(Minghui.org) Before I began practicing Falun Dafa I argued with my husband every day over trivial matters. We often fought physically, sometimes we even hit our daughter. My parents did not approve of divorce so I remained married against my will.
My health was poor and I had arthritis in my knees, migraine headaches, back pain, toothaches and I was depressed. I felt my life was miserable and unbearable.
In 2001, I was introduced to Falun Dafa while visiting a relative. All my illnesses disappeared, and I felt light, and as though I were a different person. I understood the purpose of life. My family became harmonious, and I experienced many incredible things along my cultivation journey.
I embarked on my cultivation journey while balancing personal cultivation and doing all of the things asked of us by Master Li Hongzhi. Due to my deeply ingrained Communist Party culture and many other attachments, I did poorly at home and unknowingly failed a lot of xinxing (moral character) tests. I also did not cultivate myself well and my loopholes were taken advantage of by the old forces (negative influences/entities).
In the spring of 2021, while I clarified the facts about the persecution and helped people quit the Party and its affiliated organizations at a large market, I was arrested by the police and illegally sentenced to one year of forced labor.
During my time in police custody, I looked within and found a lot of attachments: jealousy, resentment, concern for reputation, vanity, timidity, lust and desire. I worked hard to remove them. After I was released I realized that I should treat my family with kindness.
One morning in the Spring of 2016, I suddenly developed stroke-like symptoms and the entire left side of my body became numb. My terrified husband called a Falun Dafa practitioner who hurriedly came.
The practitioner read the Fa and sent righteous thoughts with me until 3p.m. and my stroke symptoms lessened. That evening several practitioners came and sent righteous thoughts and shared their understandings with me.
After they left, I stayed up all night studying the Fa, doing the exercises, sending righteous thoughts, and looking inward. I found a lot of attachments, such as vanity, pursuit of personal gain, and resentment toward my father-in-law. I sent righteous thoughts to eliminate these attachments.
With Master’s enlightening and strengthening, I completely recovered three days later. On the second day before I went to study the Fa at a fellow practitioner’s home, I wondered if I would be able to ride a bicycle. I immediately thought: yes, I can do it. Master is protecting me.
I studied the Fa with that practitioner all day. When I came home in the evening, my husband saw that I was tired. He shouted, “If you continue to look like this, I’ll take you to the hospital.” My heart was not moved. I studied the Fa again before I fell asleep.
I dreamed that many practitioners were coming to my home to study the Fa together, but I was still asleep. I immediately woke up from the dream and got up. It was 1 a.m. I knew Master was reminding me to get up to study the Fa and practice the exercises.
While I meditated I felt intense pain in my knees, as if they were resting on knives. I endured the pain and told myself, “After this, I’ll practice all the exercises all over again.” The second time I did them wasn’t as painful, and my fatigue was gone.
After breakfast my neighbor dropped by to remind us to come to his farm to pick the ginger roots that we agreed to buy from him last year. I joined my husband in working in the field and we gathered ginger. My husband did not give me any special treatment. I felt Falun rotating rapidly throughout my body and I experienced what Master taught, “The truth is, I treasure you more than you treasure yourselves!” (“Eliminate Your Last Attachment(s)”, The Essentials of Diligent Progress II)
Our daughter attended a key high school in the city and her grades were good. When she first enrolled, she ranked 20th in her class because she completed her junior high education in our village, so her educational foundation was weak. By the end of the first year of high school, she advanced to the top 10, and then she quickly advanced to the top 5.
Every Sunday, she came home and studied the Fa with me. Her head teacher praised her for her good character and academic performance and and said he wished every student in his class was like her. She ranked second in her class in the College Entrance Exam, and we knew Master opened her wisdom.
She felt she hadn’t done as well on the math exam as she had expected, and math was so crucial. When her final score became available she was depressed, and was worried that she wouldn’t be admitted to an ideal college.
I understood that whatever happened to her had something to do with my xinxing, so I looked inward. I found my attachment to fame and vanity. I secretly hoped she would enter a prestigious college so I could show off.
I realized this attachment manifested in many other aspects of my life. I rejected it and thought, “I don’t want it. I will only take what Master arranged for me, and won’t allow the old forces to take advantage of my loopholes.”
The next step was filling out a form so she could choose a college. She had six colleges in mind and she needed to decide which one to list as her first choice. The policy had just changed. The process was rather chaotic, and many students missed applying for their preferred colleges.
Her dream college was in our province but she didn’t dare to include it because she didn’t believe she would qualify. Her teacher recommended a college in the northeast, so she planned to include it among her six options, even though she didn’t like the cold weather. She marked all six colleges from a list in a book.
When she filled out the online form she could not find the northeast college. We checked the book five times but we still couldn’t find it, so she had to choose another college. The next morning the northeast college appeared in the book, with a very noticeable mark on that page that was almost impossible to miss. We realized it was Master’s hint that she should not attend that college.
Right before our daughter was about to submit the online form, my husband’s cousin texted to encourage her to include her dream college as her top priority. We believed it was no coincidence and that there must be a good reason behind it, so we listed that college as her first choice.
Every one of our daughter’s teachers said that she would not be admitted to her preferred college, but we were not moved, and we believed Master’s arrangements were the best. A few days later she received the admission notice from her dream college. It was a miracle!
Our daughter is a pure-hearted and kind young Falun Dafa practitioner. She has been under Master’s merciful protection since childhood. She often says, “Mom, we could not have made it to today without Master’s protection.”
My daughter has now been in the workforce for three years and she is an outstanding industrial designer and she steadily and smoothly walks her cultivation path.
My heart is calm, and I am diligently doing the three important tasks Master asks of us. I will be even more diligent, regain the diligent cultivation state I once had, and walk steadfastly on the path of assisting Master during Fa-rectification.
This concludes my sharing. Please kindly point out anything improper.