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Falun Dafa Gave Me a New Life
On my husband’s 60th birthday in the spring of 1998, a lot of my relatives came to our home for the celebration. Everyone was having a good time, but I was bedridden and I had been for a long time due to all kinds of illnesses. I was semi-paralyzed and couldn’t take care of myself.
One of the guests was a distant cousin of mine. We had not seen each other for a long time. I remembered that she used to be very ill and had to take many kinds of medication. She heard about my condition and specifically sought me out that day.
She came to my bed, and I saw that she was full of energy and her skin was glowing. She looked completely different from when she was ill, and she looked much younger than the last time I saw her. I asked her, “What kind of medicine have you taken?” She said, “I am practicing Falun Dafa.” She said that Falun Dafa is a spiritual practice that has miraculous health effects.
She asked me if I would practice Falun Dafa, too. I said, “I’ve tried all the medicines and treatments in the world, and seen all the renowned doctors in the major hospitals. I have also worshiped Buddhas in the temples. But nothing and no one was able to cure my illnesses. How could Falun Dafa cure me? I don’t believe what you said.”
My husband said: “Look, the facts are in front of you. You know that she used to be weak and sick. She would run out of air when speaking. But you can see how well she is now. You really should give it a try.” I said, “I’m paralyzed now and have to stay in bed. Also, I’m illiterate and can’t read. How will I be able to learn the teachings?” My cousin said, “You can listen to the recordings of Master Li’s (Dafa’s founder) lectures. I’ll teach you the exercises after you feel the power of the lectures.”
So I started listening to Master’s lectures while in my bed. In less than a week, I stood up on my own after being unable to get out of bed for a long time. With time, I was able to walk freely, do housework, and even go to the fields to do farm work. After that, my cousin taught me how to do the five sets of exercises. That was more than 20 years ago, and I have been free of illness and not needed to take any medicine since then. I am 77 years old.
Thank you Master for giving me a second life.
Witnessing the miracles that happened to me, all of our families and relatives praised Dafa: “Falun Dafa is good. Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is so good.”
Miracles in Cultivation
I owed a lot of money for my many past medical treatments and I went to the city to work in order to pay off the debt we owed. I found a job managing a bicycle shop.
I didn’t know anyone in the city, so I said to Master Li in my heart: “Master, I can’t read, and I don’t know any of the Falun Dafa adherents here. How can I study the Fa and do the exercises?”
Totally unexpectedly, at about 10 a.m. the next day, my cousin walked past the store where I was working. She saw me and said happily, “I didn’t know you worked here, but when I woke up this morning, I somehow felt that I should come to the city to do some things today, so I came, and I happened to see you.”
She gave me a copy of Zhuan Falun and told me to learn to read it. I said I didn’t know how to read, and she said, “You can go to the local practice site. The practitioners there will teach you how to read, and Master will help you.” Holding the book with both hands, I thought to myself, “How will I learn all the characters in this book?”
I flipped through the pages with my right hand and saw that it was full of golden light. It was during the day, but the light inside the book was many times stronger than the sunlight outside. I looked carefully again, and every page was colorful and glittering with gold. At the time, I thought maybe my eyes were dazzled, so I continued to turn the pages, but they were all the same. I also saw there were Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in the book just like the images in the temples. My excitement was beyond words. I knew that I must be looking at a book from heaven.
Master Gave Me a Place to Store Dafa Books
After the persecution of Falun Dafa started in 1999, I stumbled a lot on the road of assisting Master in Fa-rectification. When I fell, Master encouraged me again and again, gave me hints, and helped me get back on the right path.
I was living alone in 2003, as my husband had passed away and my daughter was now married. One day, the police arrested me and took me to a detention center, where I was mistreated for a month.
When I was released and returned home, I found that the police had ransacked my home and taken all the Dafa books and truth-clarification materials.
My home was empty and covered with dust. I was very sad and lonely, and I couldn’t help but cry. I said to Master, “I am so poor that I don’t have anywhere to hide the most precious Dafa books or the truth-clarification materials for saving people. Whenever I am persecuted, they always take them away. What should I do? Where should I hide the books and materials, so that they won’t be taken again?”
I fell asleep on the dusty bed as I wept. In my dream, I saw Master come to my door. I was very excited, “Master, you are here. Please come in.”
After entering the room, I wanted to ask Master to sit down but realized that there wasn’t a nice chair for him to sit on. I burst into tears and said: “Master, you see, my home is humble. I don’t even have a decent chair for you to sit on. Also, there is no place where I can keep my Dafa books and the truth-clarification materials safe. Every time my home is ransacked, I lose the books and materials. Master, what should I do?”
Master smiled and pointed at the wall between the kitchen and the bedroom. I didn’t understand what he meant, so Master walked toward the wall, and pointed at the wall while drawing a figure of a door frame in the air, at about waist height. The door frame Master drew became a door and the wall around it was all gone. The empty space around the door was glittering with gold light. Next, Master gestured to show me to put the Dafa books and information materials behind this door on the kitchen side, and then he left.
After waking up, I went to see the spot that Master pointed to in the dream. It was the spot where I put the firewood in the kitchen. There was indeed an inconspicuous small container. The bottom was empty. I cleaned it up and stored the Dafa books and materials there from then on. For many years thereafter, until I moved to live in the city, this small cabinet was never discovered by the police. Because Master had put a shield on this cabinet, the police could not see it.
Master: ‘I Have Not Received Your Solemn Declaration’
One time, I was reported for talking with people about Falun Dafa. I was arrested and taken to a detention center, where I was held for more than 20 days. During this time, the police kept threatening to send me to prison if I refused to sign the three statements.However, they would let me go home if I signed it.
Since I was quite fearful, my righteous thoughts were very weak, and I didn’t want to be sentenced to prison and face further persecution. So, against my will, I put my fingerprint on the three statements(because I don’t know how to write).
After returning home, I knew that I had betrayed Dafa and Master. I really regretted it and I was angry with myself. I wanted to admit my mistake to Master and express my firm determination to cultivate Dafa; so I asked another practitioner to help me write a “solemn declaration” and send it to the Minghui website. Afterward, I began to get involved in doing the three things again and didn’t mention the declaration again.
A month later I saw Master again in a dream. He was very serious and said to me, “You haven’t written a ‘solemn declaration.’” I said to Master, “I did. I asked a fellow practitioner to help me write it.” Master said, “I haven’t received it. Go and verify that it was sent.” Master then left.
When I woke up, I recalled the serious look on Master’s face, and I really wanted to cry. I thought to myself, “Why do I always make Master worry about me?” I immediately talked with the practitioner whom I asked to help me write the “solemn declaration” and I told her about my dream. She said that after she wrote it, she gave it to another practitioner to submit it to Minghui. The two of us went to find this person, and she said, “I had a lot of other things that day and I lost yours after doing the other things. I just hadn’t told you yet.” I then stated my “solemn declaration” again, and this time they wrote it down and immediately submitted it to Minghui.
Through this incident, I realized that we cannot casually violate the prehistoric vow that we made to Master, even if someone tries to force us. In another dimension, signing the three statements is actually an act of breaking from Master Li. If we write a “solemn declaration,” it means that we sign a new vow with Master, so that the old forces will not be able to take advantage of our lapse and destroy us.
Assisting Master in Fa Rectification and Fulfilling Our Vows
In 2015, the local police were looking for me after I filed a criminal complaint against former Party leader Jiang Zemin for initiating the persecution of Falun Dafa. I was scared and didn’t want to face the situation. One day in September 2018, I read one of Master’s poems, which is also Fa,
“What’s to Fear?
Should you have fear,it will seize upon youIf thoughts are righteous,evil will collapseThe cultivator’s mindis loaded with FaSend righteous thoughts,and rotten demons explodeGods walk the earth,validating the Fa”(Hong Yin II)
I thought to myself, “I am a Dafa disciple and Master has given me a second life. I should validate the Fa and save the police officers who are looking for me. What am I afraid of?”
As soon as my righteous thoughts surfaced, I packed some truth-clarification materials in a satchel and took a taxi to the police station. The materials included the brochure that talks about the retributions received by people who committed crimes against Dafa disciples, Minghui Weekly, Sentient Beings of Heaven and Earth, and others.
The director, one of the deputy directors, and another police officer were at the police station. I put the satchel on the desk and without waiting for them to speak, I directly introduced myself to the director and said to him: “From 2015 until now, you have been looking for me. Today I am here to save you and tell you the truth about Falun Dafa. Since I am illiterate, I am afraid that I will not explain things clearly or comprehensively, so I brought these brochures and other materials for you to read. I hope you will look at them carefully. I sincerely hope that you all have a bright future.” I then took the materials from the bag.
I continued, “Director, I have benefited a lot from practicing Falun Dafa. I used to be very ill and all my family’s money was spent on my medical treatments. But my condition only became worse. I was bedridden and relied on others to take care of me. In order to prolong my life, most of my husband’s salary was used for my treatments. What was left could only support the family for two weeks. In the second half of the month, he had to borrow money from relatives and friends so we could live. My family became a bottomless pit of debt. In the end, even my sisters were unwilling to lend us any more money.
At the point that my family and I became desperate, I began practicing Falun Dafa. It was in 1998. Falun Dafa is a Buddhist school spiritual practice and requires one to be a good person and become a better person according to the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. It has been more than 20 years since I started cultivating, and I haven’t had to take a single pill. It was Falun Dafa that saved my life and gave me a second life. Do you think I can stop practicing? I am telling you my personal experiences, ‘Falun Dafa is good; Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.’ I also want to tell you that the ‘Tiananmen Self-immolation’ incident was staged and fake and everything on TV that smeared Falun Dafa was lies.”
“Director, in order for you to have a bright future, I hope you can calm your mind and read these materials. When you see and understand the truth, you will be saved.” The three of them listened to me quietly. No one interrupted.
I then said: “One other thing I would like to tell you is that if you want to be safe, you have to withdraw from the CCP. You can just think about it in your heart to withdraw from the CCP or its affiliated organizations.” Before I finished speaking, the director grimaced and said loudly, “Do you believe that I won't arrest you and send you to the detention center now?” I was not moved by his words and immediately said to all three men: “Falun Dafa teaches people to be good. Falun Dafa is good.” The director again said loudly that he wanted to arrest me, so I continued to recite aloud, “Falun Dafa is good. Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” I also begged Master to save them.
The deputy director said, “Okay, okay, you have recited it for a while and we all heard it clearly. I’ll drive you back home.” He put the materials back in the bag and asked me to take them with me. I said: “I brought them for you to read so you can be saved. I hope you will keep them. I won’t leave if you don’t accept them. I’m really doing this for your sake, and also for the sake of your family, relatives, and friends. Once you understand what Falun Dafa is, you will want the others to see the materials.” The deputy director said, “That sounds good. Leave these here with us and we will read them.”
Since then, under Master’s protection, I have been righteously doing the three things every day. I carry bags of truth-clarification materials and distribute them along the roads, and in the communities, markets, schools, and so on, happily fulfilling my prehistoric vow to assist Master in Fa-rectification and saving sentient beings.
On the day of a local traditional festival, I distributed a lot of truth-clarification materials and helped over 100 people to withdraw from the CCP and its affiliated organizations. Since then, whether it was the local police, community staff, or village officials, none have harassed me again. Even during the so-called “Zero-out Campaign” in the past three years, they did not come after me.
I can only be more and more diligent and thank Master for giving me salvation.
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