(Clearwisdom.net) Obtaining the Fa while Suffering Life-threatening Symptoms
I used to be a very competitive and aggressive person. My husband was a kind man, but I always complained about his inability to make big money and was fed up with our poor life. Unhappy all year long, I developed numerous illnesses, including high blood pressure and other heart conditions and diabetes. My sisters and nephews advised me to practice Falun Gong, to which I often replied, “I don’t mind that you practice Falun Gong, but I don’t believe in that stuff.” After the persecution of Falun Gong began, due to my ignorance, I said a lot of bad things about Falun Gong.
Two of my practitioner relatives went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong in 2000. When I learned that they were both arrested and held in a local detention center, I was so upset that I had a relapse of my illnesses and lost consciousness. My family rushed me to the hospital where the doctors discovered a tumor in my liver. When I was discharged a few days later, the resident physician warned me again and again to not move strenuously, or else the tumor might burst and I would die.
Once at home, my practitioner relatives brought a copy of Zhuan Falun for me to read. I was not well educated and could not recognize many of the characters in the book. Nonetheless, I began to read the book anyway. To my surprise I saw every character in the book enclosed in a colorful light circle. As I went through the book, I felt my body getting lighter and lighter every day, and all the discomfort seemed to disappear without a trace.
Five days later when other relatives came to visit, they were surprised to see that I was able to water my vegetable garden all by myself. This is how I entered the door of cultivation.
Clarifying the Facts to Offer Sentient Beings Salvation
Even though I obtained the Fa after the persecution of Falun Gong began, I made demands on myself to work hard to catch up with veteran practitioners. I was determined not to slack of in my cultivation and truth-clarification efforts.
My health improved tremendously after I took up the practice. I used to have a yellowish face, but my complexion became rosy just six months into my cultivation. Master gave me a new lease on life, and I must let people know that Dafa is good. I clarified the facts to everyone in my family and my village. A neighbor refused to listen the first two times I spoke with him, so I sent forth righteous thoughts to eliminate evil elements controlling him and his family. When I clarified the facts to his family again, they were glad to hear what I had to say. Of course, there were still a few people who simply refused to listen. Almost every one of my relatives and friends has withdrawn from the CCP and its affiliated organizations. Many fellow villagers also withdrew, and some of them even took up the practice.
Besides face-to-face truth clarification, I also devoted much time to distributing and pasting up truth-clarification information. Since I didn’t have much fear, I often did this with a calm mind during the daytime. I knew when and where to place truth-clarification materials so that the most people could see them.
I often asked practitioners, “What’s there to be afraid of? Master has been watching over us; who dares to persecute us?” I truly feel that Master has been watching all Dafa disciples, including me, and I just have to have a firm belief in Master. I don’t know how many miles I have traveled during the past ten years, and how many copies of truth clarification materials I have distributed, but I have been safe all the time.
Practitioners Helped Me Pass Tribulations
I moved to a city to live with my son a few years later. Away from my regular cultivation environment, I gradually slacked off. I didn’t study the Fa as much, nor did I do enough distribution of truth clarification materials. I also found it difficult to open my mouth to talk to people.
In 2008 I suddenly developed paralysis in half of my body. I couldn’t talk or walk. After my son took me to the hospital, I regained my ability to talk. My mind wasn’t clear, though. Other practitioners didn’t give up on me. They studied the Fa with me and sent righteous thoughts for me.
Five days later I could walk. In order to separate me from other practitioners, evil factors in other dimensions controlled my son to discharge me from the hospital and hide me in my daughter’s home where no other practitioner was around. At that moment I lost righteous thoughts and simply listened to my son. My practitioner relatives talked to my son and sent righteous thoughts toward him. Once the evil was eliminated, my son told them where I was. One practitioner's relative invited me to stay at her home so I could study the Fa and send righteous thoughts together. In no time I felt the thing that separated them from me was removed, and I became clearheaded. I felt extremely ashamed and cried non-stop.
Prior to this tribulation I never really felt there was anything difficult about cultivation. Even though my legs hurt during meditation, it was no big deal for me. I also feared nothing while distributing truth-clarification materials or clarifying the facts. This ordeal, however, made me realize that cultivation was not as easy as I thought. Cultivation is the most serious thing. I ask Master to please rest assured that I have become a lot more mature after this tribulation. I will cultivate myself well and fulfill my historic vow to offer sentient beings salvation. My thanks to revered Master! My thanks to kindhearted practitioners!
