After Being Deceived By the Lies I Once Again Start to Practise Falun Gong

I am 38 years old and I began practising Falun Dafa in 1996. Before I started practising Falun Dafa, I suffered from rheumatism and I often felt very uncomfortable and even suffered from pains in my heart. On cloudy and rainy days, I would feel terrible pain in my joints. When it rained, or during periods of high humidity, my skin would develop pimples. So whenever it rained I would stay in bed wrapped in a quilt . This condition had been going on for seven or eight years.

However, when I began practising Falun Dafa, the rheumatism was cured without any medical treatment.

From the 20th of July, 1999 onward, when Jiang Zemin and his regime started to brutally persecute Falun Gong, it seemed to me like the whole sky had fallen. I was at a loss about what to do. In the following years I seldom studied the Falun Gong teachings or practised the Falun Gong exercises and took the excuse of being "busy at work," to absolve myself from my commitment to study the Falun Gong teachings. Work was not the reason, though. However, with the encouragement of my mother, a steadfast Falun Dafa practitioner, I have held Dafa in my heart.

In 2001, because I had given up cultivation practise, the evil took advantage of me and my rheumatism became a hundred times worse than before. At that time I could hardly tolerate it; it was simply unbearable and I felt that I could not stand it for even a few more days. Whichever part of my bones felt pain, the surrounding tissue would swell. My hands and feet swelled so much that it is impossible to describe. My skin seemed to be water-logged and like it might break at any minute. I depended on my family members for even the smallest daily needs, including drinking and eating. I felt such pain all over my body that I could not help crying every day. Whenever I could not stand it any longer I would start to cry again. By that time I was so skinny that nobody could recognise me. I had only one thought at that time, "I am a Falun Dafa practitioner; I will get through this and totally eliminate the karma."

This situation continued for almost a month, until my mother came to visit. As soon as she saw my condition she knew that this was persecution by the evil forces from other dimensions and she started to send forth righteous thoughts to eliminate the evil elements behind my tribulation.

Once, when my mother sent forth righteous thoughts to rid the evil from around me, my celestial eye opened and I saw the dirty stuff inside my body, it was really horrible and disgusting. When my mum sent forth righteous thoughts, I could see some little bright substances, swastikas [wan symbols] falling down on my body, there were a massive number of them and they were very beautiful, of such striking colours that one cannot see in the human world. I was so excited! I came to recognise the power of sending forth righteous thoughts, and I understood that I would be well soon.

During that period, mother described the current situation with regards to Falun Gong and the persecution to me. I then made a vow to Master, that I would definitely become a Fa-rectification Falun Dafa practitioner and that I would do well on the three things that a Fa-rectification period practitioner should do [study the Falun Gong teachings, explain the facts about Falun Dafa and the persecution to people, and send forth righteous thoughts].

In the following month I continued to study the Falun Gong teachings and practise the exercises every day, and even helped fellow practitioners with folding materials that contained factual information about Falun Gong. Within one month, my illnesses were cured. I stepped out and started to take part in activities to let people know the truth about Falun Gong with other practitioners. At first I brought back Falun Gong related materials from the city; several packages or over ten packages at a time, and shared the materials with fellow practitioners. I went out to distribute the materials every evening as well, trying any method that I could think of to clarify the truth about Falun Gong to people. By then my health not only recovered, but I continued to be more and more efficient in my efforts to let people know the truth about Falun Gong.

In 2003, some practitioners and I set up the first small Falun Dafa materials production site in our county. After that, several other small-scale materials production sites were also successively set up in this county allowing more and more people come to see the truth about Falun Dafa.