(Clearwisdom.net) November 9, 1996 is a day that I'll never forget. On that day, the difficult lives of my family were changed. This was the day I began practicing Falun Dafa.
I live in a small village in Wangjiang Town, Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province. Before I obtained the Fa, the four people in my family had severe illnesses. However, because we were very poor, our family was almost destroyed by the expensive medical treatment fees.
After I got married, I gave birth to two boys. I had a severe problem of spirit possession to the point where I couldn't do anything but talk nonsense all day. Out of the whole year, there were at least 200 days that I had to lie in bed and not go out and work. I also dared not to stay at home by myself. I often asked my husband to buy some delicious food for me; if he didn't, I would lose my temper and yell at him. Especially at night, we had to leave the light on all the time. I was so frightened I even had to hold a flashlight in my hand, otherwise I would be extremely scared. Sometimes I wouldn't drink or eat anything for more than twenty days. Finally I became only skin and bones. My waist at that time was only as wide as the size of my thigh right now. Gradually, I became physically sick instead of only having spirit possession. I developed rheumatic heart disease, liver disease, cholecystitis, and stomach problems. I was so weak that I didn't even have the strength to think about death.
At the beginning of 1996, my friend introduced a type of qigong to me. After I went there, it just seemed like there were a lot of bad things behind it. I thought, "I can't study this, because I have already suffered enough from these things."
During that year, my younger son saw people practicing Falun Gong. At the end of that year, my husband also heard about Falun Gong and he made a lot of effort to find the precious book Zhuan Falun for me. I remembered the first day he brought the book back, we all thought it was a great book. Looking around our house, it was messy everywhere and we didn't know where to put this precious book. Finally I found that the place where we burned incense was fairly clean and no one ever touched that place, so we decided to put the precious book there.
When I was a young girl, I had a good friend who also had spirit possession. In the past we stayed together almost all the time. One day after I obtained the precious book, she came to my house to visit me. Just after she came to the front door, she suddenly fell down to the ground. I wanted to help her to stand up and hold her so she would come inside my house. She didn't even look at me but quickly ran out to the yard outside. I asked her why she did that, and she told me: "As I opened your door, I saw there was a huge Buddha in your house. He was so huge and golden and shiny." At first I didn't believe her, but when I looked at her again, I knew she was telling me the truth. Then I knew Falun Gong was a very special practice and I knew I had hope for my future.
Later on, we had a practice site in our village. My husband and other neighbors carried me to the practice site. As I was listening to Master's Fa-teaching lectures, I could hear cracking sounds coming from my joints. As I kept listening to the lectures, I experienced many great changes every day. Such a person like me who had been so ill for years was cured and my life of lying in bed for more than twenty years and being possessed by spirits quickly and finally came to an end! I felt so good that I began to go to the field and do farm work. All the villagers were amazed by the changes they saw in me. They said, "Falun Gong is really good. Such a person who almost died now goes back to the fields and can do hard work."
My husband and my children all had various diseases. My husband had rheumatoid arthritis. Every morning after he woke up, he couldn't move his legs so he had to hold the bed to stretch his legs for a while before he got up. He also had severe liver problems, so that he couldn't work any more. At that time, both of my sons were very young. My older son had tuberculosis and he coughed all day. Once when he was in class at school, he suddenly had a very bad cough, which scared his teacher so much that she dropped the chalk on the floor. My younger son was worse. He had congenital cerebral palsy. His left arm was always bent over and only his left tiptoes could touch the ground. It looked like he was jumping around when he walked. When he was a teenager, he started to have seizures. At first, it happened to him about every two weeks. Later on, it developed to the point that he had seizures every two or three days. Later he had seizures several times a day. Sometimes when he was walking, it would suddenly occur and he would fall down. Once when he was walking by a pond, he fell into the pond and stayed there for a long time. But what was strange was that he was floating on the surface of the water instead of going down to the bottom. After someone pulled him out and brought him back home, we felt so sad for him that we held each other and cried. In the end, his problem got even worse. Sometimes while he was in class at school, he would suddenly have a seizure and fall under the table. His constant seizures so greatly frightened the teachers and his classmates that the school didn't allow him to go to classes anymore. After he came back home, my husband and I were so depressed that we just lay in bed and didn't have the strength to move. Sometimes when he had a seizure beside us, foaming at the mouth, we didn't even have the strength to clean it up for him.
We had to take him to the experts at the Cerebral Palsy Center or at the hospitals, but none of them had a good method to cure him. If they performed surgery on him, the possibility of the surgery being successful was only thirty percent, and if it failed, he would probably be worse, not to mention the expensive medical fee which we couldn't afford at all. They all said that my younger son couldn't survive past eighteen. However, just after he turned eighteen years old, I obtained the Fa. Seeing the huge changes in me, both my husband and my younger son started to practice Falun Dafa. My elder son didn't practice Dafa, but he knew that Falun Dafa is good. My whole family was changed. Later on, my elder son left us and went to other cities to work. My husband and my little son all became very strong because of practicing Dafa. Now he can walk almost like a normal person.
Once there was a person who came from another village. When he was walking towards our village, he saw from very far away that there were three huge columns coming from the roof of our house which directly went up into the sky. He was very surprised, so he came to our house to see what was going on. It turned out that at that moment the three of us were doing the sitting meditation. There was also one time after it had gotten dark, the southeast corner of our village was covered by a big bright red cloud from above. At first, the villagers thought someone's house was on fire. But after rushing over there to put out the fire, they found it was a big Falun that was rotating in the sky.
When the villagers witnessed the miracles happening to my family after we started to practice Falun Dafa, a lot of them came to learn the exercises and began to practice. My husband got up very early in the morning, swept our yard and prepared the recorder. After everyone had arrived, they started to do the exercises together. More and more people came to practice Dafa, and the moral standards of the villagers kept improving. We all had a healthy, harmonious and happy life.
On July 20, 1999, Jiang's regime started the brutal and unreasonable persecution of Falun Gong. Our family suffered from hardships again because of the persecution. I was illegally sentenced to seven years in prison, my husband and my younger son were subjected to three years of forced labor camp respectively.
However, no matter what we've been subjected to by the CCP, the three of us have remained steadfast on our path, practicing Falun Dafa. It's the eternal principle of the cosmos; evil can never subdue a righteous heart. We will always be grateful for revered and compassionate Master and Falun Dafa for saving our family!
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