My Cultivation Progress (Shared at the 2003 Benelux Fa Conference)

In April 1999, Falun Gong practitioners were invited to demonstrate the exercises in a meeting of Chang Qing association in Brussels. I had practiced Tai Chi for several years and also learned Qigong. Therefore, I was very interested in practitioners’ demonstration so I bought a copy of Zhuan Falun and a videotape of exercises and took them home. After reading the book from beginning to end, I was deeply impressed by the manner of Master: he was tireless in teaching others, responsible to the people, spoke out frankly without reservation and talked about things that others dare not to say. All of those manners were to my taste. However, I did not decide to practice at that time.

Not long after that, the persecution of Falun Gong was launched in mainland. I felt it was unfair to Falun Gong practitioners and decided to start with the cultivation, meanwhile, in news of overseas Chinese I published a public letter to Master to state that I began to cultivate in Dafa from that day.

I practice on the lawn of my garden and read the books or watch the videos in the drawing room everyday. Both my health and mind are improving day by day. I begin to feel the profoundness of Dafa. I take all the opportunities to tell truth to my relatives and friends.

I participated in the Dafa conference in Paris July 1999 and I benefited much from it. In September of the same year, my wife and I went to visit our old friends in Canada. I was able to fall in sleep whenever I wanted to. Nevertheless, once I woke up, I was energetic enough to do any work. How comfortable I felt! Before setting off, we kept contact with practice sites along the way. We exchanged experiences and told truth to relatives and friends all the way. Many miracles occured.

To me, the real miracle appeared in Winnipeg when we dropped in on a couple who had been our neighbours in a small house of Brussels thirty years ago. They went to Canada to establish their enterprise in 1970s and reached the apex of their business in 1980s. Their circumstance became bad at the time of the depression in Canada at late 1990s. However, since they received the information that we were going to visit them, they had had good fortune one day after the other. Firstly, the bank would like to help them get through the financial crisis. Secondly, the insurance corporation decided to offer them the life insurance in advance. Therefore, they could use this money to repair and decorate the house for our visit. The most astonishing thing was that the hostess asked about Falun Gong at the first glimpse of us. It was exactly as Master mentioned in the sixth chapter of Zhuan Falun, “Because you practice the orthodox Fa, though you are the only person practicing it, others will benefit from it.”

Two brothers with family name Wang were struggling there. Because of the bad economical situation, they could not get on well with each other. We believed that they would be able to escape from the plight and reach the peace only if they improved their mind. During the five-day sojourn, we practiced and read Zhuan Falun all together with their family and employee. They set up the first practice site in Winnipeg. It is exactly “The Buddha’s light illuminates everywhere and rectifies all abnormalities.”

Master said “Once a person steps onto the path of cultivation, there will be nothing coincidental in his life from then on.” Falun Buddha Fa: Lectures in the United States

One morning, when I was practicing the fifth exercise and getting into tranquility, suddenly, a scene emerged in front of my eyes (my eyes were closed at the time): I was sitting beside a lake, with woods nearby and mountains in the distance. The scene became more and more clear. I was so excited. I stood up immediately and went to the drawing room downstairs to hold Zhuan Falun with tears in my eyes. Outside of the backdoor, the sky was a glittering with stars. When I sat down and got into tranquility again, the scene jumped into my eyes and was even clearer: clouds and fog surrounded mountains in the distance; the trees in proximity to the lake were touchable and countable. This beauty enhanced my belief in Dafa. I wrote down what I had seen and the whole story in the diary of 9 Mar 2000. In 20 Mar 2000, my wife and I went to the Fa conference in Geneva. Some Belgian practitioners caught the same train with us. All the lakes and mountains I saw along the way were the same as the scene which had appeared in my celestial eye vision.

I stopped using the medication for my eyes before I went to Geneva. However, I still went to see the doctor for the routine check. I usually have the check once every three months in the clinic of my private doctor and once in a year in UCL university hospital. My physician-in-charge, Mme Detry is the authority on glaucoma. She performed three surgeries on my eyes having little improvement though she operated perfectly. I lost my confidence in such an advance medical techniques. After stopping taking medicines for a year, I went to see her. She made a check on my eyes. The results showed that my eyes were normal. I frankly told her that I stopped following her prescription and insisted on practicing Falun Gong. She made an appointment with me for a whole-day detailed check. The check lasted from 9am to 8pm. She told me that you were in good condition; keep on your therapy!

This took place at the beginning of 2001. I rarely went to see the doctors afterwards. I went to see Mme Detry in 31 Jan 2003 according to our appointment. It was exactly two years from last check. She smiled at me and said, “You still do not take medicines”. I said “no, not at all. Not only medicaments for the eyes but also other medicines”. That day was the last day of 2002 in calculation to Chinese lunar calendar. I was worrying that she would take long time to examine me. However, the examination was unexpectedly completed in the morning. She said to me “Congratulations! Your eyes are even better than last time. See you next year!”

Looking back over four years of cultivation, I find that I often cannot improve myself. Although I broke through some tribulations, I still have difficulties to eradicate some human thoughts and notions. Some attachments trouble me again and again. However, I dare to say that my mind is unshakable in cultivation and my compassionate heart will be never changed. I believe I can eliminate all the human thoughts and concepts during the cultivation in Dafa in case that I insist on looking at myself whenever I have problems.