(Minghui.org) I began practicing Falun Dafa (Falun Gong) in 1997. With Master Li’s guidance and protection, I have walked on a cultivation path for 29 years. I would like to share some of my family’s cultivation experiences.
The Sorrow of Losing My Husband
My husband had six siblings, and he was the eldest. Unfortunately, he passed away at age 46, which was a tremendous blow to me. At that time, he worked out of town, leaving on Mondays and returning on Saturdays.
July 13, 1997, was an extremely hot day, so after supper, he went outside to cool off. While chatting with a neighbor, he suddenly lowered his head and fell silent. The neighbor noticed that something was wrong and wondered why he wasn’t responding. The neighbor saw saliva dripping from his mouth. He was taken to the hospital, but despite urgent efforts, he could not be saved. Without a single word, he passed away.
Soon after that, his two sisters turned against me without mercy. They are the ones who hurt me the most.
On the seventh memorial day after my husband was cremated, we had an argument in front of his grave. While I was talking to my son, one of my sisters-in-law interrupted and said that my son did not have good fortune. At that moment, I was on the verge of collapse and felt I no longer had the courage to go on living. It seemed she was adding insult to injury.
I thought to myself, “How could you be so heartless? When you got married, had children, and celebrated your baby’s one-month birthday, didn’t I help?” I swore in my heart that I would never speak to her again.
A few days later, I developed a strange illness. I was afraid to even breathe because each breath caused severe pain that radiated from my chest through my back. At that time, my son was still in school, and we needed money. After my husband passed away, our family had no source of income.
If I sought treatment and ended up buried in debt, losing both my health and the little money we had, how would my son survive the years ahead? I felt utterly hopeless and dared not think any further.
Heaven Always Leaves a Way Out
My younger brother’s wife had told me, back in 1995, that Falun Gong had remarkable effects in curing illnesses and improving health, but I did not believe her. Now that I had reached a dead end, I thought of Falun Gong.
Just two days after I had that thought, my younger brother came to my home. Only a few seconds after he entered, he said, “Sister, Falun Gong is so good. Why aren’t you practicing it yet?” I told him I had just been thinking about it. He said, “Then come home with me. Let my wife teach you. It’s school vacation right now, so she is at home and has time.”
The next day, I rode my bicycle to my parents’ home. Miraculously, from the moment I got on the bike, that strange illness disappeared, and never returned.
Worlds Apart: Human and Divine Realms
As soon as I entered the home, my sister-in-law played a video of Master teaching the Fa. I watched one lecture and learned a Dafa exercise each day. Master opened my celestial eye, allowing me to see the words in the Dafa books shimmering with a silvery-white light, wavering up and down.
Within nine days, I had watched all of Master’s lectures and learned all five exercises. I planned to return home the next day.
That evening, my sister-in-law returned from the exercise site and told me happily, “Sister, you are truly blessed. There will be a Dafa experience-sharing conference tomorrow at our town’s assembly hall. You’d better not leave tomorrow. Our town hasn’t hosted such a large-scale experience-sharing conference in a long time. You’re so lucky to have this opportunity.”
We went to the town assembly hall the next day, where it was already full of people. We found a seat along the side. When the Dafa music began playing, I quickly entered a state of tranquility. I felt myself slowly rising toward the front-right, although my physical body remained still, as if I were ascending higher and higher.
As I was elevating, a thought suddenly entered my mind, “This might be the state of a god or a Buddha.” I closed my eyes and enjoyed that wonderful sensation, smiling inside. When the smile reached my face, I came out of that state and thought, “How embarrassing it would be if others saw me.” When I opened my eyes and looked around, everything was normal, and no one was looking at me.
After we returned home, I told my sister-in-law everything that had happened. She said, “Sister, you have a very good cultivation foundation. Study diligently.” She then called the town exercise site to ask whether anyone in my village practiced Falun Gong. If so, she’d ask them to help us set up a Fa-study group.
Two days later, a coordinator from the town exercise site came to our village and helped us establish a Fa-study group. At that time, there were already three people in my village studying the Fa on their own at home. Including me, we set up a four-person Fa-study group that day.
Dafa Changed My View of Life
As I continued to study the Fa, my xinxing steadily improved, and my mindset gradually changed. All the grudges and resentments of the past faded away. Those I once believed had hurt me the most became the ones I cared about most. I also understood that illness is caused by karma, and that suffering is a way of repaying karmic debts. Once I understood these principles, kindness naturally arose in my heart, followed by compassion.
Both of my sisters-in-law grow strawberries, and harvest and sell them in winter. Standing outside in the freezing cold and snow can numb a person to the bone. My heart ached when I saw them standing in the snow, selling strawberries, their anxious eyes watching passersby and hoping someone would buy the fruit.
When I returned home, I bought some new stretchy fabric and made each of them a set of padded clothing that would fit closely and keep them warm. With a coat over them, they could be comfortable in the cold. When they received the clothes, both were deeply moved and could not find words to express their gratitude, repeatedly calling me “sister-in-law.”
I once saw that my sister-in-law’s family didn’t have a proper meal; they were just making do. So I made some steamed buns and took them to her.
Another time, I asked my son to deliver some freshly-made buns to my sister-in-law. That evening, she called, and said, “Sister-in-law, the buns my nephew brought over were still warm. I cried while eating them.”
I said, “I’m your sister-in-law. This is what I should do.”
All of my behavior comes from Master’s teachings and the power of Dafa. If I hadn’t studied Dafa, I wouldn’t have been able to treat my sisters-in-law this way. They and other family members recognized the power of Dafa after seeing the changes in my body and mind. Each has since quit the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) affiliated organizations, the Youth League, and the Young Pioneers.
I am most worried about my youngest sister-in-law. Her only son suddenly passed away at just 37, leaving his elderly parents, wife, and two children behind. Seven months later, her husband also passed away. She was overwhelmed with grief and cried uncontrollably. My son and I provided substantial financial and material support. She wept, and said to me, “Eldest sister-in-law, you are just like a mother to me.”
I said, “An elder sister-in-law is like a mother. I’m 12 years older than you are.”
Whenever I visit her, I comfort and guide her using the principles I learned from Dafa. She has also quit the CCP and understands the facts about Dafa. Even more heartening, she has now begun reading the book Zhuan Falun.
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