(Minghui.org) Many practitioners in China started practicing Falun Gong to improve their health, but it quickly became clear to them that Falun Gong helps them with much more than their physical health.
As practitioners guide their lives with Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, their moral standards improve. This harmonizes their relationships within their family, and with friends and neighbors.
These changes are not going unnoticed. Chinese people are realizing that Falun Gong is not what the Communist regime has portrayed it to be--quite the opposite, in fact.
Here's what one practitioner says about all the ways she has benefited from practicing Falun Gong for 15 years.
I was a tomboy when I was young. I learned martial arts, and I stood up for those who were bullied and protected the weak. As I grew up, my bad temper and outspokenness were as strong as a man's.
I began to have many ailments as I grew older. I tried medical treatments and even different qigong practices. I even considered ending it all when nothing could help me.
In 1997, my husband was given a copy of Zhuan Falun, the main text of Falun Gong. He read up to Lecture Six and stopped. He told me he could not understand it.
I perused the table of contents. Right away I realized that this was what I had been looking for. Believe it or not, just two pages into the book, I felt my body change. I got rid of all the deities' images that I had enshrined. Falun Gong was going to be the only thing for me.
I threw away three big baskets of pills and became very diligent in my practice of Falun Gong. I read the book every day, focused on upgrading my moral character, and lived by the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. Soon my illnesses disappeared, which saved me a huge amount on medical expenses. In fact, I have not spent a penny on medicine in the last 15 years.
Once I had a high fever. I did the exercises the next day, and it disappeared.
I suffered from stomach problems that prevented me from eating food that was too cold or too hard. After I started practicing Falun Gong, cold foods didn't bother me anymore. I could eat leftovers straight out of the refrigerator and drink tap water.
As I was cooking in the kitchen one day, I suddenly had a headache and felt nauseous and weak. I felt as if I was going to explode. As I grabbed the table for support, I asked Master to help me. That was the last thing I remember before I lost consciousness.
My son, who was in another room, heard a thump and came running. When he saw me lying on the kitchen floor, he shouted at me and pounded on the table. I opened my eyes. I had fallen next to the stove. I had left a big pot of boiling water on the stove. It's not hard to imagine what might have happened if I had fallen on the stove.
My son carried me to bed. He noticed that my foot was twisted and there was a purple bump on the sole of my foot. As it turned out, the stove had a gas leak, and I had passed out when I was exposed to it for too long.
I studied the Fa and did the exercises regularly. I asked Master for help. With just one pull on my foot, it straightened and was back to normal. I was able to meditate in the double lotus position again. A week later, I was completely recovered.
In addition to dramatic health improvements, my character changed for the better through practicing Falun Gong.
My next door neighbors always left their trash bin near our house. The garbage would stain our wall, and our front yard was often littered with trash. Naturally, this caused tension between me and my neighbor.
As a practitioner, I cleaned up their front yard whenever I cleaned mine. I would pick up trash in my alley and the next one that my eldest son lives on. My neighbor noticed, and soon my neighbor and others on our alley began to take turns cleaning up. Our alley is now the cleanest in our village.
This neighbor, a security guard, enjoyed getting and perusing Falun Gong booklets and fliers. He often sincerely recites, “Falun Dafa is good.” Persistent stomach problems that once plagued him are now gone.
When practitioners visit me, he advises his wife not to inform the authorities.
While on duty one night, he saw a light on in a Falun Gong practitioner's basement and the door was wide open. He and his team leader went in. They saw bundles of Falun Gong booklets and fliers on the floor. The team leader wanted to report it to their supervisor, but my neighbor stopped him. The neighbor turned off the light as they left without disturbing anything.
Once, after a few drinks, he told me that his stomach problem was cured because of Dafa and he would not let anybody say anything bad about Dafa. He said, “Jiang Zemin is the worst.”
A young man from my village once backed his vehicle into my pedicab and damaged it. He wanted to pay for it, but I refused his offer. He felt so bad that he insisted I at least accept 100 yuan. I told him to give the money to his mother. He thanked me over and over again. I told him to thank Master and Dafa.
The next time I saw his mother, she patted me on the shoulder and said, “Where do we find good people like you nowadays? You didn't let my son pay for the damage he caused. Instead, you told him to give me the money. Thank you so much. Only a Falun Gong practitioner would do such a thing.”
When I bought some spices for Chinese New Year one year, the vendor mistakenly put a bigger bag of spices in my car. I didn't realize it until I got home that night. When the holidays were over, I sent word through a businessman from our village to the spice vendor to come get the spices. The vendor later told me, “I had no clue who took the big bag. Thank you so much. Falun Gong is good.”
As I improve, those around me benefit from Master's great benevolence.