(Minghui.org) Before practicing Falun Dafa, I was sick all the time. When I was in my 50s, I suffered from hepatitis B, uterine fibroids, and heart disease. Although I was hospitalized many times, my illnesses continued to plague me. When a doctor told me that I had thyroid cancer, I thought it spelled the end for me.
My mother died of lung cancer at 33, my sister of breast cancer in her 40s, and I had thyroid cancer in my 50s. I was sure I would die soon.
I was in the depths of despair when my aunt gave me a copy of Zhuan Falun, Falun Dafa’s main book. I looked at it dubiously. But once I started to read, I could not put it down and finished it all without stopping to eat, drink, or sleep. When I'd completed it, I was amazed that I felt refreshed. My body felt light and it was as though I had suddenly woken up from a long dream. I knew that Falun Dafa was what I had been looking for, and a feeling of deep gratitude welled up from the bottom of my heart.
The next day I vomited and had loose bowels, yet my body felt light and tingly. Since then, I have never taken any medication. When I began to practice Falun Dafa, all my diseases disappeared, without a trace. My family, friends, and colleagues who witnessed this said, “Wow, Falun Dafa is miraculous!”
One day my lower back was sore and my belly hurt. I went home and lay in bed with a heating pad. It felt like I in was in labor, with pain coming in waves every five to ten minutes. That night I felt as if something “came loose” in my uterus. I went to the bathroom and passed a mass of tissue. Then the same thing happened again. I took the masses to the hospital and it was determined that they were uterine fibroids. My gratitude to Master Li Hongzhi (the founder of Falun Dafa) is beyond words.
Once again my family, friends, and colleagues said, “Dafa is truly amazing!” Some of them took up the practice after witnessing what had transpired.
Letting Go of Life and Death
I went to check on the house of a practitioner in March 2003. She had recently been arrested because she practiced Falun Dafa. I wasn’t aware that the police were monitoring the house and I was arrested.
I was taken to the police station where officers pushed me down, spread my arms out and handcuffed them to the heating pipes. They separated my legs to the limit and tied them down. The pain was beyond anything I had ever experienced. It felt like I was being ripped in half. They then poured water into my nose in an attempt to force me to reveal information about other practitioners in my area. I refused to utter a word.
I was taken to a detention center and immediately went on a hunger strike. In retaliation, the guards forced a big tube through my nostril and down my throat to force-feed me. With Master’s protection I survived. I refused to follow the guards' orders and continued to do what a Dafa disciple should. I recited the Fa and did the exercises even though the guards beat me in an attempt to make me stop. I refused to comply with their demands and was not moved. I continued to do the exercises and shout, “Falun Dafa is good” whenever they bothered me.
One day a guard named Han tried to handcuff me. I refused to cooperate and shouted, "Falun Dafa is good!" Another guard stuffed a rag in my mouth and I couldn’t breathe. I called to Master in my mind. With a strong force, I pushed the rag out of my mouth with my tongue. I knew that Master had helped me.
My arms were cuffed to my ankles so I couldn’t stand up or walk, which made it impossible to do the standing exercises, but I could meditate and send forth righteous thoughts. I didn't care whether anyone was monitoring me or not, I meditated whenever I wanted to.
Master said,
“When you conduct yourselves righteously Master can do anything for you. If your righteous thoughts are truly strong, if you're able to put aside the thought of life and death, and if you're solid and unshakable like diamond, then those evil beings won't dare to touch you, because they know that other than killing you any type of persecution will be useless. The evil will have no choice but to leave you alone.” (Touring North America to Teach the Fa)
I could do the exercises in the detention center because I was a Falun Dafa practitioner and Master was taking care of me. I did things based on the Fa and let go of the thought of life and death. The power of Dafa suppressed the evil and it could not control me.
Surviving Forced Labor
I was arrested again in July 2008 and sent to a forced labor camp for one year. In the labor camp, I shouted, “Falun Dafa is good! Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is great!” no matter where I was.
There was a division head in the labor camp who nobody dared to confront. One day when she saw me close my eyes to send forth righteous thoughts, she shouted my name and demanded to know why I wasn't working. I told her I wasn’t feeling well. She shouted at me, “Don't you know where you are?”
I replied, “I don’t care where I am. I only know that Falun Dafa is great and that I didn’t commit any crime and I will not work. Release me immediately!”
I looked directly into her eyes and her belligerence vanished. She said, “No one has ever dared to speak to me like that.” I said, “This is called 'one righteous mind can subdue one hundred evils.'” She stood up and said, “Follow me.”
I followed her to her office. She yelled at me for a while, then asked me how old I was. I told her that I was 60. She said, “I hope I live to be your age.” I told her that practitioners only want to improve themselves and live by Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. I asked her not to persecute practitioners anymore and told her that it was bad for her and her family. I told her that, to save herself, she should quit the CCP. I asked her, “Do you agree to quit the CCP?” She nodded yes. I told her she could rest assured that I would keep it secret and not tell anyone.
The other practitioners were curious about what had happened. I just smiled and told them that clarifying the truth was the key to omnipotence. From then on, she didn’t beat or make trouble for any of us practitioners. Everyone said that she became a new person.
The next morning, she asked me to water her plants and wipe the table in her office every day. This gave me the chance to tell the facts to the head of the prison, other division heads, and the office staff. I helped many of them quit the CCP. I often say in my heart, “Thank you, Master, for giving me opportunities to clarify the truth to these people.”
