(Minghui.org) Over the past 23 years, thanks to the unyielding efforts of tens of millions of Falun Dafa disciples who have been exposing the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) persecution, many people have made the right choice to break away from the CCP and supported practitioners. Because of that, they have been blessed.
Years ago, fellow practitioner Zhai and I were working in two different state-owned enterprises separated by a common wall.
I started practicing Falun Dafa in September 1998, but in less than a year, the CCP started the persecution, and all of the state media outlets started blasting propaganda to slander Falun Gong and stir up hatred of Dafa and its practitioners.
I went to Beijing in April 2000 to appeal for Falun Dafa, but was illegally detained. Soon after, I was escorted back home by the local police.
Later, because I was reported for printing informational materials about Falun Dafa, I was detained for 15 days, followed by three months in a brainwashing center. After my release, I was transferred to an insignificant position. While it looked on the surface that I was demoted, the new job actually allowed me more time to study Dafa’s teachings and print truth-clarifying materials to raise awareness about the persecution.
Four years later, the company director restored me to my original department and offered me a position as the technical team leader because I was well respected in the company. Because I practiced Falun Dafa, I was a good person. Even though a few people in the company tried to harm me, they never succeeded, because the director knew I was a good person. The director also once stopped the police from taking me to a forced labor camp.
The director’s positive attitude about Dafa practitioners brought him blessings. When the enterprise was restructured, he took over the company, set it up as his own business, and ran it well for ten years before he passed it on to his children when he retired.
The company where Zhai worked experienced a rather different fate. Zhai was unlawfully arrested for talking to people about Falun Dafa. His manager and the CCP secretary of the company fired him and withheld over 200,000 yuan in compensation that he was entitled to. Zhai lost his job and suffered substantial financial loss.
Using deceitful means, the manager took over his company. In just five or six years, he lost all his shares and ran up huge debts. He was later sentenced to prison for white collar crimes.
I had a colleague in the finance department at our company who respected Dafa and was kind to practitioners. He was a lay Buddhist, but he didn’t dare to practice Falun Dafa or withdraw from the CCP for fear of persecution—even though he knew Dafa was very good.
But I kept talking to him, and he finally quit the CCP and its affiliated organizations.
About two weeks later, he was promoted to be chief financial officer. He was overjoyed about the unexpected promotion.
When I was unlawfully detained, one of our company managers went to the local 610 Office and the police department a number of times to appeal for my release. What she did helped people to see that Dafa disciples are good people and even their superiors at work cared about them. Thanks to her righteous intervention, the police gave up persecuting me.
The manager who was kind to Dafa disciples was also rewarded. Her son scored among the top three in our local area on the university entrance exam, and he was eventually admitted to the prestigious Tsinghua University, a very rare honor for someone in our area.
After her son finished undergraduate studies, he became a postgraduate candidate through the university’s recommendation system. He now has a well-paid job in a state-owned enterprise.
I was friends with a mid-level manager in our company. As a friend, I told him about Falun Dafa a number of times. Although he told me he would quit the CCP, behind my back he tried to stop the people under him from talking to me.
I had a good reputation at work because I was kind and capable. I was recognized as an “Advanced Worker” in the company for a number of years in a row.
In 2015, the local government asked our company to recommend an “Advanced Worker.” All the senior leadership recommended me, but this friend blocked their recommendation on the pretext that I practiced Falun Dafa.
A year after I left the company, he was fired for unknown reasons. He retired as an ordinary worker in 2018. When I saw him again, he looked very depressed.
There was another colleague who got on well with me. Every time I clarified the facts about Dafa to him, he just smiled and didn’t say anything. I knew he didn’t really take in what I said.
After the publication of the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, I gave him a copy. Two weeks later, when I asked him if he had finished reading the book, he said he hadn’t, that in fact, he’d left the book in a storeroom. I didn’t feel good about what he did.
One afternoon the following year, I got an emergency call, urging me to go to the hospital immediately because my colleague had been in a car accident due to drunk-driving. By the time I got there, he had already passed away.
I had always thought I would have more opportunities to change his attitude about Dafa, but such opportunities were never to be, leaving me full of regret.
I have a relative who witnessed the beauty of Falun Dafa from the changes in me. After I clarified the truth to him and his wife, the couple quit the CCP organizations.
In the fall of 2019, my relative suddenly lost his voice and could not speak. After a checkup at the county hospital, he was sent to a city hospital for further examination. From there he was further referred to a provincial hospital, where doctors said there was a suspicious growth in his throat. He and his wife were distraught and asked me to help find a medical expert to treat him.
I reassured them and told them to recite the two auspicious phrases: “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.”
They were so upset that they couldn’t sleep at night, so they kept reciting the phrases all the time. A week later, his test results came in and they were told that there was some inflammation that had caused his throat to swell.
They were very grateful and truly believed that they’d been saved from a worst-case scenario by sincerely reciting “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.”