(Minghui.org) I'm 37 years old now. I started practicing Falun Dafa in 1998. Before I practiced, I had numerous illnesses. I had acute gastritis and cholecystitis caused by roundworm. When the symptoms appeared, I was rolling on the floor in pain. I vomited everything that I ate. Then I had chills that lasted for over two weeks.
I had numerous shots and infusions. Both my hands were swollen from the injections. I took so much medicine that I suffered brain damage. I couldn't do the easiest math problems.
I always cried silently and grieved about this calamity. I took my frustration out on those around me. I started to become more and more cruel. Whenever I had to go tend the cows, I always whipped the cows if they wouldn't behave.
When I was 21 years old, I got married. After marrying, my husband and I argued over trivial things and fought over major ones.
My bad temper and attitude made my parents-in-law resent me. They would team up with my husband to oppose me. I felt that there was no warmth in our household. If there wasn't crying, there was sure to be arguing.
I Started Practicing Dafa
When my son was three months old, I started to have nightmares. I either woke up in the middle of the night, screaming, or I felt like there was someone or something immobilizing me. I told my husband about some of the nightmares, and even he got shivers.
I had insomnia for such a long time that my appearance changed. I returned to my parents' home. They suggested that I practice Falun Dafa, saying that it's a righteous cultivation way.
During the winter of 1998, my husband and I took our child for a walk, and I heard the music of Falun Dafa. I saw my parents and my second sister with a group of people. My sister pulled me over and told me to sit with her. She said, “There's a lot of people from the city who came to the village to show us the exercises.” Thus, my fellow practitioners started teaching me this wonderful Dafa.
And thus I started to cultivate every day. The nightmares diminished, and sometimes I experienced karma elimination, so I believed in Dafa and passed the tests.
Getting Rid of My Bad Temper
During farming season, my parents-in-law started arguing with me. I didn't realize that it was time for me to cultivate myself to a higher level. I failed test after test. They got more vicious, and my mother-in-law told my father-in-law what I did wrong while crying. My husband also got into the whole thing. I knelt down and started crying.
Master said, “These are all your own tribulations that we use to improve your xinxing, and you will be able to overcome them. As long as you upgrade your xinxing, you can overcome them. Unless you, yourself do not want to do so, you can make it, provided you want to overcome them.” (“Lecture Four” in Zhuan Falun )
Afterwards I realized that this was because I owed them in a past life. Suffering is merely to eliminate your karma. I'm a practitioner; so I started to not get angry. When my mother-in-law wanted to fight, I didn't pay attention to it. Slowly but surely, our family became a loving one.
In 2007 my temper arose again, and I fought with a neighbor. After I got home, I regretted that I had done so. During that night, I dreamt that someone was sewing my mouth shut. I woke up in shock and checked my mouth. Thank goodness it was only a dream.
It's Master that noticed that I still needed to eliminate my heart for fighting. If I didn't change, would the dream become a reality? I was determined to fix this, and I apologized in front of Master's picture.
I found the neighbor and apologized. I also told her about my dream. I said, “We are a righteous cultivation method, and I must stay on the right path.” Then I told her about the persecution by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and how if you quit it, you will receive good fortune. She saw how sincere I was; so not only did she quit, she also got her husband and son to quit.
Master Gave Me a Lot, Truly a Lot
One afternoon in the spring of 2000, I told my husband to climb up a tree so we could get some firewood. The tree is huge. When my husband was done, he told me to hold the ladder, which I did. However, the axe slipped out of his hand and crashed onto my head.
I knelt down and patted my head, which was covered in blood. However, I didn't feel any pain. I kept pressure on the cut and found my sister, who lives nearby. The doctor decided to put stitches in it. But when he saw the cut, he said, “There's no need for stitches, it's just a small cut. I'll apply some medicine, and you should be good to go.”
The axe had just been bought a few days earlier, and it was razor sharp. If a normal person had that happen to him/her, they would've certainly died. This probably occurred because I killed someone in a past life and was re-paying the debt. I felt fine, but isn't it because Master protects each one of us?
The Village Head Embraced Falun Gong
Being a Dafa disciple means that your responsibility is to save people. Every time I went to buy anything, I clarified the truth to everyone and asked them to quit the CCP. Some of the people hadn't even joined the CCP, so I told them to sincerely say, “Falun Dafa is good; Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.”
During April of 2012, the team head brought a “Card of Promise” to each house and told everyone to sign it. The card said that people would be rewarded if they reported people that practice Dafa. It had slanderous things about Dafa printed on it; so of course I didn't sign it.
The team head only wanted to complete this assignment; so he told me to put a fake signature. I said, “My master resurrected me; I can't possibly do such a thing.”
The next day the team head reported me to the village head. They pressured my parents-in-law and told me to go to the village office to have a talk. That night my in-laws urged me not to go, saying that if something happened to me, the family would be no more. After dinner my son told me that we should go post truth-clarification materials. We posted dozens of them, and when we returned, it was already 11:00 p.m.
The following day I went to the village office. The village head and the party head were already there, with gloomy faces. I told them that as of right now, over 100 countries have people who practice Dafa. I said that Dafa promotes good health and tells us how to be a good person. Additionally, I told them that people who practice Dafa are nice people, and we've done nothing wrong by practicing Dafa.
I spoke for about 30 to 40 minutes. They both were smiling in the end. They told me to do whatever I had to do. On the way home, I thanked Master for His benevolence.
Udumbara Flowers Bloom at My House
In 2009, Udumbara Flowers bloomed at my house. During the winter, they bloomed at my husband's workplace as well. They turned from green to a milky white color once we brought them home. The entire family was thrilled.
I need to cultivate so that my human attachments will be eliminated. I need to be righteous so that I can return home with Master.
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