(Minghui.org) To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Dafa's spread around the world, I would like thank Master and Dafa by telling a few stories from the employees in my factory. I hope that more people will understand Falun Gong through these stories and safely walk their way into the new era.
People Change as a Result of Practicing Falun Gong
Xiao Song (pseudonym) and I have known each other since we went to the countryside for re-education during the Cultural Revolution. After we came back, we were assigned to the same factory as mid-level officials. Our factory is a large government enterprise and makes a good profit. Xiao Song is the section chief of the Operations Section and could easily make extra money on the side. With the decline of moral values in society, he became a bad person. He became corrupt at work and engaged in unhealthy behavior; he often went to bars and had affairs; and he fought with his wife and father-in-law. Later, he no longer paid the household expenses and rarely went home. Seeing him lacking fatherly love, his wife was mired in despair, so much so that she tried to commit suicide, but failed.
After Xiao Song became like this, I no longer kept in touch with him. But shortly after I began practicing Falun Gong, I heard that he was practicing as well. At that time, I was just a beginner and thought that a person like him did not deserve to practice Dafa. Soon, I was transferred to his section in the factory. So I asked him about it. To my surprise, he began to excitedly talk about how he obtained the Fa.
Not too long before we talked, Xiao Song had gone on a business trip to Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province. When it was time for him to leave, his client tried to give him the book Zhuan Falun as a present, but he did not accept the gift. When he was about to get in the car, his client left a copy with him anyway. When he went back to his hotel, he began to read it, although he normally did not read in hotels. He finished the whole book after midnight.
More than 10 years have passed, but I still remember Xiao Song's expression when he told me the story: “After I read Zhuan Falun, I understood everything!” At that moment, I realized that his face was kind and peaceful instead of cunning as he used to be. Later, his wife told me, “On the day Xiao Song came back from Guangzhou, right after he entered the door, he put on an apron and started to do housework. While working, he said that he felt sorry for what he had done to me and the family in the past. He said that he would try to be a better husband and father.” She was stunned after she heard these words. It would have been hard to change him even if you sent him to a rehabilitation center. What had miraculously made him a better person? When she learned that a book called Zhuan Falun changed him, she was deeply moved. Since then, both of them sought a practice site and began to practice Falun Dafa.
Xiao Song said goodbye to all of his bad habits and no longer drank or smoked. He took his son to school every day and did a lot of housework. His parents-in-law used to have headaches about him but now became happy. At work he guided himself with the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance and did things righteously. One of his colleagues said, “Falun Gong is so powerful that it changed Xiao Song.”
There are similar stories in our factory.
Ms. Xiao Yang (pseudonym) is an employee in the Operations Department. She was not feminine or gentle at all. Instead, she gambled and had lost more than 300,000 yuan. She tried to find people to borrow money from -- so many, that people she knew dared not see her. She also smoked, drank, swore, and did not care about housework. When her son's retina was detached, she had to take him to visit an expert in Beijing. This expert told her that her son was still little and did not know how to protect his eyes yet. Even if he was cured now, the problem might relapse. To fundamentally cure him, the expert suggested that she practice Falun Gong. This expert's wife practiced Falun Gong and knew about its powerful healing capabilities.
Since she wanted to save her son's eyes, Xiao Yang learned Falun Gong in Beijing. After she returned, she began practicing Falun Gong and her son's eyes were cured. After that, she relinquished all of her bad habits.
Working at the Operations Department, XiaoYang had many connections with others. There were a lot of opportunities to make big money through bribery and deceit. But she always reminded herself to behave as a practitioner. Her colleagues did those bad things to make money, but she did not. At home, she worked hard to care for her mentally challenged mother-in-law and her ailing father-in-law. Her neighbors all praised her for her kind conduct.
Woman Cured after Practicing Falun Gong
Ms. Shu Hua was my next door neighbor. Although she is not elderly, she has had many ups and downs in her life. She grew up in the countryside. Her father did not stay home due to conflicts with her mother. During the Great Leap Forward period [Editor's note: A CCP campaign in the 1950s that led to mass starvation and the deaths of millions], she had to eat the bodies of dead people to avoid starving from hunger. Before she came to the city to work, she had never had a full meal.
A few months after her daughter was born, Ms. Shu's husband had an affair. A few years later, she got divorced. She had a few years of hard life with her daughter. Then she remarried, but later found out that she had high blood pressure. Even though her husband really wanted to have a child, she had an abortion four different times during early pregnancy. Yet despite this, her blood pressure did not return to normal and remained very high. She had to take medicine every day, otherwise, she would urinate blood. She was unable to do her normal job and was transferred to look after a warehouse. Her husband and daughter had to help her to walk to work. She had tried many different qigong practices but none of them really had any effect on her.
One day Ms. Wang, who had learned many kinds of qigong with Ms. Shu Hua, told her about the power of Falun Gong and lent her the book Zhuan Falun. She told Ms. Shu to read it quickly since the book was valuable. Ms. Shu did not believe it and did not read the book. When Ms. Wang came to take the book back, she was saddened when she saw the dust on the book. She told Ms. Shu, “You do not have a predestined relationship.” She then took the book back. However, Ms. Shu did not want to accept what Ms. Wang said and went to the practice site the next morning with help of her daughter. While she was doing the second exercise, Holding the Law Wheel, her body was unable to take it and she asked to rest on the side. Later, she stood up again and continued to hold the Law Wheel to the end of second exercise. Then a miracle happened: Her illnesses were gone. Running back home, she no longer felt any of them. She said, “When I got sick, when I walked on the road—no matter how flat it was—I felt like I was walking on a pile of cotton with uneven steps. It felt like I was wearing a pair of steel shoes and I could not lift my feet. After doing the exercises, I felt like a girl, lightly running in bare feet. I wanted to keep running. I would like to tell everybody in the world that Falun Dafa is really good—really, really good. It would be great if everyone learned Dafa.” She used to have difficulty looking after the warehouse but after that experience she could do any work; she even carried a 200-pound bag. Her colleagues were amazed to see these profound changes and were amazed at Dafa's power.
From the great moral changes of Xiao Song and Xiao Yang, the huge health improvement of Shu Hua, and a plethora of great changes in other practitioners, many employees in the factory exclaimed that Falun Gong is a wonderful practice and greatly improves health. Several of the factory's high-ranking officials accepted the book Zhuan Falun from practitioners as presents.
I hope that all Chinese people read Zhuan Falun, get to know the truth so as not to be deceived by the lies from the Chinese Communist Party, and withdraw from the party and its affiliates to have a bright future.
From the Call for Submissions to Commemorate the Twentieth Anniversary of Falun Dafa's Introduction
