(Minghui.org) I was once burdened by my own massive karma. Poverty-stricken, I had chronic insomnia, induced by an anxiety disorder which plagued me throughout my twenties. That condition improved as I reached my thirties, but the stress of work, among other pressures, brought on a heart condition when I was 36. Fortunately, I was cured when I started practicing Falun Dafa at age 50. The next ten years were the happiest years of my life. After that, as I slacked off in my practice, my old ailments recurred, and again plunged me into deep despair. Incredibly, Master came to my rescue again and purified my body a second time, and saved me.
As I came home from work one day in June 1996, my wife said to me, “You should practice Falun Dafa. I was told it’s very beneficial.” I had never heard of it before, but she gave me a book on it. I was curious, so I started reading it. It was entitled Falun Gong.
I had quite a few issues with my health by the time I was fifty, including premature ventricular contractions, chest pain, and sometimes shortness of breath. They could only be relieved by taking some Chinese medicine. After reading the book for about ten minutes, I felt something in my neck moving downward. I ignored it and continued reading, but felt the movement gaining in speed and strength. Whatever it was, when it went through my throat, I felt my airway being cleared. When it continued to move to my chest and then my abdomen, my chest pain disappeared completely. I then realized that this was Master purifying my body. I stopped taking medications, and in place of the medications, I joined other fellow practitioners in doing the Falun Gong exercises and attending Fa study sessions. I was free of all illness, and felt a healthy lightness to my body.
I then obtained a copy of the book Zhuan Falun and threw myself earnestly into the practice. My usual morning started at 4:00 a.m. when I took my cassette player to the practice site to do the five sets of exercises. Then it was home for breakfast and off to work. At 5:30 p.m., my wife (who was retired) would take the cassette player to the practice site where I would join her right after work. After finishing the five sets of exercises, we split into groups to do an hour of Fa study. During that whole time, I was always full of energy.
My new-found energy and enthusiasm carried over into my work, where I earned praise from my superiors and admiration from my colleagues.
Two experiences I had in particular swept away any lingering doubts I might have had that Falun Dafa was anything but ordinary. One day I came home from work and laid down for a little rest before dinner was served. A few minutes later, I sensed someone pushing open the door and entering the room. I took a look and saw that it was me who was standing quietly next to my bed. Soon the door opened again and another me came in, standing next to the other me. Then a third me came in to join the line. As soon as I heard my wife calling me for dinner, the apparitions disappeared. They must have been my assistant souls that Master talked about. I believe that they were shown to me so as to strengthen my faith in Falun Dafa and Master.
On another occasion, I came home from work with a slight fever. My wife suggested that I take a rest before dinner. Upon laying down, my whole body felt like it was on fire and was then overtaken by the most painful headache. I tossed and turned in agony. My wife was really frightened and suggested that I go to the hospital. I said that I didn’t need to, but I was feeling worse by the second, slipping in and out of consciousness.
But suddenly I felt my that my body was exploding like a huge bomb, with fragments blown 20 or 30 meters high and falling back down. The large fragments fell first, followed by the smaller ones, onto a lake which was surrounded by trees. They laid quietly and motionless on the top of the water. I felt a lot better at this point. Looking at the lake again, the fragments were flowing towards the center and joined together piece by piece. I was thinking to myself that they can’t possibly be joined together perfectly! But they did. There were no signs that they were ever broken apart. The fragments further out were still flowing towards the center. When all the fragments finally joined together, all of my pain vanished and my whole body recovered as if nothing had ever happened.
I opened my eyes and caught my wife’s anxious face staring at me. She asked if I was OK. I told her that I was fine. It was midnight, which meant the whole episode lasted four hours. I said I was hungry, and asked for some noodles. She made me some and I devoured two bowls of them. I believed Master had completely remade me physically. My supernormal abilities improved greatly since, and I was able to see a circle of red light at the end of my celestial eye tunnel during meditation, regardless of the time of day.
After the persecution against Falun Dafa was launched by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on July 20, 1999, we were no longer allowed to keep our practice site, so practitioners formed smaller groups in their homes to do the exercises. Practitioners responded to the persecution by going to appeal to the authorities in Beijing and locally. We also distributed materials that explained the truth of Falun Dafa, and put up posters in public places. I had access to a work car so I used that at night to transport large boxes of Dafa-related printed materials to hubs in the rural areas that supplied local practitioners. To finance the printing and production of a high volume of Dafa truth-clarification materials, I have donated a great deal of money. I was willing to do anything for Falun Dafa.
I lost contact with the production team in April 2004 because the practitioner I was teaming up with to deliver the materials was forced to leave home in order to avoid arrest. I had just retired at the time and was in good health, so I wanted to start a business venture. I was the most capable among my eight siblings and thought it was time to help them out a bit financially. I spent 200,000 yuan and bought a large truck to start a transportation business with my nephew. We made good money in our first year, but that also meant that I was constantly busy working. Although I always brought my Dafa books with me, I was no longer sticking to a regular daily routine of exercises and Fa study.
I started to feel tired after some time. At around the same time, a former boss of mine, now retired, asked me to work for his new business. I knew it would not be an easy job, but I could not bring myself to say no. Taking up the job seriously, I launched myself into a series of tasks including finding an office, recruiting and training staff, purchasing equipment, etc. I was pretty much flying solo and tied myself up for one whole year, turning the company into a very successful business in its second year.
But I had more or less reverted back to being an ordinary person by that time. I was burned out, and health issues started to surface, starting with pain in my right shoulder, which bothered me a lot at night. It was particularly hard when I was constantly drenched in sweat but could not bear having the windows open or the air conditioner on, even at the height of summer.
My wife tried to help by giving me massages while urging me to go to see a doctor. At the hospital, I was told I had cervical degenerative disc disease, which put pressure on the cervical nerve. They recommended laser surgery. On top of that, my blood test revealed blood sugar level as high as 20.5, which meant I had diabetes. I ended up having laser treatments for one month. After that, I remained hospitalized for another month for diabetes treatment. The acute pain in my shoulder went away, but I continued to take medication for the diabetes.
My diabetes got worse over time making me feel more miserable than ever. The medication irritated my stomach and the insulin injections caused allergic reactions in the form of itchy lumps covering my body from the waist down. Depression and sleepless nights also followed, which almost drove me insane. At one point, I was unable to get a wink of sleep over the course of 36 hours and had to be injected with a strong sleeping drug before I could manage to get two hours of sleep. From then on, I became dependent on sleeping pills.
Three difficult years went by. In the spring of 2017, my stomach got even worse, and surgery was recommended after a bad gastroscopy result. I refused the operation thinking that I was nearly 70-years-old and ready to take whatever life dealt me. I stopped taking all the medications. I could hardly eat or sleep, so I was losing weight rapidly. But to ease everyone’s mind, I kept going out instead of resting at home. My nephew came to visit me on the day of the Moon Festival and was shocked at my state. I told him what I had gone through during the past few years and said that I made up my mind to give up all medical treatment. Everyone cried and begged me to try other forms of treatment, so I tried Chinese medicine, but in the end nothing worked so I threw out all the medications.
All hope was gone and I was waiting for the end to come. When my children wanted to buy me clothes or my wife wanted to buy me shoes, I told them I would not need them.
I thought to myself, “I can’t just sit and wait.” So I told my wife that we should start doing the Falun Dafa exercises again, and she happily obliged. We found our copies of Zhuan Falun and took out our cassette player to do the five sets of exercises. It had been ten years, but we hadn’t forgotten how to do the exercises. It made me think that Master had not given up on us and that we still had hope, though we weren’t totally convinced.
My wife and I went out for a stroll after breakfast one day, and met a woman in her sixties who gave us a Falun Dafa truth-clarification pamphlet. We told her that we were also practitioners but had stopped practicing for ten years. She said, “Come back quickly! Master is waiting!” Tears just rolled down my face and my wife was crying too, because it felt like we had just found a long lost loved one. Seeing the state we were in, she asked for our address.
She visited us a few days later and gave us a quick rundown of what had been happening with Falun Dafa around the world, and told us about Master’s expectations of his disciples. She also brought us some books, Minghui Weekly magazines, and taught us the formulas for sending righteous thoughts. We felt comforted and our spirits were uplifted by a powerful energy. We knew that Master had sent this fellow practitioner to lead us back to him. She suggested that we set up a regular group Fa study at our house, which was just what I wanted.
A few practitioners came to our house regularly to study the Fa with us, which helped me enormously. My health gradually improved, and six months later I was able to eat and sleep normally without taking sleeping pills. I have now recovered completely. My sickly grey complexion has changed to a healthy, rosy one, and I can also go out to clarify the truth now.
My wife’s high blood pressure and stomach illness also disappeared, and she now looks five years younger. I told my children, “You have seen how Master has saved our lives, but you have to understand that it is not so we can all live happily together, but rather, it’s Master asking us to guide you in your cultivation.” They agreed. My older daughter started doing the exercises and her sister-in-law wanted to learn the practice. My youngest daughter and my daughter-in-law have also committed themselves to learn. Thank you, Master, for your boundless mercy.
For five years, my poor health had prevented me from visiting my hometown. We went back to spend Chinese New Year there this year. Seeing the positive changes in us, over forty people in the village renounced their CCP memberships. I went to see a relative from the village who had bone cancer and had been unable to eat or drink for over two weeks. I urged him and his family to sincerely recite, “Falun Dafa is good! Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good!” Miraculously, his condition improved and he was able to move, to everyone’s amazement. I later gave him a cassette player and tapes of Master’s lectures to listen to. Against all odds, he is still with us today.
I believe that we Falun Dafa cultivators are entrusted with a great mission, that is, to assist Master in the Fa-rectification and to save all sentient beings. I vow to cultivate diligently until reaching consummation. Thank you again, revered Master!