(Minghui.org) I am in my 60s. During the nearly 30 years I’ve practiced Falun Dafa I’ve witnessed miracles displayed in the human world. I’ve also experienced some huge positive changes. Under Master’s compassionate protection and guidance, I’ve been fulfilling my prehistoric vow to assist Master in Fa rectification.
My Husband Begins Practicing Falun Dafa
My husband is a nice person and he often talked about cultivation. Although he knew from cultivation books that a righteous way was introduced, he did not understand what it was. Various qigong practices appeared in China in the 1980s and 1990s, and he tried a few of them, but he did not feel they were what he was looking for.
When he went to a small bookstore in October 1995 he found a qigong magazine that talked about Falun Dafa and the books Falun Gong and Zhuan Falun. After he quickly looked through these two books, he realized the content was unlike anything he’d seen in other qigong books. So he bought one copy of each book and brought them home like treasures. He began reading them as soon as he came home.
I had to work the night shift. After dinner, seeing him still engrossed in his book, I went to sleep. He excitedly woke me up, saying “Wake up! Look! I found it! This is a treasure!” I was half asleep, and a little annoyed, thinking, “I have to get up for work soon, and he woke me up.” I didn’t take the book, but just glanced at it—the blue cover, as blue as a clear sky. Then I closed my eyes and fell asleep again.
While I was fast asleep, I suddenly sat up and shouted, “Ah! That scared me to death!” The loud noise startled my husband, who was reading. He asked me what was wrong. Still shaken, I said, “I had a terrible dream. A very thick snake wrapped around my neck, tightening its grip. In a moment of panic, I thought: ‘Don’t worry, I have a precious book.’ The snake instantly shrunk and darted out from under my bed.”
My husband said, “You have a predestined relationship with Dafa, Master is cleaning up your body. I just read about this in the book. This Falun Dafa is truly amazing!”
I began reading Zhuan Falun. My husband wished to do the exercises, and every morning he went out to find a practice site. He discovered one not far from home, and he was overjoyed. The assistants told him that they played recordings of Master’s lectures every evening, so he began going there and watching. He formally embarked on his cultivation journey.
As soon as I finished reading one chapter of Zhuan Falun, I felt that Master had strict requirements for practitioners. My enlightenment quality was low, and I felt I couldn’t make it. As a practitioner, “...one should not fight back when being punched or insulted, but should hold oneself to a high standard.” (Lecture Four, Zhuan Falun).
I thought: If I begin cultivating now, I couldn’t knit sweaters, do laundry, or do side jobs at work because that didn’t comply with Dafa’s standards. Let me finish knitting the sweaters first.
I finally began to practice Dafa on January 1, 1996. At first, I held myself to the requirements of Dafa, I stopped doing personal work while I was at work. I became conscientious and responsible. I always thought of others, and I was kind. I not only improved my character, but also quickly achieved the state of my body feeling light. I felt like I had inexhaustible energy. Other practitioners came to our home to study the Fa and do the exercises.
Former Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Jiang Zemin launched the brutal persecution in July 1999. Police officers came to my home to arrest my husband at 3 a.m. and took him to the local detention center. Our Fa-study group was also forced to disband.
My husband was released a month later. But his company didn’t allow him to return to work until 10 months later. He was also transferred from his original position to working in a toxic and hazardous workshop. Despite all this, he conducted himself according to Falun Dafa’s standards. He had no resentment or hatred, was diligent at work, and was humble, and selfless. His noble attitude earned the recognition and admiration of the people around him.
My Brother
My brother called one morning in the summer 2018 and he asked me to accompany him to the hospital for a medical checkup. The results indicated that he had colo-rectal cancer and needed immediate surgery.
He was just 50 years old and used to be in good health, but the factory went out of business. My sister-in-law was unemployed for years. My brother is very hardworking and kind; he often worked two jobs to make ends meet. Whenever I told him about Dafa he’d say, “I’m too busy to practice. My family needs to be fed.” This sudden blow left the family at a loss. I told him to ask Master for help. I also told his wife and child to read the phrases.
There were three other patients in my brother’s ward—they were all around 50 years old and had colon cancer. They all underwent surgery and chemotherapy but shortly after they were discharged follow-up examinations showed the cancer metastasized and they needed to undergo radiotherapy. Their health deteriorated. Seeing them in such a state after having gone through so much treatment at the hospital, my brother was very worried about himself. I comforted him, “Don’t worry. We have a better way, but it all depends on whether you want to cultivate or not. If you practice Falun Dafa you’ll turn a bad thing into something good.” He agreed.
He began listening to recordings of Master’s lectures but he couldn’t do the exercises in the hospital. He developed postoperative gastroparesis after the surgery and stayed in the hospital for more than a month, but his condition did not improve. Because he hadn’t eaten much during his three-month hospital stay, he lost a lot of weight. If he continued with chemotherapy his body would collapse, so his family decided to take him home to recuperate.
Two days after he was discharged from the hospital, in order to get my brother to eat something he could digest, the family blended food into a puree, but he still vomited after eating it. Two days later, I went to see him, and I could tell from his expression that he was under a lot of pressure.
I said, “Let’s take a walk. We’ll go talk to another practitioner.”
After we arrived at Ms. Liu’s home she told him, “Don’t worry. Master takes care of practitioners.”
She told him how she managed to make the breakthrough in an illness karma tribulation within seven hours. My brother had good enlightenment quality. He was greatly inspired by her story and said, “Starting tomorrow I’ll eat regular food.” On our way home, he already felt that he had more strength.
He told me the next afternoon, “Sister, I can eat anything and I don’t vomit. My gastroparesis wasn’t cured at the hospital after several months, but I was fine after I read the Fa and did the exercises for two days.”
This greatly strengthened his confidence in studying the Fa and doing the exercises. About a month later he was fine and went back to work. His weight also went back to what it was before. Follow-up examinations revealed everything was normal.
Husband and Wife Practice Falun Dafa
My coworker’s mother, Ms. Lian, was born in 1952. My coworker was unable to work for more than two months due to a herniated lumbar disc at the end of 2010. I visited her and wanted to take this opportunity to tell her about Dafa. It just so happened that her mother, Ms. Lian, was also at her house. Ms. Lian was lying on the bed with a pained expression on her face; she had fractured her coccyx.
I told them about the miraculous effect of Dafa in terms of resolving illnesses and keeping fit. They quickly agreed to learn the exercises. I was prepared and I took out the exercise video and played it for them. After we finished watching the video once, I invited Ms. Lian to come see me at my home after the Chinese New Year celebration. I said I’d play the recordings of Master’s lectures.
As the saying goes, “Flowers planted with care may not bloom, while willows planted unintentionally may thrive.” I went to my coworker to tell her about Falun Dafa, but she wasn’t very interested. However, her mother, who came to her house unexpectedly, was very interested.
After the Chinese New Year was over, Ms. Lian came as she promised to watch Master’s recorded lectures. Practitioners in my Fa-study group watched Master’s nine lectures with her. After they left, she told me about her painful experience.
Ms. Lian said excitedly, “Thank you for going to my daughter’s house that day. If you had gone two days later, we would never have met. Dafa saved my life. I was planning to stay at my daughter’s house for two days, see my daughter and granddaughter, and then go home and swallow the hundred sleeping pills I prepared, and end my painful life.”
She said, “My life has been so difficult and bitter. Since I was 28, I haven’t had a single good day. That was the year I started having extremely painful toothaches. My teeth didn’t look bad, but they hurt. Injections and medicine didn’t help. Because I was young, I was reluctant to have them pulled, but eventually the pain became unbearable, so I had one pulled. The toothaches accompanied me for multiple years until all my teeth were extracted.”
She said she also suffered from pancreatitis, otitis media, gynecological problems, and spinal osteophytes that compressed her nerves. Sometimes, several of these ailments flared up at the same time, and caused her excruciating pain. She could only sleep for a short while by taking sleeping pills. She sought medical help everywhere. She finally found a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner who prescribed over 400 doses of herbal medicine before she recovered.
She broke her tailbone and the toilet was broken. Instead of fixing it her husband converted it into a squat toilet so she was unable to use it. No one cooked for her and she lost the will to live. She said the day she watched the exercise demonstration she dropped her idea of wanting to kill herself. Master gave her confidence. She finally had hope.
Ms. Lian treasured this precious opportunity. She got up at 3:30 a.m. every day. After she finished doing the five sets of the exercises, she sent forth righteous thoughts at 6 a.m. She didn’t head out until she finished reading two chapters of Zhuan Falun. She also read Master’s new articles after she finished her chores. Soon after she began to practice, she achieved the state of her body feeling light, and she felt very light when she walked.
When she first began studying the Fa, her husband created multiple opportunities for her to improve her character. At night, when she studied the Fa, her husband came to her room to turn off the lights. She was able to maintain her character, and not argue with him. She bought a flashlight and read the Fa under her blanket.
As she continued to read the Fa she realized that what she suffered before and the way her husband treated her, were Master’s arrangements to help her eliminate lifetime after lifetime of karma, so she could elevate in her cultivation.
Seeing Ms. Lian’s great transformations at the end of 2015, her husband was deeply moved. He not only stopped causing trouble for her, but also told her he wanted to join us to study the Fa and do the exercises. His changes also moved Ms. Lian. The couple’s hearts were finally united. Her husband began cultivating and his multiple illnesses disappeared.
The transformations this couple experienced inspired their entire family. They understood the truth about Falun Dafa and saw the true nature of the CCP. They all agreed to renounce their memberships in the CCP and its affiliated organizations. Many of them read Zhuan Falun and learned the exercises. They’ve chosen a bright future for themselves.
These are true stories that I witnessed. I hope more people connect with Dafa, and are blessed by Master’s immense saving grace in this chaotic world.
