(Minghui.org) I am a 76-year-old female practitioner. I was once tormented by 11 intractable health problems and suffered unbearably. After I started practicing Falun Dafa in 1995, I recovered from all of them with no medical intervention. I am infinitely grateful to Master and Dafa.
Despite the unprecedented persecution, I have validated Dafa and clarified the facts without fear over the past 20 years. I hope that everyone in the world can avoid the coming catastrophe and choose a bright future.
Validating Dafa at Tiananmen Square
Former Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Jiang Zemin and his followers initiated the persecution of Falun Gong on July 20, 1999. I was very sad to see the CCP’s propaganda slandering Master and Falun Dafa (also called Falun Gong), and I felt, as one of his adherents, that I must stand up and tell people the facts about Dafa and seek justice for Master.
Another practitioner and I took a train to Beijing to validate Dafa in May 2000. Before we got on the train, we saw Master’s image on the locomotive, shining brightly. We were both excited and encouraged. Our righteous thoughts increased, and we had only one thought in our minds: “Validate Dafa!”
After we arrived at Tiananmen Square, I stopped in front of the monument. A young police officer came over and asked me, “Ma’am, are you here to validate the Fa?” I said I was and he pointed and said, “Look over there. There are many people in that area you can talk to.” I walked in the direction he’d pointed and found crowds of people and a police car. I stood next to the police car and began to clarify the truth to the tourists, who surrounded me to listen. The young officer who had directed me listened, too.
“I suffered from 11 different ailments in the past,” I said. “I was in pain and despaired that the doctors could never cure me. But after I practiced Falun Dafa, I recovered from all of them. My family was very happy, and I saved a lot of money on medical bills. After practicing Dafa, I became sincere and kind and especially considerate of others’ needs. I returned any cash I picked up on the street to the owner. My relatives and neighbors respected me, my supervisors were satisfied with me, and my colleagues praised me.”
I told them how widespread Dafa was in my area. Whoever did the exercises benefited from it, and it spread quickly by word of mouth. I recounted countless amazing stories. People who had suffered from cancer recovered. An elderly woman whose back was bent 90 degrees straightened up after three days of practicing Dafa. A blind man who had lost his sight many years before regained his vision. An elderly man who was hit by a thunderbolt remained unscathed. Falun Dafa helped the country and the people, only providing benefits and causing no harm.
I spoke for at least 40 minutes nonstop. Then another police officer came running over with an electric baton in his hand, shouting, “You old woman, I will shock you with this electric baton if you continue talking like this.” He pushed me into the police car with both hands, and I noticed that three practitioners were already in the car. We were taken to the police station near Tiananmen Square. Practitioners from all over the country had been detained. Police officers from all the provinces were there to take the practitioners back to their local police stations.
I was taken to the liaison office in Beijing. An officer locked me in a cell from 7:00 p.m. to 3:00 a.m. He pushed me against the wall, made me stand up straight and not move, then shoved my head against the wall, cursing at me non-stop. Then he asked, “Will you still go to Beijing to petition?”
I said, “If Jiang Zemin continues to persecute Falun Gong, I will. We are good people who follow Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance. There is nothing wrong with that. Master Li is innocent, and the persecution is a crime.” The officer pushed, cursed, and beat me even more frantically. I had a headache, felt dizzy, and wanted to vomit. I kept calm and silently called, “Master, Master.” The symptoms disappeared quickly but then the officer held his head in his hands and screamed, “I have a headache! It hurts so bad!” He pushed me out the door.
The police later took me back to my local detention center. They tried despicable means to make me give up Falun Gong. One day, the police and my work supervisors came to the detention center. I was taken to the hall on the second floor. They called my daughter in and forced her to kneel down in front of me and beg me to renounce my faith. They tied my hands behind my back. One officer kicked me, rebuked me, hit me, grabbed my hair, and dragged me around the hall. He cursed at me and asked, “Are you still going to Beijing to petition?”
I said, “As long as the persecution continues, I’ll go!” He grabbed my hair with both hands, lifted me up, held my legs down, lifted my head up, and said malicious things. I said to my daughter, “My child, your mother is not a coward. Nothing is wrong with me wanting to be a good person. There is nothing wrong with your mother defending the truth. Falun Dafa renewed my life when I was desperate. You must always remember that Falun Dafa is good. Master is great!” The police didn’t succeed, so they beat me, pushed me, and took me back to the detention center. But in a few months, I regained my freedom.
Persecuted for Three Years in a Forced Labor Camp
I went to Beijing to validate Dafa again in October 2001. I was taken to the police station, locked in a small cell, and watched by two officers, a man and a woman.
I told them how great Dafa was, stories about my cultivation, and about Jiang Zemin’s crimes of persecuting kind people. The young policewoman was in tears: “Auntie, what you said is very good. You are like a Bodhisattva. You convinced me. Falun Gong is very good. I will ask my mother to practice it.” She told the policeman, “She is such a good person, we should release her.” The policeman said, “The gate is guarded, and our leader knows this case. She would be in more danger if we let her out.”
“I don’t want to get you in trouble. Please don’t do it,” I said. The policewoman took my hand in hers and said, “We will definitely remember Falun Dafa is good. Auntie, you have to protect yourself!”
I was taken to a forced labor camp and held for over three years. Because I didn’t abide by the camp’s demands and went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution, I was forced to do hard labor and was tortured. I was not allowed to sleep for seven days and nights. During that time, I was not allowed to wash my face or brush my teeth. I was not allowed to see my family for over three years. I was forced to sit in the snow in thin clothes when it was so cold in the winter that dripping water turned into ice. I was forced to stand in the scorching sun in the exercise yard in summer, and I passed out. I was force-fed, and one of my teeth was knocked out. I was frequently tortured for refusing to wear the camp uniform, not writing reports, and not singing the songs that praised the CCP.
Once, the guards locked the practitioners who refused to be “transformed” into a workshop. They held pistols, grenades, and submachine guns outside the workshop and aimed their guns at us. They gave us 30 minutes to consider. We were told we would be tortured if we still refused to give up our belief after 30 minutes. They then hit our necks with books, belts, wet towels, a metal bar, and anything else they could think of. We were hung up by handcuffs, put in straitjackets, and tied. I saw that some practitioners were tortured to death.
In spite of cruel torture, I have always believed in Master and Dafa, and my heart was as firm as a rock. After more than three years, I returned home with dignity.
Truth Spreads Widely: Predestined People Are Blessed
Master has spread the Dafa of the universe to all sentient beings, I want to assist Master to rectify the Fa and spread Dafa widely so that those who are predestined can understand the truth, benefit from Dafa, stay away from the CCP, avoid the catastrophe, and move towards a beautiful new era.
Greatly Improved Health: Old Friend Obtained the Fa
One day, I ran into an old friend when I was clarifying the truth at a market. She spoke to me in a weak voice, holding her lower back. Her hair was disheveled and her face was pale. I didn’t recognize her at first. I asked what had happened to her since I saw her last. She sighed, “It’s a long story. Come to my house, and I’ll tell you in detail.”
I followed her to her house. She sat down and told me that she lived in her daughter’s house because her own home was in disrepair. She’d once had a happy family when she lived with her son, her daughter-in-law, and her grandson. Three generations lived in the same house in harmony.
Unfortunately, disaster struck one day. Villains who claimed they were recruiting for the Shenzhen Acrobatic Troupe took her little grandson away. The family didn’t hear anything from the grandson after that—more than 10 years ago. They reported it to the police, but the police said that there are too many cases of this kind, and it was impossible to file a case and find her grandson.
Her daughter-in-law divorced her son and left the family. Her son’s heart was broken, and he felt lonely. He left home and went to work in a different town. She had to live with her daughter. She cried her eyes out daily. It was as if she was washing her face with tears every day. She suffered from insomnia, heart disease, joint numbness, and pain all over her body. Instead of being sympathetic, her relatives and neighbors gloated at her misfortune, so she did not want to see or talk to them, and she often thought about committing suicide.
She told me, “I trust you the most, and I’ve wanted to see you for a long time, so I could tell you what was on my mind.” I said, “My friend, you are facing adversity only Falun Dafa can help you out of. Since you trust me, I will teach you how to practice Falun Dafa.” She agreed. I went home and got a copy of Zhuan Falun, the book Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, some truth-clarification materials, a DVD player, and a tape recorder so she could play the exercise music. After we watched the truth-clarification video together, she said, “It’s great to practice Dafa! Please teach me how to do the exercises.”
The next morning, we listened to the recording of Master’s lectures together, and I taught her the exercises. When we were doing the first part of the second exercise “Holding the wheel in front of the head,” she said, “I saw a colored ball spinning between my hands, and I felt so comfortable. Today is a happy day. The Fa that Master teaches is so great!”
Within three months she recovered from her illnesses and felt well. She went to the hospital for a checkup and was told that everything was fine. She changed into a new person: her wrinkles became fewer, and she looked much younger—not like a woman in her 80s. Her daughter and son-in-law witnessed the miracle of Dafa, and as a result, they quit the CCP and its youth organizations.
People from My Hometown Have Their Health Restored
I’d like to share another wonderful thing I witnessed. My sister works in a hospital in my city. She told me that a middle-aged man from our hometown had been hospitalized with leukemia. He’d come to the city to work in construction. His condition was very serious. His wife and sister came from their hometown far away to take care of him in the hospital where my sister works. I realized that this was someone from my hometown who had come to hear the truth and be saved.
The next day, I took some fruit and truth-clarification materials to visit him in the hospital. I saw him lying in bed, receiving oxygen. His face was pale. I said, “My friend, a predestined relationship has brought you here. You are in trouble, but I know a way that can bring you good fortune. This is an amulet that can protect good people. It says, ‘Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.’ If you recite these words sincerely, miracles will surely happen. Do you want the amulet?”
He said in a weak voice, “I want it.” He asked his wife to remove the Buddhist beads from around his neck and put on the amulet. He stroked the amulet with his hand, smiled, and began to chant “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.”
I told them the truth about Falun Dafa and the miraculous improvement in my health after I practiced it. He said, “Auntie, you speak kindly, and what you said makes sense to me. I feel so good about what you said.”
I told them about the CCP’s persecution of Falun Gong and the significance of quitting the CCP to ensure their safety. He understood and said, “The CCP is a devil, and I don’t want anything to do with it. I declare that I quit the CCP and make a clean break with the devil!” He put his hands together in front of his chest and kept reciting “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” As he recited, he sat up, and, without noticing, the oxygen cannula slipped out of his nostrils—he felt well again. He said, “Auntie, Dafa is amazing! From now on, I will also follow the principle of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance and be a good person.”
I visited and brought them food and fruit for several days in a row. I gave them moon cakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival. We listened to the truth-clarification recording together and recited “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good” together. A week later, he could eat and sleep well. With tears in his eyes, he said, “I am saved! Falun Dafa saved me, and Master Li saved me!”
He recovered and returned to his hometown. I mailed them more truth-clarification cards and booklets, and they told me that they received them. He called my sister last Chinese New Year’s eve and said that he had recovered his health. He expressed his gratitude to Master Li again and again for saving his life.
My Seriously Ill Colleague Recovered
I’d like to share one more amazing incident. I have a colleague named Daming. He believed in Dafa and understood the truth. After I was detained, he securely stored the Dafa books and materials I had left in the office.
The city where I live was under lockdown due to COVID during the 2020 Chinese New Year. One day, I saw Daming’s wife walking fast, carrying a lunch box, when I was clarifying the truth in the supermarket. I asked her what was so urgent. She said, “Daming is seriously ill. He is in the hospital for emergency care. The hospital has issued a critical illness notice and told us to prepare for his funeral. Of the eight people admitted to the intensive care unit that same day, seven of them have died. Only Daming is still alive.” I gave her two amulets and asked her to recite “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” I said, “You recite the two phrases in the hospital, and I will do the same outside. As long as you recite them sincerely, miracles will happen!”
On the eve of the 2021 Chinese New Year, my daughter said, “Daming called. He wants to come see you.” I didn’t wait for Daming to come to me—I went to his house with gifts. When his wife saw me, she first thanked me, then got down on her knees, put her hands together in front of her chest, and said, “Thank you, Master Li! Falun Dafa has saved my family. If it wasn’t for Master Li, today would be the first anniversary of Daming’s death.”
I helped Daming’s wife up. She told me that when he was hospitalized, most of his organs had failed, and he had phlegm stuck in his throat, which put his life at risk. The doctor wanted to do a tracheotomy but the family didn’t agree. Because he could die whether or not he had the procedure, we wanted his body to remain untouched, and we brought him home.
At home, everyone in the family recited together “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” At about 10 o’clock that night, Daming suddenly coughed a few times and spit out a mouthful of sticky phlegm. A week later, he was able to eat and slowly began to speak. His condition improved day by day, and he gradually recovered. Four months later, when he went to the hospital for an exam, the doctor said, “I thought you had died. I’m glad to see that you recovered—it’s amazing!” They tested him, and his thinking, memory, and actions were all normal. With tears in her eyes, his wife said, “Master Li is the savior of our family, and our family will forever respect Dafa!”
I have realized after cultivating for more than 20 years that practicing Dafa was the best choice I ever made in my life. To defend and validate Dafa is the most important responsibility in my life. To spread the truth and save sentient beings is the best thing I have ever done in my life. Thank you, Master!
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