(Clearwisdom.net) I am a 72-year-old farmer from a village in a county near Chengdu City, Sichuan Province. I overworked my body in order to make a living when I was young, and my health deteriorated over time. In 1997, I had to be hospitalized and was diagnosed with lung disease. Since that time, I have been on medication. I have taken countless medicines and IVs over the past ten years. My entire family was running around for me and I have used up a lot of my children's hard-earned money. As a result of my illness, my family's financial situation became tough.
As time passed, my health got worse and worse until I was close to death. Last year in February, when my wife noticed that I was about to die, she wasted no time and called our children and told them to rush home. My children took me to the Huaxi Hospital in Sichuan Province. After the hospital specialist diagnosed me, he said, "You are in the last stage of lung disease, but we will try our best to cure you." After I received treatments for 20 days, which cost 30,000 yuan, the specialist submitted a death notification, which stated: "We have tried our best. Please take him home and have him rest." He also urged my family to help me take care of any business I needed to do before my death. My children could not bear to have me just wait to die, so they again sent me to a local hospital for 10 days, which cost another 3,000 yuan. At the end of this time, this hospital also refused to treat me anymore, and informed my family to take me home and help me get my affairs in order.
At that time, a Falun Dafa practitioner in my hometown said to me, "Could you believe in Falun Dafa? As you know, we practitioners are all good people. Unfortunately, we are being persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party. I am sincere when I tell you that when you sincerely recite, 'Falun Dafa is good! Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance is good!' you will gain benefits. At the same time, if you are a member of the Communist Party, its Youth League or the Young Pioneers, you should withdraw from it, wipe off its mark, and you might be able to get well without medication."
At that moment, I really believed in the words of this practitioner. I knew that these people are a group of good people, and that they were persecuted by the CCP. I also had witnessed how the village government and officers from the local police station beat those Falun Dafa practitioners. They were imprisoned, fined, their homes ransacked; even the elderly, men and women, were treated the same. Even the children who were only a few years old were locked up in dark rooms by the CCP authorities. Their families were shattered, and a few of them were tortured to death. I had observed all of these things. Because I am in China, and as a simple citizen, I could only be angry but did not dare to say anything about it. Thus, when I heard a Falun Dafa practitioner talk about the persecution, I believed it immediately. I even withdrew from the Communist Youth League, which I had joined when I was young.
Since meeting the practitioner, I recited daily, "Falun Dafa is good! Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance is good! Teacher Li is good!"
Unintentionally, I felt my body became much lighter, and my mind became more clear-headed. I continued to recite those words, and my body became lighter and lighter. I changed from not being able to eat anything (because of too much medicines, both my stomach and kidneys were ruined), to gradually being able to drink some rice soup daily. I stopped taking medicines since the moment I started to recite "Falun Dafa is good." At this writing, six months have past, and I am able to do my own chores. I am also gaining some weight and I can eat solid rice meals. I teased my wife: "Now you are at ease; you do not have to take care of me any more." My children are also able to go to work without having to worry about me anymore.
I, who could not be cured at hospitals and had to spend tens of thousands of yuan, have now become healthy without having to take any medicine. I herewith express my gratitude from the bottom of my heart to the great merciful Teacher Li, and to the person who taught me to recite "Falun Dafa is good."
Article written on October 10, 2009
Category: Good is Rewarded
