(Minghui.org) I began practicing Falun Dafa in May 1996. My coworker introduced Zhuan Falun to me. When I opened the book that evening, I was instantly captivated. “This is the truth that I’ve never seen before,” I thought. “This is exactly what I have been searching for.” I spent three evenings reading the book from cover to cover, and I was very excited. The miraculous and seemingly unattainable cultivation that I had longed for had suddenly come to me. How could I easily let it go?
I’m grateful that Master established a form of practicing the exercises in a group. Otherwise, it would have been really difficult for me to overcome the challenges I had doing the exercises. My legs are thick, short, and stiff, like logs. When I tried to sit in the lotus position, I could only bend my left leg barely 90 degrees, and I could only get my right foot on my left knee. While other practitioners’ soles faced up, mine faced down. I had to lean forward with all my might to sit still.
I could sit like that for no more than five minutes in the beginning. It took me a year to finally manage to sit in the half lotus position. My younger sister encouraged me to try the full lotus position. I stared at my sister in disbelief: full lotus? It was utterly unthinkable. My sister encouraged me to try it, saying that she used to hurt so much that her tears kept falling when she sat in the full lotus position, but she still put a smile on her face. I tied two towels together as a rope and pulled my left foot up with all my might.
Whenever I made progress, Master would encourage me. In my dreams, I saw two luminous flowers the size of washbasins; I was admitted to an outstanding students' class in elementary school. When I was able to sit in the full lotus position, I dreamed that I received an admission letter: I had been accepted to a college! I thought in the dream that now I could finally relax. But then I couldn’t find the classroom building, and found myself locked up in a dirty shack surrounded by an iron fence. Master cares about every practitioner who sincerely wants to cultivate, urging them to strive forward and advance diligently!
As I studied the Fa and practiced the exercises, I recovered from stubborn ailments without even realizing it, including heart disease, chronic inflammation of the small intestine, foul-smelling discharge from both ears, constant headaches, heel spurs, rheumatism throughout my body, breast hyperplasia, and groin cracks. My worried expression vanished, and I felt rejuvenated. In those wonderful days, I would get up at three o’clock every morning to clean the practice area before group exercises. In the evenings, I would quickly cook and eat, clean the floor, lay out my blankets, and wait for other practitioners to come to study the Fa together. Seeing the innocent, happy, and adorable young practitioners sitting on the bedding, I felt immense joy!
Master teaches us cultivators to be considerate. When I was doing temporary work in a factory, I was preparing to hoist a welded piece of metal. I tied it with a steel cable and tried to secure the cable onto the crane hook. The cable was too short and it was difficult to hang it on the hook. As the driver was lowering the crane, the hook, which weighed about 150 pounds, slammed down on my hand. I was in so much pain that I squatted down and stood up repeatedly and endured the pain without making a sound. My coworkers gathered around and saw how much my hand had swollen. The driver was terrified, but I quickly said, “I’m all right.” I knew the boss disliked the driver, so he would get in trouble if the boss knew about the accident.
Master said,
“... practitioners must think about others ...” (Teachings at the Conference in Canada)
I decided not to take leave for a work injury as doing so would alert the supervisor. I forced myself to pick up the welding helmet and continue welding. I was really hurting. A dent remained on my hand between my thumb and index finger, which only disappeared several years later. Thank you, Master, for your protection.
Once I was welding a large, heavy iron frame. I wanted to check if the back side was welded, so I asked a coworker to help lift it. The coworker got tired and suddenly let it go. The frame slammed down on my right foot. I was in excruciating pain, my hands flailing wildly in the air. Coworkers rushed over to lift the frame, and I pulled my foot out. The coworker kept saying, “Don’t blame me! Don’t blame me!” I quickly replied, “I didn’t blame you!” The director shouted, “Find a car! Find car!” I hurriedly said, “No need to find a car. I don’t need to go to the hospital!”
I sat on a stool, took off my shoes and socks, and everyone gathered around and asked me to move my toes, but I couldn’t move them at all. Seeing that I wasn’t going to the hospital, the director asked a coworker to take me home and told me, “Just rest at home. You will be paid for however many days it takes for you to recover.”
When I got home, I sat down in the room where I pay respects to Master’s portrait, and immediately a wave of warm air enveloped my foot. I told my coworker, “Look, as soon as I sat down here, warmth enveloped my foot.” My coworker didn’t say anything. The next day, my coworker brought me a packet of medicine. I said, “Thank you. I don’t need any medicine. You can keep it.”
My toes were swollen to two or three times their normal size. I stayed at home, studying the Fa and doing the exercises, and in four days I was healed. I wanted to rest for another day to take care of some housework, but then I thought that, as a Dafa practitioner cultivating truthfulness, I should go back to work once I was healed, and I should not keep resting at home even if nobody knows that I’m fine.
I went back to work, and it caused a sensation throughout the entire factory, “Healed? Falun Dafa is really miraculous!” Several coworkers gathered around and said, “Even three of us could not lift one end of that big frame. It is too heavy. You healed in just four days?” I moved my foot, “Look, isn’t it healed?”
When we diligently follow the requirements of Dafa, Master can do anything for us. From now on, I must strive to do the three things well and return home with Master!
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