(Minghui.org) I began to practice Falun Dafa in 1997. Since then I have witnessed many benefits experienced by people who practiced Dafa or read the Dafa books. This is one of the reasons why I truly cherish it.
My first experience with Dafa was in 1997. A benign lump that appeared on my neck disappeared after I practiced Falun Dafa for a week.
I was a teacher at a technical school at the time. After the lump first materialized, the doctor advised surgery, because a benign tumor could turn cancerous. But I was worried that the surgery might affect my voice, which was important for a teacher.
This presented me with a dilemma, so, when a friend told me to forget about surgery and practice Falun Dafa, I decided to give it a try. He told me about his mother who had arthritis and had benefited from practicing Dafa.
Despite some misgivings, I went to a Dafa exercise site, where I saw people peacefully meditating. They taught me the exercises, and I felt very comfortable after doing them the first time.
Within a week, my lump had disappeared. I had an ultrasound, which showed that not just the lump, but also the large black substance in that area, were gone.
Some of our male students once came down with scabies. Since it was contagious, the school told those with the condition to stay home. One student decided to return to school even though he had not recovered. When he saw my students reading Zhuan Falun, the main book of Dafa, he also read it and within a short time his scabies was gone.
Our male students often fought with each other and destroyed the flowerpots on school property. In time, those who read Zhuan Falun stopped fighting. A student counselor said, “All of our students should study Dafa, because it teaches Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance and we would have fewer problems.”
A school administrator had breast cancer and underwent chemotherapy. She lost all her hair and suffered a great deal. Several teachers and I visited her and asked her to watch the Dafa lecture video. She started to practice Dafa and regained her health. That was 17 years ago.
A colleague's father, a university professor, started having lumbar disc problems. The local doctors were afraid to operate and told him to go to a hospital in Beijing. Even there he was warned that the success rate was only 50 percent and that he would be paralyzed if the surgery failed.
I lent him a copy of Zhuan Falun as an alternative. He read it once and decided to practice Dafa. In less than a month he experienced significant improvement. He could ride a bike instead of taking a taxi to the exercise site.
I've been imprisoned several times since the onset of the persecution of Dafa in 1999.
While in prison starting in 2009, I came down with a number of ailments, including tuberculosis, gallstones, hepatitis B, anemia, and uterine fibroids. I was released on medical parole in 2012.
I did the meditation exercise the first day after I returned home. The next day I had diarrhea, which continued for 37 days, although I did not feel much discomfort. My energy returned and I felt much better.
My sister arranged surgery for my uterine fibroids. After I did the exercises and read the Dafa book, the fibroids shrank and I no longer needed surgery.
My entire family witnessed the benefits I gained from practicing Dafa.