(Minghui.org) I would like to tell you how my family and I have benefited from Falun Dafa. I’d also like to share the benefits that Dafa brings to society, as well as how it brightens our spiritual path.
About 10 years ago, I had just finished making a meal, when there was a gas explosion in an apartment on a lower level of my building. I heard a deafening boom and saw two dazzling fireballs flash outside the window. In an instant, the windows in our building and those of the surrounding buildings were shattered.
What was surprising was that my apartment remained intact. None of my water or heating pipes broke, and my windows were fine. It was Master Li who protected my home and a potential calamity.
I later learned that nearby cars were shaken and people were in a state of despair. A neighbor’s puppies were even killed.
My granddaughter’s classmate returning home from school had just entered the community when the explosion occurred and shattered glass rained down all around her. She was so frightened that she collapsed. An elderly man on the first floor also fainted.
The door of my neighbor’s apartment downstairs was blown off its hinges and hit the owner. He was the director of a public security bureau before he retired. His injuries necessitated four operations to resolve. His grandson’s arm was injured, and he was rushed to the hospital. Many children did not go to school the next day. My granddaughter did.
Some people’s doors and window frames were damaged by the blast, trapping them inside. Their gas and heating pipes were cracked, and water was gushing out everywhere. The mayor and news reporters came. The mayor told the reporters that they could only interview him and were not allowed to publish any articles without his approval.
If it were not for Master’s protection, my apartment would surely have been in the same situation as the others.
My husband and I had both been married before when we wed in 1978. My husband’s 11-year-old daughter Xiaoying was an illegitimate child he had adopted. He doted on her, which resulted in her becoming stubborn and selfish. She skipped classes and started dating when she was in middle school. My husband couldn’t control her, and when he couldn’t stand it anymore, he wanted to send her back to her mother.
Even though I didn’t practice Falun Dafa back then, my parents had instilled traditional Chinese culture in us from the time we were young, teaching us to be kind and to think of others. I told my husband, “Xiaoying’s mother has her own family now. If you were to send her back, wouldn’t it harm that family? If her husband knew that she’d had an illegitimate child, would they be able to live in peace?”
Realizing what I said made sense, my husband gave up on the idea.
When Xiaoying got married and had a baby, I went with her to the hospital, stayed with her, and paid her hospital bill. After she was discharged, I brought her home to take care of her for a month. Before the child was born, I prepared all the baby supplies, such as clothes and blankets. Xiaoying was very moved and kept calling me “Mom.” My son-in-law and I were also very close.
I was fortunate enough to begin cultivating Falun Dafa in 1998. Since then, all my illnesses have disappeared. My husband also witnessed the miraculous things that happened to me.
Former Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Jiang Zemin and his rogue regime began the persecution of Falun Dafa on July 20, 1999. I was determined to uphold my belief and was illegally detained four times. Poisoned by the CCP’s lies, Xiaoying decided to keep me at arm’s length.
The third time I was detained, my husband passed away before I was released from the forced labor camp. When I returned home, Xiaoying blocked the door and said sullenly, “Go away and don’t come back!” I had been thinking about my home day and night, but I was turned away. I can’t describe how miserable I felt. I ended up staying with a fellow practitioner and rented a place after that.
I once went out to clarify the truth and started talking to a woman I’d never met. As we were walking and talking, we came to the building where my husband and I used to live. She told me, “You don’t know this, but a Falun Dafa practitioner lived here before. Every time she was arrested and detained, her husband’s adopted daughter spent her savings.”
I asked how she knew that. She said she’d heard it from her relative Xiaogang. Xiaogang and Xiaoying had been friends for a while. When I asked her what Xiaoying did with the money, she said she squandered it all. For example, they spent it on travel expenses to Dalian City and other places.
I told her I was that practitioner. She was very nice to me and even invited me to her home. I talked to her about Dafa at great length and told her to remember “Falun Dafa is good.” She quit the CCP and its affiliates. She was very upset at what Xiaoying had done and thought it was unfair, urging me to sue her. I said, “After she sold her house, she had no place to stay. It’s fine for her to stay at my place. I don’t want to fight with her. It doesn’t matter who lives there.”
I was detained for 25 days in 2001. During that time, Xiaoying took more than 30,000 yuan out of my savings and spent it. When I was detained for eight months in 2005, Xiaoying took about 50,000 yuan from my bank and salary card.
The third time I was arrested, I was held in a forced labor camp for over two years. Xiaoying took out all the money from my salary card during that time and did not even let me back into my own home. The building where my husband and I lived is public housing provided by the Housing Bureau. When the housing was sold to individuals, my husband and I were given preferential treatment to buy a home based on our years of service. We’d bought that apartment with our savings.
Indoctrinated by the CCP’s atheistic ideology, Xiaoying didn’t believe in the heavenly principle “Good is rewarded, and evil is punished.” Caught up in the declining moral standards, she was only to be pitied and eventually brought harm to herself. She died of uterine cancer in her early 40s.
After she passed away, her daughter and son-in-law moved into the apartment that my husband and I used to live in. I did not ask for it back, because I knew life was hard for them. That apartment was my property. If I’d gone to court to sue them, they would have had to return it to me, but I didn’t do that.
Money is something external. People come into this world with nothing and they leave with nothing. No matter how much money we have, we cannot take a penny with us. When I used the standards of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance to measure myself, my heart became broader. The fact that my husband, Xiaoying, her daughter, and I became family was a predestined arrangement to be cherished!
I rented a house and clarified the facts to both Xiaoying’s daughter and her son-in-law, telling them to remember the phrases “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” They accepted my words and quit the CCP. Because they remembered these phrases, they were able to escape the calamity of the pandemic and be blessed. This is the greatest blessing of our predestined relationship!
I’m grateful for Falun Dafa having elevated my moral standards and teaching me how to repay grievance with virtue.
My sister’s celestial eye (third eye) has been open since she was a child. Back then, many families lived in multiple-family compounds. When my sister said something was going to happen to another family, it really happened. My parents scolded her and told her to keep her mouth shut regarding those things.
My sister once said that Baozhu, who lived in the compound, would die on a Sunday and be carried out through the window. Baozhu would also be wearing a dress with a flower resting on her chest when her body was taken away.
At that time, the government made people of Baozhu’s age go and work in the countryside after they graduated from school. But she didn’t go. She could not find a job in the city, so she did knitting, sewed flowers, and made other handicrafts. Baozhu later became ill and did not get better even after seeking medical help.
One Sunday, I went outside and heard someone crying. When I came in, my sister said that Baozhu had died. After a while, Baozhu’s mother came over and asked my mother for help. Afterward, my mother said to me, “Baozhu was still single. According to local customs, she could not be taken out through the door and had to be carried out through the window. When she left, she wore a flowery dress with a flower wrapped in wool on her chest.”
After the CCP began to persecute Falun Dafa, many people were poisoned by its propaganda and followed along with the slander. Since my sister had her celestial eye open, she could see scenes in other dimensions. She knew gods and Buddhas existed and that Dafa is a Buddha-Law cultivation practice.
After I talked to a caretaker about Falun Dafa, my sister came along, and this woman said to her, “She practices Dafa and asked me to quit the CCP.”
My sister replied, “What she asked you to do is a good thing. Isn’t it for your well-being? She used to have a bad temper and poor health. After she started practicing Falun Dafa, her temper changed for the better, and her illnesses were cured. She is my older sister.”
One afternoon while my sister was at work, a police officer showed up and inquired about me. Instead of answering him, she asked, “Do you want to know how she is doing now or before?”
He replied, “What’s the difference?”
She said, “Of course, there’s a difference. To give you an example, in the past, when we cleaned up the workshop on Saturdays, she never took the initiative to help, and she didn’t care when she threw the garbage out that it missed the trash can. Now she rushes to help and doesn’t rely on others. After cleaning, she takes the initiative to throw away the garbage. If there is any trash on the floor, she picks it up. Would you say Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is not good?”
When Jiang’s regime intensified the persecution, my sister spoke up for Dafa and dared to tell a police officer that Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good. Her kind thoughts and actions have accumulated great blessings for her.
Before this, she had no house and lived in a musty work dormitory with her child. But now that she’s retired, she has her own company. She owns eight apartments in the provincial capital, two of which are duplexes of over 200 square meters.
Ten years ago, my sister had her uterus removed, but she continued to have normal menstruation after she recovered. My brother-in-law was surprised and joked, “You’ll still be able to get pregnant!” This was how she was blessed for speaking up for Dafa.