How My Mom Started to Cultivate in Dafa

(Clearwisdom.net) I am writing this story to share my experience of how with Master’s compassion, those close to us can obtain the Fa.

This fall, my mom came from New Zealand to visit me and my Chinese-American family in New York for a few weeks. She had been familiar with Falun Dafa for several years, since three of her kids began practicing in New Zealand. However, although she has had a long-standing interest in spirituality, she “found it hard to understand [our] wholehearted commitment to the Fa.” As she later wrote in her experience sharing essay, “I had my own beliefs (notions) which had served me well, or so I believed.”

During my mom's visit this time, I was very busy with Dafa projects and ordinary work, so she often had to follow me to spend the day with me.

Some days I would catch the train to work and she would come there later. Master arranged for her to come in contact with specific practitioners through her journeys on trains, buses and at the NTD Television competitions that I was helping with. Each of these practitioners helped my mom to break down the notions in her mind that were preventing her from obtaining the Fa and gain clarity as to why Falun Dafa may be better than some of the other teachings she was familiar with.

One day on the bus to the NTD Culinary Arts Competition, she met a practitioner, who spent many hours with her and shared her experience of obtaining the Fa after searching for spiritual guidance through religious means. This practitioner was very sincere and made a big impression on my mom.

My mom subsequently wrote in her experience sharing: “I spent a lot of time in the company of practitioners, and the first thing I noticed was how calm they were and the consistency of their behavior. I also noticed that I had more energy, which was quite unusual, as I had always enjoyed my much needed naps. While in New York I attended the Culinary Arts Competition run by NTDTV. I was fortunate to share my table with a lovely lady from Adelaide, Australia, and we discussed how she enlightened to the Fa. Her story really had an impact on me, as there were parallels in our histories.”

One evening while traveling back home from downtown New York, my mom and I had some time to talk and share together about many spiritual things, how Master is saving people, and some of the stories from Shen Yun, such as the one dance where beings descend from the heavens to Earth to follow Master to save people. We also read Master's poems from Hong Yin:

Studying Dafa

Innate base is cultivation’s foundation,
From righteous understanding stems
a superior man’s wisdom.
Cherish Zhen Shan Ren,
keep the Way in heart,
And Falun Dafa can bring Consummation.

Clear Harmony

With Zhen Shan Ren nestled in the heart,
Cultivating oneself, in turn, betters a society.
With Dafa never off the mind,
Surely you will transcend others in time.

After we read these poems, tears came down my mom's face.

On another day, my mom went to a parade, where some practitioners that she had met played in the Divine Land Marching Band. My mom took photos, and when we looked at them afterward, we could see gong columns above many practitioners' heads. They were very clear, and I believe it was yet another thing that Master enabled my mom to see in order to help her start cultivation in Dafa.

On her last day with us, I showed her the exercises, and we felt a very strong, tranquil energy field. She then told me that she wanted to start practicing Falun Gong. I gave her an MP3 player to listen to Master's lectures on the plane trip back to New Zealand. I also told my sister, a practitioner in New Zealand, to visit her regularly and help her develop a solid understanding of the Fa, read Zhuan Falun every day and read Master's other lectures, in order to catch up to the Fa-rectification.

My mom wrote in her experience sharing: “I decided to commit to the practice in the last 24 hours of my stay [in New York], and my son was able to show me the exercises right before I left and furnish me with an MP3 player to hear Master Li’s lectures on my homeward flight. Thankfully, I realized my redemption (journey to heaven) was up to me and my success is deeply dependent on my diligence. In the brief time I have been practicing and learning about the Fa, I am continually amazed at the breadth of this path from which I will never deviate!”

It was a wonderful experience to see my mom take up cultivation, and witness the transformation of her xinxing during the two weeks that she was with practitioners in New York. In my New Zealand family, there are now only two family members left who don’t practice Dafa. I hope that in the time to come, we can clear up their misunderstandings about Dafa, so that they, too, can obtain the Fa.

Thank you, Master!