(Minghui.org) On May 1, 1994, I attended Master's seventh Fa-Lecture class in Changchun City. From that time on I immersed myself completely in Dafa. Thinking about experiencing Master Li teaching the Fa, I remembered many miraculous and very vivid experiences from that time.
1. Sick for Many Years
In 1994, my health was not good. I had many health problems, including severe migraines. The migraine pain usually started at 1 p.m. and lasted until 8 or 9 p.m. When the pain was very intense, I used to hit my head against the wall in desperation. I often had dizziness and vomiting. Every year I went to the acupuncturist, which only temporarily reduced the pain for a while but could not solve the fundamental problem. In addition, I also had severe back problems. When I squatted down, I could not stand up. Every year in October, I often had a cold. I coughed and found it difficult to breathe. My chest hurt due to constant coughing and I frequently required an intravenous drip. The chest pain did not subside until May. The symptoms came back ten years in a row. I also had colitis and my abdomen hurt during the daytime. These illnesses interfered with me so much that I could not sleep at night and was drowsy during the day. It not only caused me great pain but also was also a heavy financial burden for my family. I was also not able to take care of my two children. But after I started to cultivate in Dafa, all my illnesses disappeared.
2. Dreaming a Good Omen
At the beginning of 1994, I had a dream where I worked in a factory. After I changed into my work clothes, I opened the door of the workshop and saw that the sky was very blue, with pure white clouds. The trees were vividly green and the birds tweeted their sweet sounds. In the middle of the road was a garden full of beautiful flowers, and I found myself very relaxed.
While I was enjoying the beautiful scenery, I saw an old monk and a young monk walking towards me. The old monk wore yellow monk clothing with a red cassock, snow-white long socks and yellow monk shoes. The young monk wore purple monk clothing and also had red cassock. The two monks looked like practitioners, with the elder on appearing to be an abbot.
They stopped in front of me and smiled. The old monk gestured to the young monk, who then held out a bowl of rice to me. The bowl looked like it was made of transparent blue jade. A pair of high quality milk-white chopsticks rested on top of the bowl. The young monk handed the bowl back to the old monk. The old monk accepted the bowl with both hands and smiled and nodded at me as if to say that the rice was for me to eat. Then he handed me the bowl.
I held the bowl with both hands and saw the food inside was a transparent paste. I thought it must be very delicious. The old monk smiled and nodded. I understood that he was asking me to eat it. They turned around and I watched them walk away. After the old monk walked four to five meters, he stopped and turned back again to nod at me. I felt he was telling me I must eat the food in the bowl.
I turned around and went back to the workshop lounge to eat. Then I woke up. I did not understand the meaning of the dream then and I just thought it strange. The next day, I talked to my colleagues. They said usually people did not dream about monks and Taoists, so this must be a good omen. Later when I studied the Fa, I understood that it was a sign for me to acquire Dafa. It was also Master protecting me and looking after me.
3. An Auspicious Dragon Encouraged Me to Cultivate
At that time, Qigong was popular around China. My neighbor's relative practiced Falun Gong. My neighbor noticed I was not healthy and encouraged me to practice Falun Gong, too. She found me and said, “Right now Master Li is lecturing in Jinzhou City. You should attend as soon as possible. Your sicknesses will be cured after you learn Falun Gong.” Since I was busy at home, I did not go. But I asked her to bring a Falun Gong book back for me. After I finished reading the book, I thought it was really good and that Falun Gong was truly magnificent. I also really wanted to practice. I remembered my neighbor telling me there was another Fa Lecture on May 1 in Changchun City. I really wanted to go, but many things at home were preventing me from going.
On April 26 my neighbor asked me whether I would go. She told me I had to make a decision in order to purchase the ticket up front. I said, “Let me think about it.”
At noon after lunch, I felt very sleepy. Right after I lay down, I saw a thick fog in front of both eyes. Suddenly the fog completely disappeared and I saw that everything was clear and bright. I saw a gold dragon swing down in front of me and a golden light shone into my eyes. The scales on the dragon's forepaws were as big as plates. I thought a “Dragon is the safeguard of Buddha. This is the Buddha light.”
Suddenly I realized it was inviting me to attend the Fa lecture. I immediately asked my neighbor to book the ticket for me.
4. A Predestined Relationship with Dafa as We Booked the Ticket
I had to find the telegraph building and book the ticket by telephone. At about 6 p.m. we walked together through the factory and I saw my husband. I told him I wanted to attend the Fa lecture class and needed to book the ticket over the phone. He said, “You can make the phone call in my office.”
I made the call, and the practitioner in Changchun said we needed to book the tickets for the Fa lecture. He said, “This must be a predestined relationship as I just returned home for some things I'd forgotten when I heard the phone. If you had called a minute earlier, I would not have heard it. You really do have a predestined relationship with Dafa. I will keep the ticket for you for sure. But you need to come one day early to pick up the ticket.” So I overcame the trivial things at home and finally headed to Changchun on April 28 night.
5. Miracles Happened Frequently During The Fa Lecture
Sicknesses Totally Disappeared
When Master taught us the Fa on eliminating karma and adjusting practitioners' bodies, he said, “I will get rid of the sickness for practitioners. Some will have the symptoms of the sickness, but it will disappear by tomorrow sunset.” All my symptoms really came back. I had the migraine headache again and it was horribly painful. I could not even stand up. In the end, two practitioners helped me to walk when the class ended. The next day, I could not get up due to the headache, and I did not want to go to the lecture. But the practitioner persuaded me, “The Fa is not easy to acquire. Please do not miss it. You just need to hold on for a while. In addition, you will fully recover before sunset.” I endured the pain and attended. During the lecture, my symptoms gradually decreased. Before sunset, I fully recovered and I felt a sense of comfort that I had never experienced before. I was very happy. My body was very light and I was not tired no matter how far I walked. I truly experienced Master's salvation that day.
After attending this Fa Lecture, I never again had migraine headaches or the other sicknesses.
Master taught us,
“... this is eliminating karma at the root.” (The Second Talk, Zhuan Falun)
Master completely took the root of my sicknesses away.
Eager to Acquire the Fa
When we rode the bus from the hotel to the Fa lecture class, the bus suddenly came to a halt due to traffic. We were going to be late. It was also raining. The practitioners on the bus were very anxious. Dafa is so good. We could not miss any of Master's lectures. I told a few practitioners, “We should get out of the bus and run to the class.” So a few of us ran to the class. It was strange that we did not get wet even though it was raining hard. Instead, some practitioners who rode the bus were soaked .
We understood that Master protected us and he encouraged us for our sincerity in studying the Fa. Thank you, compassionate Master.
6. Study the Fa, Cultivate Xinxing and Improve Moral Standards
After I returned home from the Fa lecture, I studied the Fa with a deeper focus. I strove to improve my xinxing according to Master's requirements. I cultivated myself to be a person with high moral standards.
Do Not Complain or Hate Anyone
I was the examiner in a factory and the work was easy. But someone was jealous and wanted my job, so they bribed the manager with two packages of cigarettes. I was removed from that job and given a hard labor job moving raw materials. I had to move 10-kilogram copper blocks. It was much harder than my previous job. Even my husband thought it was unfair. He wanted to send a gift to the manager and ask for my job back. I told my husband calmly, “I cultivate Dafa now. Master gave me a healthy body. We need to follow Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance and cannot fight with others. I can do any work now. I will do whatever they arranged for me.”
So I neither fought with the person who took my job nor argued with the manager. I also felt peace in my heart and did not hold any hatred toward them. If I did not cultivate Dafa, I would never have been able to be so tolerant. Although the new job was very burdensome, I was not disheartened.
To move the materials, three women had to move the copper blocks onto a cart and push the cart up to the hill into the oven to start to process. One of the women was not very strong. I thought that, since I was a practitioner, I should really do the hard work well. Every day I tried my best to push the cart uphill. After a day's work, I was very tired and my legs were very wobbly. When I went home, I had to take care of my mother who had cerebella atrophy and my two young children. It was really stressful, but I needed to do the work well, since I was a practitioner.
Tolerating Others' Criticism
The director of my workshop was my neighbor. He had a very good relationship with my family. He was about 30 years old, while I was over 40. One day, the workshop stopped and dozens of workers just sat there and chatted. We three women still kept moving the materials. Finally we could not move anymore. Since I was older and had a good relationship with the director, the other women asked me to get the director to find a male worker to help us. But when I asked the director, he suddenly got really angry and scolded me with very harsh words. Dozens of people all looked at me. I felt humiliated. But as a practitioner I needed to tolerate such things. I should “not hit back when attacked, or talk back when insulted.” I needed to improve my xinxing and hold myself to a high standard and not intensify the conflicts. So I did not say a word and walked out of the workshop silently. The other women who worked with me all felt sorry for me. I said, “It is OK. I’ve calmed down and will keep doing my work well.” It was like nothing had happened. I did not blame or hate the director at all.
Cultivating to Be a Good Person
In the spring of 1995 my workplace used the system of drawing lots to assign resident units for the workers. There were six buildings. Some had good locations and everyone wanted the good locations. Other people also asked a fortuneteller to tell them who in the family could draw the best lot. Many people told my child, “You mom is a practitioner. She must have good fortune. You should ask your mom to draw the lots.” But as a practitioner I should let go of personal gains and should not specially ask for it. Master will arrange everything. I said, “I won't draw the lots. We should not ask the fortuneteller, either. We should just let things happen naturally and live with whatever is assigned to us.” I did not let the children to ask the fortuneteller either.
Two days later, my child and husband drew a lot for a unit in the building that was publicly recognized as the worst building. It was located on the upper-hill and had not been finished yet. The other buildings were all ready for people to move into. But we had to wait for another few months. My husband was very upset and my child kept complaining. I told them, “Please do not say anything anymore. Nobody wants this building. But someone has to live here. Please calm down. If we did not draw this lot, some other person would have gotten it. If we got this one, then it was meant for us to live there.” I was very calm and did not complain and this comforted them.
In the night during meditation, I felt my heart was very calm and the energy field around me was very strong. My celestial eye saw that I sat in transparent water and groups of bright white matter continuously moved up around my body to my head. The pure and transparent white matter also kept moving up, too. I thought my xinxing was improving and Master encouraged me by showing such a beautiful scene.
Later it turned out that the building considered bad for others worked the best for me. The building was built on a hill, and, although it was less convenient to go out for shopping, it was very quiet. Practitioners need quiet. The buildings that were considered good locations were full of people socializing, barbecuing, and singing. It was very annoying. The people in those buildings could not sleep at night due to the noise. Master had already arranged everything for me.
In 1996, one morning I got up and my back hurt, but I still went to work. When I lifted up a big copper block I heard a crunch sound in my back. Four or five workers around me all heard it and they shouted, “Your back is injured. We should ask the leader to send you to the hospital by car as soon as possible. This is a work injury.” I could not move my back and it felt like it was broken. It was very painful and my face turned blue.
When I saw that everyone was anxious to find the car, I shouted, “Don't bother! I had the pain after I woke up this morning.” My coworkers said, “You are really very silly. We all hope to find an excuse to get a work injury. Everyone heard your back crunch during work today. That is a work injury. You are really tired. It is good even if you rest at home for a few days.” But I had the thought in my mind: “I am a practitioner. This is only a state during eliminating my karma. Nothing will happen. I cannot bring trouble to the workplace and the leaders and have them take care of my medical expenses. If I don't work they cannot pay me.” So I would not let my coworkers find the leaders to help me. At noon when I went back home for lunch, it hurt so much that I could not eat. In the afternoon, I still insisted on going back to work. My back hurt the whole day. At night, I insisted on studying the Fa with other practitioners. But it was too painful to read the Fa.
But since my xinxing had improved, Master helped me. Around 8 p.m. during the Fa-study, a practitioner suddenly said, “Look at you. You've straightened your back and you are not in so much pain anymore. It is really a miracle.” I also felt that it was miraculous. My back was injured badly. I just studied the Fa and it naturally recovered. I didn't need to take any medicine or go to the hospital. The injury just recovered, just like that. Master helped me to get rid of a big chunk of karma. My heart was full of gratitude to Master.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started to persecute Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, and I became the key person to be persecuted in my area. The street and residents' committee constantly harassed me and tried to “transform” me. In 2001, my whole family was laid off and we lost our source of income. One day, the director of the street committee suddenly found me and told me hypocritically, “After we discussed the matter, we decided to give you a low income social security insurance. You family meets the requirements.” I am a practitioner and we let go of personal gain and fame and won't be moved by those things. I wouldn't give up my belief for the gains. In addition, there were many families who were in more difficulty than us and they did not even have rice soup to eat. At least I could still have rice soup to eat. There was no low-income insurance. Our practitioners need to have compassion and I need to think about the families who need it more.
So I firmly and calmly turned the director down, saying, “I won't need this. I cultivate Falun Dafa. Our family members are all healthy and we can still go out and find work. I won't use up the quota. Please give it to the family who is experiencing real financial hardship.”
7. One Person Cultivates Dafa, the Entire Family Benefits from Dafa
In 1998, many practitioners went to the rural villages in the mountain area to introduce Dafa to the public. Many practitioners used their vacation days to do it. We had benefited physically and mentally from Dafa, so we wanted more people to also benefit. But one day my husband suddenly got sick. He went out to work for six months and could not get the salary owed to him. Around the New Year, his boss changed his cell phone number and my husband could not get hold of him. My husband got very anxious and one of his vertebrae had a big lump on it. After a while, he got worse, and the lump got bigger and bigger. Meanwhile, two more egg-size lumps grew under his armpits. He had high fever of 39 to 40 Celsius. He could only sit on the couch and could not lie down. All the practitioners went out to introduce Dafa, but I could not go. I could not leave my husband alone at home and not take care of him. I was worried.
One night, my husband told me, “I might not survive this. The hospital said it could be tuberculosis and asked me to get a proper diagnosis and be hospitalized. It would cost over 10,000 yuan. What if I do not recover and pass away? I am really worried about you and the two children.” At that time, only my elder son could go out to do some temporary work, bringing in about 300 to 400 yuan. I said, “Even if we do not have any money, we need to get you treated. Tomorrow we will go to the hospital.” My husband cried the whole night.
The next day, we went to the hospital and the staff asked me to go home and wait for the results. On my way back, I met a practitioner and he suggested a way to save some money by going to a small clinic for an intravenous drip. I took my husband to the clinic, and a practitioner called me and told me that all practitioners were urgently needed to introduce Dafa in the countryside. I was very distressed. Just when I was hesitating, my husband said, “You should go. Do not worry about me. Introducing Dafa is more important than me. You should not delay any longer.” I asked him, “Can you handle it?” He said he could. I told him, “After I cultivated Dafa, my sicknesses all disappeared. I should go and introduce Dafa to others. If you have any problems, please call me.”
Before I left, I stood in front of Master's photo and said, “I came for the Fa and I should introduce the Fa to others. Master, please arrange everything for us.”
We went a rural area far away from my home to spread the Fa and stayed there for 14 days. After I came back home, I saw that my husband was cured. Actually, three days after I left, he was able to cook for the children. The lump on his back was squeezed and then his sickness was finally cured. I was very happy. He was not hospitalized and we only spent just over 100 yuan for the diagnosis. My husband also joked with me, “If you had left earlier to introduce Dafa, I would have been cured sooner.”
I think Master saw my sincerity in putting Dafa first and saw my husband supporting me even when he was very sick. Master helped my family and me again. It really is “one person cultivates Dafa, the entire family benefits from Dafa.”
I could feel Dafa's magnificence and Master's greatness in each and every thing. I immersed myself into the Fa and constantly improved my xinxing and moral standard. I strived to be a good person and then an even better person. Dafa forged me into a more compassionate person and helped me follow Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance to be a good person. Dafa gave me a second life. My gratitude and respect for Master cannot be adequately described in words.
From the Call for Submissions to Commemorate the Twentieth Anniversary of Falun Dafa's Introduction
