Cultivating Diligently and Validating Dafa with Words and Actions

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Overcoming Sickness Karma: Experiencing Falun Dafa’s Miracles

When I lived in Vietnam I suffered from a mild inner ear disorder, but recovered after taking medication. I came to work in Canada in late 2019. With a heavy workload and stressful working environment, the symptoms returned, and worsened in April 2021. I frequently felt dizzy, tired, and I didn’t want to eat or drink anything. I sometimes even saw everything around me appearing upside down, and could not figure out whether I was standing or sitting. With half the dining table covered with medicines I had to take daily, my physical and mental health worsened. Given my desperate condition, I thought of committing suicide. I thought that if my illness was incurable, I would be disabled and a burden to my family.

My niece, a Dafa practitioner, talked to me about the benefits she and her family experienced from practicing Falun Dafa. She advised me to also step on the cultivation path. I ignored her suggestion since I had never held any thoughts of becoming a cultivator, and I believed that this had nothing to do with me. As my illness worsened, my niece’s friend, also a Vietnamese Falun Dafa practitioner, contacted me for a business reason, and told me that he planned to visit me. My niece said she would ask her friend to teach me the Falun Dafa exercises and help me get better. I thought qigong was a kind of physical exercise, different from Western medicine, and it would take a long time to cause a positive change in health, especially for a person who was in such a critical condition as I was. However, I finally agreed to try it since I found no possible reason to reject the offer.

I still vividly remember that lucky evening. As soon as I met that Vietnamese practitioner and his wife, who is also a Falun Dafa practitioner, I had an indescribable sense of comfort and peace of mind, and I thought I also wanted to possess the peaceful and compassionate energy they had.

They gave me the Falun Dafa book Zhuan Falun, taught me how to read it, and carefully showed me how to do the Falun Dafa exercises. That night, after they left, under the dim lights of my living room, I began to watch Master’s video tutorials while doing the exercises. I then began reading Zhuan Falun carefully. I had a feeling of happiness. I realized that I had found something very precious in Zhuan Falun. Most importantly, I had a good night’s sleep after weeks of sleepless nights. The next morning, I decided not to take any more medicine. And I started to take advantage of every minute and second to study the Fa and do the exercises between breaks at work. Also, every evening I eagerly looked forward to reading Master’s books after I returned home from work. I came to understand the cause of my disease, and the reason that people experience birth, old age, sickness, and death.

After only about a week of diligently reading Master’s books and doing the exercises, along with changing myself and improving my xinxing, I regained my health. During a long walk to the supermarket with my children, I realized how much my health had improved. While my two children complained about the long walk in the sun making them exhausted, I felt quite comfortable and relaxed the entire way.

I no longer have sleepless nights, and my appetite has returned to normal. Master has taken the sick spirit out of my body, and continuously purified my mind and body. I now understand that in order to have a disease-free body, and be able to return to my real home, I need to be diligent in my cultivation, and walk my path of cultivation where Master would always be by my side helping me.

Improving Relations with Family Members, and Helping Them Obtain the Fa

My relationship with my mother-in-law has worsened over many years. We barely spoke to each other and didn’t see eye to eye due to constant conflicts. Before I came to Canada, my mother-in-law even said to my parents, “Maybe my daughter-in-law won’t see me until I die,” which gave me a satisfying feeling of revenge.

But right after I read all of Master’s nine lectures for the first time, I immediately realized that I needed to look inward, find my flaws in the relationship with my mother-in-law, and change things. I found out that I had an angry, fighting, and jealous mind that I needed to suppress and remove to be able to live more harmoniously.

Master said,

“Of course, we go about our practice in the secular world, and so we should still be devoted and respectful to our parents and care well for our children; we should be good to others, not to mention our own families, in whatever setting we may be, and treat everyone with kindness. We should treat everyone well, which of course includes parents and children, and think of others first at all times. Your heart will not be selfish, then, but will be loving, kind, and compassionate.” (The Sixth Talk, Zhuan Falun)

I immediately called my mother-in-law in Vietnam to inquire about her health, and I also sent her some Canadian powdered milk and medicine. My mother-in-law was very happy, and said that she expects me to return home and visit her one day.

When my parents and my husband saw all the miraculous changes in my health and behavior, they began to study Falun Dafa, and soon they too began to walk on the cultivation path with me. I talk to them on the phone every week and share cultivation stories with them. Each weekend, I read Zhuan Falun with my husband so we can help each other become better cultivators.

My parents often had very serious quarrels in the past, but since they began Falun Dafa cultivation, they no longer quarrel and live a harmonious life. My husband, who used to be very hot-tempered, has simmered down, is aware of all the things he did wrong in the past, and is correcting himself.

Falun Dafa has truly changed our entire family. We are healthier, better people, and we have been walking firmly on the path of cultivation thanks to Falun Dafa.

Building Better Bonds with Colleagues and Clarifying the Truth to Ordinary People

I work at a Vietnamese company in Canada, which is believed to have many material interests. Before cultivating, I agreed with ordinary people’s notion that in a place with so many interests, there will naturally be conflicts and struggles. My boss often reprimanded the employees, and my colleagues often had conflicts with one another. The hard work was made more stressful by the atmosphere in the office where one person doubted another, and people were constantly blaming each other. This made us all tired, stressed, and often sick. My severe ear problem was also the result of this negative working environment.

As soon as I read Zhuan Falun, everything became crystal clear. I started to look at myself instead of always blaming others. One day, a colleague called to tell me that another colleague had spoken badly of me, that I didn’t do anything good and made everything into a mess. In the past, I would have been very furious, and the next day, I would have found some way to get revenge. But, as a cultivator, I had to be different.

After listening to my colleague, I just smiled and didn’t say anything. I then moved on to discuss with her another work-related topic. Not only did I feel at ease with the person who spoke badly of me, but I also immediately looked inward to see if I had any attachments that I needed to eliminate in order to be a better cultivator. It is true that I had not been careful and patient enough at work, just wanting to finish everything as quickly as I could. I figured out some attachments of mine including a fighting and jealous mind, and the mindset of wanting to get things done faster than other colleagues – all of which had to be eliminated. I know that this has been arranged to help me improve my xinxing.

Improvement in my cultivation can be found in an argument between myself and the new accountant in the office. In the past, the old accountant often publicized the revenue and expenditures of the company before paying salaries to employees. But, the new one did not. Colleagues complained about this new practice. Then one day, I carefully spoke to the chief accountant about this change. Unexpectedly, the new chief accountant was so angry that she started shouting at me, “You speak as if I did something unscrupulous for my own benefit!” I very calmly replied that I thought the previous way would be more transparent, and avoid misunderstandings among the staff. But this didn’t calm her down. I immediately decided to keep quiet and look inward. I realized that I should be more patient with her, and I needed to remove the mindset of fame and gain, and the mind of doubt when it came to others.

I continued to undergo other xinxing tests in the interactions with my boss, so I would improve. My boss is always getting angry with his employees, and therefore is unpopular. We often express our displeasure and dissatisfaction with the boss’s attitude, behavior, and instructions. We used to gather in groups to gossip about him. After reading Zhuan Falun, I realized that as a cultivator I should not gossip like ordinary people do, and it is necessary to strictly cultivate my speech. Surprisingly, when I refrain from speaking ill of the boss, I noticed that the other colleagues also gossiped less about the boss. Therefore, the atmosphere in the office has since become friendlier and peaceful.

One day, however, when my boss was out of office, I decided to give a special discount to an economically disadvantaged client without consulting the boss. When the boss returned, and learned about my decision, although there was a client waiting for me right outside, the boss shouted loudly, “Do you have a mental problem when you decide to do things without my permission?” I would normally think this was a serious offense, but I immediately remembered that I was a cultivator. So with a very calm and peaceful mind, I gently explained that for humanitarian reasons, I decided to give this new client an exceptionally favorable price, and that the boss should not be shouting with another client so close by, listening to the whole story. The boss lowered his voice even though he was still very angry and hissed, “It’s unbearable.” At that time, I felt sorry for him because he had to suffer so much for such a small profit. After it was all over, I walked out of the room still very calm, thinking that I had passed another xinxing test on the path of cultivation. However, as soon as I stepped out of the room, the waiting client looked at me with great concern and asked, “Did your boss just scold you?” I couldn’t keep my will as strong as before, and rushed to my desk, sat down in front of my computer, my eyes blurred with tears.

I remembered what Master said,

“I recall someone once telling me that he could take getting publicly humiliated as long as nobody he knew was there to see it. But that’s not good enough. You might one day get slapped in the face and disgraced right in front of those whom you would least want to see it. How you handle it would be revealing and show how composed you are. To really make the grade, you would have to not only keep your composure but also not let it get to you.” (The Ninth Talk, Zhuan Falun)

Recalling what Master said, I immediately decided not to cry, figured out that this was another more difficult test, which even if I failed I needed to recognize my attachments to fame and shame, and let go of them. These are all opportunities for me to continue to cultivate better, and rise to a higher level on my cultivation path.

I now no longer feel bored every time I step into the office. On the contrary, I think that this working environment, in fact, is very good for cultivation.

Seeing my positive transformation since practicing Falun Gong, one of my colleagues has borrowed Zhuan Falun for herself and her parents to read and do the exercises. I now also regularly clarify the truth to other colleagues, and a lot of clients who come to the office. They are all very grateful, and happy to learn that Falun Dafa is good, and Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good. Some of them have also started to practice Falun Dafa.

In conclusion, I am very delighted with all the changes I have made in my health, my xinxing, and my attitude towards life thanks to Falun Dafa. Since I have taken in the true meaning of life, I am now quite decisive about my cultivation path. I have chosen to return home, and help others to obtain the Fa and find their way home as well.

To show my great gratitude to Master, I would like to recall what a Falun Dafa practitioner once rightfully said, that if a doctor cures his terminal illness, he will be grateful his whole life. If someone teaches him the meaning of life, he will respect that person forever. If someone pulls him from the brink of destruction, he will always owe that person a debt of gratitude. And Master has done all of this.

My understanding is limited. Please point out any shortcomings.

Thank you, Master, and thank you, fellow practitioners!

(Presented at the 2022 Canada Falun Dafa Cultivation Experience Sharing Conference)