(Clearwisdom.net) I'm now 56 years old, but those who don't know me believe I'm in my early 40s. My health seems to be validating Dafa. My neighbors say, "We would not learn any other qigong. If we wished to learn, we would only learn the Falun Gong that Shufen is practicing."
Before I started practicing, I always fought with others for my personal interests even just to prove my point or to save face. In autumn 1982, my workplace was giving out apartment units to employees. From any perspective, I was certainly qualified to be given an apartment, but in the end, our leader did not assigned me one. I went to argue with him. Additionally, I lodged a complaint against him with his superiors. This resulted in him being severely criticized by his superior, and soon he was stripped of his position.
But after that, my mouth began to hurt. Sometimes, I took medicine without letting my husband know. I tried my best to endure it and didn't want him to know about my problem. By the end of 1991, I could not bear the pain anymore and went to see a doctor. After a few days of examinations, the results came back, but they didn't tell me what I was suffering from. Instead, they suggested I go elsewhere for further examinations and treatment. At a more advanced hospital, I was told I had advanced gum cancer.
After receiving radiotherapy and chemotherapy, as well as surgery, my entire lower right jawbone became quite porous; it was as if there were tiny fractures all through the bone. Then my face collapsed. The several teeth I had still remaining after surgery had to be wired into my jaw. I felt that living was much worse than dying -- I could not talk, eat, or move. In order to keep from moving, I had to sit in the corner against a wall for over 60 days. Yet, my health never improved. In addition, the operation damaged my salivary glands, and I was not able to produce any saliva. I always felt that I had a very dry mouth. I frequently needed to drink water to moisten my mouth, so I always carried a little kettle with me.
My doctors were planning to perform a second operation on me. I refused the surgery, because the anesthetic had no effect on me. No matter how much anesthetic they gave me, I could still feel the pain. My first surgery was extremely painful. After that, only two centimeters of bone under my lower right gum remained. I could feel the bone moving inside the flesh. I stayed in the hospital for more than five months. A lot of money had been spent; a lot of pain had been endured; a lot of tears by both my husband and me had been shed; however, my condition was still worsening.
After losing confidence in the hospital treatment, I suddenly thought I should find out about qigong treatment. Perhaps only qigong could cure my disease. My husband agreed. We talked to my doctors, and they also supported the idea. Actually they had already realized they could do nothing to cure me. They were thinking that what was next for me was just to go home and wait for the end.
While I was ill, my husband often brought me special things to please me when he came home. Once he brought back a small, brightly colored melon to enjoy. I liked it very much. I held it in my hands and savored its color and clear lines again and again. Suddenly I noticed a spot on it. I scraped it off lightly with my fingernail. But several hours later, the spot appeared again. That made me think, "This little melon was already disconnected from its vine, yet it could still change itself...am I not comparable to it?" This enhanced my courage and confidence to defeat my illness. After that, I forced myself to eat more. No matter how difficult it was, I would swallow the liquid food using a tube, because my digestive system was still healthy and worked well. I began having dreams in which a person, whose face was not clear, led me flying and flying until we came to a remote open sea and stood on the surface of the sea. Sometimes we flew to a large forest, then we sat on a rock. He began to purify my body. After that he took me back home. Later, after I began to cultivate Dafa, I realized that Teacher had been taking care of me.
In May 1997, our relative's son was going to marry. My father-in-law insisted that I participate in his wedding ceremony, saying that the happy event could get rid of my disease. So I went to a store to buy some proper clothes. At the store I saw a former coworker named Zhen. She greeted me very cordially and asked about my illness. I said, "See how bad I look! I'm waiting to die!" She said,"Please, practice Falun Gong, then your disease will be cured." I replied,"OK! I will practice it."
After I finished shopping, she took me to an exercise site. There I met other practitioners, which made me feel very happy. They told me to cultivate with "no second cultivation way." Then I remembered all the other qigongs I had explored trying to cure my disease. I even practiced other qigongs and still had their books and materials at home. So, I understood I should get rid of them all. Afterwards, I welcomed only Dafa books into my home. When I first opened the Dafa book, I didn't want to put it down. My husband saw that I seemed to forget everything except reading the book; he also wanted to take a look. Worried that I couldn't continue to read this book, sometimes I even hid it. One night I joined the group Fa-study and listened to Teacher's first lecture. When I was walking home afterwards, my body was so light and energetic that I even felt that my feet left the ground. After I got home, I saw some peanuts on the tea table. I took them and began to eat. My husband was really scared. He cried out, "Do you want to die?!" He then took the peanuts from my hands and threw them on the ground. He scared me, but I found I really could eat. I was so happy that I wanted to shout with joy.
Less than seven days after I started to practice Falun Gong, I was almost recovered. All kinds of illnesses that I had suffered from such as the gum cancer, fatty liver, gynecological diseases, keratitis, hemorrhoids, appendicitis, and others, all disappeared. This was unbelievable! I truly experienced the power and miracles of Dafa.
Once I lay in bed in a dazed state and I felt as if someone was taking dirty things out of my body using his big hand again and again. When I woke up, I felt fairly comfortable.
After I obtained the Fa in May 1997, Teacher's Falun Dafa totally changed me from a dying person into a healthy one. How lucky I am! I want to salute Teacher with Heshi and kowtow! I will repay what Teacher has given me by righteous thoughts and righteous deeds. Someone is always trying to persuade me to a get a physical exam at a hospital. I always decline. I am already totally healthy! Even if something uncomfortable happened to me, I wouldn't take it seriously, for I know that it is not real illness but tribulation through which I may eliminate my karma, which is good for me. I completely believe in whatever Teacher has said. Once my skin hurt all over, as if it were being burned by fire. It was painful and untouchable. I didn't even know where to put my arms or where to sit. But I didn't have concerns about it and continued to study the Fa and to do the exercises as usual. And all my other work also went well.
Sometimes when I chatted with my husband and reminded him that, from autumn 1982 to May 1997 (a total of 15 years), I'd had such a serious illnesses; yet, for such a long time, my life had been spared. Why had I survived for such a long time? It is because I had been waiting for Dafa. Within seven days after I started to cultivate Dafa all the diseases that I had disappeared. It was Teacher who had blessed me; it was Teacher who had cleansed my body; it was Teacher who had scooped me up from the filthy abyss and purified me. If you had not witnessed all these things with your own eyes, you would not have believed they could be true. So, it's clear that Teacher has given me another life which should be used to cultivate Falun Gong.
After the persecution began, at first I didn't have any contact with the outside world. I didn't know how to continue to cultivate. I didn't read Dafa books very much and almost stopped doing the five exercises. I also didn't know that I should clarify the truth to expose the wicked lies that were being fabricated by the authorities. I just stayed at home doing nothing. Later I began to have dreams: The water pipe in my apartment began to leak, sometimes it dripped slowly. Sometimes the water sprayed out. Sometimes the tank that contained water suddenly blew up and water sprayed everywhere. Sometimes I even saw the water coming out of the ground, and so on. When I had such dreams, I didn't think about what they could mean.
One day, I suddenly realized it was probably Teacher giving me hints to get me going and not be idle. I also often dreamed of picking mushrooms (in Chinese "mushroom" means delaying, doing things). Teacher had given me hints; I should not dawdle any more. I had a huge reason to follow Teacher's hints. I should not be an ungrateful person. Even ordinary people know the saying: "Receive the favor of a drop of water and repay with it a gush from a spring." Dafa was now under siege, and I should not be just a bystander. So I went to the Beijing Appeals Office, telling those officials that Falun Dafa was righteous and the best qigong, that Falun Gong was being treated unjustly. As a result I was illegally arrested by the police and sent back to a detention center in my hometown. There the police ordered me to sign a note to stop to practicing Falun Gong. I wrote down: "I will practice Dafa to the end, and I will never change my mind." A policeman named Yao saw this and got very mad and began to curse at me.
After all the other practitioners were released, I was still detained in my workplace. Several days later, my son came to visit me before he went to his college. My human sentiments overcame me, and I signed the letter renouncing Falun Gong--even though I knew it was wrong. When I gathered up my bedding and started to walk out the door, I suddenly stumbled and fell to the ground. I injured my ankle quite seriously. I said to myself, "Stand up right away. I don't acknowledge the persecution. Though I made a mistake, I will restart and do well."
After I realized that signing the letter was a wrong deed, I wrote a solemn declaration, stating that all I had said and done that did not conform to Dafa was void, that I would doubly make up for the loss that I had brought to Dafa and continue to cultivate to the very end. After that I began to send to the Fa-study group the "Minghui Weekly" and other truth-clarifying materials. I never stopped doing that, whether it was raining or windy, hot or freezing cold, day or night, or even during festivals. Sometimes when I couldn't find the person who would distribute the materials, I would distribute them myself. I carefully and seriously do the the three things that a practitioner should do well. When I became a little lazy and not diligent, my fellow practitioners came to visit me and talked about my cultivation. Teacher assigned them to give me a "stick warning."
When a person cultivates, all his/her family members are benefited. This statement is so true. Before I obtained the Fa, my husband was known throughout his place of employment for his backaches. Also, he always caught serious colds several times a year and needed to go to a hospital for treatment. Now he is free of all these illnesses. He tells his friends and relatives, "Falun Gong is so marvelous. My wife practices it, and I am also benefited." Once he went on a business trip. On the way back, he had a car accident. The car smashed into three big trees before stopping. The front of the vehicle was smashed in. My husband was lying on the side of road. The traffic policeman thought he must be fatally injured, but he was not hurt at all. This was his reward for understanding the truth and clarifying the truth. It was the blessing of Dafa.
My mother-in-law watched my amazing recovery and also began to practice Falun Gong. She is 81 years old and can read Zhuan Falun. She had me teach her the five exercises. She is quite resolute in her cultivation and very active in studying the Fa and practicing. She likes to clarify the truth when she meets neighbors and encourages them to quit the Chinese Communist Party and its affiliated organizations. She tells her sons not to do bad things to undermine Dafa or be contrary to the heavenly principles.
While I was in a hospital, the local doctor who had given me the CT examination asked around to see if I was still alive. When he learned I had fully recovered by practicing Falun Gong, he was very surprised and couldn't believe it. He found me and asked me to do all kinds of movements in front of him. Faced with the amazing facts, he had no choice but to admire Falun Gong. Many other older ladies in my village have also started to practice Falun Gong, because they all had witnessed my rapid recovery and salvation through cultivating Falun Dafa. I think that there will be many more people who will come to practice Falun Dafa.
