(Minghui.org) I have been cultivating Falun Dafa for nearly 30 years and have changed from someone whose mind was filled with human notions and attachments to a new person who is always considerate of others and conducts herself by the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. My world outlook has also changed completely.

In the past, whenever I came across a conflict, I always thought the other party was in the wrong, and I would argue until I got what I wanted. When I failed to get my way, I would get so angry that I would feel a big lump in my chest.

Since I have been practicing Dafa, I’ve learned to look within myself and let go of many human notions and attachments so that my mindset and conduct can assimilate with the Fa principles as I strive to elevate my cultivation realm.

Sometimes I have been able to recognize my wrongdoings and rectify myself straightaway, but other times I’ve failed to see my loopholes and have literally fallen. I believe that this a way Master has used to warn me so that I do not make more serious mistakes and cause more losses. The following are a couple of such examples.

A few years ago, I had a very nice chat with a fellow practitioner in a park. I talked a lot about how I helped a veteran practitioner change her notions and advised her on how to improve her understandings on the basis of the Fa principles and how she thanked me for helping her realize her problems.

Afterwards, the fellow practitioner and I headed to a bus stop together. Suddenly, I fell down, and everyone waiting at the bus stop turned to look at me. I noticed that both my hands and knees were scraped up.

I started to look within right away: “Why did I fall in front of so many people? Did I do anything wrong just now?”

I reflected what I had just shared with the fellow practitioner in the park and realized that I’d been blowing my own horn, showing off about how well I could enlighten to the Fa principles, even better than the veteran practitioner. I also wanted the fellow practitioner I was talking with to agree with my understandings and see how well I’d progressed in my cultivation.

I saw some deeply hidden attachments that I’d had for so long that I couldn’t even recognize them. I also realized they were manifestations of Chinese Communist Party culture.

Cultivation is all about cultivating oneself, and only Master knows how well one does in cultivation. Seeing that I had not let go of my stubborn attachments for so long, Master gave me hint by letting me take a fall so that I could see my hidden attachments and eliminate them.

I made up mind to completely eliminate those attachments and be a solid Dafa cultivator who would always humbly harmonize with others as one body.

I fell again in March 2025. I’d planned to go get groceries at a local market that day. When the elevator came up and I started to step in, I tripped over the wheel of the small shopping cart I had with me and fell down hard, injuring my leg.

I tried to crawl out of the elevator so that the doors could close, but it was very hard for me to move my injured leg. In excruciating pain, I held my leg and inched out of the lift.

The pain was so unbearable I had to just lie there on my stomach for a while after the elevator doors closed. I wondered: “Why did I fall like this? Have I done anything wrong? Everything happens for a reason. I must check within.”

I realized that I’d been impatient and irritable before I left home. When I asked my husband what vegetables he wanted, he simply said, “Whatever you get.” I wasn’t happy with his reply and snapped, “You basically said nothing.”

Reflecting on my conduct, I found two reasons for my fall. One is that I still haven’t completely let go of my resentment for my husband. I must remove that attachment and treat everyone with kindness and compassion.

The other reason I fell was that I had stopped doing truth-clarification work on a certain project because a fellow practitioner working on the same project was illegally arrested. I felt rather unsettled and feared I might get arrested as well.

I later thought that, as a Dafa disciple, I mustn’t worry so much about my own safety and I must keep clarifying the truth to people. I’d made up my mind to start again that day when I went to the market.

However, I was still feeling a bit anxious when I took out the shopping cart that day.

The fact is, one cannot do well clarifying the truth to people with such an unsettled mindset, which is not based on the Fa and lacks righteous thoughts. Such a mindset could also be taken advantage of by the old forces.

The fall was a reminder for me to let go of my remaining human notions and attachments and to adjust my mindset so that I could assist Master in saving more sentient beings in an upright and dignified manner.

As I rectified myself, I felt extremely grateful to Master. When I fell that day, my face hit the hard corner of the elevator door first, but it felt like my face touched something very soft, like a blanket. I knew that Master had suffered for me so that my face wasn’t disfigured.

I did injure my knee, which was badly swollen, with extensive bruising. I had trouble getting in and out of bed, and using the toilet was very trying. I knew that I had to endure what I needed to suffer for my own faults.

My husband and my son wanted to take me to hospital for an X-ray to find out how seriously my knee was injured.

“An old classmate of mine fell, and he had to have surgery. It took him a long time to recover, and he was bedridden and needed a home health aide to come take care of him. You mustn’t put off getting it looked at,” my husband urged.

A neighborhood police officer who knew the truth about Falun Dafa saw my injury and offered to take me to see an orthopedic specialist that he knew. I declined his kind offer and said, “Master Li is taking care of me, and I will heal in time. There is no need to go to the hospital.”

Thanks to Master’s compassionate protection, I was able to get around by sliding along the wall the second week, and by the third week, I was able to walk downstairs to clarify the truth to those “stability enforcement” personnel.

Seeing how fast I recovered from my knee injury, one of my family members said, “Falun Gong is truly remarkable!”

“Yes, it’s our great Master who helped me through the ordeal,” I agreed.

As Dafa practitioners, we should learn from every fall we take. We are Dafa cultivators, and everything that happens to us has something to do with our cultivation. We must take everything that happens to us seriously and reflect upon ourselves. During the process, we can always find the attachments that we need to let go of completely.

The hardships we experience—which Master uses to remind us to let go of our remaining human concepts and attachments—are only a tiny portion of the enormous suffering Master has so compassionately borne for us.

The falls we experience are great opportunities to improve so that we can keep striving to meet the Fa’s standards. It’s very important that we take each fall seriously so that we can reflect upon ourselves, dig out our remaining attachments, and remove them. At the same time, we should strive to enlighten to the Fa principles and meet the requirements of the Fa at that level.

The remaining time for our cultivation is rather limited, and we must seize the precious opportunities we still have to completely let go of our human attachments. We must measure each of our thoughts and actions with the standards of the Fa so that Master will have less to worry about and will suffer less for our shortcomings and loopholes.

Let us all strive to keep up with the progress of Fa-rectification and do even better in assisting Master in saving sentient beings.