(Clearwisdom.net) Master Li Hongzhi came to Guizhou to teach Falun Dafa in 1993. In May, June, and August of that year, He gave three classes at the Geological Bureau in Guizhou Province, the Guiyang Medical College auditorium, the Provincial Auditorium, and the Youth Activity Center. In subsequent years, the growth of Falun Dafa in China reached a peak. Participants who had attended these classes returned home to become the first local group of Falun Gong practitioners. They established local volunteer practice sites and taught classes for free. These students later taught more people Falun Dafa. The purpose of sharing the Fa was simple: To introduce Falun Dafa to more people for the benefit of improving physical and mental health. Those beneficiaries became the best living media, and Falun Gong spread from person to person, and heart to heart.
When Teacher gave a class in Guiyang in 1993, there were about 1,400 people in attendance . According to internal documents in the Ministry of Public Security, there were at least 70 million people practicing Falun Gong in China at the end of 1998, with more than ten million people practicing Falun Gong in Guizhou.
Falun Gong practitioners doing the exercises during the Experience Sharing Conference in the Guizhou Provincial Stadium
Then in 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) began suppressing Falun Gong. Although Falun Gong was being viciously slandered and brutally persecuted in China, in the face of this persecution, Falun Gong practitioners upheld the teaching of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. For the past eleven years, they have clarified the truth to people about Falun Dafa despite the persecution. Many people who understand the truth have begun practicing Falun Dafa and have experienced great physical and mental benefits.
Severe Back Problems Healed in Three Months after Practicing Dafa
In 2006, Xiao Wang had to move to Guangdong Province to do hard labor for a living. At 40, she suffered from severe back problems. Because she was unable to pay for medical treatment in a big city, she returned to Guizhou to find a local hospital for treatment. She spent tens of thousands of yuan on treatments from both Western and Chinese medicine. Doctors told her that her condition would require two operations: The first would be to install a steel rod to correct the deformed vertebra, and she would need to stay in bed for at least six months after the surgery. And the second operation would be to take out the steel rod and then she would have to stay in bed for another six months. Yet the doctors told her that even if the surgery was successful, she might still have to endure pain for the rest of her life.
Xiao Wang had no confidence in the operations. She felt that her future was bleak. The pain in her back became more severe and she became emaciated. She couldn't sleep on a soft mattress and had to place a board on top of the bedsprings and wrap a stiff belt around her waist to be able sleep. She suffered great misery.
At this time, a relative told Xiao Wang about the healing power of Falun Gong. This relative and her family all practiced Falun Gong and were persecuted by the CCP. Xiao Wang was deeply poisoned by the CCP's lies and she was hostile towards Falun Gong. She had always ridiculed and scorned Falun Dafa. However, after listening to the truth, Xiao Wang no longer believed the CCP's propaganda and she began to practice Falun Gong. She was completely healed after practicing for three months. It was as if she was reborn.
Xiao Wang now tells her experiences to people she knows, so that more people will benefit from the practice. When she thinks of her former hatred toward Falun Dafa, Xiao Wang feels ashamed and can hardly believe that Dafa saved her life.
When Xiao Wang thinks of her relatives, she has mixed emotions of gratefulness, admiration and guilt for their risking their lives to spread the truth to people in such a harsh environment, simply so that more people can benefit from Dafa.
An Eighty-year-old Experiences a Miracle
My name is Zhao and I am 80 years old. I live near the border of Guizhou. I have never attended school and had only attended a brief literacy class. In May 1997, a Falun Gong practitioner gave me a copy of Zhuan Falun Volume II. After reading a part of the book, I started to have diarrhea but didn't feel discomfort. Instead, I felt relaxed. Fellow practitioners told me that it was because Teacher was cleansing my body. I was so glad to hear that Teacher was taking care of me. Soon, I started to participate in group exercises. I asked for a copy of Zhuan Falun and began to study it with fellow practitioners. When I encountered words I didn't know, fellow practitioners would teach me. I felt that Zhuan Falun was a very precious book and I really wanted to be able to read it like others. It could be because of my sincerity that a miracle happened. Characters in Zhuan Falun would appear in my eyes: Characters as large as a fist filled the room everywhere. I could feel them in my head when I was walking, standing, sitting, or sleeping. I was surprised and very glad. I realized that it was Teacher who was teaching me. After one month, I could read Zhuan Falun by myself and then these characters disappeared. I thank Teacher that I could learn Dafa. Even though I can read every character in Zhuan Falun, I can't recognize them when they appear elsewhere.
Prior to practicing Falun Dafa, I had poor eyesight and my eyelids drooped, covering my eyes. I had to use adhesive tape to tape my eyelids up so I could see. I kept the tape on day and night. Since I began to study the Fa and do the exercises, my eyelids became normal. I thank Teacher for healing my eyes. Prior to practicing Falun Gong, I often had pain in my hands, legs, and my body. Since practicing, these ailments have disappeared in a very short time.
Protected by Master Li
On the morning of December 2, 2008, while overhauling machinery in a Guizhou cement factory, Xiao Deng, a mechanic, and another worker were hammering concrete with a hammer drill. The worker hit Xiao Deng's mouth by accident with the hammer. People at the scene were stupefied. Every one thought it would certainly injure his mouth. They rushed over to Xiao Deng and found that he wasn't injured, but that he only spit out a mouthful of blood. They found it amazing. Even concrete would be broken to pieces if such a heavy hammer hit it. Yet the skin on Xiao Deng's mouth was intact. However, no one knew that Xiao Deng always remembered in his heart the words "Falun Dafa is good," and "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good" and that is why this miracle had happened to him.
Xiao Deng's parents are Falun Gong practitioners. With help from his parents, Xiao Deng quit the CCP and helped distribute truth-clarifying materials. Now when he was in danger, Master Li had protected him.
A Premature Baby Is Saved
In 2006, the son and the pregnant daughter-in-law of an elderly Falun Gong practitioner in Guiyang City went back to their hometown in Sichuan Province. One day, the daughter-in-law discharged amniotic fluid but the fetus had no activity. Since she was only seven months pregnant she hadn't paid any attention to it. Later, they told their mother in Guizhou during a phone conversion. The elderly woman knew right away that it was serious and told her son to take his wife to a hospital immediately to have a Cesarean birth to avoid losing the baby. When the elderly woman arrived in Sichuan, the child was born and was under emergency care. Doctors found that the infant had a dozen dangerous illnesses. They thought that even if child would live, the infant could suffer related illnesses.
The son and his wife knew that Falun Dafa was extraordinary and felt that only Dafa could save their child. The grandma picked up the tiny infant and silently begged Master Li to save the child. The distressed grandmother touched the infant's face and recited, "Falun Dafa is good." The child seemed to be listening. Later, after an examination, all indications showed normal health. The doctors were all dumbstruck! The child is now three years old and in perfectly good health.
