(Minghui.org) I started practicing Falun Dafa on the morning of September 7, 2024, a day I will never forget. I would like to share how that happened and how much my life has changed since then.
A Life of Misfortune
My mother passed away when I was a sophomore in high school, so I had to leave school. My husband died in an accident 44 days after our second child was born, leaving me and our two daughters to fend for ourselves. My parents-in-law treated me badly because I was still young and they thought I might remarry.
I struggled to raise my daughters. My oldest had had health problems since she was three months old and had to be hospitalized twice in a month. I carried my youngest with me on my tricycle to drop off and pick up her sister from the hospital during one of our coldest winters. I found a job after my youngest went to kindergarten.
I worked three jobs, and life improved. But I worked too much. I was diagnosed with breast cancer in September 2022. After surgery, I had six rounds of chemotherapy. It relapsed 10 months later, requiring another surgery, six more rounds of chemotherapy and 25 rounds of radiation. I was resuscitated once due to a life threatening situation. During my treatment, I quit one of my jobs, halved my work on another job, and worked my third job on weekends. I started working the second weekend after chemo and almost never took time off.
Gaining Confidence
A coworker’s mother told me the facts about Dafa after she learned of my situation. I was studying traditional culture on the web and believed in the divine and deities. She gave me a copy of Zhuan Falun and told me to read it through at least once. I remember distinctly that she told me, “Only cultivation can change a person’s fate. Only Master Li can save you from a life of bitterness.”
The next day, on September 7, 2024, a Saturday morning, I began to read Zhuan Falun. Initially, I heard Master lecturing, and an image of Master in a white shirt lecturing in a 14-inch black and white television appeared in my mind. (As I read later, this was a supernormal ability called “Precognition and Retrocognition.”) I read a portion of the Fa every day. All the puzzles in my mind that I had not been able to answer before became clear to me after I finished reading Zhuan Falun once.
A miracle happened a few days later. The insurance reimbursement that had been delayed arrived in my account around 9 p.m. that night. I thought, “Surely the bank isn’t still open?” I later realized it was Master helping me.
After going through chemo and radiotherapy, my face was pale. Cosmetics and lipstick could not hide my haggard appearance. A few days after I started practicing Falun Dafa, my face glowed, and I even gained weight. My children said that I looked great, which boosted my confidence in Dafa.
I had a lot of health issues before I started cultivation, and I often visited altars to pray. I had some malevolent spirits at home that I made offerings to. I saw a dead snake near the square by my building. I realized later that it was Master cleansing my home and living environment. I strengthened my Fa study and cut up the amulet I’d gotten from one of the altars.
My daughter started wearing a Dafa amulet. She was bullied at school the next day, and the whole class berated her. She said she would stop going to school. I almost collapsed and couldn’t fall asleep all night.
I went to see a practitioner first thing the next morning. She said such things happening to my child might be due to karmic reasons from previous lives or it could be a test for me.
She said that my daughter might not have trouble at school if I stopped practicing. I replied, “No! It has been so hard for me to learn Dafa. I will not give it up, no matter what.” She suggested that we read Zhuan Falun together. I thought, “Can my reading the book resolve the issue of my child going to school? What would happen if she could not even finish junior high?” To avoid embarrassment, I did not say it out loud.
I drove to town to read Zhuan Falun with that practitioner every day. When she expressed concern about my driving back and forth every day, plus the fuel, I said, “Before I started practicing Dafa, I spent 400 yuan a month on herbal medicine. Now Master has cleansed my body, and I no longer worry about the cancer recurring. The fuel expense is nothing.”
I went to her place to study Dafa and home-schooled my daughter. I no longer worried about the matter. Studying at home was ok, too. She could go to high school after she finished the junior classes. Master gave me a hint that my girls should study the Fa, too. From then on, they studied the Fa with me every day.
In October 2024, when the practitioner was teaching me to overlap my hands in front of my lower abdomen, I felt air circulating between my hands. She said I had good inborn quality. In order to remember the movements after returning home, I watched the exercise video, made notes, and quickly learned the five exercises. I study the Fa and do the exercises every morning, and study the Fa with practitioners in the afternoon. I do the exercises and study the Fa in the evenings, too.
I felt a warm current flowing from my head to my feet while holding the wheel above my head during the second exercise (The Falun Standing Stance) one morning. But the soles of my feet were ice cold. When I told the practitioner about it, she told me it was guanding (where energy is poured into the top of one’s head), which was a good thing.
Also, when I was holding the wheel above my head, I saw through my celestial eye a column about 20 centimeters (8 inches) high on top of my head. My celestial eye opened just after I started to do the exercises. Master hinted to me in my dream that he was saving me. I thank Master from the bottom of my heart.
Master’s Grace
In the winter of 2024, a friend told me that it wasn’t worthwhile extending pension insurance for 20 years, and suggested that I would be better off buying a house and paying a mortgage. After discussing it with the fellow practitioner, we both thought it was a good idea.
I borrowed money from my brother and bought an old house that December. The mortgage was everything I earned from all my jobs. My friend told me about a new policy: If someone owned a house, their children could switch schools without paying extra. I went to the education bureau, where the staff helped me with the paperwork and told me my daughter could transfer to the nearby school in the new semester. With tears streaming down my face, I thanked Master for helping me.
I worked every weekend and earned over 1,000 yuan. I paid the mortgage and did not feel pressured. I posted an advertisement on WeChat that I was looking for a job. My phone rang half an hour later. A woman asked if I would go work for her. That was how I began to work a regular job.
The work environment was a bit complicated, and there were lots of conflicts among coworkers. Every time a conflict occurred, I thought of Master’s words, “The entire cultivation process for a cultivator is one of constantly giving up human attachments.” (Lecture One, Zhuan Falun)
Seeing what happens with others is an opportunity to cultivate oneself. At work, I always remember what Master said to elevate my xinxing. Some coworkers take advantage of their position to make money, sometimes even more than their wages. One of them asked me, “Aren’t you envious of us making extra money?” I knew it was a test over my attachment to profit.
I firmly said, “I don’t want what does not belong to me. If the money is mine, I won’t lose it. I have my principles, although I am poor.” Since I don’t have an attachment to self interest, the female boss and her husband think highly of me.
I have benefited from Dafa, which led my father to quit the Chinese Communist Party’s Youth League after I clarified the truth to him.
My boss once handed me an important document. When I needed it a few days later, I couldn’t find it. I was so worried that I broke out into a cold sweat. I thought to recite “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good” and found it two minutes later. I was so happy and thankful to Master.
A dog chased and bit my older daughter when she was young, so she was frightened of dogs. Once she saw a dog on the way home and was scared. She remembered I told her to shout “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good,” when facing any danger. The dog went away as she shouted.
My younger daughter often had nosebleeds, especially if she slept in an air-conditioned room over night. Sometimes it bled heavily. She was in class once when it started to bleed, and she felt her legs go weak. But she was not scared and kept reciting “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” The bleeding stopped.
A few days later her nose started to bleed again. I would have been so worried in the past and taken her to see a doctor, but not now. I am no longer afraid of such things since I have been practicing Falun Dafa. I realize Master might be cleansing her body, or it could also be a test for me, so I let go of my worry. Without my paying attention to it, the problem went away, and she no longer has nosebleeds even after a whole night with the air conditioning on.
Many miracles have occurred for me and my daughters in the past year. Master has always been by my side, caring for and protecting me. Master saved us from misery and gave us a happy life. I am deeply grateful to Master and Dafa. I will walk well the path Master arranged for me.
Copyright © 1999-2026 Minghui.org. All rights reserved.
