(Minghui.org) I started practicing Falun Dafa in 1996 and I am over 70 years old. I feel most fortunate in finding Dafa and have received much happiness and good fortune because of it.
My Life Had No Goals
When I was a child, I often thought about things, such as “What is the purpose and meaning of life?” One day after playing with friends, everyone else went home, but I didn’t. I lay on the edge of the river, looking at the stars in the sky, thinking: “It’s good to play like this every day, but people still die.” I cried while thinking about it.
When I was older and experienced the Cultural Revolution, I thought that this was what life was meant to be. However, after reading the works of Mao Zedong, Karl Marx, and Lenin, I realized I was wrong, and I continued searching for a reason for life. At the end of the Cultural Revolution, the truth was slowly revealed. What the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) said was completely different from reality, and they were all lies. My spirit subsided. I hated going through the back door and bribing authorities, but it was hard to live in this society without doing so. My body also collapsed. I felt that my life was meaningless and I often thought about suicide.
In order to get through the pain I felt in my mind I began practicing martial arts in my spare time, and I learned a lot of movements. After practicing martial arts for 27 years, the more I practiced, the more I got sick with heart disease, gastrointestinal ulcer pain, and so on, I was very old-looking. I then realized that martial arts cannot improve one’s health.
I started looking for qigong, and I tried all kinds, but some of them deceived people, and all they wanted was money, I stopped doing it, and I went back to practicing martial arts. I would practice in the morning, and play mahjong in the evening. No matter how many times my family asked me not to play, I didn’t listen. I was just wasting time, because there was no point to life, and I was simply waiting for death.
When I heard the “Tiananmen self-immolation incident” in 2001, I instantly knew that it was fake, because I knew that if a person wanted to commit suicide, he would not tell others. That is to say, he had to have the courage to commit suicide. At that time, I was waiting for an opportunity to kill myself.
Rejoicing in a New Life
When I practiced martial arts in 1996, there was a group of people practicing next to me, and there were banners with pictures and introductions. At the beginning, I was a little disgusted. On the third day, I went to their banner after practicing and looked at it, and I was stunned when I saw it. It read: Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance.
I thought, “Who can follow this? Even the president of the country can’t reach such a high level.” I asked a practitioner what is Falun Dafa, and she said that she had a book and gave me Zhuan Falun. I took it and flipped through it to see that the price of the book was 11 yuan, which was not expensive. I asked if I could borrow the book to read at home, as I felt that this practice was not ordinary. I said that I was a martial arts practitioner, and I would keep my promises. I said that I would come back and pay her for the book if it was good, or I would return it. She agreed.
When I opened the book that night, tears covered my face. I read while wiping tears away, and I read until 2 a.m. I thought: “Such a book is rare, what it says is very right. I must go to bed now so I can get up early tomorrow to pay that practitioner for this book.” The next day, I found the lady and asked eagerly: “What else do you have? I want to buy all of them.”
Through reading the Dafa books, I had come to understand that the sin of suicide is great, and enduring hardship can eliminate karma. Since then, I have bid farewell to martial arts, entered Dafa cultivation, found the answers to life, and opened a new chapter in my life.
One day after I started practicing the exercises for more than two months, I was practicing the third set of the exercises at home. All of sudden, I heard a “pop”, as something went over my head, and I was stunned. When I looked around, it was like everything in my environment had changed. I thought: “Is this my home?” I touched the furniture, touched this and that, and realized that it was indeed my home. Then I realized that it was the animal possession of my body that had been cleaned up by Master. I felt completely renewed.
As I continued to cultivate, I felt more and more relaxed, healthy and energetic. I wanted to share Dafa with everyone, and I often studied the Fa at the entrance of my building, so that my neighbors and passersby would know that Dafa is being disseminated.
Putting Down Personal Interests, Because Everything Is Arranged by Master
Master said,
“You are unable to interfere with the lives of others, and neither can you control others’ fates, including those of your wife, sons, daughters, parents, or brothers. Can you decide those things?” (Lecture Four, Zhuan Falun)
I understand that only cultivation can change one’s fate, and Dafa is the most precious. My wife had a car accident when she was young, she broke her lumbar vertebrae and was almost paralyzed. Although she later recovered, she often suffered from lower back pain. I was worried about what she would do when she got older. After I cultivated Dafa, I asked her to practice as well, and she did. She benefited greatly, and her lower back didn’t hurt anymore.
At my workplace, the employees’ children can usually take over their parents’ position when they retire. But my son could not get my position for some reason, and I didn’t want to go through bribing and the back door to get him a position. As a result, my son and daughter-in-law didn’t have formal jobs. At that time, I would often feel unbalanced upon thinking of my son’s job. But after studying Dafa, I completely let it go, and I no longer worried about my son’s job. A few years ago, I experienced a surprise. A business owner saw that my son was honest and kind, so he gave him a job. After that, he helped my son find a new apartment and helped my grandson go to school. Everyone thought it was incredible, but I know that this was the blessing for cultivating Dafa, everything is arranged by Master.
I have five brothers and sisters, and when my parents passed away in their 90s, I didn’t ask for any share from my parents’ assets. Even though my parents intended to give me the house and the money when they were alive, I finally gave my share to my siblings. A cultivator should take interests lightly.
Master Protects Me
Over the years, my body has been strong and healthy, I have changed from riding a bike, to an electric bike and to a motorcycle. One night, I was riding with my wife back from my parents’ house, at a high speed. Suddenly a drunkard rushed over from the side of the road on a bicycle. I didn’t have time to dodge him and crashed on the side of the road, and my wife was thrown into the middle of the road. A voice immediately told me: It’s okay! I got up immediately, and the drunkard ran away. I looked at the motorcycle, and it was fine. I drove my wife back to my mother’s house. Some practitioners came and we studied the Fa and sent righteous thoughts together. Soon after my wife returned to normal, and you can imagine that happening with both of us in our 70s. There are many magical and supernormal things in Dafa.
When I went out, I would often bring a small radio player to play “Pudu”, “Jishi”, songs sung by Dafa practitioners, or the truth-clarifying materials. Many people in this area know me. Some people refused to listen to me when I spoke to them about the truth, or when I tried to help them quit the CCP. However, when the COVID-19 pandemic came, they started to listen. They would often take the initiative to greet me, and they now believed what I had told them before was true. However, there was a woman seeing me clarifying the truth to other people, and said to me, “The CCP pays you, but you scold it.” I greeted her, but she started walking away. As I was thinking of following her and talking to her more about the truth. Right at that moment, an old woman on a three-wheel motorcycle with her little granddaughter passed by. She should have stepped on the brakes, but she stepped on the gas instead and rushed straight at us. I was knocked down, and that woman and another person were slightly scratched. The little girl was scared and cried, and some scolded the old woman who was also frightened. I got up and said, “It’s okay, you can go on with your life, and I won’t extort you, I’m a Dafa practitioner.” I didn’t ask for her phone number or address. The crowd said to her, “Grandmother, you have met a good person.”
I was still worried about the woman who didn’t know the truth, and I said to her, “Let me ask you a question. If this was not me, a Dafa practitioner, who got hit by a motorcycle, but a CCP official, would he or she let the grandmother go? At the very least, he or she would go to the hospital for a check-up and let her pay.” The woman smiled and agreed with me. After that, her attitude changed.
We Dafa disciples are busy every day, fulfilling our vows, and hoping that more people will be saved, and we will live up to Master’s salvation.
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