(Minghui.org) After I finished reading the book Zhuan Falun for the first time, I knew that I had found what I had been searching for. I studied the Fa and practiced the exercises every day.
After the persecution started on July 20, 1999, I studied Master's new articles as well as Zhuan Falun . I studied the Fa by myself and sometimes with other practitioners in a group. I studied the new articles repeatedly. Dafa has given me wisdom and I am especially good at clarifying the truth face to face to people, even though I am now 74 years of age.
I'd like to thank Master again and also fellow practitioners on the Minghui website as I look back over my 10 years of cultivation progress.
I started practicing Falun Gong in 1998, and have been practicing for 15 years. I used to suffer from insomnia and neck and back pain. Medicine didn't cure any of my health problems. I suffered from anxiety and was in constant agony due to insomnia. I was inpatient, lost my temper easily, and felt depressed. Not only did I suffer, but my family did, too. After I began practicing Falun Gong, I recovered fully. I was able to sleep at night, and this put me in good spirits.
I am now very healthy. I have a healthy complexion and black hair. My body feels light and my voice is pleasant. People say that I look much younger than my age, as if I were still in my 50s. I'd like to share a story with you to show how miraculous Dafa is. One day a young man followed me into a restaurant run by a fellow practitioner. After I left, he asked the owner about me. He wanted to know if I was practicing Falun Gong. He explained that I looked healthy, like a practitioner.
The owner was cautious, not wanting to get me in any trouble, so the young man explained that he just came from another city. He had heard about Falun Gong there and now wanted to learn it. He had heard about the amazing health benefits and had some health problems of his own. The owner told him he had come to the right place. Then the owner played Master's Fa Lectures in Guangzhou for him right there in the restaurant. The young man was so pleased, he said, “I have been looking for you for a long time. It wasn't easy because I live in the country. I was standing in the street and looked at everyone. I noticed that woman looked like she practiced Falun Gong, so I followed her in here, and now I found you.”
This really happened. It is a manifestation of Dafa for me. I am so proud to be a Dafa disciple in this historical time of Fa-rectification. I am honored to have obtained the Fa.
I started practicing Falun Gong in late 1998. A relative of mine came to see me and took me to a practitioner's home. I had been suffering from acute insomnia. I thanked them and told them I understood what they were telling me, but I had to go home and sleep. However, after my relative left my home, I borrowed a copy of Zhuan Falun and finished it quickly. I recovered from insomnia. My body felt light, and my spirits were high. All of my other symptoms disappeared as well. I went to a practice site on my bicycle and followed along with the exercises. I also purchased my own copy of Zhuan Falun and continued to practice. It was just me now, my husband had passed away, but I was very content studying the Fa and doing the exercises with fellow practitioners.
I had been cultivating Dafa for nearly a year before the persecution started on July 20, 1999. I had come to understand cultivation to some degree. Though I was shocked by the rampant persecution, I felt Falun Gong was good and it would be impossible for me to give it up. I have remained diligent.
A CCP (Chinese Communist Party) official deceived me and took me to a detention center in 2001. There were ten local practitioners there and also practitioners from other provinces. I had Master's newly-published article “Dafa is Indestructible” with me. The other practitioners copied it and then began to memorize it. After they had it copied and memorized, I was released. I realized that Master is so compassionate that he let me give the new article to fellow practitioners because he doesn't want to leave behind any practitioner. When I realized that the police had taken me to the detention center, I had no fear.
In 2005, I tried to clarify the truth to a CCP official and urged him to withdraw from the CCP. He reported me to the police. I was arrested and taken to a detention center, shouting “Falun Dafa is great!” on the way. I was held there for 27 days, during which I took every opportunity possible to clarify the truth and had no fear. I didn't cooperate with them and didn't do any slave labor. I said to the guard, “Don't assign any work to me, I should not be here.”
I clarified the truth to whoever interrogated me. I told them how wonderful Falun Dafa was and how I benefited from the practice. I told them I now had a good temper, and our whole family benefited from me practicing Falun Gong. My daughters-in-law even get along now. I asked them, “Tell me, of the three principles Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, which one is not good?” They could not answer. When they were not interrogating me, I would recite the Fa “...just by remaining unmoved you could handle all situations.” (“Teaching the Fa at the 2005 Canada Fa Conference,” Teaching the Fa at the Conference V)
I practiced the exercises openly in the cell. The cell leader and a guard wanted to learn the exercises from me. I am here to validate the Fa, so whoever wants to learn, I will teach.
One day the director of the 610 Office came and said with his cell phone in his hand, “Your sons are very capable and have asked overseas people to call me.” I knew fellow practitioners were trying to rescue me. I sent forth righteous thoughts more frequently to dissolve evil elements in other dimensions. I thought, “I must go out to save sentient beings. To help Master rectify the Fa is a Dafa disciple's mission.” On the 27 th day, I was released. One guard said to me before I left, “Those DVDs are very good. Whoever watches them will benefit.” That was all the guard said.
The director of the 610 Office resigned soon after I was released. The official who reported me to the police received karmic retribution. His son had an accident and was in a vegetative state.
In 2007 a local material center was sabotaged and we had a big loss. Because I was a distributor in the area, the police came to me. I didn't cooperate at all. One policeman said to me, “Don't think that because of your age, we will not do anything to you. We have sentenced a practitioner five years your senior.” I told them that Master has the final say and that whoever persecutes me commits a sin and will receive retribution. They left in dismay.
In 2004, I received news that a practitioner from another city had become destitute and had come to a village in my area. I rode my bicycle 30 miles to visit him. He said, “I can do any work as long as I am with practitioners.” I shared this with my local practitioners after I came back. We settled him here with us where he could be with other practitioners and continue his cultivation.
Once practitioners were released, I went to see them and help them. I invited them to come to my home to join group Fa study. I encouraged them by saying that nobody could persecute us because we have Master and the Fa.
Practitioners in remote areas didn't have sufficient materials. I contacted them immediately and provided what they needed.
The Fa study group at my home has been running for ten years. Practitioners said that it was well known in my area that I was a practitioner. I said to them that as long as we are walking on the path Master has arranged for us, nobody can touch us and it is all right that I was well known. Master requires us to cultivate openly and with dignity, so we cultivate, save sentient beings, and do the three things openly and in dignity. If we don't have fear, the elements that cause fear will be dissolved and no longer exist.
I was not willing to write this experience sharing article because I had the concern that I would validate myself. So I asked a fellow practitioner to share with me and improve my understanding. I said to her, “Dafa has given me everything and I should act according to Dafa's requirements. I should put validating the Fa as the first priority. This is every disciple's responsibility.” She agreed and said if I told my story, she would write it out for me, to share with other practitioners. She read it back to me and I was pleased and felt it was validating the Fa. I agreed to send it to the Minghui website.