(Minghui.org) I grew up in my grandma's home. One day in the Spring of 1993, I rushed home from school for lunch. To my surprise, I didn't see my grandma in the kitchen, where she was always busy with one thing or another.
Then I heard some nice music from her bedroom. I pushed open the door and saw my grandma doing some movements, and I heard a clear voice coming from the tape-recorder.
I sat down and watched, feeling peaceful and happy. It was a kind of warm and pleasant feeling from my heart that I had never experienced before.
That was the first time I got to know Falun Gong. I was not quite six years old. However, what I saw left a deep impression in my mind and whenever I thought about it I felt immensely grateful to Master.
Qigong was very popular at that time and many people practiced it for their health. My family did the same.
Miraculous Health Benefit
Both my grandparents were suffering incurable Serum Hepatitis and parts of their bodies were always cold and numb. They had tried all kinds of medicines, but nothing helped much and their health went from bad to worse. Just when we felt hopeless, my great aunt from Beijing came to visit our family. She brought a copy of Zhuan Falun and introduced Falun Gong to us. Miracles happened.
My grandparents' various illnesses disappeared. My grandma could read without her glasses, which she had relied on for many years. Health checkups showed that she was clear of all illnesses and was much healthier than most people her age.
She is now 78 and still moves very fast. She does the grocery shopping, cooks for the family, takes care of household chores and looks after the grandchildren. She is so full of spirit that it's hard to believe that she's nearly 80.
My mother's chronic arthritis, neurasthenia and heart disease also miraculously disappeared. I also benefited from the practice and changed from a weak and sickly child to a healthy robust girl, and I haven't had a fever since. Our whole family enjoyed good health and saved the country a lot of money on medical expenses.
People around us all witnessed the wonders of Falun Gong and were attracted to the principle of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. They also started practicing Falun Gong.
Cultivating Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance
Our family was very fortunate to be able to attend Master's Fa-lectures in Shijiazhuang and Jinan. I understood the Fa principles and could distinguish between kindness and evil, good and bad, and I understood the fundamental goal in life.
I am kind to people and always consider others first. When encountering conflicts I always reflect upon myself first and look inward, and always put the Fa principles as top priority. People who know me all say that I'm a person with high morals. Of course I've learned all this from Master's teachings.
When I was in primary school, it snowed heavily one year. One day after a few classmates and I finished our lunch in a small nearby restaurant, we saw a pregnant woman slip and fall to the ground not far from us.
My classmates stopped, but didn't do anything to help. I rushed over and helped her up. She thanked me repeatedly. I made sure she was fine before I turned back.
My classmates said to me, “Why did you bother? You are so silly. What if she falsely accused you of causing her to fall and tried to extort money from you!” Some classmates knew our family practiced Falun Gong and said, “See, people who practice Falun Gong are kindhearted.”
One Another day, when I was cycling home with my classmates, I was knocked over by another bike. The front wheel of my bicycle became badly twisted and the person on the other bicycle fell hard on the ground. I wasn't injured at all and my school bag wasn't damaged either.
I knew Master protected me, as I couldn't have survived the serious crash without a scratch otherwise. I felt very grateful to Master.
The person who crashed my bicycle knew he was in the wrong and insisted on giving me some money for the damage. He told me he was in a hurry and rode too fast. I didn't accept his money and told him to just do what he needed to do. He really appreciated my kindness.
An old man nearby who witnessed the incident said to me, “There aren't many young people these days who are so kind like you.” I pushed my broken bike for over two kilometers before I got home. I felt really happy in my heart because I conducted myself according to Master's requirements.
My Family Fell Apart after the Persecution
On July 1999, the former CCP head launched the persecution of Falun Gong. Many people were deceived by the lies and began hating Falun Gong.
Our family became the target of persecution in our neighborhood because everyone knew we practiced.
Our house was searched and ransacked. My mother was illegally detained and later fired by her work unit.
My grandpa was forced to leave home and my uncle was incarcerated. The neighborhood committee and officers from the local police station often came to harass my grandma and search our house. We were also watched and followed and our phone was tapped.
All the people who knew us kept us at a distance for fear of being implicated. My teacher called me to the office every day to “educate” me and tried to make things difficult for me. My classmates and their parents also criticized me, and they often scolded and slandered me.
All of a sudden, my happy family fell apart as a result of the evil persecution.
Light Shines Through in the Dark Days
In the face of the rampant defamation and slander, I started to clarify the facts to people with my family members. We bought a printer and printed truth-clarification materials to hand out to people. Whenever I saw people slandering Dafa, I would stop them straight away and clarify the truth to them.
When I was in high school, one day I heard my classmates talking about things that were slanderous against Dafa. I walked up and said, “That's not true. Our whole family practices Falun Gong. Let me tell you what Falun Gong is all about.”
They asked me many questions and I answered them one by one. I also told them about the brutal persecution of practitioners and the evil crimes committed by the CCP. After they learned the truth, more than a dozen of them all happily quit the CCP.
I told my classmates not to slander Dafa or be deceived by the evil lies. Later, those who learned the truth and acknowledged Dafa were accepted by key universities even though they were just average students academically, and those who refused to listen to the truth and kept slandering Dafa all failed, although they were top students in our class.
For a while, whenever I went out to do something, I kept running into a classmate who had already learned the truth and quit the Party organizations. I then realized that I needed to clarify the truth to her more deeply so that she could clarify the facts to her parents and help them quit the CCP.
I invited her out for a meal and told her to encourage her parents to quit the CCP. I told her it was a matter of life and death and she must treat it seriously. She was very grateful, and the next day she told me that both her parents agreed to quit the Party.
Little Disciple Has Grown Up
Now, I'm no longer a little disciple, but a young, upright Dafa disciple. I've noticed that most young disciples who obtained the Fa with their parents in their childhood have either stopped cultivation or slipped back into everyday people's lifestyle. I discussed this with other fellow practitioners and started to organize these young people to study the Fa and do the exercises again, so that we can move forward and be diligent together. I feel this is our responsibility.
Nowadays, we young practitioners do group exercise and study the Fa together, and we go out to distribute Shen Yun DVDs and anti-internet blockade software on the street and clarify the truth to more people.
A veteran practitioner came to see me one day and said that a couple in her village were getting married and they were holding a big wedding feast. She said the villagers still had misunderstandings about Dafa and asked me if I could go and distribute Shen Yun DVDs to the villagers.
She asked me, “Are you sure you can do it by yourself?” I said, “I've come to clarify the facts to people. How can I stop halfway through? I can do it.”
I took over 40 DVDs with me and handed out all of them to the villagers. Those who got the DVDs were very happy and grateful.
One person asked me, “Is this against the law?” I said to him with a smile on my face, “Shen Yun promotes Chinese traditional culture and restores what has been destroyed. How can it be against the law?” He accepted the DVD, nodded his head and thanked me. He said he would watch it and show his family too.
With the speedy progress of Fa-rectification, more and more people have learned the truth. Dafa disciples are racing against the evil in order to save more people. We must not slack off, not even for a moment.
Reflecting on what has happened in the past twenty years, I cannot hold back tears as I feel extremely grateful for Master's salvation. Dafa is like a guiding light, showing us the way to return home. We must do well what we need to do and save as many people as we can and return home with Master.
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