(Minghui.org) I am a teacher and I started practicing Falun Dafa in late March 2014. Many of my colleagues witnessed the positive changes in my life after I took up the practice. I did not hide the fact that Falun Dafa restored my good health. This is my story.
Many Ailments and All Sorts of Worries
I am the youngest of nine children, with six brothers and two sisters. When my mother gave birth to me, she was nearly 50 years old. My family was poor. From elementary school to junior high school, I never took a lunch to school and I was never given money for lunch, which caused me to be malnourished. I was often sick, and suffered from heart disease since I was a teenager. The good thing is that when I grew up, I became a teacher and had a stable job.
After I got married, I raised my children in the countryside, and my husband and I lived apart from each other for about 12 years before I was transferred to the city to join my husband. However, my husband had changed because of experiencing the bad influences of society, and he was involved in many vices, such as excessive eating and drinking, gambling and prostitution. Although I had his bank book, he also has his bank access card. His salary could barely support us.
To add insult to injury, I contracted a sexually transmitted disease from my husband. I became despondent, thinking that I would rather die. My old ailments still remained and I picked up more diseases. Every day, I fought with my husband. I had to put up with the situation until my son’s university entrance exams were completed. Finally, I couldn’t accept the situation any longer and divorced my husband.
I remarried, taking my son with me in 2012. My second husband is from a different area and he joined me after retirement. Although he was very protective of me, my years of poor health, coupled with resentment toward my ex-husband caused my health to deteriorate further in 2013. At that time, I found it impossible to handle my workload of sixteen classes a week.
I had no choice but to take what I thought was the easiest way out; I took a 2,000-yuan to bribe the principal to move me from teaching to an easier position. As it turned out, the principal took my money, but my workload remained unchanged. He claimed that there was no suitable candidate to replace me.
At this time, I found that I was also suffering from a difficult condition called celiac disease. I had neck pain, kidney cramps, swelling all over my body, cloudy urine, and lymphatic fluid in my urine. When it was severe, I had difficulty walking and breathing. The number of times I urinated was as high as 17 times a night, and I could not get a good night’s sleep. Sometimes when I looked up at the rooftop, I saw so many scary ghostly faces, and I didn’t know where to hide.
Within just three months, I became depressed and spent more than 30,000 yuan on medical expenses. Although I took in more medicine than food every day, my health did not improve.
Reborn After I Obtained Dafa
At this time, a neighbor, who practiced Falun Dafa, gave me a Dafa amulet. I was so debilitated that I had a hard time putting around my neck. Strangely enough, from the day I put it on, I was able to rest for two hours at night.
Subsequently, the neighbor introduced me to Falun Dafa. At the end of March 2014, I started to practice Dafa.
She read one lecture of Zhuan Falun, the main book of Falun Dafa, with me every day, and after nine days, she taught me to do the exercises. By the fourth day of practice, not only did my condition improve, compassionate Master Li (the founder of Falun Dafa) opened my celestial eye, which made me even more convinced of the supernatural and miraculous nature of Falun Dafa. When my husband was not home, I threw away several plastic bags of medicine.
I was recovering my health. Within just four months, all of my ailments, including heart disease, nephritis, pancreatitis, gastritis, gallbladder polyps, kidney cysts, and syphilis were gone. In less than a year, my weight increased by 10 pounds, and my sallow complexion became rosy. A new me was born!
It was also at this time that the principal's wife approached me to tell me that my teaching load was reduced from sixteen to eight hours per week, and the 2,000-yuan bride money was returned to me. I knew that this was Master's merciful arrangement.
Parents Begged to Keep Me as Their Children’s Teacher
At school, many of my colleagues witnessed the changes in my health. I did not hide the fact that it was Dafa that had saved me, and that Falun Dafa had miraculous effects in improving health. Some of my colleagues’ attitudes towards Falun Dafa changed because of me. Seeing that I was getting better, the principal asked me to continue to work as a homeroom teacher. I agreed without hesitation.
I worked hard to prepare my lessons and tried to do a good job. In order for the children to have a quiet and productive morning study, I ate breakfast at home – the school offered a free breakfast to the teachers – and went straight to the classroom when I arrived at the school. I took good care of the children, which included helping them with their clothing, food and transportation. When it rained heavily, I walked the children one by one to the school bus. I put the classroom hygiene plastic bags on each child to keep them out of the rain.
In winter, I helped the children put on their jackets whenever they went outside; in summer, I reminded them to not overdress in the heat. The parents were very impressed that the children rarely caught a cold. On the school side, the school principal was very impressed with the discipline, hygiene and academic performance of my class.
When my pupils were about to enter the fourth grade, I was asked to take over the lower grade class. No teacher was willing to take over the lower grades, because the children were younger and did not follow instructions as well, and it was much more challenging than the upper grades. But, I was a Dafa practitioner, so I knew I should follow the school principal’s arrangement.
When the parents of my original class found out, they went to see the principal and wanted to keep me as their children’s teacher. One of the school administrators said to one of the parents, “Why do you care? Your child is so naughty and his grades are not good.” This parent said, “Although grades are important, the character of a good teacher can affect the child’s life. How can we let such a good teacher go?” The principal excused himself for a meeting and told the parents to go home. The parents walked to the playground and did not leave, drenched in the rain, waiting for the principal. I was touched by their attitude.
I thought the school had already made its decision, so I walked the parents out of the school and a dozen of them gathered around me crying. With tears in my eyes, I gave each parent a card with VPN information and told them to take advantage of it when they get home, as this would enable them to circumvent the Chinese regime’s internet firewall, see the real news and change their life.
I told them that I was not like this before, but that Falun Dafa had changed me, and that Falun Dafa’s Master had taught me to be a person who puts others before myself. Before my job change, I helped all 42 students in my class withdraw from the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) Young Pioneers organization. Master encouraged me by allowing me to meet the Taoist sage Lao Tzu afterwards in another dimension (with his hair in a bun and a duster in his hand).
The principal approached me again, in the fall of 2020, just one month into the school year. He said that a first grade teacher, a new graduate, found it hard to manage the class. The parents complained to the school every day asking for a different teacher and suggested that I was the best candidate.
But the parents from my current class would not agree. They said, “Where can I find a teacher like her? She does not take gifts (bribes), she does not tutor outside school to make extra money, and she genuinely cares about the children.” The principal said, “I will place a teacher with a higher qualification in the class.” A parent representative said, “Even a Ph.D. would not matter to us. A caring teacher is more important. Why are you removing her?”
Another parent said, “Two years ago, at a school sports meet, a child pooped in his pants and Teacher Aixin (meaning me) cleaned him up. I was very touched. We can rest assured if our child is in this teacher’s hands!”
Another parent said, “Although I had never met with this teacher, I am impressed with the corrections in my child’s homework book, and the teacher’s responses in the parents’ WeChat group about the school policies during the pandemic. She was patient and thorough. I could feel the teacher’s kindness, so I wanted to keep this teacher.”
I know that my teaching and nurturing skills are due to the mighty virtue of Falun Dafa. Master Li Hongzhi’s teachings have transformed me into a new person; I do not desire for anything that does not come my way, and I think of others first, all the time.
Many of My Relatives Were Saved
Because of Master’s merciful arrangement, many of my relatives have been saved.
My Son
I had repeatedly told my son the facts about Falun Dafa and the persecution, and advised him to quit the CCP, but he wouldn’t listen. After six months of internship following his graduation from university, he got a job maintaining the coal conveyor belt in a coal mine. Having witnessed the death of 24 workers in an underground accident, he was so traumatized that he couldn’t sleep, often waking up in the middle of the night.
When he came home during the holidays, I showed him the photos of the “stone with hidden words” in Pingtang County in Guizhou Province, that has the naturally-engraved words “Chinese Communist Party Is Dead,” and told him about the staged “Tiananmen self-immolation” hoax. This time he wanted to quit the CCP’s Communist Youth League, and carry a Dafa amulet on him. When my son took the amulet from me, I got tears in my eyes, knowing that it was Master’s arrangement for my son to be saved. I couldn’t stop saying, “Thank you, Master!”
Two years later, my son left his underground job and got a sales job. Now he has long since returned home and is his own boss.
My Third Brother
Five years ago, my third brother was seriously ill with advanced lung cancer and stomach cancer. Speaking of this brother and his wife, they are notorious for being bad people. They didn’t get along with my parents or the other siblings, and even their neighbors disliked them.
Before he died, I gave my brother a copy of Zhuan Falun to read. After reading it, he cried out loudly, saying that his illness was due to karma from doing too many bad things. He also confessed that he had been bad to his parents and urged his wife to be a good person in the future and not to steal from others.
My third brother was 68 years old. My parents could not straighten him out, and even the loss of his son in middle age did not change him, but the Dafa book changed him. How great is Master Li! How great is Falun Dafa! And yet, such a highly virtuous Dafa, which teaches people to be good, is being slandered and persecuted by the evil CCP regime. This will be condemned by Heaven.
My Second Brother
My second brother, who was honest and simple, passed out due to carbon monoxide poisoning one day. After three days in the hospital, he survived, but was left with pulmonary heart disease. In the winter, he could not go out and suffered from asthma.
When my second brother heard that my third brother cried out in repentance after reading Zhuan Falun just once, he wondered what kind of book it was and wanted to read it as well. As soon as he read it, he started to practice Falun Dafa. In no time, he recovered from his illness. Now, at the age of 77, he can still work in the fields and do other farm work.
My Niece
My second brother’s eldest daughter had kidney disease. Due to the excessive use of steroids, her lungs were damaged and she contracted white lung. She had been put on two ventilators to save her life, but could not be resuscitated. Her doctor finally gave her a death notice, and she lay on her deathbed, her body covered by a funeral shroud. I helped her sincerely recite the words, “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good,” and she recovered.
My Third Sister
My third sister is 70 years old. During the COVID pandemic, while her husband and people around her all got infected, she was fine because she kept repeating “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good” all the time.
My Eldest Sister and Her Son
My eldest sister believes in Buddhism. Every time I told her why she should quit the CCP, she would reprimand me and tell me not to get into trouble. I went to visit my elder sister again in 2015, during the time that Dafa practitioners were filing lawsuits against Jiang Zemin, the former CCP head who initiated the persecution.
My sister has a cognitively-challenged son who is 41 years old. He could not take care of himself, had the IQ of a one-year-old child, and could only speak a few words. I patiently clarified the truth to my sister’s family, and told them that about 210,000 people across the country had sued Jiang, about how he had sold out the country and staged the “Tiananmen self-immolation” to smear Falun Dafa, and about the importance of quitting the CCP.
My nephew didn’t say a word, so I took a Dafa amulet and tried to put it on him, but he was drooling all over his body and I couldn’t find a clean spot. I found a new Ziploc bag, put the amulet in it and put it in his jacket pocket. I took his hand and said, “Dear nephew, remember that Falun Dafa is good and Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good. Dafa’s Master told me to wake you up. When the Fa rectifies the human world, we will go home with Master.”
As soon as the words left my mouth, my nephew unexpectedly grabbed me with both hands and suddenly burst into tears. I knew that his knowing side had waited for this moment for so long. I also sobbed uncontrollably, and said, “Everyone in the world come for this Dafa. In order not to create karma, you would rather be reincarnated as a mentally challenged person and just wait here.”
When my sister saw this, she said, “It appears this is true. I will withdraw from the CCP’s Youth League. Sister, you should withdraw our whole family!” I replied, “They must agree in person for it to count.”
(Selected Submission Celebrating the 24th World Falun Dafa Day on the Minghui website)
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