(Minghui.org) I am 83 years old. I began to practice Falun Dafa in 1996. During these more than 25 years of cultivation, Master has always been by my side.
While Cultivating Dafa and Free of Illness, Miracles Manifest
Prior to cultivation, I had so many health problems, including heart disease, cervical spine issues, gynecological disease, tuberculosis of the kidney, and neuropathic headaches. I often had heart attacks. I felt a lot of chest tightness and couldn’t breathe or sleep at night; I had to lie back only halfway instead of fully reclining. I also lacked strength in my limbs.
I was a teacher. In class, I always had to lean against the corner of the podium. Whenever I had a serious relapse of my back problem, I would writhe in pain. I also had constant headaches and neck pain. I tried medications, injections, and physical therapy, but it was all in vain. Within a year after I started practicing Dafa, all my health issues disappeared. I became healthy and strong, and my weight went from 90 to 120 pounds.
When I was 45 years old, I began to wear reading glasses. After I started practicing, I could read without my glasses, and my eyes became much brighter. In the past, I had terrible car sickness. As soon as I got in the car, I felt dizzy and had palpitations, followed by vomiting. After I got out, I felt terribly ill. No matter what I did to try to stop it, it didn’t work, so I hardly ever traveled anywhere.
Within a year after I began studying the Fa and doing the exercises, I took the bus to Wuhan. I thought: “If I still have car-sickness, it would be Master cleansing my body; if I turned out to be fine, it was Master who helped remove the substance of my car sickness.” I rode the bus for five hours straight without feeling the slightest discomfort. From then on, I completely let go of any thought of car sickness.
In May 2010, I inadvertently ran into a window in a restaurant. My face was all swollen, and my eyes were slits. But it didn’t hurt and I didn’t bleed. When my children saw me, they told me I should go to the doctor. Then my sister suggested that I use a hot hardboiled egg to roll around my eyes to help relieve the swelling. I said, “I’m fine. I have Master. Master is taking care of me.” The next day, the swelling was down, but there were still a lot of bruises. I recovered in three days.
On a rainy day in March 2012, I’d bought vegetables and was going to my sister’s. I had an umbrella in my left hand and the vegetables in my right as I went to get on the bus. As I put my foot on the bottom step and heaved myself up—“Bang!” my head hit the metal railing on the bus. Everyone on the bus was looking at me. Some came to help me up, and some wanted to give me their seat. They all said, “At your age, that was quite a blow. You need to go to the hospital.” However, I didn’t feel anything. My head didn’t hurt, nor did it bleed or swell. I knew it was Master who had protected me. I said to them, “Thank you for your concern, but I’m fine.”
After that, I often recalled this incident to my relatives and friends and told them it was Master Li who saved me; otherwise, the consequences would have been terrible.
A few years ago, my sister had a stroke and ended up with reduced mobility, so I often went to see her. In June 2019, I saw her walker sitting unused, so I asked her, “Why don’t you use it?” Her caregiver Zhang told me that she didn’t know how to use it. I pushed it into the center of the living room and went to lift up my right leg when I suddenly fell straight down and landed on the back of my head. Zhang was petrified and kept saying, “Stay there, don’t move! What should I do?” My sister was so scared she started to cry.
I slowly got up from the floor and said, “Take it easy. I practice Falun Dafa and Master protects me. Look, aren’t I fine?” Zhang asked me if I felt dizzy. I said no. Then she said, “I fell down once. Look, I am younger than you, and I didn’t stumble nearly as hard as you. But I ended up in bed for two months. This is incredible!” Later, when I clarified the facts to her, she showed great understanding. She often listened to Master’s lecture recordings with my sister.
Eliminating My Fear of Saving Sentient Beings
I was always afraid to clarify the facts about Falun Dafa to people face-to-face. I was very worried about it, so I often read and wrote down practitioners’ experiences of clarifying the facts in articles on the Minghui website. Then I re-read and memorized them. But when it came to actually going out on my own to clarify the facts, I still couldn’t apply what I learned. Later, I decided to go out with a couple of practitioners near me to learn from them.
In the first half of 2017, Ms. Liu took me with her to clarify the facts. On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, we planned to clarify the facts to people in a village. Mr. Ye, a young practitioner, was going to drive us on his motorcycle. Before we were about to set out, Ms. Liu’s daughter-in-law came home, so Ms. Liu had to stay home to cook for her. Mr. Ye only took me.
I was typically afraid to ride on a motorcycle. I felt better about it if I was sitting between the driver and the other passenger. When it came to sitting at the back, I was scared. In addition, Mr. Ye’s motorcycle was old. When he drove fast, I was even more scared, and my heart was pounding, so I kept asking him to go a bit slower. After a while, I suddenly remembered that I was a practitioner and had come to save sentient beings and that I have Master by my side, so what was I afraid of? Meanwhile, deep down, I kept reciting, “Falun Dafa is wonderful! Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is wonderful!” Soon, I was able to calm down.
After we arrived, we saw many villagers chatting. So we got off the motorcycle and got ready to talk to them. I said to Mr. Ye, “I came to learn how to clarify the facts to people. Please show me what to do.” Mr. Ye held up some of our informational materials in both hands and shouted, “We came to deliver these informational materials to you. Please take some home and check them out.” I admired his courage, and my fear suddenly subsided. Then I was able to walk up to the villagers and talk to them. The conversations went very well.
Later, we went to their homes and talked to them household by household. During the process, I felt I knew what to say and could bring up the topic naturally. The majority of them were open to our information and materials. Some of them decided to quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations. I felt the outcome was exceptionally good. When I passed on the list of people who’d quit the CCP, Mr. Ye said, “You thought you didn’t know what to say. Look, you helped all these people quit the CCP.” I thought to myself, “It’s not me at all—it’s more about Master safeguarding and encouraging me!”
At 3 p.m, Mr. Ye’s motorcycle got a flat tire. Since we were out in the boonies, there was no tire store around. We were worried and wondered what we could do.
Within 10 minutes, someone selling goods out of a handcart showed up. We asked him where we could get a tire replaced. He said, “We don’t have that kind of store in our village. But if you go to the next one over, there is someone who knows how to change tires. I have his number; let me make a call for you.” After he called, he said, “He’ll be over shortly. Take it easy.” Both of us enlightened that it was Master who sent this man to give us a hand. In about 30 minutes, the person showed up. He charged 100 yuan to put on a new tire for us. We then continued to hand out truth-clarification materials.
With Faith in Master and Dafa and Strong Righteous Thoughts, I Overcame an Illness Karma Test
In April 2014, there were blisters on my left hand—as if the skin had been burned. At first, I didn’t pay much attention to it. The next day, my daughter-in-law came to see me and asked me if I’d burned myself. I said, “No. I don’t know what it is. It doesn’t hurt or itch.” I took off my shirt and saw the same blisters on my left shoulder, neck, and left arm.
A couple of days later, I couldn’t lift my left arm. I couldn’t hold a bowl or put my clothes on. But I wasn’t worried about it and thought: “This is to eliminate my karma.” My children knew that Dafa’s Master would take care of me, so none of them pushed me to go to the hospital. During those days, I kept studying the Fa and doing the exercises every day. When I couldn’t lift my left hand to do the Falun Standing Stance exercise, I used my right hand to help with my left and then leaned against the door or wall to do the exercises. In about a month, I was fine. From that my children witnessed the extraordinary nature of Dafa one more time.
In 2014, I had a red rash around my rear end. It was very itchy. I regarded it as eliminating karma, which is a good thing. Thus, I didn’t take it to heart. Later it spread and spread and itched more and more. The area also began to swell. Right then, I recalled that it typically only took a few days for karma elimination, so I had to assume this was an illusion, which is a form of evil persecution. While looking inward, I sent righteous thoughts to eliminate every evil being and factor behind it. But it didn’t help.
Right then, I couldn’t stay calm anymore. I used saltwater to rinse the area where the blisters were. Of course, it didn’t help. I was puzzled because I didn’t know what the problem was. However, I firmly believed that Master had pushed every veteran practitioner who began to cultivate Dafa prior to the persecution to the position as high as they were supposed to be, so I kept enduring it. This tribulation lasted a bit over four years.
Master said:
“So in these circumstances I think that when newer practitioners, or those who haven’t managed to improve in their cultivation for a long time, are dealing with a sickness-karma test, sometimes it’s fine for them to see a doctor. It’s fine for them to go to the hospital. It will just be regarded as an episode along the way in their journey of cultivation. But I think that this is not an issue for the Dafa disciples who are solid in their cultivation, have strong righteous thoughts, and know what they should do.” (“2018 Fa Teaching Given in Washington, D.C.”)
I felt as if I had found the solution. I asked my niece to take me to the hospital. The doctor said it was eczema. My niece then helped me get the medication for it. After I returned home, I started feeling at odds with what I was doing. I sat on the couch and took a moment to ask myself, “Are you a new practitioner?” Then I answered myself, “I am not. I’m someone who has practiced for more than 20 years. Even though I still have big gaps compared to those diligent practitioners, I have faith in Master and Dafa. I will cultivate all the way to the end and follow Master to reach consummation. How could I be so muddle-headed?” Then I began to read the Fa and studied it for a while.
Master said:
“But even if you have a lot of karma, you can get through whatever tribulation as long as you have strong righteous thoughts. The karma does need to be eliminated, though, and so there could be what seems like a relapse. If that happens you can just treat it as a test, as something to cultivate through. Keep your thoughts positive and strong, and you will again break through it. Cultivation doesn’t take just one shape or form. Each person’s situation is unique. But I would like you to know one thing: now that you have Dafa with you, you have gained the Fa, and your life belongs to the Great Way, so you should forge ahead without any doubt, with righteous thoughts and actions, and do things as I have taught you.” (“2018 Fa Teaching Given in Washington, D.C.”)
I realized: “Didn’t Master answer all my questions right here?” I had mixed feelings of gratitude and regret. Tears kept rolling down my face. I said to Master, “Master, I did wrong.” I threw away all the prescriptions and got better day by day. Another couple of years passed, and sometimes there were relapses in between. I just treated it as a test and often warned myself that I must remember this lesson.
In late October 2019, my friend’s husband was hospitalized. I went to the hospital to accompany her and stayed there for five days. While giving her a hand, I also showed her husband how to recite the two phrases, “Falun Dafa is wonderful, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is wonderful!
In early November, the doctor told her that her husband was about to pass away, so they prepared to stop all his treatments. I went home to take a shower and then headed back to the hospital. Just before I got there, I twisted my ankle very badly. It swelled up, and I was in so much pain I couldn’t walk. When the person who went with me wanted to massage my foot, I said, “I’m fine. Don’t worry about me.” I enlightened that I probably shouldn’t have accompanied her, so I took a cab home.
At home, I began to look inward. I found my attachment to sentimentality for my friend.
Master said:
“You will be made to give up all of the worldly attachments that you hold onto. Any and all attachments you have must be ground down, and it will take place through any of a number of scenarios where you will be made to stumble or do poorly, and from these come to new spiritual insights. This is how you will make it through and succeed.” (The Fourth Talk, Zhuan Falun)
Through this matter, I came to deeply feel that benevolent Master is by my side at all times to look after me and give me hints.
Since my ankle hurt terribly, I couldn’t walk. But when I thought about Master’s painstaking efforts and benevolent saving grace, I made up my mind to get up in time to do the exercises the next morning. Miraculously, even though it hurt so much, I could still manage to finish the standing exercises. When doing the sitting meditation, I couldn’t sit in the full lotus position, but I could sit in the half-lotus position. No matter how painful it was, I still did the sitting meditation for an hour every day.
After a dozen days, my foot was still swollen and it hurt even more. When I slept, my tendons were so sore, it was as if my bone was broken. Both my sister and children asked me to go to the hospital to get an x-ray. They said, “You must have fractured a bone—that’s why it’s still swollen and sore.” I didn’t quite understand that either, but I thought: “I’m a practitioner. As long as I have righteous thoughts, Master will take care of me. How could I manage to finish the standing exercises otherwise? It must have been Master empowering and encouraging me!”
The next day when I studied the Fa, I came across this passage:
“But often tensions like these won’t count or achieve what they are meant to, or help you to improve, if they don’t actually bother you.” (The Fourth Talk, Zhuan Falun)
I suddenly came to understand that it must be Master who gave me this test, to see if my heart was moved when faced with the illusion of a fractured bone. Thus, when they asked me to go get an x-ray, I firmly said to them, “It was because my xinxing was not up to par. Otherwise, I’d be fine by now.” After that, they didn’t say anything.
My foot got better day by day. It was completely healed in a little over two months.
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