(Minghui.org) Like most girls born in the 1980s, I am young and energetic, but I'm not as sentimental as other girls. I have no worries. I have no insomnia or other diseases. I am cheerful everyday and feel that my life is full of sunshine. People who know me often say that I am kind, healthy, and always in a good mood. But they don't know how I changed into a new person. To explain it, we have to start with the events that occurred eight years ago.
I was admitted to college after three years of extremely hard work in high school to prepare for the national college entrance examination. The college work was not as hard as preparing for the entrance examination. Like a worn-out machine that isn't overhauled and quits when it stops, I started to have some physical discomfort when I relaxed. I developed soreness and pain in my neck from having my head bent over a desk to study. I always asked my roommate to give me a massage at night. The pain then extended down to my shoulder, and I had to to stretch my neck and arms frequently whenever I was studying. Although I could deal with this physical problem, I could not handle my sensitivity to my surroundings. A little bit of light or noise at night, which is inevitable in a dormitory because of people's different schedules, would disturb my sleep. I became frustrated and angry. I sometimes had conflicts with my roommates and my boyfriend, and I became narrow-minded. I did not share any information I had on the final examinations with other classmates, including my longtime roommates, for fear that they would do better than I. I realized it was not right to do that, but I couldn't help it.
My mother started practicing Falun Gong in 1997, and the whole family witnessed how she benefited, physically and mentally. We all knew from the beginning that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) fabricated slander and lies to persecute Falun Gong. How could anyone be foolish enough to believe those fabricated news reports on TV? I began practicing Dafa cultivation in 2004, not to cure illnesses, but to seek a pure land for rest, physically and spiritually, where I could be protected by gods from any irresistible tribulation. However, the immense changes it brought about in me were beyond my expectations. Not only was I healed physically, but my world view changed completely. I became a good person that always considers others first.
Because I am a Dafa practitioner, my boyfriend's mother opposed our getting married. He said to his mother, “Nowadays it is hard to find a girl with such high moral character, especially one who is not concerned about our poor financial situation. Also, I know her very well since we have known each other for so many years.” With his insistence, his mother reluctantly agreed to our marriage and gave us 5000 yuan to help cover the cost of the wedding. We purchased some appliances and rented a furnished apartment, which included a double bed and a damaged TV cabinet. We got married half a month later.
A few years later, we bought our own house. Every time we visited her, my mother-in-law always complained that her old house was deteriorating and might collapse soon. Knowing that it was her lifetime wish to live in the city, we planned to buy a new house for my parents-in-law. With house prices skyrocketing due to inflation, we could not buy the house outright, so we decided to get a loan. In the winter two years ago, we started visiting real estate offices in the city by bike. On our way home with my husband one brisk and windy day, he turned to face me and said, “I really feel bad that you have to suffer so much!” I replied with a smile, “It is because I practice Dafa. You should be grateful to Master instead of me.”
We bought a house one month later, and my husband was excited about showing it to his mother. When they returned home, however, my husband looked unhappy and my mother-in-law locked herself in a room. I asked him what had happened, and he said angrily, “My mom doesn't like the house. She complained it doesn't get as much light as ours and the kitchen is too big for her to take care of. No matter what, she just doesn't like it at all. She complained all the way home. She should know we are not that well off. Sure, everybody knows that a house more than 100 square meters (approx. 1076 square feet) would be much more comfortable, but can we afford it?” I was unhappy, too, after hearing this. In this society, parents buy houses for their offspring, but children never buy houses for their parents. She should have been happy instead of complaining. But then a thought came to me: As a cultivator, I should consider others first. I said to him, “Your mom has been haggling all her life. She might feel that we should have gotten a better house given what we paid for it. She has no idea how expensive houses are today. If she likes our house better, we can trade with her and move into the new house.” My mother-in-law declined our offer and decided to move into the new house, saying that she would adjust to it as she would not have too many years left anyway. She finally moved in after the house was decorated. She actually felt that the house was not bad at all. She calmed down, and her attitude towards me completely changed. She realized in her heart that this daughter-in-law who practices Falun Gong is a good one.
My husband has an advanced degree and was an atheist. Right after we got married, he couldn't understand why I practiced cultivation despite knowing that I was a good person. He commented, “Don't kill me while I am sleeping or self-immolate in Tiananmen Square.” I explained, “Those pictures on TV were staged to frame Falun Dafa. Can't you trust your own family?” As time passed, he still didn't understand why I wouldn't give up cultivation despite the severe CCP persecution, even though he knew that all the news on TV was untrustworthy.
A few years ago, my husband was under tremendous pressure at work. He developed insomnia and felt miserable. Seeing me always cheerful, he started to read Zhuan Falun. He finished it outright. He finally realized that this book teaches people to be good. He no longer made sarcastic comments about my cultivation.
My husband is now a cultivator. He is very busy at work. He has to contact many different kinds of people. But I never worry that he may go astray, because he has Dafa in his mind. He comments, “There are all kind of temptations, especially money and women, in this morally-corrupt society. People without standards can easily do bad things. I could become one of them if I were not a cultivator.”
On the very first day my husband started practicing cultivation, Master opened up his third eye to completely eliminate his atheism. My husband could see many beautiful scenes in other dimensions. He saw himself in his previous lives—as a royal maid in the Qing Dynasty and a modern woman during the era of the Republic of China. He saw shiny lights inside fellow practitioners' homes. He saw that fellow practitioners were images of fairies, Bodhisattvas, Buddhas, and Daos in other dimensions. He saw Buddha's world in the remote cosmos. He saw scenes in which people who agreed to quit the CCP after having the truth clarified to them were brought up above the clouds from hell by a Dafa practitioner. He also saw some horrible scenes, such as an entire city engulfed by a big flood. He said that he wanted to go home with Master. Indeed, everyone of us comes to this world from heaven. We have been repeatedly reincarnated for thousands of years waiting for Dafa to be taught so that we can be assimilated to Dafa and go back to our beautiful heaven with Master.
This is my story. Dafa purified my body and spirit, and let me have a kind and honest husband and a warm family. If everyone practices Dafa, I believe there would be no conflicts between a mother-in law and a daughter-in-law, and children would not let parents buy them houses and have huge debts. If everyone practices Dafa, husbands would not have extramarital affairs, wives would not worry about being cheated on, and children would not be abandoned. If every family becomes harmonious, the morality of the entire society would be uplifted. I sincerely hope that people can break through the CCP's tissue of lies, really understand the truth, and embrace Dafa. Then you will have a happy life and an auspicious future.
