(Minghui.org) Before the persecution began in 1999, my mother had read Falun Dafa books and was supportive of me practicing the Dafa exercises. Once the persecution began in July 1999, however, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has hysterically suppressed Falun Dafa and made up fake news to slander and frame the spiritual practice every day. My mother was seriously misled and couldn’t differentiate right and wrong in this issue.
I went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Dafa twice. I was seized, escorted back, and detained in a local detention center. I was later incarcerated in a forced labor camp. My mother wrote several letters asking me to denounce Falun Dafa. I disregarded them. She didn’t talk to me after I was released from the labor camp. I didn’t stay home long before I moved to another city.
I was arrested in that city and put into a woman's prison. My mother went to see me in prison. She cooperated with the guards and tried to have me give up my belief. I didn’t go along with it. She knelt there and wouldn’t stand up. The guards lied to her and said that if I did not give up, I would be locked in a brainwashing center after I was released from prison. I said to my mother: “I guarantee that I can go home. They don’t dare to detain me further. They would be violating the law if they continue detaining me.”
The day before I was released from prison, a guard called the local police station. The line was busy and she couldn’t get through. She called the Neighborhood Administrative Office, but they didn’t want to pick me up. The guard had to notify my family that they would need to pick me up. I indeed went home.
My mother was cold to me after I was released from prison. She seemed to resent me. I felt like we were separated. She had two surgeries while I was in prison. She had vomited blood and lost vision in one eye due to an unsuccessful surgery. I felt that her illnesses were retribution caused by her believing the CCP’s lies and her having hatred toward Falun Dafa.
I later found a job in another city. I called my mother every weekend. I brought gifts for her during the holidays to ease our relationship. I hoped that she would listen to the truth.
When Master's Hong Yin III was published, I wanted my mother to read them, because they were easy for anyone to understand, whether they were very literate or not.
I went to see her when I was free. It was hard to make her read the poems herself. She sat on the sofa in the sitting room. I sat beside her with Hong Yin III in my hand. I read the poems in Hong Yin III to her one by one.
After I finished reading, she went to cook dinner. I heard her singing in the kitchen. I had never heard her sing before.
I wrote a statement for my mother while I sat in the sitting room. The statement read: “I hereby declare that everything I said that was disrespectful to Falun Dafa is null and void. I was misled by the CCP’s lies before. Falun Dafa is the Buddha’s Fa. I will support Falun Dafa going forward.”
When she came out of the kitchen, I read the statement to her. I asked her to sign the statement if she agreed. She picked up the pen and signed her name. She looked excited and was pleasant after she signed it. She looked like she was reborn. I knew that Master had saved her.
I told her that she would be blessed by the divine if she repeated the two phrases: “Falun Dafa is good” and “Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” She indeed recited them.
I went to visit her again some time later. She told me that a medical check up had found that she had no longer had high blood pressure, high fat or high cholesterol. During a get-together with her old colleagues, she was the healthiest person. Some of her former colleagues had already passed away and some were so sick they were unrecognizable. I told her it was because she was blessed for reciting the two phrases every day.
I lodged a complaint against Jiang Zemin, former head of the CCP, for persecuting Falun Dafa in 2015. I asked my mother to join me and support us. She agreed without any hesitation.
I didn’t go back to see her for a few years. I went back when she turned 80. I felt relieved when I saw her. She appeared to be in good health and high spirits. Her facial expression was kind. She didn’t look old. I was surprised to see the changes in her.
Her colleagues who came to celebrate her 80th birthday said that she didn’t look old because of her good disposition. I knew it was because she recited the two phrases and was blessed.
Thank you Master for saving my mother who is no longer misled by the CCP and giving her a new life!
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