Without Falun Gong, I Would Not Be Alive

I am a seventy-year-old peasant. I was never healthy and I suffered from an enlarged prostate. I tried various treatments in vain when one day my neighbour told me that a certain qigong (practise for refining or cultivating ones body) practise could cure illnesses. I tried it. That practise included partial abstinence from food, which only let the practitioner eat fruit and required him to massage his stomach morning and night. It was very difficult. I just wanted to cure my disease. I spent lots of money and suffered a lot, without any result. My body deteriorated from my chronic disease.

When I had given up hope, my daughter brought me the book Zhuan Falun - contains the core Falun Gong teachings. She said, "Reading this book can save your life." I wondered what kind of book could save my life, but I read it anyway. I never expected that the more I read the book, the more I would enjoy reading it, so that I didn't even feel hungry if I missed dinner. I thought this was exactly the precious book I was looking for. In order to help me, Falun Dafa practitioners came to my home to study the Fa (law or principle, the teachings in Falun Gong) in the evening. In three days, Teacher started to purify my body. I persisted in studying the Fa and practising the Falun Gong exercises every day, looking inwards while encountering problems, and considering others first while doing anything. Soon, I felt that my body was light and full of energy. My neighbours came to ask what kind of medicine healed my disease so fast. I told them I was practising Falun Gong and that Falun Gong taught people to be good and had miraculous healing effects. Hearing this, some came to learn Falun Gong, and said they wanted their families to learn it. Since then many in our village started to practise Falun Dafa.

Ever since July 20th, 1999, when Jiang Zemin officially started to persecute Falun Gong, I stayed at home to practise. Every day I just read the book in secret and dared not practise the Falun Gong exercises, and my mindset couldn't improve. Soon, I suffered from my previous illness again, and couldn't urinate. My son urged me to see a doctor. At that time I couldn't enlighten to the situation very well, so I went to the hospital. After checking me, the doctor said that I must be catheterised, or I would develop uraemia. I was frightened and agreed to be catheterised. I could urinate, but had to be hospitalised for observation. Two weeks passed, and instead of improving, my condition worsened. Eventually, I couldn't urinate at all, even with a catheter. Seeing that no one could help me in the hospital, my son took me to a village doctor. I was diagnosed with uraemia. My children were distressed and took me to the County Hospital, but still in vain. My children sent me to the Hospital of Shenyang Medical University. They quickly performed surgery, inserting a tube through my abdomen to let out urine. Although my body was a bit relieved, I felt weak and sick and the doctor said I would only live several months to a year. After I returned home, I found that my wife's arm was broken. Bad things kept happening one after one another! What was the matter with me?

Hearing about my situation, fellow practitioners came to visit me. They told me to study the Fa and try to enlighten from the Fa and look for problems within myself. I asked my daughter to read the book to me. The first day I could sit still to read the book. When I felt tired, I rested and then continued to read the book. Gradually I felt hungry and wanted to eat, and my health became better and better. All my family members said that Falun Gong was really powerful. Knowing my story, all the village leaders and people in the village said that Falun Gong is good. After continuous truth clarification, many people in our village learnt Falun Dafa.

Because he witnessed the magnificent power of Falun Dafa, the village leader started to protect the Falun Dafa practitioners in our village. In the spring of 2003, a car came to our village, and those in the car asked the village leader if there were Falun Gong practitioners in our village. The village leader told those people that Falun Gong was undoubtedly good, otherwise why would so many people practise it? He continued, "If you would like to take care of us, just take care of our fields; the fields desperately need water." The people in the car left without further words.

Now everyone in our village knows that Falun Dafa is good. With the help of fellow practitioners, I stepped out of the illness tribulation. All who saw me said that I would not be alive without Falun Gong. Thanks to Teacher's compassion I am alive today. Here I would like to remind all practitioners. If we look inwards while encountering problems and keep righteous thoughts, we can overcome any obstacles. Teacher is waiting for us!