(Minghui.org) I am 90 years old this year and in good health, thanks to the practice of Falun Dafa (also called Falun Gong).
Before I found Dafa I experienced a lot of misfortune. I was frequently ill as a child, and suffered from up to 18 ailments at a time, including migraines, neurosis, chronic appendicitis, sinusitis, and cervical erosion, to name a few. To find cures, I tried out six different forms of qigong and also explored Buddhism.
When I practiced Buddhism, I didn’t have a master, like most of the other Buddhist followers. My friend, Ping, who introduced me to Buddhism, urged me to find a master, and suggested the abbot of a Buddhist temple, who was very kind to me whenever we visited.
But I told Ping that I hadn’t met anyone worthy of being my master yet, though I was unsure where this thought originated. I had known since childhood that my future master was no ordinary person. It wasn’t until later, when I began practicing Falun Dafa, that I understood why.
It was an autumn day in September 1992 when I was practicing another form of qigong at a popular exercise site near Mingfang Palace at Jilin University in Changchun. I heard that a qigong master from a different school was healing people there, so two friends and I went to find out more. When we arrived, there were many people lining up to be treated by a young man. He said that he could only treat one ailment per person, and that to be completely cured, one should practice Falun Gong. He was Dafa’s Master, Mr. Li Hongzhi.
I heard that Master was there to establish an exercise site at Jilin University. The three of us joined the queue. When it was our turn, we asked Master to treat us, and he agreed. My shoulder was frozen and I hadn’t been able to lift my arm for several months. I had tried various treatments, but to no avail, and it was affecting my daily life. Master cured it completely within a few seconds and it hasn’t flared up since.
Witnessing Master’s miraculous healing abilities, I immediately had faith in Falun Dafa and began to practice right away. A few days later, my nose started running, a sign of bodily purification. Before long, all of my ailments gradually and imperceptibly disappeared. I have not taken a single pill since.
I attended the fifth series of Master’s lectures in Changchun in 1993, becoming one of the earliest practitioners to obtain the Fa. I initially thought that Falun Gong was just another type of qigong, but as the classes went on I sensed that it was extraordinary. Master was kind and approachable—unlike other qigong masters I had met.
One student in the class had an open celestial eye and described what he saw in a vision: While Master was teaching, many Buddhas appeared on the podium, and many Buddhas, Daoist deities, and gods were also listening in the audience. I truly believed the scene he described and realized that Master was teaching the Fa at very high levels.
When Master taught the principle of “no second cultivation way” during the lecture, he stated that one cannot practice both Buddhism and Falun Dafa, and that one must choose only one path to cultivate. I didn’t understand, so I submitted a note during the question and answer session, but Master did not address it. So I approached one of the staff members, asking if I could speak with Master privately, and he said yes.
After that day’s class, I walked with Master on his way home, and we talked. Master told me how bad the situation was in the Buddhist temples. The true Buddhas had all departed and the Buddha statues had been possessed by spirits, the abbots were dozing off while chanting sutras, and the monks in charge of donation boxes were stealing the money. He asked me to check if those Buddhist monks were truly cultivating, and mentioned other unsavory things happening at the temples.
Master’s words reminded me of a past experience. Ping and I had once gone to a large temple with a statue of Bodhisattva Guanyin. Ping didn’t like her name and wanted to inquire of Bodhisattva Guanyin whether it would be a good idea to change it. We stood in front of the Guanyin statue with our eyes closed, palms pressed together, and recited a mantra. Shortly afterwards, I saw in my vision that Guanyin descended from the statue in a bronze-colored dress, instead of the white dress described in legends, which baffled me. The next day, someone told me that a fox spirit was crouching under the Guanyin statue. It was exactly as Master had said—that most Buddhist statues had been possessed.
I decided after this to only cultivate in Falun Dafa. Later, Ping and another Buddhist friend asked me several times to practice their way, but I declined. I once had a dream in which I went to the Falun Paradise. When I told them about my dream, they understood that I was a Falun Dafa practitioner, and they no longer bothered me.
I realized that the old forces were desperately trying to block people from practicing Dafa, and were interfering with the Fa-rectification. It was up to each individual to choose at the critical moment. I was determined to follow Master all the way to the end, until consummation.
I sensed a strong predestined connection with Master and felt particularly close to him, though I didn’t know why. I’ve since met Master more than 10 times. He even visited my home and knew a lot about me too.
Master came to our practice site one morning while we were doing the exercises. He walked up to me, did a few hand grabbing movements above my head, and then shook his hands. I knew there was an entity attached to me because I could speak a kind of cosmic language and heal people. Master removed the entity from me that day.
I also spoke to Master about my celestial eye, because I tended to talk about everything I saw with it. I was afraid this would interfere with Master spreading the Fa, so I asked Master not to open my celestial eye at wisdom eyesight [as described in Zhuan Falun].
My main consciousness [soul] would sometimes leave my body. One time, after leaving my body, I flew up as high as the treetops, went around in a big circle and then returned to my body.
On one occasion, a colleague took a photo of me at my home. The picture showed a white Falun [law wheel] above my head and a red one in front of my abdomen.
Just a few days before writing this article, while doing the second exercise, the Falun standing stance, I became fatigued while holding up my arms. I muttered to myself, “I’m a little tired; I’ll just do half an hour today.”
At that moment, I heard a voice say three times, “Being a little tired is better than not being tired at all.” It was Master’s voice, clear as day, which I could hear from another dimension. I was deeply shocked. From then on, I resolved to do the second exercise for an hour no matter how tired I was.
Another time, two fellow practitioners, who didn’t know my age, came to visit. When I told them I was 90 years old, they were very surprised, and commented that I looked young.
During the early years when Master was teaching the Fa, a man from Beijing had a bad fall and suffered multiple fractures. After hearing about Master miraculously healing people, the man came to the Mingfang Palace practice site to seek Master’s help. Though Master wasn’t there, during group practice that night, several people heard cracking sounds coming from the man’s body—the sound of his bones being set. By the next morning, his fractures were all healed.
My granddaughter once suffered from heavy uterine bleeding. I told her and her mother to recite the auspicious phrases, “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” Within an hour, the bleeding stopped and her pain went away.
Another time, I was standing by a small pond near Mingfang Palace with several people nearby. They noticed that the fish were staying at the bottom of the pond, so I talked to the fish, saying, “Please remember that Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” The fish then swam up and joyfully leaped out of the water. The onlookers were astonished, so I took the opportunity to clarify the facts about Dafa and helped them withdraw from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations.
Falun Dafa became very popular due to its miraculous healing effects and elevating people’s morality. Just a few years after Master made the practice public, there was a significant positive impact on society in China. However, the CCP suddenly banned the practice in 1999 and I couldn’t fathom why. There was nothing wrong with people wanting to be good and improve their health.
The above are my personal experiences and insights in Dafa cultivation. Please point out anything not inline with the Fa.
Thank you, Master. Thank you, everyone.