Cultivating and Validating Falun Dafa During the Early Years of the Persecution

(Minghui.org) I began to practice Falun Dafa in early 1998. After studying the Fa, I understood that practicing Dafa could improve a person’s health and moral fitness, bringing great benefits to families and society alike.

I suffered from congenital heart disease since I was a child. When I was sick, my mother cried, and my father had me visit doctors, trying his best to get me treated.I could easily catch the flu due to my poor health.

After getting married, I suffered from headaches and insomnia, and it felt as if there was a big rock on my head. I was dizzy, lacked energy throughout the day, was weak and emaciated. Thus, I frequently went to see doctors. I suffered from illness every day and lost confidence in life.

My neighbor talked to me about Falun Falun Dafa toward the end of 1997. She told me that it was effective, that an individual could even recover from an illness. I was touched and thus borrowed a copy of Zhuan Falun.I came to understand that there is a principle in the universe called Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, and that a human being can cultivate based on this principle. This was great!

Studying the Fa and doing the exercises, I was soon in better health. The feeling of having a big rock on my head disappeared. My mind was clear; and I could eat and sleep well. My mood improved, and my family experienced joy and laughter.

I experienced a great change after I practiced Falun Dafa. My family, relatives, friends, and neighbors all witnessed the extraordinary power of Dafa in my body, and they were all amazed. Thank you Master for saving me.

Saved from a Flood

The rainfall in my area was extremely heavy in July 2001. There was a large riverwest of the village. The water rose close to the top of its banks. All the men in the village went to the embankment to protect it. A flood entered the village one night. My house was thatched, and I noticed that water came into the yard from three sides.

My husband was at the river bank and the power was out. I lit a candle. I said to my children, “Don’t fear. Your mother is a Dafa practitioner and is protected by Master. Everything will be fine. Let’s pack up the Dafa books and put them in a high place.”

I sat down and read a Dafa book. The next dawn, I went out to check the flood situation. There was no flood in my front and back yard. The vegetable garden belonging to my father-in-law who lived on my east side were flooded. The house of my west side neighbor was flooded. Only my house was not affected by the flood. Family members and neighbors witnessed the extraordinary power of Dafa.

Arrest and Detention

Police arrested and detained me in the Jilin City Detention Center a few days later, on July 27, 2001. Several people from the 610 Office interrogated me and asked my name. One of them said, “You are the one whose house was not flooded. Is Falun Dafa so divine? Is your home built on higher ground than the others?” I just said no.

I was incarcerated in the Changchun Heizuizi Forced Labor Camp for one year. I was forced into doing hard labor, and told to carry soybeans from the first to the fifth floor one day.

Each bag of beans weighed about 100 pounds. My body weight was a little over 80 pounds. At that time, I didn’t know how to negate evil forces with righteous thoughts. I only knew that with Master’s law body by my side, Dafa is supernatural and omnipotent. I put one bag of beans on my shoulder and climbed up to the fifth floor step by step.

A camp guard challenged me, “If you carry the bags to the fifth floor five times in a row, I won’t ask you to write a statement saying that you have to give up your belief.”

I thought to myself, “Master, I can do it. I won’t damage Master’s reputation or discredit Dafa.”

I did it as the guard said. Thank you, Master, for giving me righteous thoughts.

The police arrested me again later, and took me to the police department. They illegally confiscated my Dafa books, truth-clarification materials, CD-ROMs containing the book titled Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, and MP3 players from my house. They were interested in the MP3 players and kept asking where they were from. They played the CD containing the Nine Commentaries on a computer. A police officer named Li tried to intimidate me.

I begged Master in my mind: “Master, These sentient beings must not be allowed to commit crimes against Dafa. Please help me to never betray fellow practitioners. I will correct myself in the Fa if I have any shortcoming. These sentient beings must not be allowed to commit crimes.”

My begging played a role. I was released later that day.