(Clearwisdom.net) I started practicing Falun Gong in 1997, trying to cure my diseases. At that time, I suffered from many illnesses, particularly frequent diarrhea due to gastroenteritis. In addition, my abdominal area felt so cold all year round that I needed to tie a scarf around my abdomen in the summer and wear an apron in the fall to keep warm. I tried both Western and Chinese herbal medicines, acupuncture, and other folk remedies, but to no avail. I even tried witchcraft. All these methods failed to cure my diseases.
Someone later introduced Falun Gong to me, but I wasn't too excited to learn it. I thought to myself, “I have tried several qigong exercises already and none of them worked.” However, I became curious about the practice after someone told me that her mother-in-law’s gallbladder infection was cured from practicing Falun Gong. Furthermore, she didn't even take any medication. I wanted to know what kind of qigong could be so miraculous, so I immediately borrowed the book Zhuan Falun from my colleague. I felt the content of the book was truly great and finished reading it in two days. I then started practicing Falun Gong. Afterwards, my body experienced a miraculous change and all of my diseases disappeared. I was so happy. All of my colleagues noticed my positive changes and some of them also began reading Zhuan Falun.
Persecution
On July 20, 1999, when Jiang's regime launched the persecution against Falun Gong, I had only practiced it for one and a half years. As the persecution escalated, several officials from the factory I worked at, along with higher authorities, told me to give up the practice. Although I didn't do as they told me, the interference continued, due to my human attachments at that time. They asked me again to write a guarantee statement, promising to quit the practice, or they would terminate my party membership. I told them, “If I didn't practice Falun Gong, I wouldn't even have my physical body. What is the use of requiring political promises?” After that, they stopped harassing me for a long time. Maybe my strong righteous thought disintegrated the evil beings that controlled them.
Validating the Fa in Beijing
I often clarified the truth to people I met after the persecution began—some were able to accept the truth, while others weren't and became hostile. At that time, the media was fabricating lies about Falun Gong continuously to poison the minds of sentient beings. I wanted to tell the government and the media the truth about Falun Gong so that they would realize that it teaches people only to be kind, and to tell them that the persecution needed to end. Towards the end of 1999, several practitioners and I went to Beijing. Unexpectedly, as soon as we arrived at Tiananmen Square, I was arrested and taken to the Beijing branch of my local city. I was then taken back to my hometown by the Public Security Bureau and held at a detention center. I was released 15 days later after I went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution.
From 2001 to 2002, the local 610 Office held nine brainwashing sessions and ruthlessly persecuted practitioners on a large scale. Some of the tortures I suffered included being beaten, cursed at, deprived of sleep, not allowed to use the restroom, attacked by a group of perpetrators, and handcuffed for a long period of time. When I could no longer endure the physical and mental tortures, I was forced to give in against my will and thus left a stain in my cultivation path.
The first few days after I returned home, I was filled with regret. At that moment, a fellow practitioner brought me Teacher’s article, “Explaining the Fa During the 2003 Lantern Festival at the U.S. West Fa Conference.” In it, Teacher said,
“If you've fallen don't just lie there, get up right away!”
I once again felt Teacher’s great compassion. Teacher rescued me again from the clutches of the old forces.
I published a solemn declaration on the Clearwisdom website and renewed my cultivation path. However, facing severe persecution, I wasn't able to obtain truth-clarifying materials or Teacher’s articles. In our area, we had to take turns reading Teacher's new articles because there was usually only one copy to go around. In order to solve this problem, I asked for help from a practitioner who lived several hundreds of miles away. I was able to get several copies of truth-clarifying materials, the Minghui Weekly, and Teacher’s articles from him. I then made copies of everything for the practitioners in my area.
After reading the announcement on the Clearwisdom website that materials production sites should be independently established all over the country, I decided to use my home to make truth-clarification materials.
Good Deeds Are Paid Back
One morning last year, I rode my bike to run some errands, and distributed materials along the way. On my way downstairs after I distributed the first item, I missed a step and fell down the stairs. As a result, my right arm was injured and I was in pain. I tried my best to ride my bike home. I didn't have righteous thoughts at the moment of the incident, so I found my wrist and forearm were severely swollen once I got home. It felt hot and painful. I then went to a nearby clinic because the pain was so severe. The doctor diagnosed that my right forearm was fractured and the wrist joint was dislocated. He asked me to get an x-ray at a hospital. I thought that I was a practitioner, so I would be alright. Therefore, I went home and studied the Fa, did the exercises and sent forth righteous thoughts. Although my hand and arm shook from the pain, I tried my best to do every movement correctly. When I sent righteous thoughts, my right forearm and hand shook. I then had a thought to eliminate the factors that caused the shaking. Several days later, my arm completely recovered. I am truly thankful to Teacher.
I am truly fortunate to be a Dafa Disciple during the Fa-rectification period. At this late stage of Fa- rectification, I can only be diligent, do the three things well, and save more sentient beings to be worthy of Teacher’s salvation.
