My Understanding on Dafa Practitioners’ Developing COVID-like Symptoms

(Minghui.org) Several practitioners that I know had fever over the past few days. Those who had been diligent in their cultivation recovered in half a day. But the rest, who had not been so diligent, struggled with their symptoms for days and felt quite uncomfortable. I also had fever for a day, yet I remained rather calm in the process. 

I think the reason that I was interfered with and had fever was because of loopholes in my cultivation. I had always tried to transform my body through doing the Dafa exercises so as to prove Dafa’s miraculous health benefits to my relatives. With such a strong pursuit, I encountered some interference, which made me unwilling to do the exercises, which I believe in turn made me susceptible to the virus. 

I also had this experience that as soon as I shared my enlightenment from the Fa with practitioners who couldn’t keep up with cultivation, my diligent cultivation state would be gone and I would experience strong obstacles, preventing me from making further progress in my cultivation. As a matter of fact, I started having fever after I delivered some sharing articles to fellow practitioners. I felt those articles would really help those practitioners become more diligent, but ironically I slacked off myself afterwards. I now realized that I may still harbor the attachment of showing off, which was then exploited by the old forces to interfere with me. 

Whatever we encounter, be it fever or other symptoms, I think that everything happens for a reason and they might come as a test of our faith in Master and the Fa. If I don’t truly cultivate myself, I could be easily moved by the false appearance. If I test positive for COVID, will I still believe in Dafa? For me, yes, definitely. 

I understand that our eliminating karma also has to follow the principles of this world. For example, I once caught a cold after taking off my jacket in cold weather because I felt hot at the moment. On the surface, the causal relationship was that taking off my jacket led to me catching the cold. But the underlying reason was that I had some karma to eliminate. I remained firm in my faith in Dafa, and the symptoms vanished two hours later. 

We can’t think that we are sick whenever we have fever or other symptoms, but have to look at things from the perspective of a cultivator. Also, when other practitioners, including those who are diligent, exhibit sickness symptoms, it’s also a test for us – whether we follow people or the Fa in our cultivation. 

Above is some of my brief understanding. I hope it can help address some confusion that practitioners might have about these issues.