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What makes Uncle Zhang suffer from paralysis?

2023-01-05 Source:Chinafxj.cn Author:Feng Dongli

Junliangcheng (or “the Junliang City”) is located in a rural-urban fringe zone of Dongli District, Tianjin. China’s reform and opening-up policy has brought vitality to this land like spring breeze. With the implementation of good policies of the Party, Uncle Zhang got rich quickly. In those days, Uncle Zhang, who was clever in mind and skillful in hand, engaged in raising pigs and chicken. After knocking down the previous adobe houses, he built 6 big brick houses facing south. He also fenced off an area of 300 square meters for livestock breeding. In this way, he soon became famous in the local town for his ability to obtain wealth. His two sons were admitted to junior high school and senior high school respectively. The whole family lived a rich, happy, harmonious and admirable life.

In the mid-90s, the fallacies and propaganda of the “Falun Gong” cult were spreading to Junliangcheng. After yielding to other people’s persuasion, Uncle Zhang and his wife decided to give it a try and signed up for the local “Falun Gong” training class. As a warm-hearted person, Uncle Zhang often communicated with fellow practitioners to share experiences. He also brought his own tape-recorder to the practice venue for everyone onsite by playing audio tapes. Not long afterward, he was assigned as the deputy leader of the training station.

Such assignment made his spirits soar. Ever since Uncle Zhang became the deputy leader, he had more enthusiasm about practice than raising chicken. Every single day, he arrived at the training station first and left the place last. As expected, his henhouse soon became deserted. At the same time, the couple could say offhandedly many funky words, such as “Karma”, “Falun Dafa”, “Practice could cure diseases”, “Turning Falun could protect one from any harm”, etc. Gradually, Uncle Zhang and his wife became outstanding figures within the local “Falun Gong” organization in Junliangcheng. Later on, his two sons were also roped into the cult.

In July 1999, the state banned “Falun Gong” cult according to law. The training venue where Uncle Zhang once practiced was also banned. But all four members in Uncle Zhang’s family kept practicing furtively and exchanging their experience with other obsessed practitioners from time to time. Bewitched and instigated by the fallacies of the “Falun Gong” cult, the family of four continued to engage in illegal activities disregard of law, and were punished one after another for violating laws.

However, the Uncle Zhang’s family neither learned their lesson nor repented of their misdeeds. In October 2016, Uncle Zhang and his wife participated in illegal “Falun Gong” activities again and were detained by police. During the period of detention, officials from both the sub-district office and community (village) office, as well as their longtime neighbors all went visit them. One of their longtime neighbors, Uncle Li, said to Uncle Zhang’s wife at the police station, “What on earth are you doing? As people having children and grandchildren, do you really think it is a good thing that we meet here? No matter how hard we tried to dissuade you from believing in it, you just ignored. I, like anyone else, am so confused with your choice. Do you really understand your behaviors?”

After persuaded repeatedly by others and viewing various cases, Uncle Zhang’s wife finally came to her sense. With a running nose and tears covering her face, she said ruefully, “I was wrong. I will definitely correct my mistake. I do not believe in the fallacies of ‘Falun Gong’ any more, and I would never practice it ever since. Now and here, I pledge to break away from ‘Falun Gong’. And also, I will ask my husband to stop his cultivation, and persuade him into repenting and mending his ways.”

Later on, when visiting her husband, she tried her best to dissuade Uncle Zhang from practicing “Falun Gong”. However, instead of following his wife’s advice, Uncle Zhang blamed her for not standing firm for “Dafa” and asked her to keep “promoting Falun Dafa”. Because of his bigotry, Uncle Zhang soon broke the law again and was punished accordingly.

In 2019, Uncle Zhang suffered from hypertension, hyperglycemia and hyperlipidemia. But he boasted to everyone he met that he didn’t need medicine or injection simply because he practiced “Falun Gong”. However, each time when Uncle Zhang finished his nonsense and walked away, his neighbors would immediately warn their children, “Don’t listen to him. Just see how unhealthy he and his family look like now.” An elder aside also added, “You see, his face has already been as red as red paper. No matter how hard I tried, he just keeps refusing medicines to treat his illness. Unless he wants to do it himself, it is no use trying to persuade him.”

At the beginning of 2020, Uncle Zhang started to show the symptom of cerebral infarction by drooling at the corners of his mouth. Since no one at home could take him to see a doctor, his relatives offered to help but was turned down by Uncle Zhang—he was fully convinced that he could cure himself by practicing “Falun Gong”. In this way, he lost the best opportunity to treat his illness. In the middle of 2020, something badly happened to Uncle Zhang’s right brain and caused his left leg inflexible. Eventually, Uncle Zhang became paralyzed and completely bedridden.

Alas, it was really a tragedy that poor Uncle Zhang changed from a hard-working farmer to a victim of the “Falun Gong” cult. “Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance” didn’t save him. Practicing “Falun Gong” didn’t cure him. Li Hongzhi’s numerous “Dharma Bodies” didn’t protect him. And “Karma elimination” didn’t put him out of harm's way.

In our society today, the treatment for hypertension, hyperglycemia and hyperlipidemia is no longer a big problem. But a few cult believers were so deeply bewitched by “Falun Gong” that they sternly refused kind advices from others, which consequently ended up with tragedies. It was really a pity to see the good lives they once lived were totally ruined by the evil cult.

It’s necessary to draw lessons from other’s painful mistakes. I sincerely hope that the traumatic experience of Uncle Zhang could be a timely wake-up call to those who are still deeply obsessed with “Falun Gong”.

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