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A Taiwan Military Officer's Experience of Benefiting Mentally and Physically After Practicing Falun Gong
By Yi Ting
(Clearwisdom.net) I am a military officer. I started to practice Falun
Gong around June of last year, exactly one year from today.
I learned Falun Gong unexpectedly. I still remember when telling my mother
that, "Since I do not have much to do, I would really like to learn
something." And she told me, "Then why don't you go practice Falun
Gong?" A few days later she gave me an experience-sharing article written
by a Falun Gong practitioner, and I then bought a book called Zhuan Falun out
of my curiosity.
After reading it, I felt that this was what I had been looking for, and it
solved many of the questions that I'd been pondering over many years, such as,
what mankind lives for, and why are there different paths of life for each and
every person. After reading Zhuan Falun I went to a practice site and
learned the five sets of exercises. Two months later, I suddenly discovered that
the internal pain that I suffered from an old car accident had disappeared. In
the past I had tried both western and Chinese medicine but none of them healed
it completely. Right now I'm very healthy.
My greatest change did not come to my body, though, but rather to my mindset
and actions. In the past I was very attached to computer games. I often could
not leave the computer, coming home late at night, and then going to work late
the next day. Sometimes I wondered whether I was playing the games or the games
were playing me? Though at the time I knew it was a bad habit, I could not stop
myself. Only after I finished reading Zhuan Falun did I realize that I
had a life in the past, what I really need, and what is my true self. From then
on I stopped playing the computer games, and slowly I was able to control my
mind. I no longer worried about the conflicts in my everyday life. I started to
be able to follow the Falun Gong principles in the book Zhuan Falun, such
as, "consider others first when taking any action." I could have never
imagined making these changes before cultivation, though maybe this is just as
what Teacher said, "attaining naturally without pursuit." [Falun
Buddha Fa, Lecture at the First Conference in North America, 1998]
When I was in the military, I told my colleagues and officers about Falun
Gong. I let them know that Falun Gong follows the principle of
"Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance," that it is a kind of qigong
cultivation that has spread to over 60 countries, and that it has given health
benefits to over a hundred million people all over the world. I also told them
that Falun Gong is free of charge, it does not concern itself with religion or
politics, it is to allow practitioners to raise their moral character, and
become better persons. The five sets of exercises are easy to learn, and their
benefit on one's health is tremendous.
My colleagues all understood that Falun Gong is a cultivation practice for
mind and body, and it benefits your health. It is just because of the large
number of people practicing it in China that it was targeted for persecution by
Jiang's regime. Jiang and his followers, out of their jealousy that they could
not directly control Falun Gong, fabricated the staged
"self-immolation" incident, and stories of murders to incite fear and
hatred for Falun Gong among Chinese citizens. The methods of their persecution
are very cruel, and they even tortured an eight month old baby to death. As
military officers they should protect the country, though Jiang is using the
military police to persecute these compassionate and innocent Falun Gong
practitioners.
There are many people in the military that do not know my name, but know that
I practice Falun Gong, and so when they see me they just call me Falun Gong, and
when they greet me they will say, "Falun Gong is good." Falun Gong in
Taiwan is continuously becoming more and more welcome; many people have
benefited just as I have. In China, though, those who hold on to their belief in
"Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance" are still being persecuted, and
many citizens are still being told lies by the media; this has made me very
worried. I hope that more righteous people will work with us to stop this cruel
persecution.
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