(Clearwisdom.net) My story started in 1994. One day that May my workplace arranged a routine medical examination for its employees. My husband was diagnosed with early-stage cirrhosis of the liver. The result was actually not totally beyond our expectation. We had just hoped that the bad news would come as late as possible. He had contracted hepatitis B as early as 1968. At that time, he explored all kinds of treatments in vain. Afterwards, we could do nothing but leave it to destiny. In the past twenty-plus years, my husband had not lived one day without liver pain.
My husband also smoked a pack of cigarettes every day. And that is already after I controlled his daily amount. Otherwise, he would have smoked even more. When he was writing articles, he smoked cigarette after cigarette, nonstop. He suffered from a gastric ulcer and tracheitis in addition to the cirrhosis, so smoking was equivalent to suicide. My husband was determined to eliminate the habit of smoking, but failed after multiple tries. In the end, he smoked even more than before. I felt helpless and hopeless.
The situation continued until spring 1996, when my husband's health deteriorated severely. A kind-hearted friend talked to him about practicing Falun Gong and gave him a copy of the book Zhuan Falun. The friend said, "Please read this book. It is guaranteed to be beneficial to you. It is not a typical qigong book." My husband opened the book and immediately saw the photo of Teacher Li Hongzhi. He couldn't wait, and he read the entire the book without meals or sleep. When he was reading Lecture 7 of Zhuan Falun,
"See yourself as a cultivator, and treat it as an attachment today and try to quit, see if you can quit. If you really want to cultivate I urge you to quit smoking today, and I guarantee you can quit. In the field of this class nobody thinks of smoking. If you want to quit, I guarantee you can quit, and when you next pick up a cigarette it won't taste right. Reading this talk in the book has the same effect." (Zhuan Falun, 2003 official version)
After reading this, my husband lit up a cigarette and smoked a couple times. Just as Teacher said in the book, it didn't taste right, and he threw the cigarette away. After a while, he lit up another one and it too didn't taste right. After a while, he lit up yet another one and it also didn't taste right. In the following several days, he kept trying cigarettes, and he always ended up throwing the cigarette away after one puff. He then said to me like a child, "You should practice Falun Gong too. This book is so miraculous! By just reading the book, I have quit smoking. I don't want to smoke any more." At first I was a little suspicious, but after a week passed and then a month passed, I could see that he really had quit smoking.
From this point on, my husband studied the book and practiced the exercises every day. He enjoyed being in a really good mood, and his liver pain disappeared without his noticing. His stomach no longer was bloated, and his tracheitis disappeared as well. His face turned radiant, with a healthy blushing color. He was like a young man with a strong and healthy body.
I would now like to share the miracles that I experienced.
After witnessing my husband quit smoking, I felt the miraculous nature of Dafa. The group practice site was right under my residential building. I learned the five exercises but didn't find the courage and willpower to truly start practicing Falun Gong. I had a strong attachment to money. I gave up the opportunity to be promoted to a higher rank and retired at an early age so I would earn a monthly income of over 3,000 yuan. I was so busy every day making money. My situation was just like the saying, "Human beings die in pursuit of wealth; birds die in pursuit of food."
One night in October 1996, my back ached severely and one simple move would cause horrible pain, as if my back was going to break. I had to be helped into bed, and the next morning I couldn't get out of bed. My husband said, "Don't give up your health and life for money. You should start practicing Falun Gong right away." I replied, "How can I practice Falun Gong like this?" He said, "As long as you practice Falun Gong, a miracle will happen." The next day my husband helped me out of bed and helped me stand up. With his help at each step, I walked slowly to the group practice site. As the exercise music started, my back felt like there was cold wind blowing out of it. When I did the first set of exercises, I didn't dare to stretch my body. During the fourth exercise set, I was bent down and squatting, having forgotten all about my pain, and not understanding how I did it. After doing all of the exercises, my body felt so light, and I could walk up stairs unassisted. Although I could still feel a thread of pain in the left side of my back, it was a hundred times better than when I was going down stairs. The next day when I went to the group practice again, my pain totally disappeared. Since then I have been truly practicing Falun Gong.
I have experienced many such miracles along my path of cultivation. For example, my stubborn heart disease was completely cured by practicing Falun Gong. After hearing what has happened to me and my husband, don't you agree that Falun Gong is miraculous?
July 7, 2010
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