(Clearwisdom.net) I was born into a poor family and grew up with poverty and illnesses, and I obtained only an elementary school education. After I was married, my husband eventually ran off and abandoned me. I suffered with various illnesses and worked in another town to provide for my son and daughter.
The burden of making a living forced me to suffer a lot and caused various illnesses in my body, including rheumatic heart disease, neuritis, cholecystitis, renal necrosis, high blood pressure, low blood sugar, and a number of other ailments. In order to try to cure my diseases and fend off disaster, I practiced in the Zen school for nine years. However, I didn't learn the principle of cultivating xinxing. So my illnesses persisted, and I experienced swelling in my whole body for nine years.
I was hospitalized twice in spring 1997. On May 14, 2007, I was critically ill and my heart stopped beating. The doctor confirmed that I was dead and was arranging to move my body to the morgue. My children wouldn't let the hospital staff take my body away and begged the doctor, "My mom is not dead. She is just unconscious." The doctor agreed to temporarily leave me on a stretcher in the hallway.
Four hours later, I cheated death and woke up. My children were all in tears. My son smiled at me and said, "Mom, you really frightened us! You were unconscious for four hours. The doctor was about to put you in a refrigerator in the morgue."
The lady who lived next door was like an older sister to me. She heard about my situation and came to visit me in the hospital. She brought cassette recordings of Teacher's Fa lectures in Jinan City. She played the tapes for me and suggested that I listen with earphones. I felt a little embarrassed to refuse her request, so I reluctantly started listening to the tapes.
While listening, I gradually felt that every word and every sentence hit home in my heart, and that the lectures were meant to target my own situation. I cried. In the past, I had so much suffering and a day of life seemed like a year to me. For unknown reasons, my life had been immersed in hardship. I almost died at birth, and my parents had three daughters in a row and could not afford to raise all of us. When I had seizures and was unconscious, my parents had no money for medication. My father wanted to abandon me. My mother wanted to wait a couple of days to see what would happen. Three days later, I was still alive. Thus, my mother couldn't stand to throw me away and just let me die. They raised me with minimal care.
Why must I suffer so much in my life? Teacher's Fa untied the knot in my heart. I spoke to Teacher from my heart, "Teacher, I want to cultivate Dafa. I want to and must return home with you."
Teacher said,
"...and for ordinary people things like birth, aging, sickness, and death are just a fact of life. People only have health problems and suffering because they did bad things in the past and made karma."(Zhuan Falun)
Teacher also said,
"But if you want to do true cultivation, and you've come here with an ailing body, then you can't cultivate yet. So I have to purify your body." (Zhuan Falun)
Teacher's every word of truth, just like clear spring water, nourished my thirsty heart. The more I listened, the more I wanted to listen. Sometimes I went to sleep listening to the lectures, and when I woke up, I listened another three times and didn't get tired of it.
I listened to the lectures during the day and had diarrhea at night. My dizziness disappeared. I knew that Teacher was purifying my body and it was truly a good thing for me. I didn't tell my doctor or nurse about what I was experiencing, and I listened to the lectures nine times in a row.
The lady in my neighborhood came to visit me in hospital again. She said to me happily, "I can see that your complexion is so much better now." I was in tears and told her, "My big sister, I want to keep these cassettes no matter how much they cost. This is a great cultivation way and it can lead people to high levels. Please teach me the exercises." She replied, "But you are still not healthy." I replied, "I have learned from the lectures that Teacher will purify my body as long as I consider myself to be and conduct myself as a practitioner. I have suffered illnesses for so many years. No medical treatment can cure me. It is Teacher that can save me."
She then said, "You have not been out of bed for such a long time. Can you get up?" I replied, "Big sister, would you please hand me my shoes?" As I was putting them on, I realized that my feet were no longer swollen and my shoes were very loose.
The doctor and nurse happened to arrive to examine me. The doctor smiled, "Isn't this a good thing? It shows your swelling has subsided already." The doctor was sincere and continued, "I would suggest you start practicing Falun Gong. You have seen its efficacy. Even doctors can't cure your illnesses. As you have so many illnesses, some of the medications cancel each other out, which makes it really hard to treat your illnesses."
I jumped out of the bed and felt relief and comfort that I hadn't enjoyed before. I held my neighbor's hands and said, "Big sister, please teach me how to do the exercises right away. This school of cultivation is truly great!" I then thanked my doctor for his honestly, and I have not used any medication since.
I have since been on my path to return home with Teacher.
