(Minghui.org) I started practicing Falun Dafa in 1998. Looking back over my cultivation makes me feel grateful to great compassionate Master for his hints and protection. I am fortunate to be able to follow Master. I have experienced many illness karma tribulations and have passed through them with my belief in Master and Dafa.
I suffered from hepatitis before practicing. I had tried both Western and traditional Chinese medicine and was eventually cured, but my gallbladder wasn’t. Whenever I caught a cold or got angry, my gallbladder would have problems that eventually led to gallstones.
I threw away all my medicines after I began practicing. I felt liver pain once, and believed it was because Master was removing the root cause of my illness. I did not pay much attention to the issue. My liver pain disappeared two and half days later. I fully recovered.
I had experienced an ear infection when I was a child. I felt excruciating pain when Master was removing the karma for me. The pain was non-stop. I held and shook my head while moaning and in tears. I fell asleep sometimes, but the agony soon woke me up. I sat up, held and shook my head again. The torment lasted three days. My husband asked me to go to hospital. But I believed in Master’s teachings and passed this tribulation.
I had liver pain once and thought that my gallbladder issue had been resolved after practicing, so why it had it become painful again after a few years? I kept touching and rubbing my belly, and it only got worse the more I did it. I knew that my thinking was wrong because I took it as an issue. I then ignored it, and the pain later disappeared without me noticing. I felt sudden stomach pain one day and vomited some bile. In it there was a solid thing bigger than a soybean but smaller than a piece of corn. I thought it was a gallstone. I have subsequently not felt gallbladder pain in more than 20 years.
I was once visiting a relative, and we were chatting about her brother. She mentioned that her sister-in-law had died of pancreatic cancer in less than three months. I asked out of curiosity, “How could it be so fast? What were her symptoms?” She said, “She was weak and hungry. She felt weak if she was not eating. Patients with such diseases die quickly.”
I found that I also had the symptoms of feeling hungry shortly after eating. I felt completely weak all over, but I felt better immediately after eating; if I didn’t eat, I felt weak again.
This situation lasted two and half months. I felt some small bugs moving under my skin through my whole body later and it made me feel very uneasy. I was worried, and thought, “It is not a big deal if I die, as dying is just like removing a layer of clothes. But my death would damage the reputation of Dafa. This won’t work!” I wanted to talk about this with another practitioner and went to her home on my bike. I saw that she was not at home after I arrived. I saw a copy of Minghui Weekly on her windowsill and read it. There was an article about overcoming an illness karma tribulation, in which the practitioner author believed in Master’s teaching that cultivators have no illnesses, so he practiced the exercises and sent forth righteous thoughts whenever he could sit up, although the hospital had issued critical condition notices several times to his family members. He recovered and was released a few days later.
I was touched by this practitioner’s amazing experience. I wondered why I had not remembered that cultivators have no illnesses. I went home right away and started reading Dafa books. My righteous thoughts arose, “I am cultivating genuinely. Is the appearance of illness fake?” As soon as I changed my mentality, the weakness that had bothered me for more than two months disappeared. I was amazed, “Dafa is marvelous!”
I suddenly felt the weakness again when I was sweeping the floor a week later. I smiled from my inner heart, “Don’t stage the show again! I recognize you. Your show is useless and I won’t be deceived.” At that moment, the weak feeling disappeared, and it has never reoccurred.
I once had a stomachache that got progressively worse. I tried the usual remedies that had worked before, but none of them helped this time. I started to feel anxious. I kept touching my belly and actually felt a hard lump inside, about the size of an egg.
I thought uneasily, “Can I not pass this tribulation? The CCP defames Dafa. If I die, won’t that defame Dafa? I cannot die!” I was struggling internally, and cried. I behaved as if I was normal in front of my husband no matter how much pain I felt. I tried hard to keep studying the Fa and doing the exercises every day. I would take a break if the pain was too much.
Master gave me a hint once as I studied the Fa: a sentence in the book stood up half a foot high repeatedly. I could not grasp the meaning and continued reading. I suddenly realized when I read a phrase about the Tanzhong acupoint, and understood that the location was emitting energy! My stomach pain disappeared as soon as I realized this. I experienced the wonder of Dafa again. Tears welled up in my eyes.
I once had pain in my legs. The pain wasn’t in the skin or muscles, but rather deep inside the bone. I watched TV occasionally, and viewed a doctor of Chinese medicine explaining the symptoms of bone cancer during a program. I thought about my symptom of bone pain and how it was almost the same as mentioned in the program. I was a little worried. It was so painful that I could not stand a few days later. I remained happy however, even though it was very painful. My leg pain then suddenly disappeared as if nothing had happened.
There were two other times where I experienced the effects of changing my notions. All three of my older sisters complained of neck pain, saying it was hereditary. When I heard this, a thought flashed through my mind, “Is neck pain hereditary?” Shortly afterward, my neck started hurting too. But I immediately changed my thinking, “My pain is different from theirs; I’m experiencing this because I’m gaining energy!” And then the neck pain disappeared.
My hand joints ached one day, and I wondered if it was true that there was a saying: When you get old, all the illnesses that you had neglected in your youth catch up with you. I’ll have to start washing my hands with warm water from now on. The next day, my wrists started hurting. I realized that this thought had been incorrect because my pain was from gaining energy. My wrist pain stopped right away.
I realized from cultivating over these years that only by having true belief in the Fa, changing my mentality to divine thoughts, and reaching the standards of a practitioner can the wonder and mighty power of Dafa manifest. Countless words cannot express my appreciation to Master. Thank you, Master!