My name is Wang Suxiang. And I am a farmer, 54 years old, live in the Zhaojia Village of Gucheng Community, Shouguang City, Shandong Province. Being obsessed with Falun Gong and firmly believing in its fallacy of removing Karma, I refused to see a doctor or take medicine for quite a long period in spite of being a diabetic, causing deterioration of the disease, and eventually have my half left leg amputated.
My home town, Shouguang City, was famous for its greenhouse vegetable since 1980s, and it was also the birthplace of China’s greenhouse technology. My husband named Zhao Xiushun, he was a quick-witted man, hard-working and diligent, especially good at growing vegetables in the greenhouse, and he earned us a small fortune from it. Later on he even became a technician of this profession, and traveled to other places teaching people greenhouse know-how from 1992 to 1996, and was paid handsomely. While he was out, I handled our own greenhouse at hometown which also brought in some income. It was really hard for me at that period, since I had to not only take care of our parents but also educate the children while farming the land. Yet I was happy and gay all the time. Every time my husband returned home with some delicacies from outside, we always let our parents have a taste first, so my father-in-law and mother-in-law all treated me well. However, long time working under high temperature and humidity in greenhouse, plus a careless diet, had gradually yet greatly harmed my health. I suffered from diabetes and often took medical pills.
In May 1996 I found that my husband had learned to practice Falun Gong while working outside because, every time he came home he would talk about Master Li Hongzhi, and how the cultivation would keep the healthy people fit and help the sick recover without having injection or taking medicine. As I was in bad health, I decided to practice Falun Gong myself with the hope that it might help me rid of the disease. And since then, our family life had changed dramatically.
At the beginning, I felt my health improved somehow after cultivation (Now I realize that it was the regular exercise that helped my body). Encouraged by the “magical effect”, I became more and more diligent in my cultivation: I got up as early as 3 or 4 a.m. each day, and practiced Falun Gong all day long whenever possible, and never went to bed before 10 p.m. Bitter cold or high summer, I sat for one or two hours practicing each time, and never missed a single day’s cultivation even on New Year’s day or other festivals. Of course, when sitting cross-legged, my sick leg always tortured me; but I persisted, gnashing teeth in great pains. And I gradually gave up taking pills according to Li Hongzhi’s teachings. Occupied with Falun Gong practicing, I spent less and less time keeping house, and paid perfunctory attention to our children – some times they even had no food to eat after school. They sighed at my indifference, but there’s nothing they could do. In addition, after practicing Falun Gong, I stopped going home to see my own parents, instead they had to come a long way to my place and visit me. My father-in-law and mother-in-law mocked: “Well, Falun Gong has turned our daughter-in-law into another person.”
Li Hongzhi claimed, that the root cause of one’s illness was Karma and, in order to reach Consummation, one had to remove his Karma so as to go up to higher levels; that a faithful Dafa disciple did not have such a thing as illness, the physical discomfort he suffered was a way of removing Karma, and taking medicine would just press back the Karma temporarily, sooner or later it would come out again; that once a practitioner believed he was ill, it indicated that his mindset had, at least in this aspect, dropped into ordinary people’s level. These words had taken firm root in my mind. Although I suffered so much for so many years, I persisted with clenched teeth, thinking that Master Li Hongzhi was removing Karma for me. As I refused to seek any medical help, I was totally blind about the seriousness of my disease.
After Falun Gong was outlawed in July 1999, I obstinately stuck to the wrong course still. However, being born chicken-hearted, I did not have the courage to participate in their illegal activities outside, but secretly learned the Fa and did cultivation at home. During that period, my health deteriorated sharply for lacking of medical treatment. Symptoms of the diabetic further developed: I had a boil at the center of my left foot, and it was swelling up and later festering, till the whole leg was infected. By this time, my husband buried himself in his greenhouse work, barely spent time practicing Falun Gong, and gradually became full aware of the cult. Seeing that many Falun Gong practitioners lost their lives because they firmly believed in Karma removing theory and stubbornly rejected medical help, my husband repeatedly urged me to see doctors and have medical examinations. But I turned a deaf ear to his advice, persisted in cultivation and mediating cross-legged. Whenever the sick leg hurt me, I thought that’s Master Li Hongzhi removing Karma for me.
In June 2009, the whole left leg went numb and the pain became unbearable. My husband, coming to the end of his patience, sent me to Weifang Central Hospital by force. After a thorough medical examination, the doctors pronounced my diagnosis: Diabetic complication, including diabetic hypertension, nephrosis (kidney problem), nerve-ending neuritis, plus moist gangrene. Conclusion: A leg amputation must be performed to save life. While I was admitted to the hospital for the operation, doctors told me: “Actually, had you taken medicine in time at the beginning, the disease would have been brought under effective control, and no serious complication like this should appear. However, if they took you here twenty days later, the disease would kill you.” At last, they amputated my left leg at ten centimeters above the knee.
Now I am still feeling weak, unable to stand up, to say nothing of taking care of myself. The bitter fruits I swallowed all stem from Li Hongzhi’s Karma removing theory – a deliberate lie to harm innocent people. I would never believe in Falun Gong’s fallacies again, I hate the cult.
Wang Suxiang
