(Minghui.org) Greetings, Master! Greetings, fellow practitioners!
I was fortunate to begin reading Zhuan Falun in July 1996. But it took a long time for me to truly practice.
I would share how I gradually learned how to cultivate, improve, and help save people under Master’s compassionate care.
In July 1996, I went to the provincial capital for a meeting. One day during my lunch break, I went for a walk and saw a cart that sold books. I wanted a new book, and the seller handed me a copy of Zhuan Falun. I quickly flipped through it and felt that it was different from any book I had read before, so I bought it.
I finished reading Zhuan Falun the next day, and then had my husband read it. I thought the Fa was very good. However, my husband was dealing with myasthenia gravis at the time, and I had a lot of responsibilities at work. I was very busy, so I didn’t start practicing.
I later gave my copy of Zhuan Falun to a friend who lives elsewhere. She began practicing, but I missed the opportunity.
In early 1997, my family was involved in a car accident. My third sister’s husband died, and my mother passed away five days later. My sister was devastated by this tragedy and sometimes became mentally disoriented. Soon after, someone suggested she practice Falun Dafa, and that July, she and my sixth sister began practicing.
In June 1998, my husband’s condition worsened, and he had to go to Beijing for treatment, I went to my sixth sister’s house in another city to borrow money. While I was there I went to a Falun Dafa study site with my two sisters, and I studied the Fa and practiced the exercises for three days.
Master purified my body. The practice site was less than half a kilometer from my third sister’s house, but I had to go to the toilet several times. I was so happy, because I knew that Master was taking care of me.
My sixth sister helped me obtain a copy of Zhuan Falun, along with several other of Master’s books. She also gave me audiotapes of Master’s lectures and videotapes of the exercises. I bought a high-end mini VCR and listened to Master’s lectures whenever I had free time.
After I returned home, I watched Master’s lectures and exercise instruction videotapes. Within a few months, without even realizing it, all my previous ailments such as pharyngitis and bronchitis vanished. In particular, the partially collapsed right middle lobe of one of my lungs, which I was diagnosed with in the spring of 1983 and had bothered me for over 10 years even with treatment, was healed. A renowned doctor in the provincial capital had told me further treatment was no longer possible, but when my husband was hospitalized for a chest X-ray, I also had one. To my surprise, my right middle lobe had expanded 100 percent. I deeply understand I was blessed because I practiced Falun Dafa.
I’d like to tell how falling down seven times helped me find and eliminate my attachments.
The First Time: A Wake Up Call
In March 2001, I switched from my leadership position to being a staff member in a municipal government agency. I officially retired in 2006. Because I had been immersed in the bustling atmosphere of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) culture during my working years, after I retired, I felt the coldness of human relationships and I found it hard to be idle.
In March 2003, a friend offered me a job as a sales representative for a life insurance company. Because of my outstanding performance, I had three or four travel opportunities every year, which made me very happy and I felt fulfilled. Although I also studied the Fa and practiced the exercises, I didn’t prioritize cultivation. When I studied the Fa and did the exercises, I constantly thought about which person I should contact for insurance. At that time, I was only practicing superficially and I didn’t truly cultivate.
In March 2007 while I was on my way to work, I fell because the road was slippery. My right hand hit the ground, but I didn’t feel much at the time. After I got on the shuttle bus, I noticed our department manager, and when I told her what happened, I burst into tears. The back of my right hand and my right wrist then both swelled up.
After we got off the bus, the department manager immediately took leave and took me to the hospital. An X-ray confirmed a comminuted fracture of my right wrist. The doctor put a cast on my wrist and elbow, prescribed seven days of IV fluids and five bottles of wound dressing. He wanted me to be hospitalized, but I thought there was no need, so I called my second son and asked him to take me home.
My son called a nurse to come and give me IV drips for three days, and I also took medicine three times. On the third night, after thinking it over, I realized something was wrong. After I started to practice Falun Dafa, I threw away a whole drawer full of medicine, so why was I getting injections and taking medicine now? Wasn’t I admitting I was sick?
I told my son, “I’m not going to get injections or take medicine anymore. I’ve started practicing Falun Dafa, and Master is taking care of me, so there won’t be any problems.” After my repeated persuasion, my son finally agreed and removed the cast.
Master said,
“As long as you have them, all of those attachments must be removed in different environments. You will be made to stumble, whereby you will become enlightened to the Tao. This is how you go through cultivation.” (Lecture Four, Zhuan Falun)
I realized that my “happiness” and “fulfillment” stemmed from a strong human attachment, the restlessness of ordinary people who can’t bear loneliness. A cultivator’s life is like a journey, and this world is just a stopover. My loved ones in heaven are waiting for me to return. How can I linger in the comfort of the human world?
After I had these understandings I completed the resignation procedure. In the second half of 2007, I found a Fa study group that I participated in every morning. Soon after, I started a small material production site in my home. I went from being completely computer illiterate to being able to download and printMinghui Weekly and other truth-clarification booklets. Besides meeting my own needs, I could also help fellow practitioners who couldn’t access the internet. I also went out with other practitioners every afternoon to clarify the truth face-to-face. It was Master who arranged this good opportunity to expose my human attachment; it was Master who arranged this for my improvement, and I am extremely grateful.
The Second Incident: Overcoming Tribulations
In April 2010, on my way home after finding a sales assistant for my sister who runs a shop in another city, I suddenly fell flat on my back on the curb because the walkway was covered in snow. I couldn’t get up.
I called a practitioner and asked her to take me home. In my heart, I begged Master, “Master, please let me get up!” I got up just as the practitioner arrived. We called a taxi, but because the pain was so severe, it took me a while to get into it.
When my son and daughter-in-law came home that evening, they wanted to take me to the hospital. I repeatedly dissuaded them, saying, “I know a practitioner whose leg was shattered by the police. It was put in a cast without being set, but she continued to practice the exercises and study the Fa as usual, and she recovered in a short time. Dafa is extraordinary. Master is protecting me, so there will definitely be no problem.”
I calmly studied the Fa, practiced the exercises, and sent forth righteous thoughts to completely negate the interference and persecution by the old forces. One week later, I felt much better, and I was able to download and print Minghui Weekly and truth-clarification booklets again. On May 13, World Falun Dafa Day, I went out to clarify the truth with fellow practitioners. Friends and relatives who knew what happened were all amazed by Dafa’s miraculous power.
The Third Incident: Finding My Fundamental Attachment
In December 2012, because the roads were slippery after a light snowfall, I fell as I got off a bus. I braced myself with my left hand and sat on the ground for several minutes before I got up.
I returned to the rental house where I was living in another city to take care of my grandson who was attending a prestigious high school. I found that the back of my left hand was swollen. Because my son and daughter-in-law both work in government offices and are very busy, I didn’t tell them what happened and I continued to cook for my grandson. The next afternoon, I went out to clarify the truth as usual.
After this fall, I examined myself according to the principles of Falun Dafa. In October, I went to a seafood market with an elderly woman who was accompanying her child to school. She said that live shrimp were highly nutritious, so she bought a pound. I forgot I was a cultivator and I also bought a pound of live shrimp.
Practitioners must not kill. Because my understanding of the Fa was shallow, I didn’t realize this until after I fell. By studying the Fa, I deeply understood that I had committed the grave mistake of killing. This time, the fall didn’t cause serious injuries, but it was a heavy mental burden for me. I was afraid that this act of killing would affect my cultivation and ability to consummate. This also exposed my selfish attachment to whether I would succeed in my cultivation.
My cultivation state was not good even after a long time, as I was trapped in self-blame and regret. By studying the Fa and exchanging my thoughts with fellow practitioners, I realized I had an attachment to achieving consummation. I understood that I had followed the path arranged by the old forces and that this state must be completely negated. I must uphold my righteous faith and cultivate away my selfish attachment to personal consummation.
After more than two years, through intensified Fa study and sending righteous thoughts, and with the care and help of fellow practitioners, my cultivation state improved. I gave away my television, removed the landline phone, and kept only an old-fashioned mobile phone that cannot access the internet. I also bought a new computer and I steadily do the three things every day. I gained more understandings of Dafa and I became diligent.
Seven Falls
I fell like this seven times. I realized that cultivation is about improving one’s heart, and is a process of constantly letting go of various attachments. The first time I fell, I was so scared that I cried; the sixth time I fell, I laughed; and by the seventh time, I could face it calmly. My xinxing improved. With Master’s protection I enlightened to Falun Dafa’s principles.
During this process, I memorized Zhuan Falun three times and copied it three times. I also studied Master’s lectures in different places. Every morning, I went to the group study, and in the afternoon, I went out to clarify the truth and help save people. In the evening, I read fellow practitioners’ sharing articles. While cooking, eating, and doing housework, I also listened to Minghui Radio. It was the principles of Dafa and the sharing of fellow practitioners that strengthened my righteous thoughts. Now, I feel fulfilled and happy every day.
I have stumbled and struggled my way to where I am today. Every step I have taken has been inseparable from Master’s compassionate protection. Bathed in Master's boundless grace, my gratitude is beyond words.
Since 2004, I have worked with fellow practitioners to distribute truth-clarification materials on a large scale. We also use mobile phone voice messages or walkie-talkies to clarify the truth and help save people. In 2008, other practitioners and I went to the streets and alleys to clarify the truth face-to-face and distribute books such as the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party. We also distributed truth-clarification calendars and amulets.
During the COVID pandemic lockdown, I told everyone I met in the community about Dafa. I also visited relatives and friends in the community and gave them truth-clarification booklets and USB drives. After a practitioner gave me four large bags of truth-clarification booklets, I worked with her to distribute them to almost all the residents in the community.
Telling the Facts to Relatives and Friends
I spoke to my relatives and friends first, and most of them withdrew from the CCP organizations. What moved me the most was my cousin, who was then the village Party branch secretary. Before I could finish speaking, he broke in, “I’m quitting using my real name. I know very well what the Party is!”
Another good friend of mine, whom I’ve worked with for 10 years, started to have rectal bleeding last year while on vacation in Hainan. She was diagnosed with colon cancer. During our phone call, I asked her, “Do you remember what I told you before?”
She immediately replied, “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.”
I said, “It’s good that you remember.”
This friend has been blessed. After several check-ups, her condition improved, and her weight returned to normal. Her attending physician (one of the top ten doctors in the country) said, “Your recovery is a miracle!” My friend knows in her heart that Falun Dafa protected her.
“I’ve Finally Met a Practitioner!”
I usually send forth righteous thoughts before I go out to clarify the truth, and I ask Master to send people to me. A few years ago, I took a bus to the suburbs and met a very modest, middle-aged woman.
When I told her the truth about the CCP, she suddenly hugged me and said, “I’ve finally met a practitioner! I read the pamphlets you distributed a few years ago and understood why we should renounce our memberships in the CCP and its affiliated organizations, but I didn’t know how to do it. Thank you! Please help me quit the Youth League and the Young Pioneers!”
“You Look Much Younger”
In August 2025, I met a girl outside a middle school. After I told her the truth about Falun Dafa, she withdrew from the Young Pioneers using her real name and then asked me how old I was.
When I told her I was 81, she said, “You look much younger. You look like you are maybe in your 60s or 70s. What do you do for a living?”
I told her I used to be a teacher and later worked in a government office.
She asked, “What do you teach?”
After hearing I taught middle school math, the girl said, “I’m in my first year of middle school, and I’m first in math in the whole grade. Can you tutor me? I’ll cancel my tutoring classes and have you teach me.”
I told her I hadn’t taught for years, but I gave her a Falun Dafa truth-clarification amulet and told her to remember “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” She thanked me and said she hoped to meet me again in the future.
Two Young Children
One evening in 2025, I was on my way home when I passed a barbecue restaurant and saw two children playing outside, both wearing red scarves around their necks. I talked to them and learned that the boy was in third grade and the girl was in fifth.
I pointed to the boy’s red scarf and said, “When you joined the Young Pioneers, your teacher led you in reciting an oath, saying that the red scarf was dyed with the blood of martyrs. Martyrs are dead, so wearing it is unlucky, a bad omen. If we don’t acknowledge it in our hearts and don’t want it, then the divine will protect us. Do you agree?”
They both said, “Yes!” and told me they wanted to withdraw from the Young Pioneers using their real names.
I’d walked about 35 meters (about 30 yards) whe I looked back before turning a corner, and I saw the little boy kneeling in my direction with his palms pressed together. The little girl stood beside him, also looking in my direction. I quickly went back, helped the little boy up, and said, “We met each other because of a karmic relationship. You are blessed because of the divine. There’s no need for this. Please get up.”
I knew this was his knowing side that knelt to express his gratitude for Falun Dafa’s salvation! Seeing the children’s pure hearts towards Dafa moved me deeply, and I felt profound gratitude from the bottom of my heart because Master compassionately saves all beings.
I have had many touching encounters while clarifying the truth. Those scenes are etched in my memory and have become the driving force on my cultivation path, hastening my efforts to save people.
Of course, in the process of clarifying the truth face-to-face, I have also encountered people who mocked, cursed, and even hit me. But they never swayed me. This is because I deeply understand that these are cultivation opportunities and the process of tempering my heart amidst difficulties. I still have human attachments to overcome, and every day I can improve character. This is cultivation practice.
Looking back on the path I’ve walked in my cultivation over the years, everything I have is a gift from Master. Without Master’s protection, I could do nothing. I am grateful for Master's compassionate protection and salvation!
(Selected submission for the 23rd China Fa Conference on Minghui.org)