(Clearwisdom.net) I'm nearly sixty years old. I began practicing Falun Dafa in 1997 when I was the head of a computer department at a commercial bank. Prior to cultivating Dafa, I was in very poor health due to overwork and addiction to bad habits such as smoking, drinking, and playing mahjong. In May 1997, when I was out of town on business, I had an acute heart attack. I was sent to a hospital for emergency treatment. The diagnosis indicated that the right anterior wall of my left ventricle had eighteen percent infarction. The doctors said that I would be sick for the rest of life and I had to control my emotions; otherwise, my life would be in danger.
After being discharged from the hospital, I couldn't go to work. My unit leader told me to stay home for long-term rest. At that time, my wife and my were worrying about me all day. My wife would call me from work every 20 or 30 minutes. If there was no answer, she would rush home immediately. My son would go straight home after school. My whole family was tense and fearful.
Later, a friend came to visit me and introduced me to Falun Gong. He said that it was a great universal Fa and talked about how his family had benefited from practicing it. At that time, I had heard a lot about qigong. Some qigong practices asked for money, and some qigong practices had been found to be totally ineffective for improving health. I didn't know what the ultimate goal of practicing qigong was and didn't have a deeper understanding of it. However, when I learned about Falun Gong, I had a positive and warm feeling. I then bought a set of Dafa books. When I finished reading Zhuan Falun for the first time, I felt that this was what I had been looking for. I joined a local practice site and began doing the exercises with others.
I went to the practice site the first two mornings, but on the third day, I did not want to get up early and just slept a little longer. But I couldn't sleep, so I got up to read. I realized that it was Teacher encouraging me not to sleep, but to join fellow practitioners to do the exercises. On the fourth morning, although I was very sleepy, I went to the practice site. I persisted in doing the exercises every day. I remember on the morning of the fifth day when I was not fully awake, I had a dream of seeing a group of gray gears. There was a large gear that matched with several small gears on the outside, and the whole group of gears spun very fast. Later on, a veteran fellow practitioner told me it was the Falun. This made me more confident in the practice, but then I couldn't see it any longer. I knew that I couldn't seek it and I should let go of that thought. This is the magic of Dafa I had witnessed and felt that Teacher was taking care of me from the beginning.
Less than two weeks after I started doing the exercises, my friends and colleagues told me that I looked like a different person. I was like a healthy young man. This was my outward appearance, and I was blessed with good health. Prior to doing the exercises, I could hardly walk, but now I could run. I was completely revitalized. Since then, my whole family has enjoyed good health.
Because of the great changes in me, many friends and colleagues asked me about my secret. I told them it was practicing Falun Dafa that had changed me so much. I was afraid that I couldn't explain to them the deeper meaning of Dafa, so I lent them Dafa books to read. Many of those people became practitioners.
As my supervisors had made arrangements for me to stay at home to recuperate, I could have stayed at home and not gone in for work. But as a cultivator, I should follow the standard of the Fa. Since I was not sick any longer, how could I still take sick leave? It was not the behavior of a Dafa disciple to get paid without working. So I told my supervisor that I was practicing Falun Dafa, that I was in good health and would return to work, and asked for an assignment. Some colleagues said I was a fool, that I should have stayed at home or found a job to make some extra money. I told them that I was required to follow the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance and that cultivators had to be honest. My colleagues said Falun Gong was so good and that it would be nice if everyone was like this.
On July 20, 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched its persecution against Falun Dafa. In early 2001, many Dafa practitioners were illegally sentenced or sent to forced labor camps. I was illegally sentenced to three years in prison. While in prison, the prison guards and other prisoners watched me closely. They prohibited me from talking and limited my personal freedom. In this environment, I could only act to show people that Falun Dafa was good. The fellow practitioners held there did the same. Although those prisoners have behaved badly, they saw that Falun Gong practitioners were good people. Some of them wanted to learn Falun Gong and how to be good people.
After I returned home in 2003, the first thing I did was to find fellow practitioners and read all of Teacher's new lectures to catch up with the Fa-rectification process. I went on the Internet to search for a way to log onto the Minghui website (Chinese version of Clearwisdom.net). As I was skillful in operating a computer, I learned how to run a server that was both fast and secure. From 2003 to 2005, I have been using such a server to connect to the Internet and created another one for fellow practitioners to connect to the Internet safely. I also provided them a certain degree of technical support. Later, when more software became available to enable us to log on to the the Internet, we began to use it. Over the years, even though the CCP has created blockades from time to time, fellow practitioners have been able to log on to the Minghui website smoothly.