(Minghui.org) There are three people in our group Fa study: Xiangxiu, Xinhui and me. We all started to practice Falun Gong before 1999, and we are now all about 60 years old. We study at my home.
We always kindly point out to each other whenever we notice if we fail to act or speak in line with the Fa. We highly cherish our study time, never chat about everyday matters, drink tea or eat snacks. Our study group is for mutual encouragement in diligent cultivation.
Besides studying together, we study one lecture of Zhuan Falun every day on our own. We have been doing the three things consistently for the past 14 years.
Xiangxiu's Story
Xiangxiu runs a small store. She is very enthusiastic about projects and her manner is calm and peaceful. She is highly trusted by fellow practitioners, so naturally she became the coordinator.
Xiangxiu's non-practitioner husband was unhappy about her practicing. The family materials production site run by Xiangxiu, her younger sister and her sister's husband were detected by the police in 2002, and all of them were imprisoned. Not until Xiangxiu's husband spent over 20,000 yuan half a year later for bail, was Xiangxiu released. Nevertheless, Xiangxiu's sister and her sister's husband were all heavily sentenced. From then on, Xiangxiu's husband has been very afraid that she would be persecuted again.
One day, her husband found a bag of Falun Gong materials in their home, and he yelled at her and even beat her. Xiangxiu didn't fight back, she just said, "Master, please protect me!" It was midnight, and a passerby entered the store and said, "Why are you beating her?" Xiangxiu's husband said, "She practices Falun Gong!" The passerby said, "So what? She practices Falun Gong to exercise. Let her practice!" Her husband stopped beating her, and has not interfered with her practice since then.
In her mind, Xiangxiu thanked Master Li (the founder of Falun Gong). Before she began cultivating, it was Xiangxiu who always beat her husband so ferociously that he was unable to strike back!
Xiangxiu is also very cautious in handling money. Most of the money she makes from running the store is used to support the materials production site and to help raise her sister's child. Since she became the coordinator, she has been in charge of managing the donations and distributing them to different materials production sites. She clearly separates the donation money and her own money.
One time, a materials production site needed to buy a large machine and some supplies. There wasn't enough money, so she asked a fellow practitioner who was able to afford it to help. Not only was that practitioner unwilling to help, he accused Xiangxiu of appropriating the donations. Xiangxiu felt very wronged and nearly cried, but she immediately remembered to look within and let go of the heart of pursuit. She apologized to that fellow practitioner. The fellow practitioner didn't suspect her anymore, and agreed to help.
Xiangxiu said that all her righteous thoughts come from the Fa. No matter how busy she is, she always insists on reading one lecture of Zhuan Falun with a peaceful mind, and reciting one paragraph from the book every day.
Xinhui's Story
Xinhui balanced the relationship with her family very well. After the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched the persecution of Falun Gong in July 1999, people from the local residential committee went to her home and demanded she write a guarantee statement declaring she had given up practicing Falun Gong. Her husband didn't practice, however, he told them, "Never! I let her practice! All her sicknesses were cured and she no longer has a bad temper, why should she stop?" Later, whenever those people came, her husband always dealt with them. After a few times, they never came to their home again.
Xinhui was arrested when she went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong, and she was sent back to the local brainwashing center. Her husband was retired, but went to the brainwashing center every day, climbed to the top of the wall and watched to see if Xinhui was beaten by others. When Xinhui came back home, her husband cooked nice foods every day so she could rest.
Because of her good family environment, Xinhui set up a materials production site at her home. Falun Gong has endowed her with intelligence, and she learns things quickly. She can make banners, print fliers, books of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party , and truth-clarifying money bills. She has hung up hundreds of banners in one night. And of course, she also prints Minghui Weekly for us. No matter what she does, she is very dedicated, and the materials she produces are all very beautiful.
She has a strong sense of responsibility, and if anything is needed by fellow practitioners, she hurries to do it without even eating or sleeping.
In recent years, many people have begun to practice Falu Gong, and she and a senior practitioner undertook the responsibility of printing Zhuan Falun for practitioners in local and neighboring places.
Because she is in charge of producing many materials, Xinhui reduced the time she spent doing the exercises and Fa study, and only studied Zhuan Falun once a week during our group Fa-study. Soon, this loophole was used by the old forces. She became ill, and could not do Dafa work anymore.
During group study, I reminded her to put studying the Fa in the first place, and to make sure she studies at least one lecture of Zhuan Falun every day, no matter how busy she gets. I quoted Master's teaching, "The Fa can break all attachments, the Fa can destroy all evil, the Fa can shatter all lies, and the Fa can strengthen righteous thoughts." ("Drive Out Interference" in Essentials for Further Advancement II)
Several days later, Xinhui told me happily, she felt as though she had just begun cultivating, and found her efficiency had been significantly upgraded by Fa study.
My Story
I started to read Zhuan Falun out of curiosity, because I wondered why so many people said it was magical in curing illnesses. Therefore, the first part I read was "The Issue of Treating Illness." When I read this, I totally understood the issues of birth, aging, illness and death. I had never heard of this before! I felt a hot energy flow rushing down from the top of my head and flowing out over my entire body. That day, the nasal sinusitis which had bothered me for over 30 years disappeared! I felt so comfortable! Only then did I understand that Zhuan Falun is an amazing book. I was so excited that I read through the entire book of Zhuan Falun at once, and made up my mind to cultivate Falun Gong.
After the persecution began, I never stopped reading Zhuan Falun even for one day. I write truth-clarification letters, put up posters, and hand out fliers. I try my best to clarify the truth and save people.
I visit the Minghui website every day. I see so many fellow practitioners who are still being persecuted, and read this part in the Fa, "At the beginning they could act wildly all around the world, whereas later they could carry on only inside that political and legal system [in China], such as in the prisons, in the Public Security bureaus, in the State Security offices, in the forced labor camps—only inside that system." ("2012 International Fa Conference at the U.S. Capital")
I then focused on clarifying the truth to people working in the CCP's political and judiciary systems.
I try to collect all the cell phone numbers exposed on Minghui of those who were still participating in the persecution, and I would call them. Most of them cursed me, but I never got angry and continued to tell them the truth until they stopped cursing.
A head of the Domestic Security Division that I called was very evil. He kept on cursing Dafa and Master. I could not tolerate this anymore and sent him a text message, "If you keep cursing, you or your family members may suffer retribution!" Meanwhile, I sent forth righteous thoughts to eliminate the bad factors manipulating him. After I warned him, he became silent.
Certainly, there are some good ones or relatively good ones. Some police officers who understood the truth would thank me, and tell me that he or she knew the truth and did not participate in the persecution.
One time, a practitioner in north China was illegally arrested. The fellow practitioners in that local place immediately released the cell phone numbers of the police officers who participated on Minghui. Many overseas and domestic practitioners called them or sent text messages. The head of the local police station sent me a text message, "Tell your people to stop harassing me by phone! Otherwise, I will send him to the detention center!" I replied at once: "As soon as you release him, we will stop calling you. Moreover, your kindness will be returned!"
The second day, I read on Minghui that the practitioner went back home safely.
It is my mission to clarify the truth to those who participate in doing evil, and I dare not slack off even for one day, not even during the Chinese New Year.
It is my greatest happiness to become the disciple of Master, and to do the three things I'm required to do.
Thank you, Master! Thank you, fellow practitioners!
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