Dafa Healed My Paralysis, So Naturally I Want to Safeguard Dafa
By a Dafa practitioner from Shandong Province
February 22, 2003 (Clearwisdom.net) I am a worker who has been laid off. In May 1994, a
healthy person like me suddenly had a stroke and half of my body became
paralyzed. I spent 30,000 Yuan in the hospital in only 4 months. My two children
also needed money to go to school. Suddenly the family burden fell onto my
wife's shoulders. I could not take care of myself until 1995. My situation
improved a little from 1996 to 1997. When I was walking, I stumbled a lot. I
could not stretch out my arms. I was really depressed and spoke less each day.
In order to help support the family, my daughter chose to quit school. In order
to make money to repay the debt and treat my disease, my wife and daughter
learned to do repair work and were barely able to keep the business running.
Each year I spent over 3,000 Yuan solely on medicine. I visited other areas
looking for experts or qigong masters to treat my disease, however, none of them
could help much. During the four-year period, my wife and daughter gave me
massages six times a day every day. Although we have a business, it was still
difficult to make ends meet and repaying the debt was even out of the question.
I often cried and even thought about death. Falun Dafa Gave Me a New Life and Saved My Whole Family In August 1998, a neighbor introduced Falun Gong to me. When I first learned
the exercises, my left arm was stiff. When I did the "Falun Standing Stance", my
raised left hand would unknowingly dropped down. I then raised it up again after
noticing it. The situation continued for 4 days, and I was finally able to hold
the position and freely do the five sets of exercises. A miracle happened from
that day. I began to walk normally, and became energetic and outgoing. When work
was busy, I could also help my family doing repairs. From then on, I no longer
needed any medicine. Seeing my improvement, my wife and children began the
practice as well. Now five years have passed, and my health has been restored.
Those who knew me also noticed that I had completely become a different person.
They were all happy for me and also understood that Falun Dafa is good. Studying the Fa and Doing the Exercises, My Thinking and Morality Were
Upgraded Since I started cultivation, I have kept in mind Master's teaching and try to
always measure myself with a cultivator's standard. When there is a conflict, I
do my best to conduct myself with a cultivator's standard. My business site is near a major highway, and the road suffered from lack of
repairs for a few years so it was in bad condition. When vehicles passed, there
were often things dropping out of them. Before I obtained the Fa, although my
health was not good, my attachment to property was serious. I often picked up
things in front of my door like wheelbarrows, food, heating material, etc. After
I obtained the Fa and before the road was repaired, I had one more experience. It was one month after I started cultivation. My son found a handbag in front
of our door and there was 450 Yuan inside. The owner searched around anxiously.
He was disappointed and reluctantly drove away. Then my son whispered, "I got
the bag and have stored it." I immediately said, "My son, why did not you tell
me earlier? Please stop the owner and give it back to him." The owner received
the bag and said gratefully, "Thank you, thank you so much. I have really met
good people today. I was on my way to buy fertilizer." As he talked, he took out
50 Yuan to express his gratitude so that I could buy some cigarettes. I refused.
I told him that I have learned Falun Gong and it was Master Li who told me to do
this. If this happened before, I might have not done what I did today. I would
have felt that it would be a loss if I did not take the bag and this would also
not be stealing. My wife learned this afterwards and said, "Although the 450
Yuan were not very much, much effort and hard work were needed to earn it. We
should return the money to the owner." It is indeed true that one person obtains
the Fa and the whole family will benefit from it. This was the first experience
after I obtained the Fa. In my daily work, I often encounter customers from out of town. Before I
obtained the Fa, I often wanted to charge them 8 or 10 extra Yuan. When I
started my cultivation, I felt this should not be a cultivator's conduct and
felt bad about it. I should treat people equally while serving the people. I
have worked more diligently after obtaining the Fa. I charge the same amount to
different customers and have left good impressions for returning customers. I
often tell the customers about the benefits I obtained through cultivating Dafa.
After the persecution began, I continue to clarify the facts to every person I
have contact with. All customers from local or other areas know I practice Falun
Gong. When we saw each other, they would greet me with "Falun Dafa Hao." (Falun
Dafa is good) I felt very good that these people have come to know the
facts. Stepping Forward to Safeguard the Fa Since the Persecution Before April 25th, there were over 20 Dafa practitioners at our
practice site, and we used to study the Fa in a fellow practitioner's home.
After the April 25th event, some practitioners had unstable
understandings in their minds due to all sorts of reasons. This resulted in
three Fa study sites becoming no longer available. This caused difficulties for
practitioners to study the Fa and share their experiences. In order to study the
Fa, share experiences with each other and strive forward together, I took the
initiative and repaired my old house. This was for fellow practitioners to study
the Fa and improve together. Soon after that, Jiang's regime started their
furious persecution against Dafa and the vicious attack on Teacher, and damaged
practice sites all over the country. I felt this was very unjust. Such a good
cultivation system was attacked with rumors, and the flunkies in power were so
outrageous and vicious. My heart was deeply hurt by the malicious rumors. I had
no hesitation and set foot on the way to Beijing to appeal, to validate that
Dafa is good. I brought with me the facts of both my physical and mental health
improvement after I had begun the practice. During that period, they setup stops
placed at certain distances along the way where they searched for Dafa
practitioners, foraging through passengers' bags and producing terror. I didn't have any attachment of fear at that time. In order to arrive in
Beijing to go to the National Appeals Office, I did not expose my identity and
only thought about arriving in Beijing as soon as possible. I also thought about
the situation at that time. I was reminded that my life was given to me by
Teacher and Dafa. In order to validate Dafa, I should uphold it with my life. I
did not have any other thought except this in my mind. I only wished to reason
with them. Practitioners who went to Beijing to appeal were from every part of
the country. All the hostels in Beijing were full, so I had to sleep on the
street. The plain-clothes police, policemen and special agents were arresting
people everywhere, and they started to arrest Dafa practitioners throughout
Beijing as of 2:00 a.m. on July 23. The policemen woke me up to interrogate me.
I told them my health situation before, and my improvement after I practiced
Dafa. I also told them it was wrong for the government to treat Dafa like this,
and I came to Beijing simply to tell the government that Falun Gong is good.
Hearing my words, the policemen seemed to be touched. However half an hour
later, they still escorted me along with more than 20 practitioners to Fengtai
Stadium. The whole stadium was full of practitioners who had gone to Beijing to
appeal. Each province and city had its own allocated sites. Within several days,
practitioners were brought in with specials vans, and special vehicles from each
region would take practitioners away. It was a conveyor system and hard to
estimate how many people were involved. During the three days of detention, I was not even allowed to drink any
water. July 1999 was the hottest period in Beijing's midsummer, the temperature
was as high as 40 degrees Celsius (104F), but no practitioner felt hungry,
thirsty, or hot. Practitioners from each region were all meditating in their
allocated areas. I have never witnessed such fearless, grand and heroic
spectacle facing such furious persecution. This fully exhibited the grandeur of
Fa-rectification cultivation. On July 26, the city police department took us back to our city. At that time
over 30 fellow practitioners were detained, and all reasoned with the policemen,
"We have done nothing wrong, it was you who made the mistake." However they did
not allow us to speak and they were unreasonable. They asked me if I would still
practice. I knew Dafa was good and I would never give it up during my whole
life. But under their threats, I should not have said that I had Dafa books,
Teacher's lecture tapes and exercise tapes. Eventually these were confiscated by
the police and I felt deep regrets. After detaining us for a week, they had to let us go home. They forced the
staff of my work unit to illegally monitor me for 24 hours a day, and further
threatened, "Don't go out, even to go shopping you need to ask for approval." At
that time those who did not know the truth were all talking about this, as if we
had committed serious crimes. The everyday people feared us a lot. Only us
practitioners knew that Dafa is good and we felt no qualms upon
self-examination. Therefore we were not fearful while the everyday people felt
puzzled. I Witness How the Local TV Station Deceives the Public Several days later, more than a dozen people from several different
government departments and the local TV station came to me. They asked me to
talk about my understanding of Dafa in front of the camera. Once again I told
them how greatly I benefited from Dafa and how I became a better person after
practicing. There were more than 100 people at the interview scene, and they
were all touched and understood the benefits of Dafa after listening to me. At
the end of the interview, I said I would keep practicing Dafa. After they
recorded the interview once, the reporter shook his head and said this was not
good enough and we had to do it again. It was not good after the second and
third time. They were very disappointed that they could not get anything from me
to make a program slandering Dafa. Finally I said, "Oh, will you be satisfied if
I said I will not practice and appeal for Falun Gong?" Everybody at the scene
laughed, even they laughed too. However, they recorded what I just said. They
said they would alter our interview a little bit. I knew they would deceive the
public the way they always do by altering my conversation out of context. They
came back about an hour later, recorded my work place where I was working, and
also the nameplate of my shop, saying they would provide free advertisement for
me. However, everyone who knew how ill I was before I practice Dafa was not
deceived by the lies. Rather they learned the benefits of Dafa. Whenever it was a holiday or other sensitive days, they came and harassed and
threatened me once or twice on that day. I was never afraid when they came, and
instead viewed it as great opportunities for me to tell them the truth about
Dafa. Two days before the New Year of 2000, three police officers and two
officials from my former work unit visited me again. I said I was ill for so
many years and no one from the government came to visit me at all. Now that I
practiced Falun Gong and have fully recovered, so many people "cared" about me.
Falun Gong is great, making me know so many people. A police officer said he
felt embarrassed to come see me. I said, "Don't feel bad, it is good that you
came talk to me." They were all embarrassed at that point of time. Rectifying the Fa with Dignity One day in June 2000, in order to expose the evil, tell the truth about and
validate Dafa, Dafa practitioners in our city and I hanged up more than 200
banners saying "Falun Dafa is good," "Falun Dafa is the righteous Fa" and
"Truth, Benevolence, Forbearance." We posted about 100 Dafa posters and
distributed more than 60 truth-clarifying DVD's. This event effectively shocked
the evil. The evil panicked afterwards and went after every Dafa practitioner in
our city. Four people from the City Police Department came to get me, and I took
the opportunity to tell them the truth about Dafa. The evil police interrupted
me saying, "If you behave like this, we will sentence you for at least three
years, come with us!" They searched my residence and arrested me. I told them,
"I did not do anything wrong. Dafa gave me a new life. I will not regret it even
if I have to sacrifice my life for Dafa. All I wanted to do was let more people
know Dafa is good." Teacher told us, "Why should you, a Dafa disciple, fear the evil ones when
enduring persecution? The crux of the matter is that you have attachments. If
not, do not endure passively, and face the evil people with righteous thoughts
at all times. No matter what the situation, do not cooperate with the evil's
demands, orders, or what it instigates." (Dafa Disciples' Righteous Thoughts
are Powerful) A police chief acted viciously and wanted to beat me. I
remembered I had to behave according to the Fa's guidance under any
circumstances and the outcome relied on my righteous thoughts. Therefore I sent
forth righteous thoughts in front of the evil policeman, and it was really
powerful! The police chief just said, "You, you," and turned around and left the
room. Another police said to me, "Go back to your work." As a result, I left the
police station safely. At the end of 2001, the evil came to visit me again. I knew they were just
doing what they were told to do, and it was another great opportunity for me to
tell them the truth. They were willing to listen to me this time. At the end,
they asked me to write down my understanding. I wrote down clearly: Be a better
person and never cheat, the righteous is righteous, the evil is evil, the evil
will never overcome the righteous. At this last moment of eliminating the evil and telling the truth, we have to
realize how limited the time we have. We should do well the three things Teacher
told us to do, reading Zhuan Falun more, telling the truth at every
opportunity, and sending forth righteous thoughts in a timely manner to
eliminate the evil in other dimensions. The moment of Fa rectifying the human
world is coming soon. Above is my personal understanding of the Fa. Fellow practitioners please
help point out any mistakes. Thank you.
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