Three Housemaids Learn about Falun Dafa and Start Cultivating

(Minghui.org) I started cultivating Falun Dafa in 2019. When I first started, I knew Dafa was wonderful but I was unsure of how to clarify the truth and tell people about Dafa.

Right at that time, Mei, a housemaid I’d hired to take care of me after I gave birth, contacted me. She asked if she could stay with me for five days just before returning to China. I was very happy and excited at this opportunity to clarify the truth.

A Predestined Person Comes for the Fa

I attempted to talk to Mei about Falun Dafa during the first two days of her stay, but I kept choking on my words. I was very anxious and didn’t know what to say. Mei was returning to China in three days and it was crucial that she learn the truth about Falun Dafa!

Mei asked me to take her on a long car ride one day. When we got into the car, my cellphone automatically connected to my car’s audio system and started playing the founder of Falun Dafa Master Li’s audio lectures in Guangzhou. I was nervous at first but quickly calmed down. I knew that this was Master’s arrangement for Mei to hear the Fa. We listened to the lectures for an hour and a half.

When we got home, I explained that she had been listening to Master’s lectures. I also told her the truth about Falun Dafa. To my surprise, Mei asked if she could practice Falun Dafa’s five exercises with me. She said Falun Dafa was good, which surprised and amazed me. Master had arranged for this sentient being to appear before me, but I had kept silent and didn’t have the courage to tell Mei the truth about Dafa. I was ashamed at how poor my enlightenment quality was. It was Master who paved this path for me.

Mei said she’d noticed how much I’d changed. When she was taking care of me after my child was born, she saw me yell at my husband, throw dishes on the floor, and reprimand my children. I lay in bed all day and expected people to wait on me. She said I had changed dramatically. I had become more hardworking and had even lost some weight. She cared a lot about me and there were tears in her eyes. I told her that I had changed because I was cultivating Falun Dafa and that Master teaches us to abide by the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance and to be considerate of others.

We had group Fa study the night before she left for China. I asked her if she wanted to join us and she agreed. After we started to study, Mei realized that she had left her reading glasses at home, so she decided to close her eyes and listen. She opened her eyes after a while and realized that she was able to read the characters in the book! Happy and surprised, she then studied the Fa with us.

It just so happened that another new practitioner shared her experiences during group Fa study. The new practitioner was also a housemaid. She bowed to everyone while standing at the podium and expressed her utmost gratitude to Falun Dafa practitioners for helping her and clarifying the truth to her over all these years. Mei was in tears as she listened to this woman tell about her cultivation experiences.

Mei insisted on taking a copy of Zhuan Falun back to China with her and said that she would tell everyone that Falun Dafa is good!

Housemaid in Awe after Watching Shen Yun Performance

After Mei left for China, I hired a new housemaid, Diwa, who was from the Philippines. I was very nice to Diwa, not to mention the fact that I no longer threw things about or yelled at my husband. I was very polite to her and addressed her as “auntie” instead of “maid.”

Workers in Canada are paid hourly, so I decided to pay Diwa in accordance with Canadian wages. Many of my friends did not understand why I would pay her that much, since I’d already paid for her permanent residence application to stay in Canada. In addition, I paid her overtime and let her have weekends off. I told my friends that we all deserve to be treated well and Diwa was no different. I said we should all respect each other, whatever our social status. My friends were in disbelief. We had known each other for a long time, and before cultivating Falun Dafa I was very stingy and refused to pay anyone even a cent more.

I introduced Falun Dafa to Diwa. Though she knew that Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good and about the health benefits of cultivating, she didn’t take it to heart. She asked for leave for half a day because the joints in her hands hurt. She was wondering if it was arthritis or rheumatism. I took her to the hospital and the doctors could not find the cause of her discomfort. When we got home, I told her to try practicing the Falun Dafa exercises and showed her Master’s video demonstration. She agreed to give it a try, and the next day she told me that she had less pain in her hands.

Diwa has been living with us for two years. When she has trouble sleeping in the early morning she meditates. She told me that she felt like she was “floating up in the air.” After she told her friends about it, they asked her to show them how to practice the exercises.

Diwa believes in karmic retribution. I often chat with her and she has told me many of her past experiences. I was very grateful to Master for arranging for me to meet Diwa and other predestined sentient beings. They are all waiting to assimilate to the characteristics of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance.

She was in awe when she saw Shen Yun Performing Arts on New Tang Dynasty Television this year. She gasped at the stunning performances and said that she thought Chinese traditional culture was magnificent!

A Change of Heart after Witnessing the Miracles of Dafa

I hired another woman to take care of me when my third child was born about six months ago. When Lian arrived at my house, I was watching the movie “Origin Bound.” I gestured for her to sit down and watch the movie with me. When it was over, she sneered and said it was a campaign to gain publicity for Falun Dafa. I started to clarify the truth to her but she refused to listen. She told me that her mother was once a Falun Dafa practitioner but she’d stopped practicing when the persecution started. Lian has other relatives who practiced Falun Dafa. She boasted that if anyone mentioned Falun Dafa in front of her, she cursed them and drove them out of her house.

I did not continue the conversation with her because I knew she had a lot of misunderstandings about Falun Dafa. I made sure I behaved like a true practitioner by considering her at all times. I often had leftovers when she cooked for me, and after I heard that she’d eat my leftovers, I felt embarrassed. From then on, whenever she prepared meals for me, I would take only what I could eat and left the rest for her. I encouraged her to make herself at home. I’d ask what kind of fruit or snacks she liked to eat before I went grocery shopping. I let her nap during the day since she had to take care of the baby during the night. I let Lian use the infrared foot massager and I took her along with us on vacations.

She was able to open her heart to me one time and said, “I’ve always refused to listen to anyone tell me about Falun Dafa. You are so young and well-educated. Why don’t you tell me about it? I will listen to what you have to say.” I smiled and said, “It is probably better if you listen to Master Li Hongzhi’s lectures yourself. Many of your questions will be answered.

She finished listening to Master’s lectures in two days and told me, “I can’t stop listening to Master’s lectures. This is something extraordinary. It covers everything that exists in this universe! This practice teaches us to be better people.”

My hipbone started to hurt a lot one day and I was unable to get out of bed. Lian said, “You will be hurting even more because you have given birth to three children!” Though I was in a lot of pain, I insisted on doing the five exercises. After doing the first four, I realized I was able to raise one of my legs. Lian was amazed and thought that it was a miracle. It was during this time that Lian told me that she wanted to try the exercises. When she practiced the third standing exercise, she said that she felt very big, as big as the universe.

Lian still had many human notions and did not completely believe in the Fa. She did not continue practicing Dafa. But one day she told me that her daughter had been diagnosed with depression. It had gotten so bad that her daughter wanted to commit suicide. She asked me what she should do and was terrified of losing her one and only child. Seeing how devastated she was, I told her to sincerely and continuously recite “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.”

Lian said, “I will! I will definitely recite these words!” She ran over to me several hours later and said, “My daughter sent me a very long text message. She apologized to me and said that she was too selfish in the past and only cared about herself. She is now ready to overcome her depression and is actively participating in therapy sessions! She even told me that she loved me!” I was very touched to hear that. I was very grateful to Master and was touched that Lian must have sincerely recited those nine special words.

After four months with me, Lian was getting ready to leave. Before she left, she said, “I will never find another kind and compassionate young girl like you. You are very considerate and hardworking! As long as I am available in the future, I will definitely stop by your house to cook, clean, and babysit! You can consider me family!” She left in tears.

Lian visited me a couple of months later. I had hired a new housemaid and Lian told her, “You will never encounter a girl like her! You are very blessed to be working here! This is all because she cultivates Falun Dafa! Falun Dafa is good!”

The new housemaid said that her husband practiced Falun Dafa but she did not support him. After experiencing the beauty and wonders of Dafa at my house, she decided that Falun Dafa was indeed very good and even agreed to allow her husband to clarify the truth.

Conclusion

I have encountered many predestined sentient beings. Though some merely passed me by, I still found them very precious as they all came for the Fa. Even though they leave me after learning the truth about Dafa, I know they will flourish and spread the beauty and wonders of Dafa to others.

I have had many extraordinary dreams during this period of time. I’ve dreamt about heavenly maidens scattering flowers or gleaming golden Buddhas. I’d fly up in the sky, or I would be on a huge ship in the roiling seas. I would also dream about climbing up a rock face with others until I saw divine beings and Master. These scenes have encouraged me to be more diligent. I will adhere to the principles of Dafa to be kind, patient, and sincere, confident that there will naturally be a good outcome.

Thank you, Master, for bestowing Dafa upon the world. Thank you, Master, for giving all these compassionate people a place to return! Thank you, Master, for your boundless and compassionate salvation!