(Clearwisdom.net) My husband, who is 60, and I have been practicing Falun Gong for 11 years. Over a month ago, my husband and I experienced a deadly tribulation, from which we have enlightened to the Fa in many ways. Our gratitude for Teacher's immense grace is beyond words. I would like to share our experiences with fellow practitioners as an encouragement.

1. Guarding Our Righteous Thoughts and Negating the Old Forces

Over a month ago, my husband went out on a motorbike to install a satellite dish. On his way home in the evening, he was hit by a farmer's truck at an intersection. My husband was thrown into the air and crashed to the ground face down. He lost consciousness right away and was taken to a hospital in town.

I was studying the Fa when it happened. I panicked at the news at first, but I quickly calmed down when I remembered we are Falun Gong practitioners and Teacher watches over us. I decided that this was definitely not a coincidence. My husband had traveled a long distance to install a satellite dish and he was hit by a car when he was almost home. This was definitely the old forces' work to interfere with practitioners spreading the truth and saving people. Of course, we must search within first. There must be a loophole in our xinxing for the old forces to exploit. However, our present cultivation is not exactly the same as our personal cultivation when we first obtained the Fa. Falun Gong practitioners are connected with the Fa-rectification. We carry a sacred mission and responsibilities on our shoulders. We must not be manipulated by the old forces. We must completely deny the old forces' arrangements.

When I rushed to the hospital, I saw my husband's face covered with blood. There was a large bump the size of a goose egg on the top left part of his head where he was hit. He was bleeding profusely from his ears and nose. The local hospital dared not keep him and had him transferred to a city hospital. The exams confirmed that my husband had a skull fracture, a compound fracture of his left collar bone, two broken ribs, and fractures in a forearm and a lower leg bone. His brain was bruised. The doctor told me that my husband's condition was precarious, and he might have dementia for the rest of his life if the injuries were not treated in time.

I kept sending forth righteous thoughts. The next morning, my husband woke up. I spoke in his ear, "Your thoughts must be righteous. Teacher watches over us. Let go of all human thoughts." My husband had sufficient righteous thoughts. He asked to check out of the hospital immediately. Worrying about a potential lawsuit, the doctor asked us to sign a release. My husband told the doctor, "I practice Falun Gong. Please rest assured that I won't look for trouble."

While I was sending forth righteous thoughts toward my husband at the hospital, I truly felt Teacher was helping me. I felt a giant Falun was about to rotate and lift me up. I decided that the hospital is not a place for a divine being and that my husband and I must return home and continue to do the three things. I decided that the evil elements attempted to keep my husband bedridden so that we both wouldn't be able to save sentient beings.

2. Studying the Fa, Searching Inward, and Upgrading Xinxing

After he checked out of the hospital that night, we studied the Fa together from midnight until 2 a.m. Before we started, my husband said, "It was difficult for me to sit up. You read the Fa aloud, and I will lie down and listen." I helped my husband sit up and said, "It's better that you study the Fa yourself. Your main consciousness will be stronger if you do. Try to study as much as you can. Behind each Chinese character in Zhuan Falun there are layers after layers of Buddhas, Taos, and divine beings. I believe that Teacher's fashen in the book will look at you face to face, giving you hints. When your main consciousness studies the Fa in this dimension, your corresponding dimension in other realms will be aligned with the Fa, instantly disintegrating all evil elements, bad things, and thought karma." Teacher said,

"I am telling everyone that no matter how uncomfortable you are, you must continue to attend this class. Once you walk into the classroom, all of your symptoms will vanish and there will not be any danger." ("The Issue of Pursuit" in Lecture Two of Zhuan Falun) http://www.falundafa.org/book/eng/lecture2.html#5

When I opened up Zhuan Falun, it happened to be the section "Upgrading Xinxing" in Lecture Four about an old woman hit by a car when she and her spouse were going to attend Teacher's class. After Fa study, my husband fell asleep quietly. I thought that Teacher must have arranged for us to study this passage as a hint that we needed to upgrade our xinxing. I realized I must evaluate the incident from the Fa.

On the surface, it was the truck driver's fault. From the perspective of a cultivator, everything has to do with ourselves. Whenever we encounter something, we must search inward first and follow the requirements of the Fa, whose standard transcends ordinary requirements. First, we must not blame the driver. Second, we must not have any human thoughts. Third, we must not have any wicked thoughts. Our thoughts must be righteous. When I thought about it, I did pity the driver. I remembered that Teacher said,

"Human beings are the weakest" (Lecture Seven of Zhuan Falun) http://www.falundafa.org/book/eng/lecture7.html#4

It was dark minions and rotten demons arranged by the old forces that manipulated the truck driver to hit my husband. It was because we didn't do well that caused the trouble. How could we blame the truck driver? For some time my husband had been doing things out and about and had become less diligent in his Fa study. He didn't even keep up sending forth righteous thoughts at the set times or concentrate when he sent forth righteous thoughts. That was how the evil beings were able to exploit his loopholes.

I, too, realized some of my problems. Although I had repeatedly reminded my husband to study the Fa and told him that he must build a good foundation in his Fa study if he were to do well the task of a divine being, I was harsh when I reminded him. There was no compassion in my manner. I searched inward and decided it was all because of sentimentality. From a secular view, we are husband and wife. From the perspective of cultivation, he is my fellow cultivator. I must balance these relationships well and purge these human notions from the bottom of my heart.

3. Completely Transcending Humanness and Eliminating Fear

At first I had to help my husband to the bathroom. I told him, "Teacher watches over you. You can stand up!" With this thought in mind, my husband began to walk on his own and never had to rely on anyone's help. On the day after my husband checked out of the hospital, he could walk to the bathroom on his own. Sometimes he could manage to walk about in the yard. Sometime he bled from his ears. The blood was purple. We thought of it as a good sign, thinking it was a process of clearing the bruise from his head. At the hospital I didn't pay close attention to his injuries. After we went home, I cleaned up his injuries with clean water and saw he had injures all over his head. The large bloody bump on his head was particularly scary to look at. All the injuries all over his body were black and terribly swollen. My husband said he felt as though his flesh had been separated from the bones, and even the slightest touch would give him agonizing pain. He complained that his head was congested and that he felt pain and discomfort. He couldn't sleep. Sometimes he was very clear-minded, but at other times he was not.

While my husband was recovering, sometimes fear flooded my mind. I feared my husband might not prevail over the tribulation. I feared gossip. I feared facing public criticism if anything should go wrong. Oftentimes I tried to make my husband follow my orders. I was anxious to have him recover as quickly as possible. The more I was attached to the idea, the more problems I faced. In the middle of the night, I tried to wake my husband up to send forth righteous thoughts only to find something apparently wrong with him. He looked at me as though I were a stranger and asked, "What is sending forth righteous thoughts? I don't know who you are. Where am I?" He said things I didn't understand. I immediately felt something was terribly wrong. I was really afraid. I wanted to call fellow practitioners for help, but I was afraid it might cause my family to worry. On second thought, I called Teacher for help in my heart. I wanted to have my husband study the Fa, but he was not clear-minded and could not study the Fa. What should I do? I played Teacher's Fa lecture recording to him. I stopped him from closing his eyes and kept him conscious. I sent forth righteous thoughts from my heart and thought, "No one owns my husband's life. Only what Teacher says counts!" After having played Teacher's Fa lectures for a while, I asked my husband, "Did you hear anyone talk?" He replied, "This is such a familiar voice. It feels far away, as though I knew the voice many years ago, but I cannot remember whose voice it is." I asked him to focus on listening to the Fa lectures. After a while, I asked him the same question. He thought for a long time before he finally said, "Isn't this Teacher?" I asked him who Teacher was and he said Teacher's name and was able to recognize our child and me.

After my husband became clear-minded again, I remembered Teacher said:

"As a practitioner, if you always think that it is an illness, you are actually asking for it. If you ask for an illness, it will come inside your body. As a practitioner, your xinxing level should be high. You should not always worry that it is an illness, for this fear of illness is an attachment and it can bring you trouble just the same." (Lecture Six of Zhuan Falun) http://www.falundafa.org/book/eng/lecture6.html#1

Fear is an attachment and a substance in another dimension. Yet it is extremely weak before a cultivator with righteous thoughts. When our thoughts are righteous, the attachment of fear will collapse instantly.

We kept listening to the Fa until 3:50 a.m. Then we began to practice the Falun Gong exercises. Because his left collar bone was fractured, my husband was unable to lift up his left arm. At first, he practiced the second exercise facing the wall so that he could lean his arms against the wall. I felt it was not right to do that. I turned him around and asked him not to lean against the wall. Then he tried hard to raise his arms on his own and tried to hold the Wheel as long as he could. During the exercise, I kept encouraging him to persevere.

4. Sending Forth Righteous Thoughts as One Body to Eliminate the Evil Beings

Besides studying the Fa, I sent forth righteous thoughts at every set hour. I cleansed my own space-dimension before I cleansed my husband's. I saw that my husband was in a lot of pain in this and other dimensions. Then I prolonged the time for sending righteous thoughts to from 30 to 50 minutes. All the fellow practitioners in our area worked together to help my husband. We asked Teacher to reinforce our righteous thoughts while we sent forth righteous thoughts to completely negate the old forces. Many people visited my husband. Everyone treated this incident as a problem of the one-body and everyone searched inward for his/her attachment.

After a while, the overwhelming number of evil spirits and rotten demons in my husband's dimension were dying and lying on the ground. Then I saw my husband begin to throw out these rotten lives. As he continued to eliminate them, he became increasingly clear-minded. Over time he stopped being muddle-headed.

Three days after my husband checked out of the hospital, he began to recover. A week later, he could raise his left arm. In less than two weeks, he could use his left arm with ease and begin to help with small chores. Gradually his ribs stopped hurting, and his legs were good as new. The bruise on his head cleared up. He stopped feeling congestion and pain in his head. The black shadow of his injuries faded completely. After a month, he could ride a motorcycle. We resumed farming again. While my husband pulled the plow, I helped steer it.

When I witnessed the miracle of the Fa manifested in my husband's speedy recovery, I was very pleased. When fellow practitioners called on us, they paid us a lot of compliments and encouraged us. My sense of self-importance started to get inflated. I started boasting and placed myself above the Fa when I spoke. A fellow practitioner gave me her honest advice, "The better your husband is recovering, the more you have to guard your righteous thoughts. Never have the attachment of zealotry or the mentality of showing-off." I realized that it was Teacher's arrangement to for her to tell me this, because Teacher saw my attachment to self and to showing-off and saw that I had not detected these attachments. It goes to show that Teacher watches over us at all times, protecting us from going astray. Teacher uses different ways to give hints to practitioners. It is up to practitioners to enlighten to Teacher's hints.

5. Validating the Fa in Person and Saving Sentient Beings

Those town folk who knew my husband's story kept telling others and said that Falun Gong was truly miraculous. They said Falun Gong practitioners were indeed protected by Teacher Li Hongzhi after they had witnessed the living proof in my husband.

Now, all of our relatives and acquaintances have a completely different opinion of Falun Gong. In the past most of them refused to believe it when we told them the truth about Falun Gong and tried to persuade them to quit the CCP and to say "Falun Gong is good" and "Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance is good." Now their attitudes are different, even the most stubborn ones. Some even asked to study the Fa and learn the Falun Gong exercises. A woman sent by the town government, the "610 Office, " and the village committee to watch Falun Gong practitioners called on us and said she had quit the "job" assigned by the village cadres.

Many people called on my husband when they heard that he had checked out of the hospital after only one day. At first my family was strongly opposed to having my husband recover on his own and tried to make us return to the hospital. They even threw fits when we refused to oblige. After we clarified the truth to them in depth and validated the Fa by his recovery, my husband grew healthier each day. Despite being over 60, my husband tends the paddies and pulls the plow daily since recovering. Now that they have witnessed the miracle of Falun Gong, our family has a lot of respect for Falun Gong.

One day my husband and I went to a local market and passed the site of the accident. We happened to see a woman storeowner who had witnessed the car accident. She smiled at us when she saw us, "You will live to be 200 years old! It's because you Falun Gong practitioners are good people and do not seek compensation." Even the family of the truck driver said, "If it were someone else, even a thousand yuan would not be enough compensation."

Words cannot describe Teacher's enormous compassion and infinite grace! I have so much to say, but I am unable to fully express my feelings. There are so many wonderful feelings beyond words. After this incident, we have identified many human attachments and developed a better understanding of the Fa. Now it is increasingly clear to us how precious the Fa is. We must strive hard to do well the three things Teacher requires of us, fulfill our prehistoric pledge, and complete our mission.

Thank you, Teacher! Thank you, fellow practitioners! Heshi!