(Clearwisdom.net) I am 75 years old. I learned Falun Dafa in April 1994 and gladly participated in the Falun Gong seminar given by Master in Chenzhou, Hunan Province. After practicing Falun Gong, all my illnesses such as stomach problems, hemorrhoids, psoriasis, cervical spondylosis, etc. vanished. I felt myself healthy and light of body, and could even carry a heavy sack of rice upstairs on my back easily.
The Chinese Communist Party began to persecute Falun Gong on July 20, 1999. While studying the books of Falun Gong and sharing with others at the home of a practitioner, we were arrested by police who picked the lock and broke in. I was held in a detention center for over 70 days. In prison I was forced to do slave labor. If I did not get the labor done, I was beaten by the bully of the camp. A few criminals and I were monitored 24 hours a day. I was not allowed to study the Fa or to talk with anyone else. They pressured me to “reform” and to write the Three Statements. If I offered any resistance, they arranged for criminals to hit me.
On November 4, 1999, my hands and feet became weak and tears flowed for no reason. The detention center tried to treat the illness but with no success. On the 8th of November, I could not move my right hand or foot. The symptoms of paralysis appeared, and I fell down in a faint. As my condition was critical, the provincial clinic did not want to take me in. To avoid responsibility, the detention center asked my child to pick me up. Two weeks later, despite high medical expenses, nothing had changed. Still paralyzed, I could do nothing but return home.
Lying in bed I could not speak except to say, “Oh, oh.” I was unable to move, and someone had to help me eat and get dressed. My grief was incredible. Six months later, an article was published in the city press saying that I refused medical treatment in the hospital and that was what had caused my paralysis. This slandering of Dafa, fabrication, and underhanded trickery was a terrible mental blow.
I said to Master, “I haven’t done well and have been used by the CCP to sabotage Dafa. I want to rectify the Fa and clarify the truth, but I am not capable of doing so.”
Practitioners encouraged me, “You must keep your faith in Master and trust yourself. Study the Fa, practice the exercises, and send forth righteous thoughts. You have to force yourself to eat, dress, and use the restroom by yourself.”
I began to listen to the Fa and to recite the formulas of Fa-rectification diligently. I did my best to move around by myself. Bit by bit my mental state improved. I could gradually speak and sit up from a lying position. Once it took me about three hours to button a button because of a hand cramp. But I did not give up and at last I got it. At the beginning I could neither stay standing nor raise a hand. But I tried again and again.
A few months later, I had regained my health and could take care of myself again. I could read, talk, go up and down stairs without assistance, and so on. Nine years have gone by, and I am healthy and still agile.