(Clearwisdom.net) I started practicing Falun Gong in August 2000, one year after the evil forces started to defame and persecute Falun Gong in China. Like many others who did not practice, I was deceived at that time. Although I did not totally believe the propaganda that distorted right and wrong, it still influenced me a lot and I even felt lucky that I had not started practicing Falun Gong before.
My husband had suffered from hepatitis C since about 1996. He often felt pain in his liver and couldn't do heavy work. I also had many diseases: colitis, gynaecological diseases, heart disease, rhinitis, ischium nerve pain, hyperplasia of a lung lobe, constipation and more. Besides, both my husband and I had trichomonad disease. For over ten years, we spent almost all the money we earned from hard work to cure diseases. We really could not feel happy being in such a situation.
Around August 2000, a good friend of mine who had immigrated overseas years earlier introduced me to Falun Dafa. For several weeks, he successively introduced me to the amazing effects of Falun Dafa in purifying the mind and body. In the beginning, I didn't completely accept what he said and had questions. Later, I thought: "He has received higher education; he would not introduce me to something again and again if he did not think it was good." I started to have thoughts about learning Falun Gong. One day, just after I had finished speaking on the phone with him, a practitioner who had practiced Falun Gong for four years came by. She quickly helped me to get the book and started to teach me the exercises.
Falun Dafa changed my whole family to an amazing degree. After learning the Fa, my husband and I truly understood the meaning of life and the principles of being a human. I looked inward whenever I encountered any problem. I gave up bad habits such as cursing others and losing my temper easily.
When we started a new business, we needed to use a lot of electricity. One of my friends wanted to benefit from this opportunity and wanted to share with us [Note: In China and other developing countries, stealing electricity is a common occurrence]. I thought I should behave according to the principles of "Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance," so I told him that I would not do such a thing and hoped that he would not either. I also clarified the truth about Dafa to him and told him that Falun Gong practitioners always tried to think of others first and would never hurt others in order to benefit themselves.
Falun Dafa brought miracles to my family in health improvement as well. Although in the beginning my husband didn't practice the exercises much and just read the book, the pain in his liver disappeared soon after. The problems such as colitis and constipation, which had bothered me for many years, improved just one week after I obtained the Fa, and eventually were cured. The trichomonad disease that both my husband and I had suffered from disappeared completely soon after we started to practice Dafa. We felt very much relieved. I told my experiences to my relatives and friends. Some of them believed us and started to practice Falun Dafa too. Whoever practices Dafa says that Dafa is good. Only through genuine cultivating can one feel its wonder.
One new practitioner who had just obtained the Fa is a doctor. My husband and I often went to his clinic before we obtained the Fa. He often came to our home, so my husband clarified the facts about Dafa to him. Recently he borrowed the videotapes of Teacher's lectures for his whole family to watch and started his path of cultivation.
Since July 20th, 1999, all the local veteran practitioners had either been arrested and tortured or watched. Because we only obtained the Fa in August 2000, the evil thugs didn't find us. So we took advantage of this to pass Teacher's articles and the truth-clarifying materials obtained from overseas to fellow practitioners. I transcribed Dafa materials at home, and other fellow practitioners delivered them. Once I received the full 29 pages of Teacher's "Touring North America to Teach the Fa." In order to pass the article to other fellow practitioners quickly, I took leave from my factory work and spent two days transcribing several copies of the article.
After studying Teacher's article "Touring North America to Teach the Fa," I realized that as long as I didn't have fear, the evil would not dare to touch me. Since then, whenever I hear someone say bad words against Dafa, I clarify the truth to them no matter where I am. I tell them that what the TV reports is all false and is simply deceiving people. Once, I invited the security director of our area to my home and showed him the videotape clarifying the truth about the staged "Tiananmen self-immolation incident." After watching the tape, he knew that Falun Gong only taught people to be good.
Since we obtained the Fa just recently, our understanding of the Fa is still shallow. In the course of Teacher's Fa rectification, we haven't done enough. I hope fellow practitioners will kindly point out anything improper.
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