(Minghui.org) I am 84 years old, and I’ve practiced Falun Dafa for 30 years. I’d like to tell you about my husband’s and my cultivation experiences.
Witnessing Falun Dafa’s Miraculous Power
I was a medical doctor before I retired. I treated many people’s illnesses, yet I fell seriously ill after I retired.
My husband, Dan, used to be a teacher. He devoted himself to nurturing many outstanding students. One of them later became a mayor, and another became dean of a university. His students respected him. After he retired, his health deteriorated, and he was diagnosed with cancer. My daughter-in-law, who was a nurse, and I tried our best to treat him, but to no avail. He refused to undergo surgery to remove the tumor.
While everyone in the family was in despair, someone gave Dan a book title Zhuan Falun and told him, “It’s a heavenly book. Whether your health gets better or worse after you read it, you must continue reading it. If you feel indifferent afterward please return the book to me. I consider it a treasure.”
Twenty minutes after Dan began reading the book the next morning, he had to run to the bathroom, “What came out was all pus and blood,” he said. As he continued to read, he repeatedly ran to the bathroom. He later said, “According to what I read in the book my body is being cleansed, and I have a predestined relationship with Falun Dafa.” He stopped having to run to the bathroom after he finished reading the book. The following morning he wanted to eat breakfast with everyone. After he read Zhuan Falun, he could eat anything he wanted and no longer ate only milk and bread. A few days later, he was able to walk, bike, and buy groceries. He stopped taking his medicines.
I never believed in qigong because I practiced medicine. After seeing Dan’s miraculous recovery from cancer, I also began practicing. We went to a nine-day workshop to listen to Master Li’s lectures. I had the runs after we came home in the evenings. We did the exercises each morning, and soon my ailments disappeared. Both of our world views fundamentally changed, and we knew how to be good people. We understood that it was hard to come by such a profound teaching, and we began to introduce this wonderful practice to our family and friends.
Sadly the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched the persecution of Falun Dafa in July 1999. Practitioners did their best to clarify the truth to those who were deceived by the CCP’s lies that defamed Falun Dafa.
Dan and I went to Tiananmen Square in Beijing on October 1, 2000. A group of people appeared at around 8 a.m. They took off their jackets, showing their yellow shirts, and shouted, “Falun Dafa is good,” “Redress our Master!” Pedestrians started to gather and listen to their appeals. Busloads of armed police then arrived, and those brave practitioners were surrounded by bystanders and officers.
One practitioner exclaimed, “Genuine practitioners come and stand with us!” We and other practitioners joined in and shouted, “Falun Dafa is good!” When the police dragged us into the buses, we continued shouting and validating the Fa.
We were later sentenced to two years in forced labor camps. I met a practitioner a few months later who said to me, “The flower bloomed.” I wasn’t sure what flower she was talking about. She said, “The flower bud on the back cover of Zhuan Falun bloomed into a big flower. (Translator’s note: the 1994 edition of Chinese Zhuan Falun has a flower bud printed on its back cover.) After I was released, I looked at my book, and the flower bud had indeed turned into a fully opened lotus flower. There was no scientific explanation for this phenomenon, and my faith in Falun Dafa became stronger than ever.
Returning to My Hometown to Clarify the Truth
Most of our relatives, friends, and many of Dan’s students still lived in our hometown, which was a distance away from where we are living. Without a car, it was hard for us to get there and tell them about the brutal persecution. Dan decided to purchase an electric car. After he brought it home, one of his former students, who had retired as well, taught him how to drive. He learned how to operate it in a few hours. Later he found an open space and spent seven days familiarizing himself with driving.
We went back to our hometown once a week. Each time we went, we first went to wedding gift shops, and asked if any families were having a wedding. If we knew the family, we would go to the wedding and give a gift. Before the wedding started, we would first clarify the truth to the family members we knew and then to the guests. I would first explain to a table of guests why they should quit the CCP and its affiliated organizations. After I finished, Dan would ask if anyone wanted to quit the organizations.
For someone who agreed to quit, Dan would give the person a slip of paper with a pre-written alias, and write down the CCP organization the person wanted to quit. We then went on to the next table and repeated what we did until the wedding started. After the banquet, if anyone came to us and asked questions, we answered them. At each wedding we were able to help more than 50 people quit the CCP. If we couldn’t find weddings to go to, we’d go door to door to talk to people. By four in the afternoon when we were ready to go home, we had usually helped over 50 people quit the CCP.
We had car accidents three times, and each time we were able to get help while clarifying the truth. Once when we were on our way to a former student’s home, the back wheels and chassis got stuck on a bridge, with the front wheels dangling in the air. A cyclist came by. After taking a look, he said, “I can’t help; it will take quite a few people to lift it.” He happened to see several people working under the bridge and said, “I’ll go and ask them for help.” I quickly handed him a hundred yuan so he could buy them a carton of cigarettes as a courtesy.
Shortly after the cyclist came back with ten people and a carton of cigarettes. They lifted the car and moved it off the bridge. Each of them received a pack of cigarettes. While they were resting and smoking, I clarified the truth to them. Dan helped them quit the CCP organizations. We made it to the former student’s home and clarified the truth to him and his family. When we left, several people were looking at our car. We talked to them and helped over ten people quit the CCP.
Another time we took a sharp turn onto a bridge, and a front wheel slipped off the bridge deck. The car was off balance and could have easily fallen off. We carefully got out of the car. Pedestrians gathered to check on us and the car. Dan left to find help in a nearby town. I stayed to clarify the truth to the onlookers. Sixteen people quit the CCP that day. Master protected us so that we could stay safe and clarify the truth.
One time we took a shortcut and decided to drive on a pontoon bridge instead of a major bridge. Before we got on the pontoon bridge, there was a sign saying that it was under maintenance. We had to take a detour and drive on an embankment. Before we could reach the main bridge, the road became very slippery, and the left wheel slid off the edge of the embankment. The car tilted but didn’t flip over. Dan went to find a car to help pull our car up. A couple on a tricycle stopped to help. The man said, “The car could flip any time. It’s very dangerous. I have a rope with me, and can tie it to a tree on the other side. That will stabilize your car.” I clarified the truth to the couple. Dan found a car and it pulled our car onto a main road. I then clarified the truth to the two in the car, and gave them fifty yuan to thank them. The incident allowed me to help four people quit the CCP.
Master protected Dan and I so that we could save people while we were in trouble. We didn’t stop driving our car until the city was locked down during the COVID pandemic. In five years, we traveled 20,000 kilometers and helped nearly 10,000 people quit the CCP. My husband called the car “a great Fa instrument,” and said that we’d keep it as a memento, even though we no longer used it.
Eliminating Attachment to Fear
Our pensions were suspended in 2000 because we were sentenced to forced labor camps. We protested and demanded that the authorities disclose the legal basis for withholding our pensions. Instead of providing the information, the police officers, Domestic Security Division staff, and members of the Political and Legal Affairs Committee threatened us. One day two practitioners came to our home. Shortly after they arrived, the door bell rang. Five people were standing outside, and one introduced himself and the other person in charge, “I’m from the Domestic Security Division, and he’s from the police station. We want to ask you something.” I invited them in and said to the two practitioners, “We won’t be making dumplings.” This was a code phrase for, “We won’t be studying the Fa today.”
One officer said, “What did you request the provincial authorities to disclose? They told us to keep Falun Dafa practitioners in check. If it were any other unit giving us orders, we would send the case back, but because its the provincial government, we have to do something.” Dan knew that he was being honest, and replied, “Asking the government to disclose information is a citizen’s right that’s granted by the state. Now, not only did the government refuse to disclose the legal information but ordered you to threaten us. That’s truly sad and tragic.”
While we talked, three of the men looked around in our house. One said, “Where do the [Falun Dafa] flyers on the windowsill come from?”
I said, “A few days ago I went back home to sweep the tombs and someone handed them to me. What perfect timing, since you haven’t seen this. I’ll give each of you a copy,” I said as I slipped the flyers into their pockets.
“I see you as my own children and that’s why I am telling you this story,” I continued, “The head of our city’s Domestic Security Division was my husband’s former student. Because he arrested practitioners he was promoted to deputy director. He arrested me and sent me to a forced labor camp for two years. My husband didn’t confront him, but instead asked one of his friends, who also practiced Falun Dafa, to talk to him. He agreed to stop persecuting practitioners, but secretly continued to do so. Six months later he was diagnosed with liver cancer and passed away a few months after surgery.”
I told them about another case of karmic retribution of those who persecuted practitioners. “One of my husband’s former students was the secretary of a city Political and Legal Affairs Committee. My husband asked his relatives to send him a letter asking him to stop persecuting practitioners. He returned the message by saying, ‘Teacher’s words mean a lot to me, but I am a soldier and must carry out my orders.’ He was later found to have throat cancer and was unable to speak after the surgery. He passed away within a year.”
I told them, “My husband was saddened by his students’ ill fates. People who don’t practice have no idea how profound Falun Dafa is. Master Li wrote a poem to admonish the world’s people:
‘The higher laws are clear:Good and evil are repaid in kindDivine ones fill the skieswatching what we doMonstrous is the sinof persecuting Dafa disciplesWill the payback be meted out?You be the judge’(“You Be the Judge,” Hong Yin IV)
Those who persecuted others during the Cultural Revolution suffered terrible fates, but you probably don’t know this. Do not commit similar wrongdoing.”
As they were leaving, I realized one of the officers had taken a Falun Dafa book with him. I chased them outside and yelled, “Give it back.” Dan grabbed one of the people in charge, and said, “That book is my life, it’s priceless.” The person in charge ordered them to return the book to us. We then waved goodbye to them.
I have no fear because I believe in Master and the Fa. Whether it was handing out flyers or removing posters that defamed Falun Dafa, I do what I have to as long as it helps save people. I clarify the truth to over 20 people each day. When I do the three things I am focused. With Master’s protection and guidance, I will practice diligently.
Epilogue
When I started practicing Falun Dafa in 1996, I quickly made progress. My world view changed, I was no longer brainwashed by the CCP’s ideology, and I wanted to become a good person because I had learned the law of the universe. To let more people know about this great practice, I talked to everyone, from family and friends to people on the streets and government officials. Over 100 people thus became practitioners. Soon after the persecution started in 1999, Master published “Towards Consummation” (The Essentials of Diligent Progress II), which strengthened my determination to eliminate my fundamental attachment so that I could head toward consummation.
In the process of validating the Fa and clarifying the truth, I have been incarcerated and sentenced, which made me further understand what Master said in “Master-Disciple Grace”:
“Disciples’ righteous thoughts are strongMaster has the power to turn the tide”(Hong Yin II)
Master and Dafa have guided me though this arduous yet precious journey of cultivation.
(Selected submission for the 23rd China Fa Conference on Minghui.org)
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