(Minghui.org) Master Li has explained very clearly in the Fa (teachings) that the principles of the human world are opposite to the principles of the universe. In other words, for cultivators, the unpleasant things we encounter in this world are actually good things. This is the difference between humans and divine beings. However, many times I failed to understand this at a higher level and treated bad things as truly bad. As a result, I became frustrated when I had tribulations. Not only was I unable to pass them smoothly, but the difficulties became greater and harder to overcome.

While I was studying the Fa one day, Master’s compassion suddenly opened the long-closed window in my heart. I finally understood that everything I experienced during nearly thirty years of cultivation, including every tribulation I faced, was only a very small portion of what I should bear after Master already endured so much for me. Whenever I reached the limit of what I could endure, Master used different ways to enlighten me so I could understand and improve. While I clarified the truth about the persecution to people Master watched over me, allowing me to walk safely and steadily to where I am today. All the suffering and hardship I endured during sickness karma tribulations were actually Master balancing the karmic debts I owed at different levels. All of these seemingly bad things in the human world were in fact good things from the perspective of a cultivator. My gratitude to Master comes from the depths of my heart and cannot be expressed in words.

I also realized how fortunate and honored I am to be a Falun Dafa practitioner in this lifetime. Being able to follow Master down to the human world to save others and save myself, eliminate karma through suffering, and repaying debts is repaying what I owe. I’m burdened with karmic debts, so how can I return to heaven and become a divine being unless I pay for my sins?

Master is helping me eliminate them while the part I personally eliminate is only a tiny portion—only what I am capable of bearing. Repaying debts is a heavenly principle and conforms to the laws of the universe. A cultivator must endure hardship. Master teaches us to regard suffering as joy, and he patiently and compassionately guides us through cultivation. Furthermore, compassionate Master has already endured and resolved so many hardships for us, leaving only a tiny portion for us to endure. I now remind myself: suffering is not a bad thing, and all bad things are actually good things.

Whether one can endure hardship, and whether one can endure hardship with a cheerful heart shows whether one truly believes in Master and the Fa one hundred percent. It is also the dividing line between true cultivation and false cultivation. I finally understand how I should cultivate and conduct myself.

Please kindly point it out if there is anything inappropriate in my understanding.