Greetings to esteemed Master!
Greetings to Falun Dafa practitioners all over the world!
I am a young Falun Dafa practitioner living in China and today I am very glad to have the opportunity today to share my experience with other practitioners from all over the world. I hope we will be more diligent and together improve our understandings from the Fa. - law or principles, the teachings in Falun Gong
Before I was a weak child and often fell sick. My family went to a lot of trouble to take care of me, but my health didn't improve. In the spring of 1998, my whole family started to joyfully practise Falun Dafa. I was four and half years old then. Within six months of beginning to practise Falun Dafa, my health greatly improved as Master constantly cleansed my body. Falun Dafa had deeply taken root in my young heart. At that time I was quite young and didn't know many Chinese characters, so my mom taught me to read Zhuan Falun, one word at a time. I listened carefully and memorised it carefully. Before long, miraculously, I was able to read Zhuan Falun by myself.
My mom not only studied the Fa with me, but early every morning, she took me to a park to attend group exercise practise. One morning, when we were practising the second exercise, it started to drizzle and gradually, it rained harder and harder. My grandma didn't regard it from the perspective of the Fa. She was afraid that I would get sick if I stayed in the rain, so she took me in her arms and ran home. I remembered what Master had taught us in Lecture Six of Zhuan Falun,
"You just feel it's odd and don't think about it further. ... and it serves the purpose of stopping you from doing the exercises."
I attempted to free myself from grandma's arms, but grandma just held me tight. I became anxious, and shouted to her, "Master told us to 'not even flinch when thunder sounds.'" Grandma was suddenly awakened by my words. So she held me in her arms and went back to the practise site where we continued with the exercises. Now I have truly understood this other meaning of "not even flinching when thunder sounds." No matter what kind of interference or persecution we may encounter, we should always keep our righteous thoughts. Our firm belief in Master and in the Fa should be as solid and unchangeable as diamond. Master said in Lecture Six in Zhuan Falun that,
"'It doesn't matter what so-called Buddha, what Dao, what Deity, or what demon it is--they can't sway me.' When you're like that there's definitely a good chance you'll succeed."
I always have a hard time handling myself well and guarding my character. I often lost my temper with my mom and grandpa, and didn't search within myself until afterwards. One day, my grandma and I were putting on our shoes and getting ready to go to the practise site in a park. I accidentally heard someone saying to me, "Be gentle and soft. Be gentle and soft." I felt strange and asked grandma if she heard anything. Grandma said, "I don't hear anything. Hurry up, put on your shoes and go downstairs." I wondered, "Who could that be? Who was talking to me?" When I went downstairs, I suddenly realised it was Master. Master was reminding me to be gentle and soft, not to lose my temper easily and to be tolerant. Master has said in Zhuan Falun that, "If you have a bad temper then just change it."
Several years have passed in a flash. I have gone through many difficulties and gradually grown mature. Cultivation is not smooth sailing. Since July 20th, 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) led by Jiang Zemin has constantly persecuted Falun Dafa and Falun Dafa practitioners. The Party cooked up many lies to slander the practice, including the staged "Self-Immolation"1 incident on Tiananmen Square that shocked the world. It is our role as practitioners to let more and more people learn the truth about Falun Dafa and the truth behind the barbaric persecution.
At first, it was so hard for me! I had a lot of fear and dared not speak to people so as to let them know the truth. When I was studying Zhuan Falun, what Master said awakened me: "With this fear, he failed again. Fear is also a kind of attachment." I gradually understood that all attachments and fears are human thoughts; they are interference by the evil old forces. The purpose of the old forces is to destroy all sentient beings and to prevent them from being saved. That's why they created fears in my mind. Fear naturally goes away as long as I eliminate all evil beings, dark minions and rotten demons in the other dimensions that interfere with me in saving sentient beings.
One day, mom and I went to Tiananmen Square to send forth righteous thoughts. We brought some small slogans with us and planned to display them in Tiananmen Square. I kept on sending forth righteous thoughts to eliminate the evil. I asked Master to help us. I had no fear in my mind at all. We put up all of the banners we brought with us and went home safely under Master's merciful protection.
The Fa-rectification process is speeding up constantly. Now, the Nine Commentaries2 have been published. Falun Dafa practitioners and those who don't practise have understood the true nature of the evil communist party. However, many ordinary people have not heard of the truth yet and are still controlled by the evil CCP.
What the elementary school students learn in schools (in China) are all texts produced by the CCP. The songs they sing are songs of the CCP. Every day they have to wear the red scarf of the Young Pioneers. I know the evil spirit of the CCP is controlling them. I, too, am an elementary school student. However, I am not a member of the Young Pioneers, because I have voluntarily withdrawn from all organisations led by the CCP. However, every student is required to wear the red scarf at school. If I don't wear the red scarf, I will be fined. The teacher even criticises me for not wearing the red scarf. I thought, "The evil spectre of the CCP is controlling people to commit sins. I am a Falun Dafa practitioner. I cannot be controlled by the evil CCP spectre." So I sent forth righteous thoughts and asked Master to help me. I sent forth righteous thoughts every day. Gradually, the teacher no longer mentioned wearing the red scarf. I don't attend the daily flag-raising ceremony and the teacher no longer requested that I wear the red scarf. This shows how important it is to send forth righteous thoughts.
In the end, let me quote Master's article to encourage each other:
(in Song Dynasty poetic form)
Fa-rectification dashes forward
Massive is the challenge,
but your will is firm
Unbridled are the wicked,
yet you keep your bearings
Purging evil as if but whisking dust away
walk straight the path of Dafa
May your radiance grace the human world,
as you transcend the Three Realms
Disciples of Fa,
be diligent, with a will that ebbs not
The countless years of hardship were all for this time
I have now finished sharing some of my understandings of the Fa from the past few years. Please kindly point out anything inappropriate.
Note:
(1) Reference: http://www.clearwisdom.net/emh/special_column/self-immolation.html
(2) Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party: Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party is a series of essays published in late 2004 that reveal the true nature of the Communist Party. The Nine Commentaries have led millions of people to renounce their membership in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and come to gain a clearer understanding about the wrongful persecution against Falun Gong. "A book that has shocked all Chinese around the world. A book that is disintegrating the Communist Party." http://ninecommentaries.com
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