A Story Starting with My Toothache

(Minghui.org) I recently had a dull pain in my teeth on the upper right. Sometimes they hurt, and sometimes they didn’t. The pain was triggered when I ate cold or hot food, or the wind caught the nerves. I also didn’t dare to chew hard.

I denied this form of persecution, thinking, “If I have not done well in any respect, and have not conformed to the Fa, I will correct it in cultivation. No one is worthy of interfering with or persecuting me.” I sent righteous thoughts but it didn’t get better. I looked inward again and thought the toothache might be related to cultivating my speech. I looked at some of my words and deeds, but didn’t feel that I had hurt others.

Toothaches are not diseases, but they are very uncomfortable. I strengthened my Fa study, but the pain remained. The night before last, I asked Master before going to bed: “Master, I couldn’t find the right way to look inward. I don’t know where I need to correct myself. Please guide me.”

That night, I was awakened by a dream. I was in a theater, standing on stage with two other people. In the audience, over a dozen people were standing in two rows facing each other. Those in the audience and those on the stage started doing what I thought was the first Falun Dafa exercise, following the music. But after a while, I sensed that the music was not Dafa’s exercise music and that the practitioners in the audience were not doing the first exercise. They stretched their arms horizontally in precise movements and moved them back and forth. Then they stretched their arms straight up above their heads and dropped them down with very precise movements. I was surprised to see them. I looked at the other two people on the stage, and they were also changing their movements and gestures to the music.

I woke up and opened my eyes, “Ah, it was a dream.” I wondered what was going on, and thought it must be Master enlightening me through the dream. I looked inward. Sometimes I saw other practitioners doing things that were not in line with the Fa, and sometimes I failed to remind them in time. Sometimes I turned a blind eye. Especially when I pointed things out to other practitioners and they didn’t change, I decided not to say anything the next time. Thinking about how unkind this was, I think this was a problem in my cultivation, and I needed to correct it.

After getting up early and having breakfast, I took the initiative to visit a practitioner who I thought had problems in cultivation. We studied the Fa together, communicated, and corrected ourselves. We both improved in the Fa. What’s more miraculous was that my toothache disappeared. Thank you, compassionate Master, for enlightening me.

The incident has passed, and I have sorted out my own cultivation in the process. Dafa cultivation requires considering others first. My refusal to speak out was actually for selfish reasons. I was simply afraid that the person being spoken to would not understand or accept it, and I was afraid that speaking wrongly would affect my own cultivation. To put it bluntly, I was protecting myself.

Master said:

“When a person talks to someone else, if he points out that person’s shortcomings or tells him something without attaching any of his own notions, the other person will be moved to tears.” (“Teachings at the Conference in Singapore”)

I am far from meeting Dafa’s standards, however I want to genuinely cultivate myself.

This is my understanding at this stage. If there is anything not in accordance with the Fa, please correct me.