(Clearwisdom.net) I'm 22 years old this year. When I was 11, I began to practice Falun Dafa with my mom and uncle. At that time, we were all very diligent in practicing. Whether it was windy or raining or freezing cold, everyone did the exercises outdoors. We could truly endure a lot of hardship back then!
However, just over a year later, the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) began to persecute Falun Gong, and, as a result, my mom and I stopped practicing. I didn't pick it up again until eight years later.
Benevolent Teacher Grants Me a Second Life
In the fall of 2006, I graduated from a computer vocational school, and I found a job in a computer company in Shenzhen City. In the spring of 2007, I suddenly became ill. I went to the hospital and was diagnosed with tuberculosis. It appeared so suddenly that I collapsed. I decided to go home to get treatment.
When my parents saw me in that condition, they couldn't help crying. They wanted to take me to a hospital and start the treatment immediately. My uncle and his wife, both practitioners, said to me: "You used to practice Falun Gong. Only Dafa can save your life! If you still want to practice, you don't need to go to the hospital. Let's go to my home to study the Fa and do the exercises." Right away, I told him that I wanted to practice. Despite the opposition of my parents, my uncle took me to his home.
At my uncle's home, I continuously listened to Teacher's lectures, and I finished four lectures. My health appeared to be improving, and I also became confident. Yet my parents did not believe that my illness could be healed only by doing the exercises. They came to my uncle's home and tried to persuade me to get treatment, but I did not agree. Later, they had many of our relatives talk to me to try to convince me. At that time, I had only finished listening to Teacher's first four lectures, and I lacked a good understanding of Dafa. In addition, I still didn't feel very well. It was as if life and death were right in front of me, and I had to decide what to do, plus I lacked righteous thoughts. My dad deceived me, saying, "You can come home to sleep one night, then you can think about it, and we will let you come back here tomorrow." I followed my parents home.
The next day when my uncle came looking for me, my parents had taken me to a tuberculosis hospital, which was located a few hundred li away from our home. I spent two months there, but my illness did not improve nor was I healed. Instead, it became even more serious. I had seven holes in my lung. In addition, I almost developed pleurisy and intestinal purulence. I had difficulty breathing, every move caused me to be out of breath, and my condition was critical. I began to refuse to accept medication, and fought with my parents to go home and do the exercises instead. They had no recourse but to take me home. At that time, I had a tube to help me breathe. I needed to extract water from my body at least once a week. The doctor told my parents that if I didn't return to the hospital in time, I could die.
Back at my uncle's home, as soon as I had finished listening to only one lecture, my dad took me to the No. 309 Hospital in Beijing, where I was hospitalized for six months. My parents spent more than 90,000 yuan for the hospitalization and other expenses. My situation was under control, but it had not changed fundamentally. Noticing that we were deep in debt, also because my parents understood, I talked to them about being discharged from the hospital and they agreed.
After I returned home, I still wanted to cultivate deep down in my heart. Therefore, whenever I had a chance, I either did the exercises or studied the Fa. From the perspective of an ordinary person, when someone with such a serious disease stops taking medication, that could be life-threatening. At that time, my heart was pure enough. Facing life and death, I was determined to be on the side of cultivation. At the time when I was discharged from the hospital, the doctor gave me a prescription for medication, which cost more than 3,000 yuan. I lied to my parents and told them that I had been taking the medication, because I didn't have the courage to reveal to them that I had not. In actuality, I didn't even take even one dose--I threw all of them in a furnace and burned them.
Because I was very firm, Teacher was taking care of me all the time, and my body went through miraculous transformations. After a month, I was almost finished burning all the medication at home. I felt very relaxed and had these thoughts on my mind: As long as any medication existed, there was a factor of admitting to the existence of an illness. If I part with the medication that should the same as parting with an illness, and thus I parted with the trial of life and death completely.
When my dad noticed that all the medication was gone and that I had improved so much, he related it to the medication, and thus wanted to buy more. I thought that I had enough proof to tell him about Dafa, so I said: "You don't need to buy anymore medication for me, I don't need to take it anymore." As soon as my parents heard this, they became very worried and said: "How can you not take the medication? Didn't you get better so quickly because you took this medication for a good month?" I said to them: "Let me tell you something. After I came back from the hospital, I did not take any medication at all. I'm better, because I was doing the exercises and studying the Fa." They were shocked when they heard this. I told them: "That's right. I was afraid that if I told you the truth, you would have forced me to take the medication, so I decided to throw it into the furnace bit by bit every day. It took me more than a month to finish burning all of it." My mom stared at me and said: "Is this true?" I nodded: "Yes, it is true." This miraculous change truly convinced my parents. From then on, I stopped taking any medication.
Later, a few times it seemed as though illness symptoms appeared again, but I realized that this happened only when I was behind in studying the Fa or was reluctant to do the exercises or clarify the truth. I understood that my life span was extended by Teacher, and that is such a serious matter, therefore, if I were to slack off even a little bit, problems could occur. As long as I am diligent and do the Three Things well, my physical condition will be optimal.
Recently, some people introduced me to several single boys, and sometimes the idea of getting married popped up in my mind. Sometimes when I saw girls my age with their boyfriends, I became a bit envious. However, I immediately became alert and warned myself: Your life was extended for you, it's for validating the Fa, not for living an ordinary life.
Validating the Fa and Saving Sentient Beings
I began to do the exercises and study the Fa on a regular basis at the end of 2007. About six months later, the Beijing Olympics began. People from the county got together about more than 10,000 cadres from either the township or the county to monitor and watch Falun Gong practitioners. At every village entrance, under the bridges, and by high-voltage lines, there was someone on duty around the clock. The entire country was in a state of terror.
One time, a village cadre took a few township cadres to my home, asking whether my mom and I still practiced Falun Gong or not. I was very surprised that they knew I had practiced--I was only 11 years old back then! I replied that I did, and then I clarified the truth to them about the fact that those who practice Falun Gong are good people who believe in Truth-Compassion-Forbearance. I told them that the CCP was evil, and that it persecuted so many good people and harvested practitioners' organs while they were still alive. One of them said to me: "What if they were to harvest your organs, would you be afraid or not?" I said: "I am not afraid." From then on, they started to treat me as one of the key people to monitor.
There are only a few practitioners in our village, and my uncle is the coordinator of our town. During the Beijing Olympics, the cadres from the town often came to our town, and sometimes people from the county also came as well. Because I'm young, I don't have as many notions as adults, nor do I have fear. I will clarify the truth to whomever I meet. A person in charge of the town had a fairly good attitude towards Dafa, so I also clarified the truth to him. I took him to my home and played truth-clarification DVDs for him. Within a few days, this person, along with a division manager, the secretary of the village CCP committee and his wife, who had come with him to my home, all quit the CCP and its affiliated organizations.
In our village we planted many vegetables and flowers, so a lot of people from out of town come to purchase them I decided to take advantage of this opportunity and talk to these people and hand out DVDs of the Shen Yun show in order to save these people that have a predestined relationship with us. At the time when I first began to hand out DVDs, I was a bit scared. Someone asked me: "Is this a Falun Gong DVD?" I didn't say anything. Then he said: "If it is, then I'll take it, if it is not, then I don't want it!" At that time, I enlightened that this happened to help me to get rid of my fear and to save people in an upright manner.
One time when I was clarifying the truth and handing out leaflets in a shuttle bus, a chubby person was sitting there and staring at me. I smiled at him first and then said to him: "Looks like you are a manager, are you?" He smiled and replied: "I serve those managers." Then he said to me: "I have a few relatives who are police officers. You are talking about Falun Gong so openly--aren't you afraid that I will report you?"
I was still smiling at him and said: "What should I be afraid of? I didn't do anything wrong. I survived from near death." Then I talked to him about my illness from the past. Everyone of the shuttle bus was listening. At that time, I thought: Teacher and Dafa gave me another life; I want to use my firsthand experience to validate the wonderfulness and miraculousness of Dafa. I said: "I was in pain all the time and I completely had lost hope that my illness could be healed. Compared to just dying in pain, I'd rather practice Falun Dafa. When I began to practice Falun Gong, my illness was healed miraculously. My family spent more than 90,000 yuan, but nothing helped me, I didn't spend a penny, and I became healthy. You tell me, is Falun Gong good or not?"
My heart is very pure, and things such as fame, self-interest, having a family, and happiness in the human world--I have let them go completely. I came to understand that this life is the most precious, and only because I have this life can I practice Dafa and return to my true home. In the future, no matter how many difficulties I might face, I will hold onto it, even if I am the only person cultivating in this world, I will hold onto it. I will treasure more each day that I live in this world, treasure the cultivation opportunity that is hard to come by since eons ago. I will not be unworthy of Teacher's saving grace and the sentient beings in my world.