(Minghui.org) I am a veteran Falun Dafa practitioner who started cultivating in August 1995. Shortly after I began practicing, I moved to a new community and kept cultivating on my own. When the persecution of Falun Dafa began, I stayed at home in order to protect myself and didn't tell anyone I was a practitioner.
It was not until 2004 that I finally met fellow practitioners in my neighborhood. I always felt too ashamed to write an article about my cultivation experiences. After I read an article entitled “Some Thoughts Regarding the Call for May 13 Papers,” I realized my mistake and decided to report my experiences to Master and other fellow practitioners, and thus validate the Fa.
Attaining the Fa
In August 1995 I received a phone call from my chemist inviting me to attend a nine-day lecture class. While my daughter and I were watching the lecture videos, Master purified our bodies. Her nose did not stop dripping and I fell sleep because my brain was being worked on. As Master said,
“A few individuals may fall asleep and wake up as soon as I finish my lecture. Why is that? It is because their brains have illnesses that need to be treated. One will be unable to stand it if one’s brain is worked on. Therefore, one must be put into a state of anesthesia or become unconscious. Nevertheless, some people do not have a problem hearing me. Though they may sleep soundly, they hear everything without missing a single word.” (Lecture Two in Zhuan Falun)
After we completed the nine-day seminar, I decided to firmly cultivate in Dafa.
Overcoming Sickness Karma
I had quite a few experiences while overcoming karma. Once, my husband sat down on the same spot on the couch after I got up. He jumped up and said, “Ah! You must have a high fever! It is so hot here.” I calmly kept cleaning the table and said, “Master is purifying my body.”
In 1983, a lump formed on my neck but I did not have surgery. Twenty years later, the lump started growing slowly up my neck and cheek, and my lymph nodes became engorged and painful. As a practitioner, I did not take it seriously, however, on September 30, 2004, I had a high fever, and I had pain everywhere. The lump became purple and looked like a small egg dangling at the side of my neck. I believed in Master and the Fa. Master said,
“When disciples have ample righteous thoughts Master has the power to turn back the tide” (“The Master-Disciple Bond” in Hong Yin Vol. II)
Every day, I still studied the Fa and did the exercises. I did not know about sending forth righteous thoughts back then. Three days later, the pain disappeared suddenly and I felt at ease and pleasant as if a heavy burden had been taken from me. However, my foot arches and palms were tender, and my back and abdomen became too warm.
Before I began practicing, I always applied a medicinal ointment over those parts. I burst into tears and knelt excitedly in front of Master's picture. I shared this amazing story with fellow practitioners and some everyday people. The lump soon disappeared. As witnesses, many friends and relatives knew the Fa was supernormal and powerful.
Helping a Fellow Practitioner Overcome Illness Karma
Last spring, practitioner A suffered from illness karma. I felt bad because I was kind of involved in causing it. One day in June 2010, I came to her home but only her husband was there. He complained about practitioner A spending too much time on clarifying the truth and studying the Fa. He decided to move to his son’s place for a few days.
I felt sorry for him and advised practitioner A to study the Fa at home instead of coming to my home. She seemed mad at me afterwards and avoided me. I tried to have a talk with her several times, but she did not give me a chance.
She was now in trouble, and I wondered how I could help her. At first I apologized to her, “I have become anxious and regretful since I know you are in a big tribulation. I should not have discouraged you from attending the group study at my home. I should not give up any chance to share our views.” Within eight days, we listened to all the Fa lectures three times together.
Her situation seemed to become better, but she did not change her human notions completely and was still concerned about the “disease.” She had no appetite and was in pain. On July 20, she was hospitalized and stayed there for eleven days. After she came home, I went to her place to study the Fa, read some sharing articles together, and encourage her to look inwards. One day, I said, “Forgive me, please.” She answered, “I am totally fine now, and there is no need to bring it up anymore.”
As Master said,
“When you come across troubles, look at yourself and think, ‘Why are things happening like this? Have I done something wrong? Is there a problem with my intention? Or is it because of something else?’ That is, you should evaluate yourself with a cultivator’s standard at all times.” (Teaching the Fa at the Conference in Switzerland)
However, she was still mad at me. As a practitioner I looked within. I must still be hanging onto something that is not right. Since she was too weak to do her chores, I decided to do some housework for her and wash her dirty sheets. Her husband was touched and said, “I do not know how to thank you!” I answered with a smile, “Please thank our Master. Our Master teaches us to be considerate of others. Actually we are far away from his expectations.” Her husband praised practitioners and no longer resented me.
One afternoon, I realized that I should further talk to her family members about Falun Dafa. Her husband changed his attitude from rejection to acceptance. Her daughter-in-law picked up the Falun Dafa symbol she got from another practitioner and put it in her pocket carefully. She used to put the amulet in a shoe cabinet. She said, “I should keep it with care.” Later, practitioner A accepted my advice and asked her son, daughter in law and granddaughter to read the book of Master's poems (Hong Yin) to her. Her son said, “These poems are well written!”
Resolving Conflicts with My Brother-in-law
My father-in-law passed away in 2001 and my brother-in-law took his father’s medical reimbursement of about 7000 yuan, and put it into his bank account without my mother-in-law’s permission. My mother-in-law was unhappy about it. My husband advised his brother to return the money. His brother was angry at us and started to take revenge.
My mother-in-law was diagnosed with hepatitis in the summer of 2004. After we sent her to a hospital, my other brothers-in-law immediately left. It was hot and we were the only ones who stayed and looked after her. She tearfully said, “I never helped you even a little when you gave birth to your kids. Today you take good care of me! I'm ashamed.” Our deeds touched the oldest brother and he asked a younger brother-in-law to take over the duties of looking after my mother-in-law.
I brought 12,000 yuan to my mother-in-law in the spring of 2007 to repair her house. The house actually belonged to us. It was an old house and needed some repair. I planned to leave the money with the oldest brother-in-law and let him take care of the project, but my mother-in-law asked me to stay and supervise the project. This made my oldest brother-in-law unhappy and he always tried to play for time in order to make some money out of it. The project was halted in the middle of it. At first, I was told we needed to wait for the concrete to harden. Then I was told the contractor was busy on some other project.
The contractor came to my home 20 days later and asked anxiously, “What is going on? Please do not delay and let us finish the project.” I said, “We are anxious too! But we do not know what happened.” The project then resumed, and I did not know why my brother-in-law did what he did. My mother-in-law explained that he tried to wait for me to leave so he could take over and make more money out of it.
The day the project resumed, my brother-in-law did play a trick again and all the workers were at a loss what to do. My mother-in-law said in tears, “Why do I have such a son?” Then I almost failed to maintain my xinxing. I nearly said, “I am the owner of this house. Please follow my instruction! Nobody should meddle in my affairs.” I realized that I could not say that as a practitioner. I should look inside and consider others. As a peasant, my brother-in-law had a tough life. I should give him more financial help.
All our family except two sons-in-law understood the truth and withdrew from the CCP and its affiliated organizations. My oldest sister-in-law helped me to give out materials and she benefited from what she did for the Fa. She recovered from an operation on her head due to a car incident. My mother-in-law started to read the Fa in 2005 and she always said, “What this book, Zhuan Falun , is talking about is so righteous. The more I read, the more I cannot put it down.”
In addition, I wrote letters to clarify the truth to officials, including a court president, county Party secretary, director of a brainwashing center and others. I clarified the truth to my coworkers and students and encouraged them to withdraw from the CCP and its affiliated organizations. In my home, I set up a materials production site and prepared the materials myself.
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