(Minghui.org) As I was arriving home from work one day, a friend rushed over and said, “I want to learn Falun Gong.” I have to say that I was surprised. A year before, I had spoken to this friend and told her about Falun Gong. She was interested and watched Teacher's lecture video series. However, she was also a practicing Buddhist and felt she could not let go of her current beliefs. She was also slightly hesitant about practicing Falun Gong. I wondered, “How come she suddenly wants to start now?”
It turned out that my friend had attended a seminar that day given by a vice chancellor of a top level university. In the seminar, he had commented on Falun Gong very positively and did not agree with the Chinese government's propaganda defaming Falun Gong. He told how he had learned about Falun Gong. Apparently, at the beginning of the persecution of Falun Gong in 1999, he knew of a couple who were highly regarded senior professors who were also practitioners. To coerce them to give up their practice, the university authorities sent him, the vice chancellor, to persuade them. The couple told him, “It is not up to the government to judge whether Falun Gong is good or not. You have to experience it yourself. We used to suffer all kinds of health problems, of which the university authorities were aware. At our level, we could enjoy the best treatment and medication and the best medical technology available, none of which helped a bit. It was Falun Gong that cured us without costing us a penny. How do you think we should judge if Falun Gong is good or not?” The vice chancellor was moved. He read all the Falun Gong books himself afterward and changed his view of Falun Gong.
My friend told me that the vice chancellor's words shocked everyone in the audience. And many said that they, too, would be interested to learn more about Falun Gong. For the same reason, my friend came to me right after the seminar and wanted to learn Falun Gong.
I know another lady, who was considered terminally ill after she was diagnosed with leukemia, uterine cancer, mastitis, and neurodermatitis in 1995. She was that told she had two years to live. Fortunately, at the end of 1995, she started to practice Falun Gong and has been living a healthy life without medication ever since. Even more miraculously, she excreted two large masses from her uterus, one in 2002 and another in 2005. The second time the mass weighed over one kilogram and she lost a lot of blood. An ordinary person probably would have died, but she got out of bed after three days' rest. In a week, she was already doing laundry and cooking for her family. She told me, “If it was not for our Teacher and Falun Dafa, I would have been buried a long time ago.” Teacher cured her and did not ask for a penny from her in return. How great that is! Isn't that extraordinary?
Falun Dafa is based on the cosmic characteristics of Truthfulness-Benevolence-Forbearance. Practitioners must elevate their moral standards, and the five exercises help people get rid of their illnesses. As a true practitioner, one will enjoy good physical and mental health without any cost, as long as one conducts oneself according to the principles of Falun Dafa.
A renowned medical professor visited me a short while ago. He has been a practitioner for 16 years. Regarding the benefits of practicing Falun Gong, he told me, “Nowadays people struggle in order to acquire money and fame. Just for a tiny bit of personal gain, people even disown their families. After a lifetime of struggle, there is nothing to take away when one passes away. Teacher has introduced such a great Dafa to the world. Not a penny is asked. The only requirement is that, from his heart, a person aspires to be a good person through cultivation. Dafa cures diseases and eliminates karma for practitioners at no cost. It also guides people to return to their heavenly origins. What in this human world can compare to Dafa? It is such a pity that people are so foolish as to pass it by.”
How true! Today's society judges a person based on their money and fame. People are lost in the pursuit of endless personal gain. In these troubled times, Falun Dafa is being widely spread and is uplifting people's moral standards, helping them obtain internal tranquility and purifying their bodies. Dafa is guiding them to return to their heavenly homes without asking for a penny in return. What a bargain!
