(Clearwisdom.net) Practitioner A is nearly 70 years old. She has been diligent in her cultivation. At the end of 2007, I learned that she had fallen down and hurt herself badly. She became bedridden. I felt sorry for her and had her in my thoughts, only I did not get a chance to pay her a visit in her home.
A few days ago, I saw someone walking toward me. She looked familiar--her height and the fast and vigorous walk all reminded me of Practitioner A. When we got closer to each other, it turned out to be A herself. She was smiling, calm, and gracious. The terrible tribulation did not keep her down. She came out of it even younger and even more resolute. The following is that practitioners' sharing on what happened to her:
My daughter has had a history of over 20 years of serious mental illness. She was hospitalized several times. There has never been any improvement in her condition. Back in 2007, her mental state deteriorated. For five days she did not eat anything. She became emaciated. As her mother, I did not want to watch her die of hunger, so I tried to feed her. My attachment to sentiment left an opening for the evil factors in other spaces, which resulted in my daughter pushing me down. I felt something jam into my back. I was not able to move. My family tried hard to get me into bed. I was not able to move. I was not able to sit or turn. I was not able to take care of myself.
My family took me to the hospital for an X-ray, which showed that my vertebrae had shifted. The last section was severely damaged and smashed to pieces. Fractured bone pieces pressed on the nerves nearby. My entire back hurt and turned numb. I lost control of my legs. The doctors said that there was no possibility for a quick recovery. Given my age, I would have to stay in bed for a decade or two, if I could live that long, without any change to my current condition. I realized that the doctors' assessment was an arrangement made by the old forces.
Was I to remain bedridden forever? Was I to follow the old forces' arrangement? No, I said to myself. Master wants us to negate the arrangements by the old forces. Even if I had signed some pact with the old forces, Master does not acknowledge that, nor do I. I will only do what Master says and follow Master's arrangements. I'm a Dafa disciple during the Fa-rectification period, shouldering the responsibility of saving sentient beings. At this final, most critical moment of Fa-rectification, the old forces were trying to cripple me to sabotage the Fa and destroy sentient beings. I would not accept this. Even with my karma, I would not agree to this arrangement. Master has asked us to do the Three Things well. I will eliminate my karma in the course of saving people.
In the face of such tribulation brought on by the old forces, I recalled Master's "Teaching the Fa in the City of Los Angeles:" "Fa-rectification is utterly solemn. When you first took up cultivation Master at that time did for you everything that should have been done. Now it's up to you to battle through tests with righteous thoughts. Master can help you when your righteous thoughts are sufficient. But when your righteous thoughts are lacking and you can't meet the standard, if Master were to do something, things as major as I just described would be involved. Thus, once the cultivation path of a Dafa disciple has been arranged, basically nobody can just rashly change it, and no one--good or bad--can do anything to you. Even when someone wants to give you something special and good, he isn't able to add it in. And if someone wants to give you something special that was not part of what you originally had in your cultivation, or if someone wants to go overboard persecuting you, they won't be able to. Exceptions only come about when you, yourself, do poorly." I was determined to pass this test so as not to disappoint Master.
I started studying the Fa, listening to Fa lectures, doing the Falun Gong exercises, and sending forth righteous thoughts in bed to cleanse my dimensional field. When other practitioners learned about my injuries, they helped me to understand the issue on the basis of the Fa. This helped me strengthen my righteous thoughts. I was full of confidence that I could pass the ordeal. "Cultivation depends on one's own efforts, while the transformation of gong is done by one's master." (Zhuan Falun) Master indeed took care of me because of my determination.
Every day during that period of time I felt Master help me cleanse my body and perform guanding by wrapping me in an immense energy field. I could clearly feel the continuous rotation of Falun from outside my lower abdomen all the way to the depth of my injuries. It was this warm and comforting feeling that encouraged me to stretch my arms and legs. Sure enough, they did not hurt as much. Gradually, I was able to turn my body around, to sit up, and to get out of the bed and walk. The pain disappeared. I was recovering with the passing of each day.
I knew Master was doing it all in other dimensions to restore my misaligned vertebrae and crushed bones. My nerves began to function normally. All this was not something modern medicine could ever have achieved. Only Master could do it. It was a manifestation of the miraculousness of Falun Dafa in the human world.
Soon I was able to walk and move about as usual. I was able to take care of household chores. In about 70 days, I was able to go up and down stairs. I went out to clarify the truth and persuade others to quit the Communist Party and its affiliated organizations again.
Here I want to thank Master for instilling new life in me by restoring what was otherwise impossible to restore. My cultivation path is arranged by Master. Until the final step of the final section of the Fa-rectification phase, I will walk well each step to fulfill my sacred pre-historic vows and be worthy of the great expectations and immense mercy Master has bestowed on me.
Thank you, most revered Master!
http://www.falundafa.org/book/eng/lectures/20060225L.html
September 12, 2010
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