Lucky to Be Saved by Dafa When Life Was Hard

(Minghui.org) My back was seriously injured in an accident in the early 1980s. My pelvis was fractured, and my small intestine was damaged in several places. I was paralyzed and bedridden for over a year. I went all over the place seeking help to recover. The hospital doctors said that one of my spinal nerves was injured, the lower part of my left leg was numb and the muscles were atrophying, the muscles of my right lower leg were severely atrophied, and I had no muscle strength. After several years of treatment, I lost the ability to work and needed help from my family in my daily life.

I had been searching for ways to be cured for more than 10 years. I studied Chinese and Western medicine on my own, read books on Buddhism and Christianity, and practiced several types of qigong. But nothing really helped, and I started to question the meaning of life. Then, I discovered Falun Dafa. Practicing Falun Dafa enabled me to recover and to understand the true purpose of life.

I wrote this article to share some of my experiences before and after practicing Falun Dafa.

I Suffered When I Was Young

I was born in the countryside. When I was 10 years old, the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) People’s Daily reported that all the villages had big harvests and included a photo of “10,000 pounds per mu” (i.e. 60,000 pounds per acre) of grain production in a prominent place.

In order to turn in sufficient grain after the “big harvest,” everyone in our area was forced to turn in all our grain, including even the seeds. People were angry but dared not say anything and could only sigh. In winter, people ate bark after the roots of all the wild vegetables had been dug up. Some ground bran shells, wheat husks, and corn cobs with a stone grinder and cooked them; some poured the buckwheat out of their pillows and ate that.

I once fainted from hunger and remained unconscious on a heatable brick bed for several days. When I came to, my grandfather and younger brother were missing. I learned later that they had both starved to death. I was fortunate to survive. The CCP deliberately concocted lies about the “great harvest” that resulted in three years of famine across the country. Tens of millions of people starved to death, while the CCP falsely claimed that the famine was caused by natural disasters.

After I was seriously injured in an accident in the early 1980s, I sought medical advice all over to cope with the pain. I tried famous doctors, experts, all kinds of drugs, and folk medicines. Nothing worked. I also purchased several home physical therapy devices, but they were not very useful.

Because I was so weak, I easily caught colds, which often led to a low-grade fever that persisted. Other symptoms came and went or were aggravated.

A local clinic staffed by well-known retired doctors treated me for six months, but the effect was minimal. Finally, they said to me sincerely that it was difficult to treat any one of my conditions, not to mention the many that were intertwined. My immunity was too low. Treating one condition while aggravating another is like tearing down the east wall to make up for the west wall. I wouldn’t be able to find an effective treatment anywhere in the country.

Dafa Answered My Questions and Ended My Suffering

During those years, various sects and types of qigong emerged all over the country. To try to recover, I learned several types of qigong. I earned several certificates of completion, but none of those practices did much for me.

In the spring of 1997, I was hospitalized again due to persistent cold symptoms. A few days after I was discharged in late May, I learned that a series of Falun Dafa lecture videos would be shown in my community. So I went to the conference room after dinner with my colleagues and waited.

I felt a lot of things moving rapidly inside my forehead as I watched the video. After the first lecture, I felt I had the answers to many questions and puzzles I had struggled with all my life. It was as if my specific questions had been answered. I had been involved in qigong for more than 10 years and had read many qigong books, yet I had never seen or heard such easy-to-understand and profound principles of cultivation.

I made sure I saw every video lecture, and then I borrowed a copy of Zhuan Falun that I read in three days. I superficially understood that the real purpose of a person’s life is to return to his true nature and to his original home through cultivation, not to seek a happy life in the human world. I was happy to have obtained Dafa, but I also regretted that I obtained it so late.

After watching the video lectures, I went early in the morning to the exercise site. I walked with great difficulty on crutches to the playground, which was only 200 meters away from my home. All the practitioners there were in short sleeves, while I wore heavy clothes. I followed along to do the first exercise as it started, but I could barely stand, so I leaned against the basketball pole and imitated the others’ movements. I didn’t feel tired at all after an hour and a half of doing the exercises.

From then on, I went to the playground every day for the group exercises. Gradually, I felt very relaxed walking on crutches. I no longer leaned against the basketball pole to do the exercises. I wore the same clothes as everyone else and didn’t wear a hat until winter. My cold symptoms that had been so hard to prevent in the past never appeared.

In the past, whenever there was a cool breeze, my shoulders, knees, and hand joints ached terribly, and it took several days for them to recover even with medication. Now these symptoms have disappeared. Without my noticing it, my purpura and eczema also disappeared, leaving just discolored skin. I could eat anything, slept well, and my neurasthenia and stomach problems also disappeared.

Before I started practicing Falun Dafa, I didn’t dare to go out without a lot of planning because of my conditions. After I started practicing Falun Dafa, I could go out for fun and get together with my relatives and friends in all seasons. My boss, colleagues, relatives, and friends all felt that Falun Dafa’s healing power was incredible when they saw the drastic changes in me. More than 30 of my relatives, friends, classmates, and colleagues started practicing Falun Dafa.

Others Praised Me for Practicing Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance

At that time, the workplace paid their employees’ medical expenses. Such payments ranged from a few thousand yuan to tens of thousands of yuan, not counting hospitalizations. Everyone in our unit knew that an individual employee was reimbursed for his whole family’s medical expenses, sometimes even his relatives and friends.

The thought was: “It’s the company’s money anyway, you might as well take advantage of it.” The company’s medical expenses snowballed year by year and had been the most troublesome and difficult problem for the managers for many years. After I started practicing Falun Dafa, I was the only one who did not seek reimbursement.

Someone in the finance department once said to me, “You have missed out on so much. Go buy some medicine and we will reimburse you.” I said, “You know I am always in good health and do not need to take medicine.” She said, “Give it to the seniors in your home. Go do it now.” I said, “The first thing one should do in practicing Falun Dafa is to be truthful. If I buy medicine for someone else, that is not being truthful. I live according to the standards of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, and that is why my health is so good.” Two people in the finance department said at the same time, “You gave up too much.”

A secretary brought his invoices for his medications to me and asked me to apply for reimbursement for him. I told him, “You know better than anyone what my health was like before. Now I am free of illness and in good health. This is the result of following Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance and being a good person. To get a reimbursement for you under false pretenses is not what a good person would do. Please understand.”

He said, “Society today is so bad. Could that change if people practiced Falun Gong [also called Falun Dafa]?” I said, “Practicing Falun Dafa can cure one’s ailments and allow one to stay fit. It can also improve one’s ideological realm and improve society.”

I told him that people have stopped being greedy and possessive after they started practicing Dafa, and some returned things they previously took from their places of employment. Some have changed their bad habits, stopped cheating, and become serious and responsible about their work. Some have resolved their relationships with their mothers-in-law or daughters-in-law, and everyone in the family now gets along well.

He later asked me for truth-clarification materials to read. He praised Falun Dafa in front of me several times and told me to pay attention to my safety.

I sincerely hope that people will understand the truth about Falun Dafa and not be deceived by the CCP’s lies so that they can be saved by Dafa and have a bright future.