January 27, 2003
(Clearwisdom.net)
I am a fifty-two year old Falun Dafa practitioner. Before I started cultivation in Dafa, I looked like a bag of bones and had a sickly, bluish complexion. Even my eye sockets looked bluish. I used to have severe arthritis in both legs, which caused me to fall while walking whenever it was cloudy or rainy. My worst ailment was hypersensitive enteritis, an illness I struggled with for eight years. My wife always worried about what to cook for me, because she wasn't sure if I would have an allergic reaction to the food. If I was allergic to it, I would have a severe stomachache and pass blood, sometimes with festered flesh in my stool, as soon as half an hour following the meal. I had to take both Chinese and western medicines. The amount of medicine I had to take was so huge that I would purchase them in a wholesale drug store. The drug store owner thought I was a drug dealer, but as a matter of fact, I had to take all the medicines myself. My family had to live a frugal life in order to save money for my medical expenses. I spent more than thirty thousand Yuan [an urban worker's average monthly salary is about 500 Yuan] on medical expenses all together.
Shortly after I started cultivation, my arthritis and hypersensitive enteritis were gone. I can now eat anything I want to, and my wife doesn't need to worry about what to cook any more. I used to have a very loose tooth, which was so loose that I didn't even dare to brush it. This tooth miraculously grew steady by itself less than two weeks after I started my cultivation. I have experienced first-hand how supernormal Falun Dafa is.
When I was young, my family was so poor that I couldn't afford to go to school for more than two years. I therefore couldn't read Zhuan Falun. My wife had to read it to me. It made me so anxious when I held Zhuan Falun in my hands every day but couldn't read it. A miracle happened during the Spring Festival of 2000, when I finally started to recognize all of the characters in the book. I realized that what our Teacher is looking for is simply our pure wish for further advancement. There is no test that we can't pass on our path of cultivation, as long as we are persistent and faithful.
When the persecution of Falun Dafa started, I joined the powerful current of Fa-rectification. I began with distributing truth-clarification materials at our local county seat. But I noticed later that my fellow Dafa practitioners and I inadvertently repeated each other's work in many areas, because there were so many of us in the area. The truth-clarification materials are made with the money that we practitioners manage to save by living frugally. They are very valuable. So, I went to distribute the materials in the countryside, traveling by bike. Sometimes, the round trip was more than thirty kilometers. I would spend a whole night doing the work. I covered all the towns and villages surrounding the county seat. More and more fellow practitioners began to invite me to distribute materials in the countryside. Sometimes I went out every night for half a month or twenty days. We could distribute up to four or five hundred flyers, hang up dozens of banners and paste more than one hundred leaflets in one night. When we had plenty of materials, we would go to the neighboring counties to distribute them. Chilly winter winds and sizzling summer days could not stop us from going. Miraculously, I didn't feel cold no matter how cold the weather was, and never felt hungry, thirty or tired while doing the work.
Before I started cultivation I used to lead a desperate life fighting disease, but now my life is blessed with health and happiness. It is Teacher who has given me a second chance in life. I will continue to help Teacher with Fa-rectification using my full effort, and thus fulfill my vow made long ago.
