(Clearwisdom.net) On one occasion, while out of town on a business trip, as I returned to the hotel, I suddenly had the symptoms of a heart attack. After returning, my back and stomach became so extremely painful that I couldn't lie down, sit up, or stand up. I was sweating heavily, and my body was very cold. After midnight, I started vomiting, and the pain in my back continued. That night seemed like a year to me.
I knew it was a big test for me, of whether I fully believed in Master and Dafa, of how I enlightened to the situation, as well as whether I could persist to the end according to the requirements of Dafa. The old forces were persecuting me. They wanted to take my body and confuse people who know me, or lead people who are aware of the truth about Dafa to doubt the true facts and thus lose their chance to be saved. Master has said,
"I have removed the names of Dafa disciples from Hell's registry. I had their names removed from Hell. So your names are not there. In other words, you are not in any way beings of the Three Realms, and you are no longer ordinary persons. That is why when your righteous thoughts are strong you can resolve any problem." ("Teaching the Fa in the City of Los Angeles," 2006)
I sent forth righteous thoughts and listened to the Fa to alleviate the pain. I clenched my teeth to prevent myself from making any sound.
"In such cases there are only two choices: You either go to the hospital and thus give up on trying to overcome the test, or you completely let go of everything, behave like an upstanding and noble Dafa disciple who has no resentment or attachments, and leave it to Master to arrange whether you stay or go. When you are able to do that, you are a god." ("Teaching the Fa in the City of Los Angeles," 2006)
My symptoms continued until the next day at noon, at which point I was so tired that I finally fell asleep. When I woke up during the night, I felt really relaxed. I had made it through such a big test of sickness karma and of whether I truly believed in Master and Dafa. In the test, I witnessed the magic of Dafa.
During our cultivation in this life, we are paying back, within only a few years, all the karma we accumulated from all our past lives, transcending the Three Realms, and walking towards consummation.
"This is something I often say: once you take up Dafa, whatever it is you encounter--good or bad--it is a good thing (applause), for it came about only because you cultivate in Dafa. Some students experience all sorts of hardships after taking up Dafa. If you didn't cultivate, those tribulations would lead to your destruction. But precisely because you do cultivate in Dafa, even though the pressure you face is great when the hardships come at you earlier than they would have, and the tests of your xinxing are tough to pass--and sometimes the tests may be huge--when all is said and done, those hardships are all things you need to overcome, they are accounts you need to settle, tabs that you need to pay. (Audience laughs) Aren't they great things, then? So whether it is good things or bad things you run into, so long as you cultivate in Dafa, they are all positive, to be sure." ("Teaching the Fa in San Francisco, 2005")
In this final phase of Fa-rectification, we are facing the final tests of whether we truly believe in Master and Dafa. Regardless of how the old forces persecute us, whether it be through sickness tribulations or in other ways, if we understand and absorb what Master taught us, we can definitely break through all kinds of tribulations with strong righteous thoughts.
