Geng Jiping appeared on the NTD Television interview program “A Journey Through Life,” speaking with host Yu Xin and sharing the twists and turns of her life story. (NTD Television / The Dajiyuan screenshot)
[People News] Geng Jiping’s life could be described as smooth and successful. She was a middle school politics teacher in Beijing who received many awards and honors in her career. Her husband’s business was thriving, her son attended the best high school in Beijing, and the family lived a comfortable life.
“I felt that my fate, even my child’s fate and my family’s fate, could all be controlled by my own hands,” she said. “Everything was planned out perfectly, and I felt everything was proceeding exactly as I had envisioned.”
In early 2015, Geng and her family flew from China to Los Angeles, preparing to begin a new chapter in life.
The family obtained U.S. green cards through investment immigration. Their plan was simple: settle down, help their son get into a prestigious American university, and frequently travel back to China to manage their businesses. It was the kind of life many wealthy Chinese dream of. But all of this collapsed overnight.
On the NTD Television program “A Journey Through Life,” Geng recounted her dramatic experiences in the United States to host Yu Xin.
(https://www.ganjingworld.com/zh-TW/video/1ff6n1b08223x3EyJmpeCWQau1fh1c?t=15.119716)
Geng Jiping reading Zhuan Falun, the main book of Falun Dafa. (NTD Television / The Dajiyuan screenshot)
Host Yu Xin of “A Journey Through Life” on NTD Television. (NTD Television / The Dajiyuan screenshot)
Her Son Disappears, Family Falls Apart
Two weeks after arriving in California, Geng prepared to fly back to China. The day before her return, she went out shopping while her 16-year-old son stayed alone at the hotel. When she returned, he was gone.
Panicked, she searched everywhere and reported the case to the police. The incident made local news—and as a headline: “Chinese Teen Visiting U.S. Colleges Goes Missing.” A few days later, he was found several miles away on Hollywood Boulevard. He had a fever and was disoriented. Doctors later diagnosed him with severe depression requiring hospitalization.
But the nightmare didn’t end.
One day on her way to visit her son in the hospital, Geng and her husband were in a car accident. She was injured and sent to the hospital. Her husband, due to business obligations, had to return to China, leaving her alone in the U.S. to care for their son.
“I couldn’t handle the immense pressure,” Geng recalled. “So I began experiencing symptoms of depression and fear, even suicidal thoughts. I quickly called an ambulance and was hospitalized. The doctor diagnosed me with depressive anxiety disorder and put me on medication.”
Over the following months, her husband spent less and less time with her. Rumors circulated that he was having an affair in China. Nearly two years later, she confirmed it was true—and that he had fathered a child.
“You can say the three of us were like three pillars supporting my home,” she said. “First, the child’s pillar collapsed. Then my own health collapsed. Then my husband had an affair and even had a child. So all three pillars supporting my family collapsed. I basically had no home anymore.”
Depression engulfed her life. For the first time, she realized she was powerless. Growing up under the Communist Party’s rule, she had been educated in atheism and raised to believe in “fighting against heaven and earth,” trusting that “man can conquer nature.” But faced with true hardships, she felt utterly helpless.
Searching for Life’s Meaning
During her darkest time, a friend invited her to church. At first she resisted, because she had been raised as an atheist and believed faith was superstition.
“These Christians were very kind; they extended selfless help to me,” she recalled. “This let me see Jesus’s love and gave me a glimmer of hope. I thought maybe I could go to heaven, that death wasn’t the end. So I slowly began to try believing, but atheism was deeply ingrained in my bones.”
Her depression gradually eased.
“Slowly, I came to believe that God truly exists,” she said. “My mental illness began improving. Through faith, I walked out of the valley of the shadow of death caused by depression and fear. I gradually became normal again.”
But her spiritual journey didn’t end there. One day, a Buddhist friend invited her to volunteer at a temple. She later found Buddhist scriptures and books to read, opening her understanding of Buddha and broadening her spiritual horizons.
Seeking answers about whether God or Buddha would come to save people in the last days, she prayed for guidance. Then she received what she described as divine revelation.
“At that moment, I heard a clear response—‘He has come. Li Hongzhi,’” Geng recalled.
Master Li Hongzhi is the founder of Falun Gong (also called Falun Dafa). Falun Gong teaches people to follow the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance, along with meditation and gentle exercises.
In the early 1990s, after Master Li publicly taught Falun Gong in China, an estimated 70 to 100 million people began practicing. Today, Falun Dafa has spread to more than 100 countries. Yet since 1999, it has been brutally persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party.
1999, before the persecution began—Falun Gong practitioners doing the exercises in Guangzhou. Banner reads: “Falun Dafa Volunteer Teaching Site.” (Minghui.org)
Geng understood that Master Li had come to save people.
“In the past, I committed sins against Buddha; I created enormous karmic debt,” she said. “Because I was a politics teacher in Beijing. I taught atheism and evolution. The CCP’s textbooks smear religious faith, and specifically contain defamatory content about Falun Gong. Back then, I was a firm atheist, so I followed the textbook and said disrespectful things about Dafa and about Master Li Hongzhi. Now that I gradually came to believe in God and Buddha, I realized I had committed grave sins.”
For Geng, seeing through the CCP’s lies was not just a political awakening—it was her final step toward spiritual redemption.
A Change in Perspective
Out of curiosity, Geng continued to explore Falun Gong. She began reading Zhuan Falun, Master Li’s central work.
“After reading Zhuan Falun once, I immediately understood that everything the CCP said was lies. All the things the CCP used to attack Falun Gong were fabricated evidence,” she said. “The CCP says Falun Gong teaches suicide, but Master Li teaches that suicide is a sin and is forbidden. The CCP says Falun Gong attacks the government, but Master Li teaches the universal principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance—teaching people to be good, to be even better.”
From then on, Geng began studying Falun Dafa and truly embarked on the path of cultivation. Over time, her depression and anxiety disappeared, her sleep improved, and she felt an unprecedented inner peace.
Seeing the CCP’s True Nature
Through her spiritual search, Geng began reflecting on her past—how she once praised the CCP in the classroom and indoctrinated students with Party values.
“After entering cultivation, I came across a book Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party. It exposes the CCP’s nature in vivid detail—from its origins and rise to its killing of tens of millions. I deeply realized that the Communist Party is actually a demon,” she recalled.
Seeing the CCP’s evil nature clearly, Geng decided to withdraw from the CCP through the Global Center for Quitting the CCP (https://www.tuidang.org).
Speaking on camera, she said:
“I especially want to say something to my former students. Teacher is sorry. I sincerely apologize. I myself was a victim of the CCP’s atheism, materialism, and evolutionist education. And I also participated in poisoning your minds.”
This spiritual awakening gave her a new sense of mission. She began sharing her story with others—the story of a Chinese woman who found truth through Falun Dafa and broke away from the Communist Party.
(Interview by NTD Television reporter Yu Xin / Original English report by Dajiyuan journalist Michael Zhuang / Translation by Zhang Zijun)
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