(Minghui.org) I am nearly 80 years old. I have participated in various political movements and have unwillingly done many terrible things after I started working for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the early 1950s. Because I disliked this life of constant struggle, I retired in the early 1980s as the party secretary from a stated-owned enterprise at age 50.
I enjoy reading, especially the classics of Confucianism, Buddhism and Daoism. I felt somewhat weary of living. When advised by a supervisor to practice qigong, I replied that I did not feel like doing anything, and I just wished for my life to end soon.
In 1996, my son-in-law went abroad and my daughter worked at Tsinghua University. I would help her walk my granddaughter to school. Most of my time was spent in the library. One day in May, I was fortunate to find the book Zhuan Falun. I could not stop reading it after I read the preface, “On Buddha Law,” and I finished the whole book in one day. All of a sudden, I understood many truths about life. I went to look for an exercise site on the university campus the next morning. Falun Gong exercise sites were everywhere, as many staff and students were practicing Falun Gong at that time. One assistant enthusiatically taught me the five exercises and also gave me a copy of the revised edition of Falun Gong and Master's Fa lecture CDs. Since then, I have been on the cultivation path and have never stopped practicing.
Falun Dafa is the Buddha law, and I feel it is an honor to be a practitioner. Practitioners do not have any intrigue amongst each other but they care for each other, and they get along harmoniously. This peaceful pure land is what I had been searching for.
I attended a training program for assistants at Jiujiang City in 1997. Before I left home, I was worried that I might not be able to find the meeting place. However, as soon as I arrived, I was immediately guided by local practitioners to the venue. Meals were affordable because local practitioners voluntarily prepared the food and they only charged for the cost of the food. Rooms were free because they were school dormitories and the school was in summer vacation. In this group training program, one felt very comfortable, and would regret it if one did not do well, and would feel guilty if one had a bad thought.
I used to have many bad habits. I had smoked a pack of cigarettes a day for several decades. Knowing that smoking is not good, I had tried to quit several times and failed. After I started practicing Dafa, I not only quit smoking but also could no longer tolerate the smell when someone else smoked. I was also a heavy drinker. I used to drink at every meal. Sometimes, I drank myself into a stupor for a whole day. After I started practicing Dafa, my drinking was gradually reduced and I finally completely stopped in two years. I have not touched liquor for more than 10 years.
I had hypertension, prostate problems, filariasis and other diseases. It cost me a few thousand yuan annually for medicine, in addition to my mental suffering. Although I did not start practicing cultivation for the purpose of healing my diseases, they disappeared and I became healthy after I became a Dafa practitioner. I have not taken any medicine since then. One time I was ill, first feeling cold and then having an extremely high fever of up to 104oF. I fully recovered within six hours without taking any medicine. My wife is a doctor, and she stayed next to me and witnessed what happened. She exclaimed “It's like magic.”
I visited a retired former colleague one day after Jiang's regime started the persecution of Falun Gong. As I walked into his house, I heard some people discussing Falun Gong. One person said, “That old gentleman (he meant me) is very knowledgeable. He does not follow people blindly. Falun Gong must be good since he is practicing it. The CCP must be lying to people again.” I said after entering the room, “Thank you for your trust in me.” I then clarified the truth to them about the April 25 appeal. I also mentioned a previous media report suggesting that nothing is as good as Falun Gong in healing diseases and maintaining fitness. In late 1998, a group of retired government officials, headed by the former chairman of the National People's Congress, Mr. Qiao Shi, conducted a survey and concluded, “Through Falun Gong, the country has everything to gain and nothing to lose.” Everyone in the room resented what Jiang Zemin had done.
Many people of my age have passed away. One time I went to a colleague's funeral. We had eight people sitting at a table for dinner. I was the only one who could walk freely and see and hear clearly. All the other seven people who were not practitioners had some physical problems. Seeing my good physical condition, they commented that Falun Gong is really good. The CCP deserves to be destroyed because it prohibits people from practicing Falun Gong.
On the 20th anniversary of the introduction of Falun Dafa to the public, I deeply miss Master and I am profusely grateful to Master for his merciful salvation. I'll walk my cultivation path arranged by Master to the end, and I will not disappoint Master.
