(Clearwisdom.net) I am a mid-level executive in a well-paid workplace, and my wife is a senior engineer. We are considered accomplished in our career paths. In mainland China, our housing, salary, and other benefits are fairly high. However, when we reached our early 40s, both of us were in poor health. After enduring the lengthy torment of illnesses, my wife developed a very bad temper and we often argued with each other. My child was also physically weak and often sick. At that time, my entire family suffered tremendously because of various illnesses.
My wife got to know a doctor, a Falun Gong practitioner, who introduced her to the practice in August 1996. After practicing for more than one month, her physical health improved dramatically. We were very happy and bought a copy of the precious book Zhuan Falun. In our daily lives we conducted ourselves according to Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, principles in the book that guide one to become a better person, handle life's different situations better, and to cultivate by looking inward. Soon afterwards, in October of that year, I also began to practice Falun Gong. Not long after that, my child also began to practice Falun Gong.
At that time, we frequently did the exercises and studied the Fa. The more we cultivated, the better we understood about life and why we are here, and the healthier we became. The illnesses that afflicted us for many years were gone.
As we continued to practice, we not only enjoyed better health, but also improved ourxinxing. With a pure mindset, we became compassionate and were able to be considerate and tolerant of others. My hometown is in the countryside, and I am the eldest son. With several siblings who were in poor financial situations, I often had to help them. In the past, I often spent a long time thinking how to approach my wife about this. Things became much easier after cultivation. When I talked with my wife directly about helping my siblings, she not only understood, but also suggested helping them more than I had planned to. Sometimes, she even thought about details that I missed.
As our child grew up, he also became more and more considerate. He often bought good things for us to eat and to wear, along with other everyday articles. For our birthdays, he often ordered us a big birthday cake as a surprise. When my wife and I had some arguments, our child often mediated between us with compassion and reminded us that we were practitioners.
Jiang's regime started the persecution of Falun Gong on July 20, 1999. I was demoted and my salary was decreased. I was also arrested twice at my workplace and sent to a brainwashing center. When I was demoted, my wife said, "Even if you are fired someday and have no job, my salary can support us. Suppose if due to the persecution, both of us are out of a job, we can go back to your hometown, where we can either labor on the land or set up as vendors. We will be determined and continue cultivation no matter what happens." After yielding to the evil under high pressure in the brainwashing center, I felt very bad upon returning home. My family members did not blame or shun me. Instead, they helped me from the standpoint of the Fa principles and encouraged me to continue cultivating. As a result, I soon stood up and moved forward on the cultivation path. Sometimes, my wife and son had an attachment or fear, or other tribulations that were hard to overcome. I often reminded them with compassion, encouraged them, and helped them.
We use every opportunity to clarify the truth with our own, personal experience, so that people will know that "Falun Dafa is good. Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance" is good. In this way, we can expose the CCP's slanderous lies and defamation against Falun Gong, and introduce the beauty of Dafa to more people.
