(Minghui.org) I’m a 57-year-old rural woman who never attended school, and was illiterate. I began practicing Falun Dafa in 2006, and quite a few miracles soon occurred. I truly came to experience the extraordinary and miraculous nature of Falun Dafa.
My Health Issues Were Cured
When I was young, I gave birth to my child in August. Due to the heat, I took cold showers and sat in a basin of cold water to cool off. As a result, I developed postpartum rheumatoid arthritis. It wasn’t obvious at first, but over the years, the condition gradually worsened to where I had pain all over. My hands and feet were stiff, and I had difficulty moving. I was practically paralyzed. All the work fell on my exhausted husband.
When I was in my thirties, a female villager who practiced Falun Dafa once handed me a truth-clarification flyer. When I looked at it and saw a woman doing the seated meditation on the cover, I blurted out, “That’s Bodhisattva Guanyin!” I immediately sat cross-legged like the picture on the flyer, with one hand placed on my lap with my palm facing up, and the other hand under my chin with that palm facing down.
My husband came over and pulled my hand, saying, “Don’t you know about the Tiananmen Square self-immolation incident?!”
I replied, “That was faked. They were actors, and people with mental disorders.” I continued sitting in that position. Surprisingly, with just this pose, my whole body suddenly felt like it was on fire; I was drenched in sweat. The odor was terrible and my clothes were soaked through, but I felt comfortable. I thought Dafa was truly great.
In a bit over ten minutes, my body cooled down, and I stopped sweating. Suddenly, I became relaxed, and the pain disappeared as well. With that, my hands and feet became nimble. My postpartum rheumatoid arthritis, and my feeling of being paralyzed also miraculously disappeared. No one could have imagined this would happen in such a short time. I’d been transformed into a healthy new person!
My next experience was that my head, face, and eyes swelled up. It was hard for me to see clearly, but my mind remained clear. I said to myself, “Master, I can’t see when I walk, and I have to do things. Please make a slit in my eyes, just enough for me to see.”
With that thought, my eyesight returned to normal. My face remained swollen for 18 days. It blistered and oozed a yellow fluid, and I was soaked in sweat as I slept. When others asked me what was happening, I told them that I practiced Falun Dafa, and Master Li was purifying my body.
My husband wanted to take me to the hospital, but I said that I had Master caring for me, and wouldn’t go. The swelling subsided after 18 days, and both my face and head returned to normal.
After a Dream, I Could Read Dafa Books
I began practicing the five sets of Falun Dafa exercises regularly. However, because I was illiterate, I couldn’t read Master’s teachings. So I was concerned about how to cultivate myself and correct my thinking and behaviors without being able to read the Fa.
As I was holding a copy of Zhuan Falun, my heart felt heavy, “Other practitioners can read Dafa books and cultivate by following what Master said, yet I’m completely illiterate and practically blind. Even if someone were to teach me, it would take too long. What can I do?” I was extremely anxious. I started crying, and drifted off to sleep.
In a dream, I saw Zhuan Falun open, and its pages were flipping over by themselves. The Chinese characters in the book were colorful and very beautiful, and they continually flew into my head. I excitedly tried to scoop them up with my hands.
After I woke up, I discovered I could read every character in the book. I was so excited! Students spend years learning to read, but I learned to read in one nap—it’s unimaginable! Dafa is truly miraculous and omnipotent!
I began to read “On Dafa” in Zhuan Falun. My daughter, who was in high school, heard me, and asked, “Mom, do you know how to read those characters?” I told her about the miracle after my dream, and she exclaimed, “That’s truly amazing!”
Soon after, she also began to practice Dafa. We were later subjected to persecution under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
I have since read all the Dafa books, including Master’s 20-plus lectures.
Walking Through Gaps in the Rain
My husband, daughter, and I visited our relatives during a recent Chinese New Year. On our way home, it started raining. We hadn’t brought raincoats, and it was cold. My thought was that I would walk through gaps in the rain to keep myself dry. We walked home for over an hour, and my clothes and shoes stayed completely dry. But my husband and daughter were soaked to the bone. Afterwards, I realized how selfish I was being. Why didn’t I have the thought for them to also walk through the gaps in the rain?
Stopping the Lead Guard and Inmates From Committing Evil Deeds
Soon after I began cultivating, I was reported for handing out truth-clarifying materials by people who didn’t know the truth about Dafa. I was arrested and sentenced by the court to three years of imprisonment. At the trial, I told the judge, “Your three-year sentence is inappropriate for a practitioner! You don’t know how wonderful Falun Dafa is. It is the universal Fa!
“Because you dare to sentence people who practice the universal Fa, I’ll sentence you to life imprisonment!” The judge was so angry that he choked up and couldn’t speak for a long time. I later realized this was a result of my competitive mentality and resentment. It’s more appropriate for practitioners to clarify the truth to people in a kind and compassionate manner.
My state of mind was not always optimal during my nearly 20 years of cultivation, and I didn’t always act in accordance with the Fa principles. As a result, I was illegally arrested more than ten times. I was put in detention centers three times, a forced labor camp once, and a prison once. For the other arrests, I clarified the truth to the police officers and was released the same day.
I had been on a hunger strike in a detention center for a month and didn’t feel hungry at all. After I was taken to the women’s prison, I followed Master’s requirements:
“No matter what the situation, do not cooperate with the evil’s demands, orders, or what it instigates. If everyone can do that, circumstances will change.” (“Dafa Disciples’ Righteous Thoughts Are Powerful,” The Essentials of Diligent Progress II)
No matter what the prison guards or inmates told me to do, I refused. When they ordered me to stand, I just sat down; when they ordered me to sit down, I either stood or did the exercises. Because I did the exercises, a lead guard named Li instructed two inmates to punch and kick me. They later handcuffed me to a window frame, water pipe, and bed.
I was hung upside down for eight days without being allowed to use the restroom. I wasn’t allowed to go to bed until 2 a.m. and had to get up at 6 a.m. And they said all this was approved by the prison. When I needed to urinate or defecate, I didn’t want to ask them for permission. So I sent out the thought, “Excrement demon and urine demon, go and impose these issues on the team leader and the inmates who are persecuting me.”
As a result, I didn’t need to urinate or defecate for eight days, and felt fine. The three people who were persecuting me, on the other hand, were constantly feeling bloated and constipated.
The two inmates assigned to monitor me were my cellmates. I watched as they squatted in the toilet stall for long periods, unable to relieve themselves; it bothered them so much that they couldn’t sleep. Finally, they reported it to the prison ward and spent a week in the hospital. When they came back, they still suffered. They knew they had received retribution.
I asked them to repent to Master, admit their mistakes, stop persecuting Dafa practitioners, and recite the phrase - “Falun Dafa is good! Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good!” They agreed, and their bodily functions returned to normal. I then asked them to withdraw from the Young Pioneers communist organization. They didn’t dare to say it out loud, but nodded in agreement.
When the lead guard returned from the hospital, she was still irritable from constipation. She called me over, politely asked me to sit down, and said, “Today, don’t treat me like a guard, just treat me like a rural woman, and let’s have a heart-to-heart talk.”
As she spoke, she started to cry, and said, “Please take back your energy and don’t mess with me anymore. I feel terrible. Your Master asks you to save me. Why do you still mess with me?”
I replied, “We tried to save you and asked you not to persecute Dafa practitioners. You didn’t listen. What can I do? You’ve finally learned your lesson, haven’t you?”
When I asked her to quit the CCP, she said she had gone to Hong Kong and quit the CCP there. I couldn’t help but slap my hand on the table, “Then why do you still persecute us?”
She paused for a moment, then said she wouldn’t do it anymore, “Dafa is good, the CCP is evil. This is your belief.” She cried as she spoke, constantly taking tissues to wipe her nose and tears, looking as if she had suffered a great injustice.
We talked for a long time, and she used two whole packs of tissues. I said to her, “You need to repent sincerely to Master and admit your mistakes. From now on, don’t do anything to persecute practitioners. Sincerely recite the auspicious phrases, then Master will help you. Your blocked colon will be unblocked and you’ll be fine.” She immediately repented to Master and admitted her mistakes.
Afterward, she relaxed her approach toward practitioners. She also helped us to clarify the truth. One time, a few trainee guards came, and she sent them over to me and another practitioner for a talk. We told them the truth about Dafa and asked them to quit the CCP, but they didn’t dare to do so, and went back to report to her. She said, “Not a big deal.”
The lead guard was later transferred out of our area to work as a sectional chief at the prison.
Walking Away From a Serious Car Accident
On my way to work on my electric scooter, I was hit from behind by a speeding car. Both the scooter and I were thrown into the air. I landed quite a distance away and rolled over three times on the ground. The driver, a young man in his twenties, was trembling with fear and completely at a loss. His wife, holding their baby, quickly called the police. A crowd gathered and several bystanders said, “It’s over, she’s dead.”
A police car arrived, and three traffic officers got out. My scooter was totalled, but I was mostly unharmed, except for five large bumps, one on my head, one on each elbow, and one on each knee. When the officer learned that I practiced Falun Dafa, he turned around and said to the driver, “You’ve encountered a good person. We have met several like this; they never take money from others.”
I said aloud to the driver and the bystanders, “Please believe in Falun Dafa, and remember the auspicious Dafa phrases to stay safe. Look at me, I was in such a serious accident, and I’m still okay!”
The traffic officer whispered to me, “Auntie, you need to take care of yourself and not be too conspicuous.”
At that moment, the five bumps on my body suddenly shrank and disappeared. I said to everyone, “Look, the bumps from the accident just vanished!” Everyone was dumbfounded and marvelled. In the end, the driver bought me a used scooter as compensation; I didn’t accept anything other than that.
I’ve cultivated for nearly 20 years and experienced many things. I believe that no matter what difficulties or tribulations we run into, as long as we have righteous thoughts and actions and trust in Master and Dafa, everything will be okay. We must think of others and try to save sentient beings at all times.
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