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Telling people about Dafa
Among the patients are some who are anxious to hear about Falun Gong. So as long as they are willing to learn, no one is left out.
-A young woman
A young woman in her 30s had severe stomach ailments and heart disease.
The pain was so bad that she could not go to work or take care of her child, who had to be left with her mother-in-law. Her family relationships were strained. The pain sometimes made her feel she just wanted to die.
As I was treating her, I told her about my own experience. I said, “I used to suffer diseases even worse than yours for half of my life. Falun Dafa saved me. My diseases disappeared completely five days after I started reading the Falun Dafa books.”
“Is it that miraculous?” she asked. “What kind of book is it? I want to learn it.” I told her the book was Zhuan Falun, an extremely valuable book. I told her that if she wanted to learn it, she ought to read it from the beginning to the end. She agreed and took a book home.
A year has passed. She has been studying the Fa and practices the exercises regularly. Her health has fully recovered and she is back at work. Her family is now a happy one.
-A middle-aged man
A middle-aged man from out of the province with a severe stomach ailment came to my clinic.
After I consulted and took his pulse, I started to talk to him about Falun Gong, since there were not many patients at the time. I told him that people got sick due to their karma, that medicine could treat an illness but not cure it completely.
"Falun Dafa is the Buddha Fa that can purify bodies of true cultivators. Cultivators must adhere to the fundamental principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, truly cultivate themselves, and be good people. Falun Dafa is now practiced in over a hundred countries, benefiting peoples all over the world."
He was very interested and asked a lot of questions. I told him that he had a choice: I could treat him medically or he could take Zhuan Falun home and start cultivation. He chose the latter. So I give him Zhuan Falun , the Great Consummation Way of Falun Dafa , exercise teaching DVDs, and other Dafa materials. A year later, his wife came to my clinic and told me that he has been studying the Fa and doing the exercises every day and he has been enjoying good health.
-Two couples
Two couples “obtained the Fa” together. Mr. A, in his 50s, was a Tai Chi instructor. His wife suffered a rare disease called achalasia (a condition in which the muscles of the lower part of the esophagus fail to relax, preventing food from passing into the stomach) .
Mr. A often accompanied his wife to treatments at my clinic. One day, they brought Mr. and Mrs. B, in their 70s, who wanted to be seen, too.
The two couples turned out to be related. Mr. and Mrs. B both had suffered multiple illnesses in recent years.
Since I was free at the time and they were introduced by a friend, after a preliminary diagnosis, I started talking to them about the decline in morality leading to all kinds of diseases and disasters, and how the evil communist regime does not allow people to be good, that it even persecutes practitioners who strive to be good.
They all agreed. Mr. B also mentioned that they had been to the United States in 1997 to visit their family and had the honor of attending the Fa teaching by Master Li Hongzhi in San Francisco on April 6 of that year.
They were deeply moved by the teaching and decided to start practicing. They joined the group practice and Fa study with local practitioners. After they returned home, they continued to practice, but after the persecution began in 1999, they gave it up out of fear.
In the past over ten years since they stopped practicing, Mr. B had had hypertension, high blood sugar, and heart disease. His wife had hypertension and heart disease. Their health got worse by the day.
I told them that I had also begun practicing Falun Dafa in 1997, and it saved my life. I realized that the Dafa is not ordinary, that it is the highest law of the cosmos.
How many people can realize that? How many people can obtain it? What we have been awaiting for billions of years could slip by. However, the cosmic renewal and Fa rectifying the human world are already in sight.
As a Dafa disciple, I am so lucky. The title of Dafa disciple is so precious and glorious!
I urged them not to miss the opportunity that occurs once in an eternity and to resume their Fa study and practice. I encouraged them to cultivate themselves according Dafa disciples' standards, do well the three things. As long as they truly cultivated, Master would take care of them and adjust them bodies. I told them Master was looking forward to their return to cultivation.
Mr. and Ms. B said they were full of regret for having given up the practice.
Mr. and Mr. A also could see the benefits of the teachings. They were all excited and decided to practice Dafa together. They took home many Falun Gong books and materials. The four of them started studying the Fa and practicing the exercises together. Later, they started to distribute Shen Yun DVDs and talking to people about Falun Gong. In two years, their health had been restored, both physically and mentally.
Under the influence of Mr. and Mrs. A, their daughter studying abroad in the US attended the "Fa Teaching at the 2013 Greater New York Fa Conference" and has since become a practitioner herself. Mr. and Mrs. B have also helped their younger brother and sister-in-law to start cultivation.
Cherish the cultivation environment and advance diligently
Master said,
“And actually, when you manage to, while in the various professions, do well all the things that you ought to do, you are then in fact cultivating.” ("Fa Teaching at the 2007 New York Fa Conference")
My small clinic is my cultivation environment. We know we must cultivate ourselves well in order to save sentient beings. We stick to our schedule of getting up at 3:50 every morning to do the exercises.
Every night, my wife; our daughter, who just came back from overseas study; and I study the Fa together. Every Sunday the clinic is closed and we spend the whole day studying the Fa with our group and share experience with each other. We have deeply felt the importance of cultivating xinxing. We will encounter xinxing issues every day. It is up to us whether to cultivate and how to cultivate.
-Embarrassed in front of my patients
Having a clinic raises a lot of issues related to fame, personal interest, and qing. All kinds of people come to my clinic.
One day an old couple came in. The woman said she had high cholesterol, swollen legs, an upset stomach, and dizziness. I used acupuncture, cupping (a therapy in which heated glass cups are applied to the skin along the meridians of the body, creating suction as a way of stimulating the flow of energy), and medicine and treated her for 40 days.
After that she felt healed and all parameters were normal during a hospital examination. One day the couple returned and claimed the woman had a boil on her buttocks and that I had delayed the treatment. They shouted in front of other patients and demanded compensation for mental damages. All the onlookers faulted them for being vexatious.
I thought, Master taught me that anything I encounter in my life is not accidental and might be intended to get rid of some of my attachments. But at the same, we charged very low prices for our services and we often would not charge anything for those who were struggling or were receptive to Falun Gong.
This couple made me very upset. Master said, “When it’s difficult to endure, you can endure it. When it’s impossible to do, you can do it.” and “......when you take a step back in a conflict, you will find the seas and the skies boundless......” (Zhuan Falun) We are cultivators and won't fight back over anything. I told my wife to refund them their money.
-Attachment to fame
I looked inward and found that, because I had received so many compliments, I had developed the attachment to fame and disliked any unfriendly words. Sometimes just a single word from my wife could trigger my attachment. I had to get rid of it because it was not me.
-Importance of Fa study
As more and more patients came to my clinic with all kinds of illnesses, I had to work from morning until night, with no time to even get a drink of water or use the toilet. I would dread the idea of going to work every morning. In that period of time, it seemed like it was all too much for me to bear.
After discussions with fellow practitioners, I realized that I had set aside too little time to study the Fa and my capacity to endure was being affected. So many sentient beings were still awaiting to be saved, and Dafa disciples are their only hope. Isn't that what Master taught us? My body is a cultivated body and there should be nothing it cannot endure. It is so important to study the Fa, cultivate myself, and keep up righteous thoughts all the time. The attachment to comfort will emerge if we slack off.
-Persevere
My patients are mostly very respectful to me, but their families are usually alert and watchful, and some even are picky. When I tried to talk about Falun Gong to the patients and did not handle the situation well, my attachment to fighting would get in the way. Although I did not argue, I sounded unfriendly and the results were not good.
Sometimes people with ill intentions made false accusations and I have blundered in those situations. After I realized it was my problem that caused people to be not saved, I was saddened and full of regret. I knew it was the evil that did not want me to save people and took advantage of my loopholes to destroy those sentient beings.
But I got up when I fell, dusted myself off, got rid of my shortcomings, redoubled my efforts to cultivate myself well, and continued to save sentient beings.
-Small clinic, big stage
We estimate that tens of thousands of people have come to this small clinic and learned the truth of Falun Gong and agreed to quit CCP and its organizations over the past ten years, although we have not kept an accurate count. We know it is Master that is doing it behind the scenes. Master has arranged everything, endured a lot for us, and laid out our paths for us. What we need to do is cultivate ourselves well and keep up our righteous thoughts.
My small clinic is a big stage, because Dafa disciples are playing the leading role. There is immense meaning to this stage. We must play our roles well.
Every practitioner in our Fa study group has their own path to walk. They all have their projects in Fa rectification process. They all strive to do their best and help each other to advance together. This article was made possible with help from the practitioners in my group.
It is my hope that all practitioners will seize the limited remaining time, truly cultivate and advance diligently, save sentient beings quickly, play well our roles in our Dafa projects, and succeed in our grand mission and our prehistoric vows.
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