Life and Hope Renewed After Practicing Falun Dafa

(Minghui.org) I started practicing Falun Dafa in 1996 and am now 87 years old. I would like to write about some miraculous and extraordinary things that I have personally experienced in my cultivation.

A Dying Person Came Back to Life

Before I practiced Dafa, I had severe pain in my back and swelling in my legs and feet. I had difficulty sitting, standing, and walking. I was weak and skinny. I also had headaches that were so severe that I could not sleep for several days. I became groggy. I looked as though I had one foot in the grave. 

My health problems could be traced back to the years of the “Great Leap Forward” a government campaign that caused widespread famine in communist China. In 1958, men were sent to produce steel and women to overhaul reservoirs. Even though there was abundant grain in the fields, no one was available to harvest it. No one cooked, and everyone ate at public canteens. The food in the canteens was poor quality and very limited, so we never had enough to eat. I was hungry all the time but still had to do hard labor for long hours every day. I almost died in 1960 due to starvation and exhaustion. 

In 1962, I became bedridden. I suffered from kidney failure, severe malnutrition, neurasthenia, and other ailments. The conditions often returned to haunt me. The pain was so unbearable that I did not want to live. I didn’t want to trouble my family, so I went out every day, trying to find a secluded place deep in the forest to end my life. But because of my limp, reaching a place like that proved impossible. 

There were many people in the park, and most of them were elderly. They danced, exercised, and practiced Tai Chi and qigong. In 1996, I ran into an old man in the park. Seeing how listless I was, he invited me to practice qigong with his group. I shook my head with a wry smile and turned him down.

A few days later, I started to run a fever. I went to an outpatient clinic for two injections because we could not afford for me to stay in the hospital. More than a month passed and I still had a fever. 

That was when a kind person told me about Falun Dafa. He used to be sick and often caught colds, but he recovered after practicing Falun Dafa. He said that the practice was free and offered many benefits. Only then did I have an impulse to try. I had been suffering for so many years that I thought it would be wonderful if my pains could be alleviated even a little bit.

In May 1996, I went to a Falun Dafa group exercise site in the park. At first, I could only do the first, third, and fourth exercises one at a time for one week. One day at noon, I was resting in bed when I suddenly felt very hot but very comfortable. After a while, I started to sweat profusely. For more than 30 years, my back had been cold. After that, the fever went away and the pain in my back started to ease. Falun Dafa is really extraordinary! 

I continued practicing the exercises, including the second one, the Falun Standing Stance, and the meditation, Strengthening Supernatural Powers. I also studied the Fa with a group. One day when I bent down in the fourth exercise, the Falun Cosmic Orbit, I felt a force grab my scalp and felt as if my whole body was lifted. 

I was about to faint, but I kept calm and continued the exercise. Then I suddenly felt something in my mouth and spit out a large number of black blood clots. When I got home after practice, I blew two pieces of solid black blood out of my nostrils. The headache that had plagued me for years was gone. I slept deeply that night and felt refreshed the next morning.

By reading Zhuan Falun, the main text of Falun Dafa, I realized that Master was taking care of me since the moment I started to practice. When people are doing the exercises in a group, there is an energy field around the site and that energy can correct abnormal conditions, including sickness. This explained how my chronic diseases, which had made my life miserable for years, went away. 

A year later, I had a sudden pain in my back again and a fever of 39^oC (102^o F). I could only eat one small bowl of rice soup a day. I knew it was the process of karma elimination. I insisted on studying the Fa and doing the exercises. One week later, there was no more blood in my stool. The lumps and swelling over my body disappeared, and my fever was gone.

I have not taken any medicine for more than 20 years since.

One Person Practices, Loved Ones Benefit

Master said, “Haven’t I said that with one person practicing, the whole family benefits?” (Teachings at the Conference in Australia). Two of my family members benefited from Dafa.

My husband is 95 now. Seeing how I improved physically and mentally, he knew that Falun Dafa was good. Despite the pressure after the communist regime initiated the persecution, my husband has always supported me in the practice, even when he was frightened and stressed out.

Because of his support, Dafa blessed him. He fell two times but was uninjured. The first fall occurred outdoors, and I helped him up. Another time he fell in our house but got up by himself. He was not hurt. Everyone said that it was a miracle!

My younger sister once was severely beaten by her abusive husband. She was drooling, her eyes were dull, and she was bleeding from her nose before she fainted. She had a severe concussion and was taken to the hospital. Four days later she still had difficulty breathing. The doctors said her condition was critical. I gave her a copy of Zhuan Falun and asked her to read it. 

When my sister saw Master Li’s photo in the book, she started to cry, saying that Master was talking to her. She studied it diligently every day. 

One night in a dream, she heard a voice telling her that she had to practice the exercises. When she responded that there was no one to teach her, the voice clearly said that Master Li would teach her. She woke up. Then, an exercises video tape from me arrived in the nick of time. Her daughter watched the tape and taught her the exercises. That was how my younger sister learned to do the exercises. 

My sister quickly recovered and regained the weight she’d lost in two months. She was energized and, unlike a person in her 70s, she could do all the heavy work in the fields. Her story spread throughout the villages, and many people, even in neighboring villages, started to learn the exercises! 

I Hope the Truth Will Come to Light Soon

Having benefitted from Dafa so much, I often went out in my spare time to raise awareness about the persecution. One day I saw an old man in the park. He looked very healthy and had a smile on his face. I asked him if he liked to read history books. When he said he did, I handed to him a copy of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party and told him that it was all true. 

By just looking at the cover of the book, he said that it was a great book! He took it and carefully put it in his coat pocket. He then thanked me and left. 

A month later, I ran into him again at the same place. We greeted each other like old friends and started to chat. 

He said, “That book was well written. I read it over and over. Everyone, young and old, should read it. History should not be forgotten! I am old and don’t need anything. I only hope that everyone in China will know that history as soon as possible, and the tragedy will not continue.”

He said that he was once accused of being a rightist and a rebel, and had been forced to work in a labor camp for more than 20 years. His wife and eldest son died in the famine. Tears ran down his cheeks as he told me this. This was not only a personal misfortune, but also a national tragedy! 

I was deeply moved. I, too, hope that everyone can read the Nine Commentaries like this gentleman. It would be wonderful if they could distinguish right from wrong and reject the lies of the Communist Party.