(Minghui.org) I began practicing Falun Dafa in 1996. This article is to share about the most valuable things that I gained through Dafa cultivation: A healthy body and a harmonious family.
Rebirth after Practicing Dafa
My intention to practice Falun Dafa was very simple. I just wanted to be healthy. Later on, after studying the Fa deeper, I felt very fortunate to be able to practice Dafa. What a great predestined opportunity!
After I gave birth to my child when I was 28, I had many diseases such as tuberculosis, hepatitis, ovarian cyst and so on. I spent most days of the year in hospital. I even “celebrated” one Mid-Autumn Festival Day (a traditional Chinese festival) while in the hospital. I took medicine every day and had injections. I needed to have acupuncture once in a while. I used almost all Western medical treatment methods. Those days were very tough for me. Doctors said that my pulse was weaker than those of women in their 60s or 70s. The pain in my back and lower extremities was especially severe after giving birth to my child. It took me more than 20 minutes to go to work from home, which takes only 10 minutes for others to walk. When climbing stairs, I had to hold the rail and lean on it heavily to support myself. I admired people who could walk normally, which was like a luxury to me. When I passed by the market after work, people there said that I probably wouldn't live long.
Later, I heard that qigong can treat illness. Then I tried several qigong practices for luck. At the time I thought that the more practices I learned, the better. I attended every single qigong class that I could. I could not tell which ones were good, nor which were bad. So I didn’t know whether those qigong practices attributed to more illnesses. In fact, none of them could cure me. On the 15th day of the Chinese New Year of 1996, my sister-in-law came to my home and told me that there was a qigong which was very good and which teaches “Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance.” She asked me to check it out. I didn’t know what “Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance” meant and she did not know how to explain it to me clearly.
I went to a Falun Dafa practitioner's house and watched a video of Master Li teaching a Fa lecture in Changchun. I thought it was very good. The next day, another friend told me that there was another qigong which could treat my disease and asked me to attend the lecture. I don’t know why I rejected her. Later, I realized that it was interference trying to divert me from practicing the upright Fa. How difficult it is to obtain an upright Fa!
When I brought Zhuan Falun home, I was busy because I had to take care of my elderly parents and a young child who was in junior high school. Besides, I had to work and my husband was working in another city. I had to do all the household chores myself. Therefore, I did not practice diligently. I did not attend the group Fa study nor the exercise practice. So I didn’t learn much, nor did I pay much attention to it. I only read the books and practiced the exercises when my sister-in-law urged me to. However, our great merciful Master still helped purify my body even though I was not diligent. Since then, I no longer needed to visit the hospital, see doctors, take medicine, or receive injections. People who knew me were surprised at my change: “How could you be alive?” My colleagues at work said that I had benefited from practicing Falun Gong. I give thanks to Master for giving me a second chance at life. I can’t express my gratitude in words.
My Family Became Harmonious
Let me talk a little about my family. My husband was working away from home for about 20 years, and I felt that he had done something that he shouldn’t have. One day in 2003, I had a dream about my husband being hidden. It was Master revealing to me that my husband was in trouble. So I went to his workplace. He was suffering from the entanglement of being with another woman. I talked to him from the principles of the Fa. He seemed to get over it and went back to work. I was satisfied and thought that the problem was solved.
However, two years later, to my surprise, he got in contact with that woman again. They chatted online and were on the phone every day. At first, they called when I was not around. Later, they made phone calls in front of me. My husband even went to visit her once in a while. My husband had a bad temper and would make trouble out of nothing. He lost his temper when the food I cooked was too salty or not salty enough, or the amount of the rice was too much or not enough.
Before I practiced Falun Gong, I just put up with him. Although this lessened our quarrels, it could not solve our problems. Then after the affair, I could not tolerate it any more. I felt it was unfair. While he was working in another city for the past 20 years, it was I who took care of the whole family, took care of the parents, educated our child and worked at the same time. I was doing everything and I had to bear his bad temper. I had already forgiven him once about the affair. However, he did not even attempt to repent his wrongdoing. I could not let go of my love nor my grudge. The old forces saw this and took advantage of it. I no longer lived like a practitioner. I began to fight with my husband and threatened to divorce him. I thought that I was right. I thought that it was him who made all the mistakes. I never looked inside myself, nor thought that I had to overcome these difficulties to cultivate myself. I totally forgot the Fa taught by Master.
I lived my life this way for another few years. Only until 2009 did I finally let go my human attachment and look inside myself. I then found that the relationship between my husband and I had become so strained that it was all my fault. I didn’t let go of my emotion and grudge against him. I dealt with the conflicts in an everyday people’s way. I was bogged down deeper and deeper. I could not arrange my life well. I shared about my situation with other practitioners in the study group and I learned how to look inside myself. Master said in Zhuan Falun:
“Cultivation practice must take place through tribulations so as to test whether you can part with and care less about different kinds of human sentimentality and desires. If you are attached to these things, you will not succeed in cultivation. Everything has its karmic relationship.”
From then on, I judged myself according to the Fa and I corrected my behavior. I improved myself with the standard of the Fa and let go of all the thoughts and behavior of everyday people. I never regarded my husband as my spouse but rather as a sentient being. I must treat him with kindness and mercy. After I changed, the relationship between us both changed as well. My husband corrected his behavior. Eventually, my family became harmonious again.
Thanks to Dafa for saving my life and my family. Without Dafa, I can’t imagine what my life would be like.
I firmly believe in Master and Dafa, and will cultivate to the end.
Category: Improving Oneself
