(Minghui.org) When I was a child, my father told me many stories about individuals who became better people and attained Buddhahood through cultivation practice. I was always interested in cultivation but did not know where to start.
As I grew up, I heard about all kinds of qigong systems in society, but I felt they were all shams and were scamming people out of money. As a result, I never attended any qigong seminars or performances. Although Falun Dafa was already popular at the time, I did not know about it.
Out of Misery
A doctor in the military Southwest Hospital in Chongqing told my husband about my critical condition right after the 1999 New Year, “Your wife has illnesses head to toe. The tumors in her internal organs have spread. There is nothing we can do because, even if we planned surgeries, she probably would not be able to survive the operation. You should have some plans since she could die at any time.”
When my husband shared the news with me, I was not very upset since I had been plagued with illnesses for almost two decades and I was no longer afraid of death. Nonetheless, I still felt that life was unfair – after suffering with these sicknesses for 19 years and spending so much money in almost all the hospitals I could find, I ended up with nothing except for incurable illnesses. Wait a minute, I thought, “my teeth are still good and they never had problems.” With that thought, one front tooth on the left began to ache and it was extremely painful. I immediately went to the dental department at the same hospital, where many patients were waiting in line.
As I was waiting, someone next to me handed me a book to read. I thanked the person and took the book with both hands. In my mind, however, I knew my vision was blurry due to chronic bleeding in both eyes. How could I read books? Nonetheless, I casually opened the book and saw several large Chinese characters in the center of the page, “Qigong is Cultivation Practice” (Lecture One, Zhuan Falun). I immediately stood up with all cells in my body shaking: What kind of book is this?! How could the book read my mind? At that moment, I saw that every character in the book was as big as a dime. I read several paragraphs without stopping and found answers to the questions that had bothered me for decades. In the meantime I felt ashamed of my ignorance and bias against qigong practice.
By then, my tooth had stopped aching and I decided there was no need to see a dentist because I had something more important to do.
“What book is this?” I asked anxiously. “Can I get one copy somewhere?”
“It is the main book of Falun Dafa. You can have it,” replied the person who gave me the book.
I was so happy and opened it again to read. This time, all the Chinese characters returned to their normal font size. The line in “Qigong is Cultivation Practice” was actually the second line from the bottom of that page. This was a miracle, I thought.
A New Person
Upon returning home, I could not wait to pick up the book again. Inside the cover page was a portrait of Master Li (the founder of Falun Dafa). Master looked so compassionate to me, like a family member I have not seen for ages. I was so excited and my eyes were wet.
With the help of a magnifier, I continued reading and finished the first chapter of Zhuan Falun in a few hours. I suddenly found that I could eat and sleep normally. Because of mouth ulcers, I had not eaten so well for a long time. Due to severe headaches, I always had insomnia and even three sleeping pills did not help. In fact, my insomnia got so bad that my face turned purplish and my head almost exploded. But after reading the book, all this became history.
I went to a nearby group practice site and learned the exercises. All my illnesses were gone within a month. My face turned rosy and my health returned to normal. Without glasses, I could read fine print with no problem. My family was surprised by all these changes. They were afraid this could be my terminal lucidity. I laughed and dismissed that. My husband, however, insisted on an examination at Southwest Hospital. After an ultrasound imaging for a liver tumor, the doctor said my liver was great and there was no tumor at all.
We showed the ultrasound image from one month prior and the doctor could hardly believe it. “Where did you get treatment? Which hospital performed the surgery on you? There is even no scar!” he replied.
I said I had begun to practice Falun Dafa and that was how I regained my health.“The practice is very good,” the doctor said. “Many medical experts and professors here have also been practicing it.”
Twenty-four years have passed and I have not needed to see a doctor even once, because I have been healthy. Although two bad front teeth were removed in the past, two new ones grew last year when I was 76 years old. Right now, all my teeth are great.
Blessings for the Family
My family was impressed by the changes in me, and very grateful to Falun Dafa. I usually do household chores in the morning and go out in the afternoon to share with people information about the practice.
One afternoon in March of the year I began to practice Falun Gong, I met two principals of a local middle school outside my door. “You look so different now compared to three months ago when we met before the winter break,” one of them asked. “What did you do?”
I told them about Falun Dafa and the benefits I received. We chatted for more than an hour and both of them were interested in learning the practice.
As we were talking, I turned my head and suddenly saw heavy smoke coming out of my house. I hurried upstairs and saw smoke everywhere, in the kitchen and the hallway. On the stove, a nine-inch-tall wok was already burning red with the gas burner turned to the maximum. Moving the wok to the sink, I cooled it down with cold water and found the beans in it had already become charcoal. Surprisingly I saw that the aluminum wok had not burned through and there was not even a black stain on the bottom.
It wasn’t until I checked in on my 4-year-old grandson (who lived with me) that I learned what had happened. When I came downstairs to go out about one hour prior, he happened to be going upstairs, where the kitchen was located, to fetch his toys. Seeing the wok with a handful of beans and a little water in it, he turned the stove on to full power.
Looking around the area, I burst into tears for Master’s compassionate protection. Right next to the red burning wok was a wooden window. The window frame was extremely hot, but it did not burn. My home is part of row houses. The structures were old. With such a red wok burning for an hour, it was a miracle that my home and my neighbors’ homes survived.
After Falling from the Third Floor
My daughter said that her father-in-law, Zhu, had heart disease, and she asked me to tell him about Falun Dafa. He had already moved to a small town at the time, but I agreed to visit him.
I left in the morning and it was noon time when I arrived there. There was a railing on the balcony, but it was very low and a few flower pots were next to it. As I reached the third floor where Zhu lived, somehow I slipped and fell down.
I did not know how much time had passed, but I heard my daughter sobbing and calling my name. I tried to get up but felt my body being held down under something. “Oh, she is moving. She is alive!” someone yelled.
“Help! Pull me up!” I called out.
Someone then helped me stand up. And miraculously, I was fine, with no injuries. People around me were shocked.
“You must have been protected by angels,” one of them said. “Otherwise, you probably would have died already.”
“I am a Falun Dafa practitioner,” I explained.
I clearly remembered that when I fell down, a hand was holding my back tightly and did not release me until I was close to the ground. I knew that Master had saved me and helped me pay my karmic debts.
After witnessing this miracle, my son-in-law also bought a copy of Zhuan Falun and became a Dafa practitioner.
Falun Dafa is extraordinary and magnificent, and its mighty power reaches both the macrocosm and the microcosm. The case detailed in this article is just a tiny manifestation of the power of Dafa on the level of the secular world. While Dafa can bring blessings to humankind, Dafa's extraordinariness and magnificence are more for people to return to their true origins.
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