(Clearwisdom.net) I am a new practitioner who started cultivation three months ago. Today, I would like to share my wife's and my cultivation stories with everyone.
One Person Practices Cultivation and Everyone in the Family Benefits
I was only 26 years old in 1996, yet I was already an entrepreneur who had gained a little fame locally. Although we became more well-off, my wife contracted severe heart disease. We went everywhere seeking treatment for her illness, but our efforts brought small returns. Just as we were ready to give up hope, a friend introduced my wife to Falun Gong. A few days after starting the practice, my wife's heart problems disappeared. Our family became happy again.
Since practicing Falun Gong, my wife has become even more virtuous. She is respectful to our parents, and family members have witnessed the beauty of Dafa. For the past 10 years, my wife has spent most of her time and money clarifying the facts of the persecution to people. Master has given us the best of everything. Our parents are already 80-90 years old. Yet they are fit enough to take care of themselves, and we don't have to worry too much about them.
This year, our parents began to practice Falun Gong. Our children are also very supportive of my wife in her cultivation. Before the persecution started in July 1999, I supported my wife in sharing the practice with others by paying for expenses incurred and arranging transport required for such activities. Our whole family was blessed by Buddha's grace.
Supporting My Wife in Resisting the Persecution
After the Communist regime began its suppression of Falun Gong, our home became a gathering place for practitioners who were forced to leave their homes to avoid arrest. We offered shelter to as many as over 70 people. My wife helped practitioners find a place to stay and settle down. At times, a family of three practitioners stayed at our house. Despite the brutal persecution, I supported my wife in holding large experience sharing meetings in our house. Once, when there was a meeting at our home, I rushed home in a heavy downpour, and on the way, I met a practitioner and took her home in my car. When my car reached the entrance to our garage, I remembered that it was locked and wondered how was I going to open it in the heavy rain. Unexpectedly, the door opened and I was able to drive in. Later on, I realized that it was Master who had opened the door for me.
On another occasion, my wife was unlawfully arrested in the middle of the night. I sternly warned the police to show me their arrest warrants, as they could not simply arrest my wife just like that. Although it was just a display of courage by an everyday person, it had the effect of intimidating the evil.
For the past decade, police officers frequently attempted to arrest my wife and then extort money from us. However, we foiled their attempts every time with righteous thoughts. Usually, regardless of how busy I am, I always help my wife transport Falun Gong brochures to other practitioners. Although we were watched by the police, we managed to buy materials needed to produce the brochures and give these to other practitioners. Once, my wife and I carried a box of brochures from a practitioner's house and put them in the car, planning to take them to another practitioner's place. However we were discovered by police watching our movements. They chased us in a car. My wife suggested driving into the valley. I told her to remain calm and drove slowly. The police followed us for a while then turned back.
When the persecution was very severe, some practitioners were afraid to keep other practitioners in their homes. A female practitioner's husband was detained, and she hid in a fellow practitioner's home. The practitioner and his family were so scared that they drew up the curtains during the day. Later on, as recommended by another practitioner, this female practitioner came to take care of our two children at home. We gave her wages, and she was able to study and do the exercises at my house. She was regarded as a member of our family. During the Chinese New Year, I brought her son home in my car so that she could be reunited with him. This practitioner kept waiting for her husband to return home safely. However, six months before he was due to be released, she was notified that her husband was severely ill. My wife and I went to visit him, only to discover that he had been beaten beyond recognition and was on the verge of death. I was angry and demanded to know why he was tortured to such a state. At that time, there were 50-60 policemen standing in the corridor of the hospital. I saw with my own eyes how this practitioner had been persecuted to death. Although I was a non-practitioner then, I kept crying in my heart, “Clear Mr. Li Hongzhi's name and allow Dafa practitioners the freedom to practice cultivation. I will prepare a place for them to practice the exercises in a group.” I constantly hoped that this day would come.
For 12 years, I, my wife, and fellow practitioners assisted Master in Fa rectification together. My wife asked me to drive a practitioner to a place. Although I said I did not want to go, my legs would unconsciously follow my wife into the car. Regardless of whether it was ice and snow or pouring rain outside, unknowingly, my heart was already immersed in the Fa, and I won the respect of other practitioners. We are just like one family. I also often participated in their experience sharing gatherings and met many who risked their lives to safeguard the Fa. I met practitioners who left their homes and traveled afar to save sentient beings, and I witnessed those who cultivated solidly and were steadfast in their faith. From their actions, I saw the beauty of Dafa.
Starting to Cultivate and Establishing Mighty Virtue
In June of this year, encouraged by another practitioner, I finally learned the five sets of exercises. In the past, I only listened to Master's lecture recordings and was too lazy and reluctant to get up early in the morning to do the exercises. Actually, I had thought of becoming a true Dafa disciple.
A few days after I started doing the exercises, my wife said to me: “I saw two fruit trees, one in front of each of us, and both trees were laden with red fruits. Although you have only just started cultivation, you are already on the same level as me.” I enlightened that despite having just started the practice, Master and all the gods have recorded all the good deeds I did in the past years. I must really cultivate diligently and treasure this predestined relationship that came about through billions of years of waiting.
I don't know how many Dafa disciples' families have the same experience as I have. I truly hope that you will quickly start cultivation and become a disciple too. Veteran practitioners, please point out if there is anything inappropriate.
