(Minghui.org) I am 96 years old. I started to practice Falun Dafa in 1997. One of my neighbors had learned that I was suffering from poor health, so she tried to persuade me to practice Falun Dafa. She told me that Falun Dafa had amazing health benefits. I was glad to learn this and bought a copy of Zhuan Falun the following day.
I attended the Fa study group that evening. I saw more than a dozen practitioners smiling at me when I entered the Fa study room. I felt warm in my heart and thought the practitioners were friendly. It was a good Fa study environment. Each of us read one paragraph in turns. I was willing to read the Fa, though feeling a bit nervous at the start. I was looking forward to my turn to read the Fa.
I watched Master’s video lectures during the day while practicing the five sets of exercises in the morning and in the evening every day. After I had practiced Falun Dafa for three months, I recovered from cholecystitis, high blood pressure, coronary heart disease, and kidney stones. I no longer needed to have injections or take medication.
My perspective on the world fundamentally changed. I am considerate and look within when I have conflicts with other people. I stay calm even when I am wronged or hurt. I no longer compete or fight with others. My xinxing has improved, and I am healthy. I haven’t been on any medication for 29 years. I am happy every day. Thank you, Master, for your saving grace!
Master led me to walk on a bright path, enabling me to return to my original self. I am the luckiest person in this world.
Validating the Fa and Saving Sentient Beings
The regime started to persecute Falun Dafa practitioners in July 1999. We practitioners began to tell people about Falun Dafa, distribute materials, put up sticky posters with Dafa messages, and hang banners. After the Nine Commentaries on Communist Party was published, several other elderly practitioners and I started to tell people about Falun Dafa and the persecution face-to-face and persuaded them to withdraw from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations. We tried our best to do the three things well. In 2015, we filed criminal complaints against Jiang Zemin, the former head of the CCP, who launched the persecution.
I was the oldest practitioner in our Fa study group. After I practiced Falun Dafa, I became very healthy. When I was nearly 80 years old, I didn’t feel that old. I did everything that the young practitioners did to validate the Fa. We formed pairs and went out to distribute materials, put up sticky posters, and hang banners. We tied small stones to the bottom of the banners and threw them up to the treetops. The banners unfolded themselves. The golden-colored words “Falun Dafa is good” were eye-catching, awakened people, and suppressed the evil. Thanks to Master’s protection, we returned home safely every time.
I felt that I was still young. The practitioners in our Fa study group didn’t treat me like an elderly woman. I did the same things to validate the Fa as other practitioners. I went out with other practitioners to shopping centers and markets to tell people about Falun Dafa and awaken sentient beings.
One day I put up sticky posters in a residential building. I started from the third floor. When I was on the first floor, a woman in her 60s came down from the second floor and shouted at me, “What are you doing?” I panicked a little but calmed myself down. I told her that I was saving people. She asked, “Whom do you save? Did you put up all the stickers upstairs?” She went upstairs as she finished talking.
Her shouting drew people. They came down to the first floor. Some pointed to the stickers murmuring. Some read the stickers in low voices, “Falun Dafa is good,” Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good,” “Heaven eliminates the CCP,” “Falun Dafa is the righteous Fa.” As people looked at the stickers, I left quietly.
I have experienced such incidents four times and returned home safely each time thanks to Master’s protection. Thank you, Master, for your compassion and protection!
Two Terminally Ill Patients Survived
When I learned that my niece, who lived in another city, was suffering from late-stage breast cancer in 2016, I called her and asked her to come stay with me. She agreed. She said to me later, “When I decided to go to your home, I felt that a strong force supported me, and I felt like I was abandoning the darkness. I saw the hope of life.”
She came to my home. She rested for a short while and asked me for the book I had mentioned to her; she wanted to have a look. I felt sad when I saw her weak health and pale face. I gave her Zhuan Falun. I then went to cook for her.
When I went back to her in the bedroom, I saw that her face was covered with tears. I asked her what was going on. She said, “When I saw Master’s photo, I saw a force of righteous energy shooting between his eyebrows up to the cosmos. He smiled at me. He looked so compassionate, which warmed my heart. I felt like I met a family member whom I hadn’t seen for a long time, and I was like a lost child who saw her parents again. I couldn’t hold back my tears.”
I said, “You are predestined with Falun Dafa. You have good enlightenment quality. Make sure you practice Falun Dafa diligently.”
My home was a group Fa study site. She studied the Fa and shared it with practitioners every day. She quickly learned the Falun Dafa exercise movements. She was very focused when she studied the Fa. She remembered that “Zhen-Shan-Ren is the Sole Criterion to Discern Good and Bad People.” (Lecture One, Zhuan Falun) She learned that cultivation was to cultivate xinxing, and she should behave in line with a practitioner’s standard when she came across any issues. She was joyful every day and forgot that she was an ill person.
She was a changed person after she had stayed with me for two weeks. She was in high spirits. She was very thankful to Master for his saving grace. She was determined to cultivate in Falun Dafa and follow Master to return to her original home.
She contacted local practitioners after she returned home. She started her cultivation in the Fa-rectification period. She cultivates diligently, does the three things well, and firmly walks on her cultivation path. I thank Master for his saving grace again!
One of my acquaintances who lived in the county near my city suffered from late-stage uremia in 2017. He was on the brink of death. The doctor couldn’t cure him and discharged him from the hospital. He was a bank clerk and was only 48 years old then.
I went to see him with another practitioner. He lay in bed with a pale face and skinny body. But he was still clear-minded. I comforted him. He said with tears in his eyes, “The doctor couldn’t cure me. I can’t recover.”
I shared my story of cultivation in Falun Dafa with him. I told him that I recovered from all my illnesses after I had practiced Falun Dafa for three months, and I hadn’t needed medication for more than 20 years. I then told him the facts about Falun Dafa, and that Falun Dafa has amazing health benefits if people want to genuinely practice it. I asked him if he believed what I said. He said, “Yes, I believe it.”
I told him that Falun Dafa is the great way of the universe, practitioners cultivate their xinxing according to the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance, the characteristics of the universe, and that the practitioners improve their health and moral realms through cultivation, and many have recovered from terminal illnesses. I told him many examples of how Master cured paralyzed people on the spot during the Oriental Health Expos in Beijing in 1993.
Hearing these things, he awakened and sat up. He said, “This is a true Buddha coming down to this world!” His face lit up. He could talk with strength. He continued, “I believe in the divine. I believe that there are higher beings in this universe.” I gave him Zhuan Falun and some truth-clarification materials. I told him to read the book a lot and recite “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good” repeatedly. I gave him 200 yuan ($29) and bought him some fruit.
I asked another practitioner to see him one week later. He was able to open the door for the practitioner. He had a fair complexion and was all smiles. He was in good spirits. He was a different person than he had been the week before. He said to the practitioner, “The CCP doesn’t allow people to practice such a good exercise and it persecutes the practitioners brutally.”
The practitioner explained to him how the Tiananmen Square Self-Immolation incident was staged and how Falun Dafa has spread to more than 100 countries. He listened attentively. He then said, “I have decided to practice Falun Dafa. Can you please teach me the five sets of exercises?”
He called me several years later. He said on the phone, “I have completely recovered. Falun Dafa has also blessed my family. My son has a good job and bought a big apartment. My whole family is bathed in the light of Falun Dafa!” He was very thankful to Master and Falun Dafa.
He sometimes went to the local square with his family members. People who knew him asked him about his health. He proudly told them that he had recovered from his illnesses because he practices Falun Dafa. He clarified the truth using his own example.
Memorizing the Fa
I like to study the Fa. I cannot hold back my tears when the sentences in the book touch me. I have sometimes seen the characters in the book stand up. I’ve seen the top part of the characters emitting a light red while the bottom parts were deep red. Sometimes I saw all the characters turning light red or purple or yellow.
I started to memorize Zhuan Falun in 2019. It took me 13 months to memorize the whole book for the first time. I have memorized the book six times. But I still was unable to memorize every word without any mistakes. I then changed to read the book at a slow speed. When I read the first lecture at a slow speed, I found the Fa principles were dear to me and I couldn’t stop my tears. I also read Master’s lectures repeatedly. As I studied the Fa a lot, the Fa principles were in my heart. When my attachments surfaced, I could remember Master’s related words regarding the attachments and could quickly rectify myself according to the Fa.
Thanks to Master’s strengthening, I have improved my enlightenment quality and xinxing. I look within whenever I have issues. I started to memorize the Fa again. When I memorized it for the eighth time, I was able to recite it without any mistakes. When other practitioners read the Fa, I just recite the Fa when it is my turn to read.
My health has started to return to a younger state. When I turned 96 years old, the new growth in my hair had become black from the root. One summer day, I wanted to have a shower, but the water heater was not plugged in. I was not tall enough to plug it in. I was alone at home. I accidentally touched the shower head, and it was hot. I turned on the shower. The water was hot. It was amazing. I had a pleasant shower that day. Thank you, Master, for your help!
I asked my son to buy me three kinds of good snacks on May 12, 2021, so that I would have some food to celebrate Master’s birthday the following day. My nephew came to see me with six kinds of good snacks the following day. I was so happy that he had brought food to me. Whenever I want something, people come to help me.
Master also helped me solve a much harder issue. My eldest daughter passed away due to illness. We were very close, and I missed her very much, but I didn’t have any dreams about her. One day, I pleaded with Master to give me a chance to see her. I saw her in my dream that night. She came to me with a smile and said, “I have food, clothes, and money. Don’t worry about me.” I let go of my attachment to her after the dream.
Letting Go of Resentment
I had deep hatred against my daughter-in-law before I practiced Falun Dafa. My son was just an everyday young man. But his wife was sharp and attractive. She was selfish. She had her eye on my income and savings. I opened a small shop on the ground floor of my home in 1991 to make some money to buy expensive medicine for my husband.
My husband passed away in May the following year. Three members of my son’s family came to my shop in June. His wife said, “We will manage your shop from now on. I will be the shop assistant, and your son will be the delivery man.” They said that they were unemployed and they should own the shop. I sensed that they wanted to take over my shop. I gave them the certificate of deposit for 8,600 yuan ($1,250) for the shop. I had a pension and could make a living. I handed the shop over to them.
But they didn’t stop there. Whenever they needed to spend a large sum of money, they came to me. I paid my grandson’s university tuition fee of 4,000 yuan ($581) a year, his professional qualification training fee of 4,000 yuan, job application agent fee of 20,000 yuan ($2,905), and his graduation certificate fee of 500 yuan ($72). I resented my daughter-in-law and yet was afraid of her. Whenever I saw her greedy eyes, my heart would shiver. When she asked for money, I obeyed begrudgingly and met her demands whenever I could. But she never thanked me or said sorry. She took it for granted. She called me her cash cow.
I was knitting a sweater for my daughter’s son one year. My daughter-in-law got furious and asked me if it was for her son or for my daughter’s son. I told her that I would knit one for her son. She said, “No, I want this one.” After I finished the sweater, she took it without asking me. When my daughter’s son came to get it, she wouldn’t give it to him. She said sarcastically, “Don’t let the good stuff go to outsiders.”
She stopped working in the shop in 2007. She asked me to reimburse her 500 ($72) yuan a month. I was practicing Falun Dafa then. I had learned from the Fa that anything that happens to a practitioner is not accidental. I required myself to behave according to the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance. I might have owed her something from before that needed to be settled in this lifetime. I put up with her despite the hardships she brought to me.
She said that she didn’t want any money from me in 2008. Instead, the three members of her family came to eat at my home. My home was like a canteen for them. They came in and ate, then left when they finished. When they came in, I sometimes thought of all the things they had done to me previously. My resentment against them welled up. Sometimes I could no longer put up with them and cried. I knew that I was not maintaining a practitioner’s standard of “forbearance.”
My grandson stayed with me while he was in high school. When he graduated from college and had a girlfriend, she stayed with me before they got married as well. They stayed with me for the first month after they had a baby. I tried to look after them well, no matter how they spent my money. Regardless, I made my contribution of 200 yuan ($29) each month to the local materials production site without missing any months.
Though I had practiced Falun Dafa for more than 20 years, I still had resentment when I thought of what my daughter-in-law had done to me. I knew it was not a good cultivation state to have and that I didn’t reach a practitioner’s realm. Nothing accidental happens to a practitioner. I should let go of my attachment to personal interest. I had a hard life from childhood, lacking food and clothes. I always lived a frugal life, so I saved money for rainy days.
I used to feel sad when I came across conflicts. I didn’t look at things from another angle. I judged things from everyday people’s perspectives and didn’t regard the hardships and sufferings as good opportunities to improve myself. Through Fa study, my heart opened up.
I now understand that if I want to cultivate myself and become a divine being, I must emerge from my humanness and everyday people’s perspectives. I must remember that I should look at things in a reverse way and thank the people who give me opportunities to improve my xinxing and elevate to a higher level. I should thank my daughter-in-law. I let go of my resentment toward her and welcomed her whole family into my home.
Because I changed, my daughter-in-law changed as well. She no longer stayed silent when she was with me. She started conversations with me and helped with the chores, cleaning, and cooking. She bought me fruit and snacks.
I am 96 years old. Though I am slightly deaf, I still have good eyesight, a clear memory, and sharp thinking. Though I only had a middle school education, I wrote this sharing article myself. I am so lucky to be a Falun Dafa practitioner in the Fa-rectification period. Master has given us this great way of the cosmos, shaped us, and extended my life. I am so honored. I cannot thank Master enough. No words can express my gratitude to Master.
