(Minghui.org) I live in a rural village. I led a good life until I was diagnosed with hepatitis B in 1994. After three years of treatment, I had spent all my savings, yet the condition had developed into cirrhosis.

I also suffered from many other ailments and associated pains. My yearning for a good life was shattered. I had a mental collapse and was close to death.

I had many painful, sleepless nights and pondered why life was so bitter and why I came to this world to suffer. I desperately begged the gods, “How can my life end at such a young age? Please help me to live to look after my elderly mother and little child.”

Listening and Accepting Falun Gong

When I was in despair, I heard about the power of Falun Gong. I thought I would give it a try and went to a group exercise site on January 15, 1997. After starting the practice I felt better within a few days. About three weeks later I returned to good health. After reading the book Zhuan Falun, I finally understood the questions that had puzzled me for such a long time.

I live by the Falun Gong principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance and have become a good person over the past 18 years. I have been happy and healthy and no longer need to take any medicine.

My relatives and friends have witnessed this miracle. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) can't discredit my personal experience.

Living by the Principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance

I am a middleman in the fruit business. On one occasion, I borrowed 42 boxes of produce from a fruit company without a deposit or a note. Soon after, the company went bankrupt and later reorganized. The new leaders did not know about the boxes I had borrowed, because the supervisor who had lent them to me had left. When I returned the boxes, the new supervisor repeatedly thanked me. I told him, “You can thank my Master. I am a Falun Gong practitioner. It is the Master of this practice who taught us to follow the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance and become a good person.” The company manager then announced to his staff: “Falun Gong is good!”

I had a similar experience later on. I borrowed 210 boxes without a note, with each box worth 20 yuan. When I called the supervisor before I returned them, he said that I could keep the boxes and just invite him for dinner sometime since no one at his company knew about my having those boxes. I told him, “I am a practitioner. I follow the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. I can buy you dinner, but I must return the boxes.”

He told me later, “It is hard to find good people like Falun Gong practitioners today. The CCP does not know the difference between good and bad. It persecutes good people.” He then quit the CCP and chose a good future for himself.

Repeatedly Arrested

I was so lucky to obtain Faun Gong. After Jiang Zemin's regime started to persecute the practice in July 1999, I appealed in Beijing for the right to practice. I told people about my personal experiences. As a result, I was illegally fined and detained for more than 40 days by local officials. I have persistently spoken up for Falun Gong and protested the persecution. From 2000 to 2012, I was detained and brutally tortured in a detention center four times.

Due to Master's compassion, I survived despite imprisonment, torture, and harassment. To thank Master for his salvation, I will follow his teachings and continue to clarify the facts about Falun Gong.