(Clearwisdom.net) My husband and I both started practicing Falun Dafa in October 1997. Before practicing, our health was poor. My husband was suffering from myocardial infarction, so he was in danger of losing his life at any moment. After we started practicing cultivation, we followed Master’s requirements to study the Fa and do the exercises. My husband’s symptoms were all gone by January 1998. Because he no longer had any illnesses, his whole body felt light, and he truly became a happy person. He was so healthy that he did not take a single pill until 2004.
My husband told everyone he met that Master had given him a second life. He shared the wonderfulness of Dafa using his personal experience during several Fa conferences. Because he was a township cadre, my husband was in a unique position to introduce Dafa to the townships where he worked every week. Many people in those three townships started practicing Falun Dafa, and so did more than ten of his relatives. As for himself, he diligently studied the Fa and did the exercise every day.
During the period around July 20, 1999, when the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started denouncing and persecuting Falun Dafa, upper management asked my husband, “Are you going to keep practicing?” He said determinedly, “Yes, I will! And I will practice forever!” He persisted in clarifying the facts to his management as well as many other people. He explained why he chose to continue practicing Falun Dafa, and helped many people understand the truth.
After he retired, my husband continued his Fa-study and practice, and kept clarifying the facts to save people, until July 2004, when he slacked off.
That day, he wanted to drink wine to celebrate something, and afterward he became less and less diligent in his practice. His old illness returned in June 2005. After seven years of not taking any medicine, he asked to go to a hospital. He was hospitalized for seven days. After he was discharged from the hospital, he bought a live chicken and some shrimp, and wanted me to cook them for him. I knew I couldn’t kill and process the chicken and shrimp because I’m a practitioner, so I refused. He became angry. Soon, his old illness relapsed and he was hospitalized again.
As I understand it, my husband's life was extended for cultivation practice. If he failed to treat himself as a practitioner and conduct himself following Dafa’s standards, then his life would be in danger.
In July 2008, the evil took advantage of our loopholes. My husband and I were arrested and our home was ransacked. I negated the evil and sent forth righteous thoughts for an entire night in detention. The evil was disintegrated and we got out of the evil den within 24 hours
From then on, my husband developed fear and did not want to do things to save people anymore, despite the fact that being a veteran practitioner who has benefited from Dafa, he should understand his mission. The old forces were watching, and wanted to put him to death. In November 2009, the neighborhood committee wanted him to sign an agreement, “Breaking Away from Falun Gong,” and he signed it. This put his life in even more danger.
My husband suffered a relapse of heart disease in January 2011 and was hospitalized again. He told me not to tell any practitioners about his situation. My understanding on the Fa was poor at the time, and I therefore did not contact any practitioners. He got out of the hospital and still couldn’t resume being diligent in his practice. He returned to the hospital in June 2011.
In July, three days after he was discharged from the hospital, he asked our children to help him and he was admitted to the No. 301 Military Hospital in Beijing without my being aware of what was going on. The experts examined him thoroughly and diagnosed that all the main vessels leading in and out of his heart were blocked. The specialist said to him, “What a great deity you are! With all the vessels blocked, you still traveled to Beijing!” Wasn’t this a hint from Master using an everyday person’s mouth one last time? If he had been able to handle himself as a practitioner and return home immediately, things could have been different. But he failed to understand it that way, and insisted on staying in the hospital. A month later, the specialists conducted major surgery on him, which in everyday people’s words, was successful. Coming out of the intensive care unit, he thanked the expert repeatedly. His conduct showed that he was an everyday person. He told me, “Stop mumbling to me about that (Dafa) from now on.” In this way, he walked away from Dafa. The old forces were watching, and immediately put him to death. He passed away in just a few hours.
Writer's epilogue:
Listening to the process of a fellow practitioner’s walking away from Dafa, I feel deeply sorry for him for not being able to walk well the last leg of his path of cultivation practice at this critical moment. I also feel sorry for not having the courage to break through ordinary people’s thoughts to help him, even if it was just to study the Fa with him. It was selfishness that stopped me and kept our group from forming one body, that allowed the old forces to take advantage and persecute our fellow practitioner until he died.
Cultivation practice is serious. Master told us “The Closer to the End, the More Diligent You Should Be.” We mustn’t slack off in our cultivation practice. As a practitioner, we can never part from Master and Dafa at any moment. We are Fa-rectification period Dafa disciples; we should listen to Master, maintain our righteous thoughts at every moment, negate the old forces, and only walk the path that Master has arranged for us.
