(Clearwisdom.net) I am 24 years of age, and I live in Tumenling Town, Jiutai City, Jilin Province. I am an outgoing person and I like modern things and am very materialistic.
By chance I was offered a job in a restaurant. Later, I found out that my boss is a Falun Gong practitioner. As a result of what I'd heard in the [Chinese state-controlled] media, I was frightened to hear about "Falun Gong." The biggest impression I had of Falun Gong was the "Tiananmen Square Self Immolation." When I went home I told my husband that my boss practices Falun Gong, he said, "Don't work there then. We don't want to be murdered for a bit of money." However, my family was tight for money, and I was also curious about Falun Gong, so I went to work the next day to see how it was.
After a few days, I found it weird, but my boss would not even kill a fish or a silkworm. How could it be possible that he would murder someone? On the contrary, he is a very kind man. He told me the benefits gained from practicing Falun Gong and the principles of how to be a good person. He also explained to me that all the reports in the media are lies, just fabricated to discredit Falun Gong and to support the persecution. At the beginning, I could not comprehend it and I even doubted what he said. Later on, because of my boss's behavior, I saw the truth and I came to a totally different understanding of Falun Gong than the one I had gotten from the media.
In fact, anyone who thinks Falun Gong is "no good" has been influenced by the media reports -- the lies on TV and the false propaganda. They have not had any experience with Falun Gong practitioners, so [to coin an old Chinese saying,] if they have never tasted a plum, how would they know whether it is sweet or sour?
Previously I thought that, "if you don't look out for number one, you will be killed by heaven," and that one must work extremely hard in order to change one's life. It was not until I read Teacher Li's Zhuan Falun that I came to obtain true happiness. I used to think that I was a good person. I didn't believe in anything much beyond myself and I only believed in conscience. Now I realize that those are only standards amongst ordinary people, and they are far from the standard of "Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance." I now know that,
"One standard alone determines if someone is good or bad: whether he is able to be True, Good, and Endure" (Zhuan Falun).
