(Minghui.org) I am 58-years-old and have been practicing Falun Gong since 1995. I became healthy after starting the practice. I used to have a serious chronic respiratory illness.
When I was two-years-old, my mother told me that I had tracheitis (inflammation of the trachea), and I frequently went to doctors for treatment. My tracheitis was chronic and I could not breathe well when it became serious. Going to hospitals and getting treatment only temporarily alleviated my symptoms. Doctors told my mother that modern medicine had no way to cure it.
My mother brought me to her parent's home at a village when I was seven-years-old. We visited a well-known Taoist to treat my illness. The Taoist said to my mom, “Your son's illness cannot be cured because he killed a woman in his previous life. The woman's ghost is attached to your son. If you want to have his illness cured, you need to let him be a monk in a temple.”
My mom did not like the idea of me being a monk. She asked the Taoist, “Is there any alternative?”
“I can make a lock. Hanging it in front of his chest will drive the ghost away,” said the Taoist. He made a lock with ancient copper coins for me. My illness was truly gone after I wore the lock.
Once my father brought me to have a bath at a bathhouse when I was ten. He met with a colleague in the bathing facility. His colleague saw the lock on my neck and asked my father why I was wearing it. My father told him the background. The colleague said, “We are atheist communist party members. We should not believe this.”
Hearing that comment, my father took off my lock and it got damaged. Unfortunately, my respiratory illness relapsed soon after. It became worse as I got older. When I was 40, doctors concluded that it could not be cured. Modern medicine has not developed an effective way to treat such a chronic illness.
Fortunately, I began to practice Falun Gong in 1995. My chronic illness was gone shortly after I started to practice. I have been healthy ever since.
Yet such a great practice is banned in China. The Chinese Communist Party initiated the persecution of Falun Gong in 1999. I have been arrested six times and imprisoned in forced labor camps four times, as well as put in brainwashing centers twice.
Facing the police officers who arrested and beat me, I shared my experience of practicing Falun Gong with them, but with a mentality of hatred and wanting to argue initially, my words and attitude were not kind enough to move them.
As my cultivation progressed, I understood that the police officers carrying out the persecution were actually harming themselves. I pitied them from deep in my heart. Since then, whenever I tell people my stories about practicing Falun Gong, people are touched. One police officer said to me, “Hearing what you say, I need to read seriously read the book Zhuan Falun.”
I was reported to the police when I was explaining the facts of the persecution of Falun Gong to a visitor at my work unit in the fall of 2001. The police took me to a police station. I told a police officer, “My health was poor and I had a chronic illness before I started to practice Falun Gong. My medical expenses were several thousand yuan every year. But I have never needed to see a doctor since I started practicing Falun Gong and it has saved my work unit a lot of money.
“After reading the book Zhuan Falun, I understood the meaning of life. I think of others first and care less for personal interest. Don't you agree that this is good?”
The police officer said yes. I asked him, “Why are you arresting me, then?” He was speechless.
I received a call from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) secretary in my community administrative office one day in 2010, “Several officers from the city will visit you tomorrow and talk with you. Please be prepared.”
“There is not much to talk about. I have talked about the practice for ten years,” I said. He insisted that I needed to wait for them at home. I hung up and thought I needed to tell them about my experience practicing Falun Gong.
Several officers, including the local political and law committee secretary and two from the city brainwashing center, came to my home at 9 am the next day. I said, “Welcome to my home. We Falun Gong practitioners would like to talk with government officials, but we have not had any chance. Today you come to my home. I would like to share with you what I'm really thinking. Please report my experience to your upper level officials.”
They listened quietly. I continued, “You have been in contact with Falun Gong practitioners for years and know about the practice to some extent. Falun Gong teaches people to be good and follow the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. This benefits our country without causing any harm. It is completely wrong that the former Party head, Jiang Zemin, and the communist party jointly persecute Falun Gong. For the sake of our country and the people, please help stop the brutal persecution.”
The local party secretary then said, “Do not say that because the decision to start the persecution was made by the central government. We cannot change it.” “We come here today mainly because we think you are a good man. We are concerned about you and your health. We hope you do not become too attached to the practice. If you are sick, go to the hospital. You need to believe in science. If you have any financial difficulties, you can tell us. We can offer you some help,” said an officer from the city brainwashing center.
I then shared stories about my cultivation with them. After I finished I said, “I have been healthy since practicing Falun Gong, though modern medicine considers my previous chronic inflammation a terminal illness. Is this a miracle? Doesn't this demonstrate that Falun Gong is beyond science?”
They did not say a word. I further explained how Falun Gong has spread around the world. In the end, one of them said, “If you feel it is good and benefits you, practice it diligently. We hope you are well.”
