(Clearwisdom.net) I began practicing Falun Gong in 1998. Some practitioners may think that I have cultivated smoothly since on the surface, I did not experience the same type of persecution that many other practitioners have suffered. However, I did experience other forms of persecution. Regardless, I have never changed my belief in Master and Dafa during the tribulations. Moreover, I have never tried to hide my attachments, but directly faced and eliminated them. In other words, I have unceasingly applied the Fa principles that I enlightened to in my cultivation. No matter how difficult it seemed, and how many times I failed, I would melt into the Fa principles at different levels with firm divine thoughts and examine if my xinxing had met the Fa's standard at different levels. I have never used the incidents, tests, and my attachments that I should eliminate to examine the Fa principles. If we examine Fa principles with our human notions, and if the results do not meet our expectation and then choose everyday people's way to cultivate, it would be very hard to make progress in cultivation.
Truly letting go of the thought of life or death, all the external things changed!
Master said in the fourth lecture in Zhuan Falun,
"Mentally overcoming tribulations is the key to truly improving one's level."
In 2002, the evil was very rampant. At that time, several young practitioners came to my home three or four times per week. Sometimes they stayed overnight. One day, the lock on the door of their rented house was broken open. When a practitioner found the dangerous situation, he immediately informed others not to return. However, on that night, one of them was arrested, and the others came to my house to tell me the situation. After discussion, we realized that the police had been looking for this practitioner for a couple of months, and after they found him, they followed him for more than twenty days before arresting him. I suddenly remembered that four days ago some police had stopped by my home. They said that they had not visited me for several years. I chatted with them for two minutes and then they left.
Three days later, three other practitioners who had contacted the arrested practitioner were also arrested. All other practitioners advised me to leave home and hide to avoid being arrested. They also suggested that I take my computer and copy machine because it was dangerous to leave them at home.
I wondered what to do. How should a true Dafa disciple handle this situation? Would he give up Dafa and the opportunity to improve? Would he be afraid of the evil forces? Would he give up the sentient beings and his living place and run away? Could he carry the attachment of fear to go to heaven? Therefore, I calmed down and tried to eliminate the thought of running away and hiding. I told myself: I have no other ways to choose because they are all ordinary people's ways. The evil will not let me go before it is eliminated. If I ran away to hide, I would be no longer worthy of the name of the Dafa disciple. Master told us to practice in an upright and dignified manner, nevertheless, I always had the attachment of fear. I decided to stay home no matter how rampant the evil and how dangerous the environment. I thought that the action of staying at home itself was denying the existence of the evil. I would be able to handle all situations by keeping my mind unaffected, and eliminate the evil.
As soon as I made up my mind to stay at home, I had a firm, powerful and calm feeling in my heart. At that moment, I felt like that I was a huge mountain pressing against evil elements, and that I was responsible for the entire cosmos. I no longer remembered my parents, wife, and children. It seemed that they all transformed into a kind of power melted into the cosmos. When I sent forth righteous thoughts, this feeling emerged and then disappeared in a minute.
I decided to stay at home to study the Fa and send forth righteous thoughts. However, when I started to sit down, thoughts of being arrested constantly popped up to my mind, and I could not stop thinking about my parents and children. Loud footsteps in the quiet corridor and the sound of police cars often came to my ears, mostly in the evenings.
I kept studying the Fa and sending forth righteous thoughts. In the early morning of the third day, I suddenly woke up from a dream. I sat up to send forth righteous thoughts. I thought, "Evil, no matter how you frighten me, eventually you must die. You are not qualified to test me, I am a Fa-rectification period Dafa disciple. I will let go of my attachment of fear and eliminate you." Gradually, I became easy and calm. I regained the firm, powerful and calm feeling and it lasted for a long period of time. I realized that Master helped me eliminate the evil. I said to Master in my heart, "Thank you, Master! I will try my best to do better."
It seemed that the test had passed. I still met other practitioners once every few days. On an evening, twenty days later, at around 8:00 p.m., someone knocked at the door. I did not even ask who he was before I opened the door. The local policeman came again. He asked me something about my neighbor and then left. At first, I thought that the evil came to test me again, but later on, I felt that something else happened too, but I was not sure what it was. Three days later, a practitioner did not show up for our appointment. Two days later, I heard that he was arrested. Recalling what happened during the previous twenty days, I was still afraid, but not as fearful as before. In other words, my attachment of fear was very weak. The only things in my mind were Dafa, my fellow practitioners, and sentient beings, but not myself. In addition, I did what I should usually do. I was very calm, like a mountain. My mind and body joined together, my body was as tall as the heavens and incomparably noble. I sent forth righteous thoughts for the safety of my fellow practitioners.
It seemed that the tests were over, but the evil did not want to give up. Ten days later, at 9:00 p.m. a group of policemen came to my door. Prior to this, I heard that another two local practitioners were arrested.
Before they knocked on my door, I heard a lot of footsteps in the corridor. I was not moved and asked, "Who is it?" They replied, "We're here to check coal gas." I did not hesitate and calmly opened the door. To my surprise, there were eight people in total. I told them to come in. Two of them came into the kitchen, and the third person stood in front of the door, and others stood outside. The third person carefully looked around my house. I found that he was not compassionate, so I stared into his eyes and recited Fa-rectification formula: "the Fa (Fa) rectifies (zheng) the Cosmos (qian kun); the Evil (xie e) is completely (quan) eliminated (mie)." He stopped looking around and stared at the kitchen. One minute later, the two people came out of the kitchen, and said, "It does not matter. Let's go." Then, they left and drove away. The next day, I asked my neighbors if their coal gas was checked, and they said "no." I told myself not to be affected and be as calm as usual. I decided to intensify Fa study and my righteous thoughts. I knew that I had to continue truth-clarification work. If I stopped clarifying the facts, it meant that I acknowledged the existence of the evil.
Through that period of cultivation, I had eliminated the attachment of fear. Then under Master's guidance, I began to enlighten to profound and boundless principles in new layers.
Success or failure: It all depends on our thoughts
As we know, Dafa is omnipotent, it can solve all the problems that true cultivators meet in their cultivation. I had always used dial-up to access the Internet. I bought a computer five years ago; quite an old one by most people's standards. However, in my opinion, it is forever new and the best one. Especially during the recent years, it has run better and better. I have never re-installed the operating system. I feel I am not being impertinent, but because we have no doubt in the boundless Dafa principles from Master's teaching. Under the close watch of all the gods in the universe, we have unceasingly cultivated, melted into the Fa in this dangerous human environment. I comply with what Master has taught us, and while doing the three things, especially Fa study, I want each being in my dimension, even if it is a bad being, to hear Dafa's blessing. Don't our computers, cell phones, printers and everything around us transfer the truth of the universe? Master said,
"Otherwise, the truth of the universe will forever remain a mystery to humankind, and everyday people will forever crawl within the boundary delimited by their own ignorance." (LUNYU in Zhuan Falun, 2000 translation version)
How can humankind discover the truth of the universe with modern technology? How can they see the time-space in other dimensions? Don't our bodies, the tools and things used by us to validate Dafa transfer the truth? Isn't all the truth used to save sentient beings? Shouldn't some policemen be saved? Aren't the evil Communist specters that control the police afraid of the truth?
We also know that the beings in the future universe will not go through the same cycle of destruction present in the old universe. Master told us,
"The future cosmos will be different in that regard. Once something reaches the stage of degeneration, it will be made whole and renewed so that it becomes good again. So that is different from the old cosmos." ("Teaching the Fa at the 2004 International Fa Conference in New York")
We are the beings of the new cosmos and should act according to the requirements of principles in new cosmos. I would like to explain it with my own experience. The toner drums used in my printers are secondhand. I refilled the toner cartridges over twenty times. Little by little, the printed words were not clear and finally they could not print clearly. I thought that it was not bad, as under normal circumstances, they could be refilled three or four times at most, but now we refilled them twenty times. Despite this, I did not give them up and treated them as other beings. Every day I studied the Fa and sent forth righteous thoughts together with them as usual. Ten days later, I refilled them and they worked as well as before. Several months passed, and they still look like new ones and work well.
Dafa is boundless and powerful. Cultivation during the Fa-rectification period has never happened before and will never happen again, every genuine Dafa disciple is enlightening to different layers of boundless Fa principles, saving sentient beings and eliminating evil factors in the cosmos. However, all we have done is from Dafa and under Master's close watch. In this regard, each Dafa disciple has different experiences and understandings. It is impossible for us to use human language to express our thankfulness to our Master and Dafa. It is also impossible for us to imagine how great our Master is and how profound Dafa is, and even disrespectful to do so. Everything is from our benevolent Master.
August 7, 2007
