(Clearwisdom.net) I am a Falun Gong practitioner. I used to suffer from breast cancer and a broken hip that wouldn't heal; however, when I began to practice Falun Gong, I recovered. When the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began to persecute practitioners, I was not deterred from practicing Falun Gong. I spoke of the benefits and miracles practitioners experience to my neighbors so they would also benefit when joining the practice.
1. Elderly Paralyzed Man
On July 20, 1999, the CCP launched the persecution of Falun Gong. The people in my village were deceived by the propaganda on television, as well as published in newspapers and other media. They misunderstood why I cultivated and were at a loss as to why I went to Beijing to appeal for justice for Falun Gong. At the time, I was imprisoned and then transferred to a labor camp. The village folks thought that something had gone wrong with me. I also taught one person in my village to practice Falun Gong. He also went to Beijing twice to appeal for the right to practice Falun Gong and was also imprisoned.
The people in my village thought that I intended to ruin other people's lives. Therefore, nearly everyone around me harassed me. The village officials disparaged me over a big microphone. My neighbor stood in front of my door and called my name. The neighbors also monitored me and reported about me to the local police. They wanted to get me arrested. I didn't know how to deal with this situation. All I knew was that I had to follow the Falun Gong principles and hold myself to high standards. No matter how badly they treated me, I remained calm and refused to get angry. I always dealt with the situation with a smile on my face.
There is an elderly man in my village that I will call "Zhaoshan." His family was extremely poor. He had a stroke, which left him partially paralyzed. When walking he slowly moved forward, inch-by-inch. Quite often he lost his shoes and didn't realize it. His wife refused to take care of him and his son moved out. The house was in bad shape and during bad weather and winter one could feel the wind moving through his house from all four directions. Since he could not afford coal, his house was cold and only warmed by a small fire below his bed. The temperature inside and outside of his house was nearly the same. Since he didn't have any extra clothes, his body smelled terrible and people were nauseated when they passed him. Everyone ignored him.
One cold winter day, I saw him holding three beer bottles and laying on the snowy ground near the grocery store. For a long time he couldn't get up, so I pulled him up and asked, "Why haven't you gone to see a doctor?" He said, "My family doesn't have the money for me to see a doctor." I felt sorry for him, so I said, "If you have no money to have your disease cured, you can come to my house. I will teach you to practice the exercises, which will benefit you. Besides, Dafa is very miraculous." He agreed instantly.
He followed me to my house. I told him to stand on the floor. His one leg was standing, but since the other was bent it kept wobbling. I was thinking, "How will he be able to practice the exercises? So I gave him a copy of the book Zhuan Falun and let him take it home to read. On the third day, I thought that he was too sick and probably would not be able to cultivate, so I should take my book back. I went to his house. He said, "I dreamed that the man in the book (referring to Master Li Hongzhi) came to my house. He asked me what I was doing and I told him that I was reading. That man told me, "Read carefully and you can make it." These words helped me understand that Master helped everyone who was predestined to obtain the Fa. Since Master said he could make it, then I had no reason to doubt that he could practice Falun Gong.
I told him to stand on the floor and let me see. Surprisingly, he stood straight, without his leg wobbling. Therefore, I understood that Master had already taken care of him, so I taught him the exercises with much effort. At that time he only could do the exercises with one hand. I and another practitioner taught him the exercises together. In the beginning we went to his house every day to pick him up and take him to my house. After practicing and studying the Fa, we would take him back. Because his house was so cold, his feet were hurting. He could not use his hands and feet easily, so he often relieved himself in his pants. His odor was terribly strong. Once he arrived at my house, the stinky air filled the house, and the odor choked me and the other practitioner. Even choking like this though, we dared not let him sense that we were afraid of his odor. Thus, we kept on helping him day after day. With his practicing the exercises and studying the Fa day after day, gradually, his headaches went away and his body became more flexible. He no longer needed us to pick him up. At one time he stopped in the middle of studying the Fa and ran to his house. We asked his wife what had happened. His wife said that he needed to use the toilet, but his hands were not very useful, so he ran home and on the way he went in his pants. Then we understood. When he tried to leave again during the middle of studying the Fa, we pulled his hands and would not let him leave. We helped him pull down his pants and took care of him as if he were our father.
Later, his wife became sick and nobody was taking care of her, so she went to her daughter's house. This man was left alone. During the winter, nobody lit a fire to cook a meal for him. I told him to come to my house every morning for breakfast. He stayed in my house until evening and then went back home. His son worked all day and only in the evening lit a fire to warm his bed for him. My fellow practitioners knew his situation, so they drove to his house and gave him a big bag filled with cotton coats, cotton pants, indoor clothes, indoor pants, underpants and other clothes, also cotton bed covers. Since he had extra clothes, we no longer had to endure the terrible odor. Thus, we took care of him for one winter. His body changed miraculously. He no longer moved his feet inch by inch. He always raised up his feet and showed them to us. In addition, he no longer had to take any medication.
The villagers noticed his change and their attitude toward Dafa began to change. Others told me that the man who had harassed me now told people, "Did you see that, if you want to practice a qigong, you should practice Falun Gong; believing in Falun Gong is better than believing in the others." Even the people who believed in other religions said, "Your Falun Gong practice is very good. None of us could have done what you did." Others saw me and said, "Without your taking care of him and teaching him to practice the exercises, during this winter he would have died due to the cold weather. There is no way that he would still be alive now." Since then, whenever anybody who misunderstood Falun Gong badmouthed it, the people in the village would not allow it and they would explain the facts about Falun Gong.
Thus, my cultivation atmosphere completely changed because of this elderly man's miraculous recovery. When I started to teach him the exercises, I didn't think that it would change my situation as well. If a practitioner uses Dafa's requirement to cultivate all the time, his situation will change naturally for the better.
2. An Elderly Woman on the Verge of Death
Once I went to my mother's house in Bingxian City, Heilongjiang Province. My mother said the mother-in-law of Uncle Tian, one of our relatives, was very sick. Uncle Tian and his wife were taking care of her and they were preparing for her funeral. My mother asked me if I could save that elderly lady. I said that if she could learn Falun Dafa, she would be fine because I had already helped several people that were on the verge of death. Even for patients who were too sick to do the exercises, I would teach them and assist them and we always experienced good results.
I arrived at Uncle Tian's house and saw his mother-in-law resting on her stomach with her head on four pillow-cases. She was breathing very hard and irregularly. Her entire body was swollen. She could not urinate despite injections. I suggested that she practice Falun Gong and she agreed instantly. I taught her and assisted her for 8 minutes and then she could not sit up any longer. Then, I read two paragraphs of Master Li's teachings to her. She said that she needed to rest for a while. I recommended that she lay on her back with her legs straight. She said no because she had slept on her tummy for half a year. I told her that if she treated herself as a practitioner she would be OK and she agreed.
The next day, I went to see her and found that she was much better, so I taught her more of the exercises and how to do the sitting meditation.
On the third day, as soon as I stepped into her house, the lady touched her tummy and said very loudly, "The swelling is completely gone. All the swelling has completely disappeared and now I am able to eat, drink and walk."
Witnessing her mother's miraculous recovery, Aunty Tian cried. She appreciated what I had done very much and said, "If you had come earlier it would have been even better. Now my mother does not need to suffer any longer. This Falun Dafa is miraculous." Since then, the elderly lady could cook, feed pigs and do the household chores. She was on the verge of dying, but after practicing Falun Gong for three days she recovered. Her story amazed everyone in the village who knew her and they thought it was a miracle. All of them praised and talked about the extraordinary powers of Falun Dafa.
3. Cane No Longer Needed After Eight Years
One of my friends' fourth elder sister, whom I will call Sijie, used to be a nurse in our community hospital. After she had retired, Sijie made house calls in Harbin City. She had witnessed my suffering due to a broken hip and my crawling around on the floor from the pain. She also witnessed my miraculous recovery after I practiced Falun Gong for about 5 days. Once she met another patient who had had been suffering for 8 years after a similar injury. When she walked she needed a cane and could only walk one small step at a time. When Sijie saw her in pain she mentioned me. That patient instantly decided to come to my home in the suburbs with Sijie by taxi. They found me and wanted to learn Falun Gong. Since she had a business to take care of she had to rush back home. Most people couldn't learn the five sets of exercises in one go, so I gave her an instruction DVD and one copy of the book Zhuan Falun and told her to learn it by herself.
After they left, I had a second thought, "They had traveled so far to learn the exercises, and so they must have a predestined relationship with Dafa. If they could not grasp the skill from watching the DVD, how would they deal with it? In that case, I would have neglected my responsibility. Then what should I do?" At that time, my child was too young and was still breastfeeding, and I couldn't ask someone else to take care of her. I decided to take her along. We took a train in the winter to Harbin City. She was very happy to see me for she was worrying about not being able to learn the exercises on her own. It was inconvenient for me to stay in her house in the evening, so she arranged for me to stay at her younger sister's house. That evening, I played Master's instruction DVD and taught her the exercises. Her sister practiced the exercises alongside us. The next morning the younger sister felt that the rheumatism that had troubled her for years wasn't bothering her any more. The younger sister was very happy and kept saying that Dafa was so miraculous and that she would practice it. Then she threw away the fox and yellow weasel icons, which are symbols of possession by spirits in some Chinese homes, and which had been around for several years. The next afternoon, I wanted to go home, but the younger sister wouldn't let me leave. Then, the older sister called and said that she no longer needed the canes that she had been using for the past eight years. Now, she is able to walk from her second floor apartment to her family-run shop where she sells cooked food. She and her husband are overjoyed. They said that Dafa is so wonderful. They also asked the younger sister to keep me around for as long as possible.
Since then, the sisters stepped onto the path of cultivation. The younger sister benefited from the Fa, so she began to spread Dafa to her relatives. She used the instruction DVD and the book Falun Gong to teach her brother. Her family members, including those who did not practice, all knew that Dafa is good, and the entire family appreciated Master Li.
4. Cured of Brain Cancer
This is about my uncle's sister-in-law's nephew, Chunbo. When Chunbo was 29 years old, he was diagnosed with advanced stage brain cancer, which grew in his brain stem. He had surgery, which cost his family between 50,000 and 60,000 yuan. After surgery, his face was paralyzed, his facial bones were disfigured and the right side temple collapsed, which resulted in a finger size depression between his skull and his ear. Because his skull bone was distorted so badly, his eyes were pushed toward his nose. He had to wear an eye patch over his right eye. He was essentially blind and could not see anything. He had to rely on others to feed him. He could not use his hands and feet even to put on his clothes or clean his face. He could not speak more than three words, and even when he said something no one could understand it. The doctor said that he had three to five months to live. Chunbo was the only child in his family. Upon listening to the doctors, his parents fell into complete despair. Chunbo's parents sold all the valuable items in their mountain home, including the house itself and the land. They had to move to live with their younger sister, my uncle's sister-in-law. Their younger sister ran a factory. They planned that once Chunbo died, they could work for their sister to make a living.
After Chunbo had the surgery, the hospital refused to let him stay any longer, for they thought that further treatment was pointless. After he came home, Chunbo's parents were searching for any treatment that could possibly help him. With recommendations from others, they bought medicines that cost 1,800 yuan monthly. In the fourth month, they stopped buying any more medication, as it did not help.
Chunbo's aunt had witnessed my earlier suffering from illnesses and how after I practiced Dafa, I was cured. When they had nowhere else to go, they thought of me. Chunbo's aunty found me, told me about her nephew's situation and asked if he could practice Falun Gong. I said that if anybody wanted to practice, even if he only one breath left, a miracle could happen. It depends on whether or not he himself wanted to practice. Chunbo's aunty was very glad to hear my words. Thus, I started to teach Chunbo the exercises. Chunbo couldn't stand, so I told him to lean against the wall and helped him do the exercises. Chunbo changed from day to day. On the second day after he started to practice the exercises, he took off his eye patch and he could see things. His eyesight improved day-by-day and he also could speak more clearly. On the fifth day, he stopped taking his medication. After practicing for over 10 days, he not only could take care of his personal needs, but also could do some household chores. Chunbo's family members, including his father, mother, uncle, father's elder brother, aunt and all the other relatives, had been deeply poisoned by the Chinese Communist Party's propaganda and did not believe in Falun Gong. They saw Chunbo in the final stages of dying and abandoned by the hospital. Then, they saw him begin to practice Falun Gong. After only a few days they saw such dramatic changes in Chunbo that they started to admire Falun Gong from the bottom of their hearts. Some of them even started to cultivate in Dafa.
Falun Dafa is miraculous. Not only will true practitioners become healthy, but it also helps them to become good people.
Category: Health Benefits
