Falun Dafa Saved My Mother's Life

My mother, Su Cailian, who is in her seventies, lives in Luoxiu Township in Guiping City of Guangxi Province, China. Back in my childhood in the 1980s, I witnessed that my Mum was physically weak and full of illnesses. In spite of the reform and open-door policies in China, people in my hometown, especially my own family, still lived in poverty. To feed seven children, my mother had to work even harder than others. The result was that her health deteriorated ever further.

When I reached the age of ten, Mum suffered from a duodenal ulcer. Unable to afford the cost of sending her to a hospital, Dad carried Mum to see a Chinese folk doctor. While Mom's situation was under control after the visit, her illness was not cured. Since then, Mum became even weaker, often feeling dizzy, her vision was blurred, and she was aching all over. Lacking proper nutrition to strengthen her body, she gradually developed heart disease, nervosas, apoplexy, dropsy (oedema), and other diseases. She was not able to raise her arms or touch any cold water. In addition, she could easily catch cold and she suffered from unbearable pain.

In 1995, Mum's health deteriorated rapidly. She suffered from heart attacks and dropsy showed up all over her body. With her stomach being painful, her limbs numb, and being unable to move, she had to lie in bed. Even in very warm weather, she had to use a quilt, yet she still felt cold. Day by day, a small amount of rice soup kept her alive.

At Luoxiu Hospital, a doctor told Mum that her heart disease was incurable. With her other various illnesses, she was doomed, the doctor said. As the last hope, we sent Mum to a well-known hospital in Guiping City. A renowned doctor diagnosed her and concluded that, "She won't survive a month". In the end, he gave her a prescription for some stimulants.

We were all sobbing as we brought her back home. That was right before the Chinese New Year. Desperately, we had to tell the truth about Mom's condition to our younger brother, Liang Zhihua, who was studying at a college in Liuzhou, Guangxi Province. In a few days, Zhihua came home. As soon as he stepped in the door, he said, "Only Falun Dafa can save Mum!" As a practitioner of Falun Dafa, Zhihua had experienced the power and miracles of Falun Dafa. According to Zhihua, he personally witnessed a few terminally ill patients in Liuzhou who survived as a result of practising Falun Dafa. Hearing his story, we all encouraged Mum to give it a try. Indeed, practising Falun Dafa was the last hope for Mum.

Zhihua brought home the book, Zhuan Falun and the exercise audiotape. Later he brought home a set of audiotapes of Teacher's Lectures in Jinan. Because Mom could not read, we had to take turns reading Zhuan Falun to her. Every day we finished reading one lecture, followed by playing the exercise music and the audiotape of Teacher's¹ lectures.

At about 8:00 p.m. the next day, Mum saw a large golden Falun spinning in her bedroom and lighting up the room. On the third day, her symptoms of dropsy slowly disappeared. In a week, Mum insisted on getting up to start practising the sitting meditation. With our help, soon she managed to get off the bed to practise the hand movements. With persistence, Mum did the exercises twice a day, spent the rest of her time reading and listening to the Falun Gong teachings, and looked within according to the requirements of the principles taught in Falun Gong. Day by day, Mum's health was improving. In two months, all of her symptoms of illness disappeared miraculously, without a single pill. In fact, she threw away all of the doctor's prescription drugs.

In May of 1996, after ten years of being unable to do any farm work, Mum finally started up farm work again. Instead of been tired, this time she was full of energy. Witnessing the dramatic changes in my Mom's health after she started to practise Falun Dafa, the villagers were all astonished by the power of Falun Dafa and approached Mum to learn more about Falun Gong. Many of them joined Mum to practise Falun Gong.

After Jiang Zemin's regime launched the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, Mum often clarifies the truth of Falun Gong and the persecution to those who don't understand what is going on. When the local authorities and police came to pressure Mum and our family several times to give up our belief, Mum again clarified the truth to them. Facing illegal arrest, Mum was forced to become homeless to avoid further persecution. After living with my younger brother in Shenzhen for a little over a month, Mum, together with my brother, was arrested by officer Cai Hangui from the 610 Office², another officer surnamed Tan from the Guiping Police Department, and policemen from the Shenzhen police station. They ordered their hatchet men to beat up Mum and my brother.

I am appealing to all kind-hearted people to take action to condemn the crimes of the Chinese authorities. Together, let us stop the persecution against innocent Falun Dafa practitioners.

Note:

1. Master/Teacher: Respectfully referring to the founder of Falun Gong, Mr. Li Hongzhi.
2. The 610 office is an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems.