Rescued from My Dissolute Life

From 1993 to 1998, I was the material section head of an enterprise. I often profited by taking sales commissions, and I indulged in smoking, drinking and other bad behaviour. I was notorious locally for my misconduct after I was drunk.

Then I was introduced to Zhuan Falun. When I first read the book, I immediately felt its extraordinary power. After reading through the book again and again I was greatly shocked. I had found a real way of life in the maze,

"One should return to one's original, true self; this is the real purpose of being human." ("Lecture One" in Zhuan Falun, 2000 translation version)

I eagerly read the whole book from cover to cover and looked back at my life, scene after scene. I felt almost too ashamed to live. After three days' of soul searching in the face of my attachments to lust and other vices, I swore that I would completely get rid of smoking, drinking, and lust.

"Study the Fa and gain the Fa,
Focus on how you study and cultivate,
Let each and every thing
be measured against the Fa.
Only then, with that,
is it actually cultivation."

("Solid Cultivation" in Hong Yin, translation version A)

I realised that in our cultivation practise, mere realisation of a principle is not enough. Without accomplishments, cultivation is not real. So, with a righteous belief in Master and the Falun Gong teachings and the consequent righteous thoughts and actions, I finally broke away from the hold my emotions had had on me for many years. In facing the tests, I succeeded three times and eventually ended my decades of excessive indulgence in lust.

During the SARS outbreak, one day I suddenly showed symptoms of a stroke, unable to control my mouth and eyes. I refused to go to a hospital and firmly believed in the power of Falun Dafa. I told my wife, "I will recover in a week!" And, indeed, it happened. That miracle completely changed my wife's attitude towards the practice: from disapproval to support, from keeping practitioners out of our home to voluntarily visiting illegally detained practitioners in a forced labour camp. My wife's amazing awakening enabled me to experience the real joy of someone who now knows the truth.

Our compassionate Master has rescued me from my dissolute life and washed me clean. Only through diligent cultivation can I, as a Falun Dafa practitioner, be worthy of Master's grand mercy.