(Clearwisdom.net) I was born in the late 60's. I was an atheist and did not believe in Buddhas, gods, fate, good and evil, and those kinds of things. When I graduated from school, a fortune teller came by my house and said that I was going to join the military. I lied to him saying that I was already in college so I could not possibly join the armed forces. A year later, I was drafted into the military. From the early 80's to the late 90's, all kinds of qigong practices sprang up and became very popular. Although I was an atheist, I was very interested in learning qigong. I enjoyed doing the sitting meditation and often experienced wonderful things while I meditated, such as white light wrapping around my body, astral travel, and no sensitivity to cold or heat.
In the summer of 1996, I watched two lectures given by Teacher Li on a video tape at a Falun Gong practice site. Teacher talked about the celestial eye. Although I did not quite understand the lecture, I knew that Teacher Li was extraordinary. I later experienced a high fever twice, but recuperated without the use of medication. In the spring of 1997, a military colleague from my hometown showed me a small copy of Zhuan Falun, and told me that it was a wonderful book. He said that everyone in his family and several hundred people in his village were practicing Falun Gong. I took the book with me and finished reading it in three days. My view on life changed completely. I found out where we came from and where we should return to, and also many mysterious phenomena in the field of qigong practice. I was very excited and knew that I had found a precious book. I read Zhuan Falun every day. The book taught me to cultivate my xinxing, and to conduct myself according to the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. After learning Falun Gong, I quit smoking and drinking. My temperament changed, and I noticed tremendous physical and mental transformation.
There were many people in my military unit who practiced Falun Gong and had read Zhuan Falun. They thought that Falun Gong was a good practice, and if everyone practiced cultivation, our society would become more stable. There was a high ranking military official who became healthy after doing the practice. Consequently, he taught others to practice Falun Gong. When he joined our unit for a meal, he was not extravagant or wasteful. Everyone, from the officers to the soldiers, praised Falun Gong and said that practitioners were good people. However, after April 25, 1999, Falun Gong was banned in the military and practitioners in my unit were persecuted. Some were fired, others were sent to forced labor camps, sentenced to prison, or died. For more than ten years, practitioners have been clarifying the truth under tremendous pressure and resisting the persecution.
I would like to share how my family benefited from practicing Falun Gong:
My third sister, her family, and I began to practice about the same time. My third sister never attended school but was able to read Zhuan Falun in less than six months. She was involved in two car accidents but was not seriously injured. One time, she was hit by a car and was thrown far away. Her legs were bruised. She remembered to cultivate her xinxing and did not cause trouble for the driver. Her legs healed in just a few days. Whenever her husband listened to Teacher's lectures, he felt that a pot of flour was poured down from head to toe. He quit smoking and drinking. When the persecution began on July 20, 1999, my sister and her family went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong, and were arrested by the police from the local public security bureau. They were brutally persecuted. The guards took my brother-in-law's clothes off, poured ice cold water on him, and left him outdoors in the cold winter evening. They also took away my sister's tractor, cattle, food supply, and television.
My oldest sister was on different types of medication and had a bad temper. She did not get along with her family. After she took up Falun Gong, her illnesses were healed, and she has not needed any medication since. She is more peaceful now and lives harmoniously with her family. Her family truly experienced the miracles of Dafa. When the persecution was the most severe, her family was very supportive of the practice and helped clarify the truth. My niece practiced the exercises since childhood with my sister. Every night, she dreamed that Teacher taught her to read, and she was able to read Zhuan Falun at a young age.
My mother has been blind since childhood. She worked very hard to raise seven children. When she was young, she worshiped all sorts of deities and often chanted incantation and drew symbols for others. She had all kinds of illnesses. After I practiced Falun Gong, I learned that the things my mother worshiped were harmful. So I thought, "Teacher please remove those things." Mother said that when those things left, they told her, "Your words do not matter in your house any more." After mother listened to Teacher's lectures a few times, she began to vomit and had diarrhea. She took medication and had intravenous injections with no results. She asked me to come home to help her. I spent a week with her and asked her to stop taking medication and injections. She eventually recovered and was in good spirits after vomiting and having diarrhea for a week. Later I asked Mom to move in with me. She listened to Teacher's lectures every day. She died of old age at the end of 2009.
Our little baby grew up listening to "Pudu." When he was three-years-old, he was able to recognize 3,000 Chinese characters and recite more than one hundred Tang Dynasty poems and several Dafa poems. One time he was unable to eat and vomited whenever he ate. His grandparents were very nervous and wanted to take him to the hospital. I suggested that he watch the Shen Yun Performing Arts DVD first. In less than 10 minutes, he was able to drink water and was back to normal. After witnessing Dafa's miraculous effects, his grandparents often watched the Shen Yun DVD with him.
The above are some of the events that happened to my family while cultivating in Falun Dafa. When one cultivates in Dafa, the entire family benefits from it. According to a survey conducted by the government before the persecution, the results showed that Falun Gong was truly beneficial to the people. Therefore, I urge Jiang Zemin's group to immediately stop persecuting Falun Gong practitioners.
