(Minghui.org) I am 80 years old and have been practicing Falun Dafa for 30 years. My faith in Dafa is rock-solid, and the 27 years of persecution have never shaken me. Learning Dafa is the greatest honor of my life. My gratitude to Master Li and Dafa is beyond words.
Whenever I hear people talk about the decline in morality, the corruption in society, and the prevalence of lies and counterfeit goods, I think back to the wonderful days of 30 years ago. I especially recall the day that changed my life—a day I will never forget and for which I will always be grateful.
A Predestined Relationship with Dafa
It was November 1996. I took my wife and our little granddaughter, who was staying with us to circumvent the one-child policy, to our eldest daughter’s house. I went back home, and they ended up staying with her for over 10 days.
As I came inside from working in the fields one day, I saw that my wife had returned home and was busy preparing dinner. The house was spotless, inside and out, and our little granddaughter was happily playing with her little tote. I looked closely at my wife and noticed that her complexion glowed and that she looked so much healthier. She seemed like a completely different person. I was puzzled by what I saw. How could she, who had been sick for so many years, was a skeleton, and could barely lift 50 pounds, have changed so much?
When I asked her how the two of them got home, she told me they’d walked. I could hardly believe it. She pointed to our granddaughter and said, “If you don’t believe me, ask her.”
My granddaughter said, “Yes, we walked home. When I got tired, Grandma carried me for a while. When Grandma got tired, I walked again. That’s how we made it all the way home.”
I was still puzzled. It was a five-mile walk. My wife had been ill for more than a decade, suffering from neuralgia, rheumatoid arthritis, gynecological issues, and many other ailments. There was hardly a part of her body that didn’t hurt. We had spent our family’s income year after year on medicine for her, yet nothing seemed to help. Because of her constant pain, her temperament had become terrible. She was easily irritated and got angry. She yelled at people, sometimes hit the children, and often complained that I didn’t care enough about her. There was rarely a peaceful moment in our home. As for doing any work around the house, that was simply out of the question.
After dinner, my wife smiled at me and said, “I have something wonderful to tell you. You’ll be happy to hear it.”
I asked, “What happened? Why are you so happy?”
She then began to tell me, “At our daughter’s house, I noticed that one side of her face was swollen. It turned out she had bad toothache. She had been taking medicine for three days, but it hadn’t helped. I felt so sorry for her. Her husband told me that a couple who lived nearby practiced Falun Dafa and had invited her to practice with them, but she refused because she didn’t believe that qigong could cure illness. I said to our daughter, ‘Take me to their home and let me have a look. If it’s good, we’ll learn it. If it isn’t, we won’t. Besides, it doesn’t cost anything to try.’ Our daughter’s mother-in-law also came over and talked to us about it. So that evening, the three of us went to the neighbor’s home.
“The woman there was very welcoming. She first played a recording of Master teaching the Fa for us. She said if we liked what we heard and wanted to learn it, she would start with the first lecture the next day. That evening, after hearing just a short part of the lecture, I could hardly believe my ears. I had never heard anyone teach something so wonderful. I only wished I had discovered it sooner.
“The next evening, we went back to the practice site. There were quite a few people there. As soon as I began to listen to Master’s lecture, I felt comfortable and enlightened. The more I listened, the more I wanted to hear. The more I listened, the more I realized how wonderful Dafa was. The more I listened, the better I felt physically, as if a warm current flowed through my entire body.
“We then learned the exercises. It took only a little over 10 days for me to feel like a completely different person. I had energy and strength again, and I actually enjoyed doing things around the house. Our daughter’s face returned to normal by the fourth day, and her toothache was gone.
“Master Li teaches practitioners to live according to Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance. These are the characteristics of the universe. We need to cultivate our xinxing. When we encounter conflicts, we must first look within for where we went wrong. We should think of others in everything we do and never intentionally hurt anyone.”
We talked for a long time, and I finally understood what brought about the remarkable changes in her. Dafa had saved her—and it had also saved our entire family.
One day in 1997, my wife asked me to do the exercises with her. But we didn’t have a tape recorder at home to play the exercise music, so she suggested that we buy a good one. I said, “Of course. Now that you’re healthy and we don’t need to spend money on medicine, we can afford a few tape recorders!” So I went to the nearby town and bought a large tape recorder with two cassette decks and two speakers. It cost more than 100 yuan. At that time, our family was struggling financially because of the money we had spent on my wife’s medical issues over the years. Some people couldn’t understand why we would spend more than 100 yuan on a tape recorder. But to us, it was money well spent. We had found Dafa.
That was when I began my cultivation journey. By studying the Fa and doing the exercises, compassionate Master helped me quit my years-long addiction to smoking, purified my body, and cured my severe asthma and sciatica.
The Beauty and Miracles of Dafa Spread From Person to Person and From Heart to Heart
The physical and mental changes in my wife were so significant that our neighbors, relatives, friends, and fellow villagers all noticed them. When they came to our home to ask about it, we told them about the beauty of Dafa and about the miraculous healing effects we experienced since practicing it. They were all very receptive.
The first person to come to our home to practice was my godsister. She had suffered from rheumatoid arthritis for over three years, and any medications she took didn’t help. The pain in her knees became unbearable after walking just a few steps. She suffered terribly from it. My wife invited her to come to our home to study the Fa and do the exercises. My godsister said it would be inconvenient and that she didn’t want to come. “You can stay here and practice,” my wife told her. “It won’t be a problem.” That very evening, her husband brought her over in a stroller. In less than seven days, she was walking normally.
Another woman could eat only two dumplings for a meal. If she tried to eat more, she couldn’t swallow it. After studying the Fa, she could eat an entire bowlful at one sitting, and she regained her strength.
In fact, everyone who came to study the Fa experienced major changes: Families became more harmonious, mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law got along better, and husbands and wives stopped quarreling. Everyone in the village witnessed these changes. They were amazed by Dafa and felt that it was truly a wonderful practice. One after another, people began coming to our home to study the Fa and do the exercises. Before long, our home had become a practice site.
As more and more people came to our home to study the Fa, it eventually became too small to hold everyone. So we discussed it with my godsister and established another practice site in her home. This made it much easier for everyone to study the Fa and do the exercises. From time to time, we got together to share our cultivation experiences on how to improve our xinxing, how to pass xinxing tests, and how to apply the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance in our daily lives.
During one exchange, a retired traditional Chinese medicine doctor who had practiced medicine for over 40 years shared his experience: “I used to practice many different kinds of qigong. I spent a great deal of time trying to understand the circulation of energy through the body, and I even studied The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Medicine (Huangdi Neijing). But I never really understood it. Different people gave different explanations, but, in the end, they only made things more confusing. I never gained anything real from it. It was only by studying Falun Dafa that I finally understand what the circulation of energy through the body really means. This is what I have been seeking for over 40 years. Now I finally understand it.”
This practitioner is now 97 years old. His face glows, and he walks with light, energetic steps. He looks remarkably young. Someone once joked with him, “You look so young! You and your eldest son actually look quite alike—almost like you’ve traded places.”
Master’s compassion, together with the extraordinary and miraculous nature of Dafa, drew people with a predestined relationship to it. They yearned to learn Dafa and assimilate to its principles. The beauty of Dafa spread by word of mouth—from person to person and from heart to heart. It spread faster and more broadly than anyone could have imagined. Dafa reached village after village and city after city, spreading throughout China and eventually to people around the world.
Our entire extended family began to assimilate to Dafa. My sons and daughters, my wife’s younger sister, and others all embarked on the path of Dafa cultivation. The same thing happened in our little mountain village. The people in the village changed greatly as well. In the past, it was common to hear people fighting and cursing. People constantly gossiped about one another, and there were many cases of stealing or taking advantage of others.
After people began to study Dafa, their physical and mental well-being improved, and their outlook on life changed. They tried their best to live according to Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance. Kindness and good deeds became a natural part of everyday life. People felt safe leaving their doors unlocked at night, and no one would take something that didn’t belong to them, even if they found it on the street. When people crossed paths, they greeted each other with a friendly smile. This was the blessing brought by Dafa.
I want to share these words from the bottom of my heart: Falun Dafa is good!
Thirty years have passed, and I am now 80 years old. I have continued to fulfill the responsibility and mission of a Dafa disciple—to clarify the truth and save sentient beings.
Whenever I see the human tragedies caused by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and the immeasurable harm the CCP has inflicted on the Chinese people and the country, I think back to those wonderful days when Dafa was spreading across the land of China. I often wonder: If the CCP had never launched its persecution, how different—and how much more beautiful—China and the world would be today!
I want to share these heartfelt words with everyone in the world: Falun Dafa is a righteous Fa! Falun Dafa is good! Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good!
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