(Minghui.org) I started practicing Falun Dafa (also called Falun Gong) in 2010 and will turn 70 this year. In the last 15 years, I have experienced quite a few tests, and have managed to overcome them under the compassionate protection of Master Li. Whenever I think about Master, tears of gratitude roll down my face.
In 2010, before I began practicing Falun Dafa, my family felt that we needed to buy a slightly larger house, but nothing seemed to meet our needs. I felt rather frustrated because my health was very poor at that time, suffering from various illnesses, including gastritis, heart disease, and kidney stones. Additionally, I sometimes behaved strangely, couldn’t eat or sleep, and I had become emaciated. For me, life was unbearable and I nearly lost the will to live, so I desperately wanted to find a new home for our family.
By chance, I came across an apartment that I liked very much, so I spoke with the owner. She owned two apartments facing each other, and wanted to sell one of them. The owner happened to be a Falun Dafa practitioner, who began practicing before 1999. When she saw me, she could tell that I was in poor health, so she told me to recite “Falun Dafa is good. Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good,” saying that it would do me a lot of good.
Having been brainwashed by all those slanderous portrayals in the state media about Falun Gong, I felt quite disgusted with her. I glared at her fiercely and walked away in anger, thinking I never wanted to see her again.
One day, feeling physically unwell, I thought of the lady and decided to visit her again. She was running a store at the time and was very happy to see me. She warmly invited me inside, but I stayed outside, showing no emotion on my face.
She handed me a slip of paper with the words “Falun Dafa is good. Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good” written on it and told me to sincerely recite them when I got home.
When I was back home, my husband asked me what the lady had said. I put the paper on the table and said, “She gave me this and told me to recite the words.”
“Then give it a go,” my husband encouraged me.
“The hospital can’t even treat me. How can I get better just by reciting this?” I said dismissively.
“Well, you are already beyond being treatable. You might as well give it a shot, like treating a dead horse as if it’s still alive,” my husband said.
Upon hearing this, I completely broke down and cried, shouting, “I want to live, I don’t want to die!”
I felt utterly helpless. With no other options, I began reciting the phrases while still crying. I recited them throughout the night, and managed to sleep for a short while before dawn. I felt a bit better and continued reciting them for another day and night, after which I was able to sleep for a couple of hours and felt much better. By the third and fourth days, amazing changes started taking place in me.
After a week of reciting the phrases, all my illnesses disappeared, and I had never felt so healthy. I found it hard to believe what had happened. Falun Dafa is truly miraculous! Falun Dafa saved my life. No words could express my excitement and gratitude. I felt so lucky. My husband, my son and his wife, and my daughter and her husband all said they felt extremely happy for me.
Having witnessed the extraordinary power of Falun Dafa, my entire family was deeply grateful to Master Li for his compassionate salvation, and they all encouraged me to practice it. Later, my husband also became a practitioner.
I couldn’t wait for the lady to show me the Falun Dafa books and teach me the exercises. Master purified my body and I regained my health. Very soon, I joined Fa-rectification activities and started cultivating myself steadily with the lady practitioner. We also worked well together in clarifying the truth to people.
Through cultivation, I let go of my attachments to fame, personal gain, and emotion. At that time, someone owed my family 400,000 yuan, but I didn’t think about it or worry at all. My family said I was foolish, but I knew in my heart that Master saved my life. I only wanted to conduct myself according to the Fa's standards, let go of everyday people’s attachments to fame, personal gain, and human sentiments, and do my best to be a good person.
Soon after I took up the practice, I changed remarkably both physically and spiritually; I steadily gained weight, radiated a healthy glow, and my skin became refined and smooth. My relatives and friends hardly recognized me. These changes gave me opportunities to share with them facts about the goodness of Falun Dafa, and many of them learned about its wonderfulness and quit the Chinese Communist Party’s organizations.
Thank you, Master, for your compassionate salvation of sentient beings. Thank you, fellow practitioners.