PureInsight | June 11, 2001
Although Lena is only eleven years old, she has already practiced Falun Dafa for seven years. Her mother had said that music was a purer, less contaminated discipline than many, so Lena decided to study the piano seriously. To her surprise, her piano studies were not going very smoothly. As she has been ridding herself of emotional attachments, her musical performances have become more and more lackluster. Her teacher said that her playing lacked passion, which is a dreadful indictment for a would-be professional musician. Lena thought about this for a long time. Eventually, she determined that she should study the composers, their music, piano technique and all related things really hard and then try her absolute best to express the essence of the music. In this way she would fulfill her role in society well, as befits a Dafa practitioner.
In May, all of the students, including Lena, had to give a performance as a kind of final exam. On that day, Lena wore a very beautiful formal dress adorned with the small Falun pin that she always wore. Solemnly she walked towards the grand piano. She said to the piano quietly, 'Piano, you must produce your best sound today. Together we are going to tell the people the sublime story of our Teacher.' After sitting down, she gazed off into the infinitely remote sky. Right then, wave after wave of solemnly magnificent celestial sounds rolled in towards her, crossing elysian boundaries. Lena used the power of her heart, her supernormal abilities, and the form of music to praise the great Teacher, manifest the unutterable majesty of Dafa and to tell the true stories of the brave Dafa practitioners.
Everyone in the performance hall was amazed. All the listeners were shaken. The principal of the school, all of the teachers and all of the judges were in tears. The performance hall, the tables, the chairs and the windows cried. The piano cried, too. Lena saw that they understood the story she had told in her music and she cried as well. Later, the judges said, 'This eleven-year-old girl's performance was full of imagination, wonder, and incredible virtuosity. Only through God's hand could she have performed such wondrous music - so magnificent, tragic, rich and passionate. This was music from heaven - it penetrated the heart.' Many of the children in that school had won major international awards but on that day Lena outshone them all as the brightest star. They said to Lena, 'We believe that God is with you.' They were convinced that there was a powerful mysterious force helping her, which they hoped to discover. They wanted to know the secret of Lena's performance and how to tap the source of that power to play in such a deeply touching way.
The success of Lena's performance was not an accident. After the performance, she explained, 'I incorporated my experience in Dafa when performing this piece of Bach's. From the solemn beginning, I played to illustrate our Teacher's nine difficult years of teaching Dafa and the obstacles he faced. Then during my performance, I saw him, radiant, discoursing on the Fa to all the gods in the highest levels of heaven. Later, Teacher said he had decided to rectify the warped law of the cosmos, offer salvation to human beings and to disseminate the highest laws of heaven. Upon hearing this, all the gods tried to change his mind. They said that human beings were too insignificant and had fallen too low to deserve redemption. However, Teacher was very compassionate. He said that human beings were still living beings no matter how low they had fallen and that complete extinction was too tragic to contemplate. In this way, Teacher convinced all the gods. Then he personally drove the Fa-ship down to the earth, passing through numerous difficulties and tribulations on the way. The gods from the heavens also followed Teacher to this world to help.'
'After coming to this world, Teacher spared no effort in going just about everywhere to lecture on the Fa. He offered salvation to one person after another and endured the stupendous karmic load from all these sentient beings. The saddest thing was that most of the human beings were so attached to this maze they could not see its illusory nature. Even more cruelly, just when human beings were waking up, malefic beings in the universe started the extraordinarily brutal and evil persecution of Dafa and Dafa disciples. Even at the last moment of her life, her blood seeping onto the snow, fellow practitioner Chen Zixiu maintained her right to practice Falun Dafa. Watching every practitioner who was tortured to death, Teacher, his eyes red from his tears, urged the remaining practitioners to wake up and be diligent in their cultivation practice. After countless difficulties, Dafa disciples have finally awakened. They follow Teacher's instructions closely and thus are advancing together, hand in hand. They also try very hard to keep their fellow humans from falling over the cliff by bringing them word of Dafa. These scenes came to my mind in wave after wave. I forgot my fingers on the keyboard and my surroundings. I was between heaven and earth, embraced by the great compassion of Teacher. Those types of feeling, that kind of power were far beyond all words.'
To satisfy everyone's curiosity, Lena finally showed them her secret. She pointed to her small Falun pin and showed them her copy of Zhuan Falun. 'This is my secret,' she said, 'I cultivate Falun Dafa and study this precious book, Zhuan Falun.'
Translated from the article at: http://zhengjian.org/sci/sci/home/newscontent.asp?ID=10295
