(Clearwisdom.net) I began practicing Falun Dafa in March 1997, and have now practiced for over 9 years.
The Environment Changed at My Workplace
As soon as the persecution started on July 20, 1999, I began my path of validating Dafa by making a trip to Beijing to appeal. I was very clear in my understanding. As a Dafa disciple, I am supposed to safeguard and validate Dafa. But I only made it to Tianjin before the police illegally arrested me and took me to my hometown's police department. During the illegal interrogation, I answered resolutely, "I will keep on practicing!" Later, a family member was notified to pick me up and I got home safely. This is because my thoughts were very righteous at the time.
Due to a family relocation, I went to another city in October 1999. My son and I were both illegally arrested there at the same time and detained for 15 days before we were picked up by the police from my city. My understanding at that time was, "It's no big deal, the police just want to take us to the police station and let us explain some things, and will let us go as soon as it's done." However, as soon as we arrived at the police station, the police did not say anything, but detained us for 15 days for disturbing social order. We argued, "How did we disturb the social order by sitting at home?" The police officer didn't answer that question directly, but said, "It's how it's done now." Thinking back, I now realized I had human thoughts at the time. "Sitting at home and not doing anything" is not right to begin with. The thought of stepping out and validating Dafa should dominate my consciousness from beginning to end, and the pace of validating Dafa should not pause.
Due to patterns of thinking and habits formed in the human world amidst the party culture, when the police ordered me to write a "guarantee statement," I did so, thinking I could get away with it. I understand now that cultivation practice in the great Fa of the cosmos is serious and nothing can be vague. This time, I became "famous" in my local area. The person from my workplace who picked me up was on my side, but the executives at my workplace wanted me to be imprisoned so that I wouldn't bring any trouble to them. As I had some influence in the area, an emergency meeting to discuss whether I should be imprisoned or released was held among all the high-ranking officials in my city. I remained very calm.
The co-workers and the police officer who picked me up were very nice to me. I constantly told them what Falun Dafa is and why the persecution took place. My peaceful attitude had a great impact on them, and they all believed that I was a good person. A co-worker told me, "Just by seeing your positive attitude toward the executives, I believe what you said. I will support you and agree with you." This faculty member never attended any events held in my workplace to criticize Dafa. Now she has been promoted to Professor. Her working environment has become better and better and everything around her is good. I know this is because she understood the truth and is blessed by Dafa.
A former student of mine was the deputy director of the police department. He defended me in the meeting, saying there was no reason to imprison me. In a tight situation, he said we should follow the law, and all the executives from my workplace at the meeting were very embarrassed. I understood this to be Teacher's arrangement, and I returned home safely under Teacher's protection.
When I returned to work, I was suspended from teaching, and the executives took turns trying to brainwash me. I understood very clearly in my mind that I would never stop practicing Dafa, so when they tried to have me appear on TV to tell my story, I firmly refused. When they wanted me to read the CCP newspapers, I refused. When they told me to do this or that, I ignored their requests. Because I refused to write the so-called guarantee statements, my workplace management suspended my ID and withheld my salary for two years, but I never stopped clarifying the facts to the executives during those two years. I questioned them, "Which law says you can withhold my salary and cut off my source of income without a reason? Where do you find justification for this?"
I repeatedly mailed truth-clarification materials to my workplace management. When the books Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party and The Real Story of Jiang Zemin came out, I delivered them in person. Later, the management suddenly returned all my withheld salary and all the expenses they had extorted from me when they picked me up at the police department. I didn't care too much about the money; letting them know the truth was the first priority. When they withheld my salary, I took it as a perfect prompting to clarify the facts to them. Since 2002, my workplace management has not made any trouble for me. I hope they will have wonderful futures after learning the truth.
Going to Tiananmen Square for the Second Time to Validate Dafa
I went to Beijing once again in November 2001. As soon as I had the thought to go, my fellow practitioners said, "The banner is ready for you." If you ask me if I had fear at that time, the answer is yes, I did. But I could not think too much about it. As long as my thoughts were righteous, I knew that someone would help me and push me forward.
I left for Beijing with righteous thoughts. I started off from home at midnight and walked in the dark by myself for over half an hour. I did not have even a tiny bit of fear. I passed the ID-check on the train with righteous thoughts and headed straight to Beijing. I felt as if there was an unstoppable force pushing me forward. It was 1:00 p.m. when I arrived at Tiananmen Square. Due to a lack of experience and consideration, I didn't bring a strap to bind the banner. At first I lay the banner, reading, "Falun Dafa is good" on the Golden Water Bridge, but as soon as the wind blew, the banner flew into the water. I quickly grabbed it and tied the two corners of the banner around the bridge pole, turned around heading for the Tiananmen gateway, and passed the armed police shoulder to shoulder. I bought a ticket and went up to the top of the Tiananmen Gate, and looked down. I found that the banner was gone. I wondered what had happened. I took the 4:00 p.m. train that day and returned home safely. When practitioners asked me how it went, I said it was less than perfect.
One day, I hung a "Falun Dafa is Good" banner in front of City Hall. A big commotion was made out of it. When the police officers came to my home to investigate the incident, I did not think too much, but just recited the Fa-rectification formula again and again. Later I thought, "I should have used my supernormal abilities." Then I began to think, "Use my supernormal abilities to block my door and keep the police officers from entering." It indeed turned out well. I was safe for a few days. Later a relative, who is also a practitioner, allowed me to live with them in another city, so I could again devote myself to the current of validating Dafa and saving sentient beings. I understood that this was due to Teacher's merciful protection and arrangement.
Learning to Make Truth-clarification Materials
My son was also a practitioner. Over the past several years, he had been illegally arrested many times and in the end he died as a result of torture. I was very sad, but after thinking it over I told myself, "I am a practitioner. I cannot stay sad as everyday people do after losing their loved ones. In addition, I have obtained the Fa, and I have a mission of saving sentient beings. I can only adhere to Teacher's arrangements, do the three things well, and rectify myself." A righteous thought then popped up, "I should establish a truth-clarification materials production site, learn to use the computer and access the Internet." As soon as I had this thought, helpers came. Some practitioners helped me buy a notebook computer, some helped me find cables and some taught me how to use the computer in their spare time. Quite magically, when buying the notebook computer, the practitioner who went with me said, "It looks as if it is waiting for you. It only costs 3,000 yuan, even a store employee cannot get a deal this good."
I knew nothing about computers, but I have righteous thoughts. I am a Dafa practitioner, and a practitioner's life is supernormal. I was very confident, and this confidence comes from Dafa. What is too difficult for a Dafa practitioner to overcome? How could a god find human things too difficult to overcome? I read in an article from "Minghui Weekly," that even a farmer can operate a computer mouse and an old man in his seventies can learn to use a computer, not to mention me, who is not even 60 years old and can read. As soon as my righteous thoughts emerged, a miracle happened. I was provided with a free plane ticket to fly to a city in southern China where I was able to learn an entire set of computer techniques in a short time. Wisdom constantly emerged in my mind, and I could download materials from the Internet, print them, make them into books, burn them on CDs, and laminate truth-clarification cards. I heard of a product having four USB ports, and I needed such a device. I walked into a store and walked straight to the counter where it was sold, as if led by someone. And the price was very reasonable.
My notebook computer was attached to four printers. Perhaps I was in that city because the practitioners there needed me. Some of them hadn't read Minghui Weekly and other truth-clarifying materials for a long time. A large portion of practitioners hadn't finished correcting the words in Dafa books, so I helped to correct the words and print materials, and I delivered Teacher's new articles and books. Some practitioners were moved to tears after learning of my experience. This was an encouragement to me. And I further understood that all this was an arrangement of the Fa, and was something I was supposed to do.
My fellow practitioners could now read Teacher's lectures and Minghui Weekly on time, therefore they were ascending in their cultivation rapidly and all caught up with the pace of Fa-rectification. I felt very relieved. Of course, the power of one body was manifested throughout the process, and everyone was trying his/her best to make full use of their special abilities. A young practitioner came over from another city to teach me computer techniques on Sundays, spending 500-600 yuan per month on the road.
There were obstacles too. On quite a few occasions, when I was refilling the printer ink reservoirs, the ink sprayed out like a fountain and stained the whole room, including my hands and face. It was hard to wash off and it took me half the night to clean up. There were also many magical moments as well.
Later I found that I was short of help. As the Fa-rectification requires that materials production sites blossom everywhere like flowers, I started working with a few young practitioners to help them buy computers and teach them how to get online. I think that very soon truth-clarification materials production sites will blossom everywhere. Everything is arranged and being done in an orderly manner.
For each and every practitioner, without Teacher's guidance, what could we do with our everyday people's bodies and hands? Nothing. Because this "beyond-human-imagination" persecution is not human to begin with, it is from higher realms and focuses on the world. Without Teacher's careful protection, Dafa's mighty force, or practitioners' holistic coordination, how could we persevere through such a tribulation? Therefore believing in Teacher and the Fa is the most important thing. Likewise, leaving the Fa is truly dangerous.
Validating the Fa, in my opinion, is something I am supposed to do. No matter whether I want to do it or not, I must do it. I cannot skip it because I have fear in my heart. Because we are Fa-rectification period disciples, our cultivation practice co-exists with the cosmos' Fa-rectification. From my cultivation path, I can see that when I did things righteously, it seemed as if someone was pushing me forward and leaving no room for me to question myself. As it turned out, nothing dangerous happened, and I could always obtain Teacher's merciful protection at critical moments.
Fa-rectification period Dafa disciples should follow the requirements of Fa-rectification. Truth clarification materials production sites blossoming everywhere like flowers is the requirement for validating Dafa. I came to understand the great benefit of reading Clearwisdom.net online, and therefore I realized it was very urgent to help practitioners access the Internet. Now I am learning how to install operating systems and software that are essential for getting online.
Teacher has told us, "It is not a Job, but Cultivation Practice." (Essentials for Further Advancement) This has profound meaning. As I understand it, our thoughts and actions may appear like human desires to upgrade skills, but in fact, they are fulfilling the requirements of cultivation practice to assist with the uplifting of Dafa in this realm.
