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Yingchun businesswoman story
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Yingchun was a young, successful businesswoman from Beijing, China.
In the 1990s, she owned a productive
factory and had popular retail shops
in Shanghai.
Business was booming, and in order
to further maximize profits, Yingchun
planned to open more retail shops.
But—like plenty of other business people
in Beijing —Yingchun’s fortune
suddenly changed for the worse.
Her business manager embezzled
400,000 yuan (or $59,000) from
the business.
Yingchun’s debts skyrocketed as she
couldn’t pay suppliers and employees.
She nearly had a mental breakdown.
Her mother worried for her and
followed her around, making sure
she didn’t do “something silly.”
Her mother told Yingchun, “Don’t be too obsessed
with the loss. That man will get his
retribution.”
“He has lost a lot of virtue.
Don’t worry about it.”
Her mother practiced Falun Dafa, also
known as Falun Gong,
a peaceful meditation practice for
the mind, body, and soul.
What her mother tells her next, she will soon
realize to be the truth.
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Through the practice her mother learned the
principles of karma and virtue:
People who commit bad deeds end up
accumulating karma,
which they will have to pay for in
the future through pain and suffering.
Meanwhile, those that bear the pain
of loss gain virtue, with which they’ll
be blessed in the future.
But Yingchun was too angry and
miserable to hear any advice,
even from her own mother.
She had to deal with her factory and
return to Shanghai to manage her
business even though she could barely think.
Before she left for Shanghai,
her mother gave her a book.
It was Zhuan Falun by Mr. Li Hongzhi,
the main teaching of Falun Dafa.
She gently told her it was a good book,
but she was hesitant to take it
because her mother was illiterate.
“She couldn’t read, so what did she
know about good books?” Yingchun thought.
On the train back from Shanghai,
she noticed a professor sitting near her.
In her hands, was the same book her
mother had given her.
She told the professor she was
surprised to see a scholar was
reading Zhuan Falun,
the same book her illiterate
mother had given her.
The professor told Yingchun that
many people from all walks of
life read this book, saying,
“People around the world read this
book. … It is a book of the
Buddha School."
"No matter how many books you have
read, this book talks about things that
other books have never touched upon.”
“It is very profound.”
Yingchun had many questions after
she first read the book, but reading
the book a second time,
she found many of his questions
answered.
Then she read it a third time.
She finally understood it was a book
about improving oneself by way of
cultivating the mind and the heart.
And so, she began practicing its teachings.
Soon thereafter, many things began
changing for her. She regained her
health, and broadened her mind.
But most importantly, she no longer
hated the man who had embezzled
money from her, as her heart had changed.
A few years later,
Yingchun learned that the man who
had once wronged her had been
abandoned by his wife and left penniless.
The man then developed a skin ulcer,
resulting in his leg being amputated,
and eventually passed away.
Yingchun’s reaction upon learning the
news surprised even herself.
Not only did she not feel avenged,
she felt empathy.
Yingchun felt sad.
She didn’t want revenge; she now wished
she could have saved this man from his
own bad nature and sorrowful demise.
Eventually, Yingchun sold her factory
and paid off all of her debts and
bought a new business.
Her family life was harmonious, and
she had an entirely different outlook
and understanding of things.
So, in 1999, the Chinese Communist
Party launched a campaign of
persecution against Falun Dafa followers,
her belief in the practice did not waver.
She was arrested 3 times and once
imprisoned in a forced labor camp
for three years,
all because he refused to give up her faith.
She was even homeless and lived
frugally for a time
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