A Doctor’s Three-Year Journey of Practicing Falun Dafa

(Minghui.org) I have been practicing Falun Dafa for three years. With a heart full of gratitude and reverence for Master Li, I would like to share my experiences, and those of others around me who have benefited from practicing Dafa, to bear witness to the incredible effects of Falun Dafa.

Killing Generates Karma and Harm—Obtaining Dafa Brings Enlightenment and Relief

As an obstetrician and gynecologist with a busy work schedule and marital issues, I suffered from chronic migraines, cervical spondylosis, insomnia, uterine fibroids, breast hyperplasia, allergic rhinitis, and other conditions.

Years of chronic pain left me looking haggard, and feeling physically and mentally exhausted. Although I am a doctor with extensive medical knowledge about disease treatment and health maintenance, I have tried Western medicine, herbal remedies, and physical exercise to relieve my health issues without success.

I converted to Buddhism in 2016 and became a lay Buddhist, seeking a path within the Buddhist tradition to achieve mental and physical wellness. After my conversion, I realized that illness stems from one’s karma, and that performing abortions constitutes the grave offense of taking life. Reflecting on the numerous abortions I have performed during my medical career, I was filled with fear and anxiety, and vowed never to carry out that procedure again.

I burned incense every day and worshiped the Buddha with devotion, recited Buddhist scriptures, and frequently participated in temple rituals. On the first and fifteenth days of each lunar month, I released living small animals, and every evening, I copied Buddhist scriptures with reverence, hoping to atone for and repay the debt I have incurred from killing.

Several years passed, however, and although my state of mind changed somewhat, I still felt profound remorse for taking lives through the abortions I had performed in the past. I did not know how to eliminate the immense karma I incurred, and I doubted whether I could still practice Buddhism. My heart was filled with confusion and helplessness, and my physical ailments persisted.

Three years ago, I met with a friend who was a Dafa disciple. Her profound knowledge, and kind, humble words and actions were like a spring breeze that awakened me. She gave in-depth and easy-to-understand explanations on a variety of subjects, from traditional Chinese culture to modern Western civilization, from the limitations of modern Western medicine to the breadth of traditional Chinese medicine, and ultimately to the truth about Falun Dafa and its persecution.

After hearing the facts, I understood that Falun Dafa is a Buddha-school practice that teaches people to be good, and cultivates the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance in daily life.

After reading Zhuan Falun, I felt that Falun Dafa was a ray of light that helped me see clarity and hope.

After I started practicing Falun Dafa, I understood the seriousness of cultivation through Fa study. Master taught us that cultivators must not take life.

“An abortion during pregnancy is killing.” (“Fa Teaching Given at a Meeting in New York,” Teachings at Conferences in the United States)

I now understand the preciousness of the Fa even more deeply. As long as one cultivates sincerely and acts like a true cultivator, the karmic debts incurred before obtaining Dafa, including killing lives, will be borne and repaid by Master. Everything will be arranged, and there is no need to worry or fear that one cannot cultivate successfully. One needs to let go of the past and cultivate wholeheartedly.

The long-standing emotional knot troubling me was thus untangled. I often think: With so many people practicing Dafa worldwide, how much karma must Master be bearing for us disciples?

In today’s society, influenced by modern distorted ideas like atheism and sexual liberation, young women generally do not understand traditional gender roles and values, are unaware of the importance of traditional marriage, cannot properly regard chastity or protect their bodies, and view sexual behavior and abortion very casually.

Society openly promotes abortion as an easy and convenient solution to a problem. It encourages and guides young women who have lost their virginity to have abortions. Hospitals even consider the procedure a significant source of revenue.

After I began practicing Falun Dafa, I did my best to dissuade every woman who came to me for an abortion. I explained the risks of abortion from both medical and karmic perspectives. If I couldn’t deter them, I would refer them to another doctor for the procedure and even refund their registration fees.

Over the years, performing abortions has become the primary source of income for obstetricians and nurses. Because I now refuse to perform this procedure, my income has decreased significantly. Seeing how calm I am about it, my colleagues find it difficult to understand. They think that in this day and age, I should not cling to feudal superstitions that cause me to lose income.

Some people complained behind my back, claiming that they had lost money because of me. When the director learned about this, he thought I was shirking my responsibilities, and specifically called me in for a talk, saying I had given a bad impression of the hospital.

Faced with my colleagues’ and superiors’ misunderstanding, I thought to myself, “I am a Falun Dafa practitioner. As a practitioner, I deeply feel the immense karma that Master has taken for me, and know that he continues to cleanse my body. How could I possibly kill a living being again?” Over the past three years, I have remained committed to my decision despite pressure from hospital management and my colleagues.

Interestingly, the hospital held a meeting in March 2025 to deliver a notice from the National Health Commission. Because of the sharp decline in the birth rate in mainland China, all hospital obstetrics and gynecology departments nationwide were required to stop performing abortions.

Patients seeking abortions were to be persuaded as often as possible to carry their pregnancy to term to increase the national birth rate. To achieve this, bonuses were to be established to reward hospitals, departments, and staff members who performed fewer abortions.

Upon hearing this news, our department was in an uproar. This would significantly reduce everyone’s income, and like me, no one would perform abortions anymore.

Through this incident, I have come to realize even more deeply that everything in this world is transient and that only the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance are eternal and unchanging.

Looking Within in Solid Cultivation, Transformed and Reborn

As I studied the Fa more deeply, I gradually became aware of many of my problems. Under the long-term influence of the evil party’s culture, I had become very aggressive and competitive at work, often thought I was right, and sometimes went to extremes, lacked tolerance, and so on. These attachments and notions had to be eliminated from my daily life and work. Dafa requires cultivators to consider others first in everything they do, and to look inward for the source of problems.

Once, during a department meeting, I used a colleague as an example while explaining something. After the meeting, she approached me looking displeased and said, “You always use me as an example. What will others think?” I immediately realized that I had failed to consider her feelings and had unintentionally hurt her. I sincerely apologized to her, saying, “I’m sorry. This was my oversight. I apologize.”

The next day, she approached me with a smile and some snacks, saying she had overreacted yesterday. I suddenly appreciated the wisdom contained in Master’s article, “Pacify the External by Cultivating the Internal.”

Upon meeting me, a friend who hadn’t seen me for a while said, “She’s like a completely different person—she’s changed so much, it’s like she’s been reborn.”

Clarify the Truth and Benefit More People

Falun Dafa has also benefited my family and those around me. My 80-year-old mother has seen the remarkable changes in me over the past three years and is genuinely delighted for me. She knows that all of this is a gift from Master Li.

She understands the truth and agreed to let me help her remove the photos of evil spirits and other CCP elements from our home. I taught her to recite “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good” every day, with sincerity. Her high blood pressure and heart disease have since improved, she rarely takes medication, and she can do daily household chores without feeling tired. Her neighbors envy her peaceful mental state.

In December 2024, a high incidence of respiratory illnesses among children occurred in my city. The emergency room and pediatric ward of our hospital were crowded with children experiencing fevers and coughs. My one-year-old granddaughter developed a high fever one night, and my son called me to accompany them to the hospital.

I am a doctor and know that pediatricians don’t have a magic bullet to treat this condition. Although my son and his wife understand the truth and have quit the Chinese Communist Party, they hadn’t witnessed the wonders of Falun Dafa.

I accompanied them to the hospital for an examination and some tests. After returning home and taking the medicine, it did not work. The baby’s temperature rose to 41°C (106°F), and she was close to unconsciousness. My daughter-in-law was so anxious that she wanted to rush to a large hospital in another city that night.

I thought that not only would it torment the baby to travel in the middle of the night, but there would be nothing to help her even if we took her there. But they were ordinary people who didn’t practice cultivation after all, so my approach had to conform to ordinary people’s reasoning and make them understand.

So, I consulted with pediatric specialists from the province and city via video conferences. The experts all said that only the symptoms of this condition could be treated, and that there was no specific medication for it.

I thought, “The opportunity to validate the Fa has arrived.” So I held my granddaughter in my arms and knelt before Master’s portrait, begging Master to save her. In less than three minutes, the heat left her body, and she began to cool down. She woke up and called out, “Daddy, Mommy!” When my son picked her up, he exclaimed, “She’s cool! Her fever is gone.” The next day, the baby was back to normal. My son said, “Falun Dafa is so powerful!”

As disciples of Falun Gong, it is our mission to save sentient beings. Master always arranges for those with a predestined connection to be saved.

I recently examined a farmer who was 39 years old. I diagnosed her with cervical cancer. I wanted to save her, so before the surgery, I told her that only gods and Buddhas can save people, and that, as a doctor, I have witnessed many cancer patients who did not recover after surgery and chemotherapy, ultimately losing both their lives and their wealth.

During our conversation, I kept up my righteous thoughts, spoke sincerely, kindly, and entirely from her perspective. She understood the truth and quit the CCP and its related organizations. I reminded her to sincerely recite, “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good” before and after the surgery. The surgery went smoothly. The next day, she looked much more relaxed than others who had undergone surgery that day. She nodded gently to me to express her gratitude for my guidance. I knew that it was Master who saved her life.

There are numerous examples of the wonders of Dafa, too many to list. Whenever I think of what Master has endured and sacrificed to save all beings, I cannot help but shed tears.

I cry every time I read the article “Our Master.” When I was talking about Dafa with a former lay Buddhist friend, I read her some excerpts from the article. During the process, I choked up and couldn’t speak. My friend found it hard to believe that such a master-disciple relationship could exist in this day and age.

In fact, she didn’t know that in Falun Dafa cultivation, Master said in “Master-Disciple Grace” (Hong Yin II):

“... Master and disciples have no use for sentiment,Buddha’s grace transforms heaven and earth....”

Our Master came to save people. He selflessly gives everything to his disciples and silently endures their hardships. However, the Chinese Communist Party spread rumors that our Master used his disciples to amass wealth, and that he owned luxury cars and mansions. Ultimately, the CCP itself discovered that our Master had no wealth, no house, and no car.

Master leads a simple life, has a strong will, and sets a good example for everyone. He truly cares about his disciple’s lives and cultivation states, as well as Dafa’s projects dedicated to saving people. Sentient beings! With such a Master and this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, how can we disciples not feel grateful and shed tears? When faced with the CCP’s slander and defamation of Master, how can disciples tolerate it? How can we not stand up for our compassionate and great Master?

Thank you, Master! Thank you, fellow practitioners!