Beijing Practitioners Recount Episodes of Teacher Imparting the Fa

Beijing Practitioners Recount Episodes of Teacher Imparting the Fa

One such experience took place in 1992. An elderly woman who lived in Guan County, Shandong Province had practiced some Taoist cultivation methods. She wanted to follow a genuine high-level master in order to become a qigong master someday. She went everywhere looking for a master, and one day someone introduced her to Mr. Li Hongzhi. She invited Teacher to give a Falun Dafa class.

Teacher was always frugal. After arriving, He changed hotels twice looking for a cheaper place to stay. He then asked whether He could stay in a student's home. The elderly woman invited Teacher to stay with her since she had an extra room in her house.

She imagined that a high-level master would be elderly, so she was surprised to find that Teacher Li was only about forty years old and looked as though He were only twenty. She couldn't help but have some doubts about Teacher. She prepared several dishes for supper, including both meat and vegetable dishes. She thought, “If he only eats the vegetables and not the meat, then he could indeed be a high level master. Otherwise he couldn't be one.” When she saw that this master ate everything, the elderly lady doubted Teacher even more. Her heart sank.

After listening to the first lecture, the lady felt that what Teacher had was very profound. At end of the class she said to Teacher, "Young man! Don't talk too high. There are always higher beings and there are higher dimensions! Higher beings are listening!" Teacher didn't answer but just smiled.

When Teacher began to talk about the celestial eye in the second lecture of his Falun Dafa teaching, the elderly lady found the lecture even more profound. She thought, "It's no use even trying to say anything to him!" So she just kept quiet. After she had listened to all nine lectures, she thoroughly understood everything. She realized that she had been using low-level criteria to judge Teacher and that Falun Dafa was teaching people to cultivate one's mind or moral nature. The key to cultivation is to get rid of one's attachments, without any omission. She also came to realize that Teacher was indeed a genuine high-level master and that Falun Dafa was indeed a high-level cultivation practice.

A woman attending the class held in Guan County had a daughter named Xiaolei. She was a pretty and kind-hearted child, but she had a low IQ. One day when the class ended, Xiaolei's mother had her say good-bye to Teacher. She said to Teacher, “My master is inside an ice lake.” Nobody knew what the child was saying and thought that it was only nonsense from a child.

After the class had finished, Teacher went to visit Lingyan Temple with other people accompanying him. On their ride to the temple, Teacher made a motion with his hands when a Taoist cultivator, dressed in a purple robe and meditating, appeared by the roadside, his long white hair flying in the wind. Xiaolei's mother thought he was there to greet them. Teacher said, "He is not here to greet us. I have saved Xiaolei's master. He wasn't in an ice lake, but he was inside an ice palace." People then realized that Xiaolei wasn't an ordinary child.

On their way home, Xiaolei told her mother, "Mama, Mama, you are my treasure, Mother."

When Master and his assistants started to go up a hill, a woman suddenly approached them. She wore a white cloth on her head and carried a jug of water. She just followed the group and did not say a word. The assistants asked her if she was a water seller. She still did not say anything. They wanted to help her carry the water, but she would not let anyone drink her water except Master. She just followed them along the path over the hill. After they came down the hill, the woman suddenly disappeared. Master told everyone she was the gnome of that hill.

In 1993, a Beijing disciple's wife wanted to divorce him because he practiced Falun Gong. One day Master and he had a meal together. He lowered his head and pondered while eating, "How can I deal with it if I get divorced because I practice Falun Gong?" While he was thinking, Master came over and patted him once on his shoulder. He felt he understood everything immediately and was suddenly enlightened.

Later on Master said in class,

“Some couples almost get divorced because of disputes over qigong practice. Many people have not thought about why this situation takes place. If you ask your spouse later: 'Why do you get so upset if I practice qigong?' he or she cannot explain it and will really be out of reasons. 'Really, why did I become so angry and worked up at that time?' Actually, what's the matter? While one is practicing qigong, one's karma must be transformed. You will not gain without loss, and what you lose are bad things. You must sacrifice.” (“Transformation of Karma” in Zhuan Falun)

One practitioner attended the thirteenth class, held in Beijing. In that class, Master told everyone that Falun Gong is not for healing illnesses.

However, this practitioner had come to the class with the intention of have her illnesses healed. When she practiced another qigong system before, a snake possessed her. She did not tell Master. She also did not give up the thought of healing her illness. When the class was over, she did not move in her seat, thinking, "I will just stay here and not leave, and I will see if you (Master) can heal my illness or not." She thought Master would come to ask about her illness if she did this. However, Master did not pay any attention to her and left.

The next day, Master said in class,

“Some people were in great discomfort and would not move in their seats, waiting for me to step down from the podium to treat them. I would not do it. If you cannot even pass this test, how can you still practice cultivation in the future when you encounter many big tribulations?” (“The Issue of Pursuit” in Zhuan Falun)

He also said that he could clean up practitioners' bodies of all bad things.

Later on she gradually understood some of the principles Master taught. She said to herself, “I do not want to have this bad thing (snake possession).” Master did not do anything obvious to treat her, but her illness was gone.

6. "He has deformed his Law Wheel"

At the end of 1993, Ms. Zhang Liying went to attend classes held by Master in the lecture hall of Beijing's No. 2 Artillery Army Base.

A young man sat next to her. The moment he saw her, the young man told her that her legs had undergone surgery before. She was surprised, as it was only a small operation done many years ago, and she wore very thick pants, so how could he know? When she asked, she found out that his celestial eye had been opened by practicing another type of qigong.

During the class, the young man often told her, “This teacher is extraordinary! There are tens of thousands of golden lights behind Him! It is not just us that are listening to the lectures in this conference room,” he said while pointing to the ceiling of the hall, “but a group of people in ancient attire and a group of people in modern suits are sitting there. They all are listening very respectively and attentively.”

After the class, the young man told her, "This teacher explains things more clearly than any other teacher I have ever seen. But I have practiced my qigong for many years and have worked very hard on that. I cannot give it up and I have to continue."

At the next day's class, Zhang Liying heard Master say,

“Some do not listen although I explained it this way; he still practices the other qigong after returning home, and he has deformed his Law Wheel.”

In January 1994, when Sun Xiulan was in her 70s, she attended Master's classes held in Tianjin.

She had had typhoid fever at a very young age and became deaf as a consequence. Many years of hard labor had also given her a severe hunchback.

Because of the deafness, she could not hear anything when Master began the class. She thought, "What is the teacher talking about? I cannot hear anything!" While she was worrying, Master said, "Someone cannot hear, I will let her hear now." After Master finished the sentence, she could hear. She listened very carefully, and every one of Master’s sentences entered her heart. The more she listened, the more she wanted to listen. When the class was over, a strange feeling came over her while she was looking around, so she asked students nearby, "Have I grown taller?" The other students told her, "You have not grown taller, but your back is straight now."

When the classes were over, many reporters wanted to take pictures with Master. Some female reporters wanted to hold Master by the arm. Ms. Sun Xiulan saw clearly from far away that Master did not do anything to embarrass them, but he also did not allow them to do anything inappropriate. Every time they tried to hold Master's arm, Master just stood still without pulling his arms away, and every time they simply failed to grab hold of his arms.

In May 1994, Ms. Sun Xiulan attended classes again in Changchun. Someone else had occupied her seat when she went to the class, so she found a small stool and sat right in the middle in front of the first row. Master took a look at her and said with a smile, "We are all what we are because of a karmic connection."

Some students who were eager to see more of Master often waited at the entrance, but Master always entered and exited the conference room from an unexpected place. We now understand that Master does not pursue either fame or profit and does not allow students to become overly attached to Him. Sun Xiulan never waited by the door, but she always met Master by chance. Master would say with a smile, "We are all what we are because of a karmic connection."

10. Working hard, Teacher forgets the Chinese New Year

Just before the 1994 Chinese New Year, Master held the first Fa lecture series in Jinan City, Shandong Province. One day after the lecture, a Beijing assistant's wife, who was also a practitioner, brought Teacher some dumplings. Teacher asked, "What day is today?" She replied, "Today is Chinese New Year's Eve." Teacher then realized that the New Year was coming and shared His dumplings with the volunteer workers for dinner.

The Chinese New Year (Chinese Spring Festival) is the most important holiday in China. New Year's Eve is traditionally the most important day of the year. Family members gather and have dinner together. Teacher, though, was so busy offering us salvation that He forgot about the New Year's holiday.

11. A lesson learned from carelessly using supernormal abilities for personal gain

In June 1994, Teacher gave the second Fa lecture series in Jinan City. One day after class, Fu Shulian made a pot of tea with boiling water. With the tea pot in hand, Fu Shulian, Fu Rong (a pseudonym), and another practitioner walked along the street. When they reached an intersection, they stopped at a traffic light. Fu Shulian, a veteran practitioner, knew how to use her supernormal abilities. She asked Fu Rong, "Fu Rong, would you like to try to stop that car with your supernormal abilities?" Fu Rong spoke, "Stop" without any hesitation. As soon as the word came out of her mouth, the car suddenly stopped. Fu Rong thought that it was just a coincidence, so she shouted again, "Stop" and another car stopped as she spoke. With a doubt still in her mind, she continued shouting, "Stop." As a result, another car stopped and then another. Fu Rong finally had to believe in her supernormal abilities. In the meantime, she felt something was not right, thinking, "I must have done a bad thing." Fu Shulian and the other practitioner, on the other hand, were very excited and said, "Now we can cross the street." As the two crossed the street, Fu Rong followed behind like a child who had made a mistake.

After they got on the bus and it started moving, the bus suddenly screeched to a halt. Fu Shulian fell down, and the pot of hot tea struck her on the head, leaving her with a bruise and the tea all over her. The other practitioner bumped into the seat in front of her and was in quite a bit of pain. Someone stepped on Fu Rong's foot. All the other passengers were unhurt. Fu Shulian, who had urged Fu Rong to use her supernormal abilities to stop the car, was hurt the most, and Fu Rong, who realized her mistake right afterwards, was hurt the least.

When the three of them got off the bus, Fu Rong started laughing after she saw Fu Shulian with a bruise on her head and water and tealeaves all over her clothes. Fu Shulian suddenly realized what happened and said, "How can you laugh? This is karmic retribution for the bad things that we did."

They believed absolutely what Teacher had said, that after the lecture everyone would have supernormal abilities, but they should not be used to disrupt ordinary people's lives. If they were used inappropriately, one’s xinxing would fall or one’s supernormal abilities would be blocked. The practitioners understood that what they had done was going against the traffic rules. Stopping other people's cars for their own convenience had led to their injuries. Nevertheless, Teacher was still there to protect them because the hot tea did not burn Fu Shulian.

12. "Go home to do true cultivation"

Fu Shulian realized her mistake. When she returned to the class, her bruise was gone. Then she became attached to the fact that Teacher could cure her illness. She mentioned to Fu Rong and other practitioners, "I have to follow Master wherever he goes. If I follow Him, my illnesses will be cured. No matter how hard the situation is I must follow Teacher wherever he goes."

When the class began, Teacher started His lecture by saying,

“There is a veteran practitioner who has already understood my lecture, but she still follows me wherever I go. It will not work if you merely follow me but don't actually cultivate. It would be better to go home to do true cultivation.”

Fu Shulian was surprised. After the class she could not help but ask, "How did Teacher know?"

13. "Who has been doing this kind of thing? Only the two of you, right?"

There is a mountain near Jinan City called Thousand-Buddha Mountain with a ten-thousand-Buddha cave and many grottos and statues. Fu Rong and her classmate were attending Teacher's lectures, and after one class was over, her classmate took her to the Thousand-Buddha Mountain to burn incense and kowtow to worship the Buddha.

As soon as the classmate saw a Buddha statue, she kowtowed to it and said to Fu Rong, "There really are Buddhas on them. I feel they are absorbing my energy. Come kowtow to them, please."

When Fu Rong knelt down on the mat, it felt cold and hard like cement and hurt her knees. She quickly stood up.

In the next lecture, Teacher said to the class,

“You may worship Buddha, but you cannot pray to a Buddha. If you must burn incense and kowtow, I neither oppose nor support it. Who has been doing this kind of thing? Only the two of you, right?”

From studying the Fa, they then understood that a Buddha should give off energy, but only a demon would absorb it. If we don't follow Teacher's instructions, it is really dangerous!

At the Jinan lectures, Fu Rong sat in the audience behind Teacher. One day before the class, everyone was practicing the Falun Standing Stance, Fu Rong included.

Fu Rong's life had been a very hard one. She was employed as an accountant, and her boss had tried to make her forge his accounts. She was honest and refused to comply. As a result her boss stopped paying her wages and dismissed her. Since she was a beginner at Falun Dafa practice, her hands and legs were shaking from fatigue as she did the Falun Standing Stance. At the same time she was thinking, "Why is my boss so bad? He took advantage of me. If I develop supernormal abilities, I will punish him!"

In the following lecture, Teacher talked about unknowingly practicing an evil cultivation way. Teacher said,

“Somebody was practicing the Falun Standing Stance with her hands and legs shaking from fatigue, yet her mind was not at rest and she was thinking, ‘My manager treats me so badly, why can't I develop supernormal abilities? If I develop supernormal abilities, I will punish him!’”

After the class, Fu Rong asked her classmate, “How could Teacher know what I was thinking?” The classmate said, “Before the class, while you were practicing holding the wheel, Teacher passed just behind you while coming to correct the students' movements.”

They then understood that, even though others hurt us, we must still have compassion for them and not be angry with them, let alone retaliate. If a person harbors evil intentions, he will be unknowingly practicing an evil cultivation way. When certain individuals from the Chinese Communist Party fabricated lies claiming that Falun Gong encouraged people to be cruel and that Teacher predicted the end of the world, they intentionally distorted the truth.

15. A lay Buddhist single-mindedly practices Dafa

Puzhi (a nickname) used to be a lay Buddhist. His family members practiced Falun Gong, and he was drawn to the class to learn about it. He listened to Teacher with the intent of judging Falun Gong based on his understanding of Buddhism.

He attended the second series of lectures in Jinan City. In the beginning he continually judged what Master said against his scanty knowledge of Buddhism. At this time Master said,

“Some lay Buddhists have also come. You cannot attain anything if you come with the intention of only giving it a try. The monks in temples have a difficult time saving themselves, not to mention if you are an amateur Buddhist! If I cannot save you, nobody can save you. If you want to practice Falun Gong, you must practice it wholeheartedly.”

These words shocked his heart. He began to set his mind to truly listening to the Fa, and he finally understood that this really was the greatest cultivation way!

After he switched to Falun Dafa cultivation, his former Buddhist companions all rose up against him with vicious words, but they could not shake his belief.

After July 20, 1999, when the persecution began, he was harassed in various ways because he had been the contact person at a Falun Gong practice site. But he has been steadfast in his belief, with a calm and peaceful heart the entire time. Many practitioners observed how he endured and said, "If he refuses to be ‘transformed,’ I will not be transformed; if he becomes transformed, I will not be able to persist." Later on many of these "observing" practitioners could not withstand the persecution and gave up the practice under brainwashing and torture. Puzhi, however, still remained steadfast in his belief.

16. We put down our fans and the breeze blew gently

Jinan City in northern China is famous for its terrible heat. In the summer, it feels like an oven. During the second session of Master's lectures in Jinan, the audience felt very hot and could not help but fan themselves constantly. That day, Master said, “Why don't you all put down your fans.” We all then put down our fans. All of sudden, we felt a cool breeze. We were moved and clapped our hands.

The next day, Master said,

“Yesterday I asked you to put down your fans. People with good enlightenment quality put down their fans and all felt the breeze. But some people still did not listen and continued waving their fans. The more they fanned the hotter they felt... Practitioners should welcome suffering and hardship when they find it. You want to practice but you could not even endure such a tiny bit of hardship?”

17. Master shows concern for practitioners' safety

After the Jinan lecture series was over, Master advised practitioners, "People who plan to travel by plane should change to take trains." Some practitioners asked if everybody who was going to fly had to take trains instead. Master replied that only the people who would fly from Jinan to Dalian had to do so. It turned out that the flight from Jinan to Dalian ran into a severe storm.

Many of the practitioners who had attended the Jinan lectures had planned to fly to Dalian to catch Master's next lecture. After seeing the outcome, practitioners realized that Master had predicted that the evil would try to interfere to stop people from learning the Fa, so Master gave the warning to protect practitioners.

18. Master turns down offers from some people with money

After the Jinan lecture session, Master went to Dalian by boat. All the way to Dalian, five dragons were playing in the river to welcome Master. Practitioners who were with Master were very excited to witness the scene.

After the Dalian lecture series, many rich people offered Master rides with the intention of asking Master to personally treat their illnesses. Master refused them all. Gao Qiuju, who later became an assistant at the Dalian assistance center, said, "Aren't we supposed to raise our level and advance together?" Master smiled and then took a ride with her.

On the way back, rain poured down so badly that Gao Qiuju could not see the road clearly. The situation was quite dangerous. Master then began turning the great Falun. The sky cleared ahead of the car, allowing safe passage, but behind the car the rain fell as hard as ever.

By the end of 1994, Teacher took the trouble to come to Harbin to teach the Fa. During one of the lectures Teacher coughed.

On returning to the dormitory, Fu Rong thought, "How come our Teacher also coughed?" Jing Rong, who was sharing Fu Rong’s room, thought, "Does Teacher also have karma?" During the next lecture Teacher answered the question without anyone asking it. "Someone thought I also have karma. I don't have karma! All these are just something extra."

Fu Rong instantly understood. In giving lectures, Teacher said that we had too much karma and with that much karma we could not cultivate, so Teacher was helping us to eliminate half of our karma. Yet, even the remaining half is still too large for us to bear. It is divided into numerous portions at different stages of our cultivation, which will be used to upgrade our xinxing. Actually, the “half of the karma” that Teacher eliminates for us is borne by Teacher himself!

With the development of our cultivation, especially after July 20, 1999, all of us understand that Teacher has not only borne the half of our karma but also the remaining karma that has been divided into numerous portions at different stages of our cultivation once our xinxing has reached the standards at different levels. As a matter of fact, our merciful Teacher has borne for us everything we have done in the past!

20. "That book is a fake and you have bought it"

A high school teacher named Zhao from Shunyi County in Beijing bought a book called Huangdi Neijing on his way to the ice-hockey stadium where Teacher was giving a Fa lecture. It just so happened that in this particular lecture Teacher was discussing, "Placement of the Mysterious Pass." When talking about the ancient books Teacher said that it was hard for those books to guide people to cultivate any more. Teacher said, “Now a lot of books that have been published are fake. Even that copy of Huangdi Neijing is a fake but you have bought it.” The practitioners who had gone to the Fa lecture with Mr. Zhao were all shocked. After the lecture they all said, "Even though you hid the book in your bag Teacher still found out!"

Mr. Zhao said, "That is not all! I practiced another qigong and my third eye was opened. When Teacher talked about the 'third eye,' I used a method from the other qigong to watch. Teacher said from the platform, 'We are here to teach Falun Gong. If you want to practice other exercises, just leave here and you can do them.'"

21. Why not try to save the dying?

At the Fa lectures in Harbin an unexpected thing happened.

Before one lecture, two people carried in a corpse and asked Teacher to revive it. They made trouble for a long time before they left. That day the lecture had to be postponed because so many students saw what had happened.

After the lecture started Teacher said,

"Here during the lecture I will not only talk about the good things but also the bad things. Just now an old man died. He was very sick and traveled here from Jinzhou. His son and son-in-law tried to send him to the hospital but he refused and insisted on coming here. The old man died on the way and his son and his son-in-law carried the corpse to me and requested me to save him. If he still had breath in him I could help to save him. However, he died a long time ago. If I bring his life back, wouldn’t it damage the status of everyday people? His son and son-in-law are both Falun Gong practitioners. They pulled off the Falun buttons from their clothes and threw them to the ground and said, 'What kind of qigong master is that. On seeing someone was dying he did not try to save him.' I feel very sad that my students would do something like that."

When Jiang's regime began to persecute Falun Gong, this incident was also added to the 1,400 cases fabricated by the Jiang regime to discredit Falun Gong, saying that our Teacher “did not try to save the dying.” However, we are all witnesses. It was a corpse, not a live person. The Chinese proverb “Not trying to save the dying” doesn't mean “not trying to save the dead.”

After the Fa lecture in Harbin, Teacher planned to give a lecture that carried energies. Many veteran practitioners wanted to buy a ticket. Teacher said,

“The veteran practitioners should not go. You have already attended a lot of lectures. If you still want to go then you would prevent many others [from obtaining] the Fa.”

As a result many veteran practitioners gave up their original plan in order to give the opportunities to new students.

Hui Ming went to Teacher's Fa lectures in Zhengzhou City. When Teacher was giving a lecture a violent storm came out of nowhere. The ceiling of the meeting hall leaked in several places. It also caused a blackout, so Teacher could not continue his lecture.

Teacher performed big hand signs. Twenty minutes later the wind died out, the rain stopped and the electricity came back. Teacher smiled and continued to teach the Fa.

At the same time, Hui Ming's husband (also a Falun Dafa practitioner) had a dream at his home in Beijing. He saw Teacher fighting with a black water monster. When the monster found it was no match for Teacher, it jumped into the water. Teacher chased it into the water. After a while Teacher walked out of the water with the dead water monster in hand and threw it onto the shore.

After the Fa lecture Hui Ming walked out of the meeting hall and found that the damage outside was much worse than she had expected. Water was running everywhere, big trees that a man could barely put his arms around were uprooted. Nothing, however, could stop Teacher from teaching the Fa and saving sentient beings.

Under the pressure of persecution and facing an onslaught of slanderous propaganda, some practitioners have entertained wrong thoughts about Teacher and some have even disrespected Teacher. The reason we shared these stories is to make it clear that the greatness of our Teacher is beyond description! What Teacher said in Zhuan Falun is the genuine Way!

Some of the stories that were told seemed like fairy tales. I came to realize, however, that they were all true. We all realized how much Teacher had suffered and endured in order to save us. Our gratitude cannot be expressed with words. Our way of repaying Teacher is to strive ahead diligently so as to meet the standard of a Falun Dafa practitioner and to be compassionate towards others at all times.

Our Teacher has the divine power to eliminate all the evil and demons, and all the mighty virtue to be respected by the gods in all levels of the universe. If we come across a tribulation we must look inside ourselves to find the part that still has not reached the standards of Dafa. Please do not listen to the vicious lies created by the evil and do not use your concepts to judge the moral character of our Teacher, because no life in the universe is able to do so. No one is able to describe the broad-mindedness, selflessness, nobleness and greatness of our Teacher!

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