(Minghui.org) I was fortunate enough to obtain Dafa in 1996. The wonderful things I have experienced in these sixteen years while basking in the glorious compassion of Buddha, is enough to fill several thick volumes. Though I have gone through many tribulations since the persecution began on July 20, 1999, I have more deeply experienced the grandness of “...with the Master and the Fa here what is there to fear? ” (Lecture in Sydney) Teacher is always protecting disciples, and Dafa is always displaying its wonder.
I. My illnesses disappear after I begin practicing
Before I started practicing, I had many illnesses. After obtaining the Fa, my body was purified and my mind elevated.
Although I was only in my 20s, my health was very poor. I suffered from neurasthenia, nervous headaches, allergic rhinitis, chronic pharyngitis, a frozen shoulder, stomach ulcers, gastritis, dysmenorrhea, rheumatoid arthritis, iron deficiency anemia, etc. I could not fall asleep at night and I was not able to get up in the morning, which constantly made me late for school. When I graduated from high school, even though I was already on the shortlist to get into college, I gave up the chance to apply due to my health. I constantly suffered migraines and felt dizzy every morning. I was completely unable to absorb the information the instructor taught. Interestingly, the first time I attended a Falun Gong group practice, I surprised my family by getting up at 3:30 in the morning. I had not seen the sunrise for over a decade and I was able to embrace the dawn's breeze that day at the practice site, join other practitioners for the five exercises, and go to work feeling energetic and stay that way the whole day. I could hardly describe the happiness that I felt in my heart. With the grace of Dafa, I was no longer lost, my heart was no longer unsure, and my footsteps were no longer heavy.
II. My whole family benefits from my practicing
1. The miracle that happened at my mother-in-law's home
I got married a year after I began practicing Falun Dafa. Because my own house was not fully built, I lived at my mother-in-law's house for a year. In the past my mother and father in-law were both very unhealthy, even though they constantly took medication and injections. After I arrived, they started to take less and less medication, and finally were able to be healthy without any medication. One day my mother-in-law suddenly said, “How strange, ever since you came to our home, everything has been smoother. Even our illnesses disappeared without treatment.” I replied, “Yes, mother, 'with one person practicing, the whole family benefits'”(Teaching the Fa at the Fa Conference in Australia). When I practice every day, the people around me will all benefit from it.
One night, my husband went straight into his parents' bedroom after coming home and he talked with them for a long time. When he came into our room he had a big smile, and immediately began to fumble around in the drawers. When I asked him what he was looking for he asked, “Do we have a Buddha's picture in our drawers?” I smiled and said, “Yes, why do you ask?” He told me that today when he was running errands with his boss, he met a person who insisted on telling his fortune for free. He wasn't able to get away so he stayed and listened. The fortune teller said, “There is a Buddha’s picture in the first drawer of the writing desk facing south located in your northern bedroom.” My husband quickly said, “There couldn't be, my parents are both [Communist Party] veterans. They don't believe in that.” The fortune teller also told him, “Young man, you have a good life because you have married a good woman. Fortunately you did not get married to the first girl you dated. That woman is not good. Your wife is good and she will bring blessings to your family.” My husband opened up the drawer and said, “There is no Buddha picture, only your Zhuan Falun book is here!” I said, “Yes, if you open the book, my Teacher's picture is in there!” His eyes widened and said, “The Buddha picture he talked about is actually your Teacher's picture! He was really accurate with everything, including how my mother had lost a child before. Only the part about the Buddha picture confused me, but now I understand!”
From that day on my husband began to read the Dafa book. When he flipped open the cover, he blinked repeatedly, and so I asked him what was the matter. He said, “The picture on this book is rotating.” He thought that he was experiencing an optical illusion, but after a few more blinks he said, “It's still rotating! Why is this?” I said, “That's a good sign, it means that you are predestined.” He turned the book around and looked at the the back cover and asked, “Why isn't there a blooming lotus flower on the book, as there is just a lotus bud that is leaning towards the side?” I didn't think too much of it and answered, “Isn't a blossoming bud even better?”
Three years later, in October of 2000, many practitioners went to Beijing to clarify the truth from all over the country. A practitioner from Beijing invited me to her home where we studied the Fa and shared together. Suddenly, that practitioner suddenly thought of something and pulled out Zhuan Falun and showed us the back cover. We were stunned: The lotus flower bud had completely blossomed and was standing straight up, not leaning towards the side anymore. I was really excited at the time because this wonderful display gave us a boost of confidence. From that day on, my faith in Teacher grew even stronger. I knew that Fa-rectification would succeed.
When I returned home two days later, I anxiously flipped through the two books in my house, and the lotus flower had blossomed on both books! Even though I had already been practicing for four years, at that point, I still could not help but be shocked. When my husband came home from work I asked him whether he remembered what the lotus flower looked like on the Dafa book and he said yes. After he confirmed his memory of it I showed him the book, and I can still clearly remember the expression of awe on his face even now.
2. My husband rewarded
Later on I was illegally arrested by the police and my husband went to see me at the detention center. When the police were not looking he quickly told me, “They were going to ransack our home and I told them there was no need to do that as you didn't keep any books. They didn't believe me and I told them that I had already looked for books but to no avail. I told them there were only a few truth clarification pamphlets so they told me to bring the materials over and they would not come to our home anymore. So I delivered the materials exposing the deeds of Jiang Zemin and I also brought one of the smallest books for them just in case they didn't believe me. The rest I have hidden well for you, so please do not worry about it!” A month later the police saw that our faith was still strong so they sent us to a brainwashing center. My husband, who was threatened repeatedly by the police, looked at me helplessly and said, “Just cultivate well, let them keep on pushing. If they don't let me work then we can use our savings. In the end, I will support your cultivation even if we have to sell our pots and pans.” A practitioner who was next to me at the time was moved to tears. With righteous thoughts, I was released ten days later. My husband brought the book to me as soon as I stepped in the door and said, “Here, I know what you are thinking about!”
My husband is a chauffeur and he drives the managers in his office. One time during heavy snow, he called me in the afternoon around three or four o'clock and said, “Today was so dangerous, perhaps it is really as you said, that your Teacher protected me. The roads were slippery from the snow and when I met a red light my brakes weren't working, I couldn't control the steering wheel, and there was ice everywhere on the ground of the intersection. I tried to gain control of the car but I was not able to, and all I could do was watch the car slide forward. Everyone in the car was anxious beyond belief, but just as we held our breath and embraced for the collision with the car in front, a miracle happened. Our car suddenly stopped and after I confirmed that we were stationary, I saw that there was only a fist's distance between the two cars! I truly believe that it was your Teacher that protected me! I had no way to get the car to stop and the car could not have stopped itself!”
3. The connection between my young niece and I
During the second year after I got married, my sister-in-law gave birth to a daughter. Our whole family loved her but she somehow liked me the best, even though we are not blood related. When she was a couple of months old, she would fuss when others were with her, but every time I was with her she was very quiet. When she was a little bit over a year old, she had a fever and had to be put on an IV in the hospital. She would always cry and fuss and neither her parents nor her grandparents could calm her down. She was only able to take the injection after the four of them roamed around in the hospital room. They complained about how tiring it was. On Friday after work my husband and I went to see her at the hospital. When my niece saw me she immediately reached out to me with her small hands for a hug and would not let go of me. I said, “Falun Dafa is good,” into her ears. She looked at me with wide eyes and then put her ear next to me again to listen for more. I recited Lunyu to her and she listened intently.
When I went to Beijing to petition, I was gone for six to seven days. My family members were afraid that my niece would miss me so my mother-in-law attempted to trick her by telling her that I was visiting my hometown. Surprisingly, my niece shook her head immediately and said, “No, my aunt is Falun Gong, she is at Tiananmen Square.” The whole family was surprised. They had never talked about this issue in front of her so how did she know? From then on, every time she heard someone knocking on the door, my niece would pull her mother-in-law's hand and say, “Grandma, grandma, open the door quickly. My aunt is here!”
When I returned my husband said to me, “Could practicing Falun Dafa have anything to do with the fact that the child is so close to you?!” I smiled at him.
4. My younger brother escapes danger
My brother also practices Falun Dafa. When he came home during vacation, our mother cooked chicken using a pressure cooker, but she failed to put the cap on correctly. My brother was talking to my mother while leaning against the kitchen door (right next to the gas stove), and my mother was washing vegetables at the sink approximately one meter away from him. All of a sudden, the lid of the pressure cooker flew up to the ceiling and came back down after hitting the wall. It grazed past my brothers' hair as it rapidly dropped down to the floor behind him. At that moment my father was watching TV in the living room behind my brother and he stood up when he heard the noise. When he witnessed that the lid almost smashed onto my brother's head, his whole body gave in and he sank back onto the sofa. When everyone processed what had happened, all the chicken soup was splattered onto the ceiling and the thick aluminum lid was completely deformed, with a large part of it bent, and then we really became scared. The entire process was witnessed by my mother and father, but my brother was completely unaware of the fact that his life was almost on the line. My whole family witnessed firsthand how Teacher protects his disciples.
5. My older brother not harmed after a car accident
My mother's home is located next to a municipal building, and one time after work my older brother, a non-practitioner, went to her house to watch television. Afterwards, he decided to take his bike out for a spin, but as soon as he turned on the road next to the municipal government plaza, he was hit by a car that had strayed onto the sidewalk. Because of the large force of the impact, my brother was thrown off of his bicycle more than ten meters and landed on the ground with a “wham.” The car then rolled over his body as it drove past. Because it happened right next to the plaza, there were a lot of pedestrians, and witnesses were all shocked because they thought that the person must have broken into pieces after such an incident, but my brother got up from the ground by himself. Screams broke out from the crowd as some thought that a “zombie” had appeared. Who would believe that a person could still be alive after getting hit like that?
A police officer came up and looked at my brother carefully then patted him on the shoulder and asked, “How could you stand up?” My brother said, “I blacked out and thought I was going to die but then I realized that I could still move so I stood up. There doesn't seem to be a problem.” At this point, many police came to the scene including traffic police, patrollers, and the regular police. Apparently, the car that hit my brother was escaping from an accident and was cornered by the traffic police and patrollers. The driver was drunk and had hit an ambulance. He then refused to cooperate with the police and fled the scene. The traffic police closed off all the intersections and simultaneously asked for backup from the patrollers, while the fleeing car rampaged through the streets. Finally when the car refused to stop after the patrollers fired a warning gunshot, the police shot one of its tires, causing the car to lose control and slide onto the sidewalk, thus causing the incident above.
After I carefully inspected my brother and confirmed that he was alright I said to him, “Brother, you were not harmed after being in such a severe accident, you must clearly realize that it was the Teacher of Falun Dafa that protected you. You must have a clear idea because if you had unrighteous thoughts, something terrible might have happened to your body.” My brother said, “I know.”
III. Spreading Dafa's Beauty to Every Person
Because between 1999 and 2000, large numbers of practitioners were illegally arrested and put in detention centers and labor camps for persecution, and the staff at these places were very familiar with Falun Dafa and practitioners. When a new person would come in, they could tell whether they were a practitioner with one look. When someone did poorly they would criticize her and they had a standard for recognizing and judging a good person. Dafa has already reached the depths of people's hearts, no matter where it is in China.
While I was illegally detained at the detention center, we were not moved by the external environment and tried to bring Dafa's beauty there. After a while, everyone in my room felt like they were staying at a university dormitory. People were happy and calm every day, and the person on duty fulfilled her responsibility by staying on watch, allocating the food, and tidying up the place. The most precious thing is that everyone regained their humanity and found their compassion under a Dafa practitioner's lead. They were able to eat the worst food, do the most chores, give the bath water to the person who needed it the most, respect elders, and care for children. In the past they often bullied the newcomers, and the worst part of humanity ran wild in there. Now this unity became the most coveted spot in the detention center. If a detainee had connections they would switch her to this unit and the police would not have to take care of her anymore because not only would no one bully her, but people would actually take more care of her, asking her if she needed to borrow anything and trying to console her if she was in a bad mood. Later on the people there all said eagerly that they thought that they would suffer so much after going in, but actually the people in the unit were even kinder than outsiders. The women in the unit would say proudly, “Of course, we are a women's college dormitory and we have Falun Dafa practitioners. Even the police argue over who gets to look after this unit, and we are number one in every evaluation.” Practitioners explained Dafa principles to them and taught them how to recite Hong Yin, and some even practiced the exercises.
I remember a woman detained for suspicion of intentional injury who consistently practiced with me. As she was waiting in the detention room the day her trial opened, she suddenly sat in the lotus position and began reciting the Fa. She said she saw a great, tall Buddha sitting right before her at that moment. When she came back she asked me if that was Teacher and added that the Buddha frightened the people at the courts and procurators quite a bit, and told the police at the detention center to treat her well. After a month, the police at the local police station came to take me away with the goal of continuing to persecute me, but I was able to leave with righteous thoughts. I called the woman's house and even showed up in person because she had asked me that if I were able to return home, I must go and tell her father about the beauty of Dafa and give him a copy of Zhuan Falun to read. I lived up to my promise and her family was very happy. I also gave the shirt that I wore to her sister to send to her in the detention center. Apparently she was elated when she received the shirt and wore it every day.
When we didn't have anything to do I drew pictures for the women to put on the unit's walls. One morning a person told everyone excitedly, “Last night I had a dream that another person and I took the drawing on the wall outside where the sun was shining brightly. We just stretched out the drawing and looked at it under the sun, as if to show it to everyone, but after a while the sun in the picture became one with the sun in the sky.” Another time another person said that when she was on duty one night, she suddenly found the sun on the wall to be shining brightly, like a real sun. This reminded me of Teacher's words,
“After this class, what you carry with you is the real gong, a high-energy matter. When you go home and write a few words—no matter how your handwriting is—it carries gong! Thus, should everyone from this class be entitled to the name of “master,” and all become calligraphy qigong masters? I would say that it should not be understood this way. As a person with genuine gong and energy, you do not need to give it off intentionally; you will leave energy on whatever you touch, and it will all be shining brightly.” (Zhuan Falun)
The things that happen in cultivation are endless. I will practice diligently and solidly, send forth righteous thoughts together with all my fellow practitioners around the world, and do my best to clarify the truth!
From the Call for Submissions to Commemorate the Twentieth Anniversary of Falun Dafa’s Introduction
