(Minghui.org) I began practicing Falun Dafa in 1997, and now I am 76 years old. Over the past 29 years of practice, Master has given his disciples so much. As the 27th World Falun Dafa Day approaches, I would like to share some stories about my perspectives on loss and gain.
Losing Ownership of the First Apartment
In 1995, while I was living with my parents, my son was about to graduate from college. My siblings suggested that my son find a job in our city so that my parents could often see their grandson.
I agreed and purchased a preowned apartment of over 100 square meters in the city center, with my son’s name on the property deed. However, after graduation, he became a civil servant in the city where my husband worked, about 100 miles away from my parents’ home. My son was very happy with his job.
After spending nearly all our savings on the apartment, my husband and I planned to sell it. However, my parents persuaded us to lend it to my younger sister, who was running a business in that city. Since she lived in a rural area, her daily commute was long and exhausting. Despite the financial burden, we decided to honor our parents’ wishes and kept the apartment.
In 2004, my younger sister and her husband lost not only the hundreds of thousands of yuan they earned, but also accumulated significant gambling debts. Without my knowledge, she called my son and asked him to go to the city, instructing him to bring his property deed and ID card. She claimed that the city housing department needed to verify the documents.
Trusting her completely, my son did as he was told. He signed every document she presented and affixed his fingerprint where required, unknowingly completing the transfer of ownership. Afterward, my sister asked him to leave the documents with her, saying it would be more convenient if any further paperwork was needed.
After transferring the property into her own name, she sold the apartment to pay off her gambling debts. By that time, housing prices had risen substantially, and to this day we still do not know how much the apartment was sold for.
Knowing she could not keep the matter secret forever, she confessed the truth to my mother a few months later. My mother was so upset that she fell seriously ill. After all, it had been her idea to let my sister live there in the first place. She never imagined her daughter would do such a thing.
She cried as she scolded my younger sister, “Your sister and brother-in-law work so hard to make a living, they saved every penny for this apartment, and you squandered it all…” My husband was furious as well. At that time, I had already been practicing Falun Dafa for several years. Although I felt a little sad, I understood the principle of cause and effect.
I comforted my mother, and gently urged my younger sister to be upright and stop gambling. My sister knew that we weren’t well off. At that time, our factory was on the verge of closing, my husband was suffering from a terminal illness, and we had spent a lot on medical bills. Our lives were very difficult.
Just when our financial situation was at its most dire, my daughter-in-law, who was doing business in another city, called me, “My business has been going exceptionally well lately; don’t worry about our future.” I knew it was Master who helped his disciple, and my family also knew that my practice of Falun Dafa has brought blessings to our household. Thank you, Master!
Once during a family gathering at my parents’ home, I shared the facts about Falun Dafa. I spoke about the Chinese Communist Party’s persecution of Falun Gong and explained that when one person practices, the whole family benefits.
My younger sister, who had been deceived by the CCP’s propaganda, said, “What does your practice have to do with me?”
I replied, “Sister, how could it not concern you? Don’t you remember how you got through your troubles? I haven’t asked you to pay back what you owe to me. If I hadn’t practiced Falun Gong, I wouldn’t have let you off the hook, after all, the mortgage payments aren’t a small sum…” Everyone present witnessed my physical and mental changes after practicing Falun Gong, and they urged my younger sister not to speak recklessly.
Eventually, through my constant, patient and kind persuasion, my younger sister finally came to her senses. She repeatedly told her friends, “Listen to my sister: you can love your country, but you must not love the Party.” She quit gambling, and ran the business with her husband to make a living. Her son quit the CCP and its associated organizations and was blessed: he was admitted to a graduate school and, after graduation, secured a well-paying job.
Losing Ownership of the Second Apartment
My husband and I were employed at the same factory. In 1997, we were allocated a 100-square-meter apartment in accordance with the regulations of housing reforms. Since it was subsidized housing, it was much cheaper than commercial housing. We only had to pay 20,000 yuan for it.
In the spring of 1999, a friend told us that housing prices might rise soon. Considering my son would need an apartment after he got married, we bought a preowned apartment in the city center, using all of our savings.
My husband’s older brother and his wife retired in 2001 and returned to their hometown. His parents were in their eighties, and his three children also returned to look for new jobs. With the whole family back, there simply wasn’t enough room in the house.
When he learned that we had two apartments, he approached us and asked us to give up our factory subsidized housing so that his family could live there. He said he would pay us the original price of 20,000 yuan.
We were deeply conflicted, and really didn’t want it give it up. At that time, housing prices had already risen, and 20,000 yuan for a 100-square-meter apartment was not enough to buy an apartment even in the countryside. Moreover, my son was about to get married, and he needed a placed to live.
However, as a practitioner, I believe that I should first think of others. My husband’s older brother had lived away for decades, but they now had the chance to be close to family again. If they couldn’t find a place to live, they would be torn apart again. In the end, we calmly handed over the property deed.
In early 2006, my husband passed away due to illness. By 2009, real estate prices had skyrocketed. The older brother was worried I might try to reclaim the house, given that his brother had died. The property title was never transferred, and my husband had not left a will. By any reasonable standard, I was fully entitled to reclaim the house and return the 20,000 yuan to him.
However, as a Falun Dafa practitioner, I knew what I should do. I went with the older brother to the housing authority without hesitation and completed the property transfer procedures.
Word of my positive attitude toward losing two homes spread among my family and friends. Some called me foolish, while others said that Falun Gong practitioners are truly different. Yes, two apartments are worth quite a bit these days, but I have no regrets. In exchange for those two apartments, my loved ones have come to recognize the truth of Falun Dafa, and their lives have been saved. Now, not only are my relatives supportive, but also those on my husband’s side have come to believe in Falun Dafa.
When I was detained for my faith, my husband’s brother and his son went to the police station to demand my release. My nephew even got into a physical altercation with a policeman. After the publication of Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, almost all my relatives who had once joined the CCP and its organizations withdrew their memberships. My relatives’ support for Falun Dafa and their acts of kindness have all been rewarded with blessings.
In our extended family, the older generation enjoy long lives, with more than a dozen in their eighties and nineties. Among the younger generation, those in business are thriving, and university graduates have secured good jobs. They all know that Falun Dafa is good and that it saves people. When buying a new car, their first thought is to hang the pendant I gave to them, which reads, “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.”
I am infinitely grateful to Master for His compassionate salvation!
(Selected submission in celebration of 2026 World Falun Dafa Day on Minghui.org)
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