A Woman's Experiences in Practising Falun Gong

A Falun Dafa practitioner told me the following story about a fellow practitioner.

Along the coast of the East Sea, there is a beautiful village. One of the families has lived there for many generations. The family has done many good deeds. Above their doorway, they have a huge, red sign that says "Hall of Good Deeds." The family members have been admonished by their elders to be act righteously and to do good deeds. This is the family of the great grandfather of the Falun Dafa practitioner. The great grandfather was kind and honest and was always ready to lend a helping hand to others. He was also very talented. He has studied Chinese medicine, the Book of Changes, and the Eight Trigrams. He is mostly known for his skills in treating animals.

Long ago, many households in the village raised large animals. When the villagers' animals had problems, he could treat them. He never asked for any money in return. The practitioner's grandfather and father were both influenced by their great grandfather's virtue. The practitioner belonged to the fourth generation. Her grandmother used to tell her about the relationship between good deeds and our life. She would tell her, "Your grandfather has been in the army for ten years now, and he has been in many dangerous battles, but he has never been shot. Isn't this magical? This is in return for the good deeds performed by his ancestors." Such stories had planted a seed in her mind about the relationship between being rewarded for good deeds. She had understood the principle that good will meet with good and evil with evil. Therefore early in her life, she followed this principle, and was kind and helpful to others.

She was a hard-working employee. She never paid a lot of attention to her own interest and had won the trust of her boss and had always been given important posts. Once, in an accident, she came into contact with some chemicals, which caused her to fall unconscious for twenty minutes. She was then asked to go home to recuperate, her salary was suspended, and the company only paid for her living expenses. Her health deteriorated thereafter. She became slow, lost her memory, felt nauseous, had bad coughs, felt sick and dizzy, there was a spasm of blood vessels on her face and she developed heart problems. Every now and then her heart would skip a beat. She was suffering form all sorts of illnesses and symptoms.

She turned from a healthy woman to a patient that required constant monitoring. As soon as she got a cold, she would slip into a coma. She was on the verge of death on six separate occasions where emergency medical services were required to rescue her. She had visited numerous large hospitals for treatment and had seen many specialists. She was told that nothing was available to cleanse her body of the toxins. Her symptoms were getting more and more serious. She had to stay home, but she needed someone to be with her at all times. If she fell into a coma, she would die within three minutes if assistance were not available. Her whole family was devastated. Her mother cried and her husband was so worried. Her preschool child did not know how to write, but learned to use Pinyin (Mandarin phonetic symbols) to write, "To save mom, call 120" and left the note by the phone. Sadness and fear hovered over the family.

While she was clinging to life, in 1997, a lady gave her a copy of Zhuan Falun [Turning the Law Wheel the main text of Falun Gong] and told her that as long as she studied the book and practised the five sets of Falun Gong exercises, whilst followed the principle of Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance, her body would be cleansed to allow her to practise. She started to read Zhuan Falun. She didn't remember anything at first, but she persisted and read a dozen pages at a time. All of a sudden she felt very good. Her feelings of sickness was reduced. She continued to read, and the more she read, the better she felt. She wanted to practise the exercises, but she was so weak and could not stand. So she started with the sitting exercise. At first, she could only persist for one or two minutes, and it was excruciating, but she felt good afterwards. From three minutes, she went on to five and then ten minutes. After a period of time, she touched her face and it did not feel as rough as before.

After a month of practising the sitting exercise, she started to do the standing exercises. She tried to get up, but could only do one movement. Then she said to herself, it is such a good exercise, I have to continue no matter what. She managed to complete the first movements of the first exercise three times, then the third and fourth exercises. The second exercise was quite difficult for her. Her heartbeat would stop on and off and she could not breathe, but she persisted. After three months, it got better and she was no longer dizzy. She stopped suffering from dizziness and her insomnia improved. Since then, she did not need her mother or husband to look after her. Every time she practised, she perspired, with a strong odour, even in deep winter. She asked some other Falun Gong practitioners about this, and was told that since she was poisoned, Teacher Li [respectfully referring to the founder of Falun Gong, Mr Li Hongzhi] may just be cleansing body, ridding her body of the poison.

Six months later, it was Teacher Li's birthday. She said to herself, as a gift to Teacher Li, I have to be able to sit in the full lotus position with both legs crossed on top of one another. As soon as she had that thought, she was able to sit in the lotus position for about ten minutes. Not long later, she started to nod her head every time she meditated, which signified that her Small Heavenly Circulation was opened. She had never expected this to happen so fast. Since then, she studied the teachings of Falun Gong and meditated every day. At first, it took her about two weeks to finish Zhuan Falun and she could read Zhuan Falun three times in a month. Often, by the time she read the third lecture, she would have karma-eliminating symptoms. Her illnesses all came back, which then took three to five days or at most a week to get better. It happened repeatedly, just as Teacher Li had pointed out in his article "Sickness Karma." She memorised what Teacher Li said, "It's hard to endure, but you can endure it. It's hard to do, but you can do it." No matter how hard it was, she would forge ahead. Once she could not move as if she was in a coma. She had her faith in Teacher Li, and strengthened her righteous thoughts. She asked her husband to put the book of Zhuan Falun on her chest. After about two or three minutes, she was fine. She was very grateful to Teacher Li and became more diligent in her cultivation.

Another six months later, she had a fever. She knew that it was Teacher Li who was helping her to eliminate her karma. She was going to measure her body temperature, but then the thermometer fell to the ground and broke into two parts. She realised that she could put up with it. After much struggling and pain, she fell asleep. When she woke up, her fever had subsided and she felt so good. In the past, her body was cold all the time. In the winter, she had to be covered with four padded quilts plus a hot water bottle. Now she felt warm and the cold feeling was gone. She asked her mother to feel her feet and hands, which were nice and warm.

One year later, her great heavenly circulation was connected and she could lift off the floor when she meditated; when she walked or rode on the bike, she felt like she was being pushed. She felt so light and all her illnesses were gone. Teacher Li had given her a new life. Every day, she would say to people that Falun Dafa is good. Her parents told everybody that Falun Gong is a miracle and it cured their daughter's terminal illnesses. She looked so fresh and great. Eighteen months later, her Maoyou Heavenly Circulation was opened causing her head to move from side to side when she meditated, first to the left, then to the right, repeatedly. She felt a warm current through her body. At that time, only her thoughts were left, she could not feel her body. It was a great feeling. She experienced the greatness of Falun Dafa. Step by step, she experienced the cultivation process outlined by Teacher Li in Zhuan Falun. She cherished the opportunity to practise Falun Dafa and she studied and practised every day.

After the persecution against those who practise Falun Gong began on the 20th of July, 1999, many Falun Gong practitioners went to Beijing to peacefully and lawfully appeal for the right to practise Falun Dafa and safeguard Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. Although very few practitioners in her city went, she went on her own to the National Appeal Office to talk to the people about the wonders of Falun Dafa. Even the plainclothes officers listened to her attentively until she finished. Some even said, "Falun Gong is good. Look how energetic she is." After that, they were not as harsh to her anymore. Then she was sent to the Beijing Office of her city, where about thirty practitioners were being detained, ranging from seven year olds to those who were over seventy years old. When she realised so many practitioners had stepped forward to appeal, she was very moved.

On the next day, she was picked up by a representative from her company and sent back to the local police station. There she continued to tell the police the true facts about Falun Gong. One of the policeman said, after hearing her story, "So and so is not well, I think he should practise Falun Gong." The police asked her, "All those that went to Beijing to appeal had to be thrown in jail, how come you are not afraid of being jailed? Other people are very afraid." She said, "To safeguard Falun Dafa, I am not afraid of dying, nor being jailed." After she was jailed, many practitioners in her area went to Beijing to appeal.

She did not write any Guarantee Statements before or after she was released. For two years, the police tried all kinds of tricks to "transform" her, but were not successful. They were very angry and said, if she refused to write the statement, they would send her to a forced labour camp. Her boss knew that she was a nice person and rejected the police. "My employee is a good person. You cannot send her to a forced labour camp." Failing that, the police monitored her and sent her to brainwashing classes many times. It turned out that it was easier to move mountains than to move her. Whoever dealt with her found it impossible to change her.

On a Sunday afternoon, she was taking a child of her relative home. She was reciting one of Teacher Li's articles,

"Indestructible righteous faith in the cosmos's Truth forms benevolent Dafa disciples' rock-solid, Diamond-Like Bodies, it frightens all evil, and the light of Truth it emanates makes the unrighteous elements in all beings' thoughts disintegrate. However strong the righteous thoughts are, that's how great the power is." ("Also in a Few Words" Essentials for Further Advancement II)

While she was walking north along the sidewalk, a car was coming towards her. They were only about three or four meters apart. At this point, she saw some white smoke coming out from the back of the car and at the same time, there was a loud "boom." The car exploded. Broken glass was flying everywhere like snowflakes. She was not scared at all upon seeing this. She thought, I have a protective cover from Teacher Li. As soon as she had the thought, she felt that her body was covered and she was not hurt at all. Then she remembered the child, where is he? He was crying in the bike-seat, but he was not injured at all. There was a lot of broken glass in the boy's bike-seat. She picked up the child and let him walk a little. He seemed ok. She looked at the car. The doors, windows, and roof had all been blown off. One sales person ran out to enquire about the incident. She told her that the car exploded. Seeing the two of them standing amongst the broken glass, the sales person was amazed. "You guys were not hurt? You two are so lucky." She said, "Yes, it is because I practise Falun Dafa. It's my Teacher who has saved us." However, several people died due to the accident.

The explosion, the shower of broken glass, and the flying car doors, windows--any one of those could have killed them. The experience just proved that the Falun Gong is so immense.