(Minghui.org) I worked in a state-run company before I began to practice Falun Dafa, In May 1997, at the age of 49, I was healthy, and my family was happy. I used to call myself an atheist. I never thought I’d have any connections with cultivation or the Buddha Fa. However, after I witnessed the miracles displayed by my friends who practiced Falun Dafa, and especially after I read Zhuan Falun, I too became a steadfast practitioner.
The friend who introduced me to Falun Dafa was a university professor. She suffered from many health problems, including heart disease, uterine fibroids, thyroid adenoma, and a chronic inflammation and thinning of the stomach lining. She'd also had a few surgeries.
After Western medicine didn’t help her, she resorted to Chinese medicine but had to take a lot of medications. Her weight dropped from 130 lbs to 90 lbs. In order to survive, despite the fact that she was a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) member, she became a lay Buddhist. She also practiced qigong for four years, but in vain.
One day she told me that she had begun to practice Falun Dafa and had stopped taking all her medications. She also stopped worshipping as a lay Buddhist. I was caught off guard and feared that her life would be at risk if she stopped her medications. However, at the same time, I hoped to see miracles happen for her. After a while, I noticed that her mood was upbeat.
Then, she recovered from all her health isues! The miracles I witnessed changed my negative thinking. I was filled with curiosity. Birth, old age, illness, and death are part of human life. So I used to take good care of myself in my day-to-day life. Thus, I wanted to know what Falun Dafa is about. If she indeed recovered from her illnesses through practicing Falun Dafa, I could also have a better quality of life in the future if I believed what she told me.
She gave me a copy of Zhuan Falun and said that I would find all the answers in this book.
I have read many famous historical works of literature from China and abroad. Yet, I was shocked by the profound principles I found in Zhuan Falun. I came to understand that Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance are characteristics of the universe, and also the standards used to measure good and bad. I also came to understand the principle that “good is rewarded, and evil is punished,” the reason a person becomes ill, and the mystery of a practitioner experiencing recovery from illnesses without taking medication.
After I finished reading Zhuan Falun, I decided to cultivate in Falun Dafa. From then on, I not only have a Master, I also have a clear purpose in life.
In the beginning of my cultivation, besides work and taking care of household chores, I used all my time to read Zhuan Falun repeatedly. Each time I gained new understandings and a sense of enlightenment.
I loved sports since childhood. Whether it was track and field or ball games, I won the championship multiple times at school, work, or in the provincial sports. I was also quite fit. When I first began to cultivate, even though I didn’t pay much attention to doing the exercises, soon enough, I came to experience the miraculous nature of Dafa.
After I'd studied the Fa for about a week, even before I started doing the exercises, Master opened my celestial eye. That afternoon, after I studied the Fa and closed my eyes, a miraculous world appeared in front of me. There were transparent lights in all colors, some very vivid, and they were moving. Some were moving horizontally; some were rotating while moving upward. It was truly magnificent and beautiful. As soon as I opened my eyes, I returned to this world. When I closed my eyes again, I again saw a beautiful world of light!
A month later, I was on a plane for a business trip, when I opened my eyes and saw beautiful Buddha light outside. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple were arranged to form colored circles in two layers, like a halo. The light gray background within the halo showed a dark gray aircraft shadow. The colored halo and aircraft synchronized. I watched for about 20 minutes. Seeing these real sights in another dimension greatly enhanced my confidence in cultivation.
I learned the Dafa exercises by watching the exercise demonstration video. Doing the exercises made me fully realize the amazing healing and fitness effects of Falun Dafa. Lumbar strain and motion sickness are not major diseases, yet these issues had tormented me for many years. I recovered from them once I started to practice Falun Dafa. This greatly surprised my husband, who had practiced Western medicine for many years. He also became a practitioner.
Due to my participation in a key project at work in 2002, I often ended up working very late into the night. One night, I was riding my bicycle home when a sedan suddenly ran into me and knocked me over. My bicycle was damaged, but I had only minor injuries. I didn’t hold the driver accountable, nor did I go to the hospital. This incident didn’t affect me in any way. At first, my colleagues didn’t understand why I didn’t seek compensation from the driver. When they understood that I treated this incident as a cultivation test, they gained a deeper understanding of and respect for Dafa and its practitioners.
Over the past 20 years and more, I've had symptoms, such as a fever, a cough, a rash, and so on. But I always kept in mind what Master said and didn’t resort to treatments. Whenever an abnormal state appeared, I always managed to maintain my xinxing and pass the trial.
One time, I developed many skin rashes. I didn’t take it to heart; I went to work and did the exercises as usual. A few days later, I had a layer of skin peel off. After that, my skin was healed! At almost the same time, my colleague had a relapse of her chronic disease - summer dermatitis. She thought her symptoms were less serious than mine. Therefore, she didn’t use any medication for it; however, hers didn’t heal. In the end, she had to go to the Dermatology Institute to get a prescription. The comparison between us made my colleagues, who were the type that only “seeing is believing,” witness the miraculous nature of Dafa.
One thing that happened at the end of 2005 made people truly realize how miraculous Dafa is.
Some of my colleagues and I went on a business trip to a famous coastal city. At night, we went to the beach to watch the nighttime scenery. We took pictures, and in one of the pictures I took with my colleagues, I appeared to be transparent, whereas the others in the picture were still very normal. I had on a sweater and a thick coat, yet the iron railing behind me, the waves of the sea, and the reflection of the colored lights on the sea were clearly visible in the photo through my body! After my colleagues saw that, they were in shock, “Truly miraculous!”
I knew it was Master who had me validate Dafa. I told my colleagues: “This is a result of a practitioner’s body having been purified after we practice Dafa.” At that time, I had cultivated for eight-and-a-half years.
After I returned from my business trip, quite a few colleagues came to look at this miraculous picture. I then took this opportunity to clarify the facts about Falun Dafa to them.
One of my friends is a scientist. He has done extensive research on the Book of Changes and Buddhism. After he saw the picture, he said, “This is a very good phenomenon. A high-level Buddhist monk also gave me a transparent picture. This kind of phenomenon cannot be explained by science. But it may be explained in the future.” I then opened Zhuan Falun and shared with him the relevant part in it, so he could see that Master articulated it clearly in the book.
Even though this scientist had many titles granted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), such as member to the National People’s Congress, a National Model Worker, Young and Middle-aged Experts with Outstanding Contributions, and others, he was very open-minded. After he learned the truth about Dafa, he not only accepted a USB drive loaded with truth-clarification information about Dafa, but he was also determined to use a pseudonym to renounce his memberships from the CCP organizations. He truly understood the evil nature of the CCP and its evil doings, and he reminded me multiple times to pay attention to my safety.
After a computer expert in our office saw the picture, he said that he could create the same effect, as he thought it was edited with a computer software. After he copied my picture and investigated it, he emotionally declared, “This picture is a mystery. It absolutely isn’t a mockup.” Then I took the opportunity to clarify the facts to him.
Before I began to cultivate, my relatives considered me to be an upright, kind, and reasonable person. When cultivating, I tried to follow a practitioner’s standards. Therefore, I became kinder, healthier, and more capable.
For example, before I cultivated Dafa, I used my medical card to get medications for my parents through friends who worked at the hospital. At that time, I saw it as filial piety towards my parents. After I began to cultivate, I stopped doing that.
As for example, as an upright person, I had zero tolerance towards unethical things. Prior to cultivation, I always gave a cold shoulder to a colleague who ruined someone’s family; I didn’t even want to look at her. Cultivating Dafa made me understand that everything happens for a reason. As a cultivator, we don’t have enemies, we should treat other people kindly. Thus, I was willing to take the initiative to talk to her, and advise her to pursue kindness.
I drove to another city to participate in a high school alumni party in 2019. A classmate whom I hadn’t seen for more than 40 years sincerely apologized to me for how she harmed me back then. Here is what she referred to:
China first recruited workers and farmers to attend college in 1972. Due to our outstanding performance at work, I was referred by the commune. This student, out of her own selfish interests and with the power of her parents, fabricated a “letter from people” falsely accusing me of “eavesdropping on enemy [radio] stations,” and recruited several people as so-called “witnesses.” This was a very serious political matter back then. The public security department then opened an investigation. By the time the public security department made their conclusion that this was a “political frame-up,” the recruitment process was long over, and the student who had her parents use their connections had already left the countryside.
Instead of complaining and listening to others’ advice to retaliate against her, I found her and persuaded her to stop doing harm to others. I continued to work hard in the countryside for another year and was recommended again in 1973. Then, I was able to fulfill my dream of attending university.
Facing her apology more than 40 years later, I responded with a practitioner’s demeanor: Due to cultivating Buddha Law, I came to understand that everything happens for a reason. During the process, because I was harmed, my karma was eliminated. I was also tempered. I should really thank her. My response caught her off guard. She felt so relieved, as she thought I would never forgive her.
The principle of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance has been imprinted in our minds and melted into our souls.
There have been many stories of how people have benefited from Dafa.
A colleague in her 40s suddenly couldn’t walk steadily in 2007. She was diagnosed with cerebellar atrophy, which is a terminal disease. Even though she saw specialists at large hospitals, it was all in vain. She worried about her child who was only in primary school.
It wasn’t until I told her about Dafa, that I learned that she had previously watched Master’s lectures on DVD. She also still had a copy of Zhuan Falun. Due to the evil CCP’s slander and the persecution of Falun Dafa, she was too scared to practice. When she realized that only Dafa could help her, she resumed her cultivation. I offered her an exercise demonstration DVD and software to break through the Internet blockade, so she could browse the Minghui website herself. After she began her Dafa cultivation, she was cured, and never claimed any medical expenses through her company after that.
Cultivation turned her situation around. Moreover, her xinxing had greatly improved. For example, her workplace once deducted a few tens of thousands yuan from her pay, and she didn’t agree to it. Her husband was so upset that he wanted to file a lawsuit against her company. Then she came to talk to me. I shared with her based on the principle of “loss and gain.” If it were not for her practicing Falun Dafa for the past few years, she would have spent money for medical treatment, had her pay deducted for taking sick leave, and would have suffered both physical and mental pain. The health and happiness brought by cultivation cannot be measured with money. Hearing what I said, she was so relieved! Especially, after her xinxing improved, her husband never mentioned a word about filing a lawsuit.
Dafa helped me resolve all my issues. And when my colleagues ran into issues, they liked to come to me to discuss them. For example, a colleague’s child attended primary school and was a leader in her class. Due to a conflict with her classmate, she was so terrified by this classmate’s parents that she didn’t dare to go to school. My colleague told me about this in tears, she felt it was so unfair and really felt for her child.
I tried to comfort her by sharing with her what I enlightened to about loss and gain, “Everything happens for a reason,” which made her feel much better. As Dafa made her understand that for the other child’s parents to behave unreasonably, they not only lost their virtue, but also harmed their child, which caused more loss than gain. Dafa also helped her to understand that she should make use of this incident to educate her child to not resent others and to help her child understand how complex society is. For one to be a good person, one should follow not only Truthfulness and Kindness but also Forbearance. One should pay attention to how one deals with others, and one should be a good person; so her child would benefit from that lifelong.
She said, “Falun Dafa is truly wonderful! I also want to cultivate.” By now, her child has earned a Ph.D. abroad and become a lawyer.
Another colleague had some issues he shared with me. His father was a high ranking cadre and was executed during the Great Cultural Revolution by the evil CCP. Even though my colleague was later “rehabilitated,” he had been impacted during his development. Thus, he was subjected to many tribulations. He was full of hatred and resentment, as if the whole world owed him something and should compensate him. When both of us were on a business trip, he complained a lot, especially about how society has treated him.
He was actually a smart person. Just like his father, he was good at writing articles. At a young age, he published quite a lot of articles, plus a few books. He knew that I practiced Falun Dafa. I then shared with him what I enlightened to from reading Zhuan Falun and had him see through the CCP’s evil nature of “Deception, Evilness and Struggle.” I also encouraged him to view his tribulations in life from the perspective of loss and gain, to treat them properly, and to overall have a more healthy mindset.
I also selected a few stories to gave him a few examples of how people received good fortune after having improved their xinxing through cultivation. The principle of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance gradually opened his mind. When our few hours of travel were about to end, he said, “You did a great job! I’m feeling much better now; you should really talk to the people at the TV station about having a program for psychological counseling to help more people.”
Most of the people I knew used computers. Thus, my great helpers in clarifying the truth were mainly USB drives, onto which I downloaded information about Dafa. I set up four folders in a 16GB USB drive, and then downloaded Master’s recorded lectures in Guangzhou City, the exercise demo, a few truth-clarification books, the exercise music, Zhuan Falun, The Great Way of Spiritual Perfection, and an application for breaking through the Internet blockade.
To pay attention to safety, I gave USB drives to people with whom I had predestined relationships. I would emphasize that they should treasure the USB drives. A retired elderly colleague had liver cancer. During his surgery, it was found that his liver had atrophied to the point where it couldn’t be operated on. Thus, his doctor advised his family that he wouldn’t live much longer. He had received my original and updated USBs from me, and he knew the truth about Dafa. Moreover, he protected these informational materials for me. I believed he’d receive good fortune, and he did. Now, more than a decade has passed, and he is in his 80s, and is still fine. Many people thought it was incredible. Right then, I’d always take the opportunity to clarify the facts to them.
A female colleague of mine was in her 50s was going through menopause and bled a lot. She went to see a specialist but was misdiagnosed. By the time she was correctly diagnosed with endometrial cancer, she was at an intermediate to advanced stage, and cancer had spread. When I went to visit her, I saw that she was very pessimistic and resentful. I comforted her and gave her a USB drive. She accepted it. But when I went to visit her again, she returned it to me, saying that she'd made up her mind to practice a certain qigong that specifically targeted her cancer. She passed away 10 months later.
For the past many years, at our alumni meetings, colleague gatherings, family and friend gatherings, and more, I don’t know how many USB drives I have given to people. However, I deeply believe that what’s loaded on the USB will have a great impact in helping people learn the truth.