(Clearwisdom.net) Having a body and life are the two most important elements of a human being. Only by having a life and a body can one have something else. I want to share with you the secret of how to keep your body healthy and your life safe, so you can be healthy, safe, and happy.

There is saying, that if one truly wants to know how a pear tastes, one needs to taste it for him or herself. If one just listens to others' words, who say, "that is bitter" or "this is sweet," and then believes it, this person has already lost his personal judgment. If one just listens to the story told from one side, one can easily be deceived by lies, get lost, and thus do wrong things.

For example, before July 20, 1999, there were millions of people practicing Falun Gong. Why? It was because many who had long suffered from chronic and even incurable illnesses, who went everywhere seeking to cure their illnesses but failed, who had given up, finally waiting at home for their imminent death, had miraculously recovered from their illnesses after they practiced Falun Gong for several months or even several days. There are many such cases. I may not believe what others have said or the accounts of these cures that I've read in books, but I do believe what I have personally witnessed and experienced to be genuinely true.

Twelve years ago, a member of my family, Aunt Liu Yao, was diagnosed by the Central Hospital of Panzhihua City in Sichuan Province to be suffering from lung cancer. At the time of the diagnosis, the cancer was already in its terminal phase. The doctors were convinced that there was no point in seeking any further treatments for Aunt Liu, so they told her family to just take her home and make her funeral arrangements. So in great sadness, her family took her back home. This took place during the time that Falun Gong was being spread in Miyi County of Sichuan Province. Hearing about a local workshop being given, Aunt Liu and her daughter attended it to learn the Falun Gong exercises. She started to sincerely cultivate in Falun Dafa. Two months later, all the symptoms of her terminal illness were gone. When she returned to the Central Hospital for a check-up, her cancerous lung and all the other afflicted parts of her body were found to be healthy and clean; the cancer cells had disappeared. The doctors were astonished. Today Aunt Liu is still alive and quite healthy!

Ms. Wu Weiyu had had a hunchbacked body for twenty years and she was in pain all the time. She could not straighten her back and was always bent at a nearly 90-degree angle. She went to several places for treatments, spent a fortune, and took many, many medications, but despite all her efforts, there were absolutely no signs that her condition was getting any better. On December 22, 1998, she started to cultivate in Falun Dafa. On the morning of December 25, as she was practicing the second exercise, The Falun Standing Stance, and she was Holding the Wheel in Front of [her] Head, she suddenly felt the bones in her spine begin to make crackling noises, and along with the sound, her body started to slowly become upright and straight. She had cultivated Falun Dafa for only three days, but her twenty-year long hunchbacked condition was cured. Everyone who witnessed this miracle was shocked and moved to tears.

The famous Chinese tenor, Guan Guimin, suffered from cirrhosis that was in its terminal phase. He had tried all kinds of treatments and qigong, but his illness was not cured at all. He felt that both his artistic career and his life were coming to an end. After cultivating in Falun Dafa, he has truly felt what it means to have a healthy body and mind. By practicing Falun Dafa, he has not only completely recovered but also returned to the stage, performing once again.

One eighteen-year-old girl, who worked at a job in Sichuan Province far away from her home, was severely injured in a car accident. Emergency treatment saved her life, but she had lapsed into a vegetative state. Her parents went everywhere, seeking treatments for her. But in the end, besides having spent a huge sum on medical expenses, the whole family was terribly depressed and suffering. The local practitioners told them that by sincerely reciting "Falun Dafa is good, Truth-Compassion-Forbearance is good," they could certainly save their daughter. They followed the practitioners' suggestion, and started to sincerely recite "Falun Dafa is good, Truth-Compassion-Forbearance is good." After they had done this for one year, a miracle occurred: their daughter recovered from the injury and her body became normal again.

There is a Chinese navy officer whose wife is Falun Gong practitioner. She often told him about the persecution of Falun Gong as well as the nine Chinese characters that can save people's lives. One day, when the navy officer commanded the ship on an assignment at sea, they suddenly encountered a hurricane and they lost control of their ship. At that critical moment, the officer remembered what his wife had told him about the nine Chinese characters, "Falun Dafa is good, Truth-Compassion-Forbearance is good." He immediately and loudly shouted, "Falun Dafa is good! Truth-Compassion-Forbearance is good! Master Li Hongzhi, please save us. My wife is your disciple!" After he shouted this several times, the wind stopped, and so did the rain. Everyone on the ship was saved.

My friend Zhou suffered from insomnia for over ten years. He also suffered from an illness that caused chronic diarrhea for nine years. He had gone to several places for treatments and taken all kinds of medicines, but his illnesses were still there. After he watched Master's Fa Lecture video for several hours, he slept very soundly that evening; he did not wake up until morning came. His years of suffering from insomnia had ended. One month later, his diarrhea was also gone and he has not had a single relapse. There are many such examples, too many to be enumerated here.

Now I'd like to tell about my own experience of cultivating Falun Dafa. In the past, I also suffered from multiple illnesses, which included stomach problems and bone spurs in my spine at my waistline area, which pinched my nerves and caused pain in both of my legs. I had difficulty even walking, so it looked like I was paralyzed. I also suffered from dizziness, diabetes, high blood pressure, and other illnesses. I felt that any one of these illnesses could take away my life at any time. Gradually I had turned into a "drug bag." Usually after one illness seemed to be cured, another one would return, and so on and on it went. Every month I had to spend a lot of money to cover my medical bills. What was even worse was that despite all this, I was still suffering so much.

Listening to the recommendation of a Falun Gong practitioner, I started to practice Falun Gong in November 2006. Through my studying Zhuan Falun and other books, and through practicing the five sets of Falun Gong exercises, my body and mind have been purified. I have understood that the fundamental cause of one's illnesses and suffering is one's own karma that one has accumulated over the course of several lifetimes. I have also understood the true purpose of being a human. When I had cultivated for less than a month, Master purified my body. Without my taking a single pill, the many illnesses that I had suffered from for so many years were all gone; I truly experienced the feeling of bodily lightness when there is no illness. So over the three years since I started my cultivation, I have been healthy and energetic, and I have lived under Master's blessings. Many miracles have happened to me. For example, a large section of one of my teeth broke off, but remained connected to the tooth bed by a nerve. I tried several times to remove it as it felt very uncomfortable, but I failed. I later thought, "I am a Falun Gong practitioner, so miracles may happen. I want the broken tooth to go back to its original place and become good again." I used my tongue to push the tooth back into place. Three days later, my tooth really recovered. It has already been several months now, and that tooth is still good and intact. There were many other miracles that have happened to me, which are too numerous to relate here.

I was an atheist in the past; I did not believe that gods and Buddhas are watching each and every of us. Neither did I believe in the principle of karmic retribution. As a result of the way I conducted myself, I had caused myself to be trapped in illnesses, and I lived very painfully. With my cultivation of Falun Dafa for a little longer than two years, my health has greatly improved, and furthermore, my outlook on the world has fundamentally changed. I understand that the meaning of a life lies in serving society and others. When I do things now, I first think if my doing this will benefit or harm others. I only do good things and do not commit any wrongdoing. This is the realm of a practitioner. To achieve this goal, one has to follow the characteristic of the universe, Truth-Compassion-Forbearance, and take fame and personal gain lightly. One must look for one's own shortcomings when encountering conflicts, search one's inner heart to find the various attachments, eliminate these attachments in one's cultivation, and finally cultivate oneself into an enlightened being that is unselfish and altruistic. If everyone can be strict with themselves when encountering conflicts, mankind's morality will improve and society will be better. This will greatly encourage the establishment of a spiritual civilization. In 1998, Qiao Shi, the former chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, made a deep and thorough investigation of Falun Gong. He concluded that "practicing Falun Gong is all beneficial and does no single harm." Because of the righteousness and greatness of this Fa, Falun Gong has been spread in over eighty countries and regions of the world, and is welcomed by the governments and the people of these countries.