(Clearwisdom.net) My mother is eighty-three years old. For as long as I can remember I have never seen her able to stand up straight or say things out loud. Actually, we family members were not supposed to say things in a loud voice because she had a serious heart problem, and a small disturbance could trigger her illness. I recall when I was twelve years old my father and I took my mother to the hospital. The doctor said after the checkup, "Every part of your mother's body is not functioning properly. There is nothing I can do." Another comment we heard was that if she could hear properly she could be disturbed by a voice and would become ill.
In 1997 my sister-in-law was introduced to Falun Dafa. She had the video of Master's lectures and played it on our television for my mother. When she saw the video, my mother immediately recognized that the lecturer was her Master. The very first time she went to do the exercises she heard a very loud "bang" and upon looking up she saw an open door in another dimension and a protective shield was placed around her. From that point forward, she was no longer sensitive to the cold in winter or the heat in summer. Early one morning she wanted to go do the exercises. She missed a step and fell from the third floor to the first. One of her ankles was twisted, but she put on her shoes and went on to join the others to do the exercises. When asked about the pain, she said it was more important to remove karma than to care about the pain. She never missed a day of exercises and Master purified her body. A lot of blood came out in her stool but she was not scared. She knew her body was being purified.
Of course, she was not free of attachments. She had been a chain smoker and regardless of what people said to her, she would not give up smoking. One day she was alone in the house and was starting to smoke when she heard a voice, "I am purifying your body, but you are putting more smoke into it." She recognized that it was Master giving her a hint. She stopped smoking from that day.
In the past, mother had not been on good terms with her daughter-in-law, but after she became a practitioner, their relationship became quite harmonious. She got up early to distribute fact-sheets about Dafa, and when she returned home she brought back breakfast for the children. Her physical and spiritual health were so different from the past that she was truly a different person. Her sons, daughters, sons-in-law and other relatives (about twelve of them) saw the changes in her and also decided to practice Dafa.
After July 1999, when the suppression of Falun Gong began, her family was persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and her son and daughter-in-law were forced to become homeless to avoid further persecution. Some of her daughters are in forced labor camps, and others are in detention centers. Her eldest daughter was so scared that she said she would stop her practice. The 610 Office put the elderly lady into a brainwashing center. Her physical body fell asleep but her primordial spirit remained awake. Whenever members of the CCP talked to her about giving up her practice, she heard only the sound of a dog barking, while her physical body was sound asleep. Finally, they let her go home. When she was lying on her bed at home, she saw many divine beings on the wall laughing. She asked, " Many of my children are being persecuted by the CCP, as am I. Why are you laughing?" Later, she understood that the divine beings were happy for her, because her character had improved and she was not worrying about her imprisoned children, because it was their right not to compromise or agree with the evil people.
She now distributes fact-sheets whenever she can. She is concentrating on saving sentient beings. There are Faluns in front of her and behind her. Whenever a fellow practitioner is being persecuted, she helps by sending forth righteous thoughts. She sees black bodies falling off in other dimensions whenever she sends forth righteous thoughts. Hence, she sends righteous thoughts until there is light in that dimension, and then feels that the fellow practitioner will be freed.
When her niece was about to get married, many girls were helping with the needle-work. One time they had difficulty threading the needles. She did it for them without any difficulty. She loved listening to Master's lectures, and whenever she began listening, she saw many divine beings coming to listen also. She was able to see whatever Master was saying. As stated in Zhuan Falun, "This table is also squirming" and she actually saw the table squirming. She is completely convinced that every word Master stated is truth.
After over ten years of practice, my mother has gone through many tests of her character. She is very firm in holding on to the Fa and now she is in excellent health and well rewarded for her practice.
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