(Minghui.org) I became a Falun Dafa practitioner in 1996. Because I continued to practice after the persecution began in 1999, I suffered all kinds of tribulations and almost died many times. My family members who do not practice Falun Dafa have also suffered greatly as a result of the persecution. In addition to worrying about my safety and well-being, my husband and daughter were maliciously harassed by the communist authorities.
My husband is a manager of a company. In 2008, while I was illegally detained, my house was ransacked by police and over 100,000 yuan was taken. The police suspected that my husband and daughter were helping Dafa disciples and took away my husband's business car. My daughter was forced to resign from her workplace; she cried all the way home.
Under such huge pressure, many ordinary people would complain. However, my husband and daughter, my parents and six sisters, my husband's whole family, and all of my other family members support my cultivation wholeheartedly. My husband openly says that Falun Dafa is great and that practitioners have a high moral standard. If everyone were like practitioners, he says, the whole society would become better.
In 2000, I was sent to the police station when I went to Beijing to appeal for the right to practice Falun Dafa. I was handcuffed and hung up high by the director of the police station. He kicked me and abused me with obscene language. When my husband and brother-in-law heard about my arrest, they went to the police station to seek justice. They even went to the director's home to demand my release. The director was too scared to open the door but promised to set me free. I was released the same day.
My father and mother also began Dafa cultivation in subsequent years. My six sisters and their husbands started to read Dafa books. Although they are not very diligent, they deeply believe in Master and Dafa.
My family environment has become righteous. It is just like Master said,
“Buddha’s light shines everywhere, propriety and righteousness harmonize everything.” (Zhuan Falun)
Dafa practitioners can influence others through their righteous behavior and words, eliminating the bad elements around them.
Gaining New Life Through Cultivation
Ever since I was young, I was very weak and suffered from many serious diseases. I visited all of the local hospitals and some big hospitals in other areas. I tried Chinese medicine and Western medicine, had surgery, took various medications and even ingested raw snake blood and raw snake gall bladder in hopes of curing my ailments. I spent a lot of money, but little was achieved. After I gave birth to my daughter, my health deteriorated even more. My legs and feet were often too swollen to walk, and my eyes were often swollen almost shut. I caught cold at the slightest breeze. My life was sustained with injections and taking medicine. I fainted very often. When the ambulance rushed in, my neighbors knew that I had another heart attack.
My husband was in a car accident soon after my daughter was born. I took care of him as well as I could until he died. The heavy burden of life was on my shoulders. Struggling and in pain, I became a Buddhist in 1990, hoping that a Buddha would protect me. I went to the temple every week to donate money and kowtow, and burned incense to worship the Buddha. Because I didn't know how to cultivate my xinxing, I didn't experience any change.
In 1991 and 1994, I was in critical condition and prepared for death. For a long time, I lay in bed, blowing out more air than breathing in. I felt that I was at the end of my life and asked my neighbor again and again, “If I die, who will take care of my little child?” When I was unconscious, I felt darkness all around me and knew that I was wandering in front of the gate to hell. “I need to go back home to take care of my child!” With this thought, I climbed back with all my strength and escaped from death again and again.
In 1996, I happened to see people practicing Falun Dafa. I decided to learn the practice in hopes of improving my health. Soon after I started to practice, I coughed out blood, my nose bled, and all of my bones and muscles ached. I realized right away that Master was helping me eliminate all of the bad things and karma from my body. I kept up with studying the Fa and doing the exercises every day. Gradually, I regained health. My face color turned from pale to pink, my distorted joints became normal, and I was now able to do some household chores.
Six months later, I went to the hospital for a checkup. My doctor was shocked to see my condition improved to such an extent. I told him that Falun Dafa saved me. The doctor said: “Falun Dafa is truly amazing. Please keep up with your exercises!” One year later, all my illnesses were gone, and I became a healthy person not bothered by illness at all.
Solving Difficult Family Issues while Improving Moral Character
I met my current husband after my ex-husband passed away. He left all his property to his ex-wife and son. He only needed to give them 120 yuan every month, but his ex-wife always threatened that she would give up caring for their son in order to extort more money from him. She demanded monthly support of 300 yuan, then 500 yuan, and then asked for extra money for tuition, food and clothing. Our family budget became very tight.
My husband was quite disturbed by this and worried about upsetting me. I comforted him, saying that raising a child was the responsibility of both parents and it was not easy for his ex-wife to do it alone. I asked him not to worry about me, since as a Dafa practitioner, I should think more about others. I said that money should be enough if we were cautious with spending.
His son became addicted to the Internet after entering middle school. In order to stop him from using the Internet too much, my husband asked me if we could let him have lunch at home. I agreed immediately. The boy was mentally retarded, so he behaved like a little child. He often had a runny nose, sloppy clothing, and didn't flush after using the bathroom. My husband sometimes lost his temper and yelled at him. However, I was not bothered at all. I quietly cleaned up his mess and calmed my husband down. I asked him to talk nicely to his child.
Master said,
“You should teach your kids with reason and good sense, and that’s the only way you can really teach them well.” (Zhuan Falun)
I told my husband: “The more upset you are, the worse the effect will be. He will not listen and your anger will also hurt you.” After getting my husband to calm down, I would patiently talk to his son. Although he could not follow all of the instructions well, he was always willing to listen to me.
As a result of my actions, my neighbors praised Falun Dafa practitioners for being really nice.
My husband's hometown is in southern China. Since my youngest brother-in-law inherited all of the family property in their hometown, the three brothers agreed that the youngest brother-in-law would take care of their elderly parents. My husband and the other brother-in-law would support their parents with some money.
As time went on, my youngest brother-in-law frequently asked for money, using his parents as an excuse. My mother-in-law suffered from Alzheimer's disease, and my youngest brother-in-law and his wife always pushed my parents-in-law out of their home. My husband and his other brother were quite angry about it. I told them that it was not easy for their little brother to take care of the parents, so we should try to understand and forgive him. I asked them to let my parents-in-law live with us so that I could take care of them.
I read Dafa books to my parents-in-law and let them listen to Master's lectures. My mother-in-law had always caused trouble at my brother-in-law's house, but she became very quiet after moving in with us and listened carefully to the Fa. However, when my husband came home, she would falsely tell him that I didn't give her any food. We did not know whether to laugh or cry.
Once, she went to stay with the other brother-in-law for a night, but she left his house and vanished the next day. Finally, she was found at the police station. My mother-in-law told policemen to buy her some food because I didn't feed her. When I heard about it, I was not bothered. My husband was angry, but I reminded him that people's deeds are watched by heaven. Since my heart was clear and I hadn't done anything wrong, I decided not to care too much about what people might say. My husband sighed and said: “It is great that you can handle it like this! Only Dafa practitioners can do it; normal people would not be able to achieve that level.”
When my father-in-law passed away, the funeral was supposed to be a big event, according to the customs in their hometown. My youngest brother-in-law asked all of the siblings to contribute money for the funeral. My sister-in-law was very upset with him for some reason and said that her family would not contribute any money. In order to make sure that the event ran smoothly, I told her that since her budget was tight, we would pay her share. She was very touched and asked, “Is every Falun Dafa practitioner this nice?”
Solving Problems with Kindness and Righteous Thoughts
My husband has to deal with all kinds of people in his work. The current social environment is not very righteous, and it is very difficult to stay upright. One day, a woman called me and informed me that my husband had an affair. I was shocked and became very upset.
I had a big quarrel with my husband and felt that I was close to having a heart attack. However, I then remembered Master's Fa and quickly calmed down. Master said that we should always look within, but I was looking outside. I understood that there must be some attachments I had not yet let go; otherwise, a thing like this would not have happened.
My husband was not a practitioner. From the Fa principles, I knew that he was creating karma by doing wrong deeds. In order to be responsible to my husband, I thought that I should explain this principle well to him. I calmed myself down and told him that gods set the rule that one man should have one wife, so by having an affair he was committing a crime in front of gods.
My husband knew that I was truly being good to him and regretted what he had done. He decided to change and stop all communication with that woman. When the woman could not find my husband, she called my home and yelled at me. This time, I remained calm and listened to her. I told her seriously but kindly: “You are a teacher. You should have higher principles. You also have a husband and a child, and you should be responsible to them.” I told her that she should live with dignity, that having an affair with someone's husband was committing a crime in front of gods, and that it was not morally upright. I asked her not to do it anymore.
With that, a serious family crisis was over. My husband later told his friends: “I harmed my wife, yet she was so understanding. Other than Falun Dafa practitioners, nobody else could do it. I think Dafa practitioners are truly on the path to divinity; they can do what other people can't.”
Since then, my husband has openly praised Dafa in front of his colleagues and friends and has helped me spread the facts about Dafa and clarify the truth.
Enduring the Persecution
During the time when I was persecuted, my husband, daughter, and all of our family members stood firmly with me and Dafa and were never afraid of the evil.
In 2008, I was arrested on the street by police. My family were not informed. My husband heard someone opening the door with a key and thought I was coming home. However, it turned out to be a group of plainclothes police. They started to search the house upon entry. My husband remained very calm and stopped them immediately. He said: “You are in plain clothes and obviously not on duty. You knew that there were people inside, but didn't knock. Furthermore, you stole my keys to open the door. You're lucky this time; I could have treated you as robbers and killed you in self-defense. I don't practice Falun Dafa, but I know the law. If you want to search my home, show me a search warrant.”
The policemen looked at each other and didn't dare to proceed. They said angrily: “OK, you wait. We will come back with a search warrant, and you'll see what happens if we find something.” My husband was not afraid at all. He talked to them and quietly hid the truth-clarification materials on the sofa.
Afterward, my husband and other family members sent out letters to related organizations and people in the effort to rescue me. They also went to the police station, Public Security Bureau and the Political and Legal Affairs Committee involved in the case every day.
My husband said to the head of the police station: “I don't practice Falun Dafa, but you and I both know that Falun Dafa is good. I am not going to argue with you. I just want you to give me a solution: If your wife were in this situation, what would do?” The police chief had nothing to say and hid the next time he saw my husband.
Some policemen were quite aggressive at the beginning, but in the end, they started to admire my husband. One of them said, “If we were going to make any friends, we would make friends with people like you and your wife.”
My family has benefited from Dafa and has been rewarded for supporting Dafa firmly. My husband has learned to recite “Falun Dafa is good.” He and my daughter rarely even catch a cold anymore. When my husband went for his physical examination, the doctor said in surprise: “People at your age and in your field of work are rarely in such good shape. You have the heart of a 30-year-old! How do you take care of yourself?”
