(Minghui.org) I am alive today thanks to our merciful Master who gave me a new life. I learned Falun Dafa in August 1995. Since that time remarkable changes have taken place in my life.
I used to be a high school teacher and am now in my 60s. In July 1994, I was diagnosed with tongue cancer, and I had an operation in which one third of my tongue was removed. Because of this I wasn't able to speak. The doctors told my family that I wouldn't live much longer. My children were very worried and looked at various hospitals to find one that would treat my disease with chemotherapy. At that point I had to quit teaching. It was really hard for me to accept this cruel fact. My face was wet with tears every day, and my emotional state fell to its lowest point.
Just at the moment when I had lost all hope, my daughter, who had been looking for alternatives for me, heard that Falun Gong could cure incurable diseases. I thought I would try it out. With the help of one of my close friends, I quickly got the book Zhuan Falun. I spent what I thought was the last moments of my life reading the book, like a starving person who had just found food, and I understood many of the spiritual principles. I began to feel very peaceful and relaxed, and my heart became more and more open. I was also able to speak clearly. After that I began to learn the exercises. One week later, I could do the five sets of exercises. My health got better and better with each passing day.
When my wife and children saw the changes that took place in my health after I learned Falun Dafa, they were all grateful to Master and believed in the power of Dafa. My wife also began practicing and studying. During the past 10 years, I never received any type of treatment, be it chemotherapy or radiation. Nor did I spend one cent on medicine.
One day, the principal of the school came to my house and said to me, “Teacher A, you are a cancer patient. You can write a report and send it to the Ministry of Education. This will help you to get some welfare.” I said, “I don't want any welfare. Give it to other patients! I learned Dafa and my cancer was cured. I don't need these allowances.” The principal said, “Your mindset is indeed at a high realm!”
After this incident, some people said that I was foolish for refusing the money that was given to me. I said, “Dafa cultivators don't pursue personal interests, but instead focus on being a good person by practicing Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. Master has given me a new life. Why would I need any social welfare!”
After July 20, 1999, the evil Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began to ruthlessly persecute Falun Gong. They wouldn't even spare a cancer patient like me. The school where I used to work held many meetings from large to small. They also had a private talk with me. The purpose was to force me to write a statement indicating that I would quit my cultivation. I said, “My cancer was cured by Dafa. You want me quit, but there is no way for that to happen. You want me to give up my life, but I absolutely refuse to do that.” At the beginning of 2001 (the Chinese New Year), the party officials tricked me into going to the city's brainwashing center for “transformation”. At that time, I and other fellow practitioners who were illegally arrested and taken to the brainwashing center studied Falun Dafa teachings, practiced the exercises and shared our understandings with each other. The villains tried to force us to write a “guarantee statement”, but we refused to listen, to write or to follow what they requested. Instead we boycotted the persecution. The guards saw that they couldn't get what they wanted. However, they didn't allow us to go home for the Chinese New Year; they didn't release us until after the Chinese New Year.
I used many means to clarify the truth. Whether it was in villages, cities, streets or lanes, I would reach out to whomever I came across. During the past 10 years of cultivation, many miraculous things occurred.
One day a few years ago I walked out of a tall building and was passing by a scaffold of a building, which was under construction. Someone dropped a cart of cement from the third floor. “Bang,” the cart landed right on my head and fell to the ground. When I realized what had just happened, a person on the third floor screamed. At that moment, everybody at the site was so scared and said that a person's life was almost taken. My hair was covered with cement. I went back home and took a shower. I found that it did not hurt at all. Nor did I have any bump or swelling. I was so grateful to Master for protecting me.
Since I started cultivating in 1995, I have been following Dafa's principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance and striving to be a good person. I've never been hospitalized, nor have I taken any medicine. My health was fully recovered and I can work as well as everybody else. After those in charge of the hospital read my letter, they were amazed, “A person who was terminally ill with cancer could live to this day. How amazing! Falun Gong is surely a miraculous practice!”
