Our Entire Family is Grateful to Master

(Minghui.org) Festive music floated out of the dining hall of a restaurant on May 23, 2013, and everyone was smiling. It was my uncle's 80th birthday.

Looking at him and my aunt, I was overwhelmed. They were healthy and happy, surrounded by their loving children and grandchildren. Falun Dafa granted this good fortune to my entire family, and Master's blessings have made our lives so rich.

My mother used to have poor health. My parents often quarreled, because my father was an alcoholic. He later had an affair, and in 1995, my parents divorced. My mother had thyroid problems, heart disease, Meniere's syndrome, and other health issues.

That year my mother was 39, and I was 12. My mother cared for me and her blind mother, and had nothing else. To take care of my grandmother and me, my mother rented an apartment with my aunt. Times were tough.

My mother worked in the southeastern part of the city, and we lived in the northwest. She biked to work every day, over an hour and a half each way. My mother shouldered the burden of the whole family. My father only provided us with a few month's alimony after the divorce. Due to depression and a difficult life, my mother's health worsened.

Everyone was enjoying the New Year holiday on January 3, 1997, when my mother suddenly collapsed while she was cooking. Her eyes were closed. I was scared and started to cry. I held her and called, “Mama! Mama!” My aunt's daughter called a taxi and took my mother to a hospital. She was diagnosed with severe heart disease.

She got to the hospital in time, but was not cured, and I worried about her.

One day my mother heard about Falun Dafa from a relative. The relative told her, “This is a Buddha Fa, and [Falun Dafa] has miraculous healing and fitness benefits!” Hearing that Falun Dafa cultivates Buddha piqued her interest, and she found an exercise site near our home.

The first day she went to learn the exercises, she saw numerous Falun, large and small, while she was doing the second exercise, “Holding the wheel above the head.” My mother later asked the assistant what they were. The assistant replied with a smile, “You saw Falun due to your predestined relationship with Buddha. It is a good thing.” That is how my mother started her Dafa cultivation.

Through cultivation, she understood that her tribulations were caused by what she had done in her previous lives, and that the true goal of life was returning to her original, true self. She threw away all her medications, and has since been full of energy every day. During the past 17 years, she has never once had to see a doctor.

My mother let go of what happened between her and my father. She brought him a copy of Zhuan Falun and hoped that he could cultivate this Buddha Fa. My father was later hospitalized three times due to heart disease. During his last hospitalization, my mother went to visit him. When she was about to leave, he held her hands and broke down in tears.

Before cultivating, my mother had a bad temper. She arrived at work late and left early. No one dared to confront her. The supervisor would get a headache just seeing her. After becoming a practitioner, my mother followed the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, and was no longer late for work, nor left early. On the night shift, other workers sometimes took naps. My mother was often the only one working on the production line when the inspector came.

Later during the period of time when my mother was being persecuted, her supervisor spoke to the management, “Even though I never practiced Falun Gong, after seeing the changes in her after she did, I know Falun Gong is good!” After my mother retired, she met her supervisor on the street. Her supervisor told her, “After seeing how you changed, I know Falun Gong is good. I don't believe what the TV says!”

Now let me mention my aunt. My aunt had poor health all her life. Her health dramatically improved when she first began studying the Fa, but she stopped practicing when the persecution started in 1999. Over the next ten years, multiple ailments reappeared, and she was hospitalized almost every year. At the end of 2010, my aunt decided to resume her Dafa cultivation. Every day we study the Fa and do the exercises together. It has been almost four years now, and she has not had to go to the hospital in all that time.

When my aunt fell in the bathroom and broke her tailbone in the summer of 2012, she insisted on studying the Fa and doing the exercises in bed. She quickly recovered. After seeing this, many of the relatives said, “She's nearly 70 and broke her tailbone, yet she recovered without taking any medicine or treatment. Falun Gong is really miraculous!”

Ten years ago, my mother looked after me and my grandmother, and we had nothing. Now we have savings and live in an over-90-square-meter home. In recent years I have always been able to find a satisfactory job. My mother and I have not focused on a savings plan, and have just lived a normal life, but surprisingly, we have become more and more well off. We know this is Dafa's blessing. Dafa gives us good health and prosperity.

Master said, “When one person obtains the Fa, the whole family will benefit.” (“Teaching the Fa and Answering Questions in Jinan” in Zhuan Falun Fajie) This is absolutely true. I would like to mention my relatives who have benefited from Dafa.

When the persecution first started in 1999, my mother moved a large bag of Dafa books to my uncle's home in the countryside to protect them. Even though the evil Party was aggressively persecuting Dafa, my uncle kept the books until my mother took them back.

My uncle had a car accident around 2006. Luckily he lived. A few years later, someone told my uncle his fortune, and said, “You did a great thing in the past. Otherwise the grass on your tomb would be as tall as a person.” My mother told my uncle that he had been blessed because he had protected the Dafa books.

Everyone was asleep one night in late 2005, when I was awakened by an explosion. I didn't know what happened. I looked through the window and saw stores on the other side of the street on fire. The flames were about ten meters tall, and they seemed to be jumping over to our side of the street.

I immediately woke up the family members. The neighbors were awakened, and we all immediately evacuated. It took a long time to extinguish the fire. After returning home, we learned that the fire was caused by a natural gas leak. The explosion shattered the windows in several buildings. Our home was directly facing the stores that were in flames, and it seemed that we should have been impacted the most. However, our home was fine. There were only two small chips on two window corners. I told this to my teacher and classmates. They all thought it was miraculous.

My uncle's hemorrhoids recurred in the second half of 2013, and the doctor said he needed surgery. We were very worried, since my uncle was 80 years old. My aunt thought of Dafa and recited, “Falun Dafa is good” in her mind, and asked Master to strengthen her. The surgery went well.

Normally, patients who have this surgery are in pain after the anesthetic wears off. Other patients remarked, “That old man didn't have any pain after the surgery. It's a miracle!” My uncle told them, “Dafa protected me. Falun Gong is the Buddha Fa, and teaches people to be good. The TV broadcasts slandered Falun Gong. You shouldn't believe them. Remember, 'Falun Dafa is good,' and you'll be rewarded!” The others nodded in agreement.

This New Year, my aunt asked my uncle, “Do you think Falun Dafa is good?” My uncle had seen family members change over the years. He usually doesn't say much, but he nodded with conviction and said, “Good!”

So many people in my family have benefited from Falun Dafa. We thank Dafa for giving us health, security, and prosperity. We also want to tell people that Falun Dafa is the the Buddha Fa, and that they will be protected by the divine as long as they respect it. Good fortune and a secure life will be their reward.