(Clearwisdom.net) I am sharing the following experience to remind fellow practitioners to always have faith in Teacher and to let non-practitioners know of the power of Dafa and our Master. I was first introduced to Falun Dafa in late 2001 but did not really start my cultivation until 2005. I had a number of different tribulations and tests to pass but none more dramatic than what I experienced two weeks ago when my husband and I were in a scooter accident. We were just coming back from an event in Chinatown to celebrate the 50 million plus people who had quit the Chinese Communist Party and its affiliated organizations. We were two blocks from our home when we drove right into a car that had made a sudden and illegal u-turn into our lane. As our scooter was propelled over onto the sidewalk, we were catapulted over the driver's car and then smashed down onto the road. My husband got up soon after we crashed, but I was unable to move. Blood covered my face and people quickly came to help. Several men told me not to move and within minutes emergency medical technicians put me in an ambulance and took me to the hospital.
After the initial shock of being thrown down to the ground, I immediately continued to send forth righteous thoughts and recite the Fa when I could. In the ambulance, I asked my husband to call two practitioners to send forth righteous thoughts. I knew that what was happening to me was only on the surface and I needed to negate the thought that anything was wrong with me. I was anxious to get home and start studying Fa and sending righteous thoughts.
In fact, nothing serious had happened to me. Despite being jolted into the air, without any protective clothing or material except my helmet, I had no broken bones. My face was torn up from landing so abruptly on the ground and I had several bruises on my body. My father came to the hospital that night and wondered if I should consult with a plastic surgeon and medical staff suggested I not look at my face! The doctors and nurses continued to tell me I was in shock and would soon be in great pain but the worst I felt was only some moderate discomfort. They offered me strong pain killers in the hospital but I declined, saying I really felt okay and did not need to take them. I waited for several hours to get x-rays and a brain scan. In between the periods when the medical staff came over to examine me, I had a little time to study the Fa. Each time the staff came over to check on me, they told me how much better I looked. One time I had been sitting up in bed, studying the Fa, when a nurse, noting the difference in my appearance, exclaimed, "See what a difference those pain meds make?!" I told her that I had not taken any medication. I thought to myself, "See how powerful and benevolent Master is?"
Teacher writes about a practitioner who emerges unscathed from a bad car accident in "Zhuan Falun":
"We have said that good or evil comes from a person's spontaneous thought, and the thought at that moment can bring about different consequences. With her old age, if she were an everyday person, how could she not be injured? Yet her skin was not even scratched. Good or evil comes from that instant thought. If she were lying down there claiming, "Ugh, I feel terrible. Something is wrong here and there." Then, her bones might really be fractured and she would be paralyzed."
As I lay in bed in the hospital, I noticed a young Chinese man waiting in the hallway. I asked my husband to give him a Falun Dafa bookmark--it was the only truth clarification material I had on me. The Chinese man did not appear to have any reaction when my husband gave him the bookmark but he later came over to my bed and asked me how I was doing. Over the next few hours we continued to run into each other and he stopped by a couple of times to talk. He was there with his mother and grandmother, who had a bad fall. His grandmother was only in the U.S. for a visit and was planning on returning to China the following day. He was raised in America and knew very little of Falun Dafa. I was hoping he would have a favorable impression of Dafa after we talked and would tell his grandmother the truth about the practice, so she could be in a better position to be saved before returning to China.
In the taxi back home from the hospital, I had a brief thought that I perhaps should take medicine if the pain was going to be so unbearable and my sleep might be interrupted. I called a practitioner to get some advice. She told me it was up to me as to whether I should take medication but I knew right when I asked the question what the answer was. I had to negate those thoughts. I was not an everyday person. Master was looking after me and this was simply a test I must pass. Medicine would have no effect on me and only put me back on a destructive path. As a cultivator, I had gong which would rectify any damage to my physical body. So, keeping this in mind, I decided that I would not take any medicine.
The wounds on my face healed incredibly fast. In less than a week, all my scabs had come off and the swelling in my face had gone down completely. People who had seen me after the accident or had heard about my injuries could not believe how fast I had healed. My friend said to me, "no one heals this fast...it must be the practice (of Falun Dafa)." My neighbor asked me what medications or lotions I had been using on face and my husband (a non-practitioner) kept referring to my face as a "magic face."
My injuries are now almost fully recovered. I have used this time to look inside to understand why this accident happened. I see that the accident brought to the surface several attachments, such as fear of being harmed, the attachment of comfort, and vanity, all of which I need to eliminate. Teacher writes in "Digging Out the Roots": "I use various means to expose your deeply-concealed attachments and get rid of them." (Essentials for Further Advancements) I have gone back to memorizing the Fa, which I had not done in several months, and have spent more time actively sending forth righteous thoughts to eliminate the evil in my mind and in my body. I feel in fact my "xinxing" is stronger now than ever.
I hope that all practitioners are able to look inside when faced with tribulations and always negate the old forces' arrangements. We must cultivate diligently in the Fa, so that we always walk the path that Master has arranged for us. Sometimes the path that Teacher has arranged for us is a very difficult one to follow but if our xinxing is strong and we have faith in Teacher, we can make it through.
"As a truly-determined practitioner, one is able to endure everything and give up or care less for any attachment in the face of various self-interests. As long as once can do this, it will not be difficult. Those people find it difficult because they cannot let go of these things. Cultivation practice itself is not difficult, and neither is upgrading one's level itself difficult. It is because they cannot give up the human mind that they call it difficult." (Zhuan Falun)á
Category: Improving Oneself
