(Minghui.org) I was exhausted from family conflicts and my health collapsed. When it seemed things couldn’t get worse I was diagnosed with breast cancer. Facing the end of my life I was filled with bitterness. It was 1997. When my situation seemed hopeless I learned about Falun Dafa.
I finally found the answer to all my questions. I understood Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance are the guiding principles of human conduct. I’d like to tell you my story.
I have experienced many miracles and all of which were the result of Master’s merciful protection.
One day in 2005, I hung clothes to dry on the balcony, and I went to collect them the next morning. It rained that night and when stepped on a stool I slipped and fell. My head hit the radiator and I passed out. Blood flowed from an inch deep gash in my head and my face was as pale as a dead person’s. My husband was terrified.
I felt my soul leave my body. I couldn’t feel my feet or my hands. I experienced total darkness as my soul left. I suddenly remembered, “I am a practitioner. I have Master and I have a mission. I cannot leave. I must go back.” My soul thus returned to my body. I saw light, and then I could feel my hands and feet. I woke up.
My husband helped me up. Everyone was worried. I told them I was fine. I sat on the bed, crossed my legs and sent forth righteous thoughts. I felt fine. I cleaned the wound and then drove 500km (310 miles) from Dalian to my hometown in Jilin. I felt fine.
In contrast, a relative stepped on a log and fell. She had a concussion and the medical treatments cost her more than 4,000 yuan (USD$560).
My husband’s nephew had an accident while riding his electric motorcycle in the snow. He couldn’t hold anything in his hands for three years and his memory was affected. That was eight years ago and he still cannot hold even small things. He is a young man whereas I was nearly 50. I had no medical treatment and had no after-effects. Everyone was impressed by Dafa’s supernormal power.
I’m energetic and have a rosy complexion. I look much younger than my age, and everyone says I’m healthy and in good spirits.
One night, my husband and I turned off the highway onto a road that was covered in ice. We braked, and the car slid sideways toward an electric pole. I shouted, “Master, help!” The car missed the pole, jumped across the curb and into the ditch with a big “bang.” The engine turned off.
We got out and pushed the car back onto the road, while asking Master to strengthen us. Miraculously, the two of us did what normally would take several people. We started the engine and got back on the road. We made home at 2 a.m. after driving 100 kilometers.
When we checked the car the next morning, there was a big crack in a wheel hub, and that tire was completely flat. The damage must have happened when the car was hurled over the curb, and the big “bang” must have been the sound of the tire blowout. How could the car travel 100km with a flat tire and a damaged hub? Dafa is amazing beyond words!
I am in the spare parts business, and I send shipments to customers from time to time. If I need to find a customer in a stack of invoices, I can always find it with a casual flip or by saying the name while picking an invoice out of the stack. There were 3,000 parts in a bag, and a customer wanted 1000. I poured the parts out. When I counted them there were exactly 1000.
I read the teachings with other practitioners a few mornings each week. At first, I was afraid to leave, worried that someone would ask for a shipment while I was gone and I would be delaying their business. But I found no one looked for me while I attended Fa study until I came back. Master arranged everything for me.
After I began practicing Falun Dafa I felt that I finally understood the principles of life and no longer had butterflies in my stomach when problem arose. I am now at peace and treat my relatives and friends with kindness. Only Dafa can turn a tough, competitive person like me into a peaceful one.
After I began practicing Dafa, I stopped being obsessed with making money and I followed the course of nature. I let my brother’s family who were not so well-off run my business and take over all my customers. I opened a new kiosk to make ends meet. At first my new business was slow.
More than a decade passed, the original good spot that I gave to my brother’s family did not do well during the economic downturn, and they sold it. My business, in contrast has become better and better.
Why is the situation so different? Because I follow the requirements of Falun Dafa to trade fairly. I am considerate of others under all circumstances.
Some customers returned the goods they could not sell, and I quietly gave them a refund. Other customers returned goods that they did not buy from me. Some customers found out my supply channels and directly contacted the manufacturers; I did not mind. I do not get angry no matter what happens and always hold good thoughts toward others and treat them with kindness.
I found a customer overpaid me 1500 yuan, and I returned the money to him. Instead of thanking me he said that he overpaid me in the past. I was not upset.
My upright way of doing business has gradually won customers’ trust, and I have gained a good reputation for my character. My business gradually became better and better, and many people do business with me because their friends recommended me.
I was happy to be able to sell goods at home without having to run around at age 65. My income has not been affected by the COVID pandemic.
I invested 100,000 yuan more than 10 years ago in a chemical raw materials business with a woman who agreed to run the operations and share profits with me. A few years passed and I only got back 30,000 yuan. She said she was unable to pay me back the remainder of my investment. I tried to get back the money, but she avoided me with all kinds of excuses.
Last year, I thought, “I’ll give up the money; perhaps she’s really in a difficult situation.” When I told the woman I did not want the money, she didn’t thank me. I was calm and didn’t blame her.
A couple months later, a big customer approached me and offered me a business opportunity. He said he couldn’t find a business partner for a long time for some reason, until he found me. The profit from this collaboration quickly made up for my 70,000-yuan loss, and I even made extra money.
Our collaboration has been going well, and he likes the fact that he does not need to maintain a stock of his own, and can take stock from me when needed. I made it convenient and allowed him to return anything he did not sell. He said to everyone, “It’s good to collaborate with people who practice Falun Dafa.”
In my understanding, when something happens, I should remember that I am not an ordinary person but a practitioner. I should remain calm and unmoved and examine myself to see why it happened. This is the starting point. Next I should think about which attachments the incident is targeting, and how to handle it. I should refrain from doing what I am not supposed to do. In my understanding, this is cultivation.
In the past whenever I encountered something, my first thought was that the other person was wrong. I was upset and full of anger. I failed to realize it was an opportunity to temper my xinxing, so I repeatedly missed the opportunity that Master arranged for me to improve.
I used to be full of tears as soon as I talked about my past hardships. Now as my xinxing improved, my husband has begun practicing Falun Dafa.
I realized the deeper meaning of Master’s words, “Pacify the External by Cultivating the Internal (“Pacify the External by Cultivating the Internal,” Essentials for Further Advancement).” As long as we can look inside and cultivate ourselves when problems arise, anything can be dealt with.
For example, when such a terrible thing as this persecution happens to us, we should not be afraid. We should look within and examine what we are afraid of losing or perhaps there’s something we can’t let go of, which incurred the persecution. If we can do this we can come through every time.
Some years ago, the police arrested me and my two children who were 11 and 13, for putting up truth-clarification posters. They took us to the police station. I told my children not to say anything and Mommy would take care of everything.
The police separated me from my children, and handcuffed me to a metal chair. I was worried about my children and wept. When I was half asleep, I remembered Master’s poem,
“With the same heart, coming to the world,Having earlier obtained Fa.One day flying away to the heavens,Free and unrestrained, Fa has no bounds.”(“Fulfilling theWish,” Hong Yin )
I kept reciting the poem and felt comforted. My hands slid out of the handcuffs. I went to the bathroom and figured out that I was on the second floor. I knew I could easily go down the pipe and escape, but I had to go back because my children were still being held. When the police came they handcuffed me again very tightly this time to keep me from getting out.
My husband picked up the children the next day. The 610 Office people began to interrogate me. I answered “I don’t know” to every question they asked, and they hit me. I didn’t hate them. I had no resentment. They said, “We won’t beat you anymore.” They sent me to the detention center.
My family told me they were working on pulling strings and I should be released soon. It was summer, and everyone had to take turns to shower, but I skipped it and waited to go home and shower. I thought I would go home soon, but more than a month passed, and I was still incarcerated.
I exchanged understanding with fellow practitioners who were detained there and realized that my deeply hidden attachment to lust and desire was the main reason for the extended persecution—my husband hadn’t put money in my account and did not visit me, so I wondered if he was seeing another woman.
I thought, “I’m a practitioner. I shouldn’t be worried about losing anything.” I let go of the attachment. I recited Master’s Fa in “Position” and knew what to do. My heart became extremely steadfast. Nothing could shake me.
I let go of the thought of my family pulling strings, and didn’t think about anything.
Some practitioners who were detained with me said, “The persecution is so severe. Even if we don’t sign the three statements in the detention center, they will force us to sign it in the labor camp. We might as well sign it now and suffer less. We can start over when we get out.”
I thought, “Cultivation is a serious matter; how could I try to get by such a serious matter so perfunctorily? What is death? Everyone is going to die sooner or later.” I let go of the attachment of wanting to get out.
I was released after 68 days. I came to understand that when our xinxing has reached the standard, Master can do anything for us.
I had a dream the night before I got out: I rushed to the roof of the detention center and saw the sky. I told my fellow practitioners in the morning, “I’m getting out today.” They said, “If you get out, please put something into our accounts, so we know you are home safely. It will encourage us and boost our confidence.”
Sure enough, the loudspeaker called me at eight o’clock in the morning. I went out, someone from the police station in my hometown came to pick me up. He said, “You must sign a guarantee statement not to practice Falun Dafa, otherwise you will be locked up when you return to your hometown.”
I immediately said, “In that case I would be leaving the wolf’s den for the tiger’s den. If I wanted to sign it, I would have signed it long ago and not endured so much.”
The person was in a dilemma and called his director. The director said, “You were told to pick her up, then just pick her up.”
Master said,
“Cultivation depends on one’s own efforts, while the transformation of gong is done by one’s master.”(Lecture One, Zhuan Falun)
I knew this happened to see if I could indeed let go of human thoughts. When I could, I returned home smoothly.
There have been so many wondrous occurrences on my path of cultivation practice. A thousand words cannot express my infinite gratitude to Master and Dafa.