(Minghui.org) I had a happy childhood in China. My parents were upper-middle class people in our hometown. My younger brother, younger sister, and I obtained either PhD’s or Master’s degrees. My goal was to find a good husband to marry and to have a good life.
I thought life was as simple as taking a test. As long as I followed what the textbooks said, I would get a high score.
Immigration to the US
My husband and I brought our three young children to immigrate to America in 1999. My husband worked outside for a year, and after that he stayed at home. He tried to create and promote a new invention, but he was not successful.
I stayed at home to teach our children Chinese and help them with their school work. Many years passed, and I worried about our future. But I tried my best to respect my husband.
I stayed at home and did not work. I felt depressed that I had no future and no respectable social status. I also felt depressed about my poor health and rapidly degrading eyesight.
I had attended a qigong group and had read quite a few religious books before I immigrated to America. I also joined a local church for a while, and I took volunteer jobs at the local elementary school and offered free lessons at the Chinese school. All these activities could not improve my mood; I became worried and restless.
My Health Improved from Practicing Falun Dafa
A young Chinese couple became our neighbors in 2004. The lovely wife introduced Falun Dafa and the Falun Dafa DVD to me, and I soon watched the first of Teacher's nine lectures on a DVD. Tears ran down my face because I could feel Master Li Hongzhi’s (the founder of Falun Dafa) compassion. I also had the feeling that Master Li was the highest level Buddha. I had never dared to think about these things before.
As such, I began to practice Falun Dafa. A week later, the bottom of my foot and my ear, which were previously injured, healed. Also the stiffness in my fingers disappeared, and my fingers could move freely.
My children also learned the Falun Dafa exercises with me that day. They told me that they sensed some circles rotating on their arms, and they saw a “big eye.” After studying the book Zhuan Falun, I realized that the circles and the “big eyes” my children saw were Faluns (law wheels) in their third eyes. This was amazing since they had not even read Zhuan Falun yet, and neither had they ever heard those terms before. Thus, I've remained practicing Dafa for the past 12 years.
Practicing Falun Dafa healed my body, stopped my hands from shaking, and improved my lack of energy. I felt that I could do my chores much easier than before. I also threw away all the medicine I brought in China on my previous visit home.
My skin turned lighter and looked more youthful, and my hair became black again. Last year I visited my hometown in China. My cousins were all surprised: They said that I had not aged at all.
Casting Off Old Notions
The most wonderful thing I felt from practicing the Falun Dafa exercises was being in a constantly good mood, and that I became more positive. Master told us:
“Human beings acquire many notions in this world and are, as a consequence, driven by these notions to pursue what they yearn for. But when a person comes to this world, it is karmic arrangements that determine his course of life and what will be gained and lost in it. How could a person’s notions determine each stage of his life? So those so-called "beautiful dreams and wishes" become pursuits that can never be realized, despite painful attachments.” (“Towards Consummation” from Essentials for Further Advancement II)
I read Zhuan Falun many times, and I gradually learned to look within. In doing so, I found I had to remove notions and attachments when I encountered conflicts or tribulations. They were opportunities to remove my shortcomings.
I had formed a notion since childhood that the husband should earn money to support the family. However, I was now thinking positively that because my children did well in school, they could qualify for scholarships. As such, I did not need to worry about it. So I let go of that big attachment, and I had no more resentment toward my husband. I understood that he had a harder time than I did to support our family.
In 2009, my husband went back to China to run his business. Since then, our family has had a good income. This experience made me realize that once my thinking changed, my environment would improve along with it.
Some Miracles Occurred
My husband used to oppose my practicing Falun Dafa. He even hit me once. I asked Master to help me, and as a result, my husband changed his opinion in only one day. He soon started believing in Dafa.
He told me, “I saw Master’s photo, and I wanted to cry.”
Master showed him the consequence of his opposing Dafa: Our family was broken, and the children had no one to take care of them.
He has considered himself a Dafa practitioner since then. He has practiced Dafa's principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance while running his business in China.
Master said: “It is hard in that you knowingly lose your vested interests among everyday people.” (Lecture Eight in Zhuan Falun)
Many of my relatives worried about me; they feared that my husband may have an affair while in China. But seven years have passed, and my relatives in China have commented that my husband is truly a decent man.
I also had a dream that was a hint from Master. In the dream I was scolding my children. From this dream I realized the negative consequences of the way I disciplined them. I began to control my temper and not treat them like I had before.
My daughter joined her school’s orchestra. She once had to move the musical instruments from the classroom to the playground. In doing so, she was standing up in the bed of a truck, and she fell out of the truck, which then ran her leg over. Her classmates were shocked by the incident.
Surprisingly, she got up and ran to the playground and joined the performance. Her pants still had the marks from the wheel of the truck. Her teacher broadcasted her incident, and everyone clapped for her.
My daughter told me later that she was thinking about the performance, although her leg hurt very much from being run over. So she just tried to get up and catch up with her classmates. Master told us: “We have said that good or evil comes from a person’s spontaneous thought, and the thought at that moment can bring about different consequences” (Lecture Four in Zhuan Falun).
I've experienced many other miraculous things during my years of Dafa cultivation.
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