My relationship with my son wasn't very strong. My wife was very worried about this and complained to me all the time. She also has a full time job and she takes care of the kids. She felt I didn't care about her, either. She was always waiting for me to be home to help her with the house chores. But most of time when I was home, I was either busy with duties for our media or working on other Falun Dafa related tasks. We experienced lots of conflicts at home. Balancing family and cultivation was a big challenge.

I realised that I often went through the motions when studying the Falun Gong teachings, lost my concentration, and could not pay full attention to what I read. The answer is now obvious. It was me, not the method that I mentioned earlier. It was my incorrect notion which made me behave like an athlete who tries to achieve top performance by continually forcing his body to the peak.

Four years ago I was a cancer patient. After cycles of chemotherapy, I was extremely weak. The cancer shifted to the lymph glands and the doctor, seeing my body so desperately ill, told me that I only had one more year to live. I obtained many materials introducing Falun Gong from Seattle Falun Gong practitioners. I read the book Zhuan Falun from cover to cover in just one sitting, and it was as if a lightning bolt had lit up my life and awakened my true nature. What is the meaning of life? I finally found the answer. From then on I decided to follow Teacher, and walk the path of cultivation

Since Fa study is so important, we must put all our efforts and concentration into it! I think a practitioner who doesn't take Fa study seriously does not know how to practice cultivation, just as one cannot achieve Consummation by building temples. Personally, I think Fa study is not difficult but the key is whether we can truly understand the importance of Fa study. If not, we will get mired in tasks once our workloads increase.

My elder sister practises Falun Dafa. She had repeatably tried to persuade me to start cultivating Falun Dafa, but I always refused because it was prohibited by the government. In addition, I even sternly forbade my husband from learning Falun Dafa. By 2004, I was bedridden. Unable to ingest anything not even water, and after four days without intake, I could only wait for my end to come.

For a lengthy period of time in my cultivation I took Sending Forth Righteous Thoughts as a daily routine, but it wasn't until I saw visions of my dimensions in my dreams when I began taking this one of the three things Master has asked us to do, more seriously.

I started practising Falun Dafa in 1996. During the first five years of my cultivation, I was often required to travel on business. This lasted until my retirement in 2002. During my heaviest travels, I spent over 180 days a year on business trips, with the average being 150 days or a bit more per year. I want to share with fellow practitioners who are also required to travel frequently about how I did the three things while travelling.

During the classes, the auditorium was quiet and harmonious from start to finish. Everyone listened to Master attentively, not wanting to miss a word. We heard nothing but Master's resounding voice in an auditorium that held thousands of people. Practitioners came from all over the country. Some travelled from faraway places every day. Whenever we walked into the auditorium, we felt the compassionate and harmonious field.

I used to wait for fellow practitioner A to provide me with materials clarifying the truth about the persecution, and I would then make copies to distribute. Once this practitioner, upon handing me the materials, told me that I would have to prepare the materials by myself the following week. In fact, I had been thinking of learning to prepare materials on the computer for a while. I immediately asked the practitioner to help me. He introduced me to practitioner B, who would help me with technical training. This is how I started to learn to prepare materials on the computer.

One day, a fellow Falun Gong practitioner told me that another practitioner would like to set up a site to produce materials exposing the truth about Falun Gong, and wanted to check with me to see if it was alright. I agreed. Later, when I met the practitioner who set up the site, I realised that we had met once before. At that time, he was accusing another practitioner of doing something wrong. Seeing his attitude towards other practitioners, I had a bad impression of him. Nevertheless, I did not realise that I was not tolerant with him at that time.

When a cultivator encounters a conflict at home, that is an opportunity to raise his or her level and understanding, so it is a good thing. As long as we consider ourselves to be cultivators, follow the Falun Gong teachings by looking inward, find our own gaps and attachments and are always considerate to our family members, these conflicts can easily be resolved. The process of resolving a conflict is the process of raising our levels and improving our family environment.

Despite correcting her many times, she still could not remember. Never discouraged, she kept reading. She read the words she recognised, and guessed the ones she could not read. Once, as we read the whole book of Zhuan Falun, she managed to read every word correctly. We were all happy for her. What a demonstration of Falun Dafa's power!

Another aspect of my cultivation is that when I have conflicts with others, I look within according to the Fa, but some of the related Fa I have yet to understand. Normally I find the answers in Master's other lectures when I study the Fa. Through continuous Fa study I realised this rule: Whenever I come across something that I can't understand, I relax and just continue studying the Fa and I find the answers in the Fa. This is my experience of understanding the Fa from the perspective of Fa

I still remember one lady who was so excited that she shared her experiences with me when we were in the restroom. She had suffered from lumbar disc protrusion, which could not be cured by any conventional means. However, this severe illness disappeared after she began practising Falun Gong. She specifically pointed out that she felt energised, as Teacher said in Zhuan Falun,

I was fortunate enough to attend the seventh Falun Dafa seminar held by Master Li, the founder of Falun Gong. It took place at the Mingfanggong Auditorium of Jilin University, Changchun City. My memories of the time are deeply imprinted in my mind. I can never forget the grand occasion. Every time I recall this memory, my eyes fill with tears. It motivates me to walk more steadily on my cultivation path.

I personally feel that the Fa-rectification process since 1999 can roughly be divided into the following several stages: from the time prior to Master's publishing of the "Knowing Heart", to Master's publishing "Towards Consummation," then a new stage at "Beyond the Limits of Forbearance," and another at "Eliminate the Dark Minions With Righteous Thoughts." The release of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party ushered in another stage, and when Master published, "Thoroughly Dissolve the Evil" at the end of October, I think this was the beginning of yet another new stage.

At times, when a practitioner had not yet finished what he had to say, I had already started to point out his shortcomings. My show-off mentality eventually grew to such a state that whenever I met a fellow practitioner, I tried to find his attachment in order to show how well I understood the Fa. I knew my state was not right as soon as I arrived home. I knew it was a show-off mentality, the attachment of complacency and the attachment to reputation.

Three days later my mother apologised to me, "I found the key. It was in my sewing kit." I said, "You need to think about it. Nothing is accidental for a Falun Dafa practitioner." Mother said, "I did not look inward and only looked for others' faults. I wanted to find others' faults, even if I was wrong."

Once I was distributing VCDs about the truth of the framed "self-immolation incident." A man dressed like a Communist Party official looked at the VCD, and pointed his fingers at me, "Oh, you dare to distribute this. I will [report you to the police so they can] arrest you." I was not affected and told him with a smile, "What do you do? Do you have the right to arrest people just because you feel like it? Even if you are a policeman, I hope you will not do something like this as it will do you no good." He became silent, lowered his head, and went on shopping.

I started practicing Falun Gong in June of 1996. Someone introduced me to Falun Gong and gave me the book Zhuan Falun. In the table of the contents, one line captured my attention, which reads "Zhen-Shan-Ren is the Sole Criterion to Discern Good and Bad People" I read through this paragraph seriously and was greatly moved. It was really remarkable that someone could write such a book in this day and age! He is go great! I then had a wish in my heart that I would only practice Falun Gong in this lifetime.

My earlier writing shocked me. I was able to recite up to the Sixth Lecture in Zhuan Falun and most of the articles in Essentials for Further Advancement after a few months of practising Falun Dafa. Now when I look at how well I studied the Fa and carried out such righteous actions, I question how well I am now cultivating! It was the true "me" who did all that.

There is a saying among people: "The destruction of a dam can begin with an ants' nest." A practitioner who does not cultivate diligently and isn't strict with himself will find that attachments of the human heart that have not been eliminated will lead him to danger. Human emotions cannot disappear automatically, rather they must be be eliminated step by step through cultivation. To stop cultivating is to allow the evil to enlarge them and construct huge tribulations.

Recently I found that many of my attachments came from my fundamental attachment of "self." This selfish "self" is the same as the nature of the old forces. It wants to do what I want to do, get what I want to get, and does not want me to change. It makes me insist on my own opinion. It makes me become angry whenever someone disagrees with me and influences what I want to do.

I thought that I had already tried my best, but after fulfilling my tight Fa-study schedule, somehow my heart was still uneasy... I started to look inwards and suddenly I realised that my heart was not pure while I was studying. On the surface I was reading the books every day, and reading Master's recent lectures. I thought I was very diligent, but behind this diligence there was an attachment of protecting myself.

During the days attending Teacher’s class, I felt that my body was very light. Over ten illnesses that had bothered me for decades were gone. I liked Teacher’s class very much. It was as if the crops had finally received water after a long drought, or that a lost child had found the way home. Every day I was immersed in happiness and excitement, a sense of happiness beyond description.

I am a Falun Dafa practitioner. When I was first introduced to the practice, I carried the heart of seeking a cure for my illness. However, after listening to Teacher's first lecture, my attitude towards life completely changed. Teacher immediately clarified my many years' search for the truth of life and from then on, I changed. The principle of "Truth, Compassion, Forbearance" has become my guide in life.

As Huineng's name became more and more respected, monks of Shenxiu's School of Northern Zen Buddhism in Yuquan Temple were extremely troubled. Although Shenxiu himself hadn't paid any attention to it, his disciples were disconcerted and wanted to make trouble for Huineng. They thought of many ways. One monk by the name of Zhiming had an idea. He said he had a layman friend called Zhang Xingchang, who was fond of helping victims of injustice and had excellent martial arts skills. They could use him to give Huineng a lesson.

My father got up slowly and said, "I am fine. See if everyone else is ok." A young man said, "How come you are okay? Let me call 110 (equivalent to 911 in the U.S.) and make the owner of that car go to the hospital with you, too. Make him pay for the expense and the bike as well." My father replied, "Thank you, young man, but I am fine. Can you pull my bike out from under the wheel? I can fix it ." But, the the bike was stuck under the wheel and no one could do anything.

There was a pond for drinking water about two meters in width. The slim trickle of spring water came down from above through a bamboo pipe. The water was very clear and a little sweet, with an herbal taste to it. The taste was so special that it surpassed any drinks I had previously had. Brother Guo Yu, who was very knowledgeable about herbs, said the water had accumulated the essence from hundreds of different herbs. When I later saw numerous herbs and grasses growing all over the mountain, I knew it was true.

We should be patient with their shortcomings and be confident that their shortcomings can be changed. If we keep thinking that they should conform to our will and keep considering their shortcomings for our own advantages, we as a result become so angry that we forget we are practitioners. We may even adopt the tactic of treating them as they treat us.

During my interactions with other practitioners during the past two years, I have noticed a serious situation - that is, some practitioners have become increasingly attached to comfort and forgetting just how serious the persecution in China really is.

I did not say anything in the moment and did not "get upset as soon as others criticise," but in my mind I was finding fault with my daughter. I thought, "Is this your way to educate? Can you raise your daughter well by carrying on like this? You are not showing your mother respect!" The more I thought this way, the more agitated I felt. I still used the reasoning of the old universe to measure what was happening that day and eventually came to the conclusion that my daughter was at fault.

Master has repeatedly asked practitioners in previous lectures to study the Fa more and study the Fa well. This time Master again singled it out in the article. There must still be Dafa practitioners who are not diligently studying the Fa. Regarding my situation, my Fa study was previously a formality. I was somewhat attached to the number of times I studied Zhuan Falun.

What I want to say here is that if one is arrested, it must be due to our loopholes which can be taken advantage of. Practitioners should watch themselves at all times, be more receptive to others' ideas, and pay more attention when others remind and advise them with good intentions.

In the past I complained about an older practitioner who, whenever she tried to print something, wasted a lot of paper. I talked to her about it repeatably, saying that she should be more careful. When I talked to her, I harboured resentment and could not quite forgive her. Now, I had made a similar mistake and realised how hard it is to be perfect. We are all Falun Dafa practitioners; who wants to make mistakes intentionally?

I previously had a very bad temper and wasn't willing to follow the rules. I frequently fought with my husband over trivial matters and I'd often threaten him with divorce. Even my parents were uncomfortable with my behaviour and frequently berated me. After I started practising Falun Dafa, I learnt that the only standard for measuring good or bad is Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance, and nothing else. Teacher told us, "If your temper is not good, you should change it, for a practitioner must be tolerant." ( Zhuan Falun)

Sometimes after a long spell in which I didn't study the Fa, once I started reading again, a flood of understanding would come up, filling the vacuum that was left by my insufficient Fa study. This enabled me to maintain my righteous belief in Master. Often I would need to write things for Fa-rectification and I would enlighten to so many things in my writing. I was amazed. When I picked up the book to read again I would see all these understandings in the book that I didn't notice before

After the persecution began on July 20th, 1999, the environment for group practice was gone and I began to slack off, too. Slowly my attachment to seeking comfort grew, and the less I did the exercises, the less I was willing to do them. Consequently, my mind was increasingly off track as I dozed off when I studied the Falun Gong teachings or sent forth righteous thoughts. After I became aware of my problems, I made up my mind to see that I do the exercises every day.

When I don't have the attachment, my eyes aren't deceived by a facade. I'm looking at this from the surface level, but if I truly look deeper, I feel I can immediately see the truth and my mind won't be perplexed. When all tests arrive, I can stand outside to look at them, access the situation, and then look at what attachment has been touched. Whatever is touched should then be cleaned. This way it'll be faster and more effective in eliminating my attachments.

Showing off can lead to more selfishness, causing more attachments. The purpose of cultivation is to continue to eliminate attachments instead of holding on to them in our minds. It can cause cultivation insanity to develop in one's own mind. At the same time I also noticed that I am very impatient with others and I have a lack of compassion. I always think that I can point out other people's mistakes very clearly, and I thought that this was the way to assist them. Instead I was pressuring them.

For a few days I was in state where I was unable to think about anything else, unable to do the exercises, send forth righteous thoughts or study the Fa. Then I started to think about why it happened to me as a practitioner. Finally I started to think like a practitioner and came to see that this was a test, similar to the one I didn’t pass at the beginning of my cultivation. It helped me to overcome that period.

His purpose in coming to see me now was to listen to me talk a bit more. I learnt he was a Chinese Communist Party member during our conversation. I told him, "If a person has no future then it is useless to have more money and a car. I can help you to quit the CCP." He happily agreed. On leaving he said, "Over all these years, you are the only good person I have met. Falun Gong is wonderful! Thank you! I will not disturb you ever again."

I arrived in the city and found the practitioner. But I heard that she was also reported to the police. She said, "You can stay with me. If they come to arrest me, we'll say that you're..." A few days later, she was really arrested. Due to my attachment to fear, I was also arrested. Just like that, our notion led to the persecution. Later, this practitioner was sentenced to three years in prison and passed away during medical parole.

Some fellow practitioners living overseas have long neglected the computer security issue, causing all sorts of information to be stolen by those evil individuals involved in the persecution. In reality, that information was making it convenient for the persecution to sustain, which damages efforts to let more people learn the facts. We must awaken on this issue.

Having read my note, Master said with smile, "Tonight, when everyone goes home and meditates, I guarantee that you will be able to sit with your legs crossed." On my way home, I kept thinking about what Master said. After I got home, the first thing I did was trying to meditate with my legs crossed. It was just like Master promised, I crossed my legs with ease, and I sat like that for more than twenty minutes.

Although the new field was a little close to the traffic, when we started exercising and became tranquil, we wouldn't hear anything. After that, we always exercised together at this new field. In addition, more and more people started to join the group exercise—from about 10 plus people in the beginning all the way to more than 100 people later on. During that time, we never stopped group practise, regardless of rain, wind or holidays. Everybody attended the group exercises.

At the hotel I met another lodger, we were the only lodgers there, and we both arrived that day – each of us from different parts of the same planet. At that time I had my own cultivation way and so in the evening I sat to do my meditation. That another man, when saw me in that position, couldn’t stop himself from telling me that we had to be set up together by a predestined relationship – he kindly pointed out this fact to me and he started to talk about Falun Dafa.

The result from the meeting with the man from the press agency was very good: for a rather low price we had access to a satisfactory number of news articles and in addition a picture archive, so we didn’t have to be afraid, whether we will be able to publish a new article each day. It was really like as if there has always been a path for us, it was narrow, but it was possible to pass.

No matter how high a level a cultivator has achieved, he can only see the manifestations at that level. Some understandings at a certain level may be right, but if we are obsessed with such understandings we may not be able to elevate ourselves. If we are attached to our own understandings, we not only cannot improve ourselves, but we also fail to coordinate with each other as one body.

Previously, I could not move and had to lie in bed when it became serious. After two or three months of practising, it completely disappeared and it never came back. I had also suffered asthma since my childhood. Sometimes I would almost suffocate, and it affected me so severely that I could hardly go on. I thought I would not be able live longer than 60 years. Now I am almost 70 years old, I am in good health, and my family members are also benefiting from my cultivation.