(Clearwisdom.net)

I started to learn Falun Dafa in May 1997. My wife started two months earlier. Before that, she had been suffering from the after effects of a serious heart attack and was afraid of hearing any kind of noise at home. Although she was only 45 years old, she had to stay in a hospital at least two times a year. Her health condition caused my family a great deal of stress. In an attempt to cure her illnesses, we took her to almost every hospital, large or small, and to private clinics as well. We even tried superficial treatments and unconventional doctors. However, there was no improvement. Our whole family's

attention was on her. We dared not to speak a single word loudly in case she would be scared and her illnesses would become more serious. Our children had to accompany her when taking a bath at the public bathhouse [1] for fear that something unexpected might happen to her.

In March 1997, my wife and I happened to meet a Falun Dafa practitioner, Sister Wang, who is a colleague of mine. Sister Wang asked why she had not seen us for such a long time. My wife replied that she had a heart attack and had been in the hospital for quite a while. Sister Wang said, "Let me tell you, many people have recovered from their illnesses after they started practicing Falun Gong. I have Falun Gong literature at home. You can read the book." Without hesitation, we followed Sister Wang to her home and picked up the book, "Zhuan Falun". My wife finished the book within two days. The more she read, the more comfortable she felt, and the clearer her mind was. All her depression and distress disappeared. The principle of "Truth-Compassion-Tolerance" taught in Falun Dafa is the key to unraveling through the mysteries of the universe. At the beginning, it seemed to be a book teaching us to be a better people. However, as we continued reading, we discovered more profound principles.

We know from the perspective of the Fa that the karma that people have accumulated throughout their lives must be repaid. After she understood these principles, she followed the principle of "Truth-Compassion-Tolerance" and kept improving her xinxing. Without thinking about it, she has recovered from all her illnesses. It has been eight years since she started to practice Falun Dafa. Since that time, she has never again suffered from her illnesses and has never taken any medicine. My wife works as a production dispatcher. In the past, during her illness, she had to find someone to take over her job. During eight years of cultivation, she has never taken one day off! Our family witnessed the change in her and rejoiced from the bottom of our hearts. It is Teacher and Dafa who saved my wife's life.

In May 1997, I began to practice Falun Dafa as well. Both my wife and I studied the Fa, practiced the exercises together and followed Teacher's instructions of:

Study the Fa and obtain the Fa,
Share in learning and share in cultivating,
Following [the Fa] in everything,
Compliance is cultivation.
"Solid Cultivation" from Hong Ying I

(Translation subjected to improvement)

In winter, it is very cold in Jilin. Without a large indoor practice site, it was hard to practice outside, so I contacted my work unit and received a permit to use the club. Over 100 practitioners from my work unit came to the club to practice the exercises.

On July 20, 1999, Jiang's regime started to suppress Falun Dafa. It was like heaven was falling down. They harassed and arrested practitioners everywhere. They came to my home as well, asking us to write a "guarantee statement" that we would not go to Beijing to appeal and we would not practice Falun Dafa. When they came, I tried to clarify the truth to them, telling them that Falun Gong teaches people to be good people and improves people's health, that it is a practice of cultivating both mind and body, and that my wife recovered from a serious heart attack after practicing Falun Gong.

However, they kept coming to my home, to my work unit and frequently to the evening market to harass me. They also asked for my home phone number. I told them solemnly that we are walking along a righteous path, following the principles of the universe, "Truth-Compassion-Tolerance," to be a good person. I also told them that my wife had a serious heart attack and fully recovered after practicing Falun Gong. I said, "If anything wrong happens to her, you will be responsible for that." Teacher told us,

You have fear
He will seize you;
Your thoughts are righteous,
Evils collapse.
"Fear What?" from Hong Ying II

(Provisional translation subjected to improvement)

Even since then, they dared not to harass us any longer. I realized that as long as we steadfastly cultivate in Dafa, with righteous thoughts and righteous behaviour, Teacher is protecting us all the time.

I was forced to retire in March 1999, and received a very small pension. Due to the low income, we did not have money to send our child to the university. So in September 1999, I started a business selling shoes at a street stall. I often met practitioners when I was working at the stall. So I have almost all the articles written by Teacher and from Minghui since July 20, 1999. Some fellow practitioners came to me whenever they needed me. I passed them Teacher's articles and "truth-clarifying" materials.

At that time, no matter how vicious the evil was among fellow practitioners, we always encouraged each other and were steadfast in our cultivation practice. With the protection of Teacher and the Fa, we did not have any fear. Some practitioners who were released after detention dared not meet with us. When I discovered this, I proactively went to them and helped them to study the Fa and come back to the Fa again. Sometimes, when I was doing business at the evening market, three practitioners would come to my stall, where we shared our experiences and understanding of the Fa. We exposed the crimes of Jiang's regime in suppressing Falun Gong. We wrote letters, posted truth-clarifying stickers, and distributed truth clarification materials. We sent forth righteous thoughts together to eliminate the evil and the arrangements of the old forces.

Wherever I go, I take Dafa materials with me and explain the truth of Falun Dafa to people I meet. I often travel to Changchun City to purchase merchandise for my business. In order to catch the 4 o'clock bus in the morning, I leave home at 3:00 a.m. and distribute truth-clarifying materials on the way. I usually arrive at Changchun at 6:30 a.m. In winter, I usually distribute truth clarification materials before dawn. When I purchase shoes from the distributors, I hand a copy of the materials to each person there. Sometimes, I explain the truth to other people on the bus. In 2000, during a gathering of old school classmates, I took the opportunity to clarify the truth to them, especially to several classmates who had poor health. I told them about the change in my wife and they felt the miracle of Falun Dafa. All my classmates had the chance to know the truth of Falun Dafa and to change their attitude. One of them decided to get a book and study the Fa.

After the lunar Chinese New Year in 2003, there was a gathering of the vendors who sell shoes. At the very beginning, I did not plan to go. But on second thought, I realized that it was a good opportunity to promote Dafa. Although all those vendors knew that I practiced Falun Gong, I had never promoted Dafa to them. At the dinner table, I found a chance to move the topic to truth clarification. When I started to speak, I had some fear in my heart because each of them had a different state of mind. How could I explain the truth to them properly? Then I thought that Teacher does not want to leave one disciple behind. We came to the human world with Teacher in order to save sentient beings -- to save their lives. With these thoughts, I had compassion in my heart. I explained the truth to them and asked them to remember that Falun Dafa is good, that Truth-Compassion-Tolerance is good. After that, I cited several examples about how good Falun Dafa is, which achieved a very good effect. In 2004, one of the shoe vendors came to my home to learn the Fa. I found a book for him and taught him how to do the exercises. Currently, he is very diligent in cultivation practice. In this way, wherever we go, we bring truth-clarifying materials with us, tell people the truth and help people who have predestined relationships to obtain the Fa.

My second son was an average student when he was in senior high school. But in September 1999, he was enrolled in the Education Institute unexpectedly. In the university, he was elected as the chairperson of the Student Union. After graduation, the school recommended that he work in a private school in Guangzhou City. During his career, he obtained a first award and second award for excellence in teaching. The second year, he was hired by a local public school. In June 2004, after less than a year of probation, he was promoted from being a recommended teacher to a formal position. He told us that there were more than100 people waiting to be promoted, with 100,000 yuan in hand (in order to achieve their goal by means of bribery). I told my son, "All the benefits we have are from Dafa. Without Dafa, your father wouldn't be here today, and you wouldn't be here today either. No matter what happens in the world, never forget our distinguished Teacher, never forget that 'Falun Dafa is good' and that 'Truth-Compassion-Tolerance is good.'" My son said, "I have kept it in my heart."

Every Dafa disciple should do well the three things that Teacher asks us to do, and to improve and upgrade as a whole body.

Before long, a small Fa-conference was held at my home. Over ten practitioners participated. We exchanged ideas about how to get rid of fear, expose the evil, and clarify the truth face to face to more sentient beings under the current situation. We all expressed that the evil is afraid of being exposed. We should expose their crimes on the Internet. We should write to everyday people to clarify the truth; we should go to the market in pairs to explain the truth to people face to face, with one practitioner sending forth righteous thoughts, while the other one clarifies the truth. We should also distribute truth clarification flyers and cards, etc. During the sharing, one practitioner cried. She said, "Since the persecution began on July 20, 1999, this is the first time that so many practitioners have shared their experiences together." We helped each other to find out how far we were from the requirements of the Fa in cultivation practice and to get rid of our attachment to fear. We all agreed that only through studying the Fa more frequently could we understand the Fa better and do better at explaining the truth and saving sentient beings.

Once, a practitioner gave a Protection Card [2] to a vendor after purchasing a piece of clothing at a stall. The practitioner told him to remember that Truth-Compassion-Tolerance is good and Falun Dafa is good. The vendor said, "I know that. My wife is a practitioner as well. After she practiced Falun Dafa, she returned 30,000 yuan that she picked up on the road to the bank. Even though she is a member of the Communist Party, she would not have returned the money if she did not practice Falun Dafa, especially when both she and I have both been laid off. It is Falun Dafa that helps her to improve her xinxing and do well." After hearing their story, we were very touched. It's true. Only Falun Dafa can make people become good people, and only Falun Dafa can cause the morality of society to improve.

The above is my personal understanding and experience in my cultivation practice. If there are any mistakes, please kindly point them out.

January 19, 2005-02-17

Notes:

[1] It was very normal to take a bath at the public bathhouse in China at the time.

[2] A card with the words "Falun Dafa is Good" printed on it.