Cultivating and Improving Myself While Helping Fellow Practitioners

(Minghui.org) Before I started to practice Falun Dafa, I suffered from many different ailments. I could hardly open my eyes and had pain in many joints. I had no strength to walk. After stepping into Falun Dafa cultivation, I recovered from all my many illnesses. During the process, I experienced several rounds of sickness karma elimination, and Master Li, the founder of Falun Dafa, helped me eliminate a lot of karma. 

In this article, I won’t talk about myself, but about how I helped some former practitioners return to cultivation and pass their illness karma elimination tests.

Because I’m illiterate, fellow practitioners transcribed this article for me.

Helping Former Practitioners Return to Cultivation

Mei (alias) and I used to study the Fa in the same Fa-study group, and she did the three things well. In 2015, along with other practitioners, she filed a complaint with the Supreme Procuratorate and the Supreme Court because of Jiang Zemin’s persecution of Falun Gong (also called Falun Dafa). For that reason, the police visited Falun Gong practitioners door to door to ask if they had sued Jiang Zemin. When Mei was asked, she gave an affirmative answer and signed the document that the police asked her to.

Mei’s husband went to ask other practitioners and was told that they didn’t sign the document. Her husband got very angry about it and beat Mei with a big stick. She ran to her closest neighbor who was also a practitioner. Her husband chased her to the neighbor’s house and beat her until the stick broke.

After that incident, I didn’t see Mei for several years. One day I was selling flowers on the street while clarifying the truth about Dafa, when I heard someone call me. I turned around and saw that it was Mei. I asked her if she still practiced Falun Gong. She said that her family didn’t allow her to practice, and they did not even allow her to visit other practitioners, so she gave up the practice. She was busy with her work during the day and sometimes at night she would go to group dances and play mahjong.

I was surprised to hear this. I said, “You learned Dafa, and you know how good Dafa is. How can you live up to Master’s expectation if you give it up? Do you remember that time you didn’t know many words, and you couldn’t read the Fa? You put the book up to your face, and cried? But you could read the words after crying. Wasn’t this something that Master gave you? We can’t be ungrateful!” She said, “I’m sorry, I let Master down.” She hugged me and we both cried. After crying, she said, “I still want to study the Fa!” In this way, Mei came back into Dafa cultivation practice. She usually studies at home by herself and goes to group Fa study once a week.

I went to a village ten kilometers from my home to clarify the truth one day. When I distributed the truth-clarification materials to an elderly woman, she said, “I used to study Dafa too. Now I don’t.” I stopped for a while and stood there chatting with her. I told her that the Fa-rectification situation was developing rapidly, and asked her if she still read any truth-clarification materials and the Minghui Weekly. She said that she still read the Minghui Weekly, which she had held onto for more than ten years. I told her that she should return to cultivation, and I could help her to get the recent Minghui Weekly magazines and other truth-clarification materials. We made an appointment for the time and place to meet in the future.

I told another practitioner about the encounter. We agreed that we could give her the Minghui Weekly after other practitioners finished reading it. We could also bring her the truth-clarification materials. 

A few days later, I went to the village again to clarify the truth, and saw that the former practitioner’s back was bent and her left calf was shriveled. I said, “You need to attend the group Fa study and do the exercises!” She went to the local group Fa study and started practicing the exerices more. It didn’t take long for her back to straighten up and her legs to recover. Her husband saw it and said, “This exercise is so good, I’ll practice it too!”

Since then, the old couple have been cultivating together. Her husband is not good at talking, but had received some education. He helped practitioners sort out the list of people who wanted to withdraw the CCP and its youth organizations. He also wrote on small gourds: “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” Now, I’ve joined them in transcribing the Fa.

In order to clarify the truth, the old couple bought a car and took us out to distribute the truth-clarification materials. We cooperated as one body.

I discovered many attachments in myself while interacting with former practitioners. I have let go of many bad things. It’s true that I helped myself while helping others.

Helping Fellow Practitioners Overcome Illness Karma 

Practitioner Cai often went out to clarify the truth. Blisters developed between her big toe and second toe after walking for a long time. She didn’t pay attention to it at first, but after some time, the blisters became infected. Her daughter-in-law bought a disinfectant for her from the pharmacy, but the more she used it on the blisters, the worse they became. Later, her daughter took her to the hospital and she was hospitalized for six days. The doctor said that Cai had diabetes, and she was given injections and infusions. But it didn’t help; her big toe was necrotic. She went back home. A practitioner called me anxiously and said that Cai was going to Beijing for an amputation the next day, so I hurried to Cai’s house.

I bought some fruit on the way and went to her house in the afternoon. Cai’s husband was also a practitioner. After seeing me, he asked me to share with Cai. I told Cai, “You can’t follow the way of ordinary people, you are a cultivator. If you have a hole in your big toe, that means you have loopholes in your cultivation. Look inside to see where you fall short.” I continued, “Suppose these are two tiles. This tile is to follow the ordinary people’s way, and the other tile is to follow the cultivation way arranged by Master, which way do you follow?” She said, “Of course I follow the way arranged by Master.” I said, “If you follow Master’s arrangement, you can’t admit that you have diabetes. Do you dare to eat the peaches I bought for you?” She answered yes. After saying that, she went to wash the peaches and cut a few slices to eat.

Her righteous thoughts became dominant, and she decided not to go to Beijing for the surgery.

That same night, Cai went to the fellow practitioner’s house to study the Fa with other practitioners. Since then, she started to read more of the Fa, do more of the exercises, and send forth righteous thoughts once an hour. The next day, the pus stopped flowing from her foot. On the seventh day, scabs formed, and on the ninth day, she had recovered.

After her miraculous recovery, Cai visited her relatives and friends to show them her healed toe to validate Dafa. Because it was a little cold at the time, she had to take off her sock to show her toe. For convenience, she wore one sock on one foot and no sock on the other, but she didn’t feel cold. After seeing what had happened to her, her relatives and friends were surprised and said, “This Dafa is really amazing! It’s so great that a foot that was about to be amputated has recovered and is fine now.” Many people agreed to quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) after hearing about Cai’s recovery. Telling her story helped many people withdraw from the CCP.

Practitioner Ding developed a lump on her left knee and a lump under her left hip. It was rather painful. She had to cook while leaning against a stool. Cai called me after she found out what happened to Ding. At that time, I was looking after my son’s child and my daughter happened to be home. I asked her to watch the child for two hours. I told her I would be back in two hours, and she could go to work then. She agreed.

I went to Ding’s home and saw two bumps on her left leg. The bump on her knee prevented her from bending her leg and she walked with a limp.

I suddenly remembered a cultivation experience sharing article in Minghui Weekly that talked about the experience of passing through illness karma. While reading the article, I felt that practitioner understood the Fa very well, and sending righteous thoughts is to follow what Master taught in the lecture, “Righteous Thoughts”. I called a few other practitioners to come and send righteous thoughts together for Ding in her home. Twenty minutes later, I said to Ding, “Cross your legs!” She said, “It hurts!” I said firmly, “Cross your legs even if they hurt!” She slowly crossed her legs and held on, enduring the pain. We sent righteous thoughts for another 20 minutes.

I asked Ding to look at her leg before I went home to take care of the child because it was almost time for my daughter to go to work. Ding checked and found that the two bumps had disappeared and she didn’t feel pain after she crossed her legs again. She said happily, “It’s amazing! Thank you!” I said, “Don’t thank me, thank Master! This is all done by Master.” 

In another case, Ding’s second sister had a stiff neck and leg pain. She couldn’t sit down or lie down, and could only lean on the sofa. Ding told me that her sister couldn’t move for over two weeks, and she asked me to help her. I did the same as I had done with Ding. After 40 minutes of righteous thoughts, Ding’s sister felt well. She didn’t feel pain in her legs any longer, and she had recovered. Originally, her sister’s son and husband had planned to take her to the hospital, and they were very happy with the result. I shared with Ding’s sister and suggested that she look inside and search for any shortcomings in her cultivation. I said that the most important thing was to upgrade xinxing.

In the process of helping other practitioners, I also found attachments in myself, such as seeking comfort, laziness, being self-centered, and being unable to accept criticism. I’m determined to let go of these attachments, get rid of any attachments when I see them and follow Master to cultivate to consummation.