(Minghui.org) Around World Falun Dafa Day on May 13, 2012, a few practitioners who learned Dafa outside of China reflected on their experiences. Exhausted mentally and physically, they found a new life after learning Dafa. They now follow the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance to improve and cultivate themselves steadfastly. The following are stories of practitioners Zengjie and Xiaohai.

Zengjie

There is a Chinese saying: “One should know the heavenly law when one reaches fifty.” This fits Zengjie's situation particularly well. Once so sick that she was confined to her bed, she enjoyed perfect health after she began to cultivate Falun Gong. She always told the people that she met: “You’ll know how good Falun Gong is once I tell you my experiences.”

In the autumn of 2001, Zengjie became sick due to overwork. She had back pain, her legs and feet were sore, and she had a hard time standing. Later she could sit for only a few minutes before having to lie down. Even then, she had to rely on painkillers to make it through the day.

Doctors told her that her fifth and sixth vertebrae protruded, and this required immediate surgery. Some suggested that she go back to China so that her family members could take care of her. She knew that her illnesses were very difficult to cure. She needed to avoid overexertion, and even ordinary tasks were difficult for her to perform. The money that she had borrowed when she went abroad was not repaid yet. With a sick body and debt-ridden, Zengjie felt hopeless and was truly miserable.

Zengjie asked her friends to search for a cure for her. She also went to Chinatown to get acupuncture treatments. Once in Chinatown she saw some Falun Gong practitioners distributing flyers and she took one out of curiosity. Later she found a practitioner. The first thing that she asked was: “Can practicing Falun Gong cure illnesses?” The practitioner answered: “It depends on how you do it. If you only do the exercises and do not cultivate your heart, you are not a practitioner.”

Then she bought a copy of Zhuan Falun at a bookstore in Chinatown and read it carefully several times. She learned that illnesses were caused by karma, and one’s illnesses can be cured by following the principles of Dafa. Realizing that her illnesses were the result of her past wrongdoings, she decided to cultivate in Falun Gong. She began to study Dafa and do the exercises every day, and did her best to act according to Dafa's principles. She truly became a Dafa practitioner.

Without her even noticing it happening, her health got better, and she soon was able to return to work. Her job involved strenuous janitorial work, but she could do it fast and well.

After she began to cultivate, she no longer fought for personal gain. She became happy and openhearted. In the factory, others picked the easy work to do, but she would do the difficult tasks that others did not want. When everyone went home after work, she would stay back and finish the remaining work. As time went on, her boss got used to asking her to do work that others were reluctant to do, because he knew that only she would not mind.

Now she goes to the Chinese Consulate and tells people outside the facts about Falun Gong every week. She often uses her experiences to tell them that “Falun Gong is good”.

Xiaohai

Xiaohai is a person who likes to think things over carefully. When he saw on TV the Tiananmen Square self-immolation staged by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 2001, he kept wondering how come he had never seen any fire extinguishers when he went to Tiananmen Square during his half year stay in Beijing. He was suspicious about the set-up very early on.

One day he went to the Chinese Consulate to do business and ran into some Falun Gong practitioners protesting the CCP’s persecution outside the consulate. They gave him a DVD about the Tiananmen Square self-immolation. Many suspicious points were clearly pointed out for him, and he became even clearer about the CCP's tricks.

As far as Falun Gong, he thought, “One will know whether the apple is sweet or sour only after taking a bite.” He asked a friend who practiced qigong about his opinion on Falun Gong. The friend told him that he did not know first hand, but he had a friend who recovered from a long-term illness after practicing Falun Gong. The friend also told him about a couple in the neighborhood that stopped fighting and lived harmoniously after practicing Falun Gong.

Xiaohai was intrigued and bought a copy of Zhuan Falun from a bookstore. He was drawn by the simply stated, but deeply profound principles in the book. After Xiaohai began to practice Falun Gong, he saw many miraculous things and became more confident that the Buddha law is supernormal. Once he rode a bicycle to Chinatown. A BMW suddenly came out of a parking garage and hit him so hard that the bumper was badly damaged. The driver was stunned, and rushed to ask him if he was hurt. A bystander wanted to call an ambulance, but Xiaohai remembered that Zhuan Falun said that one needs to repay one’s debts. So he told the driver that he was all right and asked him to leave. He was able to walk after sitting on the ground to rest for a while.

Xiaoyun, Xiaohai’s wife, also began to cultivate in Falun Gong. Once a truck ran over her foot and a cracking sound was heard. Her foot swelled up, and her shoe was mangled. But she thought she was okay. Sure enough, everything was fine, and the swelling subsided very quickly.

In June 2011, a few Udumbara flowers blossomed on the window sill and on the clothes rack at Xiaohai’s home. Some blossoms remain even after a year. He said that they were to remind the sentient beings to cherish this precious opportunity of Dafa spreading in the human world.

Now Xiaohai often makes some DVDs to distribute to overseas Chinese in Chinatown and outside the Chinese Consulate. He hopes that every Chinese person can give himself some time to understand the facts about Falun Gong, and by all means not miss the opportunity to learn about the facts and quit the CCP and its affiliated organizations.