(Minghui.org) I was a landscaper before I retired. I have no education. I was a very stubborn and irritable person. I insisted that I had to decide everything for the entire family. I chose all my sons' wives; otherwise, I would not let my sons get married.
After I started practicing Falun Dafa in 1998, I tried to change and behave based on the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance. I became a different person.
Master said,
“Upon walking outside this auditorium, many of you will feel like different people, and your outlook will be guaranteed to change. You will know how to conduct yourselves in the future, and you will no longer be so befuddled.” (Lecture Eight, Zhuan Falun)
Because I cultivated I changed my behavior. and my terrible temper changed for the better. I have become more tolerant, generous, selfless, and kind. Amid my family’s troubles, I got rid of my resentment and cultivated kindness. I am over 80 years old and look much younger than my actual age.
My husband suffered from the aftereffects of a stroke for 13 years, and I took care of him every day. Taking care of a patient was very tedious and tiring. After doing so for a long time, I felt annoyed and sometimes lost my temper. My husband often said, “It’s useless to do the exercises every day and then lose your temper.” I knew it was a hint from Master to enlighten me, so I held my tongue. Gradually, while caring for my husband, I removed my irritability and other attachments, treated my husband well, and took good care of him.
Once, when the police came to my home to harass me, my husband saw the Dafa book on the edge of the sofa. He sat down next to it so the police would not see it and protected the Dafa book.
Another time, after I was arrested and taken to a brainwashing class, my husband called the officers of the brainwashing class and said, “My wife used to be a very vicious person, but her temper changed since she practiced Dafa. Why do you want to brainwash her? She is very kind and takes good care of me every day.”
My husband died 13 years after his stroke. The death of my husband, who was my lifelong companion, was the most challenging time for me. The day after my husband’s death, my eldest son wanted me to move out and sell the house so he could have the money. He also asked for our savings. My mother’s family felt my sons were unreasonable and went too far.
In the face of this double blow, as a practitioner, I knew I had to step out of the disputes, get rid of my selfish thoughts, and be compassionate. I dealt with all this calmly. I told my sons that I will live in the house, as it was bought in my name and with my money. And I shared the 150,000 yuan left by my husband with my three sons. For years afterward, my sons often tried to get money from me. I handled these things calmly.
During the pandemic lock-down, my sons, who hadn’t visited me for years, couldn’t get groceries. My daughter-in-law called me and asked me if I could get groceries. I said I could buy them where I lived, so I bought more than 400 yuan of meat and vegetables for my son’s family. My daughter-in-law was touched and said, “Why are you so good to us?” I replied cheerfully, regardless of how they had treated me, “I am a Falun Dafa practitioner!”
If I hadn’t practiced Falun Dafa, how could I allow my sons to treat me the way they did? Who would dare to treat me like that? If they had dared to do that to me, I would have turned their families upside down.
Dafa transformed me into a new person. Studying Dafa has made me see human conflicts and grudges differently, and I have been able to let go of grudges. Instead I received virtue.
I had clarified the truth about Falun Dafa to many of my relatives and urged them to withdraw from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its youth organizations. Some did not quit at that time, but I planted a good seed for them to listen to the truth again later. For example, my youngest son’s mother-in-law did not quit the CCP even after I clarified the truth to her many times. A long time later, she received a truth-clarification brochure. She read it carefully and finally understood the truth about Dafa. She visited me and asked me to help her quit the CCP.
Clarifying the Truth to the Police
Many people submitted lawsuits against former CCP leader Jiang Zemin, the main culprit in the persecution of Falun Dafa in 2015. When the police found out that I filed a complaint against Jiang, they called and said they would come to my home.
The harassment and arrest I experienced in the past had put pressure on me, so whenever I knew they were coming to my home, I always rushed to my fellow practitioners’ homes to avoid being further persecuted. I did the same this time and went to a fellow practitioner’s home. As I was walking along, I suddenly heard a voice behind me saying, “Is it okay for you to keep doing this?” I knew it was compassionate Master who was enlightening me. I overcame my fear, turned around, and went home. I sent forth righteous thoughts and was ready to clarify the truth to the police.
In the evening, two police officers came. In a dignified manner, I told them about the benefits I received from practicing Dafa, exposed the truth about the staged “Self-immolation on Tiananmen Square,” and interacted with them in a question-and-answer session to clear up their confusion. They accepted the truth and left without pressuring me for any further.
My Neighbors Protected Me
I live in an old eight-story building where no one cleaned the public areas or cared if the light bulbs needed to be replaced. I purchased the light bulbs and climbed up the ladder myself to replace them with new ones on each floor. I always cleaned from the eighth floor down to the first floor two to three times a month, and I carried water up to the eighth floor to clean the stairs once a month.
My neighbors all thanked me for keeping the public area clean and tidy. Therefore, when the police came to harass me, my neighbors often told the police that I was a good person and told them what I did for the neighborhood, and the police had nothing to say.
The Police Who Understand the Truth
Once, after handing out truth-clarification materials, I returned home along the same road to see if any had been discarded. I saw a woman throw the materials I placed in her bicycle basket onto the ground as four police officers passed by. Three of them continued walking forward without stopping, while the fourth stopped. He waited for his three colleagues to walk away, then he immediately picked up the discarded truth-clarification materials from the ground, quickly put them in his pocket, and left.
I often told a neighbor the truth about Dafa, but she refused to withdraw from the CCP. Her husband is a driver, and he drives the guards who work in the prison daily. When I had a chance to tell her husband the truth, he said he knew that Falun Dafa is good and that he heard this from the police.
He once said, one officer said, “Today I interrogated a Falun Dafa practitioner, who said that he was in good health because he practiced Falun Dafa, and that he hadn’t violated the law or done anything bad. I said that he could just practice at home, so why did he have to tell others? The practitioner said his Master saved him, so he must tell people his Master is good. The practitioner also told him about the ‘stone with the hidden characters’ in Guizhou and its heavenly warning.” The police said that the Falun Dafa practitioner had a point.
The driver listened to the truth again and withdrew from the CCP. After listening to what her husband said, his wife, who had repeatedly refused to withdraw from the CCP, asked me to help her quit the CCP.
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