeting was due to a Shen Yun introductory flyer on the ship. We then talked about our passion for the Shen Yun performances and gave a brief introduction of Shen Yun. Ayumi talked about how she had cultivated with her parents in China when she was young. After the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started to persecute Falun Dafa in 1999, her father was persecuted and detained. After that, they escaped and immigrated to Japan. I also shared how I benefited from cultivating Falun Dafa over the past two decades. My husband talked about how he started to cultivate after learning about the CCP’s forced organ harvesting from Falun Dafa practitioners.
After the talk, some passengers who knew us and spoke Chinese came over to express their agreement and said that they wanted to learn Falun Dafa, too. One day, I was having a meal in a restaurant at the same table with a Japanese doctor. He had been one of our frequent attendees for the exercise sessions at night. As he was immediately able to do the full lotus position during his first meditation session, and he was also able to meditate for a long time, I had a deep impression of him. He said that he has been practicing Zen meditation for 10 years. Ten years ago, his stomach was removed due to cancer. That day, he also attended the talk. He said, “If I had been able to encounter Falun Dafa earlier, I would have my stomach intact.”
As long as we have the wish to save people, Master will bring people with affinity to us to listen to our truth-clarification. The experience on the cruise this time left me with a deep experience about the power of believing in Master and the Fa and also the urgency of connecting with sentient beings who are longing to learn about Dafa. As a truly cultivating practitioner, we definitely do not want to let our attachment to comfort stop us from saving people when our environment becomes more relaxed. Sentient beings are all waiting to be saved!
Thank you, benevolent great Master!