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My mother started to practice Falun Gong before I was born, and since childhood I have been a little disciple. Once I had a high fever. My grandparents were scared and did not know what to do although they were practitioners. They thought I was a child and therefore still needed medicine, so they tried to give me herbal medicine. But I cried and refused to take it. Four of them struggled to give it to me, but they failed. Some of the medicine was spilled, some I spat out. Finally, they realized that I was a little disciple and they should not force me to take medicine. They decided to stop giving me medicine. At that moment, my fever was gone. Since that time, I have never taken any medicine or gotten an injection.
A few times during middle school, I experienced karma elimination in the morning. I asked Master to give me energy and to eliminate any interference that prevented me from going to school. If the sickness karma came at other times, it did not affect my school. But on school days, I treated it as interference and refused to accept it. So the symptoms always went away after I got to school.
When I was in primary school, once during a flag-raising ceremony, I realized it was the evil communist flag and that following the ceremony was poisoning the students' minds. I sent forth the righteous thought towards the tape recorder: “Stop playing the music.” It indeed stopped. During another ceremony on a windy day, I sent forth righteous thoughts and told the wind to help: “Make the wind stronger, stop the evil Party from brainwashing my classmates.” The wind indeed got stronger, and the flag wrapped around the pole so tightly that the person could not raise the flag any further.
I joined my parents to distribute flyers and pamphlets at night to clarify the truth. At first, I was nervous. One windy night when I was inserting a flyer into a resident’s door, I heard the door open. Very scared, I dropped the flyer and ran like a rabbit. My parents ran after me. They said there was no one behind us, and they pointed out my fear. I knew it was just a gust of wind. But still the thought of, “what if someone stepped out?” moved me. I had no righteous thought at that moment.
Master said: “If you are not afraid, the factor that would make you afraid will cease to exist.” (“Eliminate Your Last Attachment(s)” in Essentials for Further Advancement II) After I relinquished my fear, things become easier.
One day when I was dropping off a flyer at another house, a dog suddenly began to bark, and then other dogs joined in. I was caught off guard. But I began to send forth righteous thoughts, and the dogs quieted down. From that day on, I always sent forth righteous thoughts before I distributed flyers. Afterwards, I hardly experienced any noisy dogs.
I later learned to use a cell phone to clarify the truth. Other practitioners with little computer skills came to me to learn how to hide their identity. Sometimes I got impatient because they learned so slowly.
I identified that my impatience was disrespecting fellow practitioners. My ability came from Master, so it's my responsibility to teach them the techniques they need. Master told us:
“Some are more capable when it comes to one thing, others with another--you definitely shouldn't let your thoughts run wild based on that. You say that you have such great abilities and so on and so forth, but that was all bestowed upon you by the Fa! Actually, it wouldn't work if you failed to attain that level of abilities. Fa-rectification required your wisdom to reach that point, so you definitely shouldn't think that you're so capable. Some practitioners want me to check out their abilities and skills. But actually, what I think is, all of that was given by me, so there's no need to look.” (“Explaining the Fa During the 2003 Lantern Festival at the U.S. West Fa Conference”)
I still need a lot of work to meet the standard required by Master. I promise to double my efforts to do the three things until completing my cultivation.