[Celebrating World Falun Dafa Day] Long-Standing Brain Injury and Paralysis Healed Through Practicing Falun Dafa

(Minghui.org)

A Sudden Disaster and Disability

Although I currently work as a farmer, I used to be a truck driver when I was young. When I was ready to marry, I settled down with my wife. Initially, our relationship was warm and happy. But after giving birth to our daughter, my wife’s temperament underwent a drastic change. She became bad tempered, moody, and stopped being as kind to me as before. She was eventually diagnosed with postpartum depression.

My wife remained ill for over 10 years, and her mental condition worsened over time. As a truck driver, most of my time was spent away from home transporting goods. My long working hours left me physically exhausted, but because I was frequently away from home, my wife began to suspect I was having an affair. She refused to listen despite my attempts to explain, and I eventually gave up hoping things would just blow over.

One night, in the fall of 1993, I woke up from sleep in pain. When I unconsciously touched my head with my hands, I found my head and face covered with blood. I looked up and saw my wife holding a bloody ax in her hand. The ground beside my bed was also covered in blood.

I was stunned. My wife also became frightened and immediately turned around to call for help. My family sent me to the county hospital for emergency treatment. They also called the police, who arrested my wife and held her in the detention center.

The left side of my head was so forcefully cut that pieces of my skull protrude. The wound was so big and deep so the doctor had difficultly closing up the wound. Eventually, the doctor was forced to remove the damaged brain tissue and managed to close up the hole. I was discharged from hospital over a month later.

The doctors had done their best and managed to save my life, but I was left with permanent side effects from the injury. Unable to control movement in my right hand and feet with precision, I was like a hemiplegic patient, unable to drive the truck, hold a sickle to weed the fields, or even grasp my chopsticks to eat. Despite trying many medications and injections, my symptoms continued to worsen. I became a disabled person before the age of 40.

Soon after my discharge from hospital, I brought my wife home from the detention center. Although she is bad at expressing her feelings, I was able to tell my wife felt very sorry. I was willing to forgive her as I still loved her, and my teenage daughter needed her mother’s care. But I was angry with my wife’s family, as they treated this incident as though it never occurred. My wife’s mother had fueled my wife’s suspicions by constantly bringing up my imaginary extramarital affair. If she had not done so, my wife would not have attacked me.

We tried our best to live together for a year. However, the incident had left an indelible mark on our hearts and made it impossible for us to continue staying in our marriage. To ensure my own and my daughter’s safety, my wife and I finally separated.

Unable to find regular work because the right side of my body could not function well, my life became harsh and difficult. I sent my daughter to my mother’s home and tried to make a living by catching fish and shrimp in the river. Later, I raised frogs, helped others take care of their stalls, and ventured into the mountains to help manage other people’s ginseng farms. I barely made enough to support my family, yet raised my daughter with much difficulty.

Fortunate Encounter with Dafa

Later, my daughter married and met her kind mother-in-law who is a Falun Dafa practitioner. My daughter used to suffer from constipation and varicose veins. On seeing her condition, her mother-in-law urged her to recite “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” My daughter recited the phrases and her diseases were cured. Convinced, my daughter began practicing Falun Dafa.

My daughter and her mother-in-law would attend Fa study with a group of Falun Dafa practitioners every week. Each winter, I would stay with my daughter at her home and accompany them and my grandson to these Fa study classes. My job was to look after my grandson as my daughter and her mother-in-law studied with the group. After study class had ended, we would head home together. One day in 2009, while accompanying them to the class as usual, a Falun Dafa practitioner asked me, “Since you listen to the teachings each day, why not consider studying the practice as well?” I mulled over this suggestion and thought it had merit, so I began listening to them closely as they recited the Fa. My lack of education meant I could not recognize many words in the book. Yet practitioners patiently instructed me word by word.

Soon after I started practicing, I managed to quit smoking and drinking alcohol. I also stopped taking medication. Because there were no practitioners near my home, I had no one to ask concerning the many Dafa questions I had during my initial cultivation stage. The Fa study group near my daughter’s home became the only place I could find answers, so once a week I would undertake the 70-kilometer (44-mile) journey on my motorcycle, rain or shine.

When I felt discomfort while studying the Fa, I knew this was not because of illness but a sign of Master was purifying my body. My simple mind was unable to produce any profound understandings from the principles of Dafa. However, I instructed myself to follow one main guiding principle, “Listen and follow Master’s words. Nothing else is as important.” After less than a year, I could read Dafa books on my own.

After practicing Falun Dafa for nearly two years, the side effect from my head injury was completely healed and my right hand and feet are now nimble. Master restored my health and gave me a new life. Having benefited, I firmly believe in Master and Dafa!

Rescued from Danger by Master

One autumn evening, I was riding my motorcycle and making my way home after attending Fa study class when I found myself falling into a ditch at the side of the road. My surroundings were barely lit, and the ditch was deep and full of water, making it almost impossible to get out. I knew practitioners were under Master’s protection and so I called out, “Master!” The next moment, I somehow found myself and my motorcycle firmly on the road surface! How did I get up there? Even today, I have no idea.

This experience was so amazing that I was moved to tears. Just as Master said,

“If you truly follow the righteous way in cultivation, nobody will dare to do something to you at will. Besides, you have the protection of my fashen, and you will not be in any danger.” (Lecture Three, Zhuan Falun)

One autumn day, I was busily harvesting corn in the fields along with my brother, sister-in-law, and a fellow villager named Zhang. The weather that day was dry and windy, and another villager, Zhao, was at a distance burning corn stalks in his field. Somehow, the fire jumped from Zhao to Zhang’s corn field. Fueled by the wind, the fire burned fiercely and was about to reach my family’s field.

If our corn fields went up in flames, the hard work we had put in this year would have been in vain! We hurriedly used corn stalks to beat at the flames but had little success in extinguishing the fire. At this point, I loudly shouted, “Falun Dafa is good! Falun Dafa is good!” The wind instantly stopped, and the fire reduced in its intensity, allowing us to put out the flames with little effort. Master had lent us a hand to protect our corn fields.

Having witnessed this miracle, fellow villagers acknowledged the goodness of Falun Dafa.

Living a Fulfilling and Happy Life

Falun Dafa saved me, and I am determined to share this good thing with fellow villagers. During seasonal farming breaks, I tell people the truth and beauty of Falun Dafa through my own personal experience. Villagers who know me are aware of my past medical condition and are in awe of my miraculously improved health. Many agree that Falun Dafa is good and most have withdrawn from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Youth League and Young Pioneers.

I usually venture outdoors during my spare time to distribute truth-clarification materials. One night while distributing materials, I accidentally sprained my ankle to the point it hurt badly after just a few steps. Gazing at my heavy bag of truth-clarification materials, I resolved to continue distributing despite this obstacle. I slowly limped through the village, silently reciting “Falun Dafa is good” while delivering my load of truth-clarification booklets to every household. After finishing the first village, I proceeded on to the next one. As dawn broke, I finished distributing the last of my truth clarification materials in the fifth village. I then proceeded to walk home, forgetting the pain in my ankle which had disappeared by then.

A formerly disabled person due to brain injury, I am able to live a healthy and comfortable life today thanks to Master’s compassion. Now, I study the Fa and practice the exercises each day, while walking on the path to return to my original, true self. My heart is filled with gratitude towards Master!

(Selected Submission in Celebration of 2025 World Falun Dafa Day on Minghui.org)