(Clearwisdom.net) I am a 75-year-old practitioner who first learned about Falun Dafa in 1998 and have practiced for over ten years.
Before I started the practice, I had three major surgeries and was able to walk only with the help of a cane. I previously smoked three packs of cigarettes and swallowed many handfuls of pills every day. After I read Zhuan Falun for the first time, I no longer felt like smoking. In fact, I felt awful after I smoked. I soon recovered from my surgeries and I was riding my bike all over town.
After the persecution started in 1999, someone advised me to stop the practice. I simply told her about the miracles of Falun Dafa. When someone else suggested that I practice another religion, I refused and told him I would practice nothing other than Falun Dafa. I was saddened that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) would not allow me to be a good person. Dafa has saved my life, and I will never change my belief, no matter what the CCP does. I thank Teacher, who has made me who I am today.
While constantly studying the Fa, I started doing Dafa work fearlessly and consistently. Without validating the Fa, we are not practitioners. It is my mission and responsibility to follow Teacher's instructions and save sentient beings.
"Clarifying the facts" of the persecution of Falun Dafa and helping people to quit the CCP are what Teacher arranged for me to do. Once when I was on my way home from distributing Falun Dafa fliers, I ran into a retired military doctor who was watching his grandson. I gave them some amulets (1) and asked him whether he had quit the CCP yet. He told me he was unable to make up his mind. I told him that we were descendants of the Yellow Emperor, rather than of Marx and Lenin. I said that we all have to make wise choices in order to protect our futures and that God is watching us. He quickly gave himself an alias and quit the CCP.
My supervisors at work knew that Falun Dafa was good. When high level CCP officials threatened them with their jobs if practitioners were found in their units, they still decided not to give me up. When the police started checking every household for Falun Gong materials, my son and husband wanted me to pack up my things and leave. I told them not to be afraid of anyone and sat on my bed to meditate. In the end, no one came to our house.
Once someone reported me to the police, and my family panicked, fearing that the police would come to search the house. My only thought was that I would have a good chance to clarify the facts of the persecution to the police if they really came, but the police never showed up.
Teacher asks us for nothing but to be true practitioners. I will do the three things well to show my gratitude for Teacher's compassionate salvation.
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(1) Amulets - In China, practitioners sometimes clarify the truth by giving people something small to wear or cherish, bearing a few words reminding them of the goodness of Dafa.
