My Family Witnessed Master’s Compassion and Dafa’s Extraordinary Nature

(Minghui.org) Master Li Hongzhi, Falun Dafa’s founder, has helped me through very dangerous situations on several occasions after I took up the practice of Falun Dafa in 1998. My family members, who don’t practice, have also benefited tremendously from Dafa. We have all witnessed Master’s compassion and Dafa’s extraordinary power.

Protected in a Car Accident

I was helping fellow practitioners with some renovation work in July 2020 and went to buy a few boxes of a particular type of nail that was only available at a place 20 miles away. I was riding my motorcycle on my way back, when a car driving toward me made a sharp turn and hit me head-on. I heard a loud noise, and my motorcycle and I were thrown a long distance.

My head hit the ground first, but just before it did, I felt a force supporting me from beneath, pushing me up, and then putting me carefully on the road. I sat up slowly and saw that my left leg was injured. My knee was bleeding and really hurt. There was also blood on my arms and head.

The car’s driver was terrified. He got out of the car and didn’t know what to do. I learned later that he had only recently passed his driver’s test. The driver’s wife got out from the passenger’s side. I said to them, “Don’t worry! I won’t extort money from you.” The ambulance came and took me to the hospital.

My left leg was severely swollen. There was a big hole in my pants and the blood was mixed with dirt. However, there was only a slight scratch on my head. The doctor showed the internal scans to my family. There were two comminuted fractures on my left knee, with an accumulation of fluid. The doctor recommended immediate surgery. He said the fluid needed to be quickly drained, because it could be very serious if it became infected.

The picture of my head showed that my skull was fine, but there was a problem with the blood vessels. The doctor was worried that it may lead to a stroke. He asked me some questions to check if my mind was clear. In fact, I was just lacking righteous thoughts and felt a bit unsure of what was happening.

My wife is also a Dafa practitioner. She whispered in my ear, “Don’t think about anything. Silently recite ‘Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good’ and ask Master to help you.”

After discussing things with my family, I decided to go home. The doctor was a bit annoyed and repeatedly explained how serious the situation was. We assured him that we would be fine. In the end, I was discharged from the hospital and taken home.

However, at home, even the smallest movement was a very strenuous process, and the heart-wrenching pain kept me awake all night. Thinking back on the accident, I became very scared, as it was extremely dangerous.

Then I thought, “I would have lost my life if it wasn’t for Master. What’s the big deal coping with a little bit of pain?” My wife took good care of me and tried to provide me with a quiet environment, so that I could quiet my mind to study the Fa and find my shortcomings. I couldn’t sit up at first, but could soon sit on the bed and do the meditation exercise. Then I could stand and do the other exercises. Later, I was able to walk around on crutches, and cook and take care of myself. Finally, I no longer needed the crutches and I could even ride my bicycle.

My family handled the aftermath of the accident. The cost for the ambulance and medical examination were paid for by my relatives, who were not Dafa practitioners, so my family only asked the driver to cover that cost, which was a little over 1,600 yuan. We didn’t ask for anything else. We clarified the truth to the driver, and told him that we are Dafa practitioners, and didn’t want to trouble him. He was very moved. We also told him that cultivation would help me recover very quickly. When I was in the hospital, the doctor said to the driver, “You have come across good people today.” The driver knew that if I was hospitalized, even 100,000 yuan would probably not have been enough.

I repeatedly looked inward after the accident and found that I had many attachments, such as attachment to profit and reputation. I’m still far from the standard required of Dafa practitioners, and would have died without Master’s protection.

Stroke Symptoms Disappear

During the lockdown in 2020, I was in another city to avoid being harassed by the local authorities at home. Due to the pandemic, any travel would require showing an identification (ID) card and health code registration, so I couldn’t return home or get in contact with my family.

I was about to get up and do the exercises one morning, when I suddenly lost control of the entire left side of my body and fell to the ground. I struggled to get up and recited Master’s Fa,

A Great Enlightened One fears no hardshipHaving forged an adamantine willFree of attachment to living or dyingHe walks the path of Fa-rectificationconfident and poised”(‘Righteous Thoughts and Righteous Actions,” Hong Yin II)

As I spoke, I found that my speech wasn’t normal, and I had a severe stutter. I became scared and wondered if it was hemiplegia. My father died of a genetic disease when I was just over a year old, and I didn’t think that I would be able to escape it. I had severe headaches before I started practicing Dafa and needed week-long infusions. My family and other relatives did the best to get me treatments but everyone knew about my family’s medical history.

Negative thoughts flooded my mind, and it took a while to calm down and think clearly. “I’m a Dafa practitioner, how can I think like this? I won’t have any problems. This is an illusion. I can’t acknowledge it.”

When I first started to practice Dafa, my body felt warm, and soon the symptoms of my illnesses all disappeared. Through Fa-study, I came to understand that Master purified my body. So the genetic diseases and any other problems don’t matter on the bodies of true Dafa cultivators.

As I couldn’t control the left side of my body, I knew that I didn’t meet the standard of a true cultivator. Master told us to look inward for our own problems when things happen, so I calmed down, leaned against the wall, and slowly moved toward Master’s portrait. I knelt down, confessed to Master, and asked Master to help me. Then, I recited Master’s Fa. The more difficult it was to move my mouth, the more I tried to recite the Fa.

I held one thought in mind: I’m a Dafa practitioner, and only follow Master’s arrangements. After a while, my speech became much clearer, but still not as good as before. I continued to do the exercises, gritted my teeth, and knew that only Master could help me. In the afternoon, I was back to normal! It was really as 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 have been in dangerous situations so many times and miraculous things have happened. I can’t express my gratitude enough to Master for saving me. I can only do the three things well and cultivate diligently.

Family Benefits from Dafa

My daughter studied the Fa when she was in middle school, but stopped when she went to college in another city. However, Dafa was firmly rooted in her heart. Whenever she encountered issues at work or in everyday life, she always discusses things with my wife, because she knows that her mother looks at things from a practitioner’s perspective.

My daughter worked for a customer service company after graduating and was later promoted to manager of customer services. She looks small and fragile on the outside, but her attitude at work is based on Dafa standards. Many older people in the company admire her and say she is very righteous. Later, the director asked her to join the administration team, which included maintaining the director’s personal warehouse. The warehouse contains a variety of valuable collections and the director knew that she was trustworthy, and not out for money. She always refused the gifts from others in the company and sometimes other managers called her “foolish.”

Master has taught the principle of “no loss, no gain” in Lecture Four of Zhuan Falun, and our daughter is careful to follow these principles. She recently told me that she had been promoted again, this time to general manager of a new branch. Before accepting the job, she asked for her mother’s opinion. She said that she didn’t care about the position, and she would feel fine as long as she was competent at work and didn’t cause trouble for the company. My wife told her to just go with the flow and not to think too much of it. “On the surface, it looks like the company’s arrangement, but perhaps it was Master’s. So you must be grateful,” my wife said. My daughter agreed.

My son-in-law is also honest and not out for money. When he and my daughter first met, he didn’t have a car, house, or any savings. He was just a young guy working for a website design company. When we were introduced to him, my wife told him that we were Dafa practitioners. He had no objections to that. After my daughter married him, his company became publicly listed, and all employees obtained shares and dividends. Later, everything became more and more smooth for them and they bought their first apartment with cash. Then they paid the down payment for a second apartment and bought two cars. Now they have two healthy and lovely children.

My wife often clarified the truth to him and gave him Dafa materials to read. When he went to Hong Kong a few years ago, he saw the truth-clarification sites there. In 2014, during the time that I was illegally detained for my faith in Dafa, my daughter was very busy at work, and my son-in-law often made cash deposits and sent clothes for me. He also gave my lawyer rides on the day of my trial.

By the time of the car accident, my son-in-law already knew about Dafa’s miraculous powers and didn’t insist on my staying in the hospital. When I first got home, my mind was not too clear due to the pain, so my daughter continued to pat me on my face to tell me to stay awake and told me to recite “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” My son-in-law followed along and said, “Yes, silently recite it!” I recited it a few times and my mind became clear.

In December 2020, my son-in-law was unemployed, and my daughter happened to see that an online company was hiring, and submitted his resume. Half an hour later, someone from the company’s human resources called back and said that they knew him from the previous company. He had an interview that night and was hired right away and the salary was higher than his last salary. Amazingly, when my daughter later looked for the recruitment information on the Internet, she could no longer find it. She said to us, “It’s amazing! You said there is an arrangement. This was indeed an arrangement.”

My son-in-law’s parents also benefited after accepting the truth about Dafa. His father often had health issues and frequently had to take medicine. His mother was so worried about him that she often cried. Later, my wife gave them a copy of Zhuan Falun, and he read it for a while. After that, he rarely got sick and he looks much healthier. Now, he cooks for the whole family, as he was a professional pastry chef, and also takes the children to and from school.

It is a tradition in China that when a young couple gets married the bride’s family pays a lot of money to the groom’s family. When my daughter and son-in-law got married, we didn’t ask for the money but they gave us 20,000 yuan as a formality.

Afterwards, my wife gave the money to my daughter. In the beginning when they lived together, my daughter and her mother-in-law inevitably had some conflicts. Each time this happened, my wife asked my daughter to follow Dafa’s principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. Now their family lives in harmony.