By a Falun Dafa practitioner from Taiwan

(Clearwisdom.net)

I am an electrical engineer who has worked for a well-known foreign company for the past decade. We have one son and one daughter. My wife stays home and takes care of the children. Three years ago my wife twisted her back and went to the doctor three times. She was diagnosed as having problems with her vertebrae and had to receive treatments. Each treatment took half a day and was very costly. Our children had to follow her along to the doctor because we could not leave them home alone.

The worst part was that the treatments only relieved her pain temporarily, and the pain would come back when she returned home. Later, on she could not even climb out of bed or turn over. She was in such distress that she could not go to sleep until 3:00 a.m. or 4:00 a.m. A CT scan revealed protrusion of the fourth and fifth vertebrae, and showed that the bones were pressing against her nerves, which caused pain in her left leg. By then, she could not even put on socks and shoes by herself. The doctor was not sure if surgery would improve her condition.

A friend of hers in Kaohsiung introduced her to Falun Gong. He gave her a copy of the book Zhuan Falun and some additional information, and helped her to get in touch with a local practice site. The teaching was completely free! My wife tried it out. After attending a nine-day Falun Gong lecture class, my wife did the five sets of Falun Gong exercises and read the books at home. Within two months, her health improved tremendously. She has been practicing for nearly three years now. She has been very healthy and never once needed to make use of her medical insurance card. She mentioned Falun Dafa to me but I thought of Dafa as an ordinary qigong and did not want to probe any deeper.

In early August 2004, I felt a hard lump in my neck. After going through medical imaging and a biopsy, the preliminary diagnosis was nose and throat cancer. I was told I needed to go to other hospitals for additional examinations. I was devastated. I did not have the habit of drinking and smoking, and I went to bed early every day due to my liver problem; why had such a thing happenned to me? I thought, "My children are young and my wife has no job. What do I do now?" I was surprised by my wife's composure. She said, "I'll stick by you with all my heart and strength through any medical exam, but you should have taken the better path -- why don't you practice Falun Gong? I became healthy by practicing Falun Gong, and many other practitioners are also free of illness!"

I thought about practicing Falun Gong, while at the same time receiving medical treatments. My wife showed me an article written by Dr. Ao Manguan, a Falun Gong practitioner. A few lines touched me; they read, "In an unpredictable instant, people who live in comfort may be plunged into an abyss of darkness and afflictions... I have witnessed countless Falun Gong practitioners freed from various tribulations of life..." My heart resonated with these words and I started reading Zhuan Falun and doing the Falun Gong exercises, thinking I would give it a try.

In late August, I finished reading Zhuan Falun within four or five days. I learned the purpose of being human and the reason why people get ill. I calmed down and felt reassured. One evening when I was reading Zhuan Falun, sitting at a desk, my body started turning counter-clockwise; when I turned the page, my body turned clockwise. It stopped after two hours. My wife was nearby and I told her about the unusual occurrence; she told me to stop turning. I said, "My body is turning by itself and I cannot stop." My daughter tried to hold me still with her arms but couldn't.

This was the first time I experienced the supernatural power of Dafa. I did the heshi gesture, a greeting with the palms pressed against each other, in front of Master's picture and said I wanted to do things for Dafa. Suddenly I burst into tears and I nodded toward Master's picture. Two days later, when I did the second set of exercises, my body started turning again, as it did when I joined a group Fa study at Zhongli. A fellow practitioner told me, "If you tell it to stop it will." I tried it, and it was as he said! From then on, I became a firm believer in Dafa, and my determination in Dafa cultivation practice gave me the opportunity to clarify the truth in Manhattan, New York City.

Two months after I started practicing Dafa I went to Manhattan in November 2004 with several fellow practitioners.

Before we left Taiwan, we obtained some general information pertaining to New York, and made clear our purpose on going to NYC, which was to clarify the truth about Falun Gong. We arrived in Manhattan on November 18. This trip helped me mature, and in the process, also exposed my shortcomings. It was my first time in Manhattan and the temperature changed drastically from day to day. The morning temperature was around 5?C to 8?C (about 42 degrees F), a big challenge for those of us who were used to the warm weather in Taiwan. Each morning, we went to street corners and subways to clarify the truth about Falun Dafa and the persecution in China. In the subway stations we sometimes clarified the truth inside the trains, sometimes on the platforms, and sometimes at the exits and entrances. Many Caucasian New Yorkers were relatively callous, and it was quite difficult to give flyers to them. Maybe some people had formed the habit of not taking flyers from strangers, in addition to the general atmosphere of distrust prevalent in some large cities. However, many African Americans and Latin Americans were happy to take the flyers. I thought, "Kind-hearted people will know my good intentions as long as I keep my mind compassionate and pure." I met many friendly people who held my hands and thanked me for letting them know the truth after I told them about the brutal persecution in China.

One day, a group of five or six of us went to an intersection. Two or three practitioners did the exercises while the rest distributed flyers. A Caucasian woman approached me and said she supported us. She also tried to give us 20 dollars. I told her we do not accept monetary donations. She was a somewhat upset and didn't understand why we didn't take money. I patiently explained to her that I had applied for leave from work and I paid for my plane ticket and all my expenses while in NYC with my own salary, in order to tell people the truth. I asked her to tell other kind-hearted people and the U.S. Senators and Congressmen to help stop this atrocity. She agreed. I deeply felt the power of compassion!

After returning home in early December, my wife and children accompanied me to a nine-day lecture class, and then the result of my physical exam came out. I could not believe my eyes when I read the report. My liver function indicators had always stayed above the normal range, despite the medications I took; however, this time the numbers were within the normal range. I remembered that back in Manhattan, a fellow practitioner asked me why I didn't drink fresh milk, and I said I would get diarrhea if I did. He said, "Why don't you just try?" One morning I drank a little milk with my children, and nothing happened. I joked with my kids, "From now on, Dad will fight you for the milk!" Again I experienced the wonders of Dafa. I know Master has endured so much for me, that it is beyond description. I never expected my liver to work well again but it did; just as Master told us, "Pursue nothing, gain naturally."

Now, every Saturday my children attend a class held for young Dafa practitioners. In fact, my children obtained Dafa before me. My daughter once saw Master in her dreams. She saw a very large person sitting in the full lotus position (both legs crossed, on top of each other), with his hands pressed against each other; his body was surrounded by rays of light, like the sun. She saw that it was Master. She also saw a person reading the book Zhuan Falun, and saw herself falling rapidly from a very high level. Then she woke up. My wife told her that she should diligently practice Dafa because she came from a very high level, and only by practicing Dafa can she return.

I saw Master at this past international Fa conference in New York and I cannot begin to describe my feelings. Thank you, Master!

Posting date: 1/23/2005
Original article date: 1/22/2005
Category: Practitioners' Insights
Translated on 1/15/2005
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/1/12/93352.html

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