(Clearwisdom.net) One day, my father urged me to go to his home, so I took a day off and went to my parents' place. When I got there, my parents shouted at me loudly and told me I should give up practicing Falun Gong. They talked about how brutal the persecution is against Falun Gong practitioners in the area where my uncle lives. In the end, my father said that he could no longer take it. He said that he would rather die than withstand the tiring life and the pressure of me practicing Falun Gong.

I looked at the two of them and felt that they were being controlled by the old forces. I tried to calm my father down, and told him that he should not commit suicide because doing that is wrong and is a sin. I told him that he doesn't need to worry about me being persecuted since Teacher didn't arrange that for me.

Looking back at my cultivation path, I've always been disturbed by my emotions for my family. When my parents first started pressuring me, I was greatly discouraged and became afraid of the persecution. Later, I tried to avoid my parents, but sometimes they would come to my home and stay with me so that they could monitor who I talked to. I then used the opportunity to tell them the facts about the goodness of Falun Dafa. Gradually, my fear subsided. Since my parents couldn't force me to give up Falun Gong, they tried a softer approach. They begged me not to practice anymore and not to talk to our relatives about withdrawing from Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations. I continued explaining the facts to them, and occasionally I warned them not to interfere with my efforts. They didn't object at the time. I think that in their minds, they were asking themselves whether what I said made sense. Nowadays, when they see me they just say, "We all know that the CCP is bad, but it's too strong. The arm can't twist the leg. Don't try to stand up to it. Lay low and don't tell people you're a Falun Gong practitioner."

I went home and thought about the situation. I felt that I had very strong righteous thoughts and that no matter what my father said, his words couldn't sway me. Then why were the old forces still testing me in this way? Looking inward, I found that I still had strong attachments to my parents and children. My stumbles in cultivation were all due to my attachment to emotion. Realizing this, I knew I needed to let go of my attachment quickly. On the other hand, the conflicts I've had with my parents helped to strengthen my righteous thoughts. As a result, I now have stronger divine thoughts and less fear. Isn't my parents' interference an opportunity for me to strengthen my righteous thoughts? Tribulations for practitioners occur at their own xinxing level. When we remove attachments, human notions and thoughts dissipate, and our righteous thoughts become stronger and stronger.

Teacher said in "Fa Teaching at the 2008 New York Conference,"

"No matter what it is you have encountered as you've gone about validating the Fa, it is all, I will tell you, a good thing--and that's especially so in these years of persecution--for those things have come about specifically because you do cultivation. Those ordeals and the suffering, no matter how great or harsh you find them to be, are good things, because they take place solely on account of your cultivation. A person can eliminate karma and shed human attachments when he goes through ordeals, and through ordeals he can improve. Whether your motive is to save sentient beings, to validate the Fa, or to make progress in your own cultivation, they are ordeals all the same. They aren't supposed to make way for you just because you think, 'I'm doing this for Dafa' or 'I'm doing this to save sentient beings.'"

"It's gratifying that you have made it through. No matter what hardships or ups and downs Dafa disciples have gone through along the way, in retrospect, those were but a means of tempering you. It has made you more mature and helped you to remove your human attachments in the process, culminating in your progression towards Consummation. That is the path you have traveled. When you look back, you will find that to be the case."

Let's conquer tribulations with righteous thoughts, look inward, eliminate human notions and become divine beings full of righteous thoughts and righteous actions.