Cultivating Diligently

I started Falun Dafa practice in November 1997. I heard from my family that there would be a class on November 2, so I attended. When I walked into the room, I found many practitioners there. The coordinator found a seat for me, and we then started studying the Fa and sharing. I was influenced by Dafa's pure power. From that time on, I have never stopped studying the Fa.

Every morning at around 5:00 a.m., I went to the park to practice. Then I found a quiet place to study the Fa and read three lectures. I completed the whole book in three days. I later started a study group in my home. We studied the Fa from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., and then practiced the exercises. We continued to study the Fa until around 1:30 a.m. We were going to bed so late, but it never had any effect on our group practice. We only slept three hours every day but we were still very energetic. We studied this way until July 20 1999, when the persecution began. At that time, we didn't understand the Fa very deeply but we persisted in studying.

After July 20, I went to Beijing to clarify the truth. I was sent back on the 27th. I studied the Fa calmly. I suddenly realized that when I studied Fa, listened to the Fa and watched the Fa video, my understanding was thoroughly changed. My understanding of Dafa's inner meaning constantly increased, and I came to understand Dafa rationally. I was clear that on July 20, individual cultivation ended and Fa-rectification started. Therefore, we needed to study the Fa well and, in the meantime, clarify the truth to sentient beings.

In 2002, I was illegally detained (Although the Public Security Department issued an unconstitutional set of restraints on the practice at the onset of the persecution in 1999, no laws have been passed by the only legislative body in China, the People's Congress, banning Falun Gong or granting the police the authority to arrest Falun Gong practitioners for practicing the exercises or distributing flyers) and held for two years. My Fa study created a firm basis for me and I eliminated the evil three times with Teacher's help. In 2004, I went home.

When I returned, I slept only three hours a night and used the rest of my time to study the Fa. I read all the lectures, then hand-copied Teacher's book, Zhuan Falun. Doing it this way, I didn't just study the Fa, I also learned to write it, and I had new understandings every day. It was really: "The infinite beauty and wonder is hard to describe with words, " ("Falun Paradise" from Hong Yin )

I hand-copied Zhuan Falun three times and the other lectures once. Since 2008, I have been memorizing the Fa. The book took four months to recite. Once I recited the Fa, I had a much greater understanding. But when I started reciting the Fa the second time, I was not able to continue after repeating just two or three paragraphs. What was the interference? I looked inside but I still could not find what it might be.

On November 1, while practicing the exercises I suddenly realized that the disturbance was from outside of the Universe. This factor disturbed Dafa practitioners, and kept them from cultivating diligently. I sent righteous thought to eliminate it and asked Teacher to help me to get rid of this interference to Fa-rectification. This factor was eliminated and from that day on, there has been no interference in my memorizing the Fa. I can recite the Fa any time without any difficulty.

In this way, I am able to cultivate the Fa diligently regardless of whether I am in a positive or negative situation. I continue studying the Fa, and I use the Fa to help me get through difficulty or conflicts with other practitioners.

I was once a student who could not understand or read the Fa fluently, but I have became a Dafa practitioner in the Fa-rectification period. All this success is from Dafa, which includes Teacher's great compassion and encouragement.

Like Teacher said,
"If you do not want to change your human state and rationally rise to a true understanding of Dafa, you will miss the opportunity. If you do not change the human logic that you, as an ordinary human, have formed deep in your bones over thousands of years, you will be unable to break away from this superficial human shell and reach Consummation." ("Cautionary Advice" from Essentials for Further Advancement)