How Practicing Falun Dafa Transformed Me

(Minghui.org) In the past I was weak and frequently ill. I suffered from hereditary asthma—I constantly coughed and wheezed, and no medication helped. After giving birth at 25, my health declined even further. My menstrual periods stopped. I relied on traditional Chinese medicine, Western medicine, various folk remedies, and health supplements to get by each day. Living felt worse than death.

Dafa Gave Me a Healthy Body

Just when my situation seemed desperate, I was fortunate to see a video recording of Master teaching Falun Dafa. My cough, asthma, and stomach pain disappeared, and my menstrual cycle returned to normal. All I did was watch the video recording of Master’s nine lectures! It truly felt like a miracle!

I was very excited and told myself, “I must learn how to practice Falun Dafa.” But I didn’t know where I could learn the excises. The lecture video was given to me by someone who was out of town and who was not a practitioner (she began practicing after I did).

About a month later I finally found a local practice site. I learned the exercises and began practicing.

From studying Dafa, I understood the true meaning of life, the true purpose of human existence, and the reason people get sick. I learned how to be even better than a good person.

More than twenty years have passed. With Master’s merciful protection, I’ve followed Dafa’s principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, and my life has been happy, illness-free, and fulfilling. Although I live under the CCP’s persecution, I am still happy—I have benevolent Master, I have the truth of the universe in my heart, therefore my body is healthy and my spirit is strong.

My brother used to be an atheist. I told him, “If you can’t see God, then look at the miracle that happened to me. Since I watched Master Li Hongzhi’s lecture recording and began practicing Dafa, all my illnesses are gone, and I’ve been completely healthy for over twenty years! Isn’t that a miracle?”

Assimilating to Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance

My mother-in-law was hot-tempered and often cursed and swore at people. After my husband and I got married, she never gave me a kind look, nor did she spend a single penny on me. After I gave birth, my mother advised me: “Your in-laws only have this one grandson. No matter what, you should go to their hometown for a while to make the old folks happy.”

So we brought our three-month-old son to my husband’s hometown. My mother-in-law took all the presents we received and put them in her room. What was even more infuriating was, instigated by her daughter, she flew into a rage and started cursing at me. Although I didn’t argue back I stopped taking my son to my mother-in-law’s house, and I wouldn’t interact with my mother-in-law or my sister-in-law. When my sister-in-law invited me to her wedding, I flatly refused.

After I began practicing Falun Dafa, I understood that Master asked us to follow the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. Master said a practitioner should: “...not fight back when being punched or insulted...” (Lecture Four, Zhuan Falun)

Practitioners should be free from resentment and hatred, and must be even better than a good person. Whenever a problem arises, a practitioner should look within, examine what one did wrong and promptly correct themselves.

I recalled how I resented my mother-in-law and sister-in-law for so many years. Wasn’t this a reflection of my attachments to resentment and jealousy? Wasn’t this contradictory to Falun Dafa’s principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance? Many Chinese people were poisoned from a young age by the CCP’s atheism, materialism, and the theory of evolution. We were not taught about our traditional culture, so we did not know about karma and the consequences of doing bad things. Instead, we were taught how to be competitive, resentful, and unforgiving.

I told myself, “I now practice Falun Dafa. I will listen to Master, follow the Fa, and be a true practitioner.”

So I repeatedly made the effort to visit my mother-in-law, and I bought her food and clothing. I always greeted my sister-in-law. I treated them with kindness.

My sister-in-law knows that Dafa is good, so when the CCP launched the persecution against Dafa practitioners, she chose to withdraw from the CCP organization.

My mother-in-law was bedridden for four years before she passed away. She lived with my youngest brother-in-law and was looked after by a hired caregiver. When the caregiver went home for the New Year, I took over her duties.

Because of her poor health, my mother-in-law was constantly in a bad mood and had a terrible temper. When I took care of her during the New Year, she would lose her temper and scold people—but she was indirectly criticizing me. I had no resentment —instead I felt pity for the old woman. I would quietly peel and crush pine nuts for her, as she liked to eat those but had no teeth.

One Chinese New Year holiday, my mother-in-law had complications from her diabetes—her entire body hurt and she developed bedsores. Although she wasn’t nice, she believed in Buddhas. She visited nearby temples to pray before she became bedridden, and she always burned incense at home. However, she didn’t understand that true reverence for Buddha means cultivating one’s heart, not harming anyone, and refraining from scolding others. She was unaware of these principles.

Seeing her suffering so much, I told her about Falun Dafa. I explained that Falun Dafa is a genuine Buddha law and teaches people to be good.

“You will be blessed if you sincerely recite ’Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good’ ” I told her. “Even though you don’t practice Dafa, by reciting these words, your pain will lessen or it may disappear.”

She began to recite the words sincerely. When her caregiver returned, my mother-in-law excitedly told her, “What my daughter-in-law says is true! After reciting Dafa is good, my body no longer hurts, and my bedsores are healed!”

Treating the Other Woman Kindly

After the CCP launched the persecution and spread lies about Dafa, practitioners are called to tell people the facts about Dafa so that they won’t commit crimes against the Buddha Fa. Sadly, countless practitioners have been persecuted and are separated from their loved ones. Many families have been plunged into the abyss of suffering, and my family was one of them.

My husband knew Dafa is good and the CCP’s persecution was wrong. When I was illegally detained, he was in a terrible state, and he stopped working. While he was in extreme distress, another woman entered his life, showed him care and attention, and eventually suggested they get married.

After I was released from the labor camp, that woman came to my house. She had a knife in her bag. I kindly invited her to sit down. She told me how good she had been to my husband, and how badly he treated her in return and that he did not want to marry her.

I felt sorry for both of them. I was polite to her, but she entered my son’s room while I wasn’t paying attention, took a handful of pills, and threatened to commit suicide if she could not marry my husband.

As soon as I realized she had taken the pills, I immediately called a taxi and took her to the hospital. After her stomach was flushed, I went out and bought her food. When she had a bowel movement, I emptied her bedpan.

When she was better, I patiently explained to her the principles of life, and I told her that no matter what difficulties or challenges she faced, she should not harm herself, that she should cherish life, and that suicide was a sin. I also told her that if my husband really wanted to marry her I would let them be together; but if my husband was unwilling, she shouldn’t pester him, as it wouldn’t be good for either of them. “I don’t resent you. I’m truly doing this for your good,” I told her.

I continued telling her about Dafa. I asked her to remember Dafa is good, and that she could be safe from disasters if she withdrew form the CCP organizations. I told her that the CCP is an atheist organization that opposes Gods and Buddhas, heaven, earth, and tradition. It engages in deception and violence, and its various political movements have killed countless Chinese people. Heaven is going to destroy it, which is why there are so many disasters these days.

She agreed with me, quit the CCP, and chose a bright future for herself.

When my husband learned what happened, he said, “You are really great!”

I told him the great one is Dafa’s Master. It is Dafa that changed me into a good person.

I have many cultivation stories worth writing about. If I were to write everything down, I could write an entire book. I’m only sharing a few stories to show the greatness of Dafa and benevolence of Master!