(Minghui.org) On this occasion of World Falun Dafa Day and the 22 nd anniversary of Falun Dafa's introduction to the public, my family would like to take this opportunity to wish Master Li happy birthday and "Happy Falun Dafa Day" to all practitioners across the world!
My family has practiced Falun Dafa for 21 years. We would like to participate in the World Falun Dafa Day celebrations by sharing a few of our stories as testimonies to the benefit of the practice.
We attended Master Li's lectures in China multiple times during the early 1990s. My husband, our son, and I had many ailments. We were often referred to as “veteran patients.” We fully recovered soon after we started practicing Falun Dafa. Master Li's lectures and demeanor inspired us so much that we decided to follow the values of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance in our daily life.
The big change in our health and morality impressed our colleagues and neighbors. Positive words about Falun Dafa spread in our work unit and neighborhood. More than 80 people started to practice Falun Dafa in our factory. Twenty of them attended Master Li's lecture sessions.
Practitioners posted Falun Dafa introduction and experience sharing articles on bulletin boards near the entrance of the factory. We also composed a booklet with articles about our experiences and distributed copies to factory managers and employees. The effect was very good, as the articles' authors were our colleagues. The chairman of the board praised us at a factory meeting and recommended that everyone practice Falun Dafa. Many colleagues and their families read Zhuan Falun and knew Falun Dafa was great.
The person in charge of construction at the factory was sentenced to prison for corruption. At a managers' meeting, my husband was unanimously nominated as the successor. A senior leader from an upper level said to the factory director, “This time you must find someone we can trust.” The director replied, “The new person is the most trustworthy because he practices Falun Dafa.”
My son was 6 years old when he attended Master Li's lectures. Although he was little, he followed Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance every day. He was very popular among his peers and often brought other children home to learn Falun Dafa. He could read Zhuan Falun when he was in first grade. Some parents became practitioners after their children learned the practice.
Parents would usually pick up their children at dusk. But they didn't do that as long as they knew that their children were with my son at home. They said, “Being with your son, our children can learn to be good.”
In school, my son was elected the leader of his class. He behaved well. For example, he picked up trash that others discarded. In the winter, children usually took off their coats and threw them on a table in the back of the classroom. He helped them fold and arrange the coats neatly. Other practitioners in his class followed suit.
All the students in his class soon copied the practitioners, and the morale in the class became much better. The head teacher was happy and asked me how I educated my son. I told him that we practiced Falun Dafa. The head teacher wanted to read Zhuan Falun , so I gave him a copy.
Once all the teachers in the elementary school went to a meeting out of town. All of the students were asked to study in their classrooms. Only the principal was at school to monitor the students. Because there were no teachers present, almost all of the classrooms were noisy and messy.
The principal was shocked when he walked to my son's classroom in the second grade: everyone was doing their homework quietly, and my son sat in the teacher's desk doing his homework. He could not believe it--he had never in his career of several decades seen a group of seven or eight-year-olds so disciplined.
The principal asked the head teacher how he educated the students so well. The head teacher told him that the class leader's parents did a good job raising their son. The next day, the principal called me to the school. He was so excited to tell me the story and wondered how I educated my son. I told him, “It is because of Master Li's teachings. My son practices Falun Dafa.”
The principal wanted to read Zhuan Falun . He said, “If everyone behaved like Falun Dafa practitioners, my job would be much easier.”
The then Chinese Communist Party (CCP) head Jiang Zemin initiated the persecution of Falun Gong on July 20, 1999. CCP members and cadres were not allowed to practice Falun Gong.
The factory CCP committee secretary told my husband to write a guarantee statement not to practice Falun Gong anymore. My husband did not write it. Instead, he submitted an application to quit the CCP. That was a big surprise to everyone. Upper level leaders and police exerted pressure on us to give up our belief. We did not yield, and I was later fired. My husband was removed from all his official positions and given only minimum living expenses.
We went to Beijing to protest in 2000 and were taken home by the police. We were detained in the factory hostel. The police checked up on us at the factory, and everyone from managers to workers said that we were good people. The police wanted to ransack our home in the factory dormitory. We did not cooperate. They took away our keys, but could not find where we lived, as there were no numbers on the buildings.
They asked our colleagues and their families, but no one would tell them where our home was. They had to escort my husband home to do the search.
Our colleagues knew that the police were going to search our home, so they re-located all our Falun Dafa materials. The security head of the factory hid my husband's copy of Zhuan Falun in the office before the police search. He later returned the book to us.
The police did not find anything about Falun Dafa in our home or office. They asked my husband, “How come you are so popular?” My husband explained the facts about Falun Dafa to them. They came to understand that Falun Dafa was good and that Falun Dafa practitioners were good people.
My son stayed at home alone while my husband and I were illegally detained. Our colleagues, including those we did not know that well, took good care of him. Everyone knew that we were good people but that we were being persecuted because of CCP policy.
The factory workers knew we were detained in the factory hostel. Some shouted as they passed on their way home after the night shift, “Falun Dafa is good!” We were transferred to a local detention center after midnight because the police were afraid of a causing public outcry if they were to transfer us during the daytime.
We left our hometown to work in another province to make a living. My husband was hired as a general manager of a big company. Many of the company managers and workers were not happy initially because we were from out of town, but they were later convinced by his high moral standards and management abilities.
But one branch manager was jealous and spread lies to upper level leaders to frame my husband. He also intentionally made trouble at work. His superiors often criticized my husband, who never attempted to explain but simply did his job as usual.
One of his superiors later found out the truth and knew that the other person was making trouble. He criticized that branch manager. He asked my husband later, “Why didn't you explain what happened?” My husband said, “I follow Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance.”
That branch manager saw he could not fool the upper level leaders, so he then spread lies among the middle managers and regular employees and did not cooperate at work. Everyone came to realize that he was at fault. As a result, nobody listened to him or cooperated with him.
My husband helped him to coordinate things and did some of his work for him. Instead of appreciating the help, he continued to blame my husband and make trouble. Many people talked with my husband and gave suggestions about how to dispose of the branch manager. Some told me about it, too.
I could not tolerate it anymore and said to my husband, “If you don't fire him, you should criticize him. He is doing something intolerable. You help him, but he continues to make trouble.” My husband replied, “Master Li said, 'It’s hard to endure, but you can endure it. It’s hard to do, but you can do it.' Actually, I don't hate him; I pity him.”
After more than a year, the branch manager said to my husband, “I see compassion in your eyes.” After that, he always spoke highly of my husband everywhere and said that there was a misunderstanding between them before.
The chairman of the board said to my husband, “Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is really good! I want to learn Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance.” This brought a smile to my husband's face.
We want everyone to know the facts about Falun Gong and benefit from following Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance.