(Clearwisdom.net) Recently, we successively had some seemingly normal but actually extremely abnormal problems among our practitioners. No matter whether it was a big problem or a small one, we didn't take great notice because they appeared to be like normal problems everyday people have to face. Yet, we realized when these kind of problems occur and we do not rectify them in time, they would lead to larger damage and severe interference later.
The problems we encountered mainly manifested as follows:
- Practitioner A: She is very diligent in cultivation practice and plays a very critical role in local Fa-rectification work. Suddenly, one day, her son's classmate at the university called her and told her that her son was suffering from a stomach ulcer and was in great need of her help. The practitioner went to take care of her son. She has been away for over half a month and has not come back yet.
- Practitioner B: She plays a very important role in the Fa-rectification work in her area. Her mother-in-law's family used to be against Dafa and had a deep misunderstanding of Dafa. As the practitioner clarified the truth to them with patience, they all changed. Her mother-in-law began to practice. Her father-in-law, who used to be extremely against Dafa, changed and began to support his wife's practice. He said, "If you were detained due to your practice, I would go to jail instead of you."
- Practitioner C: She used to be able to sit in the full lotus position for one hour, but later on had to try very hard to sit for half an hour. Here leg was extremely painful. Now her ankle is still swollen.
- Practitioner D: She used to have good teeth and she even could cut metal wire with her teeth. However, recently, her teeth became painful and loose, which affected her daily life and caused some bad effects on her cultivation as well.
- Problems we have met: a power switch used to work very well, but it started to have frequent problems. The heating part of a hot water dispenser that was bought only half a year ago, broke down again after it had just been fixed. It took time and effort to fix it again. Because no spare part was available, it still does not work. Then there was a pinpoint leak in the cold water pipe and it also took much time to repair.
While her father and mother-in-law began to support and practice Falun Gong, her mother-in-law's former "disease" recurred. The symptom was very severe. The mother-in-law was afraid and all her family worried about her. In fear of the onset of the severe "disease," they brought the mother-in-law to a hospital. The practitioner wanted to persuade them not to send her mother-in-law to hospital, but she did not say anything, as others could not understand her. She agreed with them on the surface but sent forth righteous thoughts to eliminate the evil preventing her mother-in-law from obtaining the Fa. Since no hospital ward was available, the mother-in-law could not be admitted. For the second time, the doctor renowned for treating this particular disease went on a business trip. Afterwards, the mother-in-law's "disease" alleviated. The practitioner told her mother-in-law, "Master is taking care of you. It is not necessary treat the 'disease,' because it was not a disease at all. It is a karmic reaction you have experienced when Master is cleaning your body. You don't need to the hospital. Let's go home and practice the exercises."
The practitioner realized the first reason for the severe "disease" her mother-in-law suffered - Master was cleaning her body. At the same time, this happened also because the old forces tried to amplify the karmic reaction and take advantage of it, to aggravate the suffering in attempt to prevent the mother-in-law from obtaining the Fa.
At present, the old forces are grasping on to everything with their last ounce of strength and are trying everything to prevent practitioners from doing Fa-rectification. They try to destroy sentient beings. They are at their wits' end and have run out of options.
The old forces just make use of these problems that accord with everyday people's society. Influenced by human's inherent mentality and their way of thinking, the old forces take advantage of the practitioners who let down their guard. The old forces let us think all these happened "naturally," "accidentally," "inevitably," and that this is just the way it is, thereby making us develop a passive and pessimistic attitude. If we do not vigorously and actively break through it, the old forces then could interfere with us and damage Fa-rectification without our being aware.
If we cannot deal with these matters, they then could affect our daily life and cultivation. If we try to solve these problems, it would delay our process of Fa-rectification and take a lot of time that should be used to save sentient beings. Therefore, practitioners are in a dilemma. In this way, the old forces attempt to wear down practitioner's will. How vicious old forces are!
For everyday people, all these above mentioned problems are common phenomena in human society. However, for practitioners during the Fa-rectification period, there is "abnormality" hiding behind normality. Dafa practitioners are busy assisting Master to provide salvation to sentient beings. "Except for newer students, from July 20 of 1999 on, Master hasn't created any personal-cultivation type tests for you, and that's because overall your personal cultivation has changed in the direction of saving sentient beings and validating Dafa. (Applause)" ("Explaining the Fa During the 2003 Lantern Festival at the U.S. West Fa Conference")
Therefore, at the critical time of our Fa-rectification cultivation, we definitely should "take the Fa as teacher," hold righteous thoughts all the time, in advance eliminate possible interferences and damage arranged by the old forces with righteous thoughts, and negate their plots of interference and damage. In the meantime, we need to look at everything in Fa-rectification cultivation with righteous thoughts and discern all these interferences and damage, which are not easy to perceive. For those interferences and damage the evil have already created, we should definitely eliminate them with righteous thoughts and don't allow them to impede our process to assist Master rectifying the Fa and offering salvation to sentient beings.
The above is my personal understanding. Please point out if there is anything improper.
