Translated from an interview, originally in Italian
(Clearwisdom.net) My mom lives with my brother. Because my sister-in-law gave birth to a baby and later returned to work, they hired a foreign maid, a teacher from the Philippines named Vangie. Because she was the first-born, she had to support her family. Guided by predestined relationship, she came to my brother's family to work.
My mom and I obtained Dafa in November 2002. One day Vangie saw "Falun Dafa" characters (both in English and Chinese) on my mom's scarf. She was shocked and frightened. Mom told me about this, and said: "Vangie used to read English newspapers over the past few years, maybe she was misled by the articles cited from Chinese propaganda. Upon hearing that, my husband gave Vangie a copy of the English version of Zhuan Falun [main teachings of Falun Dafa], a Falun Dafa flyer and VCD which explained the practice in more detail and also gave the facts of the persecution. She then learned the truth about the situation. Over the past few years, she also witnessed changes happening to my mom because of Falun Dafa. My mom was almost crippled and doctors said that she needed an artificial hip implant in order to walk. However, in just a few months after she started to practice Falun Dafa, her condition significantly improved. This helped Vangie deepen her understanding in Falun Dafa.
Vangie's mother had an accident in February 1998; because of high blood pressure, she fell and her head hit the ground. To pay her mom's medical expenses, she came to Taiwan to make money while Vangie's younger sister took care of their mother. Because of injury to her brain, Vangie's mom had difficulty in walking and needed some physical therapy exercises daily to stretch her body. Tormented by pain, her mom's temper became very bad. All this made Vangie suffer a lot.
In 2003, a Chinese neighbor introduced Falun Dafa to Vangie's sister who then took her mother to a park in a wheelchair to learn the Falun Dafa exercises. When Vangie went back to the Philippines later in 2003, she brought her family the book, Zhuan Falun, and other materials. By communicating through email, after she came back, she found that her mom's health condition had gradually improved by practicing. She had become more energetic and the medical costs were correspondingly lower. All these things pushed her to learn more about Falun Gong.
In the past, Vangie thought that Falun Gong was just like Tai chi, a slow and gentle traditional Chinese exercise which people often practice together in parks in mornings. Now she understands that Falun Gong is a high level practice, and involves being a good person by following the principle of Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance in one's daily life rather than exercising to keep the body fit.
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On July 17, she joined us to participate in Falun Dafa activities in Taipei. Through anti-torture exhibitions, Vangie learned that a great tragedy was happening in Mainland China in the 21st century, and the victims of this tragedy are Falun Dafa practitioners.
Falun Dafa has become deeply rooted in Vangie's heart, and she now is on the right path to her true self.
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