By Xilian, a Falun Gong practitioner from Shanxi Province

(Clearwisdom Net) Greetings Teacher! Greetings fellow practitioners!

I am so delighted to have this opportunity to talk to Teacher and fellow practitioners. As I write this article, I feel like Teacher is right here with me. The following are my experiences after five years of cultivation.

1. I decided to cultivate

I am 60 years old this year. In March 1999, I started to practice Falun Gong, but in fact I already read Zhuan Falun in 1997. At that time, I felt the book was so good because it answered many questions I had about my life. In addition, whenever I felt physically uncomfortable, reading the book miraculously made me feel well. Therefore, I always carried Zhuan Falun around with me. However, I didn't pay attention to cultivating my heart. It was not until March 1999 that I actually began practicing Falun Dafa.

Before cultivating, I suffered from different kinds of ailments, including atrophic gastritis, a serious intestinal problem, plus heart and liver disease. Even taking a bite of an apple would give me a stomachache. The doctors told me to not even eat bread. All year long I had to take medicine, which made my face look yellow-gray. After practicing Falun Gong, all of my ailments disappeared. As a healthy person, I haven't needed to take a single pill for five years. Thank you Teacher! Teacher has given me a second life.

2. Righteous thoughts come from firm belief in Teacher and Falun Dafa

After the persecution started on July 20, 1999, I faced brainwashing from the propaganda, and one time I even became suspicious of Dafa. Fortunately, with the help of my fellow practitioners, I asked myself, "Who gives you health? Who has taught you be a good person? Who leads you back to your true self and helps you find the true meaning of life?" It is our respectable Teacher. With my belief in Teacher and the universal principles, I overcame the tribulation. In one week, I got rid of the interference from the wrong thoughts and became calm in my heart. Sometimes I became afraid, but once my righteous thoughts came out, I became confident immediately.

Teacher wants us to genuinely step out of ordinariness, to save people and clarify the truth. I had no contact with fellow practitioners at that time. How did I make it? My son went to buy a computer and printer, so we could edit Falun Dafa informational materials ourselves and post them in the street. That was our first step. Later, we printed flyers from Clearwisdom.net and distributed them with fellow practitioners. In this way, a simple material site began in the course of validating the Fa.

In 2001, my son passed out the flyers to everyday people in our neighborhood. With my attachment of fear, I didn't agree with what he was doing. However, I realized my attachment, so I sent forth righteous thoughts to remove my fear.

When someone reported it to the neighborhood committee, the director didn't look for my son, but for me. I assumed what happened was a test for me. Scared of nothing, I clarified the situation to him, and told him he should treat Falun Gong practitioners kindly and protect them even though he might get fired, because he would greatly benefit from it.

"If you are a true practitioner, our Falun will safeguard you. I am rooted in the universe. If anyone can harm you, he or she would be able to harm this universe" (Zhuan Falun). Because of righteous thoughts and Teacher's protection, we passed the test. My experience demonstrates that we should look inward whenever we come across problems.

3. "With no attachment to anything, the road ahead is traversed with ease"

As a Fa-rectification period Falun Dafa practitioner, we need to always keep righteous thoughts so as to avoid losses and be responsible in saving people. As Teachers said in "No Hindrance" of Grand Poem 2,

"The ways for cultivation are different, but all are in Dafa.

With no attachment to anything, the road ahead is traversed with ease."

The following are some of my experiences with making materials. It was my son's job, but I took it over because he was busy. It was supposed to be a piece of cake, but once I tried to do it, all kinds of obstacles came up one after another. At the beginning, the printer didn't work properly if I didn't send forth righteous thoughts. I came to have a better understanding of righteous thoughts after that. The evil factors' interference was so desperate, because they were scared of people learning the truth. Thus, I have also come to understand the importance of the Fa-rectification period Falun Dafa practitioners' responsibilities.

On one occasion I was worried that the printer wouldn't work. As a result, it wasted a lot of paper and had poor printing quality. Then it began to malfunction. I became impatient and got angry at the printer. I forgot I was a practitioner, so I had to stop to think where the problem was. Then I realized it was a problem with my character, because I was lacking righteous thoughts in what I was doing. How could I have a good effect in making materials to save people? Realizing my attachment, with righteous thoughts, I tried to communicate with the printer. I thought that since it also had a life in other dimensions, it should understand when I talked to it, and so I tried to rectify it and harmonize it. I admitted my being mad at it was wrong. Then I let it know that I wanted it to cooperate with me in printing during the crucial Fa--rectification period, and that if it did, it would have a wonderful future since it also saved people. When I finished talking with the printer, I became calm and clear-minded, and suddenly figured out where the problems were and how to fix them. It seemed like a culmination of my several years' experiences with printing. I felt my relationship with the printer was finally so harmonious. I realized Teacher had helped me once again.

To fulfill the vows we made before history, we need to study the Fa well, break through the old force's interference and fulfill our responsibilities, so as to be worthy of the name of Fa-rectification period Dafa disciples, and go back to where we belong .

Heshi to our great, compassionate Teacher, heshi to fellow practitioners at home and abroad.

Posting date: 11/4/2004
Original article date: 11/4/2004
Category: Cultivation in Persecution
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2004/10/26/87407.html

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