这真的是在世界的十字路口啊！ 法轮功确实是一个很神奇的修炼法门，是有真内涵的，不然也不会在全世界有这么多修炼者

【我想，这些鲜活的故事，是法轮功学员用生命也要坚持信仰的理由吧。我想要记录下来💐。】 最近，一名纽约的75后法轮功学员D先生，跟我分享他的故事。他经历万千磨难，最终来到美国寻求自由。 这位D先生在十几岁时，父亲病逝。奇怪的是，父亲病逝后，D先生的身体一下子就变得不好了，全身到处都有问题，包括脑袋和心脏，严重影响生活。但是他家境不好，根本没钱做手术。 医生说可能有脑瘤，但他不敢花钱拍片。他认为，如果没有脑瘤，那就是浪费钱；如果有脑瘤，家里根本没钱治。 西医中医的药试过不少，中医的祝由科也试过了，又试各种偏方，各种各样的气功也试过了，可是身体还是没有好，还是百病缠身。 那时，中国大陆正“气功热”，是1980年代至1990年代末席卷中国全境的一种大规模社会与文化现象。 D先生从小很聪明，学习很好，那时正入学了上海一所很不错的大学，学习理工科专业。那所大学里，有老师和学生在练习各种气功。 他为了治病，也开始花钱学习各种气功，练习后身体有变舒服一点，但是奇怪的事也有很多。他说有些气功，背后灵界的信息并不好。 有一次，他在大学宿舍午休时，有女鬼闯入梦中，两人还对话很久，他后来强行挣脱，把自己从床上摔下来，才终于醒来。他知道，这跟他练的一些不好的气功有关。 后来，有同学跟他说，学校里有一个“法轮大法义务教功”的炼功点。他知道后，很快在学校的一个角落找到这个地方。 当天，一位退休教师教他学习法轮功五套功法，结束后还给他借了一本《转法轮》，说我们除了炼功，还要提高心性，做到“真善忍”。她完全不问D先生的名字，还说D先生很有“佛缘”。 D先生很震惊：法轮功功法是完全免费的，还主动借了一本书给我，现在还有这种人？而且这跟“佛缘”有什么关系？我可是无神论啊。 第二天，他正在跟一位人学习法轮功功法，突然肚子绞痛得不行，急速要上厕所，一共去了三次。 上厕所时，排出了很多奇怪的脏东西，包括黑血块、烂肉、一些长长的像虫一样的东西。他从来没遇到过。 后来他才知道，这种现象在法轮功书籍中早已写下来了，是学员修炼后被清理身体，清理那些身体中不好的东西。 从那天起，D先生身体的各种毛病就逐渐康复了，再也没吃药，也没去医院，一直到现在。 他眼睛红红的，很感恩地说：“没有法轮功，就没有现在的我。” （图说：法轮功学员、武术大师、心武门创始者杨龙飞在打坐。） I think these true, vivid stories help explain why Falun Gong practitioners hold fast to their faith, even at the cost of their lives. I want to preserve these stories. 💐 Recently, a Falun Gong practitioner in New York, whom I’ll call Mr. D, shared his story with me. Born in the second half of the 1970s, he endured countless hardships before finally reaching the United States in search of freedom. His father died of an illness when he was a teenager. Strangely, after his father’s death, his own health suddenly deteriorated. He developed problems throughout his body, including his head and heart, which severely affected his daily life. But his family was poor, and surgery was simply beyond their means. A doctor said he might have a brain tumor, but he couldn’t bring himself to spend money on a scan. His reasoning was this: if there was no tumor, the money would be wasted; if there was one, his family couldn’t afford treatment anyway. He tried many Western and Chinese medicines. He also tried zhuyou, a traditional healing practice involving rituals and incantations, along with folk remedies and various forms of qigong. Yet his health did not improve. He remained plagued by illness. At the time, mainland China was in the midst of the “qigong boom,” a widespread social and cultural phenomenon that swept across the country from the 1980s through the late 1990s. Mr. D had been bright since childhood and had always done well in school. He had just enrolled in a well-regarded university in Shanghai to study a science and engineering subject. Some teachers and students there practiced various forms of qigong. Hoping to recover his health, he began paying to learn different qigong practices. They brought him some physical relief, but he also had many strange experiences. He felt that some of these practices carried troubling spiritual influences. Once, while napping in his university dormitory, he dreamed that a female ghost appeared, and they spoke for a long time. He struggled to break free and finally woke up only after falling out of bed. He was convinced that the experience was connected to some of the qigong practices he had taken up. Later, a fellow student told him about a group on campus that taught Falun Dafa exercises free of charge. He soon found the practice site in a quiet corner of the university. That day, a retired teacher taught him the five Falun Gong exercises. Afterward, she lent him a copy of Zhuan Falun. She explained that, alongside practicing the exercises, practitioners needed to improve their moral character and live by the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance. She never even asked his name. She also told him that he had a “predestined connection with the Buddha.” Mr. D was astonished. “The exercises are completely free, and she even offered to lend me a book? Are there still people like this?” he recalled thinking. “And what does any of this have to do with a connection to the Buddha? I’m an atheist.” The next day, while someone was helping him learn the Falun Gong exercises, he suddenly developed severe abdominal cramps and had to rush to the bathroom. He went three times. He said he passed many strange things he had never seen before: black blood clots, what looked like decaying flesh, and long, wormlike material. Later, he learned that Falun Gong’s books described experiences like this as the purification of a practitioner’s body—the removal of harmful things within it. That was how he came to understand what had happened. From that day onward, he said, his various health problems gradually cleared up. He told me that he has not taken medicine or been to a hospital since. With his eyes welling up, he said gratefully: “Without Falun Gong, I wouldn’t be here today.” （Caption : Falun Gong practitioner and martial arts master Longfei Yang meditating.)