(Minghui.org) I am a 50-year-old female Falun Dafa practitioner. Before cultivating Dafa, I was indoctrinated by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and became a full-fledged atheist. After I got married, given an unhappy marriage, my health deteriorated, and I lived in pain. When I couldn’t endure it any longer, I wanted to commit suicide, and I often thought about how to soon end my life.
At the time when I was about to end my life, my mother, who is a Falun Dafa practitioner, convinced me to step on the cultivation path. I picked up the book of Zhuan Falun and began to read it. I hadn’t yet started to learn the exercises, and before I even finished reading one chapter of the book, I had recovered from my illnesses. Reading Zhuan Falun completely changed my view of the world, and my attitude toward people and things around me also changed. Master had remade me.
It was in July 1999 when I began cultivating, which was also the time when the CCP began the persecution of Falun Dafa. When I was persecuted by the CCP, my husband went off the rails. He often went gambling, didn’t come home, and accumulated a big debt. My son skipped school to go to the Internet Cafe to surf the web, he dated a girl, fought with others, stole money, and so on. When I was arrested, my relatives and friends tried to stay away from my family, out of the concern that I’d impact them.
I was not weighed down by my seemingly broken life. I followed what Master taught and held myself to Dafa’s requirements to do things. I treated people kindly, and in dealing with things around me. My family went from being looked down on, to being envied by others. Both my son and daughter-in-law have good jobs with decent pay. Within a couple of years of marriage, they managed to buy their own house and a car. My husband also got rid of his bad habits and earned a much higher salary than before. In addition, he often helped me in my cultivation.
Through my actions, almost all my relatives and friends felt positive about Dafa. My in-laws’ family supported my practicing cultivation. However, on my mother’s side, they were against me from the very beginning. When we got together, they would be sarcastic when dealing with me. I have a brother, two older sisters, and a younger sister who is a practitioner in another province.
My Brother’s Family
My brother was a college graduate in the 60s, and he is an engineer. When I was first persecuted and detained, he complained a lot to my mother. He even swore at her, blaming her by saying that she spoiled me.
After I returned home from detention, I opened a restaurant. At that time, my brother lived very close to my restaurant. I often had my sister-in-law take some prepared food home, saving them from having to cook. My sister-in-law got along well with me, and she acknowledged Dafa is good. When there was something that she wasn’t happy about, she’d come to talk to me about it, and she thought that what I said made sense. Later, they moved to another city, and she would often do video chats with me. But no matter what I did, their family and my brother looked down on me and hated me.
After my father passed away, I was concerned about my mother living alone, so I moved in with her. A few years ago, some practitioners and I got together to make truth-clarifying materials. We were reported by people who didn’t know the truth, and we were held at a detention center. The police ransacked my mother’s home and found many Dafa books.
My brother feared that the work I did to awaken people would impact my mother, and in turn, impact them. Additionally, the police manipulated them by saying it would even impact the next generations. My brother, who was always tied up with work, came here from another city and gathered the siblings together. They discussed it until late at night and decided to blame everything on me, in order to have my mother face no responsibility.
After I returned home, when I heard about that, I was very sad. I told myself that I must study the Fa more, only by studying the Fa more, could I have more compassion come forth, to save my family. I began to recite On Dafa, asking Master to give me wisdom, and I wanted to eliminate my resentment and save my family.
My brother lived in another city, and he rented out his place in the same city as I lived. Thus, he needed to bother my husband to run some errands for him. His house had pipe leaks multiple times, and my husband went to fix them for him. My husband didn’t ask to be reimbursed for his taking the cab or the materials he used. When my brother came back to this city, my husband and I took him to see our mother, or we took his family out. My other two brothers-in-law didn’t like him because he was selfish and cheap, they didn’t want to mingle with him. Whenever he and my sister-in-law came back, it was always my husband and me receiving them.
My niece got married in another city. Because my ID was suspended by the police, I couldn’t take the train and I couldn’t attend her wedding. My niece’s classmate asked my sister-in-law, “Which one is your aunt?” They all liked the food I'd made for them in the past and wanted to meet me in person. Whenever my sister-in-law went to see her daughter, I would often give her some goodies to take. After my niece married, she came with her husband to visit me. Both of them believed that Dafa is wonderful.
At the outbreak of the CCP virus (also known as coronavirus), I told my sister-in-law to store some food and home necessities. My brother didn’t believe me, nor thought much of what I told him. My sister-in-law believed me and stored some things. One day the city where my brother lived was suddenly in lockdown, which caught everyone off guard. The sudden lockdown scared my brother. What he believed turned out to be false, he couldn’t even buy what he needed. People not only lost their freedom, but their lives were also in danger. Only then did he realize that what my mother and I told him was true.
After I learned that my brother’s city was in lockdown, I did a video call with them. I comforted him by saying, “Don’t be scared, the pandemic targets the evil CCP. If you sincerely recite the phrases, ‘Falun Dafa is good; Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good,’ you’ll ensure your safety.” He kept nodding his head. This time he truly believed me. When my mother asked him to quit the CCP, he readily agreed and quit it.
My Oldest Sister’s Family
My oldest sister and brother-in-law ran a store, she understood the truth. My brother-in-law drove a Toyota 4Runner and he only thought highly of himself, and also in his mind he believed that the CCP was very powerful. Their family lived fairly close to us, and in her family, my sister was the only one who was supportive of my practice.
Since my sister had her grandson, her daughter would bring her family to visit my sister every week, and they would invite my husband and me to join them. My brother-in-law used to say sarcastic things to me, even though I didn’t want to go, I thought I should go, otherwise, how could their family members be saved? I knew that as long as I was with them, I could eliminate the negative things behind them.
Every time I went there, no matter what my brother-in-law said, I would not argue with him, and I would turn a blind eye to him and keep helping with the household chores, such as babysitting, cooking, and cleaning. I talked little and would only focus on working. I figured, as long as I came, I would bring them happiness.
Every time I went, I would bring some gifts. If I was going to have dinner with them, I would bring vegetables and meat, and cook for them, and eat with them. If they were tied up with their store, I would go there to give them a hand. When they needed someone to babysit their child, I would go to help. Dealing with their family came down to every little thing in their day-to-day life, putting myself in their shoes, and contributing without seeking anything in return.
Three years have passed since then, and her grandson has started kindergarten, their family still asks us to come to their house. Finally, one day my niece’s husband wanted to read Zhuan Falun. My niece said that I was truly great, and even though they didn’t treat me kindly, I still treated them with a peaceful mindset. She agreed to quit the CCP Youth League. My brother-in-law also agreed to read Master’s How Humankind Came to Be. My sister’s family was finally saved.
My older sister’s husband was a manager, whereas my sister was an executive. Because of their social status, both of them had strong mentalities. Every time we got together, they would say negative things about Dafa. Their family didn’t believe in gods, which brought tribulations to them.
Her daughter (my niece) worked in another province and married someone whose financial condition was rather poor. My sister couldn’t stop her from getting married, but she also didn’t want her daughter to suffer financial difficulty. She spent over 1 million yuan to buy her daughter a car and a house and also helped her pay the loans.
Her daughter was in poor health and underwent an operation, she often took medication, and she couldn’t get pregnant. When her family came to our city during the Lunar Chinese New Year holiday, through working with my mother, I helped her family quit the CCP. In addition, I put the e-version of Dafa books and Master’s recorded video lectures on a memory card and gave them to her daughter and son-in-law. I told them, “Please read them, you’ll get well and have a baby later on.” My niece hugged me and said, “Only my aunt treats me the best.” After they went home, I mailed them some food I made. After my sister learned about it, she was moved.
My sister had become physically weak. In the first half of 2022, her husband was also very sick and became very weak, and every time I saw him, he was taking medication. I was afraid that his life was at risk. One time, I sat in his car and said to him, “Let me tell you something, please don’t curse me. I’m concerned about your health, I have the Dafa book and the exercise video on this memory card. If you practice it after you get home, you’ll get well, and you’ll believe it by practicing it. Miracles will appear.” My sister replied, “It’s okay to do the exercises, we’ll check it out after we get back home.” However, when I asked them to quit the CCP, they didn’t agree.
The pandemic had a huge impact on them. They believed the vaccine was fake, and the nucleic acid amplification test was also fake. In addition, no one in her family was in good health, not her, not her husband, and not her daughter. Under such difficult conditions for their family, their thoughts began to have positive changes. When they looked at my good health again, it seemed more extraordinary and appealing to them than before.
They previously thought that my family would fall apart. However, we have become a family that they envy. My son didn’t need our money to support us, he instead gave us money. Our mother is truly admirable to my sister’s family as well. Even though she is in her 80s, she appears to be in her 60s and is in good health. She lives alone and doesn’t need anyone to look after her. She is nearly illiterate, but she can speak well. She often watched NTDTV programs, and what she watched was about global events, she could thus talk about foreign places.
Perhaps because of our predestined relationship, my husband and I went with my brother-in-law in his car to attend a funeral one evening. It was early March and was still chilly here. Upon getting into his car, I felt a bit warm from wearing a half-sleeved shirt under a quilted coat. My sister wore a thick layer of underwear, with a down jacket outside. When my brother-in-law noticed that I was a bit hot, he didn’t turn up the heat. Then I took off my coat. My sister stared at me with a surprised look, she gave me her hand. When I touched her hand, it was freezing cold. I put my coat over her legs while holding her hand, I said with a smile, “My sister, quickly follow me to do the exercises! I was like you before.” I clarified the truth to them, and I told them the reason why I practiced Falun Dafa, how I benefited from it, the transformations I’ve been through, and the elevation of my morality. During my talking, my husband also chimed in from time to time. They attentively listened to us.
All the way there, my hands were warm, and I was sweating. I said to my sister, “My sister, you have time today and aren’t against my talking to you about Dafa. How about if I share with you how they persecuted me at Masanjia Forced Labor Camp?” I told her how the evildoers cruelly tortured me, and how I made it through with my faith. I told them that it was only because I refused to be transformed, that I was tortured, and I fainted two times, almost lost my life, and how I made the breakthrough. This time, both of them were dumbfounded, saying that they never heard about this. They asked me, “How come we didn’t know?” I smiled and said, “It’s because you’ve ignored me and wouldn’t listen to me.” At that time, Master empowered me greatly. My body felt very warm, especially my arm. In the end, both of them decided to quit the CCP.
Then something shocked them as well. My sister’s house needed to be renovated, and she came to ask my husband to help. One day, I went with him. The other worker, who was also a practitioner, went with us. My husband bought a new blowtorch, so he could do the plumbing work, and he didn’t intend to use the old one. However, the new blowtorch was not easy to use, and we couldn’t get it to work. So I had no choice but to get the old one, which didn’t work well. We spent the whole morning trying to fix the blowtorch.
After lunch, I decided to bring another working blowtorch from my mother’s house, but it was not as easy to use as I thought it would be. By 2:00 p.m., I could not get any of the three blowtorches to work, I turned on my MP3 player and began to listen to the Minghui podcast. Then a miracle happened, the new blowtorch worked well. But, when I turned off the player, it stopped working again, and when I turned the player back on, the blowtorch worked again.
While we were listening to the Minghui podcast and doing our work, the blowtorch did not break down again. Both my sister and brother-in-law witnessed the miraculous nature of Dafa. The next day, when we were working, I turned on the player to play a Minghui podcast again, and the blowtorch worked well for the whole day. Both of them now believe the power of Dafa.
During the Lunar Chinese New Year holiday in 2023, my son and daughter-in-law came to visit. My older sister and brother-in-law invited us over, and they made a table full of delicious food and treated us cordially. My brother-in-law was excited and said to my oldest brother-in-law, while pointing at my mother and me, “We will never again say bad words to their practice. I’m now truly convinced, and I truly admire mother and Xiaoli [me].”
After that, my son said, “Mother, I’ve only been to my aunty’s home once, when I was little. How could they have changed so much?” I told him, “Master said, “Shan is really powerful.”(Compassion) (“Teachings at the Conference in Singapore”)
I’ve been listening to the podcast titled “Master’s Saving Grace.” Upon hearing what other practitioners said about the joy of being with Master, the happiness and the miraculous things, it was as if I was right by Master’s side and quietly listening to Master giving lectures.
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