Master Enlightened Me to Endure Hardship and Cultivate Diligently

(Minghui.org) One night as I was rushing home after group Fa-study, I missed a step and fell down the stairs. I hit the ground on my left side, and my left arm, shoulder, and foot were in such excruciating pain that I believed that I might have broken something.

A fellow practitioner helped me get up and asked if I could get home by myself. I said that I was fine and managed to get down the stairs to ride my bike home. I firmly believed that Master was in charge, so I would be fine. I took the incident lightly, as an illusion, to reject the old forces’ arrangements. I rode my bike home without too much trouble.

I had been going to a group practice site to do the Falun Dafa exercises early every morning and had volunteered to play the exercise music for the group. The next day, I woke up at 3:10 a.m. as usual, but my swollen left foot looked dark purple and hurt. I couldn’t lift my left arm, either. I used my right hand to raise my left hand to tie up my hair. I then began to hesitate: Should I or should I not go to the group exercises? Eventually, I decided to go because I had to play the exercise music, and I didn’t want my fellow practitioners to worry about me. I later learned that the practitioners planned to visit me at my house if I did not show up. I assured them I was fine.

The Falun Dafa exercises consists of five sets of exercise movements, including a meditation. The first day after the accident, I had a hard time doing the first four exercises. However, I remembered something Master said, “...I think it’s best to do the first one before the others...” (Falun Gong) So I was determined to do the first one, no matter how much it hurt.

The first exercise requires lifting and stretching the arms upward, and any movement caused a lot of pain in the left side of my body. I did my best to finish the first exercise while enduring the pain. Then I sat down to do the fifth exercise, a seated meditation, while the other practitioners continued on to the second through the fourth exercises. Then I joined them when it came time for them to do the fifth exercise. In this way, I was able to do the daily group exercises by doing the seated meditation twice rather than all the standing exercises. As a result, I meditated for two hours each day during that time.

Needless to say, it was very difficult for me to do the exercises in my condition. During the first exercise, Buddha Stretching a Thousand Arms, my left arm was trembling in pain. But no matter how much my left arm, shoulder, and foot hurt, I tried my best to lift my arm up as much as I could and persevered to finish the exercise. When doing the fifth exercise, which is a seated meditation, Reinforcing Supernatural Powers, I could not use my left arm to make a circle to complete the hand movements. But I still did my best, despite the pain.

After a few days, an idea appeared in my dream and let me know that I could hold the Law Wheel, which is a movement in the second exercise, Falun Standing Stance. I knew it was time to endure hardship and improve myself by trying to do the second exercise. Trembling in pain to raise both hands in the four wheel-holding positions, I had to adjust the time for myself by shortening the time I held the wheel in front of the head, lengthening the time I held it in front of my abdomen, reducing the time holding it over my head, and increasing the time holding it on both sides. That way, I could do the second exercise for an hour.

After a while, another idea came into my dream and told me that I could do the gliding the hands up-and-down movement in the third exercise, Penetrating the Cosmic Extremes. So I attempted the third exercise the next morning by using my right hand to lift my left hand up a few times and then followed along with the exercise music. My left arm and shoulder hurt like needles piercing my flesh. Although my movement was not up to the standard, I finally could do the third exercise. After that, my condition improved day by day, so my exercise movements became more and more accurate, and my body recovered quickly.

Through this incident, I realized that we should believe in Master and the Fa, work hard to follow Master's requirements, reject the old forces’ arrangements, endure hardships, cultivate diligently, eliminate karma, and remove attachments. As long as we do our part as much as we can, Master will help us.