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After Suffering Comes Happiness (Clearwisdom.net) I am 74 years old and started to practice Falun Gong
in 2004. The story of how I began is a little unusual. When I was 34, my husband passed away, leaving behind 5 children. I brought
them up enduring all kinds of hardship. However, one son and one daughter
successively died of cancer. The suffering of losing my beloved children drove
me crazy. I didn't want to live in this world anymore, so I kept attempting
suicide, but never succeeded. In the summer of 2004, one of my relatives, who sympathized with my miserable
experience, took me to see a well-known fortune teller. As soon as she saw me,
the fortune teller told me, "You won't die. You used to be an imperial
concubine of 18-19 years of age in the Tang Dynasty. During a fight between
concubines, when another concubine hanged herself, you cursed her instead of
saving her from her death. So in this life, your family members passed away
before you so that you could experience this pain. This is the debt you owed.
Now, you are suffering. You want to leave this world? How can that be allowed?
Now, you have almost paid back all of your karma. Go back to practice gong."
I was a little confused and asked her, "What kind of gong should I
practice?" She said, "Falun Gong!" I had several neighbors who
were practitioners of Falun Gong, who once advised me to practice Falun Gong,
but I couldn't do it, since I missed my son and daughter so much that I could
not do anything. On this day, my predestined relationship had come. However, when I got home, all of my sons and daughters were opposed to my
plan of practicing Falun Gong, since they could get in trouble because of the
persecution by the Chinese Communist Party. I said that I have never lived for
myself. Now, I want to live a life for my true self! I began to study the Fa that Teacher has taught and to do the
exercises. I became clearer and clearer on the meaning of life. I also felt the
purification of my body and mind. I am energetic and keep smiling all day. After
witnessing the change in me, my family members are now supportive. I obtained the Fa so late and in old age. I feel that the time is too tight
for me to not do the three things well. I will keep righteous
thoughts at all times and won't let go of this invaluable predestined
relationship. November 4, 2006 Posting date: 11/22/2006 |