(Minghui.org) In order to become healthy, my mother started practicing Falun Gong in 1998 with my grandmother, and I saw the miracles they experienced.
Family, Friends, and Neighbors Benefit
My grandmother suffered from a frozen shoulder for years, but it disappeared as soon as she practiced Falun Gong. My mom recovered from bone spurs, dizziness, and astigmatism. She no longer needed to wear glasses! My father and I benefited as well: We seldom caught cold.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) media badmouthed Falun Gong, saying, “Falun Gong doesn't allow people to take medicine or see a doctor.” The fact is we were healthy, so we didn't need to take medicine or see a doctor.
One of our neighbors was in her 70s or 80s. She got her period back after she practiced Falun Gong. That really impressed me. Her husband was over 80, and he didn't need to wear glasses when he studied the Fa. He read every word clearly, and if he made a mistake, he read the whole sentence again. But he had to wear glasses to do other things.
Seeing practitioners' health improve encouraged other people. Every practitioner was a living advertisement. Many neighbors and relatives came to learn Dafa. People came together to study the Fa, practice exercises, and share their experiences. Practitioners held themselves to the heavenly principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance and people liked to come. It was a pure land.
I Understand the Principles
Though I hadn't started the practice, the seeds of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance were already rooted in my heart. I knew that I would get the white substance de when I did good deeds while I would obtain karma if I did bad deeds. I no longer knowingly did bad deeds; I practiced forbearance and was kind.
One summer night in 2006, I felt like I had a big lump in my throat and it was extremely uncomfortable. It seemed like the symptom of a cold.
I Ask to Learn the Exercises and Benefit
I asked my mom to teach me the exercises, since I had seen her miraculously recover from “sickness karma.” After I did the stretching movements with the exercise music, my nose started running and I could not stop the tears rolling down my cheeks. The big lump melted away suddenly. My throat was instantly clear, and I didn't feel any pain when I swallowed.
When I was doing the standing stance exercise, my arms were sore but my body was hot. Beads of sweat dripped down my face onto the ground. It felt like each sweat pore was dripping. I was soaked. This was the first time I had ever sweat so much without doing intense exercise. I never sweat much and had cold limbs all year round. I cried. I wanted to tell the whole world of this miracle.
I felt very good after I finished the five exercises. The cold symptoms disappeared, and I fell asleep instantly. When I did the exercises again, I felt that my third eye was being opened up. I felt pressure between my eyebrows and the muscles drilling in. I saw bright white light, which then turned red, and flowers blossomed when I closed my eyes.
I had the same feeling when I didn't practice the exercises. When doing the third exercise moving my arms up and down, my palms felt very warm when they were passing in front of my face and I could feel two beams of energy. I couldn't wait to tell others that what the Falun Gong books said was true. If I felt unwell, I would recover instantly after doing the exercises. Now I was walking on the path of cultivation.
Taking a Detour
I stopped practicing the exercises after I got pregnant. I had bad morning sickness, although I took many vitamins and calcium tablets.
When I was five months pregnant, I vomited violently one day when I was brushing my teeth. It felt like a big hand was twisting my stomach, and I fainted. My face landed on the cold floor and my clothes were all wet.
I didn't know any of this until my husband helped me up. With Master's protection, I didn't hurt myself.
This incident woke me up. I started to do the exercises again in the morning and read a paragraph of Zhuan Falun with my husband before I went to bed. Then I did the sitting meditation for a while before I went to bed. I felt my body was light and I walked briskly until my baby was born.
A Little Dafa Disciple
My daughter is a little Dafa disciple. She has seldom cried since she was born because she studied the Fa and did the exercises with me while she was still in utero.
Sometimes when she was about to cry, she would stop as soon as I said to her, “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” It was miraculous. She is now nearly three years old and likes to listen to Dafa music. She can recite some poems in Hong Yin. When she sees Master's photo, she always says “Master is smiling!”
I was not with her one night when it was time to send righteous thoughts. She got anxious and cried. She said, “Mom, we forgot to send righteous thoughts. What shall we do now?”
She used to fall asleep for her nap as soon as I sent forth righteous thoughts beside her. It was very easy for me to look after her. But now she looks after me when I send forth righteous thoughts. One day my palm fell down when I was sending righteous thoughts. She came to me quietly and put my palm back into position.
One night before she went to bed, she said, “Mom, you do the exercises and I'll go to sleep.” It surprised me because I was feeling lazy that night and wanted to go to bed, too. I knew it was Master's hint, so I dared not slack off. I got up and did the exercises.
My Family
My husband is not a practitioner. But one day he found the Udumbara flowers between two panes of glass in his company's warehouse. He didn't know it was the Udumbara flower. He asked his colleagues, but no one knew what it was. He guessed it from the Dafa song “Udumbara Flower Blossoms.” He must have a strong predestined relationship with Dafa, since he saw the amazing Budhha's flower, and he married a Dafa disciple. We can't ignore the people near us and should let them know the truth as well.
Many of my relatives have come back to Dafa and benefited from Dafa. We encourage each other and improve together. We cooperate well and form one body. We thank Master for creating such a good environment for us.
Clarifying the Truth
I had great fear when I started to tell people the facts about Falun Gong. To avoid exposing myself, I clarified the truth from a third person's perspective. But when I asked a taxi driver if he had heard about quitting the Party to keep himself safe, he asked me if I was Falun Gong practitioner. I was a bit surprised and didn't know how to answer. But I pulled myself up and replied, “Yes.” The driver put his thumb up and said, “You Falun Gong people are marvelous! Don't be afraid. Falun Gong people are good people, very admirable.”
Then he told me a story. One foggy day he had hit a lady in her 70s, and she was badly hurt. Many people stopped and gathered around. He didn't know what to do. When he helped her stand up, she said, “Young fellow, you can leave now. I am OK. I am a Falun Gong practitioner. My master, Li Hongzhi, protects me. No problem.” He was very moved and surprised to meet such a good person.
I was not surprised. Master told a similar story in Zhuan Falun . That practitioner behaved according to Master's Fa. But in today's society, who else would be like our Dafa practitioners? I was very thankful to her for validating the Fa with her actions. Her forbearance and kindness let others know the wonderfulness of Dafa and laid a good foundation for us to clarify the truth to people and save them. My mother and I helped the driver quit the CCP. He said to me again before we left, “You Falun Gong people are wonderful. Don't be afraid.” We knew Master was encouraging us via him to get rid of our fear.
Master Keeps Sending Predestined People To Us
I had many human notions when clarifying the truth. Master saw this and created opportunities for me and sent people to me.
On my bicycle one day, I saw a young man on his bicycle fall down. There was no one else around, so I went over and saw that he was a high school student. He had hurt his face and hands. I handed him tissues to clean up and and encouraged him to quit the Party to keep himself safe. He just nodded. I gave him an amulet and he put it in his pocket. He thanked me and rode off in the opposite direction. I was a bit surprised that he did not continue going the same way as me. Master had arranged for him to come and hear the facts.
One day I parked my bicycle off the street to make a phone call. I was looking up the number when somebody hit me from behind. It was strange because the road was wide. I thought it might be someone I knew joking with me. I turned and saw a man with big glasses. I didn't know him. He was murmuring to himself, “I thought I could get through. How come I hit her?” I could hardly hold back my laughter. He was another predestined person Master had arranged for me.
I said to him, “Nowadays there are so many calamities and man-made disasters. You see, you were just riding your bicycle and you inexplicably hit me. Please withdraw from the Party to keep yourself safe.” I explained to him why he should quit the CCP, and he listened attentively and accepted the materials I gave him. He gave himself, his father, and his mother who had just passed away aliases and withdrew them from the CCP. I told him that he should tell his father the truth about Falun Gong and let him quit the CCP himself. He agreed.
One day I bought some fruit in a shop and started to tell the young shop assistant the facts about Falun Gong. He had heard it before, but he was fearful. He pretended he didn't understand and changed topic. I was not moved. I clarified the truth to other young people and they were happy to withdraw from the CCP. One of them asked me for an amulet.
I went to the fruit shop again, and this time the shop assistant was a girl of 18 or 19. I was thinking of how to start when a young fellow I had helped withdraw earlier came up behind me. He pointed to me and said, “She was the head of my League.” I was wondering what League. He laughed and said, “Didn't we come from the same League?” I realized he was referring to the day they withdrew from the Youth League. I laughed. The girl laughed as well. She withdrew from the CCP amidst the laughter.
I went to the shop again and the girl gave me a sweet smile, as if we were family. The first young man came to me this time, partly because everyone else had quit the CCP. So I helped him withdraw, too. The fruit shop hired several new young shop assistants. I clarified the truth to two of them. When I mentioned quitting the Party to keep them safe, one of the young men said to me, “Falun Dafa is good and Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” We laughed. Practitioners are one body and people are waking up after we have clarified the truth to them. More and more people know the truth, and Fa-rectification is progressing rapidly.
Many miracles have happened near me. It is our Master who made them happen. Master helps every cultivator. Every one of us could write a book about our own cultivation experiences. Master is like a kind father who has borne karma for us and taken us forward step by step. Now I finally see that Master has truly fetched us up from hell and washed us clean. Here I'd like to thank Master again.
On the last leg of the last journey, I will try my best to cultivate myself and validate the Fa. I will be strict with myself and do the three things well. We must follow Master to return to our original homes.
