(Minghui.org) I’ve practiced Falun Dafa for more than 20 years. Sometimes I’m diligent, but other times I slack off. Yet Master has never given up on me. He has watched over me—and my family and I have benefited greatly. I am writing down my experiences to validate that Falun Dafa is good, and Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.
My mother-in-law has four sons, and my husband is the youngest. My father-in-law passed away soon after their third son married. My mother-in-law had no job and no retirement income, so she asked each son to give her 50 yuan per month for living expenses. Each time she had to go ask them in person. Sometimes they gave the money, sometimes they did not, and it often ended unpleasantly.
When I was newly married, my mother-in-law told me that the wives of the second and third sons joined together to mistreat her. Not only did they refuse to give her living expenses, they even urged her to remarry and already found someone for her. My mother-in-law was extremely angry and went to reason with her two sons, but they listened to their wives and said their wives were acting for her own good. This deeply hurt her. In the end, she threatened to take her own life before the matter was dropped, so there was lasting resentment between them.
After hearing this, I comforted my mother-in-law, saying, “They have their own thoughts. If they don’t give you money, forget it. You can live with us. As long as we have food to eat, you will too.” She said it was unfair, since she had raised more than one son. I replied, “It is our duty to respect and support the elders. Because I practice Falun Dafa, my Master teaches us to be good, to think of others first, and not focus on personal loss or gain.” She was deeply moved by this.
My mother-in-law lived with us for about five years, until 2010, when a unified social insurance policy was implemented and she began receiving her own retirement income.
During those years, whenever there were holidays or family gatherings, everyone would come back to eat together. I prepared vegetables, meat, and all kinds of fruit in advance. The wives of the second and third sons did not bring anything, but when they left, they took whatever they could carry. This made my husband very angry. I smiled and comforted him, saying, “We are all family. Don’t take it to heart.”
The two sisters-in-law also banded together to criticize my mother-in-law, each saying a word here and there, like how she had wronged them, and how she was unfair. Whenever this happened, I shared with them the principles I understood from Dafa: how to conduct oneself, how doing good brings virtue, and stories from traditional culture. Gradually, they began to understand, let go of their resentment toward my mother-in-law, and they had sympathy for her hardships.
On my mother-in-law’s birthday, I bought her clothes and a bracelet. She happily wore them. When the second sister-in-law saw this and learned that I had bought them, she and her husband took my mother-in-law out and bought her a ring. The third son’s family also bought gifts. One of them commented, “Even the youngest daughter-in-law bought gifts. We, as the elders, can’t fall behind.”
Now our whole extended family respects and cares for the elderly, and we live together harmoniously. I remember that during one family gathering, my three brothers-in-law praised me. One of them said, “In our family, the fourth son’s wife has the best character and temperament.”
I smiled and replied, “It’s not that I’m good. It’s Falun Dafa that is good, and Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good. I am just doing things according to my Master’s teachings.”
My daughter was born in late 2007. From birth she drank Sanlu milk powder. By the time the milk powder quality scandal was exposed on television, she was already 10 months old. At that time, many children who drank Sanlu milk powder developed poorly, had low intelligence, and even kidney diseases. My family was very worried and took my child to the hospital to be examined. She was normal.
I knew this is because I practice Dafa, so my child benefited. Master has always protected her. Here I express my utmost gratitude to compassionate and great Master.
From a young age, my daughter studied the Fa with me, listened to stories of divinely inspired culture, traditional culture, and cultivation stories. She learned how to be a good child and a good student. At school, she never argued or fought with her classmates, and her academic performance was always good.
When she entered middle school, someone suggested that I spend money and use connections to place her in a better class. I refused. As a Falun Dafa practitioner, I could not go along with such practices. I told my daughter, “No matter which class you are in, you should be a good student and study diligently.” She nodded in agreement.
Later, a test came. My daughter was assigned to the lowest scoring class. Moreover, the English teacher had a strange temperament. If she disliked a student, she would scold that student for weeks or even a month. Out of a 40-minute class, she might spend 20 minutes scolding a student. The students feared and resented her. My daughter was also scolded. As a result, she developed an aversion to English, and her grades dropped sharply from being among the top. The teacher said that with such low grades, getting into a high school would be difficult.
Unexpectedly, during the high school entrance exam, my daughter performed exceptionally well and was admitted to a very good high school. She could hardly believe it herself.
When my daughter was in the second year of middle school, the teacher selected several students to join the Youth League, including my daughter. She knew that raising one’s fist and swearing an oath to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was not good, but she did not refuse. When she came home and told me, I asked what she thought about it. She said she did not really know. I wanted her to truly recognize the harm of joining the CCP from her heart, so I did not interfere.
However, from that time on, although she had rarely been sick before, she began catching colds and having fevers. Each illness would last several days, and before a month passed, she would get sick again. I became alert and said to her, “You weren’t like this before. Haven’t you noticed something is wrong?”
After thinking for a moment, she responded, “Maybe the group I joined is not good. Please help me make a statement to quit it. Its harming me. I don’t want it. I want to stay far away from it.”
I said, “As long as you truly understand, we can sincerely withdraw [from the CCP].” She did, and from that day on, she no longer felt unwell and never again caught colds or had fevers.
The Chinese Communist Party is a foreign specter. We are Chinese people. The CCP has destroyed China’s divinely inspired culture and traditional values. It forces people to raise their fists and swear their lives to that foreign specter. The CCP is burdened with countless crimes. Do not be buried with it. Only by quitting the Party and its affiliated organizations can one gain a new future.
Thank you, compassionate and great Master! Thank you, Falun Dafa!