I Am Thankful for Master's Compassion in Giving Me a Second Life

Before I started practising Falun Dafa, I had been on the verge of perishing due to physical and mental suffering. I felt the heavens were unjust to me and society was so cruel, and I saw no hope in life!

I had been fragile from illness since my childhood, and was frequently bullied at school. After hard studying I passed an examination and got a good job. However, after several years I was ousted by someone who had powerful connections. I became jobless. Although I was only just over 20 years old, to make a living I even began selling newspapers on the street with my parents. I wasn't satisfied with this job, so I rented a stall in a newly constructed market to sell cooked food. My mother pooled in all the dimes and nickels she had accumulated by selling newspapers. On the day the market opened, I found there were 18 stalls altogether selling cooked food. We knew we had been duped and tried to get rid of the stall, but no one wanted to take it over, even at a lower price. We could only stick with it. But the market manager frequently asked us for money using various excuses. Those who did not pay were robbed of their scales. We had to give up the stall several months later without getting our money back.

Misfortune usually comes in waves. One day I found a nodule in my leg joint. It was as small as a soy bean in the beginning. It grew inwardly and had a radiating pain, even spreading to the bottom of my feet. I was so upset that I considered killing myself, assuming that the nodule was probably malignant. I thought the heavens were unjust to me and society was so cruel. Why don't we honest people have a chance to live?

May 12, 1999 is my blessed date of getting to know Falun Dafa. That is why I always remember it. On that day a high school classmate of mine came to visit me. Seeing me lying on the bed listlessly, she said, “You are so fragile, a wind could blow you over. You should practise Falun Dafa. My mother's high blood pressure and heart disease disappeared after practising it. She is very healthy now.” I said, “What exercise is it that is so miraculous! How do you do it?” She said, “Let me bring you to Ping's place. She was your best friend in high school, remember? Her place is the meeting place for learning Dafa. My mother always goes there.” So she took me by bicycle to Ping's place. I borrowed a copy of the book Zhuan Falun and spent one and a half days to finish reading it. I realized that this book teaches us to be good people by practising Truthfulness-Benevolence-Forbearance in our daily lives. There was a deeper meaning for me yet to learn, but this was enough for me to make the decision to practice Falun Dafa.

One day in late May, my mother asked that I go to the stadium with her to see if I could find some kind of exercise there which might interest me. A bell rang in my ear, and it occurred to me that I might as well go there to see if there were people practising Falun Gong. It took us half an hour to walk there. I saw a group of people standing motionlessly practising the “Falun Standing Stance.” I asked a practitioner who was standing there overseeing the place, “What kind of exercise is this?” He said, “This is Falun Gong.” I asked, “How much is charged per month?” He said, “It is free of charge.” I was surprised. Every other kind of exercise there charged a fee. Even the dance my mother was learning charged five dollars per month. He told me that I could practice mornings or evenings, and it would not interfere with my work. From then on I persisted in going there to practise. One day I was late in getting up. There were 15 minutes left and I ran to the stadium. When I arrived there the exercise music started immediately. I knew that Master had waited for me.

Since I started practising Falun Dafa, I have experienced many miracles. The hard nodule in my joint disappeared without me noticing. My nose used to bleed. One day when I was sitting in meditation, a drop of blood fell from my nose into my palm. From then on my nose has never bled. Migraines which had plagued me since my childhood has not recurred. I used to have gastritis and dared not drink cold water or eat bananas, and this problem is gone. I had another mysterious experience. When I was on my way back home after practising Falun Dafa, I often saw a flower leading the way. Soon the word “seven years” appeared in my celestial eye, and it kept changing colours. It might be that Master was telling me that Falun Dafa had been spread for seven years and I needed to cultivate diligently. On several occasions my primordial spirit left my physical body to fly into other dimensions, sometimes through the wall. I sometimes heard someone knocking at the door or an alarm clock ringing while I was in deep sleep (there was no alarm clock in my place). I realized that Master was calling me to get up and practise Falun Dafa.

These experiences gradually rid me of the atheism that had been instilled in me for more than 20 years, and built up my faith in Falun Dafa. Although the persecution of Falun Dafa was implemented merely one month later, I never wavered in my faith. By studying Falun Dafa, I realized that all the injustice and hardships I had gone through were due to my previous behaviour which was not in accordance with the universal principles of Truthfulness-Benevolence-Forbearance. It is also a universal truth that one should pay one's debts, and of course paying one's debts is nothing pleasant. A non-practitioner does not understand this truth and will resist this debt-paying by creating more debt. If a person's debt accumulates to a substantial degree, he or she may not be granted a bite of food, even after begging.

In this country, the regime does not differentiate right from wrong, and governs people with atheism. How many people can keep their mindset from being twisted? I saw on the TV news that a teacher felt that his superior was unfair to him (in promotion or salary increase), so he pushed a student from the height of several floors and killed her. He intended to create a sensation to take revenge on the school authorities. From a general viewpoint he acted on impulse and lost his mind temporarily, but from the viewpoint of a practitioner, this everyday person had invited an evil spirit to control him and make him do stupid things. He had not only ruined himself but also brought endless pain to others. If I had not learned Falun Dafa, I too might have done something stupid in my despair. By cultivating, my twisted and tainted spirit has been purified and rectified.

I am grateful that Master gave me my second life! I am grateful for Master's salvation! I am very fortunate to be able to practise Falun Dafa, and I want to put into writing my experiences to testify to the greatness and merit of Falun Dafa on the coming twentieth anniversary of the spread of Falun Dafa in this world!