(Minghui.org) I am 80 years old. I have had only three and a half years of formal education. But I thought, I’m a Dafa disciple, with Master’s support and assistance, nothing is impossible. So, I decided to write how my daughter-in-law was instrumental in raising my xinxing about my cultivation practice.
Before I obtained Dafa, I was riddled with various diseases, and was rather weak and pessimistic. After I started Falun Dafa practice, Master purified my body and my mental state improved. I can’t thank Master enough for giving me a new life.
My daughter-in-law right from the start, had played a central role in elevating my xinxing.
I was once sitting in the living room knitting a sweater for my granddaughter while listening to the recording of Master’s lectures. Sitting next to me was my granddaughter’s nanny, my daughter-in-law’s niece.
My daughter-in-law and her sister then came home. Her sister said, “Why don’t you turn up the sound so we can all listen to it?”
I thought, “This is a good thing. It’ll do us all good listening to Master’s lectures.”So, I turned the volume up a little bit.
A Big Test for Me
My daughter-in-law however, became furious, “You want to make trouble with all this noise, don't you? Good. I’ll make more noise. See who can stand it!”
She then turned on the sound system with enormous speakers, put on a music concert DVD with screaming singing and deafening drums, which shook the glass panes in the windows and made them tremble.
I immediately realized, “Here comes a xinxing test.” So, I kept my heart calm.
Master says in Zhuan Falun:
“As a practitioner, the first thing you should be able to do is to not fight back when you are beaten or sworn at—you must be tolerant. Otherwise, what kind of practitioner will you be?”
I called out to Master in my heart, "Master, I will endure this. I know this is a test to see if I can remain calm and unmoved. My daughter-in-law is helping me convert my karma to virtue, to raise my xinxing and improve my disposition."
I sat quietly with no reaction, without moving a muscle or saying a word. Finally, her sister and niece couldn’t stand it any longer and both left the room. After ten minutes, her sister returned and turned off the sound system.
I help take care of my granddaughter and manage their household chores, but because I practice Falun Dafa, my daughter-in-law had constantly made my life difficult and had even wanted to kick me out of her house.
At that time, I had nowhere to go, so she put me up in the attic where they store miscellaneous unused items.
The attic has high ceilings and was very cold. So, I used my own money to purchase a heater. My daughter-in-law took that and replaced it with an old one.
I figured I’m a practitioner and shouldn’t pay attention to her behavior and unfair treatment. I remembered what Master teaches us about loss and gain.
Her sister and brother-in-law live and eat at her house without paying a penny. When her brother and sister-in-law pay her visits, they also stay at her house. Her parents live in another unit.
I have to take care of everything and everybody. I even had to pay her 400 yuan every month. That was back in 1997. Later, she requested 300 yuan more.
Overcoming Tribulations
When I started practicing Falun Dafa, Master cleansed my body and I went through some powerful karma elimination.
Since I lived up in the attic and my daughter-in-law would not bring me food, I had to struggle downstairs to cook some food for myself.
My daughter-in-law was afraid I would die in her house, so she forced me to go to a private clinic.
I said to the doctor, “I’m not sick. I practice Falun Dafa. Master is cleansing my body. When karma is eliminated, I’ll show signs of being sick.”
After examining me, the doctor also said, “You’re right. You’re not sick, but you’re extremely weak because you haven’t eaten enough.” So he injected fluids in me intravenously to replenish my energy. I stayed overnight at his clinic.
The next day, after I drank three big cups of hot water, I threw up and filled a basin with something cool and thick. Miraculously, although my body was still very weak, the headache that had tortured me for decades was suddenly gone.
The doctor called my daughter-in-law to pick me up, but she was unwilling. The doctor had to close up the clinic, so I borrowed from the doctor a broom handle from an old mop, used it for support, dragged myself step by step home, and climbed up twelve stories to my quarters in the attic.
One day at 4:00 a.m., I went to the practice site to do my exercises. In the dark, I stepped on a piece of melon skin. My right knee made a sharp contact with the ground. Right away, I remembered what Master has told us in Zhuan Falun:
“We have said that good or evil comes from a person’s spontaneous thought, and the thought at that moment can bring about different consequences.”
I said to myself, “I’m a Dafa disciple. I’m all right.”
I got up and continued on. I had to cross a bridge with several hundred steps in order to get to the exercise site. The pain in my knee joint was getting unbearable. I could feel my knee getting swollen. I could barely move. I knew it was the evil forces trying to interfere and block me from doing group exercises.
I joined my palms in front of my chest to plead with Master, “Master, I will go to the practice site to do my exercises even if I have to get there on my hands and knees. Master, please help me.”
Master’s help was clearly manifested. I felt my knee joint getting warm. I then had the sensation of something rotating in there. It lasted for about ten minutes. I began to feel the swelling subsiding and my knee was not so painful.
“Thank you, Master!” My heart said over and over.
I went home after the exercises. When I finally reached the attic after painfully climbing up 12 flights of stairs, my daughter-in-law wanted me to go out again to the market close by to buy 10 lbs of pig’s feet.
I asked if she could send her niece instead, she said, “No, You have to go. You can do a better job. I also want you to bring back some cabbage and other vegetables.”
Then, my granddaughter insisted to go along with me. She asked me to carry her as soon as we stepped out the door.
I was completely loaded up on the return trip. On my neck, I had hung a bag of cabbage. On my back, I was piggybacking my granddaughter. In both my hands, I was carrying the ten lbs of pig’s feet and other vegetables.
I knew those were tribulations and hardships I had to endure and old debts I had to pay, so I trodded on without complaint.
Practicing Tolerance
In the summer of 2007, my granddaughter wanted to go on a trip to Hainan Island in South China. She insisted on my going with her. My daughter-in-law wanted me to take her mother along.
Her mother suffered pain in her hands and both legs. She walked very slowly. She was also deaf and couldn’t see so well.
I was put in charge of two infirm people, one young and clingy, the other old and feeble. I wasn’t too pleased with the arrangement but remembered Dafa’s teachings and I calmed down.
But, I remembered Master’s words in Zhuan Falun:
“Accordingly, in your future cultivation practice you will run into all kinds of tribulations. How can you practice cultivation without these hardships? If everyone is good to one another without conflicts of interests or interference from the human mind, how can your xinxing make progress by your only sitting there? That is impossible. One must truly temper and upgrade oneself through actual practice.”
Master says further:
“Why do you encounter these problems? They are all caused by your own karma. We have already eliminated for you many, numerous pieces of it, leaving only that tiny bit which is divided into tribulations at different levels for upgrading your xinxing, tempering your mind, and removing your different attachments. These are all your own tribulations that we use to improve your xinxing, and you will be able to overcome them. As long as you upgrade your xinxing, you can overcome them. Unless you, yourself do not want to do so, you can make it, provided you want to overcome them. Therefore, from now on when you come across a conflict you should not consider it a coincidence. This is because when a conflict occurs, it will take place unexpectedly. But that is not a coincidence—it is for improving your xinxing. As long as you treat yourself as a practitioner, you can handle it properly.”
On the 10-day trip, whether getting on board the boat or disembarking, going both up and down the plank or walking across the sand, I would be carrying my granddaughter and helping my daughter-in-law’s mother.
On the trip, whenever I had time, I would talk to them about Falun Dafa and teach them to say “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.”
Upon returning home, my granddaughter rushed to her mother and blurted, "If it were not for my paternal grandmother, my maternal grandmother wouldn’t have even eaten a good meal.” My daughter-in-law’s mother also related how very well I had taken care of her. I could tell my daughter-in-law was quite touched.
What I Saw When Sending Righteous Thoughts
For four days between July 22 and July 25, 2007, torrential rain continued to pour down nonstop in our region. The first day, around 4 p.m., when I was in a trance while sending righteous thought, I saw the hillside flooding with rising waves of ferocious water, each crashing against the other. Various life forms were desperately struggling in the water and calling out for help.
A very long and sizable board appeared in the thrashing water. Many people were washed up onto the board. My son and granddaughter were on one side of the board, but my daughter-in-law was struggling in the water. My son reached out a hand for her, but she was knocked out of reach by a wave. Father and daughter could just cry but were helpless to save her.
Dafa disciples were all in the air, each sitting on a white lotus flower. I saw my daughter-in-law in her desperate state and felt pity for her. I wanted to save her.
I called out to her to tell her to shout out loud, “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good,” but because the sound of the crashing waves was too strong, she couldn’t even hear me.
Suddenly, I stretched out my right index and middle fingers (an action I had never done before) and pointed at her right ear. My two fingers emitted a strong blue light, straight into her ear. She immediately shouted “Falun Dafa is good! Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is Good!”
Before the last word “good" finished being formed in her mouth, the water god had already scooped her up and placed her between my son and my granddaughter.
The very next words that came out of her mouth was something I had never heard before, “Mother, I did you wrong!”
Sitting high up in the air on my lotus flower, I let out a sigh. "Hurry and give thanks to our Lord Buddha for saving you!" People on the board chanted together “Thank you, Lord Buddha, for saving us!” The water didn’t recede, but it stopped rising.
All of a sudden, I had an urge to look for Master. I looked up toward the sky. At a far distance, I saw Master at a high altitude with an expression of great compassion. All the Dafa disciples all looked young and beautiful.
I related what I saw to my son and my daughter-in-law. My daughter-in-law’s eyes were brimming with tears.
As soon as I mentioned about renouncing the evil Party, they both did right then and there, and also withdrew from all its affiliated organizations.
Since then, my daughter-in-law began to practice Falun Dafa. She also introduced Dafa to her sister-in-law who requested a copy of Zhuan Falun and an exercise instruction DVD to send to her brother living in her family home.
My daughter-in-law’s mother also started to practice Falun Gong. Now, the pain in her hands and legs are gone, and she can even do some housework. Her appetite increased, and she hasn’t taken any medication for a few years.
All these years, I went through trials and tribulations with my daughter-in-law and our family members, from their misunderstanding of Dafa to practicing Dafa to introducing others to Dafa. All has been the process of enlightenment Master used to improve my xinxing.
I realize that, in order to accomplish our mission as genuine Dafa disciples, coming to this world to help save sentient beings, we must first study the Fa well and truly cultivate ourselves.
