(Clearwisdom.net)

Lin Fusheng is 70 years old, a respected elder who lives in Yilan, Taiwan. When he talks about his life, he does not complain but describes everything peacefully, just like telling a story.

A hard childhood and no remedies for his long-term illnesses

Lin Fusheng was a child during World War II. During that time, he frequently had to hide from air raids, so his childhood was not very happy. Necessities were in extremely short supply, and life was difficult. He wasn't very strong and had various illnesses. He had to take medication from the time he was a teenager.

When he was 19 years old, his father arranged for him to learn how to make western suits. Because of his hard work and responsible attitude, he became a skilled tailor of western-style clothing within two years. Every day he worked until midnight. During the peak season he often worked throughout the night. The long hours of hard work took a toll on his already weak physical condition.

In order to find an herbal medicine to help his physical condition, he sometimes tried several a day. The Chinese remedies were very expensive. They did not make him any healthier and also consumed all of his income. He tried one "cure" after another, living a regimented and dependent existence day after day. After he retired at the age of 56, he moved to Yilan. He had more free time and started to study Chinese medicine, which became his daily routine. Even though there was always a Chinese traditional medicine book on his tea table and he had learned so much about medicine from his own long-term sickness, he was not able to find an effective remedy for his health problems. No matter how hard he tried, nothing worked, and his quest for a healthy life became no more than a pipe dream.

In May 1997, early one morning when Mr. Lin Fusheng was returning from Activity Park, he saw a couple doing exercises. Their movements were very gentle, and next to them there was a board with the words "Falun Gong." He thought the practice might belong to the Buddha School, and he immediately felt like practicing it. He was just about to go abroad, however, and didn't pursue it. After returning, one day in late June, he went to practice TaiChi in Activity Park and heard the Falun Gong music. He found it deeply attracting.

The next morning, he went to the park again and met the Falun Gong practitioner couple, Mr. and Mrs. Zheng, in the parking lot. From that time on, he has practiced Falun Gong. He arrives at the practice site on time every morning at 4:50 a.m. to do the Falun Gong exercises and study the Fa. It has been over eight years now and he has never missed one single day.

Lin Fusheng and his wife doing the Falun Gong exercises together

What happened next was like a miracle. He had been taking Chinese remedies for over 40 years, but the first day after he started practicing Falun Gong, he forgot to take them, and the next day he put his medicines away. Two weeks after he started to practice, he obtained the book Zhuan Falun. Though he wasn't able to read too many words at first, he felt like he had found a treasure and studied the Fa every day. The first day of reading the book, he was able to quit his smoking habit. He used to smoke one to two packs of cigarettes a day. The pain in his finger joints, the soreness in his body, and the stiffness in his cervical vertebra all disappeared gradually. His complexion looked more and more healthy. He said, "My health as a 70-year-old is better than when I was younger." The nightmare of being unable to live without Chinese medicine was finally over.

After starting the practice, Mr. Lin worked hard to closely follow the principles of "Truth-Compassion-Forbearance" in dealing with everything. By forbearing and having a gracious attitude he resolved the conflicts in his family.

Before he took up the practice, his wife was always the one who made concessions when there were conflicts. Mr. Lin said with some embarrassment that after he started practicing Falun Gong he gradually abandoned his need to be dominant. When they had an argument or friction, he started to look at the situation from his wife's point of view and showed consideration for his wife. He said, "Sometimes when my wife was acting differently from her usual self, I would look inward to see if I had done anything wrong or if I had done something that might hurt her feelings. No loss, no gain; when I recognized my mistakes and attachments, I bravely faced up to them and let go of them. Consequently, I ended up with a joyful mind and a feeling of peace and harmony."

Before practicing Falun Gong, Mrs. Lin was a skinny, small, and sickly lady. Seeing the enormous changes in her husband, she started to practice Falun Gong a year later. Mrs. Lin got rid of her sickness and gained weight. She said, "The daily chore of preparing medicinal herbs for him ever since we got married finally ended. We are now living a much simpler and more relaxed life."

Beginning in July 1999, out of jealousy, Jiang's regime launched the brutal persecution of one hundred million Falun Gong practitioners in mainland China. Jiang Zemin and his accomplices fabricated many lies to deceive people, such as the "self-immolation," murders, and so on. They used the entire state apparatus to persecute Falun Gong practitioners. To date, more than 2,000 practitioners have died as a result of the persecution. For the past six years, practitioners around the world have shown righteous actions with righteous thoughts as one body. They clarify the truth to the whole world through various channels and help people gradually gain a clear understanding about the persecution.

Lin Fusheng in a Falun Gong exercise demo (first on the left in the front)

As both Mr. and Mrs. Lin have benefited so much from Falun Dafa, they actively participate in Fa-promotion activities in the Yilan area, such as "The Journey of Falun Dafa Photo Exhibition;" collecting signatures for the rescue of Lin Xiaokai; the "Rescue the Children Being Persecuted" teenager bike trip; the annual "Falun Gong practice camp for teachers" during summer and winter vacations; and various Falun Gong activities in schools, such as in Fo Guang University, Yilan Advanced Commercial Vocational School, Su Ao Maritime College and in school sports events, hospital celebrations, Su Ao Cold Spring New Year celebration, Green Expo, and many others.

Mr. Lin Fusheng also took part in several overseas truth clarification activities. A reporter once saw him standing at the entrance of a Manhattan subway station distributing truth clarifying materials. He said with a smile that he didn't understand any English words previously, but he was now able to take a bus from Brooklyn and then the subway to Manhattan. Seeing his firm, effortless steps, he was the picture of a happy man.

August 8, 2005