(Minghui.org) This February, my daughter-in-law brought her father to live with us. Both of her parents were Falun Dafa practitioners, and the entire family has been targeted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) since it began to persecute Falun Dafa practitioners in 1999.
Her father was first illegally detained in a labor camp for three years. During that time, her mother was also persecuted. Unable to bear the oppression and grief that her two young daughters (one of whom later became my daughter-in-law) had been left on their own, her mother died shortly after being released.
After her father returned from the labor camp, he was sentenced to prison for six and a half years because he firmly believed in Falun Dafa and would not give it up. He was tortured so severely in prison that he became disabled and could only get around in a wheelchair.
He looked unwell when I first saw him. He could not focus enough to read even one sentence in Zhuan Falun, nor could he do the Falun Dafa exercises. Sometimes he soiled his pants or the bed.
After speaking with my husband, we decided to have him come live with us. We gave him the room next to our so that we could take care of him and my son and daughter-in-law could move upstairs.
I got along with him and interacted with him as Dafa practitioners should, communicating with him based on my understandings of the Fa. When I went out to clarify the truth in the morning, I arranged for him to watch Master Li’s video lectures. Along with other practitioners, we studied the teachings together in the afternoon.
At first he had a hard time finding the sentence or reading out aloud, but we kept encouraging him. We would read one sentence at a time and ask him to repeat it. He gradually gained confidence and righteous thoughts. With Master’s compassionate blessing, within a month, he was able to read Zhuan Falun with very few mistakes and could follow along as others read. He could remember the exercises and was able to do the fifth exercise, the sitting meditation, for an hour.
Now he can get out of his wheelchair and walk around with a walker. He is a completely different person from when he first came to us.
When the neighbors saw him, one commented, “Falun Dafa is amazing! He has recovered in such a short time. Falun Dafa is great!” The neighbors are also amazed at how we took care of him. One said, “Only someone who practices Falun Dafa would take care of your daughter-in-law’s father like you have. No one else would do that.”
Over the years, many of my neighbors, relatives, friends, and people in nearby villages have benefited from knowing the truth about Falun Dafa.
A few years ago, my sister-in-law’s legs hurt so much that she couldn’t walk. She could only move slowly by holding onto a stool with both hands. I told her to sincerely recite, “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.”
After doing that for a few days, her legs recovered, and she could walk without holding onto a stool. She said, “Thank you, Master. Falun Dafa is great!” She now recites those phrases every day when she wakes up in the morning. I am so happy for her.
I am fortunate to have been practicing Falun Dafa since 1997. When I first began, all my illnesses disappeared in less than two weeks. I felt relaxed and had endless energy. From cultivating Dafa, I understand why people live, why people suffer or have difficulties, and the difference between right and wrong. One is a good person if he or she does things according to the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance.
During my 27 years of cultivation, during whatever conflicts that have come up in my daily life and the arrests and relentless persecution by the CCP, I have always firmly believed in Master and Dafa. I am strict about following Dafa’s principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance and constantly change and correct myself through Dafa cultivation. I am extremely honored to be a Dafa practitioner.
I hope that those people who have been deceived by the CCP propaganda can quickly learn the truth about Dafa and sincerely recite “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” They will then be protected by Dafa and have a bright future. This is a Dafa practitioner’s greatest wish.
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