(Minghui.org) I started practicing Falun Dafa in 1998 and it was a huge turning point for me. Although relatively young back then, I was often sick with numerous illnesses including lower back pain, leg pain, migraine headaches, and mental health issues. All these ailments disappeared after I began practicing Falun Dafa.
Although close to 60 years old now, I am energetic and healthy and look like someone barely 50. Moreover, practicing Falun Dafa has made me more open-minded with little interest in fame or material gain. As a result, I am calm and optimistic in my daily life.
During elementary school, I had a little growth on top of my head, as big as a pea. My family cut it off with a thread. But not long after, it grew again at the original place, getting bigger and bigger. To cover this big lump on top of my head, I always wore my hair up.
In recent years the tumor has grown to be the size of a golf ball. My hair could no longer cover the tumor, so when others saw it they were horrified. My family and friends were concerned, and asked me to go to the hospital. I reassured them that I would be fine. Considering I was a Falun Dafa practitioner, when it was time, the tumor would fall off.
When visiting my son the year before last, I suddenly felt pain caused by the tumor. Because it hurt more and more, my son and daughter-in-law wanted me to get it removed in the hospital. I told them I would be fine and went back home.
Upon returning home, I put more effort into studying Dafa teachings and doing the exercises. While lying on the sofa resting the next day, I suddenly felt a hot stream running down my head and trickling down my back. I got up and saw that underneath me was a mass of blood, pus, skin, and tissue. Even the air was filled with the smell of decay. Feeling this was from a rupture of the tumor on my head, I quickly touched it. Indeed it was gone!
I immediately called my son and daughter-in-law, and they were stunned. “Really? Really?” asked my daughter-in-law in disbelief. They came to visit me and touched my head as soon as they arrived. My daughter-in-law exclaimed, “Oh, it is gone! It is incredible! Falun Dafa is amazing!”.
My neighbors thought that I went to the hospital to have the tumor removed. I told them that Master Li (Falun Dafa’s founder) removed it for me. There was no incision, and everything was fine. They were very impressed to see a tumor that I had for decades resolved in this way. My family, relatives, friends, and other people around me were amazed by the wonder of Falun Dafa.
My mother remarried when I was young, and my stepfather had a hot temper. He beat and scolded me as well as my mother from time to time. I have never felt his love since I was a child.
He was notoriously bad-tempered and unreasonable in the village. Not only did he mistreat my mother and me, but he also treated my half-brothers and sisters the same way. When they grew up, none of them wanted to associate with him. They once said vehemently, “Don’t notify us even if he passes away.”
Before I practiced Falun Dafa, I thought the same way as my siblings. After I became a cultivator, however, the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance resolved my resentment towards my stepfather. I feel sorry for him and pity him. I also knew it was my karma and I needed to repay it. I took care of him and often brought various goodies to him. He praised me a lot, “My eldest daughter is the best; she is so kind. Those who practice Falun Dafa are all good people.”
When my mother was hospitalized, my sister and I took turns taking care of her. After she was discharged and returned home, she gave us 7,000 yuan each. I said it was my duty to care for her and I would not take the money. She was touched and said, “People who practice Falun Dafa are truly different and extraordinary.”
Over the years, I have kept Master's teachings in mind, upheld the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, and worked hard to fulfill my role well in society and in my family. My family and friends all see the splendor and beauty of Falun Dafa in me. In their mind, they all know that “Falun Dafa is good. Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” Like me, they are all bathed in the grace of Falun Dafa.