(Minghui.org) Whenever I think back over my 20 years of Falun Dafa cultivation, I cannot express my gratitude to our compassionate Master in mere words! My mind and body were purified, and my family greatly benefited.
I would like to talk about my daughter’s recovery from depression, to show the extraordinary nature of Falun Dafa.
My husband and I live in Wuhan City and have three children: two sons and a younger daughter. My eldest son and my daughter, live in the same city as us, while the other son lives in another city. When I was in my second son’s home taking care of my grandchild I received a series of text messages in mid-December 2014, from my daughter, who was working in a hospital. Her words were unclear, and I felt something was wrong. I was worried and decided to go see her.
I left in the morning, arrived in Wuhan by train, and got to my daughter’s hospital at a little past 2 p.m. My daughter had always been a lively child with a cheerful personality and a sweet smile. But, when I saw her, she looked rather confused. She said, “Please take me home.” The doctors and nurses in the hospital all gave me strange looks. I went to the hospital director and told him that my daughter would like to resign. The director didn’t ask me anything and just told the finance department to settle the salary for my daughter.
I said to my daughter, “I haven’t eaten anything since this morning. Is there a restaurant nearby? I’ll quickly grab something to eat and then help you pack.” My daughter took me to a small restaurant behind the hospital.
I ordered something and just as I was about to eat, my daughter said to me in a loud voice, “Mom, I’m pregnant!” I was stunned. My daughter was not married. Her boyfriend lived far away, and they were not yet engaged.
I felt very bad, but I warned myself in my mind, “I am a Dafa cultivator. I should be calm when encountering things.” I said to my daughter, “Let’s first go pack up and go home.” She asked me to eat first, but I couldn’t eat anything. I called my eldest to come and drive us home. He asked me what happened, and I just said, “Nothing. Your sister is tired from work and wants to rest at home for a little bit.” On our way back home, my son said that I didn’t look great, and asked me if I was okay. I said I was fine and maybe just tired from the train ride.
My husband was away playing mahjong. I quickly cleaned up a room for my daughter to rest, and then made dinner. My husband came back in the evening and asked if everything was okay. I repeated what I said to my son, and he didn’t ask any more questions. After dinner, he went to watch TV. My daughter only ate a little and went upstairs to rest.
After cleaning the dishes, I asked my daughter what was going on. She said that she had been unable to sleep at night for two months, and there was a voice in her ears for long periods of time. Moreover, she hadn’t had a period for two months, so she suspected that she was pregnant. When I asked how she told me that one of her classmates took her ice skating, but she didn’t know how to skate, so her classmate introduced a guy to teach her. During a break, the guy gave her something to drink, and her mind became blurred after drinking it. When she woke up, she could not remember what happened. I was very angry, and yelled at her, “What did I always teach you since you were young? As a girl, you must always control yourself and not associate with guys casually. How could you do such a shameful thing!” She cried and didn’t say anything.
After I calmed down I thought, “I am a cultivator. Why did I get so angry? My daughter’s mind is not clear right now, and it’s difficult to tell whether what she said was true or false. I needed to treat it rationally.” I told her that I would take her to the Women and Children’s Hospital for a medical exam the next morning and asked her to sleep. She told me she couldn’t sleep. I said, “If you can’t sleep, you can study Zhuan Falun with me.” She agreed. She had not practiced Dafa, but always believed in Dafa. We then read Zhuan Falun. When it was time to send forth righteous thoughts, I asked her to sincerely recite “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” Both of us did not sleep that night.
The next morning, I took her to the hospital for an ultrasound examination. The doctor then said to me, “Your daughter is not pregnant. Nothing is wrong. Her mental stress caused the symptoms of amenorrhea. Let her stay at home and rest, and everything should be fine.”
Despite this, my daughter still couldn’t fall asleep. She kept saying that there was a voice talking in her ears, but she couldn’t hear what it was saying. I asked her, “Do you want to go to the hospital for treatment or study the Fa with me?” She said she wanted to study the Fa with me. During the day, other than cooking and doing the housework, I spent the rest of my time reading Zhuan Falun with her. We also studied it at night.
Because my daughter and I were on the second floor and my husband was on the first floor, he didn’t know whether we slept or not. During the next few days, he went to play mahjong as usual. On the fourth day, he asked me, “Why was your light on the entire night last night?” I told him about our daughter’s situation. He immediately wanted to take her to a psychiatric hospital. I said to him, “If you send her there, her life will be ruined. There were several children with mental illnesses from our village. Has any of them been cured in a psychiatric hospital?” But, he did not agree. During the day he no longer wanted to play mahjong. Instead, he stayed at home to quarrel with me.
I was afraid that this would affect our daughter, so I called my second son and asked him to buy train tickets for me and my daughter. I then took her to his home. During the day, I helped take care of my grandson and cook. That night I read Zhuan Falun with my daughter.
My daughter’s symptoms worsened on the fifth night at my son’s home. She seemed to have lost her memory. She said she couldn’t recognize words anymore, did not know how to use her cell phone, and couldn’t remember anything. I mentioned the names of her best friends and classmates, but she did not recognize them. The parents of my daughter’s boyfriend lived in the same town as my son, and they bought fruits and came over every evening to see her. In the first few days, my daughter called them uncle and aunt. After she lost her memory, she didn’t recognize them anymore. The mother was very anxious and said we should take my daughter to Nanjing Psychiatric Hospital for a check-up, and she would go with me. But the father said that he believed Falun Gong is miraculous, and they should listen to me. I followed up saying, “Her condition is not a disease. It’s just caused by mental stress. Symptoms like this are difficult to cure in the hospital.”
My heart was not moved when faced with my daughter’s situation. I realized from studying the Fa that this was due to karma that my daughter had accumulated over her past lives. I thought to myself, “How could an ordinary people’s hospital eliminate her karma? Dafa is omnipotent, and Master’s power is boundless! As long as I firmly believe in Master and Dafa, look inward, and walk the correct path of cultivation, I will definitely be able to help my daughter get through this difficult time.”
A few months before this, I had a very clear dream: I took my daughter back to my parents’ home. When we passed by a rice field, the field turned into a pond. However, the water was very muddy. My daughter fell into the pond when she went to wash her hands. When I pulled her out, she appeared to have drowned. I held her and cried until I woke up, and there were still tears in the corners of my eyes. Recalling this dream, I realized that what she was going through was something bound to happen in her life, and it was for her to pay back her karma in this way. It was also to test my righteous faith in Dafa and Master.
Master told us in Teachings at the Conference in Australia, “Haven’t I said that with one person practicing, the whole family benefits?” I firmly believed that Master would help me resolve the tribulations, but there were human attachments that I needed to eliminate in the process. I looked inward and found that I had a deeply hidden attachment to selfishness. I did not have the great compassion and tolerance that Master taught us. Moreover, I did not think about things from my daughter’s perspective when encountering her problems. Although she has been a pure and kind child since she was young, it was difficult for her not to go with the flow in a corrupted social environment caused by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Every evening, I continued to read Zhuan Falun to her, and I sent forth righteous thoughts every hour. On the third night after she lost her memory, I stayed with her until 3 a.m. and asked if she felt sleepy. She said she didn’t, so I said, “How about I tell you a story?”
The story I told her was about her true life experience. I began, “Once upon a time, there was a couple who were farmers. They were poor but kind. They had two sons but still hoped to have a daughter. The couple’s wish was known by the gods in heaven, and their wish was fulfilled.
“Some 23 years ago in May, one morning, the husband saw a little girl abandoned on the ground in front of the Civil Affairs Bureau. The little girl was only about five or six months old. She was wearing an old single-layered dress and had a piece of rag under her. There was a piece of paper next to her with her date of birth. The little girl had her eyes open and was looking at the people standing around her. The Civil Affairs Bureau wasn’t open yet. Onlookers surrounded the baby, but no one wanted to pick up the little girl.
“The husband felt sympathetic for her, so he took her home. The couple treated the little girl as their own child. They lived frugally, but were willing to spend money to buy milk powder for the little girl. They made sure she was warm during the winter and felt cool in the summer. When there was good food, they always gave it to her first. Her two brothers were also very kind to her and let her have good food and drink first. The couple was very pleased to see the little girl grow up happily, especially since she was of good health. She went to school, graduated, and started working. But, soon after she started working, she experienced a great tribulation. The mother blamed herself for not fulfilling her wish to guide the girl to the path of Dafa cultivation, causing her to gradually lose her kind nature in the polluted society.”
While listening to me, my daughter went from sobbing to bursting into tears. I said to her with tears in my eyes, “My girl, cry. Cry out all the grievances in your heart.” Since she was a child, other adults and children in the village often said that she was adopted. We couldn’t really do much to stop others from talking about it. As a result, my daughter suffered a lot from hearing this. After crying, she said she wanted to sleep. After that night, she was able to sleep normally.
But, her face began to swell. It was so swollen that she could barely open her eyes. After two days, the swelling began to subside. Then, she developed dense small red rashes on both sides of her temples, and then gradually the rashes covered her entire face. I knew this was a good sign, as Master was cleansing her. When the small rashes were in the process of healing, her memory was also gradually recovering, and it was completely restored when the rashes disappeared. Moreover, her menstruation that had stopped for several months, became normal. From the time I first took her home, under the compassionate protection of Master, it took less than a month and my daughter’s depression and amnesia were miraculously cured. This cannot be explained by modern medicine.
My daughter and her boyfriend soon became engaged and got married in 2015. My daughter gave birth to a baby girl in 2016, who has been lively and lovely.
In the blink of an eye, 10 years have passed. Whenever I think back to the tribulations I have gone through with my daughter, I know that without Master’s protection and blessings, the consequences would be unimaginable. My entire family and I are so grateful to Master for his compassionate protection and salvation!
Thank you, Master!