(Minghui.org) I am eighty-four years old. My two daughters often told me how good Falun Dafa was and tried to persuade me to practice Dafa in 1995. But I thought I was too old and didn't want to practice. They took me to the practice site and I was touched by the assistant's kindness and patience, so I started practicing Falun Dafa.
I have benefited tremendously since I started practicing Dafa. I have good health and no longer get angry with my children. I am not annoyed by day-to-day problems any more. I am bathed in the boundless Buddha's Fa every day and have experienced the wonderfulness of Dafa.
I was previously illiterate. I listened to other practitioners reading the Fa in the group Fa study, and I realized that Falun Dafa is amazing. I wished I could read Zhuan Falun myself.
I listened to experience-sharing tapes. One of the stories was that an illiterate elderly practitioner was able to read Zhuan Falun after putting in some effort. My daughter bought a copy of Zhuan Falun for me. When other practitioners read the Fa, I followed the words in the book regardless of whether I knew them or not. I wrote down the words that I didn't know when I studied the Fa at home by myself and asked other people later on.
Two practitioners learned that I wanted to learn how to read and came over to my home to study the Fa with me. They taught me the words. I studied the Fa all day long except for when I was cooking and having meals. Whoever came to my home, I asked them the words that I didn't know. Finally I was able to read Zhuan Falun by myself after six months of hard work.
One day I found I had my period again. I didn't know the reason so I asked my daughter. She was so happy and said to me: “Master is pushing your age backwards. You are becoming younger.” I was overjoyed and practiced the exercises more diligently.
The Guangming Daily article in 1996, which marked the beginning of the CCP's propaganda campaign against Falun Gong, affected our practice site as well. The policemen took away our tape recorder and assistant. I worried about the safety of the assistant and was not able to sleep all night. Early in the morning I went to see my daughter as I wanted to ask her what we should do. On the way to her home I had to cross a long, dark overpass, which was somewhat scary. I saw three round luminous objects ahead of me. One was smaller than the other and with some distance apart. When I walked quick, they became quick and when I walked slow, they became slow. They were always one meter away from me.
I told my daughter and she said: “Mom, you are predestined to practice Dafa. Those were Faluns. Our Master was afraid that it was too dark for you to walk across the overpass so he lit the way for you with a Falun.” Not until then did I realize that they were Falun.
My son and his wife sometimes irritated me before I started practice of Falun Gong. I could not put up with them and complained to my daughters when they came to see me. I didn't care about those things after I practiced Falun Gong and didn't keep it in my heart. Now my son and his wife are very good to me and don't want to leave sometimes when they have come to visit with me. They often come to see me with many gifts. I knew it was because I became good after cultivating in Dafa and they became better along with me.
One day we were practicing the exercises in a square. Everybody left after the exercises were finished. One practitioner touched me when she saw I was still practicing and said to me: “Grandma, the exercises are finished. Everyone has gone home.” I opened my eyes and saw nobody else. I had actually been looking at scenes with my Tianmu. When the practitioner touched me, it stopped.
Except for preparing and having meals, I spent every spare moment studying the Fa during that time. My elderly son didn't support me practicing the exercises because he was afraid that I would get cold outside in winter. One day I was reading the book after finishing a meal. He heard me and asked: “Is it you that is reading?” I replied: “Who else is reading if it is not me?” He said to me with admiration: “You must have finished middle school education if you can read the book. You can learn and practice Falun Gong.” After seeing the dedication with which I worked to learn to read he became supportive.
My daughter told me that she would go to Beijing to uphold justice for Falun Gong for the peaceful appeal on April 25, 1999, when a group of practitioners in Tianjin were arrested. She asked me to watch her child when I had time. I assured her and told her not to worry.
My daughter came to see me again when the CCP launched the nationwide persecution publicly on July 20, 1999. She said to me that she would go to Beijing again and asked me to look after her child. That night her husband came and asked me if my daughter had gone to Beijing. I didn't tell him. My daughter was detained illegally for half a year after she came back from Beijing. In order to “transform” my daughter, the CCP officials talked to her husband, her child and me and asked us to persuade her to give up Falun Gong. They went, but I refused to go to persuade her.
I felt uneasy in my heart when I learned that Dafa was persecuted and practitioners were detained. I was not able to walk far because of my old age, but I could not sit and do nothing. So I asked for posters and materials from my daughter and put up the posters and distributed the materials near my home.
Practitioners started clarifying the truth and encouraging people to renounce the CCP. I felt the urgency, but I didn't know what to say to people. An acquaintance of mine saw me one day and was surprised and said to me: “Why do you look so young?!” I told her how I changed after I practiced Dafa. Gradually I knew how to tell people the truth. My acquaintances saw me and often asked me how old I was and how my health was. I told them that I have been very healthy since I practiced Dafa. They were amazed and eventually agreed to quit the CCP.
One of my neighbors started to practice Falun Gong after she found that I became healthy when I started practicing Falun Gong.
One elderly lady in my residential area came to talk to me one day in August 2013. She said to me: “Look, you are so radiant and healthy. You walk so lightly. I have illnesses all over my body. I suffer so much that I don't want to live.” I comforted her and said: “Please do not talk like this. I have a way to help you out. But I don't know whether you will believe it.” She grabbed my hand and said: “Please tell me and I will believe. You don't look like someone who tells lies. Seeing how you look, I'll accept whatever you advise.”
I told her to recite “Falun Dafa is good and Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” She whispered to me: “Can you please buy me one copy of the book you read every day? I want one as well.” I said to her: “I only have one copy and I read it every day. I will ask around to see if I can get one.”
I gave her the book Zhuan Falun several days later, but forgot to tell her to wash hands before reading it. I was expecting to see her again, but couldn't find her. She had sat outside every day in the past. I was worrying about her not washing her hands so I found her address and went to see her directly. I told her that it was a heavenly book and she must wash her hands before reading the book.
She said to me earnestly: “I haven't been out these several days. I have been reading the book. And I have to be careful that my husband does not see it. My legs are more painful though...” I said to her: “This is a good thing. Please don't be afraid. Master is adjusting your body. Because you have many illnesses, you will come across many more cases of this. Please read the book more because everything is in the book and you will know the reason why.”
People admire me because of my good health. I took the opportunities and saved a few sentient beings.
When practitioners started sending forth righteous thoughts in 2002, I didn't have an alarm and didn't know how to use an alarm clock either. Sometimes I couldn't get up in the midnight time for sending righteous thoughts. One night my telephone rang and woke me. I thought that my children would not ring me so late. I turned on the light and looked at the clock. It was 12 a.m. I realized that it was Master encouraging me to get up to send forth righteous thoughts.
One day my phone rang again in the early morning. I turned on the light and it was the time to do the morning exercises. So I got up and did the exercises. I knew Master had called me to get up because Master saw I was still in bed.
I'd like to thank Master for his grace of saving me. Master, thank you so much!
I also like to thank the practitioner who transcribed this article for me.
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