(Minghui.org) I am 58 years old, but I still remember when I was little and held a naive wish that everyone would live forever without illness, aging, or death. I hoped for this so that I could live happily with my family forever.
When I grew up, my wish didn't come true, and life was not kind to me. I experienced a lot of tribulations. My family life was hard, with constant arguments. My health was poor, and I suffered from inflammation of my reproductive organs, low blood sugar, sinusitis, and varicose veins.
In the spring of 1999, my husband and I visited my older sister. My husband saw a book titled Zhuan Falun on her desk. He told me that he had heard it was very good.
“Read this book so we won't need to argue anymore,” he urged me.
I had doubts that a book could stop our arguments. I enjoyed reading, but I had never read a book that had been able to solve the conflicts in our family. I borrowed the book from my sister and read it anyway.
I have hardly put the book down since. It completely changed my worldview. From reading the book, I understood that human beings live more than one lifetime because we go through reincarnation. The karmic relations between people are accumulated over many lifetimes. You have to pay back in this life what you owed someone in previous lives.
Longevity, promotions, and fortune are all determined by a person's virtue, and that virtue is accumulated in previous lives. Illnesses and tribulations are payback for the karma created in previous lives. It's just like people say: “What goes around comes around.”
Practicing Falun Dafa soon cured my ailments without any medicine. I changed my attitude at work, too. I worked hard and was responsible and willing to accept difficult assignments. When a conflict occurred between me and my colleagues or managers, I remembered to look inward first and to be tolerant. Even if someone wronged me or cursed me, I could keep calm and didn't fight back.
My colleagues and managers saw, through my words and behavior, that Falun Dafa practitioners have a high moral standard. So when the persecution started, they readily agreed that Falun Dafa was good and the Communist Party was wrong to persecute such good people. Many of them have quit the Party and its affiliated organizations.
When I was a warehouse manager at a steel plant, I once noticed several workers from a supplier unloading our order in the wrong location. I told them where they should unload, but they didn't comply and cursed me instead.
I kept calm and reasoned with them. I told them that I didn't return their curses because I was a Falun Dafa practitioner. They were moved. A worker who looked a little older than others commented that he had heard people say that Falun Dafa practitioners didn't fight back or return curses, but he hadn't believed it. Today he met a practitioner and now he believed.
I told them that the Party was wrong to persecute good people and that thousands of practitioners were being jailed and tortured and their families destroyed. The workers all quit the Party and readily accepted DVDs about Falun Dafa.
I worked in a hotel for a while. The general manager once had a conflict with my brother, but he directed his anger at me instead and cursed me in front of many people. I told him to calm down and explained what had happened. But he was irrational and continued to yell at me. I asked his daughter to pull him away.
I talked to him again a few days later. I told him what Falun Dafa had taught me about virtue, karma, fortune, and promotion. I said that every practitioner tries to be a good person in any situation. But if a person curses at another, the person will lose virtue. He apologized for his bad language and said he was moved.
Dealing with my family relationships, I am an obedient daughter to my elderly parents-in-law. My mother-in-law is 89 and my father-in-law is 91, and they can no longer take care of themselves. I feed them, wash them, and trim their nails and hair. The neighbors all say that my parents-in-law are fortunate to have such a good daughter-in-law.
I am tolerant and unselfish when dealing with my brothers and sisters and my husband's brothers and sisters. Some conflicts still upset me very much sometimes, but I remember Master's teachings and take the conflicts and upset feelings I have as opportunities to raise my xinxing.
We now enjoy a harmonious family. My husband and my children have good health and good jobs.
Master Protected Me
I was riding home on a scooter last summer, when a woman on a tricycle talking on her phone made a sudden right turn without turning her indicator on and hit me.
She jumped off her tricycle and asked me if I was hurt. She apologized and explained that she was in hurry to deliver a meal to her child. I stood up and told her I was fine because I was a Falun Dafa practitioner and we were protected by our Master.
I told her to be careful and to remember that Falun Dafa is good. Then I let her go without even asking for her phone number.
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