(Minghui.org) I started practicing Falun Dafa in May 1999. Two months later, former Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Jiang Zemin launched the persecution of the spiritual practice.
The terror and stress spread all over China with the CCP’s overwhelming propaganda campaign. I was extremely sad because after listening to Master Li’s lectures and studying Zhuan Falun many times, I knew that Falun Dafa is righteous. I had benefited from the goodness of this cultivation practice, and I told myself, “I must seek justice for Dafa and Master!” So I quickly moved beyond personal cultivation and embarked on the journey of Fa-rectification cultivation with fellow practitioners.
For more than 20 years, I have been tempered in Dafa and become mature. I cannot imagine how much Master has given to his disciples. I would like to express my gratitude to Master for his compassion and salvation of sentient beings.
Before practicing, I was grumpy, assertive, and aggressive. I fought with others daily. If someone irritated me, given my height and strength, I would curse and slap them. In my company, if anyone provoked me, I would not let it go easily, and it would normally end in a fight. Therefore, other female workers tried to avoid me and not provoke me. At home, my husband also obeyed me. If he didn’t listen to me, I would kick and beat him, and throw him out of the house.
After being unemployed, my husband and I started a business selling fruit on the street. If a vehicle stopped in front of our fruit stall and affected our business, I would order the driver to move. If he refused to leave, I would let the air out of his tires. I would fight hard, and nobody dared to challenge me. After a while, I became famous on that street. All vehicle owners tried to avoid having a conflict with me.
After practicing Falun Dafa, Master told me to be a good person. When I learned how to be a human being, I regretted that I had created so much karma out of ignorance, and I didn’t know how to pay it back. Master had already endured a lot for me, so I had to endure some hardship to pay off my karma. I understood that Master got me out of hell and wanted me to cultivate to a higher level. I found my ultimate goal in life. I began to cultivate, which would return me to my true origin.
I have changed, my temper has improved, and my family has become harmonious. I changed my way of doing business. I am no longer aggressive, but kind to others. Everyone who knew me said that I had become another person, a better person. I told them, “It was Falun Dafa that changed me, and Master helped me become a good person.” Many people have witnessed the beauty of Falun Dafa from me. Falun Dafa practitioners are all trying to be good people.
After the persecution began, fellow practitioners went out to clarify the truth about Dafa and expose the evil nature of the CCP. They became the target of persecution by the Party. Some were sentenced to prison, taken to forced labor camps, or held in detention centers. Some could not return home and had to wander about.
We are all Master’ disciples. When fellow practitioners are in trouble, we have the responsibility to give them a hand. So I rented a house for practitioners. My sister, nephew and niece, inspired by Falun Dafa, also gave a helping hand to vacate the house that they had no plan to rent and only took a low fee to help me protect fellow practitioners. I also arranged all the necessities they needed. I bought rice, noodles, vegetables, and meat for several practitioners in need. As long as I had food, the fellow practitioners did too. Dafa’s predestined connection brought us together.
A displaced practitioner often traveled hundreds of miles to bring us Master’s latest lectures, Minghui Weekly, informational materials, and so on. She had to get up early in the cold winter to wait for the bus, and her dress was very thin. I found a rich practitioner to buy her a down coat. She had been collecting informational materials for hundreds of practitioners–I couldn’t let her suffer from the cold. It was my duty to help her.
Two male practitioners who had just been released from prison came to our city. They were not able to find a job, so I discussed the issue with my son and arranged for one to work at his shop. He also arranged for another practitioner to work in the school operated by my niece. Thus, they could concentrate on helping Master save people.
A practitioner who lives in the countryside often came to the city to study the Fa and do the exercises with us when she was not busy at her farm. For convenience, she rented a house in the city, at a cost of 1,000 yuan a year. My family rented a two-room house. Since my husband worked out of the city, I lived by myself most of time. In order to save her expenses, I invited her to live in my house and gave her a separate room; I also gave her a door key.
After some time, she criticized me, so we started to have conflicts. At first I didn’t understand her. I thought she was returning my kindness with hatred, so I argued with her. She felt wronged and said I had to be responsible for mistakes I made.
My home was the site for a Fa-study group, so some practitioners suggested that I ask her to leave, as they worried that she might bring trouble to the whole team. After all, the persecution continued unabated. But I didn’t push her away. I knew there had to be something I needed to fix. I looked inward and found that I had a competitive mentality and unkindness. I apologized to her. She also admitted to problems on her side. By looking inward, our conflict was resolved, and our relationship quickly returned to normal.
I rented a ranch house and prepared informational materials there. As there was a census survey this year, a fellow practitioner who was homeless because of the persecution got nervous when a community worker visited him. He asked another practitioner for help. The practitioner felt it was difficult to handle. I happened to be there, so I asked this fellow practitioner to go to the house I rented to stay for a while. To my surprise, he had no plan to leave after he settled in. Therefore, I had to move machines out to another practitioner’s home.
When we went back to pick up what we had left, he didn’t open the door when we knocked. He asked us to open it with the key, which we had already given to him. No matter how we explained, he declined to open the door. Without any choice, we went to the landlord to get another key. After we entered, he was meditating in the corner and didn’t speak to us. After we organized things and about to leave, I told him calmly, “You are really calm. How well you have cultivated.”
Master said,
“What is xinxing? It includes de (a type of matter), tolerance, enlightenment quality, sacrifice, giving up ordinary people’s different desires and attachments, being able to suffer hardships, and so on. It encompasses various things. Every aspect of xinxing must be upgraded for you to make real progress. This is a crucial factor in improving gong potency (gongli).” (Lecture One, Zhuan Falun)
When thinking of the principles of the Fa, I realized that the practitioner was helping me in my cultivation, and Master had sent him to help me improve my character. I did a big favor to him in the most difficult time of his life, so I thought he should be appreciative and treat me kindly instead of locking me out. It was beyond imagination! However, common sense is not the law.
Master said,
“It was Dafa—the Great Way of the universe—that created the cosmic body, the universe, life, and all of creation. Any life that turns away from Dafa is truly corrupt. Any person who can align with Dafa is truly a good person, and will be rewarded and blessed with health and happiness. And any cultivator who is able to become one with Dafa is an enlightened one—divine.” (“On Dafa”)
We are cultivators walking on the path of becoming divine. Eventually, we will realize all principles of this universe. We must follow Master’s requirements and enlighten to righteous principles taught by Master. The fellow practitioner and I did not take this matter to heart. In fact, the practitioner we helped helped push us upward in our cultivation. We thanked him for his dedication.
Master said,
“Dafa disciples are the hope of humankind—the one and only hope.” (“A Congratulatory Letter to the European Fa Conference in Paris”)
“The self-cultivation that Dafa disciples do is not merely for their own spiritual perfection, but also to help me save all lives. You have a mission to fulfill, and that is why you had the opportunity to become disciples of Dafa.” (“Greetings to the Dafa Disciples Attending the Fa Conference of Europe”)
In recent years, I have kept saving people by making phone calls, and I did not even take time off during the Chinese New Year. I would make phone calls on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. Every morning, I studied the Fa by joining a group or studying at home by myself. Then I went out in the afternoon. During the past five years, I went out no matter whether it was snowing or raining. Despite the cold winter, I insisted on making calls outdoors. I wore cotton-padded gloves, but my hands still hurt from the cold.
Master told us,
“...Let joy be found in hardship....” (“Tempering the Will,” Hong Yin)
What is the pain of hardship? Besides, no matter how cold the weather, a cultivator cannot be hurt. I am a Dafa practitioner. Saving people is my mission. Master asked us to integrate studying the Fa, doing the exercises, and clarifying the truth into our daily lives. I have to live up to Master’s expectation.
“Eastward flows the Yangtze River, surging aheadTime passes like these unyielding waters...”(“Dafa’s Disciples Offer Deliverance,” Hong Yin V)
Whenever I recite these two lines of Master’s Fa, I have a sense of urgency for time and cherish every moment of every day. The time now is the continuation of Master’s greatest effort for us to save people. How precious it is! I want to spend every day clarifying the truth and saving people. After I finished studying the Fa and joined sending righteous thoughts globally at noon, I started calling people. I only ate two meals a day so I could squeeze in an extra hour or two.
Through making the calls, I met all kinds of people: some listened, some hung up, some people agreed to withdraw from the CCP organizations, some said I was anti-Party and a counter-revolutionary, and some people yelled at me using dirty words. Sometimes I met people who didn’t understand me, and I would spend more time to clarify the truth. Sometimes it took more than ten minutes. Sometimes people successfully withdrew from the CCP. One time I met a policeman, who said after scolding me, “Where are you? Stay there, we’ll come and get you right away!” I hung up and left.
The pandemic broke out in 2020, and the city and the community were closed. Since the first day of the Chinese New Year in 2020, I have been making calls to save people every day. Due to the severity of the epidemic, people were in panic, so the effect of clarifying the truth on the phone became much better than before. Every day I can successfully get a few people to withdraw from the CCP.
I have now cultivated for more than 20 years, and I am fortunate enough to obtain Dafa and follow Master’s Fa-rectification process from the beginning. I came here to help Master with Fa-rectification. I came here to save all sentient beings.
Master encouraged us,
“May you grow ever more diligent as you approach the end!” (“To the Experience-Sharing Conference in Taiwan”)
I must follow Master to the end, cultivate well, and save the people I should save.