Four-Decade-Long Family Feud Resolved in One Day

(Minghui.org) My brother and I were engaged in a long-standing feud. When I was 20 years old, we argued, and we had not met or talked with each other for over 40 years. I did not know, or care, where he and his family lived. Our anger was like a giant iceberg that would never melt.

After I began to practice Falun Dafa, I told him about this peaceful meditation that improves mind and body. But soon after, the persecution started. Not only did our old problems remain unresolved, he also developed additional misunderstandings about me.

Falun Dafa teaches me to follow the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. I've become kind and compassionate and I now get along well with others. Naturally I wanted to resolve the argument with my brother. After all, Master told us in Teaching the Fa at the Fa Conference in Australia, “If you cannot love your enemy, then you cannot reach Consummation.”

But this was easier said than done. I hoped to make a breakthrough, but after being apart for so many years, I did not know where to start.

When I thought about it further, I realized that, as a practitioner, I need to do well and follow Falun Dafa's principles regardless of other people's attitudes. Master said in Zhuan Falun, “Cultivation practice itself is not difficult, and neither is upgrading one’s level itself difficult. It is because they cannot give up the human mind that they call it difficult.”

I decided that I needed to change my thinking and let go of my attachment to losing face and self interest.

One day I heard that my brother was hospitalized and going to have surgery, so I went to visit him. I started out by sincerely apologizing to him and asked him about his life and things that had happened in the decades we were apart. My brother was moved.

As we talked further, I explained to him how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was trying to defame Falun Dafa with its campaign of hate propaganda. Although my brother was over 80 and had joined the CCP more than 50 years ago, he agreed.

Before I left, I gave him a gift of a thousand yuan. I said, “I'm very sorry for what happened. Fortunately Falun Dafa has shown me a path to move forward and improve. If I were not a practitioner, I would not have come, and we might never have seen each other again.”

My brother wept and said, “You have changed a lot.” My sister-in-law said, “I remember you had a very bad temper before. I never thought that your anger of such longstanding would melt away. We trust you and we now know that Falun Dafa must be great!”

We continued chatting for a while. I pointed out that the CCP murdered millions of people during its many campaigns, including persecuting and killing Falun Dafa practitioners. My brother said he would quit the Party, “And not just me. My entire family will also quit!”

I left him a copy of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party. My brother read it and then asked me for more information about Falun Dafa. He's recently begun reading Zhuan Falun, the main teachings of Falun Dafa.

I am very grateful that Falun Dafa has helped me and saved my family.