Benefiting from the Practice at the Age of 78

I was fortunate to start practising Falun Dafa in 1998 and since then I have benefited a lot from cultivation. I am currently at the ripe old age of 78.

Before I started to practise Falun Gong, I had many kinds of health problems, such as stomach trouble, cervical spondylosis (degeneration of the spinal column), rheumatism, and boils. I suffered from a stomach bug when I was 30. In order to treat the disease, I saw doctors in many hospitals and took lots of medicine, but none of it had any effect. My daughter and son-in-law used to take me to several hospitals in Beijing to treat my cervical spondylosis. I spent five thousand yuan on the treatment but my health did not improve. The infected boils I suffered from for years left me with no strength to live a normal life.

In 1998, an old man introduced Falun Dafa to me, saying his illness was cured after he took up the practice. He asked whether I would like to read the book, Zhuan Falun. I nodded and so he gave me a copy. I was almost 70 years old at that time and could not read since I never had the chance to go to school. My husband then taught me to read the book word by word. Sometimes I had to ask my grandson or granddaughter for help when my husband was busy. I was determined to read the whole book. After their patient help and enlightening from various hints, I read Zhuan Falun several times in six months and learned all the characters in the book.

After I started practising Falun Gong, my body went through a period of purification. The body purification started with the stomach. In the middle of the night I would spit out a basin-full of black blood. No matter how terrible I felt, I never gave up studying the Falun Dafa teachings and practising the exercises. After the purification, my stomach problems that had plagued me for all these years had disappeared and I could once again eat cold, sour, and spicy foods. The cervical spondylosis, rheumatism, and boils were also healed and I now had a lot of strength whilst getting on with my daily activities. The whole village saw the wonderfulness of Falun Dafa via the improvements I had to my mind and body,so much so that over 50 people took up practising Falun Gong. With the new surge of Falun Gong practitioners in my region I organised a weekly session where we would all get together to study the Falun Gong teachings.

After the brutal persecution of Falun Gong in China started on July 20th, 1999, the practitioners in my village were too afraid to continue practising Falun Gong for fear of torture and brutal persecution. After pondering for some time, I came to realize that there was nothing wrong with cultivating Truthfulness, Benevolence, Forbearance. With such thoughts in mind I kept on studying the Falun Gong teachings and practising the exercises every day.

Later, I had heart-to-heart talks with the practitioners in my village. Through my efforts, the village resumed the group study and practice. In 2000, I read the articles written by the founder of Falun Gong, Master Li Hongzhi and realised that as Falun Dafa practitioners during the Fa-rectification period, we needed to clarify the truth as well as studying the teachings and practising the exercises. When I clarified the facts about the persecution for the first time, I was a bit afraid. Instead of personally giving materials detailing the truth about the practice and the persecution to people personally, I put them on doors and in bicycle baskets. The attachment of fear was always present.

In 2003 when I stayed in my son's home in town, I formed a study group with other practitioners. We studied the Falun Gong teachings from two to five p.m. every day and went out to clarify the truth in the morning and afternoon. After study, I came to understand that I am a Falun Dafa practitioner during the Fa-rectification period and that I should clarify the truth with wisdom in a dignified and upright manner. Now I do not feel any fear at all when I clarify the truth. I clarify the truth whenever I come upon predestined people. I distribute truth-clarification materials and try to persuade people to quit the Chinese Communist Party. I clarify the truth to dozens of people every day.

Once I clarified the truth to a man who looked like an official. He asked me where the materials came from. I answered that they were produced with money saved up by practitioners to give people a chance to learn the truth. He then said, "Do you know who I am? I am a police officer." I said to him, "I am not afraid. If you are the police, it is even more important to explain the facts to you. Please remember that practitioners are all good people and that Falun Dafa is good." He nodded to me with a smile.

In 2005, I went to Beijing's Tiananmen Square to publicly and peacefully appeal for a stop to the persecution with my youngest daughter. I cried out, "Falun Dafa is good!" After that, my daughter and son-in-law accompanied me to the Fragrant Hill and the Great Wall. My daughter was too tired to climb up the steps and stopped half way, but my son-in-law and I climbed to the top. Some foreigners raised their thumbs to me saying, "The old lady is great!" I said, "It is because I practise Falun Dafa."

Now my daughter also practises Falun Dafa. Once I needed to travel several miles to a location so that I could clarify the truth to the people their, even at my age I still walked on foot and never took a bus. This all goes to show just how great and powerful Falun Gong is. Seeing such great changes and benefits brought upon me by the practice my whole family thanks our great Teacher for his benevolent salvation.