(Minghui.org) Every Falun Dafa practitioner has a unique story about how he or she started the cultivation practice. The same is true with the three generations of my family. Today I would like to share our experience and hope that people with a predestined relationship will take up this precious opportunity.
Tormented by Disease
In 1998, I was experiencing early menopause and had symptoms of heart palpitations, shortness of breath, breast enlargement, and insomnia. I tried all sorts of medical treatments, but nothing helped. Just four months later, friends said that it was difficult to recognize me.
Fascinated by Falun Dafa's Principles
About this time, a neighbor visited me and gave me Falun Dafa's main text, Zhuan Falun. I was captivated by the first subtitle of Lecture One and it penetrated into my heart— “Genuinely Guiding People Toward High Levels.”
I was enthusiastic about qigong in the latter part of the Cultural Revolution. I pursued this for 20 years, going from one qigong system to another, looking for a teacher that could answer my questions and guide me toward high levels.
I spent two nights reading Zhuan Falun and my view of the world changed. I decided to give up what I had learned before in other practices and take up Falun Dafa.
The book solved all the puzzling questions in my life. I read the book again and again, and still felt it was not enough. Such a feeling had never happened to me while reading other books. It's difficult to describe my joy, shock, and eagerness to know more about Falun Dafa.
Health Recovers after Practice in Falun Dafa
Several days after I began doing the Falun Dafa exercises, all of the menopausal symptoms disappeared. I was amazed and became more determined in Dafa.
About a month later, my back developed bumps the thickness of a coin. I felt very itchy. My skin had no feeling even when I scratched it. I was aware that Teacher was cleansing my body. I continued studying the Fa and doing the exercises. The bumps disappeared in only three days.
After that, my other diseases disappeared, protrusion of a lumbar disc, rheumatoid arthritis, and eye pain. My previous fatigue and intermittent pain also disappeared. Never had I been so happy and felt so light.
The past two decades have been the richest and most satisfying time of my life. Falun Dafa enabled me to understand the meaning of life. I learned how to look inside and assimilate to the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. I became more and more peaceful and serene.
I feel so lucky to be alive at this time when Falun Dafa is being widely spread on Earth. It led me away from atheism, to understand authentic Chinese divine culture, and to walk the path of returning to my origin.
Before my mom practiced Falun Dafa, she had many diseases: diabetes, heart disease, and skin disease. She was already in the late stages of diabetes. Her eyesight was blurred. She had renal failure and had to get up eight times a night.
Switching Her Belief from Buddhism to Falun Dafa
She came to visit me in 2007. I persuaded her to give up her belief in Buddhism and take up Falun Dafa. I also told her Shakyamuni's prophecy about Falun Dafa being widespread today. Finally she agreed to learn Falun Dafa.
Then I asked her to read Zhuan Falun, but she said she couldn't read because of her poor eyesight.
“If you want to cultivate in this school of practice, you have to read this book. Try your best to read it. If you feel tired, just take a break,” I said and left the house.
When I returned at noon, she was surprisingly happy. “It's so miraculous. After I read the book for about an hour, my eyes had no pain. The more I read, the clearer I could see the words.”
My mom was very diligent in cultivation practice. Sometimes she read Dafa books until midnight.
She had worshiped Buddha for many years, but still could not understand the Buddhist scriptures and this worried her. She prayed for Buddha to arrange to have her reincarnated to a good family in her next life, so that she could be knowledgeable enough to understand the Buddhist scriptures.
After she started practicing Falun Dafa, she said, “I do not need to wait until my next life to worship Buddha. Teacher explained the Buddha principles so clearly and I could understand everything in it.”
One day, to encourage my mom to continue her firm belief in Dafa, I told her a story about one practitioner who became healthy after practicing Falun Dafa. Unexpectedly, she looked at me with a pure gaze.
“I do not pursue having my illnesses cured. I have never pursued it. As human beings, who can be free of illness? I have to use this time to practice. Moreover, Teacher told us not to pursue anything.”
She had good news for me almost every day about her getting better: “Wow, I can see your eyes and nose clearly,” or “My skin does not itch anymore,” and “My legs have more strength,” and so on.
Physical Body Cleansed
One night after she had been practicing Falun Dafa for about two weeks, she showed me the arch of her left foot. There was a purple dot the size of a finger nail. I shared with her my understanding as a practitioner. “Just regard it as a good thing. Each practitioner's manifestations are different while his or her body is cleansed.” After that, my mother no longer had to urinate so frequently at night. Several days later that the purple spot also disappeared.
Soon after, she experienced two more times of her body being cleansed.
One time she developed red spots on her chest, arms, the back of her hands, and her fingertips. The spots grew and formed a layer. She felt very itchy. The more she scratched it, the harder and thicker it became. The color darkened.
The layer became like the skin of a crocodile and was very scary looking. Miraculously, she was not itchy when she read Dafa books or practiced the exercises. Two weeks later, that layer softened and lightened, then separated into red spots.
Finally her skin recovered completely. Even age spots on her hand faded. This whole process lasted about a month.
A week later, her arms, hands, and neck showed the same symptoms, but this time it spread faster. Within less than one week, a hard layer formed.
It was close to Chinese New Year at the time. My brother was coming for a visit. I knew he would take my mom to see a doctor if he saw her symptoms. I reminded her to pass the test and not to be moved by her son. She said she was quite clear about it.
Five days after the Chinese New Year, my brother insisted on taking her to the hospital. She relented and went with him to see the doctor. She brought back home over ten bottles of medicine for cancer.
She took injections for several days until my brother left, and then my mom seemed to have awoken from a dream. She stopped the injections. This time she did not remain firm in her belief in Teacher and Dafa. Perhaps because of this, it took almost six months for her to recover completely.
Free of Illness and Black Hair Grows
My mom is 84 years old. Soon after she started practicing Falun Dafa, she quit taking medicine. Now she is able to hear and see clearly, and walks very fast and lightly. The flaky skin on her scalp also disappeared and much of her black hair grew back.
When my sister was diagnosed with heart disease, she asked my mom about her heart disease. My mom said, “I had already forgotten about it. I recovered immediately after I learned Falun Dafa.”
My mother's physical health changed my brother's attitude towards Dafa. One time we had dinner with a friend who took insulin before the meal. My brother suggested that the friend try Falun Gong,
“Just look at my elderly mom. She had a serious case of diabetes. After seven years of practice in Falun Dafa, she walks faster and more lightly than me. I was absolutely convinced.”
Taking Personal Gain Lightly
My mom changed a lot both physically and spiritually. She took personal gain lightly after cultivation practice. One time she lost a bunch of new cotton material when she was moving.
My brother said he would confront the moving company. My mom stopped him and said, “Forget it. Just let the person who took it enjoy it. Just let it go.”
This would have been impossible before she practiced Falun Dafa.
My daughter knew that Falun Dafa was good when she was still a little girl. She didn't take up the practice in Falun Dafa, but she could understand and accept Dafa principles. She is very nice and willing to help others. When the CCP started persecuting Falun Dafa practitioners, she stood up and spoke for Dafa.
When she was studying in college, she clarified the facts about Falun Dafa to her classmates.
One time she heard five roommates joking about Falun Gong and repeated the defamatory words that widely used in media. She talked to them in a calm and serious tone.
“Do not discuss Falun Gong like that. Do you know what Falun Gong really is? I know Falun Gong is about the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. My mom is a Falun Gong practitioner. Have you ever heard of those who had been criticized as being rightist? Their grievances were ultimately all readdressed. Falun Gong is now suffering wrongful treatment, too.”
Since then, her roommates never said anything bad about Falun Gong in front of her. I am happy for her because she made a right choice.
She has been living overseas for over ten years. Her health was not good. Whenever I visited her, I urged her to practice Falun Dafa, but she said she was too busy to take it up.
My husband and I went to see her again in 2011. Her health had worsened. She had lost a great deal of hair. She looked bad and had to rely on a lot of makeup.
She rented a larger apartment after we arrived. The night before we moved to that apartment, she said to me seriously. “Mom, I want to practice Falun Gong with you.”
“Sure,” I said. “Let's start after we settle into our new home.”
The next morning she said her neck ached. I was scared when I saw a big bump on the back of her neck as big as an egg. Her shoulder, arms, and back had bumps the same size. They looked soft, but their base was very hard and made her itchy.
“There must be bugs or something in this apartment,” she said. She then hurried to work. It was very late when she came back home in the evening. I asked her about the bumps. She told me they were gone and showed me. They had disappeared!
At breakfast the following morning, she told me the bumps surfaced again, and this time in other parts of the body. Then she went to work. Before I was going to study the Fa, Teacher's words surfaced in my mind:
“When one’s Buddha-nature emerges, it will shake ‘the world of ten directions.’ Whoever sees it will come to give a hand and help this person out unconditionally. In providing salvation to humankind, the Buddha School does not attach any condition or seek returns, and it will help unconditionally. Accordingly, we can do many things for practitioners.” (Lecture One, Zhuan Falun)
That night I explained to my daughter my understanding of the body being cleansed. She told me those bumps were gone again. She was amazed.
Then she started to study the Fa and do the exercises with me. Later on she had bumps again and again for three days, which appeared at her joints. Each time she found the bumps in the morning, which disappeared by evening.
Her health recovered very quickly. Gradually her face looked glossy and rosy. She felt stronger while walking.
This is the story of three generations of my family learning Falun Dafa. I hope it will help anyone who wants to know more about Falun Dafa. Please do not miss this precious opportunity.