(Minghui.org) I began to practice Falun Dafa in 1998. I would like to share my recent cultivation experience and express my deepest gratitude to Master.
I was close to being disabled for quite some time. Every morning, I needed my husband and mother-in-law to help me get out of bed.
One of my acquaintances suggested that I read Zhuan Falun, so I started with Master’s article “On Dafa.” The next morning, I got up and made breakfast for everyone. My mother-in-law came in and asked my husband, “How did you get her up from her bed by yourself today?”
My husband called out to me from another room, and I hurried over, asking what was up. He and my mother-in-law asked me at the same time, “How did you get up?”
I replied, “I have no idea.”
Then it dawned on me: it was Master Li who helped me! I lifted my arms and legs, and my entire body felt light and free of illness. I realized that Master had removed my karma and allowed me to regain my health overnight!
At that moment I decided to practice Falun Dafa, and I felt truly fortunate to be a practitioner.
My eyesight was so poor that even newspaper headlines appeared blurry, let alone the text in books. A practitioner encouraged me to read Zhuan Falun, explaining that it is not an ordinary book. After reading it, I couldn’t agree more.
From the teachings, I understood that my condition was the result of karma from a previous life. I learned about the significance of de (virtue) and the importance of preserving it as a practitioner. I cherished the Fa and read Zhuan Falun whenever I found an opportunity.
After I began cultivation, I stopped selling counterfeit or substandard goods, and no longer took profit seriously. I cherished the opportunity that Master has given me to cultivate and decided to be a full-fledged practitioner.
I began to pay attention to my speech and demeanor, refraining from arguing with our neighbors or any vendors in the market. My husband and I chose to absorb losses to ensure our customers were satisfied, and even our neighboring vendors sometimes sought to uphold justice on our behalf.
Because of our good reputation and successful business, a young vendor became jealous and wanted to push us out of the market. He sought to influence others, but no one paid him any attention; instead, they came to inform my husband and me about what he was doing. We did not hold any resentment against him, as I felt that for him life was not easy.
Later on, the young vendor started selling products similar to ours and expanded his store to surpass ours, but he ended up losing money. He claimed that our store had a better location, without realizing that our business principle was to sell at a low profit without jeopardizing the market prices and that we processed our products in-house.
When our contract expired, we offered our location to the young vendor, giving up the store I had run for 16 years. He and his wife were overjoyed. The other vendors couldn’t understand our decision, and some even said that I had become foolish because of practicing cultivation. I was not moved by their remarks and did not expect them to understand my decision.
Our store was primarily a processing business, with my husband doing processing work in the workshop while I managed the storefront. If my husband didn’t have anything to do, he would sit in the store waiting for customers.
During the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) brutal persecution of Falun Gong (also called Falun Dafa), practitioners frequently came to my store to deliver and fetch truth-clarification materials. They would share their understandings with me, and I took every opportunity I could to tell the facts about Dafa to our customers. My husband was concerned about the possibility of my arrest, so he sometimes objected to fellow practitioners coming to the store.
When practitioners came and saw him, they would only walk outside. So, I would plead with Master in my heart, “Master, please let my husband leave.” It was truly effective: either a customer would come in or someone would need him, and he would leave right away.
My husband was usually very supportive of my practice, and when fellow practitioners came for Fa study, he welcomed them warmly. One time, he had an inflammation in his mouth for several days. He used mouth patches, tin oxide, and antibiotics, but nothing seemed to help. I suggested that he sincerely recite, “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.”
At first, he refused, but the pain became so unbearable that he couldn’t eat or drink. That night, while lying in bed, he began to recite, “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” When he woke up the next morning, the pain in his mouth was gone. He realized it was Master who had cured him.
My son-in-law had gout and was unable to eat many types of food. It was challenging to control his diet because an attack could be easily triggered, making it difficult for him to walk.
I helped him quit the CCP and its youth organizations and advised him to sincerely recite, “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” He began reciting it conscientiously every day. Now he is in good health and eats a normal diet. He has great respect for Master and brings offerings for Master every time he visits my house.
My daughter was raised following the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance, and she has been diligent and hardworking. She was praised by her leadership.
After suffering a miscarriage with her first pregnancy, she was devastated. Shortly after, during her second pregnancy, she was undergoing miscarriage prevention treatment. One night, she had a stomachache and was bleeding heavily. She was so scared that she cried continuously while I talked to her.
I asked her to calm down and sincerely recite, “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness- Compassion-Forbearance is good.” I told her that only Master could save her baby. She listened. Shortly after she started reciting, the bleeding stopped.
I called and told the OB/GYN director about my daughter’s situation. She responded, “It’s going to be another miscarriage.” Since my daughter also had kidney stones in both kidneys, the doctor had warned previously that a miscarriage was very likely.
My daughter went to the hospital for an ultrasound, and the result was: fetal signs of life detected. With tears in her eyes, my daughter said, “It must have been Master who protected the baby. Thank you, Master!” The OB/GYN director found the result hard to believe and said it was a miracle.
I told her it was a miracle created by Master. She responded, “Then let’s keep the pregnancy and continue the miscarriage prevention treatment.”
After that, my daughter sincerely recited, “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good” and listened to Master’s lectures every day. She eventually gave birth to a healthy baby girl weighing 8.36 lbs, and she no longer suffered from kidney stones.
My granddaughter has been reciting, “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good” since she could speak. She always calls herself a little Dafa practitioner. Now that she’s in first grade of elementary school she is healthy, smart, and a sensible little girl.
At the end of last year, during a serious outbreak of influenza A, many of her classmates, including the student sharing the table with her and those around her, became infected, but she was not affected at all.
Prior to this, while in kindergarten, my granddaughter had missed a vaccination, and the school mandated that it be made up. After getting the shot, she went to bed as soon as she got home. My daughter felt something was wrong and I checked on her discovering that she was burning up with a fever of 39 degrees. By the time they arrived at the hospital, there was already a long line of cars waiting outside the gate.
It took them more than three hours to finally have a saline solution hooked up for the child. As her fever persisted, she was prescribed medication to take home. The child slept at a high temperature. My daughter and son-in-law managed to cool her down physically, but a little over an hour later, her temperature rose again. They repeated the treatment and were busy caring for her all night.
Early the next morning, my daughter took my granddaughter to the hospital again. A saline solution was administered once more, but her temperature did not go down much. The doctor said, “The medicine has been given. Please go home and watch the child. Pay attention to the child’s kidneys and lungs.”
In the evening, my granddaughter’s temperature rose to over 40 degrees. My daughter was in a panic when a former co-worker called to tell her that her child had a third of her lung filled with fluid and was in the ICU! Both children had received the saline solution at the same hospital the day before, with the same conditions and medication.
It wasn’t until then that my daughter called me and asked me what to do. I asked her, “Do you believe in Dafa?”
She replied immediately, “Oh, I had forgotten. I know what to do now.”
The next day, my daughter called to tell me that my granddaughter had completely recovered and was jumping around again. My daughter and her entire family expressed their gratitude to Master!