PureInsight | December 31, 2001
1. Several days before I started cultivating, I dreamed that I was running in the mud, only to find that there was nowhere to escape. At an intersection, a tall person stood in front of me and asked me whether I wanted to go someplace, a beautiful place. I joyfully consented because I had no other choices. I think all lives are in the same position where I was in the dream. We can only choose to follow our Master 'to return to our original, true selves.' Otherwise, we will not know where our lives will end up. We have no idea what kind of place we are going to disappear into – it must be to some bad place.
2. After a week of cultivating, a moment before waking up, I saw a beautiful female celestial being sitting at the head of my bed looking carefully at me. She knew I was about to wake up, so she flew to the window, turned around, smiled at me, and then disappeared. Perhaps she is one of my family members in heaven, became aware that I had started cultivating, and was happy for me.
3. Several months later, I dreamed that I was like a rocket shooting upward. I flew so fast that I did not have time to look around. The Fa helped me to swiftly fly upwards. Before I became a diligent cultivator, I had only casually scanned several lectures in Zhuan Falun. But to my great surprise, I had quickly developed the supernormal capabilities of precognition and retrocognition as well as mind reading. For a long time before this, I had dreamed that I was able to fly. But as time went on, I not only could fly higher, but actually descended lower and lower. It is really as our Master said in his speech 'Teaching the Fa at the 2001 Canada Falun Dafa Cultivation Experience-Sharing Conference," 'Actually, my disciples all have abilities -- and this includes students in China and other countries, as well as some new students. They all actually have abilities.'
I know that Master has his reasons for unlocking my supernormal abilities. For one thing, because of it, I began to deeply believe in the great Fa and believe that Zhuan Falun is an extraordinary book. Therefore, everyday I would wash my hands first before opening the book and I would always sit in the lotus position when reading. I did this every day until July 20, 1999. This established a solid foundation for me so when I was imprisoned twice I was able to overcome the obstacles both times. Though after July 20, 1999, I did not cultivate diligently for some time and later was too busy with Dafa work to study the Fa. (Actually this is an irresponsible excuse for myself, not a good reason, and it should not be pardoned.)
Yes, our Master already knows everything, and has already arranged all.
Now, looking back at the road that I traveled, many questions have been answered on their own in the process of studying the Fa. No matter whether I understood a certain level of Fa principle at the time or not, I would always accept it and do my best to follow it because I believed in the Fa. When I reached a certain realm of cultivation, the principles of that realm would instantly be enlightened to me. With no time to think things over, I'd already be at a different level.
4. After cultivating for more than a year, I dreamed that I was in the lotus position, wearing a Buddha cassock, and I flew aboard a train that seemed to be driven by Master. The Fa lets me progress by leaps and bounds.
5. For a while after July 20, 1999, I kept on regretting that I had not been diligent enough and lost faith in myself. In a dream, I was stopped by a huge rock, unable to step over it. I then heard a voice. The voice said, "The sun is going to set soon." After that, thanks again to Master who refused to give up on me and repeatedly gives me opportunities, I was able to diligently catch up and keep up with the Fa-rectification. I'd like to express my sincere thanks to Master for his boundless benevolence and constant guidance. Once in meditation, I saw a huge stone turned to sand; the sand scratched the top of my head and disappeared.
6. While being imprisoned in the detention center, I went on a hunger strike for 16 days. I had clearly and truly seen myself die twice. The body died, but my spirit remained alive. Even after this, something was still chasing my spirit in order to kill it. (Obviously, karma was built upon karma until today. Without Master, how, then, can we have our 'today?' Not to mention the eternal happiness in the future. Our own karma cannot even be paid back with a life.) Many evil people surrounded me. At that time, several fellow practitioners stepped forward and shouted, 'Who dares to touch her?' I woke up sweating, and my heart pounded ceaselessly. After I told the inmates in the cell what had happened, they all thought it that was our Master who had rescued me.
7. On New Year's Day 2001, on the way back on the train from doing Fa-rectification in Tiananmen Square, I dreamed I was a teenager in Xuanguan (the mysterious path). I could not tell if I was a boy or girl. My own house looked like a two- to three-story building on the beach and shone brightly.
8. In June 2001, I was kidnapped and imprisoned in the detention center. I was almost tortured to death, but was still unable to pass the tribulation. In a dream, I met a fellow practitioner who walked with me to the entrance of a passageway. At the pass, it was written, 'A wise person and an average person.' I was about to write the saying of Lao Zi, 'When a wise person hears the Tao, this person will practice it diligently,' because I didn't relate myself to an average person. However, unexpectedly, this practitioner shook his head and said, 'You are not a part of this.' Later on, when reading Master's lecture, I understood that I had already passed the individual cultivation stage.
There were two roads at the passageway. One was easier, but took a longer time; the other one was difficult, but could immediately lead to the end. When I wanted to choose the first road, the practitioner did not move a bit -- perhaps he was suggesting that I needed to strengthen my understanding of the Fa. There is no other choice, or any other way. The evil forces want to ruin the whole human race. Since I chose to come down to Earth, I must be fit to be a Dafa practitioner and firmly defend the Fa. My mind became enlightened and determined.
Therefore, when going through a hardship or tribulation, I felt no pain or barriers -- I unknowingly overcame them. (Often, when we think tribulations are hard, we underestimate ourselves -- at the crucial moment, we forget whose disciples we are. We forget we are gods. Thinking tribulations are hard may also show that our belief in Master and the Fa is not firm.)
After going through the passage, I saw an abbot assigning everyone seats in a big room. I was named as one of those who stepped forward and clarified Dafa before April 25, 1999. But on April 25th, I did not go to Beijing. Obviously, stepping out of humanness does not merely refer to the physical, but to breaking out of humanness with us in the Fa and with our hearts in the Fa.
There was a bunk bed that had three levels -- low, middle and high. I was assigned the high level. (No wonder the old forces were jealous of us. We have really cultivated too easily. Master saves us to high levels without asking us to endure much suffering.) But I could not reach the high level. Then Master strengthened my legs so that they were like two pillars of light reaching to the roof.
9. Now that I've walked out of the detention center, my will is firmer as the tribulations become harder. The more rampant the evil is, the more panic it feels, and the sooner its life will end. I dreamed that my own home was inside the highest and most luxurious building in town.
The above are all my personal understanding. I hope fellow practitioners follow the Fa and vigorously strive forward in Fa.
Translated from:
http://www.zhengjian.org/zj/articles/2001/12/14/12897.html
