I Am Benefiting Physically and Mentally from Practising Falun Dafa

As the 20th anniversary of our benevolent and greatest Master spreading Falun Dafa is approaching, I recalled some of my own cultivation stories and feel truly thankful for Master’s salvation. I also feel very lucky and very happy.

I obtained the Fa in February 1995. I had gone to a friend’s place and she said, “Currently there is a great way called Falun Gong that pays attention to virtue, and I just started to practise it.” After hearing this single sentence, I felt I had found exactly what I had been looking for. My friend gave me a copy of the introductory book Falun Gong. Ever since, I have been cultivating Falun Dafa.

At that time, I spent most of my time and effort learning the exercise movements, and I learned to do each movement according to the words and instructions in the book. However, for one exercise, I had to repeat it several times, as I could not do the movements correctly, even after doing it for a while. Actually, the movements are very simple and everyone can learn them, but I was pleased when my friend told me that there was a practice site nearby, and I started to do the exercises there. Two months later, I bought the book Zhuan Falun. I also watched the video and listened to the audio of Master’s nine lectures, and so I started the path of studying the Fa and cultivating my xinxing. In the process of cultivation, I have had happy and beautiful times, but also difficult hardships and tears as well. I felt the lightness of following the standard of being a Dafa practitioner, but I also had the regret of not following Dafa’s teachings.

I had only just started to practice the exercises and before I even learned all the movements, I felt my body rising up with the quilt when I lay on the bed one evening. At that time, I hadn’t even obtained a copy of Zhuan Falun, and I had just read Falun Gong a few times, but already I was walking very lightly. When I rode my bicycle, it seemed like someone was pushing me along. Several days later, I had my monthly period. I had actually stopped menstruating years earlier. After studying Zhuan Falun, I understood that this was a common phenomenon for women who cultivate in Falun Dafa.

My workplace organized a trip to the Great Wall at Badaling. I walked ahead of the young people until we reached the mountain top. When we got back, I still felt physically very light and not tired at all, while the young ones were too tired to say anything. I was almost at retirement age. I felt learning Dafa was so good and I felt really happy.

However, sometimes I did not do so well, and I did not follow Dafa in cultivating my xinxing. For example, one Sunday afternoon I went to the supermarket to buy some meat. On my way home, walking on the sidewalk with the meat in my hands, I suddenly heard a loud “bang.” My first thought was: “I am fine, I am a Falun Gong practitioner.” I actually said it out loud, and people around me heard what I said. At that moment, I did not know what had happened but I found myself lying face up on the ground. With this “bang,” I did not actually know what had hit me. “Don’t get up, don’t get up!” Someone at the far end was yelling.

“Sure, the driver was going too fast. But he wouldn’t hit somebody on purpose. He didn’t mean to do that. But people are like that nowadays, and if you don’t extort money from him, even the bystanders would think it’s unfair.” (Zhuan Falun)

I immediately sat up and picked up the meat that was thrown two meters away. I saw a car about 20 meters away after someone yelled at it to stop. You can imagine how hard the impact was, but I did not feel any discomfort and had no pain at all.

“The difference in one thought leads to different results. At her age, if she was an ordinary person, how could she not be hurt? But she wasn’t even scratched.” (Zhuan Falun)

However, at that moment, because I had studied too little Fa and still had poor enlightenment quality, I did not have a stable mindset and I did not maintain proper xinxing. I did not remember Master’s Fa; I only knew that Master was protecting me, but I forgot how to be a true cultivator. I was only half a cultivator and still half an ordinary person. The driver said, “Go to the hospital and have a check-up.” I said: “I am not going, I am a cultivator. You crashed into me. If I go to the hospital, it will cost you money. Please give me your ID and I will give it back to you tomorrow morning if it turns out that I am fine and safe.” The driver was hesitant but gave me his ID. I went to the hospital, and when I was having my CT scan, I was thinking to myself: “I have my Master protecting me, I am fine.” After going home and studying the Fa, I regretted what I had done. It was Master who had protected me, but I didn’t believe in Master one hundred per cent. I still had an ordinary person’s notions and behaviours.

I felt really bad and regretted not doing well according to the requirements of the Fa. I vowed that I would follow the Fa in the future, with every thought being in the Fa. Later, I looked for the driver and tried to return the money for the CT scan, but he did not want it. He said he had met a good person, otherwise he might have had money extorted from him. I felt really ashamed for not following Master’s teachings and I felt so bad that the driver even still considered me a good person. I decided that I would study the Fa well and become a qualified Dafa disciple.

Another time, at a fruit stand, I bought ten yuan worth of fruit. I paid the ten yuan to the stall owner while talking to a fellow villager. When I turned around to leave, the stall owner said that I had not paid her. The fellow villager confirmed with the stall owner that I had paid her and that she was witness to it. There were not many people at the fruit stand, so I smiled at her and said, “You forgot, I did give you the money.” She was unhappy and said, “I did not forget. You did not pay me.” The fellow villager was angry and said, “She paid you already. How dare you say she didn't?” It seemed that they were going to argue, so I quickly said, “Don’t worry, it was me who forgot. Here is the ten yuan.” The fellow villager was angry and said, “Don’t pay her again.” I pulled the fellow villager away and tried to tell her that it was all right. On our way home, she was very angry, “You are so easy to bully. It is so easy for anyone to bully you. If it were me today, no matter what they said, I wouldn’t have given her the money again.” An acquaintance beside me also said, “You should not have given the money to her, since everyone believed that you really did pay her.” I was very calm.

Master said:

“For us cultivators conflicts come up suddenly. So what should we do? If you always keep a compassionate heart, and a peaceful state of mind, when you run into problems you’ll handle them well because it will give you space as a buffer. If you are always compassionate and friendly to others, if you always consider other people when you do things, and whenever you have issues with other people you first think about whether they can take it or whether it will cause them harm, then you won’t have any problem. So, when you cultivate you should follow high and even higher standards.” (Zhuan Falun)

She must have forgotten, otherwise how could she have charged me twice? If I had refused to pay her, she would have been very upset. I am a Dafa cultivator, and I should follow the teachings of Dafa in everything and everywhere. And I should act like Master’s genuine disciple.

Also, I have a brother in the countryside. When he was building his house, he asked me to get him two cans of paint. I could easily get two cans of paints from the factory for free, so I returned the money to him and asked him to buy the paint himself. He did not want to take the money and he wanted to buy the paint himself. I told him that I had learned Falun Dafa and that I followed the teachings of Dafa, and I should not take advantage of others. Another time, I was fixing water pipes at home, and someone took a faucet from the company and passed it to me. I refused it as I cannot take something for free. This was all taught to me by Dafa.

These stories show that Falun Dafa teaches us to be good people. Every Dafa practitioner has benefited from it. However, the Chinese Communist Party has tried everything to defame Falun Gong, to persecute Dafa disciples, and to deceive the world’s people. Now Falun Gong has spread to over 100 countries and areas. The main text of Falun Gong, Zhuan Falun, has been translated into over 30 languages and published all over the world. Only the Chinese Communist Party persecutes kindhearted people who practice Truth-Compassion-Tolerance. There is a universal principle that the kind will be rewarded and the evil will be punished. If human beings don’t deal with it, then heaven will. When the world’s people all understand the truth, who else is going to be deceived by the Chinese Communist Party?