(Minghui.org) I am 74 years old and have never forgotten a story about my family that I was told when I was young, which had been handed down for centuries.
During the Qing Dynasty the emperor Kangxi went to an area between Chifeng and Hebei Province to hunt for wild animals. Kangxi met a lama who was over 90 years old and asked, “What are you doing here?” The lama replied, “The Emperor has allowed us to beg for alms here so we can build a temple in the Chengde region similar to the Potala Palace in Tibet.” Emperor Kangxi asked, “How much money do you have so far?” “Very little, because this is a sparsely populated area,” the lama replied. After some thought, Emperor Kangxi said, “All right, I'll give you 750 acres of land for you and your family to farm. You can use the money you make from selling farm products to build the temple.” The lama followed the emperor's decree. He was well over one hundred years old by the time the temple was built.
When the lama was about to die, he told his three brothers, “I am about to leave you all. Keep nothing else than what is needed for living expenses and give any extra money to the government. Our family will continue with this arrangement for three more generations. After that there will be changes to this arrangement.”
He continued, “However, our faith in Buddha must continue. In every generation one branch of our family will have four brothers while another branch has no descendants. By that time we will no longer need cows for farming and have a different type of fertilizer.”
Then, he foretold that “A saint, whose last name is Li, will come and spread Falun Dafa. At that time there will be no lama in our family, but one of our family members will be practicing Falun Dafa. It is not easy to come across Falun Dafa and be able to practice it. There must be a predestined relation and the person must be well blessed. Be good and follow the moral standard regardless of the time.”
A Myth Becomes Reality
Indeed, in every generation one of us had four and the other had no children. In my generation my eldest brother has no children. I am the lucky one to be able to practice Falun Dafa.
I was asked by my agency to learn qigong in the 1980s, so that I could teach my colleagues later. There were many types of qigong, but none of them could accomplish what it promised. Therefore, I did not want to practice or teach qigong.
My spouse then learned Falun Dafa from his relatives and felt that there was an energy field while practicing the first four exercises. He liked the exercise music also. The only book he had at that time was The Great Consummation Way of Falun Dafa . I read it and found that it really taught a cultivation theory and the exercises were clearly explained.
I began practicing Falun Dafa exercises by following what was said in the book. When I did the exercises, I felt a warm current flowing down from my head to every part of my body. I knew that Teacher was helping me. Two days later, my spouse brought home the book, Zhuan Falun from a Falun Dafa practicing center. I started reading it at 4 p.m. and finished it at 9 a.m.. I could feel movements in my belly and I knew that I was given a Falun.
Experiencing Miracles
During the second month into the practice, when laying in bed, I was not able to move. I felt that the left side of my chest opened up and there were movements in my heart. After a while the opening seemed to have been closed. My own interpretation was that Teacher was healing my heart, because I was suffering from coronary heart disease. After about half a month the same thing happened while I was laying in bed and I couldn't move. This time I felt like a Falun was moving throughout my body. Then, this occurred many more times until 2002, after which it stopped completely. I was so moved by Teacher's great compassion.
Before I began practicing Dafa I had many types of illnesses including a heart problem, high blood pressure and arthritis, among others. After two months of practice, all my illnesses disappeared. I could now walk over long distances without feeling tired. After a physical check-up, the doctor told me that my heart worked like that of a 30 year old person.
There was another incident I encountered in August 2008. I was riding with a friend to a city. We saw at a sharp turning point that a large truck had collided with a farm tricycle. The truck ended up on a slope. Its windows were broken and the driver had fainted with blood running down his face. The tricycle was carrying a full load of corn. Its rear tire was caught by a cement pier, while its front wheels were hanging in the air.
About five to ten minutes, the driver of the tricycle stepped down from the tricycle and took an amulet from his pocket. Tears ran down his face and he said out loud, “Falun Dafa is good. I am grateful to Teacher for saving me.”
Four police officers arrived and one of them asked, “Are you a Falun Dafa practitioner?” The driver replied, “ A lady, who was a practitioner, gave me this amulet. She told me that for my safety I should recite 'Falun Dafa is good' often.”
The officers remained silent after that. A tow truck moved the wreckage. As the driver of the tricycle was leaving, I heard him saying that he wanted to practice Falun Dafa too.
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