(Minghui.org) I am 59 years old and have practiced Falun Dafa for 27 years. I’d like to share my personal cultivation experiences and the miraculous stories of how Master has protected me. Thank you, Master, for your compassion and salvation!
I started practicing Falun Dafa in April 1998. This is the most fortunate thing I have ever come across in my life. I gained a second life after I started practicing Falun Dafa. I used to suffer from urinary tract infections, gall bladder inflammation, stomach cramps, diarrhea, constipation and psoriasis on my neck, etc. The worst was my insomnia. I was afraid of the dark night. I took six sleeping pills every night, but could only sleep for two hours. I had terrible dreams and sweat a lot. Bad entities from other dimensions appeared before me day and night. They sometimes appeared in front of me even when my husband was at home.
I used to be an atheist and thought modern medicine could cure my diseases. I urged my husband to take me to the hospital for treatments. My honest and humble husband had no other choice but to skip work and accompany me to see the doctors. In the end, I was not able to sleep for a whole month. I became so scared when the scenes or colors before my eyes changed that my whole body trembled. The doctor said that I had the symptoms of early stage schizophrenia.
I was in my early thirties at that time. I was skinny and weighed only 40 kilos [88 lbs]. I had many wrinkles on my face and had a dark appearance. I was in complete disarray. I seemed to be at the end of my life. Every day was full of suffering.
In my darkest days I came across Falun Dafa. I read Zhuan Falun Volume II three times in one day. I felt like sleeping in the late afternoon. I went to bed at 6 p.m. and slept for 24 hours. In the following 15 days, I kept reading the book.
On the fourth day of studying the Fa, I was unable to take any medication and threw them away. I had deep sleep without any dreams. On the tenth day, I was able to sit on a cold stool. All my illnesses disappeared miraculously. The dark thick psoriasis on my neck was gone without my noticing. I regained my strength and was able to do household chores again. I became illness-free. Life became beautiful again. I felt happy all day.
I came to a Falun Dafa practice site to learn the exercises on the 16th day of studying the Fa. I started my journey of cultivation in Falun Dafa that day. I haven’t been on medication in the past 27 years.
I am a math teacher at a primary school. I am well-known for my teaching and tutoring students for the Olympic Competition for Mathematics. The teachers and the students’ parents said that their children were blessed to have a teacher like me. I was also known for “being strong.” There were two layers of meaning behind “being strong.” The first was that I taught the class really well. The second was that I was very strong-willed and didn’t back down if I thought I was right. I hit students. Even the worst class would change instantly when I took over.
After I practiced Falun Dafa, I realized that hitting students was not right, but I couldn’t control myself. When the students became naughty, I would hit them. Master then used my husband to change me. When I hit the students during the day, my husband would hit me at home. I wasn’t enlightened why this was happening at first. I fought with my husband and wanted to get a divorce.
The last time my husband hit me was in the evening when I hit my student that afternoon. I slapped a student. In the evening my husband slapped me without any reason. I cried and argued with him about why he hit me. He said, “I don’t have any reason, but I just wanted to hit you.” The scene where I hit my student in the afternoon flashed through my mind. I was surprised and stopped crying. I didn’t feel I was wronged. I realized that Master was helping me to get rid of the habit of hitting my students.
As I studied the Fa more, I gradually learned how to look within and constrain myself with the Fa. I got rid of the habit of hitting students and learned not to get angry. I tried to tolerate, understand other people with Falun Dafa’s principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance and measure my speech and actions with these principles. I have learned to be considerate.
The environment in my family, at work and in society become smooth and harmonious. My students and my daughter said that I looked younger and nicer. My husband said that I am a good wife. My parents-in-law said that I am the best daughter-in-law in the world. My old classmates and friends said that I was a changed person.
Master hinted to me several times that I should behave according to the Fa’s requirements and become a selfless cultivator. When I was memorizing Zhuan Falun for the second time, the heating unit in our building didn’t work properly. My home was not heated. It was cold in winter. I found that someone in my building installed a circulation pump. I asked my husband to install one in our home. He said, “It is not good. Our home will be heated but other homes will become cooler. It is selfish and harms others. We’d better use another method.”
I said, “Everyone does it, and so should we.” I forgot that I was a practitioner.
In the end, my husband bought a circulation pump in the afternoon and planned to install it later on. The next day, one of the taps leaked. I was not enlightened as to why that happened. After lunch, my ceiling leaked. I was still not enlightened to what was going on. In the afternoon, my husband opened up the hydraulic valves. The yellowish water shot up and flooded the sitting room, bedrooms, and stairway. The walls became yellowish with dirty water. My home became a mess. That day the boiler room in our building was filling with water. We were unable to install the pump.
While I was busy cleaning up, I looked within. Where was my omission? Master’s teaching came into my mind.
Master said,
“As a cultivator, one must then conduct oneself by following this characteristic of the universe rather than the standards of everyday people. If you want to return to the original, true self and move up in cultivation, you must conduct yourself according to this criterion.” (Lecture One, Zhuan Falun)
I am a veteran practitioner. My biggest wish is to follow Master to return to my original home. In addition, I was now memorizing the Fa, but I completely forgot that I was a practitioner when coming across the issue of heating. I resorted to an improper everyday person’s method. I was selfish, seeking comfort, afraid of hardship and didn’t think of others first. Master told us that we should take hardship as joy and consider others first. I acted against the Fa principles.
I was moved by human notions and deviated from the Fa. I walked the path that the old forces arranged. I was dismayed. Cultivation is a serious matter. No matter how often I studied or how well I memorized the Fa, I was not a practitioner if I didn’t behave according to the Fa. If I wouldn’t abandon human attachments, I couldn’t walk toward godhood.
Now I am bathed in the Fa’s illumination. I am healthy, confident, and feel fulfilled every day. I am walking steadily on my cultivation path.