(Minghui.org) My father is a retired military officer and has been a member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for 70 years. Recently, at the dining table, he suddenly said, “The CCP is really a group of villains!”
My father joined the army in 1939 and became a member of the CCP in 1944. He lived through both the Anti-Japanese War and the Chinese Civil War, and has suffered from heart disease, hypertension, and insomnia. He had been in and out of hospitals frequently for examinations and treatment.
My husband and I are both practitioners of Falun Gong (also known as Falun Dafa). My husband suffered from a few diseases when he was young, but after practicing cultivation he regained his health. I also began practicing Falun Gong and have enjoyed good health and elevated moral character.
We hired a caregiver to look after my father around the clock. We also visited him daily and brought him meals. He had been influenced by the Party culture all his life and didn’t like to hear anything negative about the CCP.
So we often inserted a few pages of informational leaflets into his newspaper. At the beginning, he didn’t read them, nor did he like to hear the facts about Falun Gong. He was also not convinced that Falun Gong improves one’s health. When we told him what the CCP had done, he vehemently denied it.
One day, when he saw the leaflets in his newspaper, he became annoyed. He shouted at me, “Didn’t you force your mother-in-law to read them?!” Unfortunately, he experienced a bad headache that evening and couldn’t fall asleep.
The next day, a CT examination didn’t show anything wrong, but he said to me in extreme pain, “I am having a very bad headache.”
I consoled him, “The doctor said your pain is caused by a cervical vertebra. Just take it easy.”
But he said, “At the moment, it is the inside of my brain that aches. It is a kind of splitting pain, and my blood pressure is also high.”
I tried to find a solution, and said, “Then we shall see what the doctor says.” He was worried and I persuaded him, “Why not try to recite these nine words—‘Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good?’ As far as I know, tens of thousands of people have done this, and it proved to be effective. I am your daughter, I would never deceive you!”
In the evening I came to see how he was doing. He said, “I am fine at the moment. The headache is nearly gone and my blood pressure has returned to normal.”
The following day, I showed him an article with the headline “Medical Doctor Father Convinced.” After reading this, he announced, “I get it!” I subsequently helped him every day to silently repeat the nine words many times.
Though he did experience the healing power of Falung Gong, he often attributed his recovery to the medicine he was taking. So I sternly warned him, “If you don’t acknowledge the benefits you have received, then they will not last long.”
Once I said to him, “The Self-immolation in Tiananmen Square was orchestrated by the CCP to slander Falun Gong.”
He replied, “I have no idea what happened and know nothing about it, as I wasn’t there.”
I protested, “Can’t you distinguish good from evil? This incident can obviously be judged with common sense, logic, and a good conscience.” But I later realized that I had not been kind to him, which was the cause of his resistance to learning the truth.
One day he said to me, “Yesterday I recited the nine characters 50 times. I also took two sleeping pills, but I could not fall asleep.” I answered, “Didn’t you think about the reason behind that? Master said,
“As long as we retain kindness and conscienceThe Divine will not forsake us.”(“Searching” from Hong Yin III)
One month later, he suffered convulsions, which was a side effect of the sleeping pills. He was then taken to a hospital again, where they were able to control the convulsions. But his pacemaker, which had been installed over a decade prior, failed.
He was very depressed and said to us several times, “I am going to die. Neither doctors nor Master can help me.” Because he believed in science, he faced a true dilemma.
After three days and nights without sleep, he said firmly after breakfast, “I decided not to take medicine any longer.”
My husband and I were surprised.
My father lived up to his words: He studied the Fa, learned the exercises, and sent forth righteous thoughts with us during the day. In the evening, when he couldn’t fall asleep, he stayed up all night and studied Zhuan Falun, and watched Master’s lecture videos.
He also read the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party and eventually understood thoroughly the true nature of the CCP. He then wrote a declaration by hand, withdrawing from the CCP and its affiliated organizations.
After he had practiced Falun Gong for 46 days, his insomnia finally disappeared!
My father has since been able to sleep and enjoy happiness. He is perfectly content now.
We are grateful to Master and the Fa!
