(Clearwisdom.net) I started to practice Falun Gong in June 2004. Since then, many miracles have happened. With Teacher's care, I try my best to do the three things well, validate "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance," and walk steadfastly on my cultivation path. I want to share my experience with fellow practitioners. Let us strive forward and elevate in the Fa together.
Before I practiced Falun Gong, a practitioner became my friend by chance. While talking with him, he often recited Hong Yin for me, told me the truth of Falun Gong, and said Falun Dafa practitioners are going to reach Consummation in cultivation. At that time, I thought with human notions, "I definitely will keep him as my friend, so he will come to save me once he reaches consummation." Because this friend explained that cultivating Falun Dafa enables people to improve very fast, I decided to practice Falun Gong that very day.
Before I practiced Falun Gong, I suffered from a lot of diseases, such as peribronchial inflammation, varicose veins, chronic appendicitis, and headaches. The chronic appendicitis caused frequent pain, and I had planned on asking doctors to perform surgery. However, after I started practicing Falun Gong, without taking any medicine, I became free of all diseases. I now watch Teacher's lecture and exercise instruction videos and recite Hong Yin everyday. I feel I am extremely lucky. I told all my relatives and friends that I practice Falun Gong. I also started to tell people the truth of Falun Gong, to go out to post truth clarifying sentences, and to share understandings of the Fa with fellow practitioners every day. I also saw clouds floating in front of Teacher's law body and Falun rotating with my celestial eye.
Later I developed an attachment to seeing Teacher's law body and Falun. Thought karma also came to bother me when I did the exercises or studied the Fa, which manifested as making me hear voices whenever I did the exercises and becoming sleepy whenever I studied the Fa. At the same time, my wife also criticized me for everything I did.
After sharing with fellow practitioners, I started to look inward to try to do the "three things" better. However I still heard a voice telling me that I belonged to the next group of people to obtain the Fa. I realized that it was interference, so I sent forth righteous thoughts to negating the old forces' arrangements and determined to only walk the path that Teacher arranged.
One day when I was walking down the street, a pickup kicked up a stone that weighed more than 10 pounds and the stone landed on my foot. I didn't have any other thought but "I am a practitioner." When I got home, I found the stone had only left a scratch on my foot.
On another day I was riding a bicycle carrying my six-year-old nephew. My nephew accidentally put his feet in the wheel. I didn't see it and just felt the bicycle pedals stick. My nephew cried very hard because of the pain. His shoes and socks were all torn apart. People on the street all said that his bones must be broken. At that time I had one thought, "Nothing will happen since Teacher's law body is protecting us." After we got home, I wiped his feet down with alcohol.. In the afternoon, he could manage to step on one foot. On the third day, both his feet had recovered as if nothing had happened and he walked to school. This kid used to be very weak and sick all the time. His parents spent almost all the money they had to seek treatment for him. I understand that it was Teacher removing his karma. It has been over a year now and the boy has never been sick again. One day my wife's face swelled and she felt there was something growing inside her head. She sincerely chanted, "Falun Dafa is good." The next day the swelling was gone. She also felt the magic of Buddha Fa.
All my relatives who have visited my home have benefited from Falun Dafa. Truly
"Broadly shines a Buddha's light, Justly setting all things right." (Hong Yin)
When telling people the truth about Falun Gong, I usually talk about the health benefits and then explain how the self-immolation incident and other CCP propaganda and are all lies. After the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party were published to expose the crimes of the CCP, I started to tell people about it and generally they could accept what I said in the end. The majority of those who come to my store to shop have heard about the truth of Falun Gong and have quit the Chinese Communist Party, the Chinese Communist Youth League, and/or the Chinese Young Pioneers.
People often say promoting Falun Gong is getting involved in polities and ask me if I fear being reported. I have only one thought, "Only Teacher can decide it. No one else can touch me." I always conduct myself according to a practitioner's standard. At home, I do all the housework. When my wife is upset or there is a conflict, I always happily look inward. I spend four to fives hours studying the Fa every day. I realized that only when I study the Fa well can I clarify the truth well and save people. I send forth righteous thoughts eight or more times a day. I have sent forth righteous thoughts whenever I pass by a Police Department for 10 months. I recite Teacher's Fa whenever I am working or walking. I feel I have melted into the Fa. Even in my dreams, I have been reciting the Fa or sending forth righteous thoughts. Gradually, I have less and less impure thoughts or attachments because
"Cultivation depends on one's own efforts, while the transformation of gong is done by one's master." (Zhuan Falun)
Teacher also says,
"In the final time, the evil's factors will dwindle, circumstances will ease up, and the world's state of affairs will change, but never will the path that you are to walk straight change." ("Walk Straight Your Path")
During group Fa study and sharing, local practitioners talk about our own understandings on how to help those practitioners who have not stepped out, are stuck in tribulations, have failed to pass a test due to their attachments, or just came out of places like forced labor camps where there were few chances to study the Fa, and those who have turned to the evil way. Teacher says,
"You folks can't just go and abandon a person without trying hard enough. No matter what kind of mistakes someone has made, or what kind of a person he is, I still want to give him a chance." ("Teaching the Fa at the 2004 Chicago Conference")
In fact, my shortcomings are hidden very deep, such as my selfishness. Ever since I started to cultivate Falun Dafa, I have never watched TV as it may interfere with my Fa study. So I found an excuse to prohibit my family from watching TV. Actually, a person's cultivation process is just studying the Fa, cultivating one's heart, improving oneself, being more mature when one's understanding of the Fa elevates, cultivating based on "Truthfulness - Compassion - Tolerance," and becoming a new life according to the purest standard of the new universe.
I was from a village and only have an elementary school education. Encouraged by my fellow practitioners, I wrote this article. Thanks to Teacher for giving me wisdom so that I could write down something. Please point out any errors.