(Minghui.org) My younger sister believes that Falun Dafa is good. She supports my being a practitioner and has helped many Falun Dafa practitioners.
Remaining Steadfast Despite the Persecution
I am a high school teacher who was frail before practicing Falun Dafa. I was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease at the age of 13, and was suffering from lumbar disc herniation, rheumatism, heart problems and other ailments by the time I turned 23. I was often in excruciating pain.
I found Dafa at a time when I was in great despair. My illnesses were gone after I practiced Dafa for three months.
My family and friends were surprised by how much I had changed. This gave me a perfect opportunity to introduce Dafa to them, and I gave everyone a copy of Zhuan Falun, the main book of Falun Dafa. I told them that they would be blessed if they recited “Falun Dafa is good” and “Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” Some of them became practitioners.
My sister said: “Although I am not a practitioner, I will follow the Dafa principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance.”
After the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) banned Falun Dafa in 1999, I was illegally arrested and detained at a forced labor camp twice because I appealed in Beijing for the right to practice.
While some of my relatives advised me to renounce the practice, my sister encouraged me to stay with it if that was what I wanted.
When I was imprisoned, my sister often brought food and supplies for me and fellow practitioners. She comforted our anxious parents and said: “My older sister believes in Falun Dafa. You will kill her spirit if you deprive her of practicing Dafa.”
She takes care of our parents, which allows me to use my funds and time for Falun Dafa projects.
Protecting Practitioners and Giving Good Advice
My sister does her best to protect Dafa practitioners. When people express doubts about Falun Dafa and practitioners, she will try to untie the knots in their hearts.
For years, my sister has picked up DVDs or other Falun Dafa materials that people tossed away. She has frequently told me what people thought of the content and advised me on how I could improve it.
She told me: “What has moved me the most is practitioners' selflessness. You practitioners do not resent mistreatment and hatred, but continue to do what is good for these people. There are very few people like you nowadays, who risk their lives for others. Dafa is very good. I want to help practitioners with all my heart.”
When a security guard chased a middle-aged woman in the mall, my sister guessed that the woman was a practitioner. After the woman passed, she bent down as if she was tying her shoelaces. The security guard fell over her. My sister then argued with him until this woman left. She convinced him and onlookers that Falun Dafa was good. The security guard agreed to not go after practitioners anymore.
My sister and her son were shopping in the mall one day, when she saw that policemen were following two practitioners. She alerted the practitioners and told them to leave.
When practitioners sent righteous thoughts near a police station, my sister saw a group of policemen walking toward them. She yelled and argued with the officers, distracting them so that the practitioners could depart safely.
My Sister's Health Benefits
My sister's son didn't want to study anymore after he got into a prestigious college. She was upset by this and developed severe heart problems. When I read to her the first lecture of Zhuan Falun, she said: “I think that the book is very good. My heart is deeply moved.”
She dreamed that night that she stood on a grassy bank and saw an old man in a boat. After she got into the boat, the man gave her a flute and whispered something to her. She then moved to the bow and played the flute. It was the most soothing song she had ever heard.
She said to me: “I regret that I can no longer listen to this song.” When I played the Falun Dafa music “Pudu” for her, she said: “This was the song from my dream!”
After she had that dream, she returned to good health. She no longer worried about her son and looks younger and prettier.
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