(Clearwisdom.net) To get treatment for his liver lesions, my elderly father has had to go to the hospital every month for the past two years. Each time, I accompanied him for the 15-day hospital stay. The patients we met there had all been diagnosed with similar illnesses. They ranged in age from their teens to their 80s, and they were all trying to beat cancer or a tumor as long as possible with treatment. Seeing that these people were face to face with death, I sensed the urgency to tell them the facts about Falun Dafa. Then they would not have to be sorry that they never knew the ultimate law of the universe before they left the human world.
Every time I went to the hospital, I brought with me some DVDs of Shen Yun Performing Arts and the documentary We Tell the Future and Dafa amulets(1), in case I had a good opportunity to give them to people. Besides taking good care of my father, I also made friends with other patients, their family members, and hospital staff by offering help when needed, listening to them, and caring for them. In doing so, I was able to to clarify the facts of Falun Dafa to people who had predestined relationships with Dafa and offer them the opportunity for salvation.
Last fall, a young female patient, an attractive, unmarried model, was assigned to stay in a temporary bed in the hallway of the inpatient department. She had a bad temper and could not get along with the other patients. Finally, she was placed in a bed next to my father's. Because the cancer had advanced to her rectum and abdomen, she was in great pain most of the time. Her doctor told her that she might die in two months, around the Christmas holidays. From my viewpoint as a Dafa practitioner, she was someone with huge sickness karma, yet she kept making more karma by verbally abusing her elderly father, the only person taking care of her. I wanted to talk to her, because I was the only good person she might listen to.
“Xiao Fang,” I said one day, “Let me show you something nice.” On my cellphone screen there was a photo of udumbara flowers on the face of a Buddha statue. I continued, “These are udumbaras, which bloom once every 3,000 years. You have never seen them before, right? You are very lucky to see them today.” Then I told her that the blossoming of udumbaras means it is the time when the Holy King Who Turns the Wheel is offering salvation to people. It was natural at this point in our conversation to tell her the facts about Falun Dafa. I also told her to sincerely recite “Falun Dafa is good” and “Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good” and that it would surely benefit her. She believed what I said, recited the two phrases when in pain, and did feel the pain subside. Later, she withdrew from the CCP and its affiliated organizations.
In February this year, I accompanied my father to the hospital again and saw her there. I asked her, “Do you still remember the two phrases I told you?” Holding my hands tightly, she replied excitedly, “How can I forget? I am still alive simply because of them!” Then she told me that, according to her doctors, she should be suffering from terrible pain at this stage of her illness, but, other than a little discomfort, she was in a peaceful and calm state. Her doctors were amazed. “Wonderful! Do remember those life-saving words in any situation.” Before I left, I told her, “Follow the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, be kind to your father, and you will be even better.”
Another time a retired official who was in his 60s and suffered from liver cancer was in the bed next to my father's. His wife took care of him most of the time. They both understood the facts about Falun Dafa and the persecution and quit the CCP and its affiliated organizations. I also taught them how to sit in the cross-legged position, the jieyin gesture, how to recite the two phrases I had taught the young female patient, and some of the Falun Gong exercises. One morning the retired official got up and saw me meditating. Then he sat in his bed to recite the two phrases, with his legs crossed and hands in jieyin. His attentive and genuine face made me see how eager sentient beings are to be saved.
Sometimes the doctors moved my father to different beds and rooms for no particular reason, which gave me more opportunities to save sentient beings. Once there was a 60-year-old woman in the next bed. She was tormented so acutely by the rupture of her liver tumor that she did not have the strength to even communicate. I said in her ear, “Sister, please recite in your heart 'Falun Dafa is good' and 'Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.' These two phrases can save your life. They are known to many people around the world and have saved countless lives.” Upon hearing this, she seemed happy, as if she had finally gotten what she had been longing for. She did what I told her and was able to talk with me shortly after that. She became a lot better afterward.
From my conversations with her husband, I learned that his family had been defamed as being in “the landlord class,” because they had accumulated property and land through hard work in the countryside. During the Land Reform in the 1950s, his father was killed and their property was taken in the name of “Equal Division of Property.” Knowing the Communist Party's evil nature, he had never been a member of any of the CCP's organizations. A few days later, the elderly lady got better and was discharged from the hospital.
After she left, a 60-year-old male patient in serious condition was arranged to stay in the bed next to my father's. Because he suffered from breathing difficulties, he had to sit upright, wear an aspirator, and be connected to a heart monitor 24 hours a day. When I was playing on my cellphone the song “Clear Currents from Earth to Heaven,” composed by a Dafa practitioner, he listened attentively and asked, “What's that music? It sounds so nice that I feel like I'm in a different world.” I answered, “Great! Good music is good for your health.” Then I played more Dafa songs, including “Ji Shi,” “Teacher's Grace,” “Predestined Relationship Appears,” and “Please Sit Beside Me.” I taught him the two phrases that I had told other patients and the facts about Dafa. Early the next morning, I asked him how he felt after sitting up in bed the whole night. He said in a weak, broken voice, “I have been reciting the phrases no matter how hard it is for me to do it. I don't want to die.” I said, “Good. It works for people who are sincere. Keep doing it.”
Later in the morning, a nurse came in to check his heart monitor. She approached the patient's wife and said with surprise, “Why are his heartbeat, pulse, and blood pressure normal now?” I joined them and asked, “What were they before?” The nurse replied, “Yesterday his maximum blood pressure was 170 or 180, with a minimum of 120 or 130. His heartbeat was over 100 per minute! And now you can see that his maximum pressure is 120 to 130, while his minimum pressure is totally normal.” The patient and I exchanged a look and smiled. He said, “The atmosphere here is good.” I said, “Your sincerity is good.”
There were other patients, too. One was a chief manager of a luxury sanatorium who said that he witnessed corruption at work every day. Upon learning the facts about Falun Dafa and the Communist Party, he withdrew from the CCP and its affiliated organizations. A male patient who had learned the facts about Dafa brought me his MP3 player and asked me for the audio recording of Teacher's lectures. He is listening to the Fa every day. I also gave him a DVD of Shen Yun and a Dafa amulet. A 40-year-old patient learned the truth and asked me to teach him the Falun Dafa exercises and wanted to know how to use the Internet blockade software. He and his wife and brother all quit the CCP's organizations. A 27-year-old male patient and his wife also withdrew from the CCP organizations, and I gave him my MP3 player so that he could listen to Teacher's lectures every day. A nurse initiated a conversation with me regarding Falun Gong, and I told her the facts about Dafa and the CCP. She withdrew from the CCP organizations as well. There were also senior professors, former soldiers, elderly farmers, retired officials, and many patients' relatives who understood the facts and quit the CCP and its affiliated organizations.
Later I received phone calls from some patients' families, telling me that their loved ones had passed away peacefully. Their deaths were expected, so both the patients and their families were able to face it calmly.
We are in the special Fa-rectification period of the universe. Birth, aging, illness, and death are unavoidable for everyday people, but it is important for sentient beings to reject the damaging lies perpetrated by the CCP, understand the truth, and acknowledge Falun Dafa. Then, they will be able to leave the human world without any regrets. A dying person who can acknowledge the universal Law chooses the right path to a promising future, and his or her journey in this life will not end in vain.
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(1) Amulets – In China, practitioners sometimes clarify the truth by giving people something small to wear or cherish, bearing a few words reminding them of the goodness of Dafa
