Hello,
I have been an Australian Falun Dafa Practitioner for over two years now and with every moment of my life, I can see how precious this Dafa is and how precious and great Master Li truly is.
My thinking behind this sharing article is to provide my experiences from an early stage where I became more aware of the importance of spiritualism. True practitioners are aware that nothing occurs by chance. In this life and all my previous lives I have worked hard to create a predestined relationship with Master. I am aware of this.
My path toward Dafa started many years ago, I would say about ten years ago. I was 21 years old then. I was becoming more aware of the realities of life, why are we here, what is my role here and many life questions like these. Even though I was asking myself these questions, my life goals were still those of ordinary people.
When I was 21, I was very attached to material wealth, even though I didn’t have much, I had faith in spiritualism but my faith wasn’t the true faith that Master Li teaches us, but the faith that the future will bring me more material wealth. That’s the faith I had. I was blinded by this, but my respect for myself and others was there. Although I wouldn’t and couldn’t hurt anyone, I would compete for fame and gain nevertheless.
It wasn’t until I met a person at work (who is now a close friend) who awakened me to the illusions of living in our society. He taught me many things at his level that started to open my mind and my heart.
Upon hearing his words for the first time, I couldn’t accept this but I accepted at a level that I was prepared to accept it at. My mind and heart were closed. Slowly but surely my awareness grew. My awareness grew to the many illusions we live within, the dimension of illusion. I slowly began to have an interest in documentaries showing the many human tragedies that were occurring. Why were people and Governments doing this to innocent, defenceless people? I could not work it out.
Not so long after, not being able to understand why these sad incidents occurred, my spiritual belief grew. My heart and my spirit were beginning to accept the happenings in this world and I began to accept why I am here but still couldn’t work it out fully.
My spiritual belief start to blossom for a number of years, and I read many spiritual books about topics such as life after death, the third eye, and clairvoyance. I started talking to people who shared the same beliefs.
This was all arranged for me for a course collision with Falun Dafa and Master Li. When I read China Falun Gong, it was like “Wow!! What have I missed all these years?” With every page, with every word Master wrote in China Falun Gong my mind was slowly opening and accepting. I knew I was waiting and searching for this for such a long time. It felt like a thousand kilograms lifted off my shoulders. My search had ended.
Since that time, I have enlightened to many issues, many universal principles and many attachments that I had. I was assisted by my cousin who helped me find Falun Dafa. He searched for a local practice site and when found, we went to learn the exercises.
In my first couple of weeks of doing the exercises, the re-occuring toothache I had and the reading glasses I required were gone. My toothache disappeared and when I put my reading glasses on, I found my eyes were blurry, I found I didn’t need them anymore. These were my first two experiences I had when first entering the teachings of the Fa and Master Li.
I knew after these two experiences that I had indeed came across a great spiritual practice which I was meant to be part of.
At first, my diligence was low, very low. Even though I knew how great this Dafa is, I had disbelief in myself and was going through a test. This test felt like one test that included many tests. I was tested on many things and for a long while, probably 4 to 5 months, this test resulted in my not doing the exercises or reading the book.
This test of my commitment to the practice was enduring and hard at the time but after I passed this test, I started to read the book more. I was amazed and glad, this was the confidence I needed to be able to say “Hey, you can cultivate and what are you waiting for. Continue your cultivation. You have taken some time to reach this stage but you know you can do it. Don’t waste any further time, diligently cultivate as best as you can”.
After this point, I attended the exercises at the practice site again, I read more of Zhuan Falun and Master’s other lectures.
I also started to send out truth clarification material. The funny thing when clarifying the truth is that it felt so strong that Master was doing the work and I was the messenger. The thing I need to do is deliver the message in a compassionate way and concentrate on delivering this message from the heart (cultivating myself), plant the seed of Falun Dafa and leave it up to the person to grow that seed.
My positive outlook increased. My attachment to avoiding indepth conversations with people was lifting and I became confident that when speaking to people I could talk about Dafa and the highest moral code that it encompasses.
I know that when I have the chance to clarify the truth that Master is arranging it for me. I’m thinking when I clarify the truth in a poor manner that I would try and look within and see where I am falling down. I would ask my fellow practitioners for their sharing where I may have fallen down. By letting go of my attachments it becomes so easy to do what we are supposed to do at this level. It becomes very clear at this level.
I have had many miraculous experiences and want to tell them all, but my sharing letter would be too long to read. Falun Dafa is so precious to me that I know within myself how lucky I truly am. How lucky that I have a great Master who looks after us, teaches us, gives us hints when we’re in poor enlightenment situations. I know that I should have the courage to say to people that I practice Falun Dafa and not be ashamed, as this is the most important thing that has happened to me and is the most valuable thing I have.
After two years of practice, I now can say I am slowly walking my arranged path within the realms of Dafa. It has taken me some time to fully commit to Dafa but the more I learn, the more I experience and the more I lessen my attachments the better I feel, and the better I can serve Dafa and not expect to be served.
These are all my own experiences at my own level. I know that when I write the next letter I will have continued to grow in Dafa’s greatness and hope to offer more sharing where I can.
I thank you sincerely for reading all of my letter as I know it is long but I thank you.
Kind regards,
Paul
Category: Cultivation Stories
