(Minghui.org) The Cultural Revolution started when I was seven years old. Because my parents were intellectuals they were arrested and paraded in public. Our entire family was traumatized. Our school was canceled. One day the head of a Red Guard team saw my drawings on a blank page of Mao’s red book. If my teacher hadn’t protected me, I would have been denounced as an “anti-revolutionary.”
I was anxious every day and my mind became distorted. I gradually became cold and selfish and only cared about myself. I easily lost my temper which caused my family a lot of problems. As I grew up, I slid down with the moral decay in China, and I believed that pursuing fame and material gain was the purpose of life. I sometimes felt this was wrong, but I didn’t know a better way to live. I felt agonized and began looking for the purpose of life.
I always liked to read. I read the books on Buddhism that my mother-in-law had because I always wondered why we were here. I always felt there were other dimensions. I found Falun Dafa’s main book Zhuan Falun in 1995. I finished reading the book in one day and found the answers to my questions. I was shocked, and I realized this was what I had been searching for. I began practicing Falun Dafa and I underwent great changes both physically and mentally.
Dafa Teaches Me to Be Kind
I started to change and became a good person. My mother-in-law lived with us and she prevented my husband from doing household chores. I was not happy. She was addicted to Mahjong and invited her children to come to my home and play Mahjong on weekends and on public holidays. Sometimes they played Mahjong until the early morning hours for two consecutive days. One weekend they were still playing Mahjong when I went to work on Monday morning.
During the Chinese New Year, they played Mahjong for five or six days in a row. I couldn’t sleep but I still had to cook for them—sometimes there were seven people, and sometimes there were over a dozen people. They brought their children who were very noisy and messy. I couldn’t help losing my temper and threw their toys into the rubbish bin.
Nearly every Chinese New Year something bad happened, and the entire family was unhappy. My mother-in-law always got sick after everyone left. She exclaimed that she was exhausted and would never play Mahjong that hard again, but she still played hard the next time there was a family gathering.
After I read Zhuan Falun I knew I should have compassion. My mother-in-law was in her seventies and didn’t like to be alone, she wanted to be surrounded by her children. I should treat her kindly. I no longer lost my temper and handled the situation calmly. I did all the household chores myself and did not complain. I gradually got along with my husband’s family. The whole family was in harmony. My sister-in-law said, “This year we are really in harmony. We never felt so happy. Falun Dafa is really wonderful!” They were touched by the power of Falun Dafa.
As time went on, my mother-in-law became unhappy with her other children. She said that they didn’t care for her because they stopped coming over to play Mahjong with her. She telephoned them but everyone said they were busy and didn’t have time. She knew they weren’t busy but they just made excuses. She gradually lost interest in playing Mahjong. Because I no longer had to cook for the group, I had more time to study the Fa. Because she believes in Buddhism, I read Zhuan Falun to her. She acknowledges that Falun Dafa is good and supports my practicing Falun Dafa. She reminds me to send forth righteous thoughts and praises me highly in front of my neighbors. She is very grateful to Falun Dafa.
My Family Is Grateful to Falun Dafa
My husband didn’t believe in the existence of Gods and made a joke about Master Li’s (Dafa’s founder) photo. As a result, he got bit by a hornet as soon as he walked outside. He quickly apologized to Master. He has been respectful of Master since then, and supportive of my practice.
Sometimes he picked me up from group Fa study when it rained. He said loudly, “Teacher Li asked me to bring an umbrella for you.” The other practitioners laughed. The 610 Office and his company pressured him to force me to give up my belief. He said, “She doesn’t listen to me. She tries to be a good person. I want to learn Falun Dafa but I cannot because I like to smoke, drink, gamble, and chase after women. I’m not a good person so I cannot practice Falun Dafa.” Those officials looked awkward when they heard what he said.
I was held in a forced labor camp for practicing Falun Gong. My husband went to the labor camp and shouted out the names of the director and team leaders and said, “You come out here and listen. Whoever dares to touch my wife, I will not leave your family in peace.” The guards were frightened and ran inside. They looked at him through the windows. I later asked him if he was afraid. He said, “No, I was not afraid because I knew Master was protecting me.” The forced labor camp reported him to our local police station. But he returned home safely thanks to Master’s protection. He made great achievements at work. He told people that he benefited from Falun Dafa.
My husband’s sister looked after her mother and my child and did all the household chores for my husband while I was incarcerated in the forced labor camp. She also protected some of my Dafa books and told her friends that Falun Dafa was good and was wrongly persecuted. She often told me that she was blessed by Falun Dafa.
One day while I was putting the truth-clarifying materials into bags, my sister-in-law helped me and said that she wanted to accumulate some virtue. My husband’s younger sister always said that Falun Dafa is definitely good. She supports me as well.
My family members were not allowed to see me while I was detained. They tried every possible way to see me. None of them ever tried to persuade me to give up my belief. They helped me financially. They are very thankful to Falun Dafa because they said they benefited from Falun Dafa.
Falun Dafa practitioners have never given in despite the severity of the persecution. Master pulled us from the abyss of hell, purified us, and bore the sins we committed in our many lifetimes. He leads us on the brightest path. We are very grateful to Master!
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