Editor's note: The writer had suffered from severe, difficult and complicated illnesses. However, only a few months after she began to practise Falun Dafa, she made a full and miraculous recovery. In 2000, she and her husband were illegally detained and have been imprisoned in a forced labour camp ever since. Their physical and mental health has been devastated due to inhuman torture and persecution. During her detention at the Shibalihe Women's Forced labour Camp in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, one of her legs was broken as a result of the severe beatings she suffered. Their child was forced to leave the work place and go from place to place. The suffering endured by this family of three is all for one simple reason -- refusing to give up Falun Dafa. Falun Dafa has turned a dying patient into a healthy and good person who pursues a high moral standard. However, Jiang's regime, on the contrary, has arrested healthy and kind people and has handicapped them through brutal torture.
I feel incredibly sad that such a great cultivation way has been slandered and persecuted. I have been thinking about one question: Why is it so difficult to be a good person? Teacher Li Hongzhi is immensely benevolent and unimaginably kind. He has gone through innumerable hardships and has done countless good deeds for the people in an effort to allow the citizens of the world to learn about Falun Dafa. The people in power in China have not only failed to thank him, but instead they have persecuted him. I feel saddened to see our Teacher being attacked and slandered with lies by the state-run television station.
Our Teacher has taught us how to be good, moral and noble people. What is wrong with that? Our Teacher has purified our bodies and saved tens of thousands of people like me from the jaws of death. In addition, he has taught us to cultivate according to very high-level principles. Is there anything wrong with that? If more people come to practise Falun Dafa and become good people, the moral standard of the whole society will be improved. Isn't this good?
My personal experience is most remarkable. I am 49 years old and I used to be a medical worker. When I was 36 years old, I suffered from serious illness in my digestive system and contracted anaemia and severe neurasthenia. In three months my weight had plummeted from 120 Jin [9.5 stone] to 90 Jin [6.5 stone] and I became a chronic invalid. In order to improve my health, I tried various doctors, home remedies, and all sorts of treatment. However, my health condition showed no improvement.
Every day seemed like a year to me then. The wearing down of my body through the chronic illnesses resulted in malnutrition and poor resistance to other illnesses. In August of 1995, I contracted acute rheumatic fever. The fever did not recede and I felt as if all my bones were aching. The fever eventually developed into rheumatic heart disease and I was once again admitted to the hospital. During my stay in the hospital, check-ups showed that I had tubercular bacillus in my urine and that my liver suffered from substantial damage. Every day I was woken up by the pain just two to three hours after I went to sleep. I would be drenched with sweat. I suffered severely from lingering pain and felt that I was one step away from death.
I changed to traditional Chinese medicine after the treatment of western medicine produced no effect. Three months of hospitalisation had cost me tens of thousands of Yuan [Chinese currency - the average monthly salary for an Chinese urban worker is about 500 Yuan]. The severe illnesses brought my family to the verge of collapse and we suffered great loses financially, physically and mentally. My husband was particularly affected. He felt extremely stressed every day. As a result his health deteriorated and he would often feel pains in his chest.
My family members went to a lot of trouble while looking after me and felt worried all the time. Even my eighty-year-old parents came to the hospital to see me. I just could not bear the suffering anymore and the thought of suicide came into my mind. However, I did not succeed in my attempt.
Just at that moment when I felt no hope to seek survival and could not commit suicide, a friend of mine recommended me to watch the Falun Dafa video lectures. That was in April of 1996. I had practised dozens of Qigong systems [A modern term for traditional cultivation practices] and whenever a Qigong master came to teach a class I would attend. I spent thousands of Yuan but it was all to no avail. Therefore, I did not trust Qigong any more. I was unwilling to go, but out of consideration for my friend's feelings, I reluctantly accepted the invitation.
I was so ill that my husband had to take me to the lectures on his bike. However, I was able to walk back home all by myself. It was beyond my imagination that Falun Gong could produce such an instant result to a person like me who had suffered from various illnesses and had not stepped out of the house for several months.
Falun Gong is really wonderful. On the first day when I practised the five sets of exercises, it felt like my entire body was emitting chilled air and I was soaked in perspiration. One week later the illnesses vanished, the fever was gone, my bones stopped aching and I could sleep soundly. All kinds of ailments completely disappeared several months after I began practising Falun Gong.
I am extremely lucky. For a quite long period of time, whenever I practised the exercises my eyes would brim with tears. Words could not express my gratitude towards Teacher. It was Teacher who had given me a second life and it was Teacher who pulled me back from the verge of death. I have once again become a healthy person and happiness has returned to my family. It's Falun Gong that has saved my family.
I have studied Falun Gong very seriously. The book Zhuan Falun [ The main text of Falun Gong] has taught me how to be an upright person. Only when your xinxing [The nature of the mind and the heart, moral character] and moral standard have been improved can one really become a health person both physically and mentally. As practitioners of Falun Gong, we must follow the principles of "Truthfulness-Benevolence-Forbearance" to constantly improve our xinxing. Also, we should not fight for fame and personal gain. In doing things we must think of others first and when confronted with conflicts, we should look inside ourselves to see if we have any problems. Our Teacher says, "I also want to tell you that your nature in the past was actually based on egotism and selfishness. From now on, whatever you do, you should consider others first, so as to attain the righteous Enlightenment of selflessness and altruism. So from now on, whatever you do or whatever you say, you must consider others--or even future generations--along with Dafa's eternal stability." ("Non-Omission in Buddha-Nature" in Essentials for Further Advancement)
We have benefited a great deal from cultivating Falun Gong and firmly believe Falun Gong is a truly wonderful practice. Isn't it beneficial for us to have more good citizens who are kind and work hard?
External pressure cannot change people's hearts, and coercion can only destroy the people's trust in the government. I sincerely hope the Chinese leaders at all levels will take an attitude of showing responsibility for the country and the people, and do the right thing by supporting Falun Gong.
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