01/01/2024
An Informer of the Communist party
Dr Chen had been divorced, left his wife and son and moved to this village populated about 180 people. By the rumour, he had been in prison twice, the first one was when he had been captured as an Amy medical officer of anti-Communist party; While no much talking about his second arrest.
Many years later, a metallurgist and professor of Mechanical Engineering of Carnegie Mellon University of the USA, published his autobiography and it quoted by Chinese internet Blogs. This professor turned out to be an immigrant from China, and he was the son of the Dr Chen, a village clinician.
Let’s name this professor as prof J.Chen. According to his autobiography, his father Dr Chen was reported by an informer of the communist party, a professional nurse who used to work under his father Dr Chen - this is the reason that his father, Dr Chen was arrested second time and followed by the divorce and separation of the family.
According to prof. J.Chen, his parents used to be neighbour of that nurse in a hospital residential dormitory in a big city. That nurse was a new graduate, working in the hospital in Dr Chen’s department. On one of the political purge movement, under political pressure, the nurse agreed as an informer of the local communist party, and reported and fabricated stories that leads to the second arrest of Dr Chen, and broke up Dr Chen’s family.
Prof J.Chen had been grownup in another remote small city with his mother, the ex-wife of Dr Chen. Although he and his mother did not get arrested by the authorities, but the political imprint as not loyal to the communist party shadowed their life for many years. Gradually, his mother had been deeply dragged into mental depression and illness, finally dead in isolation; Prof J.Chen were not allowed to apply study in any universities because Dr Chen’s political ‘crime’ and he ended as a brick manufacture labour moving clays. Finally, his life turning point arrived in 1978 when Chinese communist party changed the political direction of the country’s into “open door and develop the economy first “, he finally got chance accepted by a University and then graduated with ph.D degree of mechanical engineering.
During his time kneading and mixing clays in the brick yard, prof. J.Chen became a friend of an old lady as coworker; And this lady was from a family of a famous TCM doctor, and the tradition had been extended for many generations; And the secret of the family medical knowledge was generously taught to prof.J.Chen as free gift from that old lady. His capacity to heal made his name so big that accompanied him whenever he went, in the town and later in his university and the city. By his autobiography, he can feel and heal naturally in his manual therapy - the old lady said what she had done was not the teaching but opened a cap of a bottle containing his potential, and let his talent free release and be himself.
In 1987, prof J.Chen was assigned to be a visiting exchange scholar to Carnegie Melon University for a program of 3 years. Before his departure, many colleagues and friends booked appoints for his manual therapy. One of his appointment was from a request of a friend, who’s friend's wife had chronic idiopathic pain, losing weight and insomnia for many years and couldn’t find any relieve.
He made the appointment and immediately found himself treating a lady who had once informed his father to the authorities, that was leading to his family second political stint, causing his pain for so many years and so much hurt. This informer and retired nurse, didn’t remember him. With complicate and difficult feeling, he proceeded to treat her without revealing the shared history.
As he worked on alleviating her pain, the room remained silent, the weight of their intertwined destinies palpable. The lady, unaware of the connection, felt the healing touch, familiar somehow and strange at the same time. The pain began to dissipate, replaced by a sense of relief.
However, as the treatment concluded, an unexpected turn unfolded. The lady, seemingly without any reason, began to cry uncontrollably. Nobody in the room knew the hidden dark behind them; The weight of karma and the unspoken echoes of the past had caught up with her.
Prof J.Chen still maintaining his composure, offered a comforting hand and a gentle word. The tears, though shed for no apparent reason, carried the burden of a shared history. In that moment, the intricate dance of karma played out silently, weaving the threads of past actions into the present.
As the door closed behind this last patient, prof J.Chen left the city once again, bound for the United States, the city remained oblivious to the complex threads of history, karma, and healing that had quietly played out within its borders.
Amen.
I have done my part on these series events in front of me and who can tell if it is science or anecdote, is you. - Jan 1, 2024. Jerry Nie, RMT
