A Life Filled with Hardship, Being Grateful for Master’s Salvation

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Respectful greetings to Master!Greetings to fellow practitioners!

I have turned 72 years old this year. When I was young, my family was poor. I have 10 siblings. When I saw how much my parents were working to support the family, I decided not to go to school. At that time, I was only about 7 years old, but I helped look after the people in my family. I was daily busy farming, rubber tapping and raising chickens, geese and pigs, but did not get even three meals a day. I had to dig up sweet potatoes from the fields to fill my stomach.

When I was 10 years old, my parents and older siblings went to work. I stayed at home to cook the meals and look after the younger children. As I was too short to reach the stove platform and the pot was large, I stood on a small stool and struggled to stir fry vegetables. When I was 13 years old, my mother fell ill and I decided to look for work. I wanted to earn money to help support my family. I worked with people who wore “red headscarves” on construction sites. I was mainly doing heavy physical labor, such as carrying bricks and cement.

In the past, there was no equipment to carry heavy materials, so we used our shoulders to carry the cement up the buildings, level by level. My salary was four dollars every day and I would hand it all over to my mother, as I could not bear to buy myself anything to eat. My father would always go and buy the unwanted duck heads, tails and feet to feed us. Due to long periods of heavy physical labor and malnutrition, I was weak and suffered from many illnesses.

After getting married, my husband suddenly passed away due to asthma and a medical accident when he was 39 years old. This added on to the hardship of maintaining the family. I needed to pay the mortgage and raise two young children. Therefore, I worked from dawn till dusk, desperately trying to earn money. Gradually, my bad health deteriorated further.

In order to treat my illnesses, I joined many kinds of qigong classes with my brother. Although we spent a lot of money, there was no significant improvement in my condition, and I would often see bad things, causing me to lose sleep frequently.

Fortunate to Obtain the Fa and Changed from an Illiterate to Being Able to Read the Entirety of Zhuan Falun

In August 1998, Master visited us and gave a lecture in Singapore which lasted for two days. My brother obtained a few tickets, so he attended the lecture with our younger sister. I could not go, as I had to work. However, the second day was a Sunday and he obtained another ticket. Although I usually had to do some handicraft to earn some money, I still decided to attend the lecture that day.

After entering the lecture hall, I felt very uncomfortable as there were many messy matters in my body. I could not stop myself from shouting and my main consciousness was not very clear. My siblings tried to stop me. Later, someone beside me asked me to shout for Master, but I did not know how to do that, and by then I already could not make any sound.

Around noon time, after Master finished the lecture, he walked down the stage to speak to everyone. At that time, many people crowded around Master, so my brother pulled me over and asked me to raise my hand. However, there were too many people, so Master could not see me. Therefore, they got a chair and carried me to stand on top. When Master turned around, he saw me and I quickly said, “I have yet to learn your practice.” Master benevolently said, “That is fine,” and pointed to the Dafa books and said, “There are books there, bring a book back to read.” I said, “I do not know how to recognize the words, how do I read?” Master replied, “That is okay, you just have to flip the pages.”

After returning home, I started flipping through the book as directed. Apart from recognizing Master’s portrait, I did not recognize the words, nor did I know what they meant. However, I just flipped the pages as told. I would do it whenever I had time.

At that time, my health had always been bad, so I kept taking medications. However, one day, I suddenly started to vomit. I vomited everything, including the medications that I had taken. As I could not ingest anything, I did not eat anything for three days continuously nor could I sleep at night. Despite this, I felt particularly good miraculously during those three days. Later, I understood that it was Master helping me cleanse my body.

I was very anxious, as I could not understand the book. Therefore, my brother helped me get Master’s lecture videos. I watched the videos and compared them with the book. Gradually, I was able to understand the contents of the book. I would watch Master’s lectures whenever I had time. At the same time, I also followed a few practitioners to study the Fa. As they read, I would record the pronunciation of the words in my notebook. I would recognize and remember the words one by one before reading them paragraph by paragraph. Within about two years’ time, I was able to read the entire book Zhuan Falun and could follow everyone to read it.

Giving Up Fake Qigong and Concentrating on Cultivating in Dafa

In the past, due to my weak health, I followed my brother and sister to attend many qigong classes. I even followed one of the qigong masters to provide massage and illness treatment for others. Every time after I did a massage for someone, I would feel very uncomfortable.

Master said,

“When you heal other people’s illnesses, they also have qi in their bodies. Perhaps their qi will heal your diseases! How can one’s qi dominate that of another person? Qi cannot heal illness at all. In addition, when you treat a patient, you and your patient form a field through which the patient’s pathogenic qi will all come to your body. You have as much of it as your patient does, though it is rooted in the patient’s body. Too much pathogenic qi can cause you to become ill as well.” (Lecture Two, Zhuan Falun)

However, my understanding of the Fa was rather poor. After learning Falun Gong, I still followed my brother to that qigong master’s place to do massage for people and my health deteriorated. At that time, that qigong Master also taught us how to expel the pathogenic qi out, but there was no effect.

As I studied the Fa deeper, I slowly understood the Fa principles. I already had illnesses to begin with, and I still went and treated the illnesses of other people. Wasn’t this adding on those illnesses to myself? No wonder my health kept deteriorating even though I practiced so many types of qigong. After understanding this logic, I no longer practiced other qigong and concentrated on cultivating in Falun Dafa. As I studied the Fa and strengthened my practicing of the exercises, my body gradually became stronger.

Master Saved My Life

When I was working at the Sony factory, I once met with a dangerous situation, but I was unscathed and knew that it was Master who saved me.

There were about 2,000 people working at the Sony factory. At that time, I was working at the canteen. On that day, Sony’s Japanese boss wanted to give everyone a treat, so we prepared more than ten boxes of ingredients such as fish, prawn, meat, etc. As the space was very small, the boxes were stacked very high. On this day, the other colleagues passed by the place to and fro without any problems. However, when I walked past the place, the boxes suddenly fell down. At that time, I was not afraid. In my heart, I just kept thinking “There is no problem” and I kept reciting “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion- Forbearance is good.”

My colleagues hurried over, moved away the things, helped me get up, found me a chair to sit, brought me some water and asked if I was hurt and if I wanted to go to the hospital. I replied, “I am fine.” I really was fine and I was not hurt anywhere. However, my colleagues were all very frightened, saying that the weight of those heavy boxes could have killed somebody. I knew that I was fine because Master was protecting me and kept thanking Master in my heart.

I Learned to Tolerate When I Was Bullied at Work

When I had just started working at a restaurant, a few of my colleagues bullied me. The cloth that was handed to me for wiping the tables were being snatched from me the moment I received them. I thought that I would just let her take it and do not care about her, so I did not quarrel with her, but just did other things quietly. When we were given our salaries, she snatched away my payslip when I was about to open it. After realizing that my pay was higher than hers, she went to the manager and created a racket.

My pay rose very quickly because I was very serious at work and the boss appreciated my efforts. For example, when we were washing the vegetables, the others would soak the vegetables in the water and scoop them out after shaking them a few times. However, I would always wash the vegetables at least twice. I would even add salt when I washed some of those vegetables so as to get rid of the insects. Therefore, the manager did not want to eat the vegetables that they had washed.

There was a Malaysian stall owner who always lacked manpower and would come to our place to borrow people. However, he did not want anybody but me to help him. My colleagues were all unwilling to let me go, as that would mean that they would have to do more work.

As I cultivate in Falun Dafa, I learned how to tolerate many things. In the face of being bullied and pressure at work, I was always able to maintain a peaceful mindset, as I always thought that that must be because of my karma and I need to repay it.

Staying Calm in the Face of My Arrogant Daughter-In-Law

My son married a girl from China. Initially, she spoke sweet words and would help with housework. However, she changed after giving birth to a child. Not only did she not respect me, she was ferocious too. She scolded people whenever she was unhappy and she scolded people very loudly. When she scolded someone in the house, even the people downstairs could hear it. For more than a decade, she has been behaving this way. Every time when she shouted at me, I would think that this was what I owed her and I needed to repay it.

In the past, my son would help me do housework. However, he stopped doing so after getting married. I did not blame him for that because he is also having a hard time being caught between me and his wife. Therefore, I try my best to avoid getting into a conflict with my daughter-in-law.

My daughter-in-law often did not do the housework or cook, and the child had nothing to eat. I thought: “That is fine. If she does not cook, I will do it when I get home from work.” My neighbors could not stand it, but I told them, “Harmony in the family brings prosperity; just tolerate it for a bit and the matter will pass.” Furthermore, Master taught us to be good people and practice Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance. I want to cultivate the Forbearance. Only with forbearance will I be able to treat her with kindness.

My in-laws are from Hainan and they came to Singapore once. I let them stay in my room while I slept in the living room. When my daughter saw it, she wanted to speak up for me, but I told her that it was fine, as it was not convenient for them to squeeze into one room with my son and his wife. I was just one person by myself, so sleeping anywhere was fine.

Sometimes, I got angry too. However, when I recalled Master’s lecture, I would try my best to control my temper and would always think, “This is what I owe her, I need to repay her.” After that, I would be able to calm down. Now, my daughter-in-law has changed and no longer shouts at me. We can communicate normally now, and our family has become more harmonious.

My health is good now. When I meet with unhappy matters, I am able to resolve them based on Master’s Fa principles, such that they pass by very quickly. In this way, I live happily every day. Thank you, Master. Without Dafa, I would not have gotten to this point. Without Dafa, I would not have been so happy.

Spreading the Truth at Construction Sites and Saving Predestined People with Kindness

In the past, we used to go to clarify the truth to the Chinese workers and would often do so until midnight. Sometimes, some Chinese workers would hit people, but I did not get angry with them as I thought that they were really pitiful. Sometimes, those workers would call the police, and the police officers would come and get a record of our identity cards. Every time I would give my identity card to them. I thought that that did not matter and I also did not argue with them. I asked them what was the purpose of copying my identity card and if they were going to charge us. They replied that they were just taking a record as per the rules and said that everything was fine.

Once, there was a Chinese worker who really objected strongly when we first started clarifying the truth to him. However, we persisted in clarifying the truth to him with kindness and he gradually accepted, quitting the Young Pioneers. Later, he said that he wanted to do the exercises and asked us to teach him. I agreed and asked him how many people wanted to learn. He said two to three, and we went to teach them the exercises in the evenings.

At that time, we carried two big bags of materials every day and they were very heavy. There was a construction site where the transport there was very inconvenient, as a practitioner drove us there and left after dropping us off. On normal days, the workers ended work at five o’clock, and we would distribute the materials and clarify the truth while they were waiting for their transport, persuading them to quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its youth organizations. During that time, many people successfully quit the CCP. At that place, there were very few public buses such that there was only one bus every half an hour. If not, we would have to walk out to the main road to get onto other buses. We also had to carry a lot of materials every time and had to walk very far. However, I did not feel tired and even felt happy instead.

At that time, a few of us would go and clarify the truth whenever we heard that there were Chinese workers somewhere. Sometimes, we clarified the truth until we forgot the time, so we had to hurry to catch the last train. I was very nervous and worried about not being able to catch the bus, but I was lucky to have Master’s protection and managed to catch the last bus.

Recalling my 27 years of cultivation, there has been hardship but also sweet memories. There were also times when I felt lost when I could not overcome tribulations, and there were also times of joy after overcoming the tribulations and tests. Thank you, Master, for your benevolent salvation.

Thank you, Master!Thank you, fellow practitioners!

(Presented at the 2025 Singapore Fa Conference)