(Clearwisdom.net) I view the duties of fellow practitioners as my own. We help each other and improve together. This is what Dafa disciples should do. How we help each other is the issue I would like to discuss here.
There was a practitioner whose stomach was swollen. I thought that he was going through a process of reducing his karma. Another practitioner told him that there was a special dose of medicine which would cure it. He followed the advice but instead of seeing any improvement his navel festered. Another dose was then recommended. This time his wife objected, leading to an unhappy conflict.
Another practitioner was feeling a lot of pain all over her body and was lying on her bed. Two practitioners saw her situation and asked her to come along to distribute truth clarifying materials. She followed them and felt just fine after walking more than ten miles. In a group Fa study she mentioned this event and said that after the walk there was only a bit of pain her toes. Upon hearing this another practitioner said to her, "If you eat some lamb, the pain will go away." She asked around for lamb, and her pain returned.
Help offered to fellow practitioners should be in line with the Fa, and should be based on compassion, not emotion or some known methods from everyday society. My sister was a practitioner living in a remote area and rarely talked to other practitioners. Last year she encountered a serous illness tribulation. She lost consciousness and the doctor asked her children to inform her relatives that she was about to die.
Upon my arrival at the hospital, the doctor told me that my sister's lungs, liver and kidneys were no longer functioning. Hence, there was no way to save her. I understood that what she needed most was the Fa, not a close relative. She could be saved by holding on to the Fa.
As I entered the ward I saw my sister with a pale face lying motionlessly in bed. After I called, "Sister! Sister!" several times, she woke up and looked at me. I told her to say "Falun Dafa is good. Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good. Although I did not do well in personal cultivation, I want to follow Master's arrangement and assist Master in Fa-rectification." She nodded her head in agreement and repeated what I told her. After a short while, her face turned red and all the instruments monitoring her physical condition showed normal levels. She was gradually able to sit up on the bed, and she began speaking to the people around her. Both the doctor and the nurse were taken by surprise. After a week she was able to leave the hospital.
Only by following the Fa can we expect to resolve complex problems. There was a practitioner who had to eliminate a significant amount of karma right after she left a forced labor camp. She had been lying in bed for several days unable to eat. Her children wanted to take her to the hospital, but she wanted to speak with a fellow practitioner. She was concerned however, about communist spies and the safety of other practitioners. She finally told her daughter to ask me to come and see her.
This practitioner did not have family support. Her husband did not want her to practice and her children didn't want any practitioners to visit her for fear that she might again be taken to a forced labor camp. Thus, if I went to visit her, I would be responsible for her safety. If I refused to go, her children would take her to the hospital, which might mean an end to her cultivation. Clearly, this was a test for me. According to the Fa, I should put others ahead of my own problems, so I went to her home. Her son saw me and asked, "What are you doing here?" "I came to see your mother," I replied. "Well, you have seen her. You can leave now. We need to take her to the hospital." he said.
The secular world has its own rules which are also set up by Dafa. As practitioners, we can't follow the rules of the secular world, but we also can't violate them. I said to him, "I know you love your mother. You don't want her to get hurt, but you overlook one thing, when you force her to do things against her will, you are hurting her emotionally. Under such conditions healing will be difficult to come by. If you allow your mother to have her way, she will be happy and that will have a healing effect." Her son liked what I said and didn't argue further.
I turned to her and said, "Master is always close by you. You are here in the secular world facing difficulties, because this is how to raise one's character to higher levels. There is actually no illness. Why don't you get up." As we were talking, she began to sit up on the bed. Her children were overjoyed to see the change in her. Her daughter later brought me a basket of tangerines to thank me for what I did.
