(Minghui.org) I’ve practiced Falun Dafa for more than 20 years. Without Master’s compassion and protection, I would not have been able to make it to today. No words can express my gratitude!
In 1999, only four months after I began practicing, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began its frenzied persecution of Falun Dafa. Because I spoke up for Falun Dafa, I was taken to a brainwashing center in 2000. My father-in-law was the director of a state-owned enterprise and was well-known in our area. He was angry and anxious, because he was afraid he’d also be persecuted by the CCP. He was worried that his daughter would suffer, so he went to the brainwashing center to try to persuade me to stop practicing.
I firmly believed in Master and Dafa, so I refused. My father-in-law was so upset that he had a stroke and died. My relatives and friends blamed me for his death. My wife was so sad that she constantly wept. My mother-in-law threatened to slap me with her shoe, and my brother-in-law who was a soldier, said he would shoot me. The brainwashing center gave me three days off to attend my father-in-law’s funeral. At the funeral my relatives and friends said they would bury me alive.
For more than 10 years, I lived under intense pressure. My wife forbade me from studying the Fa or doing the exercises. She often scolded me. In the past eight years, due to fear, I only read Zhuan Falun, but not Master’s new lectures. I didn’t clarify the truth or send forth righteous thoughts. When Master’s new lecture, “My Version of a ‘Stick Wake-Up’” was published, I didn’t read it. Local practitioners repeatedly talked with me and encouraged me. One practitioner showed me a truth-clarification movie, which touched me. At home, a large piece of tile on the wall suddenly fell. I was shocked and thought, “This means that my cultivation has fallen,” I realized I had to reflect on myself.
Practitioners gave me a video copy of the lecture Master gave to Australian practitioners and a bound version of Master’s recent teachings. Finally, in 2009, I started walking on the path of Fa-rectification cultivation and I began to clarify the truth. Every day, I sent forth righteous thoughts to eliminate the evil factors behind my wife and family that interfered with their being saved. My wife began to gradually change.
When my wife was in shock due to drug allergy and she vomited, I shouted, “Master,” and begged Master to save her. She immediately woke up and I knew compassionate saved her. Because my wife interfered with my cultivation, I developed a grudge against her, and this resentment lingered for more than ten years. I had a very clear dream in which Master was standing at a podium and teaching the Fa. I was sitting at the lectern. Master smiled and stretched out his hand to me. I immediately held Master’s hand. Master smiled and asked me, “How is your wife? Is she okay?” I said, “She’s fine.” Master asked, “Did you bring her here?” When I woke up, I burst into tears and was touched by Master’s compassion. He helped me get rid of my resentment. Since then, my resentment towards my wife vanished.
Master’s compassionate smile often comes to my mind, encouraging me to get out of the difficulties step by step, and telling me to cherish the predestined relationship between husband and wife. Master asked me many times to save my wife and her family. Since then, I have strictly follow the principle of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, working for my family without regrets, taking care of my wife and children, helping my wife’s family, and doing my best to help them with whatever they need.
When my wife was sick I got up at 3 a.m. to go to the hospital to line up for my wife to register for a specialist. Her brother had a second child. So, my wife had to stay with them and help his family take care of the children during the week. On the weekend, I picked her up and we drove dozens of miles back and forth every week. We did not ask her brother for wages for three years, and I paid for the gas. I had no complaints.
When my mother-in-law was hospitalized, I took care of her every day. Her children and daughters-in-law did not help. At that time, I broke my hip, and my leg hurt. I sometimes had resentment. Then I remembered Master’s teachings that one should honor one’s parents. I reminded myself I was a practitioner and happily took care of my mother-in-law.
My wife and her family gradually changed their attitude toward Dafa and me.
Gradually, my wife stopped interfering with my cultivation and agreed that Dafa was good. She used to get angry when I mentioned Falun Dafa to others or if I talked with fellow practitioners. Sometimes she even beat me, but now she often praises me in front of relatives and friends and says how good I am. She also benefited from Dafa, her stomach cancer was cured. Our neighbors praise us and say we are a loving couple. My son also recognizes that Dafa is good. He is now studying for a doctorate at a prestigious university. My mother-in-law, who is nearly 80 years old and in good health, treats me as her son and says that I’m, “A good person.” My brother-in-law who previously threatened to shoot me said that I was a man of faith.
My mother, who was once miserable, began practicing Falun Dafa. She’s now nearly 80 years old, is healthy and able to work in the fields. My younger brother also supported Dafa. When my sister who is a practitioner, was homeless due to the persecution, my younger brother took her in. My younger sister and brother-in-law both say Dafa as good. When my sister was persecuted, they tried their best to rescue her. Now their family is harmonious and happy. A few years ago, my uncle was diagnosed with rectal cancer and emphysema. The hospital couldn’t help him so he went home to die. I told him to say, “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” He did, and he is now well. He is nearly 70 years old and travels a lot. My family and friends have benefited because they know Falun Dafa is good.
Last September, I fell from the pomegranate tree in front our house while I was picking fruit. I passed out, my head was injured and I bled. When I woke up half an hour later I could not move my left leg, but my right leg was fine. I thought it would not affect my driving and working with other practitioners to do things to save people. An examination showed that my hip and some ribs were fractured. I immediately recited: “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good,” and asked Master to help me. The doctor said I might need surgery. I didn’t want to undergo surgery, but I wasn’t sure.
As soon as the other practitioners heard the news, they came to the hospital and reminded me to have faith in Master and the Fa, deny the old forces’ persecution, and look inward. I regretted that I did not cherish the time Master gave me. I liked to watch videos on my phone, and I hadn’t eliminated lust. Because I did not do the three things diligently the old forces took advantage of my loopholes.
Through this incident, I was alerted that cultivation is serious. I must be strict with myself, I can’t treat myself as a patient. I asked Master to bless me so I’d be discharged from the hospital early. I was discharged from the hospital a few days later. After a month of studying the Fa, I was able to walk. Now I’m able to move freely and coordinate with fellow practitioners to save sentient beings. I am grateful for Master’s compassion and fellow practitioners’ selfless help!