(Clearwisdom.net) When I first started practicing Falun Dafa in 2000, we did not have a peaceful cultivation environment. Fellow practitioners sent me a copy of Master Li's picture. In the past few years, only this picture of Master Li accompanied me to different areas. Except for my regular job, my whole life revolved around doing the three things well.
Memorizing the Fa
I know that everything we need in cultivation comes from Dafa. When I studied Dafa by reading, my mind was often distracted. Later I chose to recite Dafa paragraph by paragraph. The effect became much better, and Dafa penetrated deep into my heart. When I run into questions, the Fa that I have memorized will come out of my heart one paragraph after another. Since memorizing the Fa, I have experienced fewer distracting thoughts and my way of thinking has also become simple and clean. What is manifested in our work is high quality and high efficiency. When I clarify the truth and persuade people to quit the CCP, if I am within the Fa, my thoughts have strong logic and penetrating power.
The process of memorizing the Fa is also a process of assimilating to Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. After I finished reciting the book once, I could not remember many parts when I recited it the second time. But I believe that the more I recite Dafa, the more Dafa will fill me. Some practitioners said, "When we read Zhuan Falun one time, we can remove one layer of human shell. When we recite Zhuan Falun more times, then how many layers of human shell can we remove?"
Following the Path of Validating Dafa
After I successfully escaped from illegal detention in a brainwashing center, I was forced to become homeless and I found a new job in a new city. This new job had a light workload and I received favorable treatment. However, I didn't have any Dafa articles except for one copy of Zhuan Falun. I felt extremely anxious as I did not want to lag behind and had to catch up. With such a thought, everything miraculously changed. I have never got on the Internet in the past, but I learned how to get online very quickly and found the Minghui website. It was like a miracle. Once I read the cultivation experience sharing articles, I no longer had a lonely feeling.
I started to download materials from the Minghui website. I printed them out and went to nearby residential areas to distribute them. I continued doing this for the past few years and never stopped. I feel that the more materials I distribute, the more the righteous field of Fa-rectification can be spread. If every one of our practitioners could do this, then sooner or later we could achieve the state of one energy channel leading to hundreds of energy channels and then becoming connected as one.
During the process of distributing truth-clarifying materials, I changed from being in a state full of attachment to fear, to having my attachments naturally removed. Every time before I go out to distribute materials, I recite Master's poem:
"Dafa is what you carry everywhere,
Zhen Shan Ren, rooted in the mind;
A great Arhat walks the earth,
Gods and demons fear with awe."
("Benevolent Might" from Hong Yin translation version A)
When I distribute the materials, I think, "Look, Gods came to save you!" On most occasions, things move smoothly, but several times I ran into danger. Miracles occurred however, and all dangerous situations became safe in the end.
On one occasion I went to a residential building with an elevator to distribute letters that persuaded people to quit the CCP. I distributed the letter floor by floor. I was reported, but I didn't know it and still continued distributing. When I finished distributing all the materials and entered the elevator, one couple were in the elevator and were reading the letter that I just distributed. When the elevator came down to the seventh floor, it didn't stop but went up again. The couple in the elevator shouted in panic, as it didn't feel right. I asked Master for help in my mind. When the elevator came to the tenth floor, it started to move down and finally stopped at the first floor.
When we came out of the elevator, 7-8 spies from the National Security Office were standing in the yard outside the building. One of them was saying something excitedly with a copy of the letter in his hand. The couple that came out of the elevator together with me found the situation was not right and helplessly handed the letter to that group of National Security officers. I looked at them with a smile and walked towards the gate at a normal pace. The gate security was closing the door and it stopped midway. I asked for Master's help in my mind and sent forth righteous to get the security man to move. When I walked towards him, he hesitated for a while and moved to give me room to get out, so I left at a moderate pace.
When I started buying materials at the beginning and later started to buy equipment, the funds I used all came from my own salary. I also mailed money to other material-producing sites to buy materials. After staying in the first city for several years, the money I used and the amount remaining was larger than my own income. Sometimes I felt that money in my pocket increased, but I didn't think carefully about it. Later when I read similar experiences of other practitioners on the Minghui website, I realized that Master was helping me.
Though I didn't have a chance to share with other practitioners, I didn't feel lonely. When I read articles on the Minghui website, I felt like I was attending a Fa conference and Master was with me. After I started cultivating, miracles also accompanied me along the whole path. As long as we have a firm belief in Master and Dafa and treat everything in cultivation with godly thoughts, the godlike states will increase, and our human states will decrease.
When the computer that I used was infected with a virus, I read Hong Yin poems aloud to the computer. After I read it once, the computer became normal again, but the recycling bin was full of over two hundred documents that had been infected by the computer virus and were recently deleted! The printer that I just bought was not working very well at the beginning, but when I played Jishi music to the printer and studied Dafa, very quickly it started to work fine because they all came here for Dafa. When I printed the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, the paper flew away, but it didn't fall onto the ground. Instead it turned 180 degrees and dropped on the table and lay there by the printer. In winter when I went out to hand out materials, I felt warm all over my body and not cold at all. One time when I went out to post over 20 copies of "Announcement of the Falun Dafa Association," on my way back home, I saw four gold Buddhas flying around me.
When I slacked off or relaxed, I didn't feel comfortable in my mind and I had bad dreams when I slept. For some time, I felt extremely tired. I knew such a state was not right, but I could not avoid it. I begged Master in my mind, "Master Li, I cannot bear it any more and I almost collapsed." At this time, my workplace arranged a two-day trip. Before the trip, I thought I would run into many predestined people as I did in the past, but unexpectedly, I didn't meet any predestined people, except for one tour guide who I helped to quit the CCP. My time was wasted and everyday people's entertainment was tasteless and I felt empty in my heart. I realized that Dafa disciples are cultivators walking on the path to Godhood. We cultivate in the world but we are outside this world. What Master arranged for us is the best and it is the only path that we can return on. How could a deity with an important mission feel tired?
"Although in your cultivation it is painful to get rid of your human attachments, this path is a sacred one." ("The Ukraine Fa Conference")
There are Pre-destined People Everywhere
After Master published "Turning the Wheel Towards the Human World," I started to help people quit the CCP. They included family, relatives, colleagues, clients and people that I met on the street. At first it was quite hard to persuade people to quit and I needed to talk a lot. Oftentimes they didn't want to quit until after a few conversations, and sometimes I also met people who refused to quit and also some who swore at me. As the Fa rectification proceeded, it was much easier to persuade people to quit the CCP. Normally after I spoke a few words to people, they agreed to quit, and not many people refused.
I am no longer moved when people refuse to quit the CCP. Most people can feel my compassion when I suggest that they quit the CCP. At least I passed the Law to the person, and he/she may still have a chance later. At present, I have helped over 700 people quit the CCP. When I look inwards, I find my human notions suppressing my divine side. Sometimes when there are many people around, I leave after I persuade the people around me to quit the CCP, because I have human thoughts and am afraid I could get into trouble if I don't keep control of the situation. But I didn't do a thorough job and maybe other people missed their chance to quit the party. Actually a large portion of everyday people have awakened.
Sometimes I really felt ashamed. One time when I took a bus to the airport, I naturally talked to people around me about quiting the CCP and they all agreed to quit. When I got off the bus, one man who had quit excitedly told his wife, who sat on the front row, and told her the effects of quitting the CCP. I told his wife the stories about being safe after quiting the CCP, and she immediately agreed to quit and also said, "Thank you for God's salvation!" Yes, even the enlightened people understand this point. What excuse do we still have not to step out of being human?
On another occasion, one worker from a workshop came to my office. He didn't have any business with me and he just stood there and looked at me with a smile. I told him about quiting the CCP and he was a CCP member. In the beginning, he refused to quit. I continued talking to him and said this was a cosmic change, and that Gods and Buddhas were saving people. Only those people who conform to the cosmic change can have a future. He asked me, "Are you a divine being? If you are, I will believe you." I told him, "You can treat me as a divine being's messenger who is doing things for your benefit." In the end, he agreed to quit and left my office. Whether our thoughts come from the human side or from the divine side depends on ourselves.
"The focus for you right now is simply to find ways to do better, to be more efficient, to have a greater impact, and to save more people." ("Fa Teaching at the U.S. Capital")
After being homeless and wandering around for five years to avoid persecution, I came back to my hometown.
"Meanwhile, people also must have a human living space and living conditions, and these should also be maintained. Human beings still need to maintain their lives and live normally." (Zhuan Falun)
I enlightened that Master didn't arrange for practitioners to wander around. In the past five years, I actually took the path arranged by the old forces, and everything should be rectified. After I came back, I eliminated the evil factors behind the police officers who came to my home to search for me. Several days later, when I sent forth righteous thoughts, one voice said loudly beside my ears, "We will not come!" I immediately sent forth one thought, "No way! I cannot let you go even if you do not come. We need to thoroughly purge you!" During this period of time, when I sent forth righteous thoughts, I added one thought, "immediately end the persecution," and I could feel the strong energy that came out from my palm. I knew I had the right thought.
Master said,
"...this time is meant for the disciples." ("Teaching the Fa at the Washington, D.C. International Fa Conference" from Guiding the Voyage)
The remaining time is becoming less and less. After I came back to my hometown, I tried to persuade people to quit the CCP when I went to buy a printer. The staff in the shop asked me, "Why have I never heard about this?" I felt the pressure and urgency. I want to walk the last part of my path well and righteously. Let's cherish the last opportunity, achieve consummation to return with Master!
The above is my article submitted to Fa conference. Please kindly point it out to me if there is anything inappropriate.
Written on September 28, 2007
