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Falun Dafa Has Extended My Life
By a Dafa disciple in China (transcribed and edited from an oral conversation)
(Clearwisdom.net) No matter how difficult the course of our lives has
been over the past ten years, my spouse and I have kept the Fa in
our hearts. Whenever I become puzzled or weak, I remember that my life has been
extended by Falun Dafa, so I can't afford to be sluggish, but must strive ahead
vigorously. Most of my life has been spent in illness and pain. I had to take medicine
after every meal. When I was younger, I looked everywhere for qigong treatments,
but nothing ever worked, even after several decades. My health only worsened
over the years. Finally, I took an early "medical retirement" from my
company. Later on, I converted to Buddhism and spent 6 years with an elderly lay
Buddhist seeking Buddhas, repairing mountain roads and building temples
everywhere. After searching for several decades, I was finally fortunate enough to obtain
Dafa at the end of 1998. I remember that I had just begun to read Zhuan Falun. The
president of the Chinese Buddhist Association called me one evening: "I
hear you are practicing Falun Gong. I tell you that you cannot practice it! I've
received reliable news that the government will soon ban the practice." At
the time, I was in great pain and could not eliminate liquid and solid waste
from my body. I did not know what diseases were causing this, so I went to the
hospital for blood work and a CT scan. The doctor told my wife that I had to be
hospitalized immediately for treatment. She knew the diagnosis but did not tell
me. Before undergoing surgery my wife accompanied me on a walk in front of the
hospital gate where I met a fortune-teller and face-reader soliciting customers.
I said: "Face-reading is a good way to tell one's future because the face
doesn't lie. You do not need to say either good words or bad words." Thus I
continuously consulted two fortune-tellers whose results were almost the same.
Another fortune-teller who used the Book of Changes and the Eight
Triagrams said to me: "Grass is growing on your grave mound. Why are you
still living in the human world?" The meaning was clear - that I should
have died long ago. I had just started reading Zhuan Falun and had not
really started to practice, so I was puzzled. Only through studying the Fa later
on did I come to understand that our great Teacher was already taking care of me
at that time! I left the hospital five days after my surgery. The doctor told my spouse
that I had two years to live, but I did not know that I had cancer. All the rest
of my family knew it, but hid the truth from me. Two years passed and one
evening my wife and I were studying the Fa. She could no longer hold back and
asked me, "Do you know what disease you had?" I replied, "Wasn't
it prostatitis?" She said, "It was cancer. I see that you have
recovered very well, so I could not hold this in any longer and had to tell you.
During the period you were in the hospital and nobody was at home, I cried
several times." After hearing this, I was dumbfounded for three days! My spouse continued,
"After three months, when you were in the hospital for testing, it was
discovered that you no longer had any cancer cells. When we told the doctor to
remove the urination tube and bag, he said it was absolutely no good to remove
it before three months; removing them is easy and takes only a couple of
minutes, but it would be awful if the cancer recurred. So, we waited for three
months. After looking at the CT scans, the doctor said: "I have done
surgery for many years. I have never seen a case like yours. Let's discuss this
after waiting for another half year." I could not afford to stay
hospitalized, so I had to go home. It was very uncomfortable and made it
difficult to turn over in my sleep. I could not take a bath because it was
during the winter. After removing the urination tube from my navel, the doctor
said I would need to change medicine many times before it would heal completely.
He said that it could take several years or the rest of one's life, but I only
needed half a year, and I was actually cured in two months time. During that half year, I earnestly studied the Fa and did the exercises. The
group Fa study was in my home which is only sixty square meters. We sat on the
floor studying the Fa every afternoon. During the summer vacation we had four
young disciples join our group. Because it was so crowded with people, I sat
crossed-legged under a table and studied Zhuan Falun with ease. I also
went to the suburb to teach farmers to study the Fa, do the exercises and play
the lecture video. At that time the environment was unusually loose and
unrestrained. But after July 20, 1999, Jiang Zemin's regime began to persecute Falun Dafa
and it blotted out the sky and covered up the earth with fabricated rumors and
slander. My wife and I were still new practitioners then, having obtained the Fa
only seven months earlier. On the morning of July 20, 1999 both of us brought
our things with us in a large bag as usual to the practice site. When we arrived
seven or eight policemen had taken over our site. A police car was nearby. That
was the only morning I did not do the exercises. From the time the persecution began, my spouse and I made a plan for studying
the Fa and doing the exercises. Every afternoon was set aside to study the Fa;
we did not do any personal things. One day while grocery shopping, I met an old
fellow practitioner who was eighty-four years old and originally studied the Fa
at my home. Her eyes couldn't see the words clearly. I asked her: "Are you
still practicing?" She said the instructor did not practice and nobody took
care of the group study and exercise. I said: "If you want to study, you
can come to my home in the afternoon." She said OK and thus we had a
three-person Fa study group that met continuously until September 2004. After
that we bought a new home and had to move out. For over 5 years of studying the
Fa together, I read and she recited. She could recite the first, second and most
of the third lecture of Zhuan Falun. She could recite all of Teacher's
new articles. When we moved out she lamented that there would be no one to
arrange the study group and exercises. I had arranged for three fellow
practitioners to help her read the Fa, but not everybody can persist to the end.
Her family members and her daughter-in-law made sarcastic comments when meeting
them. I bought a player for her so that she could listen to Teacher's recorded
lectures. She often called me with various questions. I went to her home three
times to visit her. Before I left she held me and did not let me go. She cried
that it was too far; she was in the west and I live in the east. She often
called me and I encouraged her to persist in doing the exercises and listening
to Teacher's lectures. Soon after moving into our new house, we met a practitioner when she was
clarifying the truth at the market in the morning. The group Fa
study today was formed with her help. I really appreciate her help. All these
things are arranged by Teacher. I also another older female practitioner who is
never absent or late for the group Fa study. She lives a long distance from us.
I thought it would be OK if she came once a month, but she came the same
afternoon that we called her to tell her our new phone number. I found it difficult to send forth righteous thoughts at 12 a.m. and do the
exercises starting at 3:50 a.m. because it cut my sleeping time too short. I
thought in my heart that Teacher was possibly testing our disciples in China.
Because the road of cultivation is so bitter, enduring hardships can eliminate
karma, work the body, and temper the will. We bought two alarm clocks, one for
sending forth righteous thoughts at 12 a.m. and the other for doing the
exercises starting at 3:50 am. Because the alarm bell was not that accurate and
it was difficult to see the clocks at night, we often made mistakes. One time we
got up at 11 p.m. and 2 a.m. Through this period of tempering, we are finally
used to it. From April 23, 2007 to this day, we have been doing all five sets of
the exercises. I have almost no distracting thoughts or even feel sleepy or
tired. Again, I think Teacher's law body is watching us on our side. Teacher has
placed a dome in the sky over China. It is enveloped in red light; the whole
dome is red. Our bad thoughts have also been eliminated, so both of us have been
able to keep going to this day. Next, I would like to tell about how I passed the test of sitting in the full
lotus, cross-legged position. For six to seven years, I could sit for only forty
minutes. While sitting, I can break into a sweat when it's three degrees below
zero, and I have cried many times from the extreme pain. My wife constantly
encouraged me. On the seventh day of the long vacation on May 1, 2007, I was
finally able to reach the standard of sitting cross-legged for one hour. From
that day on, I never put down my legs even though my whole body trembled. I have
thus persisted for eight months and never uncrossed my legs before the time was
over. The pain is indescribable. I think everyone has experienced it. It is
really like Teacher says in Zhuan Falun, "One with much de has good enlightenment quality. He can suffer and
endure physical as well as mental hardships. " Sitting on the sofa, watching TV with one leg over the other and drinking
tea...can this be called cultivating? Before I began practicing I retired from my company due to illness. My
nickname was "medicine basket." Now, anyone who meets me wonders how
this old man became younger. Everyone says my face color is good. I tell them
that I should be dead, but the fact that I have lived to now and have a happy
life is a gift from the Teacher of Falun Dafa! It is because of a predestined relationship that I can study the Fa and
practice with everybody at the present time. I will cherish this precious time
and do well the three things Teacher has arranged for us. June 17, 2008 |