[Celebrating World Falun Dafa Day] Falun Dafa Gave Me a Second Life

(Minghui.org) I’m 75 years old. Before I practiced Falun Dafa, I suffered from many diseases, including lower back pain, gynecological diseases, and vertigo. The vertigo made me feel dizzy. I kept vomiting, and the medicines did not help. The worst illness was the congenital skin disease that tormented me for 45 years.

A big yellow blister would form on the back of my right foot. It burst when it was touched, and yellow fluid oozed out, followed by pus and blood.

My father is a teacher and I never saw him lose his temper. He applied the medicine because my mother worked and had no time. He first disinfected the area with hydrogen peroxide and then applied red or purple medicine to make the blisters scab over. The scabs bled when they were touched, and then yellow water and yellow pus would flow out. He had to repeatedly apply the medicine. When I was very young, I cried a lot, and my parents also wept because they felt bad for me.

I was given blood-clearing injections when I was one month old. Whenever my father heard of a doctor who treated skin diseases, he asked them to treat me. I was given many prescriptions, but my condition did not improve. An old Chinese doctor told my father there were worms in my blood, and these yellow bubbles were caused by them. My disease could not be cured.

I continued to receive serum injections, and slowly the blisters on my right instep disappeared. My family was filled with joy, and my father was particularly happy, thinking that I finally got rid of this nightmare. One year later the blisters returned. I was only two years old.

The blisters on the instep of my right foot healed, leaving a scar. The next onset started on both ankles and gradually spread upward. The yellow blisters soon appeared on my legs, chest, and back, and then my neck, until my entire body was covered. This time, the blood-clearing injection didn’t work so my parents took me to see a Chinese doctor. As a two-year-old child whose life has just begun, how can I endure this endless pain? ! When would it end?

When I got older I cleaned and applied medicine on the front of my body, and my grandmother applied medicine on my back. Whenever I had a serious attack, it was painful, itchy, and annoying. I dared not scratch. I lay in bed and wept silently. I didn’t want my father to see me crying.

I was never able to wear clothing with short sleeves, no matter how hot it was—I was afraid others would see my skin condition. Because we lived in the countryside, it was hard to take a bath. When I got older, I went to the bathhouse. Even though my entire body was painful, itchy and irritated when I took a bath, I was desperate.

I lived in a dormitory when I was in middle school, and I took a kind of Chinese medicine pill. Those pills were made of animal remains and smelled fishy. I had to take them every day, and they made me feel sick. After taking the pills, I had to eat a red date. At first, I thought the red dates tasted good. Because I had to take medicine every day, the red dates began smelling like the medicine. Even now, when I see red dates, I smell the medicine.

Because I lived on campus, I was afraid that my classmates would be scared and laugh at me, so I covered myself up every day. In winter, I only wore a cotton jacket and cotton pants. At night, when the lights were turned off in the dormitory, I slowly took off my cotton coat, spread some paper and covered myself with it, and then got into bed.

I was 28 years old when I got married in 1978. My health hadn’t improved. My mother passed away. I was a girl from the countryside with a skin disease, so I found a husband who had crossed eyes. Afterward, we had a son and lived with my parents-in-law for ten years.

My husband is a punching bag in his family. His father verbally abused him, and he couldn’t do anything right. His eyes crossed when his father picked him up by his legs because he cried when he was one year old, and threw him to the ground. His eye condition affected his life. He went to all the major hospitals, but they couldn’t cure him. His three sisters also treated him badly, and he had no status at home. After we married, no matter how hard I tried, my husband’s family looked down on me. I respected my parents-in-law. I got water for my father-in-law to wash his face before he went to work, and water for him to wash his feet after he came back from work. When my parents-in-law were sick and hospitalized, I cooked delicious meals and brought them to the hospital.

I had no job, and my husband’s monthly salary was only 33 yuan ($4.58). My cousin often sent me some vegetables, eggs, and other food, and I gave half to my mother-in-law. When I had time, I knitted woolen hats and made shoes for the children of my three sisters-in-law. I tried my best, but it didn’t work. I was often scolded by my second sister-in-law for no reason, and my parents-in-law didn’t stop her.

I was sad when my mother passed away, but my sister-in-law ridiculed me for being fatherless and motherless. When I said something, my second sister-in-law beat me. I couldn’t break free, and my son was scared and cried. My mother-in-law was afraid something would happen so she asked the neighborhood committee to help. The neighbors saw it, knew my situation, and felt I was pitiful. Although I endured it at that time, it was a kind of endurance of compromise and swallowing my anger. I had a hard life. I married a punching bag and suffered from it. I often cried in the middle of the night. Later, my second sister-in-law got married while my husband and I moved out of my parents-in-law’s house. Since then, I have had no contact with my second sister-in-law.

Second Life

I began to practice Falun Dafa in 1995 when I was 45. Not long after I started practicing, Master Li cleansed my body. Starting from my ankles, my skin disease gradually became less severe. The blisters no longer hurt.

Taking a shower used to be torture. After I started practicing Falun Dafa, I take a shower every two days. I feel relaxed and comfortable, and my skin condition is gone.

About two months after I started practicing Falun Dafa, I dreamed I was lying on my side on the bed, and black gas was coming out of the soles of my feet. When I woke up I thought, “Isn’t this Master purifying my body?” From that day on, my legs no longer trembled when I walked downstairs, and my vertigo was gone. I was full of energy every day.

Falun Dafa helped me get out of despair. I regained my health, and it felt like I went from hell to heaven. There are no words to express my gratitude to Master.

Letting Go of Resentment

Before I started practicing Falun Dafa, I didn’t have any contact with my second sister-in-law’s family. Although I no longer quarreled with her, the resentment was deeply rooted in my heart. I never offended them, so why did they treat me like this? I understood after I started practicing.

I studied Master’s teachings repeatedly and realized I must have treated them badly in another lifetime—I came to this family in this life to repay my debt. I also realized that Master arranged for me to obtain this great Dafa, and those ten years were a test. As I studied the Fa, my xinxing improved, and my resentment gradually disappeared, and now it is completely gone.

When my second sister-in-law’s daughter got married, I attended the wedding, gave her gifts, and told her family the facts about Dafa. They all withdrew from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its youth organizations. My second sister-in-law’s attitude toward me also improved, and she was very warm to me. I was really happy for them. I am even more grateful because Dafa not only helped me resolve my resentment, but also helped my second sister-in-law’s family learn the facts and be saved.

Open and Above Board

One early summer years ago, I went to the farmer’s market to buy vegetables. A young man was selling apples, so I bought a few. I paid with paper bills containing the words, “Falun Dafa is good” and “Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” When I handed him the money, he looked at it and asked, “What’s written on it?” I took the apples and walked away. I was so scared that my heart jumped up and down. When I got home, my legs were still shaking.

I asked myself, “Am I a Dafa practitioner?” Master pulled me out of hell and cleansed me, but I behaved like this. What am I afraid of? The only way to get rid of fear is to study the teachings. So I recited Master’s poem:

“What’s There to Fear

If you have fear, they will grab youOnce your thought is righteous, evil will collapsePeople practicing cultivation, filled with FaSending righteous thoughts, exploding rotten ghostsGods are in the world, validating Fa”(“What’s There to Fear,” Hong Yin II)

When I went to the market to buy vegetables again, I heard someone shouting, “Falun Dafa!” I couldn’t help but look sideways and saw that it was the young man selling apples, shouting at me. He was so loud that people around him could hear it. The words “Open and above board” suddenly flashed through my mind. I walked over calmly and said in a straightforward and friendly manner, “What’s the matter?” He didn’t expect this and felt embarrassed. He stammered, “I’m not calling you.” I smiled and said, “Are you selling apples again? I’ll come back to buy apples from you later.” After that, I went to buy vegetables first.

After buying vegetables, I went back and bought his apples. He said, “Auntie, you really keep your word!” Before I could reply, a young man selling vegetables next to me said, “People who practice Falun Dafa are like this.” I explained, “Master taught us Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. I said I would come back to buy, so I came back. We practitioners should follow Falun Dafa’s teachings.” Before leaving, the two young men said to me, “Goodbye, thank you!”

I thought about what happened and immediately connected it with what happened a while ago. This is Master’s arrangement for me to improve, and my fear lessened.

Since then, I have been using paper bills with Falun Dafa phrases on them. Two years ago, I took a taxi to take my child to school. I told the driver the facts of Dafa and persuaded him to quit the CCP. After the driver agreed to quit the CCP, he said, “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” When I asked how he knew these, he said he had seen this from phrases printed on paper money. I realized that this was Master encouraging me to continue to do the three things well, and that all sentient beings are waiting to be saved.

Master Helps My Family

I read my granddaughter’s diary and learned that my son and daughter-in-law had a serious car accident, and the car was totaled. They never mentioned it. My son and daughter-in-law took my daughter, who was in middle school, in one car, and my daughter-in-law’s sister and her family drove another car to Yanji. Because there were many people going to that scenic spot, they could not find a place to stay that night, so they stayed in the car for a night and did not get a good rest.

When they drove home, my son was tired and they had an accident, and the car was totaled. At that time, only my son and daughter-in-law were in the car, and my granddaughter was in the car of my daughter-in-law’s sister. When my granddaughter saw that her parents’ car was overturned, she immediately asked Master, “Master Li, please save my parents! Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance are good!” She repeatedly shouted this. My daughter-in-law’s sister, brother-in-law, and passersby helped my son and daughter-in-law out and sent them to the hospital for examination. My daughter-in-law was not injured, and my son only had some scratches on his head and hands. It was Master who saved their whole family.

I’ve raised my granddaughter since she was little. She recited Hong Yin with me, so she naturally knew that Dafa is good. Dafa has taken root in her heart, so she thinks of Dafa at critical moments. Now she is in college, and every time she comes home, she buys fruit as an offering to Master. Our family is grateful to Master.

My daughter-in-law also knows that Dafa is good and has benefited. She started working as a technician, and it didn’t take long for her to become an engineer. The students she taught also achieved very good results. Now she is a professor and has a considerable salary. Before she goes on a business trip, I always remind her to say, “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance is good.” She said very sincerely, “Mom, I always recite these phrases.” She completes her tasks well, and her boss is very satisfied.

My son knows that Dafa is good. The group study in my home was established in early 1999 and has met intermittently to today. He has never interfered. If he’s home on a group study day, he’s quiet or takes a walk. After we finish studying the Fa, he comes back and does not disturb us. He greets practitioners when they come to our home.

(Selected submission in celebration of 2025 World Falun Dafa Day on Minghui.org)