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My Mother Finally Sees the Beauty of Dafa through Watching the Shen Yun Show

June 23, 2009 |  

(Clearwisdom.net) When my parents came to live with me, my 76-year-old father unexpectedly came down with pneumonia. Because we had to work, my 72-year-old mother was the only one who could care for my father. She was always busy going back and forth between the hospital and home. On the third day of my father's hospitalization, my mother began coughing. But her only concern was for my father. She thought that she would be well after taking some medicine, so she took a variety of antibiotics. Although she knew well that too many antibiotics would do harm to her health, she kept increasing the dosage. However, her cough got even worse, especially at night. She could not sleep for nearly a week. Some family members wanted her to have an X-ray, but she was too worried about my father to go. On top of that, she feared that the medical expenses would be too high. So, no matter how hard we tried to convince her to have an examination, she simply did not want to.

I had given my mother an amulet(1), which she always kept in her pocket. However, when I asked her to recite its inscription, "Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good" and told her that these few words could save her life she was skeptical. She never took the amulet seriously. Five days ago, my four-year-old daughter insisted that my mother say, "Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good" three times before she went to sleep. My mother had no other option and reluctantly said it three times. The following day she still coughed. My daughter asked with confusion, "Why is my grandmother still coughing?" I answered, "She must recite it with sincerity."

My daughter was watching Ms. Huang Biru's sing in the 2009 Shen Yun show when my mother came home from the hospital. My mother sat on the sofa and watched the show. She loves listening to music and watching dance performances. She was attracted by the performance and said, "The show is beautiful. Where are the performers from?" After she watched one VCD, she went to sleep because she had to go to the hospital early the following morning.

The following day my mother told me happily, "I am now well. I haven't coughed since last night. Isn't it miraculous?"

Seeing my mother restored to health, I said happily, "It's because of the Shen Yun show." My mother nodded, smilingly. In the evening of that day, soon after she got back home, my mother eagerly watched the Shen Yun show again. As she was watching, she could not help but praise the high caliber performances, especially "Forsythia in Spring." Applause followed every performance. She said, "These performances are so great. The songs are melodious and the performers are beautiful. Do you have any other good things to show me? Show me quickly, I love your show."

I put some music composed by Dafa practitioners in an MP3 player. My mother listened to it joyfully. On the following morning, she asked me, "Didn't you tell me that you have the VCDs of the show for last year and the year before last? Why haven't you shown them to me?"

My mother's words reminded me of something that happened in 2004, when my parents urged me to quit cultivation practice. Fierce conflicts broke out between my parents and me. I tried to convince them that Falun Dafa is good. They knew they couldn't force me to renounce Falun Dafa, but they were confused by the Chinese Communist Party' s slander and could not distinguish between the lies propagated by the party and the truth. Experience from previous political movements had taught them to believe in nothing, say nothing, see nothing, and participate in nothing. That was the only way to survive in China. Therefore, a few years ago when I asked them to watch the Shen Yun show VCD, they refused to watch or listen when they heard the words Falun Gong. I sincerely hope that those who think like my parents quickly watch the Shen Yun show and learn the truth about Falun Dafa. It will be a blessing for them and their families.

In fact, many people around me have received blessings after watching the Shen Yun show. After watching it, the wife of a general director said, "It is so wonderful." Then she gave the VCD to her elder sister's family to watch. I told her watch it without any preconceived notions, then ponder the lyrics of the eight songs: Why can people be human beings? Where will they go? She said that she used to think about these things when she was little. Later, when I saw her again, she told me that she wanted to start practicing Falun Gong.

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(1) Amulets -- In China, practitioners sometimes clarify the truth by giving people something small to wear or cherish, bearing a few words reminding them of the goodness of Dafa.