My Cultivation Dissolved My Family’s Misunderstanding

(Minghui.org) I’m a 66-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner who resides in the South China countryside. I started cultivating in 2004. Sometimes I did well on my cultivation path, and sometimes I didn’t. 

I would like to take this opportunity to tell Master about my cultivation, as well as share my experience with fellow practitioners. Due to my limited education level, and lack of group cultivation environment, my understanding of the Fa may be limited.

After I started cultivating I faced tribulations a few days after I stepped on the cultivation path. My husband refused to listen to my clarifying the truth about Falun Dafa. He got mad at me for studying the Fa and doing the exercises and beat me. I thought, “I won’t listen to you. I have made up my mind to do the exercises and study the Fa.” I suffered from more than 10 chronic diseases. Taking medicine did not help me, but I recovered from my diseases within 15 days after I started my cultivation. Why should I stop practicing Dafa? 

I didn’t have any deep understanding of the Fa initially. I only knew that practicing Falun Dafa had improved my health. It wasn’t until later that I gained an understanding of the principles of the Fa. When farm work wasn’t too busy in the latter half of the year, I studied the Fa during the day. What’s written in the book was completely new to me, such as Master’s teaching about looking within, and thinking of life from other people’s perspective.

My husband said that he wouldn’t share the blanket with me if I insisted on practicing Falun Dafa one winter day in 2014. He took away my cotton-padded top blanket. All I had on was one thin blanket. I didn’t get upset, but asked Master for his help. I felt warm that night, even warmer than having two blankets on me. 

Sometimes, my husband kicked me off the bed. He got so afraid on hearing that I had clarified the facts of Falun Dafa that he beat me and cursed at me. He threatened me with divorce so that he would no longer hold fear in his mind. 

I had been taken to a forced labor camp for 18 months and taken to two brainwashing classes. My husband, my parents-in-law and my son had lived under tremendous pressure. Whenever any police officers came to harass me at my home, my husband and in-laws beat me. My father-in-law told my husband, “What’s the point of keeping such a wife? Hurry up and divorce her to avoid further trouble.” They had been deceived by the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) lies and refused to acknowledge that Falun Dafa was a great spiritual practice, and that cultivators followed Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance.

My father-in-law suffered a stroke one day in 2019. We took him to a hospital in the city. My husband’s three sisters and brothers-in-law came to see their father in the hospital. My second brother-in-law said, “It’s the son’s and daughter-in-law’s responsibility to take care of parents.” All of them left. I asked my husband if he would like to take the early-night shift or late-night shift. He said, “Early night. I can’t do late night.” I said, “Fine.” For five days in a row, I took care of my father-in-law at night. A doctor asked me, “What’s your relationship with the patient?” I told her that he was my father-in-law. She was amazed, “You are so kind and have so much energy!” 

I took good care of my father-in-law as if he were my own father until he passed away. My husband’s family was grateful. My mother-in-law said, “She (referring to me) has a good conscience, though we haven’t treated her well.” My second brother-in-law said, “She is the best daughter-in-law! I would like to invite a news reporter to interview her.” No reporter came after hearing that I practice Falun Dafa. I told my second brother-in-law that I did it because I’m a Falun Dafa practitioner, and that’s not what you had heard on television. I told him many things about Falun Dafa and helped him quit the CCP organizations he had joined.

I have memorized Master’s scriptures, such as Hong Yin , and how fellow practitioners had clarified the truth. I recited Master’s poems to my fellow villagers when I clarified the truth to them. I told them to repeat “Falun Dafa is great, and Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is great!” Many of them have learned the truth and quit the CCP and its affiliated organizations.