(Minghui.org) I was lucky to obtain the Fa on January 9, 1996. Before I started practicing Falun Dafa, I suffered from various illnesses. I had headaches for 23 years; they began soon after I had given birth. Everyday I felt like there were winds blowing inside my head. I was extremely uncomfortable. I saw many doctors and ingested countless medicines, but my condition never improved. I wore multilayered hats, even during summer, let alone in the winter. My head was fully covered during all four seasons, so people in the street never saw my face.
On the first day that I watched Master's lectures, I heard Master say that a person's hardships are the result of his own wrongdoing in the past. I was determined to follow Master's teaching, to not fight back when being punched or insulted and to consider others in all situations. A miracle happened the next day: I took off the head wrap that I had worn for more than 20 years. Since then, I've no longer needed to wear hats even in the coldest winter weather. My body feels light, too. I am not tired, no matter how much work I do. People saw changes in me as soon as I finished watching all of Master's lectures on video in five days.
My husband had a bad temper. Right after I gave birth, he smashed things at home. On the fifth day after our child's birth, he wanted a divorce. I was very angry, and we had a big quarrel. We had quarrels every other day, and it seemed like we never stopped fighting. After I obtained the Fa, I did what Master taught: I really did not fight back when being punched or insulted. One morning, my husband emptied a urinal pot, then took it to a place near a cooking wok, and said that he would wash it there. I said, “You wash it in the yard. Dirty water may splash into the pot.” He immediately poured the water into the pot over me without a word. The water splashed onto my face and body, but I did not fight back. I thought that I should follow Master's teaching. Since then, I've never quarreled with him again.
Similar things happened on many occasions, but I never complained. My husband was gradually touched by my conduct and became very supportive of my Falun Dafa practice. He often muted the TV to give me a quiet practice environment. When I was persecuted and officers from the Domestic Security Division and the 610 Office searched our home, he covered my Dafa books and protected them from being confiscated. Because of these good deeds, his psoriasis disappeared without medical treatment. With my Celestial Eye, I saw that Master took off many bloody, filthy-looking strips from his body.
As Dafa spread, more and more people obtained the Fa. Locally, we had only five practitioners at the beginning, but as Dafa spread person-to-person and heart-to-heart, the number of practitioners in our town reached several hundreds and kept growing. We could not keep count anymore, since we took no names. People came and went freely. There were many good people doing good deeds. It happened all the time and could not be numbered.
While we were embracing the happiness of health and awakening of conscience, the Chinese Communist Party launched the persecution of Falun Dafa on July 20, 1999. Overwhelming suppression raged in the land of China. I was forced to flee home to avoid being arrested. I was then hired by an elderly couple as a housemaid.
No matter where I was, I remembered Master's teaching to consider others and be a good person. The wife in the house suffered severe kidney disease. She was very weak and was not able to do any household chores. While I was washing a huge pile of dirty clothes the day after I got hired, I found a roll of money in a pocket. I did not count it, but simply returned it to the wife. She was touched and said, “You are a really good person.” I told her that Master taught me not to covet others' money. I also told her about my health improvements after starting to practice Falun Dafa. She then learned the exercises from me.
On the seventh day of my arrival, the wife went to Beijing for a medical exam. She asked me to take care of everything in the house. I suggested leaving the money for daily expenses with her daughter-in-law, but she said that she fully trusted me. She told me to only clean the grease on the gas tank during her absence. Since the wife had been sick year round, every corner of the house was covered by very thick dirt. I cleaned all corners of her kitchen, bedroom and living room, and washed all of her bedding, which had not been washed for many years. When she came back, she was surprised and delighted, “My house hasn't been so bright and clean for many years!”
As the wife was learning Falun Dafa, my Celestial Eye saw Master giving her a Falun. On her way back from a follow-up exam in Beijing, she felt like someone was massaging her legs, and she felt very comfortable. Later, during dinner, her son said, “Mom, the follow-up exam result came back. It says that you are a medical miracle! How could you have recovered from years of kidney disease in such a short time?” We knew that it was the outcome of her practicing Falun Dafa. Her health was restored quickly, and she was again able to do chores.
At the beginning, I ate leftovers in the kitchen after the family finished meals. Later, they insisted that I have meals together with them. Afterward, the eldest son's family and the second son's family came to have meals together with us. I cooked and did laundry and chores for them everyday. I hardly rested. The whole family learned that Falun Dafa is good, and they were very supportive of my cultivation practice. The wife of the eldest son also learned the exercises and studied the Fa with me.
This is my experience as a Falun Dafa practitioner. I hope that people who do not know the truth about Falun Dafa do not make erroneous assumptions, but instead look at how practitioners are maintaining human morality by following the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, in contrast to the communist regime's ideology of atheism and destruction of human morality and conscience. At the moment of danger or calamity, the choice between being eliminated or returning to kindness is in your one thought.
From the Call for Submissions to Commemorate the Twentieth Anniversary of Falun Dafa’s Introduction
