(Minghui.org) Reflecting upon my cultivation path in the past few years, I deeply feel Master's compassionate protection and the significant responsibility we bear in saving people. I feel that practitioners like me, who obtained the Fa late, should do well the three things required by Master.
I would like to share some of my cultivation experiences since 2006.
My Entire Family Benefits
I read the book Zhuan Falun in 1998 when my husband started practicing. However, due to my poor enlightenment quality and my attachments to fame, personal gain and human emotions, I ignored the opportunity.
I battled along in our corrupt society and my health went from bad to worse, with more illnesses and pain. I was also running a business which kept losing money, and I felt really depressed.
My son was about to begin high school at that time and I was really worried. My husband calmly said, “Don't worry. Master will take care of us.” I thought he was just talking nonsense and didn't take it seriously at all.
I once got a phone call from my son's teacher, saying that he had been accepted by a key school. I was so excited that I truly believed what Master said, “Haven’t I said that with one person practicing, the whole family benefits?” ( “Teaching the Fa at the Fa Conference in Australia”)
My son and I also started practicing Falun Dafa on that date of May 28, 2008.
Steadfastly Believe in Master and the Fa, and Cultivate with Determination
Master started to purify my body the third day after I started practicing. I passed a lot of discharge like bloody pus. My chronic illnesses, such as shoulder joint degeneration, all disappeared. I truly felt the wonderful experience of cultivation, and my entire being was immersed in Master's boundless compassion and grace.
Seven months into my Fa study and cultivation, the old forces started to interfere with me by creating all kinds of tribulations. My husband was illegally sentenced to one and a half years of forced labor after he was reported while clarifying the facts. The news hit me like a thunderbolt.
When I calmed down, I remembered Master's poem, “Dafa disciples, away with your tears The devil, Satan, has utterly collapsed Clarify the facts, send righteous thoughts, Expose the lies, clean out the rotten demons” (“Be Clearheaded” in Hong Yin Vol. II)
I knew that Master was dropping me a hint to encourage me to have faith in Master and the Fa, and to strengthen my righteous thoughts, and I felt much better.
Fellow practitioners came to share with me on the Fa and sent righteous thoughts to support my husband. One of them often came to my house to study the Fa with me and share understandings from the perspective of the Fa principles. Gradually I understood that human emotion was unreliable and it was an attachment that I must let go of as a cultivator.
Thanks to Master's protection and my husband's righteous thoughts and righteous actions at the labor camp, as well as support from fellow practitioners, my husband was released ahead of time.
Not long after my husband came back home, I showed symptoms of serious sickness karma. First, I developed red pimples all over my body and they looked very scary. I knew it was elimination of karma, and my heart was not moved at all. The pimples disappeared a week later.
Just as I passed this test, more serious symptoms appeared. A layer of yellow blisters developed around my private parts. I didn't pay much attention at the beginning, thinking it was no more than the elimination of karma. Later, the blisters broke, and started oozing blood and pus with a very offensive smell. They were also very painful.
Through Fa study, I realized that the old forces must have taken advantage of my loopholes and were trying to persecute me. I strengthened my righteous thoughts and tried to come to a compassionate solution with the evil beings in other dimensions that were persecuting my flesh body. I studied the Fa every day and never treated the problem as illness. Towards the end of the second month, I completely recovered.
I truly experienced Master's protection through these tribulations and once again witnessed the extraordinary power of Dafa.
Looking Inward to Elevate My Level
Once at group Fa study, when I saw a female practitioner sitting next to a male practitioner, I felt very uncomfortable. After I got home, I started looking inward and found it was because of jealousy. When I dug more deeply I found a hidden attachment of lust, and that I had developed inappropriate feelings towards the male practitioner without realizing it.
For a few days, I constantly sent righteous thoughts for long periods of time, eliminating all lust beings and degenerate matter in my dimensions. I found that the fundamental cause of my attachment to lust was that I didn't study the Fa calmly with my heart and it had become a formality.
I strengthened my main consciousness and eliminated thought karma, and at the same time I asked Master to strengthen me. Gradually, this kind of lust matter became weaker and weaker. It took me a whole week to clear it out completely with the help of Master.
Having eliminated the attachment of lust, I became more and more calm when studying the Fa, and the Fa principles are also constantly manifesting in front of me.
The above is only my personal understanding. Please kindly point out anything improper.
