Obtaining the Fa through Master’s Arrangement

Studying the Bible with Jehovah’s Witnesses from a young age gave me a solid moral foundation as I was growing up. I was constantly beaten and rejected at every school I moved to, but I always remembered not to fight or swear back.

After many years, all of my family stopped studying the Bible; I was the only one left that kept being diligent in studying and preaching to people. It was when I was strongest in my belief in my religion that my life turned upside down. There was a lot of tension in my family, so my brother and I decided to leave home when we were 16 years old.

By living in a hostel and going to college I met people of different faiths and walks of life. By debating and eventually becoming friends with them I gradually understood I needed to put my differences aside. My formed notions created by my religious beliefs stopped me from truly respecting and listening to my friends and understanding the world I lived in. I soon met a Falun Gong practitioner who showed me the first exercise. We did the exercises together a few times but I didn’t think much of it and didn’t become a practitioner. Later, after I became a practitioner, I enlightened to why I didn’t get a chance to see the Fa when the practitioner first introduced it to me? It was all part of Master’s arrangement - it took 7 years for me to remove my formed religious notions and completely change my understanding of the world that gradually prepared me to obtain the Fa, as I would have completely rejected it back then. Master was so patient with me.

As a growing man, especially at university, I found it very hard to find a balance between exercise and study, let alone spirituality. I thought that unfortunately in today’s world spiritual and physical development took separate paths, as religion does not teach exercises and neither does exercise encourage moral conduct. I was lost and felt sad, as both were important to me. I remember even expressing to a friend that I wanted to find something that can ultimately combine and develop spirituality and physical exercise.

When I used to find a peaceful place I would often do the first exercise of Falun Dafa but I couldn’t give up my desire to do martial arts. After I left university I wanted to understand the true essence of Martial arts so I began to study the books of many martial arts masters. My approach quickly changed from external to internal training as I understood it was much more powerful and better for health. I experienced many Qi Gong phenomena of energy passing through channels in my body, my organs moving and my laogong points opening etc.

One day after my practice had ended a lady ran towards me and stopped, then asked “Are you practising Falun Gong” because the martial art I was doing resembled the second exercise of Falun Dafa. I said “I wasn’t.” She told me that “she works for the protection of Falun Gong practitioners and lived in China for 6 years”. I spontaneously asked her if she knew anyone practising Falun Gong?

The lady told me about some practitioners in London. Later I thought to myself “why did I ask that question, it’s not like I want to practice anything else?”

I later enlightened that it was my Fu Yanshen (assistant consciousness) that did that. I went home and read through the whole UK Falun Gong website. I was very touched when I found out that the classes and books as well as videos were free of charge, because the masters I’ve seen all charged for classes and books. I soon found the 9-day video lectures in Guangzhou and started watching the first one. All the years that I’ve spent researching about Ancient civilizations, Aliens and Qi gong practices was all put into place, completing the puzzle in my head.

I started watching the second Lecture and felt my Tiamu (third eye) opening; the exact moment Master asked the audience if they feel it! I asked myself “how can a video done in 1994 have such a powerful physical effect on me?” From then on I absorbed the Fa every day for hours, over and over again for over 1 month. I couldn’t stop thinking about it before work, during work and after work. One of my family members even thought that I was getting brainwashed because he always saw me watching the Lectures. I felt that you can think what you want but nobody can stop me from listening to the Fa.

I also started doing the exercise and even teaching my family members straight away. Nothing happens by coincidence- it was only Master’s arrangement that allowed me to obtain the Fa.

Promoting Shen Yun
Last year was the first time I’ve promoted Shen Yun and I’m really grateful to Master. I soon found out that promoting Shen Yun played a big part in my cultivation and a great opportunity for me to meet new Dafa practitioners. The main aspect was cooperation. For me I don’t usually get to see practitioners often due to working full time so when I see them I cherish that moment and feel excited every time. When we were going out leafleting, there were many experiences, one of them stayed in my head. I approached one middle aged Chinese man who was just about to enter his house, after explaining to him what Shen Yun was, he said to me “Maybe I can find out where I came from, thank you so much” I was really surprised and moved.

After Shen Yun ended I went home and felt really empty afterwards. Every day I would think of promoting Shen Yun and saving sentient beings but now there was nothing to do. What I missed was also the environment in which we would all study the Fa, distribute leaflets and share experiences in cultivation. I really enjoyed speaking to people and used many ways of reaching people, at work, on facebook, calling friends etc. I remember we were all advised to knock at the door and speak to people if they had ‘no junk mail’ stickers on their letter boxes. After knocking a few times and speaking to the owners, I felt that it was the ones that didn’t have the junk mail stickers on letter boxes that were disadvantaged because I couldn’t speak to them in person. I felt that everyone had the right to hear about Shen Yun so I knocked at the doors that didn’t have junk mail signs, until I ran out of time. I realised at the end that we can’t speak to everyone.

Cultivation experiences at home and work
I had an incident at home where a family member woke up in a very angry mood after hearing Pudu music playing from my room, telling me to turn it off. I realised it was his karma that did not want to be eliminated from his body by hearing the music. His wife said, “The kids and I all like this music why should we turn it off?” He quickly went to his room and started searching for the most heavy metal rock he could find. After finding the most demonic song he put it to an extremely high volume with heavy bass.

His wife and I didn’t like the song and we both decided to speak to him. He got very angry. It was FZN time so after finishing I opened my door, still hearing the music. I remembered what I had read at Fa study the night before - “The evil people act as they do because evil is propping them up from behind.” Then further down the paragraph Master mentions, “Only when you deal with the factors behind the scenes will you manage to resolve the problem at the root. Only then will you cause a given situation, or that person, to change.” (20th Anniversary Fa Teaching)

I quickly remembered that I shouldn’t look at the surface of a person and get angry with him as his original nature is benevolent. It’s only the demon nature and interference that is controlling him at that moment. So I decided to do FZN - I had a separation of him in my mind and clearly distinguished his original and demonic side and made sure I didn’t feel negative towards him as a person and only concentrating to eliminate the evil that that was using him. After a minute I opened the door and there was silence! I went to have a shower after I came out, he appeared from the kitchen with a sad look on his face, saying “I thought you’d left home, I’ve cooked pancakes for you. I really want you to have one!”

That person would not turn off his music for anyone in the past, let alone offer pancakes to me afterwards! I quickly enlightened that in other dimensions he wanted to thank me for eliminating those evil elements from him, so to offer gratitude in the human world he made me pancakes. I was really touched. I also thought it’s because I studied Master’s Fa last night that I managed to handle this situation well.

I had many positive experiences at work also. When I was starting work. As I was walking down to the staff room I heard a lot of shouting and swearing outside the door. As I came in, that instant the woman that was screaming and swearing, shut her mouth with her hands and froze. There were many people in that small room and everyone went silent, then they started laughing. She felt very embarrassed saying “Anton why did you have to come in, now I can’t swear!” One of my colleagues said to another colleague “I always feel positive and calm around Anton.” The other colleague said to him, “I just need to look into his eyes and I become completely relaxed” Many of my colleagues have a deep respect for me and praise me a lot saying “You are the only genuine person here, others do the work to please the boss to get promoted and slack off when no one is watching, why didn’t you apply for the promotion? You are naturally good and genuine I’m trying to find some fault with you but I really can’t!” I reminded them it’s because I practise Falun Dafa that I am like this. I wasn’t like this before. I understood the principles of why it’s important to be a good person. Because of my conduct some of my colleagues attended the Falun Gong class and agreed to read the book and know that Falun Dafa is good.

Opening a class at my work
As I work in a leisure centre I always wanted to open up a Falun Gong class there. I always see how many people come to do Yoga and Pilates and think, “They should try Falun Gong instead”

So after a lot of thinking and with Master’s help I managed to arrange a meeting with the head manager. I felt a huge righteous force present with me. At one point he began to doubt about giving the Studio space free to me as he was afraid many personal trainers and fitness instructors would find it unfair. As he finished saying that, he quickly changed his mind saying, “No, you won’t charge any people for the class but they do, so I’ll let you have it for free.” I was very happy inside so he gladly accepted to have a free class in his Centre and allowed me to use the Studio facilities free of charge.

Before the meeting ended my manager asked me, “How are you going to promote your class? I said I will have leaflets on the information board and asked if I can put a banner. He didn’t allow me to have a banner standing everyday in the Centre but said “You can have a banner and table, show people the exercises and speak to people about Falun Gong any day of the week right next to reception, that way every person coming into the centre will see you.” I was shocked he literally asked me to do Hong Fa! I thanked Master so much after the meeting for giving me hints all the way and allowing me this opportunity.

So finally, after I managed to upgrade my xinxing and with the encouragement and support from practitioners, we had our first Hong Fa 1 & half weeks ago. On that day I spoke to a lady about the free Falun Gong classes in the centre. As she walked towards the practitioners meditating she started crying a lot. She said “When I lived in Australia I lived near Tibetan monks and I always cried when I saw them and now I’m crying again.” She thanked me so much for letting her know about the class. As a result 9 new people came to the class since then. A retired man that previously came to the class said he quit smoking after the 1st class!

I thank Master so much for looking after me though all my lifetimes and I also thank all practitioners who sent righteous thoughts through all these years to create the right conditions for me to obtain the Fa so late.

Thank you Master, Thank you all.