Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance Guides Me to Be a Better Person

(Minghui.org) By the age of 27, I was bedridden from severe rheumatism, and had lost my ability to work. I also suffered from an asthma-type bronchitis, typhoid fever, vertigo, uterine fibroids, and more. I often caught colds and had high fevers as well. Even on the hottest days in summer, I felt cold and had to wear heavy clothing. That was before I started practicing Falun Dafa.

All my illnesses disappeared after practicing Falun Dafa for just over a month. I was so happy to be free of those illnesses. Tears often come to my eyes when I think about it. I’m grateful to compassionate Master for saving me and washing away my sinful karma.

Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance Guided Me to Be a Good Person

My husband was adopted at age three by his grandfather’s younger brother. The couple had no children, so they adopted a grandson to support and take care of them in their old age. Before my husband and I met, the elderly man’s wife had passed away. My husband was from the countryside, and I met him when my family was sent to the countryside during the Cultural Revolution. We got married in 1980, after I returned to the city.

Chinese peasants at that time were regarded by many as “second-class citizens.” My family did not approve of the marriage, since my husband was a Chinese peasant. My husband’s family didn’t believe that I would spend the rest of my life with him. Thus, no one wanted to attend our wedding ceremony, and I didn’t receive a dowry or any gift when we married. After we were married, my husband and I lived with his adoptive grandfather. (I’ll refer him as Grandpa in the remainder of this article.)

A year later, I gave birth to our daughter. I had to resume work in the city after my maternity ended, so my husband and I moved back to the city. Grandpa didn’t want to leave his hometown, so he stayed there. A few years later he got sick and needed us to take care of him. My husband wanted his grandpa to live with us, but he was afraid I wouldn’t agree to it.

By then I was already practicing Falun Dafa, and knew I should behave according to Dafa’s principles. So my husband and I drove a tricycle and picked up his grandpa to bring him to our home. We took him to get a physical exam and learned that he was healthy except for poor nutrition. I bought him some food he liked and tried to get him well-fed. After more than a month, his health became much better. He could walk up and down the stairs and go for a stroll by himself. He could easily walk one-third of a mile without coughing or panting.

My husband was very happy to see me take care of his grandpa so well. He took Grandpa to the public bath house for bathing and to the barber shop for a haircut. My husband helped him shave his beard, while our daughter helped him wash his feet and cut his nails. Our whole family was bathed in the happiness of Dafa!

My sister-in-law told me that I shouldn’t take care of Grandpa because she knew that when I got married, my husband’s family didn’t give me a penny. I told her, “I practice Falun Dafa and follow the principle of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. The elderly man adopted my husband to support him in his old age. I need to take care of him unconditionally because Master teaches me to think of others. I can’t abandon him in his old age.”

Grandpa often praised me for taking good care of him. When I went back to visit the village where Grandpa used to live, people in the village looked up to me. My mother said, “You’ve made your father and I very proud. His grandpa praises you everywhere he goes, saying how nice and patient you are.”

At the age of 87, after Grandpa was with us for ten years, he got sick. Sometimes he couldn’t control his bladder and bowels, and made a real mess. I put on rubber gloves and washed his pants and bedding without complaint when it happened.

Grandpa died peacefully one day after the Chinese New Year. My father-in-law and siblings-in-law suggested following the local custom to take the eldery man’s ashes back to his hometown and stay there for three days before the funeral. My uncle and aunt thought my father-in-law should pay for the accommodation expenses, so they approached him to discuss the expenses without telling me. Upon hearing about it, my brother-in-law’s wife was upset.

After I found out about this, I immediately went to talk with my father-in-law. I told him, “Although the custom is that whoever suggests it pays for it, I know it’s not easy for you to make money in the countryside. So don’t worry about it, I will pay the expenses of entertaining relatives and friends.” My father-in-law and sister-in-law were happy with my solution. Falun Dafa has made me compassionate and peaceful. If I hadn’t practiced it, I wouldn’t have handled things this way.

My second sister-in-law later said to me, “After you took the elderly man to stay with you, the people in the village thought you would soon send him back. Now people in our village praise and admire you. They say that Falun Dafa makes its practitioners great.” I was glad to hear this comment, and that I had validated the greatness of Master and Dafa. My two nieces also started to cultivate Dafa.

Validating the Fa in Adversity

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), headed by its former leader Jiang Zemin, started to frantically slander Falun Dafa and brutally persecute its practitioners on July 20, 1999. Our cultivation environment suddenly changed. I went to Beijing to validate Dafa, but was subsequently removed from my position at work. I went from being treated like a role model to being targeted for persecution. I wasn’t moved by the harsh environment, however, and happily did the difficult physical labor every day.

Other practitioners and I distributed truth-clarification materials in the evening to save people in our local areas and the surrounding villages. We also posted sticky signs and hung truth-clarification banners. The sticky signs emitted golden light as I pulled them off their sticky backs. Lightning sometimes flashed in a clear sky. I sometimes went out at night and came home at dawn the next day, walking and distributing the materials in several villages. After getting home safely under Master’s protection, I got ready and went to work. I was busy and happy every day.

The winter in Northeastern China is severely cold. One day in February 2000, as I changed into my thin work clothes, two police officers came and took me to the detention center. I was detained there for 42 days.

After being released, I bought a decent set of clothes, cut my hair, and went to work in good spirits. The management and workers came to see me, and asked me, “Why do you look even more energetic after being detained?” I said, “I was wronged, Dafa was wronged. The truth will definitely be revealed to the world in the future. We cultivators just follow the principle of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. Nothing is wrong with that.” The factory head said, “I was just wondering why the people who practice Falun Dafa are the best workers in our factory. I wonder who on earth is responsible.” The other two practitioners at our factory were also rated as advanced role models.

One of my colleagues, a statistician, asked me, “What makeup have you been wearing? Your complexion is rosy and fair.” I told her that practicing Falun Dafa can improve both mind and body, if a practitioner follows the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. Before I practiced Falun Dafa, my face was covered with dark spots. I tried different kinds of makeup, but none of them worked.

I always went to work early and got off late, and did my work conscientiously. As a result, I was the only worker in the factory who was exempted from product quality inspection, and I got the first prize almost every month. Two months later, the factory manager promoted me to do product inspections.

I was strict with myself in the new post. Instead of punishing workers for substandard products, I treated them in a benevolent way in accordance with the principles taught by Master. I patiently explained the importance of quality work from the perspective of understanding the workers. As a result, the rate of products qualifying greatly improved, and the output greatly increased as well. Six months later, the factory management asked me to go back to the original administrative work that I did before the persecution began.

I cooperated with the other practitioners working in the factory as we clarified the truth to the people around us. The factory manager quit the CCP and its affiliated organizations with his real name. Most of the workers there also did the same. While looking back on those years, I saw that none of the true Dafa disciples I knew were defeated amid the CCP’s frantic persecution. On the contrary, we were more rational in validating Dafa and saving sentient beings in our work and life circumstances.

Master Resolved a Life-threatening Catastrophe

My husband is a taxi driver. He does not practice cultivation, but he has always supported Falun Dafa. When the persecution was most severe, he often helped us transport our truth-clarification materials. On August 2, 2021, he came home at about 9:00 a.m. in a panic. He said, “It was so dangerous just now! Even thinking about it makes me extremely scared.” I asked him what happened.

He continued, “I was driving straight through the intersection when an elderly man riding an electric motorcycle suddenly rushed out in front of me and fell in front of my car. I stopped abruptly, got out, and saw that the elderly man, in his 70s or 80s, had fallen right in front of my car. I said, ‘Are you Okay? You ran a red light; that was really dangerous!’ I then helped him pick up his motorcycle, and he got on and left.”

“The more I thought about it, the more scared I became, so I came home.” He added, “The man was so old, and fell so hard, but he didn’t get hurt, it was miraculous. Besides, it was lucky there were no cars behind me, or my sudden stop would have caused a series of rear-end collisions.”

Looking at my husband’s pale and frightened face, I said, “Master helped us resolve this catastrophe because you believe in Dafa and received the protection of Master.” I suggested that we thank Master together. So we both pressed our hands together in front of our chests to show our gratitude to Master.

I saw tears in my husband’s eyes, and he muttered to himself, “It’s true that whoever believes in Falun Dafa will benefit. I thank Master and Dafa very much!”