(Clearwisdom.net) I am 80 years old, and my wife is 77. Before practicing Dafa, my wife was constantly unwell and had to take medicine almost daily. She was less than 1.6 meters tall, but weighed between 85 and 90 kilograms, which made it difficult for her to walk. She tried different forms of qigong for about three years but did not see any changes. Since practicing Falun Dafa, the improvements in mind and body we have experienced are beyond description. We are very grateful to Teacher. In order to validate Dafa, I hereby write down some of my experiences.
A practitioner introduced Dafa to us on April 20, 1998, of the Lunar Calendar. I obtained a copy of Zhuan Falun and read four lectures that evening. I finished reading the book before dinner the next day. I had some understandings, such as what purifying the body means, what eliminating karma means, etc. Although there were still many things I was not clear about, I could tell that the teachings were very good and credible. While practicing the standing exercises the second time, my hands and feet felt very warm with very strong energy.
Teacher purified my body within one month after I started to practice. One day in May of the Lunar Calendar, after spending the day in the field taking care of the vegetables, that night I woke up and my stomach did not feel well. I vomited as soon as I sat up. I vomited five times that night, followed by diarrhea the next day, which was quite uncomfortable. At that time, I realized that Teacher was purifying my body. Three days later, I was totally fine. The practitioner assistant at our practice site later told me that he was very scared when he saw me eliminating karma.
When my wife was eliminating karma, it was also quite scary. She felt very uncomfortable, as if her life was threatened. At the time, we were working in our small stall on the street. She did not want to have any negative impact, so she asked me to carry her home. I was a bit worried: she was not very literate and did not understand many of the Dafa principles yet, and her exercise movements were not up to par. In addition, she was always sick before. Since we lived close to a doctor, I suggested to her to see a doctor. However, she had firm faith in Teacher and Dafa and was upset at hearing my suggestion. She said, "Why do you even suggest that? I am a practitioner. Why do I need to see a doctor?" I suddenly remembered Teacher's words: "If you can let go of life and death, you're a God; if you can't let go of life and death, you're a human�"this is the difference." (Lectures in the United States) I calmed down and studied the Fa with her. She also persisted in doing the exercises. In this way, she passed the tests of illness karma one after another.
We have been practicing for eight years, and we have become healthier and healthier and have not taken any medicine.
Since my stall is small, I have some free time. I study the Fa whenever I have some spare time. The more I study, the more profound I realize Dafa is. After eliminating karma for the first time, I began to realize that Dafa is miraculous and intricate. Not long after I started to practice, I found�"just as Teacher said�" that the characters in Dafa books could change color. Every character could change color, except for the section titles and words such as qing (sentimentality) or demon. My sight was no longer blurry. I did not need glasses for reading or writing. I could write very small and people were surprised. I could also thread a needle under a 25-watt lamp.
At my small stall, I sometimes made handicrafts, and many people came by to chat with me. They all thought I was in my 60s. When I told them that I was nearly 80 years old, they could not believe it: "How come your sight is not blurry at the age of 80?" I said, "They were when I was 50. I tried five pairs of glasses and could not see clearly even with a 3-dioptre lens. After I started practicing Falun Gong, not only do I look younger, but my eyesight is no longer blurry, and I can even thread needles." I then demonstrated this to them, and I also told them that my wife used to be sick all the time and is now well without medication after she started to practice. Some people naturally mentioned the CCP's persecution of Dafa, so I went ahead and clarified the truth to them. Sometimes several of them fought over the truth-clarifying materials I brought. Sometimes I wrote down my personal cultivation stories and gave them to people. It was a real experience from someone they knew and therefore more credible and convincing.
Everything we have in cultivation is from Teacher, and it's from the automatic mechanism installed in our body. Now I truly understand that "the Law refines the person" (Zhuan Falun), which is too profound to describe. Since July 20, 1999, most of us do the exercises at home without the benefit of the music. At the beginning, we had to count the repetitions, later it became automatic. We knew when it was time to "overlap the hands in front of the lower abdomen" or Jieyin ("conjoin the hands"). It is even more extraordinary when listening to the music. Falun can rotate around the knees, hips, waist, shoulders, or the head etc., and inside or outside the body, and countless of the mechanisms also propel the body in practice. When first doing the sitting meditation, I could not calm down, but within a short time, I went into tranquility. After crossing the legs and reciting the verses, all the movements became automatic, with smooth and automatic transitions that included Jieyin ("conjoin the hands") and Heshi. Since June of this year, I have started to do the exercises with the music. The mechanisms in my body moved following the rhythm of the music composed with the wooden fish and the silver bell. It is very wonderful. Finally, when the music reaches the end, my body also stretches upward. Of course, what I can feel is very limited; still, it is already beyond description. I am writing my experience down here not to show off, but to tell people that everything in Dafa is real: please do not let such a precious, unprecedented opportunity slip by.
I came to understand that everything is done by Teacher, and the Fa."Teacher said,
"Whether you are sensitive or not, when Master tells you to do something you should do it, and it will for sure have its effect. It's definitely not just a formality! Master would absolutely not ask you to do something useless." ("Teaching the Fa in the City of Los Angeles")
We need to have faith in Teacher and Dafa and follow the requirements of Dafa. The process of our doing things is a process that Teacher gave us to help us to improve and is the process of our upgrading. It seems we are harmonizing Dafa, but in fact Dafa is harmonizing us. I deeply understand Teacher's words:
"Actually, I'm thinking that with everything you, the Dafa disciples, are doing today, you aren't doing them for Dafa, and you aren't doing them for me, your master, either. You are doing them for yourselves." ("Teaching the Fa at the 2003 Atlanta Fa Conference")
I have truly felt Teacher's boundless compassion, and it is too enormous to describe. From what I have written, fellow practitioners may have some understandings as well. In fact, it is just a very tiny part that we can feel.
I have done poorly in doing the three things practitioners should do. After the persecution started on July 20, 1999, 610 Office officials came to see me. I told them how good Dafa is and described to them the benefits my wife and I had received. They did not say anything but threatened to detain me if I continued to practice. I have no fear. At our age, we have experienced all kinds of sufferings and hardships. I had already started to practice Dafa, and I was not doing anything wrong, why should I be afraid? I have a small stall on the street, and I study the Fa when there are no customers. I also put some truth-clarification materials out and clarify the truth to people who ask about them. Once an official from the local 610 Office came to my stall to have something mended. I gave him some truth-clarification materials, and he accepted them. We are open and aboveboard, and we have nothing to be afraid of. In the past few years, for the New Year's antithetical couplets, I have written words from Teacher's poems or truth-clarification materials, leaving no room for the evil Party culture.
I would like to conclude my sharing. Dafa is too profound for me to describe. I just wrote down whatever came to mind. Because of my limited cultivation and educational levels and the profundity of Dafa, I find it hard to express my feelings. Please kindly correct anything inappropriate.
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