My Cultivation Over the Past Three Decades

(Minghui.org) I’m 82 years old, and I’ve practiced Falun Dafa (Falun Gong) for 30 years. Time flies. During this process of continuously validating Dafa and doing the three things well, everything I have achieved is due to Master’s protection, encouragement, and blessings.

My peaceful and prosperous life is a gift from Master. He is the one who has saved the sentient beings to whom I have clarified the truth.

My Illnesses Disappear

I used to suffer from nephritis, which caused hematuria, as well as hepatitis and heart disease. Sometimes my heart beat so fast that I couldn’t even wash the dishes. I was hospitalized for six months, but my illnesses weren’t cured. A specialist said that medication and injections wouldn’t help and suggested I drink ginseng tea for my anemia. I also tried several types of qigong, but all in vain.

When I visited my neighbor during the 1995 Chinese New Year, her mother-in-law suggested I practice Falun Gong. She also told me Master was saving people. When I heard this, I was amazed and wanted to practice. My elderly neighbors were practitioners, and they showed me how to do the exercises. The husband also helped me to get a copy of Zhuan Falun.

Dafa is truly miraculous. Even though I was illiterate, Master opened up my wisdom so that I could read Dafa books. By studying the Fa, doing the exercises, and improving my xinxing, all my ailments were resolved. During the day, I went with practitioners to parks and other nearby places to do the exercises and tell people about Dafa. At night, I joined different Fa study groups, both big and small. In Dafa’s peaceful environment, every practitioner was so kind, we were like family. It was such a pure land!

Validating Falun Dafa Despite the Persecution

Former Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Jiang Zemin launched the persecution of Falun Dafa on July 20, 1999. Our peaceful cultivation environment was undermined. Practitioners discussed what happened. We knew that Dafa was righteous, so we decided to go to Beijing to stand up for Dafa and clarify the facts to the government. We just wanted to tell those in power how we benefited from Dafa.

A group of us piled into a car and headed to Beijing to speak up for Falun Dafa. However, we were intercepted by local police officers and detained overnight. Then our families had to come get us.

I thought this Fa was so wonderful, if they didn’t allow us to practice, then I’d just practice at home. At that time, I was babysitting my grandchild. Other practitioners talked with me and asked me to step forward to validate Dafa. So we waited until it was dark, and after I put my grandchild to bed, we went out together to put up truth-clarification stickers and banners and hand out brochures. As other kinds of truth-clarification materials became available, we began to hand them out.

Back then, the situation was very tense. We frequently heard of practitioners being illegally arrested. One practitioner was arrested and detained for over three months simply for putting up a sticky note that read, “Falun Dafa is good!”

I maintained this righteous thought: “This Dafa that I cultivate is absolutely righteous. Since I’ve benefited from it, I want to help other people learn the truth, so they won’t be deceived by the CCP.” With Master’s blessings and protection, I made it through the initial period of the persecution.

Master mentioned in his lectures that every practitioner in China needed to step forward to clarify the facts to people, but I wasn’t sure what to say. When I first started, it was very hard. There were no other local practitioners so I went out by myself.

There were so many people at the market, I wondered how should I start. I thought: “Since I am already here, I might as well say something.” I started by telling people how wonderful Dafa is, the fact that it is here to save people, and that they shouldn’t be deceived by the CCP’s propaganda. I talked to 15 people, and I saw the former assistant from our practice site when we could practice in public. He said I was very brave.

But since the persecution was severe, he asked me to return home. But I didn’t leave—instead, the more I spoke, the more confident and fearless I became. I continued talking to people as I walked, saying, “Falun Dafa is the Buddha Law and saves people; it teaches people to be good. The former CCP leader tried to deceive people. Don’t be fooled by his lies.”

I said to someone who looked like an official, “Falun Dafa is wonderful,” and I asked him to not listen to the Party’s lies. I mentioned that practicing Falun Dafa improves one’s health and said this is a high-level teaching that saves people. He took the informational materials that I handed him and said, “They always hold meetings about suppressing Falun Gong—what on earth is this Falun Gong all about? Let me check it out.” Then he left.

I talked to 30 people that day. Over the past 20 years, I went from not knowing how to clarify the facts to helping people quit the CCP and its affiliated organizations. I truly appreciate Master’s benevolent protection and empowerment.

Safe Even Though I Was Arrested Six Times

I’ve been illegally arrested and held at a police station six times. Each time, with faith in Master and Dafa, and under Master’s protection, I came home safely.

I was talking to people about Dafa at a market when, as soon as a person took the amulet and an informational brochure I was handing out, nearby police officers arrested me and took me into custody. I silently asked Master, “Master, please save me. I don’t want to stay here.” A police officer said that my family could come and take me home.

The second time, I was reported and arrested at the same market and taken to the same police station. The police officer recognized me and said, “It’s you again!”

Then the deputy chief said, “Let her go, let her go.”

The other times I was arrested while I was out with other practitioners. After I finished clarifying the facts to the police officers and talking to them about quitting the CCP, I was released. Through these experiences, many of my attachments were removed, including fear, and my righteous thoughts became stronger.

Protected by Master

One time, I was clarifying the facts at the market and it had just rained. A car backed up behind me and knocked me down. I fell into the muddy water, my shirt and pants were torn, and I was soaked. I was a muddy mess. I was very embarrassed, but I got up and I was fine. I let the driver leave after I clarified the facts to him. The bystanders all said the driver was so lucky to have run into such a nice person.

Another time, I went out on my bicycle to pick up informational materials from a fellow practitioner and was hit by a car. When the driver stopped and helped me up, I asked him to help straighten my handlebars. Then I got back on my bicycle and rode off. I made it in time to collect the materials. Only after I got home did I notice that my leg was swollen. But it went down in a few days.

I’ve been hit by cars many times, but I’ve always been fine. How could an elderly woman like me survive such accidents? Weren’t those miracles manifested by Dafa? I believe that, because I practice Dafa, I have cultivated an indestructible body. With Master and Dafa here, I have no fear.

“Falun Dafa Is Wonderful!”

I meet all kinds of people. Some claimed they would report me, others yelled at me, and some refused to speak to me, while others hit or scolded me. But more thanked me for my telling them about Falun Dafa. Two things left a big impression on me—peoples’ gratitude for Dafa and Master’s immense compassion, which made me realize the significance of my historic mission.

I told a woman in her 60s that Dafa is the Buddha Law for saving people and that Master Li asks practitioners to help him save people. She said, “I want to kowtow to your Master!” I told her that, as long as she knew that Dafa was good and Master came to save sentient beings, that would suffice. I gave her an informational brochure, and she kept thanking me.

Another time, I went to the market to talk to people about Dafa. A group of people carrying small flags was lined up promoting their products. A young man in the queue smiled and walked up to me, shouting, “Falun Dafa is wonderful!” I nodded and smiled. People are truly awakening.

Over all these years, with the progress of Master’s Fa-rectification, people’s initial fear and avoidance and their threats to report me have changed to being receptive to the truth, to the point of even shouting: “Dafa is wonderful!” I feel that more and more people know what Dafa is. Even though some have said bad things and were against Dafa, there were always other people around who would speak up, saying things like, “People are trying to help you. If you don’t want to listen, then don’t. Why are you cursing?”

I realized that the gradual shift in people’s attitude towards Dafa has been brought about by Master’s constant endurance and by practitioners’ persistent efforts in clarifying the facts to people.

I was in my 50s when I started cultivating Dafa. Three decades later, I am now in my 80s, and my hair is grey. My husband is 90 years old, but I can still take care of him, make delicious food for him, and take him to see doctors. My children are now in their 60s, and I can still take care of them when they are sick. Dafa has given me a healthy body, and I look much younger than my age. When I go out, people think I am only in my 60s, but I am actually 82. Isn’t this all because I practice Falun Dafa, which cultivates both mind and body? Doesn’t this validate that Master is wonderful and Dafa is great?!

Over all these years on my cultivation path, I don’t know how much Master has done for me or how much he endured. He saved me from the depths of hell and cleansed me; he guided me to obtain the Fa and cultivate; he bore the weight of my karmic debt, as heavy as a mountain; he taught me how to be a good person; and, step by step, he helped me cultivate so I became selfless.

Everything I have today is thanks to Master. I’ve rarely had the opportunity to express my gratitude to Master, so, in writing this today, I wish to say, “Master, you have worked so hard! It is truly a blessing to be a practitioner! Thank you, Master, for letting me practice Falun Dafa!”