(Minghui.org) Before 1996, I had made use of "spirit possession" for more than a decade. I became famous and rich by helping others to get money, remove bad luck, and get rid of illnesses. After learning the truth about it, I started to realize what a horrible thing I had gotten myself into, especially after witnessing the miserable outcome of many people in this "profession." Yet I was one of them—how terrifying! It was Master's Falun Dafa that saved me from that perilous situation and led me to the great way of returning to my original true self.
After I got married in the early 1980s, I contracted a peculiar disease. When it came on, I shivered all the time. It was so unbearable that I had no strength or appetite, let alone being capable of any work. I had to lie in bed all day long. Although I had many exams in the hospital, the doctors couldn't find the cause. No medicine or injections helped, either. In the end, I turned to a "witch" (in fact I attracted spirit possession). Afterwards, I went to see patients and gradually became famous. Many people came to me for treatment, but when I was done and returned home, I felt very unwell.
I was fortunate to obtain the Fa in late 1996. Master told us in Lecture Two of Zhuan Falun,
"That person is ill and has a lot of karma. If you heal a patient who has a serious illness, after the treatment you will feel very uncomfortable at home. In the past, many people felt this way after seeing a patient: The patient is recovering, but you are very ill at home. "
This was exactly my situation. Speaking of those phony qigong masters, Master said in Lecture Three of Zhuan Falun:
"At the beginning, this person was very good. When she cured illnesses for other people, they would give her money or some gifts—all of which she might turn down or refuse to accept. Yet this person could not resist contamination from the big dye vat of everyday people."
"Gradually, this person would accept small gifts. Later, she would also accept big gifts. In the end, she would even be offended when the gifts were few. Finally, she would say, "Why do you give me so many things? Give me money!" She would not be pleased if given too little money. "
For more than ten years, I had been thinking that way and doing things that way. How did Master understand it so well? So the more I listened, the more I wanted to hear Master lecture. When I was studying the Fa, I hardly dared breathe for fear that I would miss a single word.
In Lecture Three, Master said,
"As soon as possible, you should throw away the spirit tablet for the fox or the weasel that you previously enshrined. They have all been disposed of and no longer exist. Because you want to practice cultivation, we can open for you the most convenient door, and these things can therefore be done for you. Yet they are only done for true practitioners."
I felt like I had finally found my parents. Master has cleaned out my body and environment. He also teaches us to be good people following the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. I planned to get rid of those tablets of foxes and weasels the next day. That night a miracle happened. I felt like I was levitating while lying in bed, and even my bedding covers fell off. Later, I heard Master say, from Lecture Eight, "In fact, let me tell you that a person can levitate once the great heavenly circuit is opened—it is just that simple." (Zhuan Falun)
From then on, I was even more determined to cultivate in Falun Dafa. When the villagers came to me for treatments again, I told them, "I've started to practice Falun Gong now, and I will no longer do those kinds of things."
I returned to my parents' home on the third day of 1997 (lunar calendar). My mother asked me, "What's good about the qigong that you are practicing?" I replied, "It's very good! I've only studied it for three days, and Master has already cleansed my body. I no longer have stomach problems. In one afternoon, I got over the constipation that laxatives never helped." My mother then asked me, "So you quit your previous practice? Wasn't it effective in curing the disease as well?" I told her, "That stuff cannot really heal illness. It can only postpone it or transform it into other misfortune. The patients just got temporary relief, and they would suffer all the same in the future."
My father had had diabetes for many years, and his medical bills were over 200 yuan each month. He heard that after practicing Falun Gong, the village head's wife no longer suffered from the same disease. He then asked my eldest brother to buy a tape recorder in the city and he came to my place to borrow Master's Lectures in Guangzhou and exercise tapes. He threw away all of his medicine at home and learned Falun Gong wholeheartedly. Sure enough, his diabetes disappeared. My brothers and sisters were all stunned. They also started to study the Fa and practice Falun Gong with my father.
My mother is 84 years old this year. She used to have high blood pressure and heart disease but no longer has these conditions. All the elderly people in the village envy her good health. One older lady suffered from rheumatism for many years and her hands and legs were deformed. She had severe constipation and bleeding. One day she came to my mother's home and I happened to be there. She said to me, "See how healthy your mom is! She is already 84 years old, but she looks like she is in her sixties or seventies. She can get around so well. How was she cured?" I replied, "That's because my mother knows that Falun Dafa is good and Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good. If you recite these words sincerely, your health will improve as well." She asked, "Really? You should really teach me those words." I then taught her the nine Chinese characters for "Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good" and clarified the truth about Falun Gong to her.
When I went to see my mother later, I inquired about that old lady. My mother said, "She is very well now and has no problems with her hands or legs. She forgot those nine words after she went home that day, but she came back to ask me what they were. Now she recites them every day."
There is a well behind my house that never dries out. Over half of the villagers live on the water from that well. For more than 20 years, stones from the well wall had fallen to the bottom and the water level became rather shallow. Many families even broke their steel buckets when retrieving water from it. People in the village wanted to have the well cleaned out, but nobody would take on this dangerous, underpaid job. So, despite the inconvenience, they lived with it. One day in 1999, after my husband and I studied the Fa, we realized that Master teaches us to be good people and that we should think about others first when doing things. So why couldn't we clean out the well? The next morning, we went after breakfast and worked for half a day. We removed many stones and lots of mud. The bottom of the well was almost completely cleaned out.
The next morning when I went to get water, I saw that most of the stones had disappeared. After asking around, I learned that two naughty boys playing by the well in the afternoon the day before had thrown the stones back into the well. After breakfast, my husband and I returned to the well with tools. By then, many neighbors had heard that we were working on the well, so they came to help too. We soon cleaned out the bottom of the well.
All the villagers were happy about it. An older lady went to the village head's home and said, "No one would help us clean the well in our village even if we paid them. Yet the Falun Gong practitioners did it without telling anyone. They have done such a good deed and are such good people—you should praise them over the loudspeaker!" The village head replied, "But I don't dare, because the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is now suppressing Falun Gong!" Although the village head didn't say a word about it in public, all the town leaders learned what we had done and knew that Falun Dafa practitioners were good people.
We have endured many tribulations since the CCP began persecuting Falun Gong. However, many people know that Falun Gong is good and Dafa practitioners are good people. People are very clear in their minds who is good and who is evil.
From the Call for Submissions to Commemorate the Twentieth Anniversary of Falun Dafa's Introduction
