Remembering Teacher's Fa Lectures in Qiqihar

Remembering Teacher's Fa Lectures in Qiqihar

I had the enormous good fortune to attend Teacher's Falun Dafa lectures and exercise classes starting July 16, 1993, held in the Electricity Union's Culture Museum in Qiqihar City, Heilongjiang Province. I also attended Teacher's lecture before the class and learned that the reason I had practiced other qigong for many years was to prepare my mind to be able to understand and accept Falun Dafa and then to start my cultivation practice in Falun Dafa.

At first there were not many people attending the class, but the number of students increased each day. All of the additional students were drawn to the class by word of mouth. Even on the fifth day of the class, there were many new students. Teacher looked like a young man in his 20's at the time, yet appeared to be incredibly composed, kind, and respectable. Throughout the class I sat in the first row. I had a tough time learning the third exercise (Penetrating the Two Cosmic Extremes) because I had poor hand coordination. When Teacher noticed my problem, He stepped down from the podium and put his hands over mine to teach me the exercises. Teacher was such a kind man, I thought.

When the class was coming to an end, every student wrote an experience report. I knew I had benefited enormously from Teacher. For example, two days before the class began, I saw a Falun continuously rotating right in front of me at home. I didn't understand the meaning of it until the question and answer session following the class. Teacher explained that He had sent out many Faluns on his way to Qiqihar to help people with predestined relationships to attend the Falun Dafa lectures. In the past I had attended many types of qigong classes, for which I paid a lot of tuition, but I did not learn anything at all. In contrast, Falun Dafa's lectures and exercise classes were inexpensive and affordable but offered many days of class. I felt from the bottom of my heart that Teacher really came to Qiqihar to teach us Falun Dafa and not to make a profit. After the class, I ran into Teacher in the corridor outside the auditorium, and I handed my experience report to Teacher respectfully with both hands.

The weather in northeastern China at the end of July was very dry and warm. Teacher did not ask for anything to drink when lecturing. Every day Teacher brought His own water to class, and He brought only one cup of water.

When the last class ended around 8:30 p.m., the students did not want to leave. They followed Teacher closely, all the way to the door, asking for His autograph. It was raining outside. Teacher had to stand at the door and give autographs under the dim streetlight. Because there were so many students asking for Teacher's signature, the Falun Gong practitioners accompanying Teacher called out loudly, "Teacher has to catch a ride to hurry to another place. Please make way for Teacher." None of us knew at the time that a van was waiting for Teacher to drive Him to Beijing for the next Falun Dafa lecture class starting on July 25 at the Public Security Auditorium for more than 2,000 students. Each time I remember this moment, I cannot help crying. I am immensely touched and thankful to Teacher for the difficulties He endured and overcame in order to teach us Falun Dafa.

14. Recalling the Days of Teacher's Lectures in Guangzhou

When I was a teenager, I wondered why I hadn't been born in ancient India 2,500 years ago so that I could personally hear the Buddha Law. I thought sentient beings could no longer transcend the Three Realms and that we would have to go through reincarnation forever.

In the middle of November 1994, I read Mr. Li Hongzhi's book, Falun Gong, and at the end of the month I was told that Teacher was going to give lectures in Guangzhou. I was asked whether I would like to attend. Without hesitation, I said that I would. At that time I had just a faint feeling that this would be very important to my future.

In December 1994, a few days before the lectures, several of us went to Guangzhou together. All the hotels were full, but the four of us managed to find a very small room with only two beds, with which we were very satisfied.

As soon as we got off the train, we went to the lecture site. In those days, Guangzhou was bathed in a harmonious atmosphere. During the first few days of Teacher's lectures, the entire gymnasium was dusty. After that, the air became very clear and transparent. Teacher told us that for some reason, the class had been delayed for a few days, and many practitioners, especially those from Urumqi, Beijing, and the northeast, had already been there for a long time and had little money left. To make up for this inconvenience, the class time would be limited to a few days. At that time, I was sitting in the stands behind Teacher, and I only had a view of His back. Teacher often turned back and said, "Those sitting behind me will not be left out—they are even closer to me."

Some practitioners were unable to get tickets and were left waiting outside. The people in charge coordinated an arrangement so that some of them could sit on the floor of the gym and others could watch a live recording in the hallway. Afterwards, Teacher went out especially to see them.

Every time Teacher walked into the meeting room, all the practitioners responded with warm applause. After finishing the last lecture, Teacher answered questions from practitioners, and then some practitioners presented Him with flowers and silk banners. It was a very harmonious and wonderful occasion.

When Teacher got to the door to leave, He suddenly turned back to the meeting room, rotated a big Falun in the air, and then pushed it out to us. I didn't realize it at the time, but this was the last series of Fa-teaching lectures that Teacher would give in China.

Whenever I recall this time, I always feel very happy and illuminated by the light of the Fa. "The infinite beauty and wonder is hard to describe with words." ("The Falun World" in HongYin, Version B)

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