(Minghui.org) I am a new practitioner who obtained the Fa less than one year ago. Previously, I was influenced by the culture and education of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). I believed the CCP media misinformation and slander about Falun Dafa. Following the CCTV broadcast of the self- immolation scam in Tienanmen Square, I became even more hateful towards the practice. Before the persecution of Falun Dafa began, I was busy working and had never heard of, nor had any contact with Falun Dafa. I refused to have any contact with people who practiced Falun Dafa or their relatives. If I hadn't contracted pancreatic cancer, I would be like many other people, who are lost in their ordinary lives and never get to know the Universal Law. I would have missed the opportunity of a lifetime.
During the teacher health exam at the beginning of the semester last year, I was diagnosed with a four-centimeter tumor on my pancreas. Unable to believe the diagnosis of several municipal and provincial hospitals, I went to the Beijing Tumor Hospital, Concord Hospital, and more than a dozen other major hospitals. They all said the same—pancreatic cancer. Without surgery, patients usually live a few months, generally not more than six. If the operation is successful, they can live three to five years. However, if the results of surgery are poor, the cancer may spread quickly, and life expectancy is only two to four months.
When I heard what I had, I was totally dumbfounded. I was only 46 years old. Thinking my life was going to end in a few months, I was inconsolable. I complained that heaven was treating me so unfairly! How could God bear to let a goodhearted person like me die so young? I was dedicated to education and loved school, my family, and my students. As a good citizen, I supported poor students and won the provincial model teacher award. No! I believed that there must be a way for me to live.
According to the medical experts, the best treatment for pancreatic cancer was surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation. After seeing that patients who had had radiation and chemotherapy with no hair and in unbearable pain, confined to bed with more than a dozen tubes sticking out of them, I decided to forego the surgery. Even if I had only three months to live, I wanted to live graciously rather than undergo surgery and other invasive treatments.
Upon returning from Beijing, someone told me about Falun Dafa's healing wonders. Poisoned by atheism for so many years, I was not able to believe and thought what they said was a laughing matter. Hearing that I had decided not to have surgery and was looking for other remedies, several supervisors and friends visited me and let me know that two cancer patients had been cured by practicing Falun Dafa. I still could not believe the exercises could really cured illness. Family and friends tried to persuade me that, even if there was only a glimmer of hope, I should pursue it with all my efforts. So, I decided to just give it a try.
With skepticism and a critical eye I read the whole book, Zhuan Falun, in one day. I realized that this book could teach one how to be a good person and follow Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance in everything they did. The book teaches people to tell the truth, be honest and kind to everyone, consider others before themselves in all things, exercise tolerance, and not compete or fight for things. I think if everyone could do these things, society, spiritual civilization, and law and order would change for the better. Social morality would also improve. How could this book be, in any way, against the government? This book asks people to look inward to find their own inadequacies and to treat all with compassion, including those who treat you badly. This is really a heavenly book that teaches people to perform good deeds. I couldn't put it down and decided to practice no matter what.
I insisted on reading the book and doing the exercises every day, believing in the Master and in the Fa. I did not take any medications. Two months later, I coughed up several pieces of bloody tissue and realized that Master had thoroughly purified my body. The Falun Dafa Master, Li Hongzhi, gave me a second life. I started to understand what is meant by freedom from disease, so I personally experienced the “magic” of Dafa.
In fact, every true Falun Dafa practitioner has experienced the “miracles” of Dafa. I came to realize why so many respectable Falun Dafa disciples scrimped and saved from meager wages to make truth-clarification materials. They want to help save people, even under the threat of severe persecution by the Chinese Communists. They may be sentenced to prison or to a forced labor camp, subjected to inhuman torture, and even lose their lives for telling the truth and exposing the CCP's lies.
Falun Dafa, also known as Falun Gong, has spread to over a hundred countries and received more than 3000 letters of praise and support internationally. Why is it that China is the only country that does not permit people to learn Falun Dafa? The Chinese Communist suppression seeks to destroy people by preventing them from knowing the truth. The CCP encourages people to hate the Buddha Fa, just as I once had. Those people may lose the opportunity to be saved and die along with the CCP. If not because of my “incurable” disease, I would not have had the luck to obtain the universal Dafa. I really have to thank this “incurable” disease.
As Master Li has said, "with one person practicing, the whole family benefits." (Teaching the Fa at the Fa Conference in Australia, May 1999). My 79-year-old mother had poor health and difficulty walking, and my illness made her feel even worse. When she saw that I got better day by day, she was truly thankful to Falun Dafa. My mother cannot read, so I read Zhuan Falun to her every day. She often said, "Falun Dafa is good, and Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good." Her weight dropped from 160 kilos to 120 kilos in only six months, which is hard for a person her age to accomlish. My mother's heart disease, high blood pressure, and chronic constipation were completely healed. She has always lived in rural areas and started smoking when she was notyet ten years old. Now, my mother has not smoked for more than three months. Relatives could not believe that she quit smoking. More amazingly, her hair has been gray since before the age of 50, but now her hair is beginning to grow in black.
Dafa has given us so very much. I have to do the three things required of all Falun Dafa practitioners, practice diligently, and assist in the Fa rectification in order to thank Master for saving my life. I hope all kindhearted people can have a destiny like me to know the universal Dafa and truly experience the wonder of Falun Dafa.