Righteous Thoughts and Actions Within My Cultivation

Another year has passed following Teacher within this period of time. My experiences have been difficult, but also filled with happiness.

Unexpected Money for Shoes

Falun Dafa practitioner, Qu Qu, spent all his salary on materials to clarify the truth about the persecution of Falun Gong. For a long time he wore a pair of worn-out shoes. One day, a fellow practitioner told me that we needed 100 meters of yellow cloth to make some truth-clarifying materials. I thought to myself, I will buy Qu Qu a pair of shoes after I buy the yellow cloth. That day, business was very slow and I earned very little money, barely enough to buy the yellow cloth. I decided that I would first buy the shoes and 50 meters of yellow cloth and then the next day buy the rest of the yellow cloth. Immediately after I bought the shoes, a miracle happened -- I found money in my purse that I did not know I had. The amount was equivalent to how much I had spent on the shoes.

Helping Each Other

Mr. Zhao made many technical breakthroughs in constructing speakers that can be activated at a preset time. Because of his efforts many areas in our district heard broadcasts clarifying the truth about Falun Gong. The evil persecutors set up many obstacles and the pressure from Mr. Zhao's family suddenly intensified. Ms. Lan gave one-half of her newly earned salary to encourage Mr. Zhao. She used the other half of her salary to make truth-clarifying materials. Ms. Lan has spent tens of thousands of Yuan (the average monthly income for an urban Chinese worker is 500 Yuan) of her savings on truth-clarifying materials. She herself lives a very simple life.

Banners Radiating Golden Light

Ms. Zhang makes her livelihood from renting rooms, yet she gave us the best room she had so that we could make truth-clarifying materials. In order to avoid drawing attention to our activities, we rarely left the room. We often ate instant noodles for our lunch. Ms. Zhang always brought us delicious cookies. We used screen-printing techniques and each time we printed the banners in large quantities. We hung many pieces of string from the ceiling and we hung up our freshly printed banners from these strings to dry. While sending forth righteous thoughts [using righteous thoughs to clear oneself and the enviroment around them], we sat underneath this forest of hundreds of banners. When the sun shone through the window, everything radiated with golden light. It was a beautiful scene!

The Enlightened

Ms. Yang has been making truth-clarifying materials for a long time. One day as I was delivering information to Ms. Yang, the police broke into her house. Ms. Yang did not cooperate with the police at all. She protected me and gave me the opportunity to escape while she herself was arrested.

Ms. Yang would often tell me a story about another female fellow practitioner, who she referred to as her elder sister. One time, while fellow practitioners were driving around in a car clarifying the truth, they were followed by police. They tried hard but could not get away from the car tailing them. At this critical moment, her elder sister jumped out of their car and blocked the police car with her body. All the practitioners shed tears when they turned their head to watch the magnificent scene.

Carefulness

A young fellow practitioner told me, Jin (a pseudonym) could not be reached, and was concerned that something had happened to her. I said, "That's impossible." The next day I went to Jin's place. Indeed, an unfortunate thing had happened to her. Undercover police had waited inside her home and had arrested her and when I came they also arrested me. At a recent Lecture, our Teacher talked about how the old forces saw that some students believe that once they have began to learn Falun Dafa they have nothing to worry about [Referring to Teacher Li's Lecture at the 2003 Fa Conference in Philadelphia.] I indeed had this thought at that moment - as long as I have learned Flaun Dafa nothing could happen to me. After I read Teacher's Lecture, I suddenly realised that I had many misunderstandings of the teachings of Falun Gong.

Righteous Thoughts

We were detained separately and were tortured with various brutal methods. Although during this great tribulation, we did not do well in some areas, we did not point fingers and complain with each other; instead, our hearts were full of compassion. In the detention centre, I thought deeply to myself: My cultivation of Falun Dafa is not wrong. My existence is absolutely not for suffering in a prison but for clarifying the truth outside. After 17 days I was released from the detention centre. Jin and Mr. Xu were also released after 70 to 80 days of being on a hunger strike. Some practitioners were sentenced to seven years in prison.

Opportunities to Clarify the Truth

I was hired by a company where every day I had to work until 10 pm, including weekends. I found that the job gave me no time to read the Fa [ reffering here to Falun Gong books] and no time to send forth righteous thoughts or to clarify the truth. I suddenly realised that the old forces arranged everything in the human world, but that my studying the Fa, sending forth righteous thoughts, and clarifying the truth was not arranged by them -- these things emanated from Falun Dafa. To deny everything the old forces had arranged, I seriously thought about quitting my job. I was paid very well. What could I not give up? As I thought about it calmly I became more clear-minded. There are many opportunities in cultivation. People in many different environments want to establish predestined relationships with us and are waiting for us to clarify the truth to them.

In the company, I clarified the truth to a wide range of people. I clarified the truth to everyone I met; my wisdom appeared to be totally liberated. Moreover, I was never exposed to the police. I was told that some rural villages had never seen a truth-clarifying flyer. I wrote truth-clarifying materials on my own. During the day I went to work and at night I went to clarify the truth. I would study the Fa after I came back from clarifying the truth.

The most difficult thing during that time was to not be able to read Teacher's new articles or the experience-sharing articles on Minghui.

This has been my year following Teacher within this period of time. We will continue to grow more mature Teacher; we will do even better.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2003/3/3/45661.html