(Minghui.org) I began practicing Falun Dafa in April 1999. Practitioners usually meditated first, and then did the standing exercises, so the first day I went to the practice site I only learned the standing exercises. On the way home, my body felt incredibly light, and I walked with a spring in my step. I was stunned; I couldn’t believe what I was feeling.
Although I was only 42 years old, I was frail and overweight, my eyes were sensitive to light, and I suffered from hepatitis, gallstones, gastritis, neurasthenia, and many other ailments. I was amazed that my body suddenly felt so light! From that moment, I believed in the existence of deities, and that Falun Dafa is a genuine cultivation practice. I began practicing Falun Dafa.
I practiced for about three months when, on July 20, 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began persecuting Falun Dafa. They broadcast propaganda to slander and suppress Dafa 24 hours a day, and the atmosphere in China was truly overwhelming and terrifying. I was not afraid despite the pressure.
I was illegally sentenced to three years in prison by the CCP. My family wanted to take me home when my sentence ended, but the prison officers took me to the local 610 Office. Despite this, I was determined to cultivate.
I diligently do the three things that Master asks of us, especially clarifying the truth about the persecution to people. For me, clarifying the truth is challenging in terms of time, because I work during the day to earn money to support my family and pay off debts. I go out at night to distribute informational materials, and I also clarify the truth to people I encounter.
Overcoming Difficulties
I truly wanted to cultivate, but I found studying the Fa very difficult. I couldn’t concentrate, I got sleepy as soon as I started reading, and I didn’t understand the meaning of what I was reading. I knew how important studying the Fa was, so I studied the Fa diligently. When I couldn’t focus while sitting down, I knelt and read. When my mind wandered, I stood up and read.
Once, while I was standing and reading the Fa, my body suddenly lurched forward, and I almost fell. When I straightened up, I saw a human-shaped figure made of soot lying on the floor, about an inch thick. I knew that my determination to study the Fa forced this thing out of my body. After that, studying the Fa became easier, and I understood its meaning. But after a while, things returned to how they were before, and studying the Fa became difficult again. But no matter how difficult it was, I persisted.
Giving Up an Apartment
My husband and I worked for a large corporation. Our company was about to be acquired, and the parent company helped resolve some issues for us. The parent company allocated a large apartment to the vice president of our subsidiary company, so his apartment was vacant. The parent company gave my husband the key to the vice president’s old apartment, and asked us to move from the eighth floor to the fifth floor.
My husband changed the lock. He wanted to move some things in to occupy the apartment, fearing complications might arise while he was away on a month-long business trip. I said, “There’s no need. The parent company gave it to us voluntarily; we didn’t use any back channels to get it.” He replied, “That’s true.”
A few days later, our company driver came to my office and said, “I heard the vice president’s apartment was allocated to you, is that right?”
I said, “Yes.” The driver was a temporary employee at our company, and he wouldn’t be offered a permanent job because the company was undergoing a buyout. He was single and from a rural area. Now that the company was being bought out, the distinction between regular employees and temporary workers no longer mattered. He wasn’t eligible for an apartment, but he really wanted the one we were given. I also knew he had some history with the general manager of our subsidiary company regarding this apartment. However, my husband and I were both permanent employees, and we were getting older, so we wouldn’t have another chance to get an apartment. That’s why the company gave us the apartment before the buyout.
That evening, the driver removed the door of the apartment that had been allocated to us and replaced it with a new security door. When my daughter went to school the next morning and noticed the door of that apartment had been changed, she ran back to tell me. I went downstairs to take a look and saw the driver had taken the apartment.
I was furious, but then I remembered that I am a Dafa practitioner, and if I want to truly cultivate, I must follow the requirements of Dafa and always consider others first. Even though it was difficult, I had to let the driver have the apartment. I picked up the phone, called the company’s CCP secretary, explained the situation, and said that I would give it to the driver.
The driver felt very guilty, and he ended up paying about 20,000 yuan for the apartment. After I returned from my unjust imprisonment, he repeatedly told me, “I want to help you. If you need money for anything, I’ll lend it to you.” I said, “Thank you, but I don’t need it.”
Repaying Debts
In 2004, I returned home after serving a three-year illegal sentence in prison. All of our family’s savings had been gambled away by my husband, and we also had a 30,000 yuan debt. Our child needed to go to high school, and the home needed renovations, which I had planned three years earlier. My husband said, “I’ve given the home away; you’re not allowed to renovate it.” The floor tiles, which were fashionable when the home was built, had become uneven and cracked.
The night I returned home, my husband’s nephew-in-law came over under the pretext of visiting me, but he was actually there to ask for money. They all thought I must have hidden my savings from my husband. As working-class people, our financial situation was quite good. But I am a Dafa practitioner, and I live according to Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance. The first principle is Truthfulness, so I didn’t hide money from my husband.
I told my husband’s nephew-in-law, “I’ll pay you back the 10,000 yuan within half a month, but I need to borrow 3,000 yuan from you tomorrow, then I’ll pay you back everything at once.” He said, “Okay.” He trusted me, and I had a good relationship with his family. I borrowed the 3,000 yuan to pay off a debt, because as soon as I came home I received a phone call saying my husband owed someone 3,000 yuan. I asked my husband, and he confirmed it.
Before I began practicing Falun Dafa, I invested in the stock market, specifically in mutual funds. I bought two stocks. Since practitioners shouldn’t trade stocks, I wanted to sell them. When I tried to sell both stocks at the same time, only one sold. The other stock simply wouldn’t sell, no matter the price. I tried selling it many times, but it just wouldn’t sell, so I reluctantly gave up. Shortly after this, I was persecuted and sentenced to three years in prison. After I returned home, I needed to pay off my debts, so I tried selling the stock again. This time, they sold immediately, for about 14,000 yuan. I paid off the 13,000 yuan debt, leaving me with a little over 1,000 yuan.
Life requires money: a child’s education requires money, and social obligations require money. My husband’s wages from his job aren’t much, and my wages aren’t much either; together, we earn less than two thousand yuan a month. But I’m very good at managing the household finances; I know that saving is earning, so I don’t waste a single penny.
One month, I only spent five yuan on groceries. My husband was working away from home, and my child was away at boarding school, so I was the only one at home. I only ate two meals a day, breakfast and dinner, as my boss provided lunch. I bought bok choy twice, which cost one yuan, and a small bottle of fermented bean curd, which cost about four yuan, and that’s how I got through the month. On the third day of the Lunar New Year, I went to the garage to get my bicycle and found a wallet at the entrance. I saw that it contained more than ten one-hundred-yuan bills, and I handed the wallet to the garage owner.
Unharmed After Being Hit By a Motorcycle
I was crossing a street with no traffic lights at the crosswalk and pedestrians crossed when there were no cars. I was hit by a motorcycle and thrown more than ten meters away. Two men were on the motorcycle.
I didn’t realize what happened. I only saw many migrant workers carrying quilts and tools for digging ditches, rushing to catch a bus. They pushed me forward from behind, and I couldn’t keep up with them. They knocked me down and trampled over me. I shouted loudly as I lay on the ground, “You knocked me down!”
At that moment, a tall man stood beside me, spreading his arms wide to protect me, and shouted, “Go around! Someone has been knocked down!” At the same time, he told me, “Get up quickly.” I got up.
I got up and looked around, but there were no migrant workers in sight. I was the only one standing there. Then I saw a motorcycle stopped in the middle of the road, with two men sitting on it, staring at me. I didn’t know what was going on, but then I heard someone say, “You hit an old woman and sent her flying, what are you going to do now?” That’s when I realized they hit me with their motorcycle.
I quickly went over to the two young men and said, “I’m fine, don’t be afraid, I practice Falun Dafa. I’m not injured, and I won’t ask you for any compensation. You should drive slower. You hit a Falun Dafa practitioner today; if you hit someone else, it would have been a lot of trouble.”
I took an amulet from my bag which had information about Falun Dafa and I gave it to them. They accepted it, but they were too shocked to move.
A passerby said, “Leave quickly, you’ve met a good person today.” They were frightened but with my and the passerby’s urging, they slowly rode away on their motorcycle.
The next day, I started experiencing pain all over my body. I told the pain, “I’m a Falun Dafa practitioner.” As soon as I said this, the pain disappeared. A few days later, a practitioner whose third eye was open said she saw that I had been killed in an accident. She called practitioner Lin to inquire, and Lin told her I was fine, but she didn’t believe her. Lin said, “If you don’t believe me, then call her!” When she called me, I said, “What you saw was true; a version of me made of karma was killed in the accident. But I have Master’s protection, and I didn’t even get a scratch.”
A few years later, while I rode my bicycle across a crosswalk, I was hit by a car that was turning the corner. The car drove away, and a voice said, “Quick, look at his license plate number, so you can find him.”
I immediately became alert and thought, “Why would I look for him?” I quickly got up from the ground, picked up my bicycle, and rode away.
After I rode a while, my ankle started to hurt. I continued riding home, and in my mind, I said to Master, “Master, if I owed him something in a previous life, then he should hit me, and I should bear the pain; if I didn’t owe him anything from a previous life, then this pain is not mine.” After I had that thought, the pain disappeared.
