(Minghui.org) When I was very young, my mother was involved in a car accident and suffered a concussion. She never fully recovered. She no longer took care of the family and just aimlessly wandered around the neighborhood. I was in primary school and my brother was only two. My father was a general laborer. He had to go to work and also look after us four children. Sometimes he had to go out and look for my mother. Whenever my mother was home, she was noisy and thus my father was always tired.
I remember once when I was looking after my brother he was naughty, so I spanked him and made him cry. When I realized what I'd done, I felt sorry for both of us so I hugged him and we both cried. Although I was a good student, I didn't pursue a higher education. I started working right after I finished high school.
I soon had my own family and my own child. However, my life wasn't happy because my husband was an alcoholic. He often made trouble in public by throwing things and yelling at and hitting people. After drinking for hours he would lie down outside in the snow. I had to look for him and bring him home. I felt my life was meaningless.
I will never forget the day I began practicing Falun Dafa! It was April 23, 1996, and I was in my early 30s. A friend invited me to join her in watching the Nine Day Lecture Series of Mr. Li Hongzhi, the founder of Falun Dafa, on video. Out of politeness, I went. After watching the first lecture, I was interested and curious to learn more, so I returned every day and watched all the lectures.
The last lecture was on a day that I usually went to visit my mother or my mother-in-law or I took my children out to play. Instead, I returned to my friend's place and watched the Ninth Lecture.
After I finished the Nine Day Lecture series, I felt like I had woken up. The meaning of life was so clear! Many of the questions I had were answered and I saw through the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP's) lies. It was as Teacher said,
“With Falun Dafa they find answers to their many lifelong questions, and it’s only natural that they would be excited by all the new insights they gain. I know that those who are sincere about practicing will realize the significance of the teachings and cherish them.” (Zhuan Falun, The Eighth Talk)
Falun Dafa took hold in my heart, and I was determined to practice.
I no longer felt sorry for myself or cried. I treated everyone with compassion. I conducted myself according to Falun Dafa's principles, Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance, starting from the very basics – being a good person, considering others first, and being kind to my family members.
I tried to look at things from my husband's perspective. I quietly did the household chores and took care of our child. I even learned to cook properly.
Before I practiced Falun Dafa, I complained that my mother-in-law was biased because she and her daughter always defended my husband. The fact that they pretended not to notice when my husband beat me had always hurt my feelings. Our relationship was tense.
After I began practicing I understood that we were predestined to be together. I cherished the cultivation opportunities they gave me and treated them kindly. I no longer fought with them nor did I argue about who was right or wrong. I did whatever chores were needed to be done regardless of whether they were my responsibility or not. My sister-in-law said, “You've totally changed!”
Six months later my mother-in-law began practicing Falun Dafa. The fourth day after she began listening to the Fa Lectures she no longer needed her heart medication. She told the neighbors, “I used to take pills four times a day, but now I'm fine and I don't need them.”
My daughter began doing the exercises and listening to the Fa when she was quite young. Once she had a fever but refused to take any medicine. Instead, she listened to the Fa. She recovered two days later.
When the persecution of Falun Dafa began and seeing how the Party slandered Dafa on television, my daughter said angrily, “Mom, they lie!” When she knew that I was heading for Beijing to validate Dafa, she wished me well.
In 2000, I was illegally arrested. I wrote home and encouraged my daughter to study well and not to pay attention to any rumors about me as I didn't do anything bad. She listened and focused on her school studies.
When my daughter went to high school, her teacher praised her for her high character. She said my daughter voluntarily collected empty bottles and sold them, then used the money to buy ice cream for everyone.
Later, my daughter was accepted into an arts program in a well-known post-secondary school. One parent praised her and said, “Your daughter is so exceptional! I never see her messing with the other students or wasting her time at the Internet cafe. She just went straight home to study after school.”
When my daughter finished high school, she said, “Mom, you should be proud of me because I never went to the Internet cafe, not even once!” Indeed, I was. I know that she is blessed by Dafa because her dream of continuing her post-graduate education in an overseas arts program came true!
After I started practicing many people noticed the positive changes in me, including my husband.
Because of the way I behaved, he knew that Falun Dafa was good. The day before the CCP began the campaign to persecute Falun Dafa, his colleague told him to warn me to watch out. He came home and said, “What is not good about Falun Dafa? I told my colleague that ever since you began practicing you've done all the household chores and we stopped fighting!”
One time we heard some people talking about Falun Dafa. I joined their conversation and told them that the practice teaches you to be a good person. My husband added, “You know millions of people all over the world practice Falun Dafa!”
Once when we went to take our car for a routine check, we used money which had truth-clarification sayings written on them to pay. The cashier said, “There's something on your money about 'Jiang Zemin'.” My husband said, “Yeah, he did nothing good for our people.” The cashier smiled and said, “That's so true!”
I was illegally arrested many times. Because the people from the 610 Office wanted to "transform" me, they brought my husband and manager to see me at the labor camp. I said, “I want to ask you. The Party said that we Falun Dafa practitioners are irresponsible and neglect our families. Well, who locked us up? When we're here, we can't be at home or at work taking care of our families or doing our jobs. Just let us go home.” The 610 Office staff remained silent. Later, the captain of the labor camp said, “You are so articulate!”
The time came for me to retire. Because I was in the labor camp, I didn't make certain compulsory insurance payments, and some documents were missing which affected my pension. So I took the opportunity to clarify the truth by writing letters to related departments to explain my situation. I also met with some personnel face-to-face. Everything went smoothly. In the end, not only was I able to help the people I talked to quit the CCP and its affiliated organizations, I also got to make up the payments I missed and I received my pension.
My family is now settled and we live in a big house. My daughter has her own family and business. My whole family enjoys the happiness that Dafa brought us. After I saw all the beautiful colors in the spectrum on a wall which could not be wiped off one day, I felt very encouraged. I will continue to diligently walk my cultivation path and bring the goodness of Falun Dafa to more people.