(Minghui.org) I started practicing Falun Dafa in July 1995. I would like to share a life and death experience I went through just a few months after I started practicing, to show the miraculous effects of Dafa and the merciful kindness of Master.

I was preparing to take a bath at around 7:00 p.m. on the evening of December 20, 1995. I filled up the bathtub and put a hot brazier (a pan of hot coals) next to it to keep the room warm. I was the only one at home at the time, as my husband was attending a meeting at work. As I was standing with my back to the brazier, suddenly I felt like someone punched me hard in the chest. I lost consciousness and fell backward onto the brazier. The inside of my right arm up, to the elbow, was in contact with the burning charcoal. I was vaguely conscious and tried to call out, but no sound came out. I wanted to get up, but was overcome with weakness. I couldn't move, nor could I utter any sound.

I suddenly saw a scene where I was surrounded by raging flames and was being burned. As I began to feel my consciousness slipping away, one thought came to my mind, "I still want to cultivate in Dafa." So I asked Master for help: “Master, please help me.”

As soon as I had this thought, I partially regained consciousness, and vaguely saw a white-bearded Daoist sweep his whisk across me, and my body was pulled away from the brazier. I quickly grabbed the edge of the bathtub and got up. I immediately saw that the inside of my right arm was covered in burns. Even the muscles were burned and I could almost see the bone. The whole bathroom was filled with smoke and the offensive smell of burned flesh.

The strange thing was that I didn't feel any pain, even though my arm was severely burned. As I was getting up, a couple of pieces of burning charcoal were stuck to the back of my right hand and the right side of my buttocks, and the skin was burned, and had turned dark yellow in color. I brushed off the charcoal and said to Master in my heart, “Master, let me finish my bath and get dressed first. I will bear whatever I need to endure.” I washed the injuries clean and finished my bath. When I left the bathroom I felt nauseous and vomited a lot of dark-colored liquid.

By now, the inside of my right arm was covered with layers of blisters, and some had broken open. I began to feel excruciating pain from the burns, and I felt dazed.

I moved slowly to the bed, holding onto anything I could reach for support. I put a pot next to the bed and lay down. I vomited from time to time. Blood and liquid from the broken blisters filled up half of the pot. My husband came back home after 9:00 p.m. He was shocked and scared upon seeing my condition and wanted to take me to the hospital. I said, “Don't worry. Master is taking care of us. I'll be fine. The best thing you can do to help, is to read Zhuan Falun to me.” My husband didn't protest as he had also started practicing Falun Dafa.

When the pain was too much to bear, he read Zhuan Falun to me, and then I slowly fell asleep. When I woke up again in pain, he read the book to me again.

In order not to disrupt his sleep, so that he could go to work as normal the next day, I tried not to moan when I woke up, and just kept reciting Lun Yu . Three days and nights passed, which felt like three years. The pain began to subside on the fourth day.

In order not to focus on the burns, I decided to work as normal on the fourth day. I put on some loose clothes and rolled up the sleeve on my right arm above the burns. I then threw on a jacket to cover up my arm. I also covered the burns on my buttocks with some tissue paper. I then went to open our shop for business as usual. Within two days, the burns on my arm and buttocks began to dry, and formed scabs.

One night when I was half asleep, I heard people discussing what was the best way to grow new flesh on my arm. Finally they decided that the new flesh should grow from the outer edge inward. Sure enough, the new flesh indeed grew bit by bit from the outer edge of the injuries.

My arm was completely healed four months later. The new flesh and the skin was level and smooth, leaving only a neat and smooth scar. During the whole process I didn't seek any medical treatment and didn't spend a cent. The burns healed naturally without any treatment.

People who saw my injuries were horrified. One said, “I can't bear to take another look at your burns. When I look at them I feel nauseous and have difficulty breathing.” Some people were completely stupefied by my injuries. They all advised me to go to the hospital for treatment, saying that if I didn't, that my arm would be deformed or even crippled. Even some fellow practitioners suggested that I should have my burns treated in a hospital. However, I remained unmoved. I just kept doing the exercises every day.

At the beginning, I couldn't move my right arm, so I just went through the exercises in my mind. When I got a little better, I did the exercises as much as I could. I put myself completely in Master's hands and didn't think about anything else. In fact, two days before the incident happened I got a hint from Master in my dream, in which I saw myself being burned in ferocious flames. Startled, I woke up.

Incidentally, a young house maid for an old couple living on our block had a similar experience. It took place a few days after it happened to me. She was washing herself in the kitchen next to a coal stove. She suffered carbon monoxide poisoning and lost consciousness. As she was falling, part of her right hand was burned by the stove. It was not even as big or serious as the injury on the side of my buttocks. She was lucky, as the old couple came home in time and took her to hospital for treatment, which cost them over 2,000 yuan. Even so, the skin on her injured hand wrinkled up and turned stiff.

This miraculous experience helped me lay a solid foundation in cultivation and further strengthened my faith in Master and Dafa. All those who urged me to seek treatment in hospital also witnessed the miracles of Dafa.