(Clearwisdom.net) The following is my experience of eliminating the dark minions and rotten demons that persecuted my mother. Right after the Chinese New Year in 2004, my father called me to say that he and my mother could not visit us because my mother could not walk anymore. When I heard this, I was in disbelief because my mother had been in good shape a month before when she visited us. How could this happen? I hung up the telephone and went to their home to take a look. Indeed she could not walk. I took my mother back to my home with me.
My mother, a senior practitioner who had obtained the Fa in 1997, stayed in my home for 37 days. Through continued Fa study, sending forth righteous thoughts, and seeking inward, and through the support of Master's divine power, she went home with her health restored. The experience of those 37 days gave me a deeper understanding of the principles of doing the three things Master requested. Indeed, if we do well on the three things, every issue can be resolved.
The cause of my mother's interference was that she did not do well on the three things requested by Master. My mother had major problems in all three areas.
1. Problem in Fa study
Mother studied the Fa each day. However, sometimes she held the book in her hands and would listen to whoever in the family was talking. Sometimes she even responded to the other person. She might not know what she was reading.
A day or two after my mother's arrival, I realized that her home environment might not have let her concentrate when she studied the Fa, but now she would be able to better concentrate when she studied. However, after one or two days had passed, my mother did not experience much change. I thought something was not right. Master said,
"Study Fa, no idling; changing in the process" ("Advance Wholeheartedly, Enlighten Righteously " from Hong Yin II)
So I asked mother to come to my room to study the Fa. When I asked her to read out loud, I found her problem. She could not read smoothly. I asked mother to follow each line with her finger when she read. After studying over ten pages, she felt her vision was unfocused due to interference and she could not see the words clearly. I asked her to continue. She tried one or two times more but could not continue. I saw that she could not study the Fa anymore, so I said, "Let's take a break and do some exercises." She had not practiced any of the exercises for a month because she could not stand up. My husband had to hold her from behind and I held her in the front, and we corrected her movements. At the same time we sent forth righteous thoughts to eliminate the dark minions and rotten demons. In the beginning she could not do all four of the exercises, so we did each exercise separately, one by one. Through continued Fa study and doing the exercises, my mother's health became better and better each day.
2. Sending forth righteous thoughts
Each day mother sent forth righteous thought at a set time. However, she had changed the phrases used to her own. I asked who had told her to do that. She said she was "accustomed" to saying it that way. I told her, "Master told us that sending forth righteous thoughts was called divine powers in the past. How could you change it casually? If you modify it a little, then would it still have the original meaning? We should not accept the old forces' arrangements, and we should also examine ourselves. How can the evil persecute you? We should look for a reason. Could it be that your own space was not cleaned up completely?" After realizing this, my mother made the correction.
One week later, through mother's continued Fa study and sending forth righteous thoughts, she could finish the four exercises with only a little support from me. As a Dafa practitioner, however, she should do the exercises by herself, so when she was doing the exercises, I tried to move my hands away. However, she would immediately lose her balance. When I asked her the reason, she said, "Someone keeps pushing me to keep me from standing still." Actually, it was interference from the dark minions and rotten demons to keep mother from practicing. She said, "As soon as I close my eyes I start to sway." I remembered that Master said,
"You've gotten in the habit of giving up your master consciousness, and as soon as you close your eyes you lose your master consciousness, it vanishes. You've formed that kind of habit." (Zhuan Falun, 2003)
I immediately said, "Then you just open your eyes when you do the exercises and see if you still sway or not." Indeed, my mother no longer swayed anymore. At first when she stooped down during the exercises, she would vomit. Even so, she still continued doing them. Now everything is gone. She can manage doing an hour of exercises.
In addition she had problems with the sitting meditation. Before the persecution started, she could sit for one hour or more each day. Now she could only sit for 10 minutes and had to relax her legs due to the pain. I told her that it was not right and that she should try to sit longer. No matter how painful it would be, if she endured, everything would be ok. It was the dark minions and rotten demons that did not want her to practice, since the practice would eliminate them. Sometimes during the sitting meditation, she followed my children talking and then asked me to check if the water on the stove had boiled. I told her to concentrate when doing the exercises and not to bother with other things. Practice is practice.
3. Look for attachments and eliminate them
(1) She compromised with the evil due to her attachment of fear
At the end of 2002, my mother was illegally sent to jail. The guard called and asked me to send her some clothes. She also told me that my mother was not that steadfast in jail. When the guard asked her if she would continue to practice, against her heart (because she had fear) my mother answered, "If we are not allowed to practice, then I shall stop practicing." After my mother returned from jail, I did not ask her about it. When I did ask her if it was true, she said, "Probably so." I told her the seriousness of that reply. "It would be another excuse for the evil to persecute you. You were afraid and did not have righteous thoughts." I immediately asked my mother to write a solemn statement. My mother also realized the seriousness of the issue and wrote a statement right away.
(2) Eliminating the evil should be thorough
After my mother had stayed in my home for 30 days, her human notions arose and she wanted to go home. She thought she was almost recovered and if she continued what she was doing at her home, it would be effective there as well. I did not agree with her and told her, "It is true there is no difference at either place, but you want to go home because you miss your home, which is an attachment. If it is an attachment, shouldn't you get rid of it? Then could the evil take it as an excuse to persecute you? We should not give the evil any opportunity. The only way is to do everything according to the Fa and conduct yourself as a practitioner." My father came to take mother home. I told him about my idea and father also supported me. After another week passed, my mother completely recovered and could walk by herself. She could remember the articles she had memorized, her main conscious became clear, and she went home.
Furthermore, my husband, mother, father and other family members, including me, had a wish that my mother would definitely regain her health when she came to my house.
Through my mother's incident, I gained a deeper understanding and deeper comprehension of the principles taught by Master. The Fa is equal for every practitioner. Why did other practitioners not have this issue, only my mother? Although the old forces exist, don't we deny their arrangements? What can we do to deny them? I realize that only righteous thoughts and righteous conduct can deny them. First we must have righteous thoughts, then we can have righteous conduct. Then where do the righteous thoughts come from? Only through Fa study and memorizing the Fa. Our thought will melt into the Fa and we can have a clearer understanding of the Fa. Any interference with Fa study, sending forth righteous thoughts or clarifying the facts is from the arrangements of the old forces and we must eliminate them all. How do we eliminate them? They do not let you study the Fa. When you study the Fa, they will make your vision become fuzzy and make you feel sleepy so you cannot see the words clearly. Then we must force ourselves to read. They do not let you walk. Then you must try to walk. If you do not walk, then you have the attachment of fear and are afraid of falling down. Actually with the Fa and Master on your side, you should fear nothing. They do not want you to do the exercises. Then you just do it. We should be persistent in eliminating the dark minions and rotten demons that interfere with our doing the exercises. If you are able to do it, Master can eliminate a portion of it. Cultivation depends on ourselves, and high-level energy comes from Master. As long as we have the wish, Master will do it for us.
