(Clearwisdom.net) I was fortunate to start practicing Falun Dafa in 1998 and since then I have benefited a lot from cultivation. I am 78 years old.
Before I learned Falun Gong, I had many kinds of health problems, such as stomach trouble, cervical spondylosis (degeneration of the spinal column), rheumatism, and boils. I suffered from a stomach bug when I was 30. In order to treat the disease, I saw doctors in many hospitals and took lots of medicine, but none of it had any effect. My daughter and son-in-law used to take me to several hospitals in Beijing to treat my cervical spondylosis. I spent five thousand yuan on the treatment but my health did not improve. The infected boils I suffered from for years always left me with no strength at all.
In 1998, an old man introduced Falun Dafa to me, saying his illness was cured after he took up the practice. He asked whether I would like to read the book, Zhuan Falun. I nodded yes and he gave me a copy. I was almost 70 years old at that time and could not read since I hadn't gone to school. My husband then taught me to read the book word by word. Sometimes I had to ask my grandson or granddaughter for help when my husband was busy. I was determined to read the whole book. After their patient help and enlightening from Master's hints, I read Zhuan Falun several times in six months and learned all the characters in the book.
After I started practicing Falun Gong, Master often purified my body. The body purification started with the stomach. In the middle of the night I would spit out a basin-full of black blood. No matter how terrible I felt, I never gave up studying Dafa and practicing the exercises. After Master's purification, my stomach trouble was healed and I could eat cold, sour, and spicy foods again. The cervical spondylosis, rheumatism, and boils went away, too. I began to have plenty of strength. The whole village saw the wonderfulness of Dafa in my improvements, and over 50 people took up Falun Gong cultivation. We had Fa study in my house.
After the brutal persecution of Falun Gong in China started on July 20, 1999, the practitioners in my village were too afraid to practice Falun Gong. After pondering for some time, I came to realize that there was nothing wrong with cultivating Truthfulness, Benevolence, Forbearance. I kept on studying the Fa and practicing the exercises every day.
Later, I had heart-to-heart talks with practitioners in my village. Through my efforts, the village resumed group Fa study and practice. In 2000, I read articles written by Master and realized that as Dafa practitioners during the Fa-rectification period, we needed to clarify the truth as well as studying the Fa and practicing the exercises. When I clarified the facts about the persecution for the first time, I was a bit afraid. Instead of giving truth-clarifying materials to people personally, I put them on doors and in bicycle baskets. The attachment of fear was all around me.
In 2003 when I stayed in my son's home in town, I formed a Fa-study group with other practitioners. We studied the Fa from two to five p.m. every day and went out to clarify the truth in the morning and afternoon. After studying the Fa, I came to understand that I am a Dafa practitioner during the Fa-rectification period and that I should clarify the truth with wisdom in a dignified and upright manner. Now I do not feel any fear at all when I clarify the truth. I clarify the truth whenever I come upon predestined people. I distribute truth-clarification materials and try to persuade people to quit the CCP. I clarify the truth to dozens of people every day.
Once I clarified the truth to a man who looked like an official. He asked me where the materials came from. I answered that they were produced with money saved up by practitioners to rescue people. He then said, "Do you know who I am? I am a police officer." I said to him, "I am not afraid. If you are the police, it is even more important to clarify the truth to you. Please remember that practitioners are all good people. Falun Dafa is good." He nodded to me with a smile.
In 2005, I went to Beijing's Tiananmen Square to validate Falun Dafa with my youngest daughter. I cried out, "Falun Dafa is good!" After that, my daughter and son-in-law accompanied me to the Fragrant Hill and the Great Wall. My daughter was too tired to climb up the steps and stopped half way, but my son-in-law and I climbed to the top. Some foreigners raised their thumbs to me saying, "The old lady is great!" I said, "It is because I practice Falun Dafa."
Now my daughter practices Falun Dafa. When I went several miles to clarify the truth about Dafa, I walked on foot and never took a bus. My three-year-old grandson often went with me. My whole family thanks our great Teacher for his benevolent salvation.
November 21, 2007
