A Woman's Journey of Cultivation

By Feng Huang

(Clearwisdom.net) A Falun Dafa practitioner told me the following story of a fellow practitioner.

By the coast of the East Sea, there was a beautiful village. One of the families has lived there for generations. The family has done many good deeds. Above their doorway, they have a huge, red sign that says "Hall of Good Deeds." The family members have been admonished by their elders to be good persons and to do good deeds. This is the family of the great grandfather of the practitioner. The great grandfather was kind and honest, always ready to lend a helping hand to other people. He was also very talented. He knew Chinese medicine, the Book of Changes, and the Eight Trigrams. He is mostly known for his skills in treating animals.

Long ago, many households in the village raised big animals. When villagers' animals had problems, he could treat them. He never asked for any money in return. The practitioner's grandfather and father were both influenced by the great grandfather's virtue. The practitioner belonged to the fourth generation. Her grandmother used to tell her about the relationship between good deeds and our life. She would tell her, "Your grandfather has been in the army for ten years now, and he has been in many dangerous battles, but he has never been shot. Isn't this magical? This is the reward for the good deeds done by his ancestors." All these had planted a seed in her mind about the relationship between good deeds and rewards. She had understood the principle that good will meet with good and evil with evil. Therefore early in her life, she followed this principle, and was kind and helpful to others, which laid a foundation for her obtaining the Fa later on in her life.

She was a hard-working employee. She never minded her own interest and had won the trust of her boss and had always been given important posts. Once, in an accident, she came into contact with some chemicals, which caused her to become unconscious for twenty minutes. She was then asked to go home to recuperate, her salary was suspended, and the company only paid for her living expenses. Then her health deteriorated. She became slow, lost her memory, felt nauseous, had bad coughs, felt sick and dizzy, there was a spasm of blood vessels on her face, and she developed heart problems. Every now and then her heart would skip a beat. She had problems all over her body.

She turned from a healthy woman to a patient that required twenty-four hour monitoring. As soon as she got a cold, she would slip into a coma. She was on the verge of death six times and emergency medical services were required to rescue her. She had visited numerous large hospitals for treatment and had seen many specialists. She was told that nothing was available to cleanse her body of the toxins. Her symptoms were getting more and more serious, and she had to stay home, but she needed someone to be with her at all times. If she went into a coma, she would die within three minutes if assistance were not available. Her whole family was devastated. Her mother cried and her husband was so worried. Her preschool child did not know how to write, but learned to use Pinyin (Mandarin phonetic symbols) to write, "To save mom, call 120" and left the note by the phone. Sadness and fear hovered over the family.

While she was clinging to life, in 1997, a lady gave her a copy of Zhuan Falun and told her that as long as she studied the book and practiced the exercises, and followed the principle of Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance, Teacher would cleanse her body for her. She started to read Zhuan Falun. She didn't remember anything at first, but she persisted and read a dozen pages at a time. All of a sudden she felt very good. The sick feeling was reduced. She continued to read, and the more she read, the better she felt. She wanted to do the exercises, but she was so weak and could not stand. So she started with the sitting exercises. At first, she could only do it for one or two minutes, and it was excruciating, but she felt good afterwards. From three minutes, she went on to five and ten minutes. After a period of time, she touched her face and it did not feel as rough as before.

After a month of the sitting exercises, she started to do the standing exercises. She tried to get up, but could only do one movement. Then she said to herself, it is such a good exercise, I have to continue no matter what. She managed to complete the first movements of the first exercise three times, then the third and fourth exercises. The second exercise was quite difficult for her. Her heartbeat would stop on and off and she could not breathe, but she persisted. After three months, it got better and she was not dizzy any more. She stopped suffering from dizziness and her insomnia was better. Since then, she did not need her mother or husband to look after her. Every time she practiced, she perspired, with a strong odor, even in deep winter. She asked some veteran practitioners about that, and was told that since she was poisoned, Teacher Li may just be cleansing body, ridding her body of the poison.

Six months later, it was Teacher Li's birthday. She said to herself, as a gift to Teacher Li, I have to be able to do the lotus position with both legs. As soon as she had the thought, she was able to put her two legs in lotus position for about ten minutes. Not long later, she was nodding her head every time she meditated, which meant that her Small Heavenly Circulation was opened. She had never expected this to happen so fast. Since then, she studied the Fa and meditated every day. At first, it took her about two weeks to finish Zhuan Falun and she could read Zhuan Falun three times in a month. Often, by the time she read the third lecture, she would have karma-eliminating symptoms. Her illnesses all came back. It took her three to five days or a week at most to get better. It happened repeatedly, just as Teacher Li had pointed out in his article "Sickness Karma." She memorized what Teacher Li said, "It's hard to endure, but you can endure it. It's hard to do, but you can do it." No matter how hard it was, she would forge ahead. Once she could not move as if she was in a coma. She had her faith in Teacher Li, and strengthened her righteous thoughts. She asked her husband to put the book of Zhuan Falun on her chest. After about two or three minutes, she was fine. She was very grateful to Teacher Li and became more diligent in her cultivation.

Another six months later, she had a fever. She knew that it was Teacher Li who was helping her to eliminate her karma. She was going to measure her body temperature, but then the thermometer fell to the ground and broke into two parts. She realized that she could put up with it. After much struggling and pain, she fell asleep. When she woke up, her fever had subsided and she felt so good. In the past, her body was cold all the time. In the winter, she had to be covered with four padded quilts plus a hot water bottle. Now she felt warm and the cold feeling was eliminated by Teacher Li. She asked her mother to feel her feet and hands, which were nice and warm.

One year later, her great heavenly circulation was connected and she could lift off when she meditated; when she walked or rode on the bike, it was like being pushed. She felt so light and all her illnesses were gone. Teacher Li had given her a new life. Every day, she would say to people that Falun Dafa is good. Her parents told everybody that Falun Gong is a miracle and it cured their daughter's terminal illnesses. She looked so fresh and great. Eighteen months later, her Maoyou Heavenly Circulation was opened, her head moved from side to side when she meditated, first to the left, then to the right, repeatedly. She felt a warm current through her body. At that time, only her thoughts were left, she could not feel her body. It was a great feeling. She experienced the magic of Falun Dafa. Step by step, she experienced the cultivation process outlined by Teacher Li in Zhuan Falun. She cherished the opportunity to practice Falun Dafa and she studied and practiced every day.

After the persecution began on July 20, 1999, many practitioners went to Beijing to appeal for the right to practice Falun Dafa and safeguard Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. Although very few practitioners in her city went, she went on her own to the National Appeal Office to talk to the people about the wonders of Falun Dafa. Even the plainclothes officers listened to her attentively until she finished. Some even said, "Falun Gong is good. Look how energetic she is." After that, they were not as harsh to her anymore. Then she was sent to the Beijing Office of her city, where about 30 practitioners were being detained, from 7 years old to over 70 years old. When she realized so many practitioners had stepped forward to validate Dafa, she was very moved.

On the next day, she was picked up by a representative from her company and sent back to the local police station. There she continued to clarify the truth to the police. One of the policeman said, after hearing her story, "So and so is not well, I think he should practice Falun Gong." The police asked her, "All those that went to Beijing to appeal had to be thrown in jail, how come you are not afraid of being jailed? Other people are very afraid." She said, "To safeguard Falun Dafa, I am not afraid of dying, nor being jailed." After she was jailed, many practitioners in her area went to Beijing to validate Dafa.

She did not write any Guarantee Statements after she was released. For two years, the police tried all kinds of tricks to "transform" her, but were not successful. They were very angry and said, if she refused to write the statement, they would send her to a forced labor camp. Her boss knew that she was a nice person and rejected the police. "My employee is a good person. You cannot send her to a forced labor camp." Failing that, the police monitored her and sent her to brainwashing classes many times. It turned out that it was easier to move mountains than to move her. Whoever dealt with her found it impossible to change her.

On a Sunday afternoon, she was taking a child of her relative home. She was reciting one of Teacher Li's articles,

While she was walking north along the sidewalk, a car was coming towards her. They were only about 3-4 meters apart. At this point, she saw some white smoke coming out from the back of the car and at the same time, there was a loud "boom." The car exploded. Broken glass was flying everywhere like snowflakes. She was not scared at all seeing things flying all over. She thought, I have a protective cover from Teacher Li. As soon as she had the thought, she felt that her body was covered and she was not hurt at all. Then she remembered the child, where is he? He was crying in the bike-seat, but he was not injured at all. There was a lot of broken glass in the boy's bike-seat. She picked up the child and let him walk a little. He seemed ok. She looked at the car. The doors, windows, and roof were all gone. One sales person ran out to inquire about the incident. She told her that the car exploded. Seeing the two of them standing amongst the broken glass, the sales person was amazed. "You guys were not hurt? You two are so lucky." She said, "Yes, it is because I practice Falun Dafa. It's my Teacher who has saved us." However, several people died due to the accident.

The explosion, the shower of broken glass, and the flying car doors, windows--any one of those could have killed them. The experience just proved that the Buddha Law is very immense.
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2003/12/1/61447.html

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