Young Adult Falun Dafa Practitioner: Doing the Three Things Well Wherever We Go

(Minghui.org) I am a young Dafa practitioner who obtained the Fa in 2008 when I was in high school. I had actually already heard of Dafa before the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) persecution began in 1999. My neighbor had told me that her aunt cultivated Falun Dafa and that it had miraculous powers to help people to regain their health. She also said that her aunt could teach me. My health was poor at that time, and I had been wanting to learn the practice, but her aunt never came to teach me.

I later saw the CCP-staged self-immolation incident on television. The scary scenes made me feel relieved that I did not learn the practice, as I was misled by the evil Party’s lies. However, by chance, a junior high school teacher, who also practiced Falun Dafa, clarified the truth to me, and I agreed to quit the CCP and its affiliated organizations. I read the truth-clarification booklets and a few pages of the Dafa book and learned a few of the exercise movements. I had the impression that Dafa practitioners were rather good people and that Dafa was good.

When I was in high school, I wanted to move to another dorm after getting into a conflict with a classmate. Coincidentally, I learned there was a Dafa practitioner near the school, and I begged to be allowed stay at that practitioner’s house. The conflict with my classmate had caused me to become a bit depressed, so even though I stared with my eyes wide open in class, I still could not absorb a word from the teacher into my mind. I felt anxious about this, but I had no solution. This Dafa practitioner suggested that I look at the precious book Zhuan Falun. I did not hesitate and took her suggestion. The result was really great. Despite the stress of my high school studies, I was still able to finish reading all of Zhuan Falun in my spare time in about three days.

The part that moved me the most was:

“It is an ordinary person’s motto that one should live to prove one’s point or save face. Think about it, everyone: Living to prove one’s point or to save face—isn’t it tiring? Isn’t it painful? Is it worthwhile?” (Lecture Nine, Zhuan Falun)

Master’s teaching changed my worldview. Since I was young, I had always thought that a person’s purpose in life was to prove one’s point or save face, and that this was very natural. However, Master said in his lecture that this is not worthwhile, and I was deeply moved by that.

By studying the Fa, my previous outlook on life and values changed. I became a different person, who was no longer aggressive, competitive, or petty. When my classmate accidentally bumped into me, I no longer lost my temper. I was also able to concentrate and pay attention in class. In the past, I could not understand physics or astronomy, but now I could. By studying the Fa and doing the exercises, I improved my ranking from being around 30th in the class to the second highest. My head teacher smiled when she saw me. My rhinitis, headaches, and period pain all went away, too.

The practitioner provided a good cultivation environment for me, and I often studied the Fa with her. I knew that Dafa practitioners needed to clarify the truth, and I also had the wish to do so. Due to fear, however, I could not speak well. Only a few people that I spoke to were willing to quit the CCP and its youth organizations. Many classmates told me to be mindful of my safety. Despite this, the classmate who shared the same table with me fully agreed with me and even followed me to my dorm to watch the Shen Yun DVD (that was allowed to be distributed in China during that time) and learned the meditation.

When I returned home on the weekends, I also did not dare to clarify the truth, as the persecution was so serious. However, my mother asked me why I no longer held my breath when I was sleeping. She said that I used to pant and breathe heavily when I was sleeping in the past, due to rhinitis, so I could not sleep well. I was now sleeping well throughout the night. It was only then that I learned that I used to sleep like that due to rhinitis. I relaxed and told her that I had started cultivating Falun Dafa.

To my surprise, my mother said, “Is it so miraculous? In that case, I will not learn anything else in the future. I will just learn Falun Dafa.” She studied more than ten pages of Zhuan Falun with me, but gave up due to my dad’s objections. Maybe because my mother had that wish to study the Fa at that time, Master did not give up on her. Now, through a relative’s introduction, she has started reading the book again. She has already read Zhuan Falun many times.

Since the day I obtained the Fa, I resolved to cultivate in Falun Dafa to the end, for my entire life. My father tried to make me give it up, gsayin that it would “affect my studies,” but I overcame that hurdle. He later said, “Since you have already started on that path, I am not going to say anything more.” He no long tried to stop me after that.

My dad started to see the changes I had gone through, and thus understood that Dafa was good. He even watched New Tang Dynasty Television programs and Nine Commentaries on Communist Party videos. He knows that the CCP is evil and agreed to quit the Communist Youth League. Once, someone made trouble for my father. I did not maintain my xinxing, and complained about that person. My father actually said, “Don’t you practice Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance?” I was so ashamed of myself, but also felt comforted to see the change in my father.

I steadily progressed through high school and finally managed to enter a university with a score that was about one hundred points higher than my previous score. After entering the university, there were no practitioners around me. For the first month, I felt a little dejected and had many thoughts that did not belong to a cultivator. A matter that left the deepest impression on me was that when I attended the first department gathering, all my classmates were drinking alcoholic beverages and wanted to make a toast to the teachers. The teachers also returned the toasts. As I did not drink, I seemed to be quite different from the others, so I just nibbled or drank and spat it out. But it did not feel right.

During the break, I shared my thoughts with the practitioner. She said that she happened to hear about a matter recently. A male practitioner returned from overseas and attended a gathering with friends. As he used to be a person who loved eating, drinking, playing, and doing everything, everyone was surprised when he suddenly said that he no longer drank. When his best friend, who had rushed over from another province, replaced his drink with beer, the practitioner changed it back after realizing it. His friend was very unhappy and asked him, “Are you going to drink this glass of beer today? If not, we will end our friendship.” The practitioner replied calmly, “I am cultivating Falun Dafa. Master said that we should not drink, so I really cannot drink. If we are really going to end our friendship over a glass of beer, that just proves that our friendship was not deep enough.” His friend left angrily after that meal.

His friend unexpectedly called him in the middle of the night, and said, “You used to eat, drink, and have fun, but now, because of Falun Dafa, you are actually able to really abstain from drinking. I was very curious, so I looked up the recordings of Master Li’s lectures that someone had given me in the past. I listened to them and found that they are really great. Please teach me the exercises. I need to rush for a flight to return tomorrow morning.” This practitioner thus rushed to his friend’s place to teach him the exercises. His friend left the next day, satisfied (This is just a rough description of the incident as it happened a long time ago, so it may not be totally accurate).

After hearing this story, I suddenly saw the light. I felt that this was Master’s arrangement to help me pass the test. I no longer drank after this, even a bit, no matter what event I attended. As I had more spare time at the university, I studied Master’s lectures while my classmates were chatting or watching movies. Because I studied the Fa more, I really became more magnanimous and tolerant from the bottom of my heart. Winter is very cold in northern China, so my classmates did not feel like going out to buy their meals, so I went out to buy them. When I went out to get water, I got four pails of hot water in one go for everyone to share. When the classmates got into conflicts, I helped to resolve them. When a close friend told me that someone had talked badly about me behind my back, I did not take it to heart and still treated that person nicely. When we were about to graduate and everyone was looking for a job, many students started fighting with one another due to the stress. One older girl even specifically reminded me to be careful not to get into a conflict with any classmates during this sensitive period. However, there were no conflicts in my dorm when we were about to graduate. Before graduation, I clarified the truth to many classmates in my dorm and persuaded them to quit the CCP. A few of them agreed to quit, and a classmate who was very influential in the dorm even said, “The CCP is about to collapse.” She also showed me bills with truth-clarification words that she got.

While at the university, there was another matter that left a deep impression on me. A teacher often said some things that maligned Dafa in her class. I felt so pained to attend her class, even more pained than if she had said bad things about me, because I am a beneficiary of the practice. I was afraid to attend her class, as she often said things to malign Dafa in most of her classes.

I knew that I should clarify the truth to this teacher, but under the persecution at that time, if the teacher did not understand the truth, I could face expulsion from school, or even be sent to jail. Despite this, I thought that I should clarify the truth to her no matter what. I thought of writing a letter to her, but due to fear, I kept dragging the matter out. It was only during the last classes with her before our graduation that I thought that I must write that letter.

The sky was so dark that day that it was like nightfall, and thunder kept sounding. The students in the dorm were chatting very loudly, so I could not concentrate on writing. But if I were to head to the classroom, it looked like rain was going to pour down at any time. I took out a book and was preparing to go when my classmates all persuaded me not to go, saying that it would rain soon. I was determined, and told them, and also myself, that there was no problem, and I must go today, no matter what.

I sat in the classroom and wrote to the teacher with a calm and “totally for her good” attitude. After completing the letter, I discovered that there had been no rain at all, and the thunder had also stopped. I later realized that these phenomena were actually created by the evil, attempting to stop me from writing the truth-clarification letter. In another dimension, it may have also been a battle between good and evil.

The next day before class, I handed the letter to the teacher. When we attended her class after this, the teacher proceeded with her lecture like normal, but she no longer mentioned Dafa. I was grateful for Master’s empowerment with righteous thoughts to help me overcome my fear so I could do what I should do.

After graduating from the university, I started a tuition class, then went to work in many places, including Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei Province. After marrying my husband, I came to Shandong Province. However, no matter where I went, I could find practitioners and do the three things that Master requires of us. While clarifying the truth, there were a few near misses. Once was when I went to distribute Shen Yun DVDs with a fellow practitioner (this was allowed in China at the time). We met a group of people and I handed one to the person at the rear. However, he said loudly, “Isn’t this Falun Gong?” Sometimes it seems that whatever you are scared of comes your way. Hearing that, the people in front of him all turned back to see. Just then, someone said to me, “Leave quickly. Otherwise I will ask the police to come and catch you.”

I was not scared. I smiled and said, “We used our own money to share the world’s best show with everyone. Why are you calling the police? I did not do anything that is against the law.” Hearing this, he no longer had anything to say, and everyone just stood there in a daze, as though time had frozen. A person then broke the silence and said, “I want a copy. This is not poison. I will watch it.” I gave him a copy, and following that, everyone voluntarily accepted a copy, except the one who had wanted to call the police. He also did not leave. I walked up to him and said, “Please take a copy back to watch.” He accepted it in embarrassment and left quietly. This incident, which seemed like a bad incident actually became a good one under Master’s empowerment.

Another time was when I joined the movement to file a complaint against Jiang Zemin, the former CCP head, for his role in the persecution of Falun Gong. The CCP staff visited my father. My father thus called me and gave me a big scolding. At that time, he scolded me so badly that I lost my righteous thoughts and planned to break up with my boyfriend, so as not to implicate him, and also to quit my job, so as not to implicate my boss. My boyfriend objected and my boss told me that no matter what happened, I should just treat it as though nothing had happened, and do what I should do. I later thought that this must have been Master’s benevolent hint. I started having righteous thoughts and called my father. I said, “Whoever asks you about me, tell him to look for me. I did not do anything that is against the law, so what he is doing is a kind of harassment of civilians.” When my father heard that, he was no longer as scared and angry as before. He later called me and said, “There is no problem now. We will just tell them we cannot find you. We must protect you.”

There was another time when I went out to clarify the truth with a practitioner in Shandong Province. I was still unable to open my mouth due to fear, so I could only watch the two other practitioners clarify the truth to people separately. In my heart, I begged Master, “Master, I also want to clarify the truth.” Just then, a man who seemed to be around 40 years old came by. I plucked up my courage and spoke to him. He was very willing to listen and even asked me to tell him more, saying that he had seen the flyers in the past, but there were not so many nowadays. After hearing me introduce the practice, he even wanted to read the Dafa book. As we were near a practitioner’s house, I thought of going there to get a book for him. This would take half an hour, and he thought that was too long, and he didn’t want to wait. When I said 15 minutes, he agreed. I ran quickly to fetch the book for him.

After I came overseas, I initially felt very troubled because I could not find other practitioners. After nearly three months, I finally found some, but they were so different from what I had expected. I thought that there would be lots of group exercise sessions, promotion activities, and group study sessions abroad. However, there were few practitioners in my area, so group exercises and promotion were only done once a week. I thought that since I had come to this relaxed environment, I wanted to do what I should do. I thus persisted in doing the exercises outdoors by myself every day. After completing the exercises, I distributed flyers to people nearby, and almost everyone accepted the flyers.

Gradually, more and more practitioners joined the exercises, so we hung up a banner worded “Falun Dafa is good” and placed display boards by the roadside. There have also been times when the practitioners were busy and could not come. I persisted with one thought, “I will come every day.” Four or five practitioners now do the morning exercises together every day. Some of them come from far away, but they still persist in doing so every day. The display boards that we use are often read by passersby. Some people take photos of us while we are doing the exercises, and sometimes passersby come over to learn the exercises, ask for more information, or take flyers. I thank these fellow practitioners for their selfless cooperation.

I want to be more diligent in my cultivation, study the Fa with more concentration, and truly assimilate to the Fa.