(Minghui.org) I started practicing Falun Gong in June 1999. A month later, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) banned Falun Gong in China and started persecuting practitioners who refused to give up their faith.
I was a new practitioner and illiterate and I didn’t know what to do at first. However, with the support of local practitioners, I overcame these difficulties and continued my cultivation. I’d like to share some of the miracles I’ve experienced, and stories of blessings that people received after learning the truth about Falun Gong.
From Being Illiterate to Reading the Fa
Before practicing Falun Gong, I had very poor health and suffered from all kinds of illnesses. I was fond of qigong, so when a friend told me that Falun Gong was not an ordinary qigong and Falun Gong’s Master was not an ordinary person, I was curious and wanted to find out more.
Since I couldn’t read, I attended Fa study so I could listen to other practitioners read Zhuan Falun, the main book of Falun Gong. Everything in the book was so good that I told myself, “I will be a Dafa disciple from now on!” Every day, I did the exercises and listened to practitioners reading the Fa. Gradually my illnesses disappeared, and I became healthy.
After the persecution began, a practitioner told me that we weren’t allowed to get together anymore. I was worried about what to do, being new to Falun Gong and unable to read by myself. So I asked the practitioner for help and she gave me the recordings of Master’s lecture. This was the most precious thing in the world!
I listened to the recordings over and over again and cried whenever I was enlightened about something. I understood that Falun Gong was a Buddha school practice for saving sentient beings, and I had been saved. Later, I was able to get together with practitioners for Fa study. Now I can read Zhuan Falun fluently by myself.
Overcoming Interference from My Family
During the height of the persecution, my family was afraid and wanted me to stop practicing. They tried to prevent me from reading the Fa and even withheld my salary and identity card. One day when I was meditating, my daughter-in-law lifted her leg and was about to kick me in the head, but then she stopped.
Another time, my husband hit me with a mop and injured me. I remembered what Master said, “...suffering is repaying a karmic debt...” (Lecture One, Zhuan Falun)
I realized this may be my debt, so I handed him a broom and said, “Go ahead and hit me again, if you’re still not happy.” To avoid further conflict, my daughter-in-law took me to her house.
I came home the next day, after enlightening that I should see the tribulation as an opportunity to improve my xinxing. As soon as my husband saw me, he ran into my bedroom and tried to take away my Dafa books. I was very firm with my family and told them, “Listen to me! Normally I’d do whatever you ask, but I refuse to stop cultivating Falun Dafa! I will continue doing the exercises and reading the books. No one is to take anything from my room!” From then on, they gave up trying to stop me from practicing.
Letting Go of Grievances Against My Parents-in-law
My parents-in-law despised me when I married their son and treated me badly. Later, my mother-in-law had a fall and couldn’t do any household chores by herself, so she asked me to take care of her and my father-in-law. At first, I thought this was unfair, but then I came to my senses. “I’m a cultivator, so I must follow Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, and treat my elders respectfully,” I said to myself.
I was able to completely let go of my past grievances. I bought them clothes and daily necessities and took very good care of them both. My husband saw how much money and time I spent on his parents and said it wasn’t necessary. I told him, “I’ve learned Dafa, and I must measure myself according to Dafa’s teachings.”
I took care of my in-laws for ten years until they passed away peacefully.
Righteous Thoughts and Actions Result in Miracles
My sister invited her family and friends over to celebrate her grandson’s birth. I thought it would be a good opportunity to distribute truth-clarification materials on the way there.
It rained heavily that day. As I was about to set off in the afternoon, I said to the sky, “Nothing can stop me from delivering these materials!”
I held my umbrella in one hand and went door to door, distributing the materials. Later, I put the umbrella away, so I could use both hands. When turning into a side street, I slipped and fell, but I got up and kept going.
Soon I came to a big road. The rainwater was ankle-deep, gushing down into deep rivers on both sides of the road. It was dark and I was blinded by the pouring rain. I got lost and couldn’t find my way to my sister’s house. I asked Master to help me as I carefully trod through the water, and distributed the rest of the materials to every house on the street.
After all the materials were gone, I suddenly realized that I was standing right outside my sister’s house. Miraculously I was completely dry and the white pants I was wearing were still clean.
Another time, I went to see my brother who was sick, and took more than a hundred copies of Falun Gong materials with me. In the evening, I left my brother’s house and took the materials to distribute in a village over a mile away. I took a shortcut through a cornfield but got lost, so I had to return to the main road.
Eventually, I was able to distribute all my material to the villagers. As I walked back to my brother’s house, my feet were swollen. It had taken me just over an hour to walk more than six miles! When I told other practitioners what happened, they found it incredible, and said that Master must have given me supernatural abilities to walk in another dimension!
Rewards Come from Knowing the Truth
Seeing the changes in my body and mind, my family changed their attitude—from trying to interfere with my practice, to supporting me. Their kindness later earned them blessings.
My father-in-law was a county-level cadre. At first, he thought Falun Gong was superstitious and didn’t believe my explanations. He asked, “During the Cultural Revolution, temples and Buddha statues were destroyed, but where were Buddhas and Gods?”
I replied, “Only the physical statues were smashed, but ordinary people cannot destroy Buddhas!”
He said, “The Communist Party has cannons, planes, and thousands of troops, and isn’t afraid of anything.”
I replied, “People die from natural disasters every year. Can the Communist Party’s thousands of troops, machine guns, and cannons fight against these natural disasters?”
Later, my father-in-law had a stroke and was hospitalized so I clarified the facts to him again. He finally agreed to withdraw from the CCP and even began to recite, “Falun Dafa is good; Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good!” After a while, his drooping mouth and eyes were corrected, and his detached retina was also healed. Soon he was able to walk again.
Another relative had swollen legs. She tried numerous treatments without success. After learning the truth about Falun Gong and the persecution, she started reciting, “Falun Dafa is good; Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” After that, the swelling of her legs went down and she was able to walk normally. She told people that saying, “Falun Dafa is good” helped her legs heal.
My husband has also been blessed, now that he supports me in practicing my faith.
One day when riding his motorcycle, he was hit by a car, but he wasn't hurt at all. We knew that Master protected him.
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