(Minghui.org) I recently read a practitioner’s experience sharing article on the Minghui website, titled “Master’s Boundless Grace and Our Eternal Gratitude.” The practitioner’s heartfelt words touched me, and made me recall scenes from my own cultivation journey.
I began to practice Falun Dafa in late 1998. Along the way, it was compassionate Master who protected and guided me every step of the way. I could feel his compassionate strengthening at every moment. Without Master, there is no way I could have made it to today! I’m not very good with words, and my gratitude for Master remains buried in my heart.
Two Car Accidents, Yet I’m Completely Unharmed
I was riding my electric bike to work one morning shortly after I began practicing Dafa. As I reached an intersection, a sedan slammed right into me. I heard a loud “bang” as my helmet struck the hood of the car, and I was thrown dozens of meters ahead onto the road.
Strangely, I did not feel scared at all. I got up from the ground and ran over to my bike as if nothing had happened. I then asked the terrified driver, who was frozen in the seat of her car, to help me lift the bike up.
Although I had been hit so hard, the bike was not damaged at all. The car was basically fine, too, except that the right side mirror was broken. I said with a smile to the distraught driver, “Your side mirror is broken, but you have insurance. Neither I nor my bike was harmed, so don’t worry. I’m leaving now.”
At that moment, I heard a passerby say, “Wow! There are actually still people like this nowadays?!” Looking back now, that entire scene was almost exactly like what Master talked about in Zhuan Falun.
There was another time when I was driving on a rural road with bodies of water on both sides. A car coming from the opposite direction crashed into me, causing my car to spin 180 degrees. Even the airbags deployed, yet I remained completely unharmed.
Those two car accidents may have been instances of someone I owed in the past trying to claim my life. In my heart, I knew that compassionate Master had resolved these tribulations for me and saved my life.
Passing Through Sickness Karma With Righteous Thoughts
I was arrested, taken to a detention center, then to a labor camp. My attachments were still very strong, and I had not truly understood the Fa principles and not done well in my cultivation.
While standing in line for food one day, I accidentally fell. The back of my head hit the floor, and I experienced memory loss. I later realized where I had been wrong, and I began memorizing Master’s Hong Yin with other practitioners. Gradually, my thoughts returned to the Fa. Afterward, a miracle occurred—my concussion symptoms disappeared completely.
Half a year after returning home from the labor camp, I began feeling that something was wrong with my health. Urged by my family, I went to the hospital for an examination. The results showed a fluid accumulation in my chest and lungs, as well as fluid around my heart. This condition was considered quite serious and difficult to treat. My family panicked, and fear arose in me. As a result, I drifted away from Dafa and stopped studying the Fa and doing the exercises.
As I realized that modern medicine had no truly effective solutions for my illness, I was left with no alternative but to return to Dafa cultivation. After resuming Fa study and doing the exercises, the discomfort in my body quickly disappeared. With Master’s compassionate protection, I overcame another sickness karma tribulation—one that medical treatment would require at least half a year but still might not fully heal. Master gave me another life once again!
Being Known Throughout the Village as Good Daughters-in-Law
My mother-in-law got ill and was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease while I was being persecuted. Nineteen years went by from the beginning of her illness until her passing. As time passed, her movements gradually became stiff and slow, and she eventually could no longer care for herself.
As the saying goes, “A long-term illness tests the filial piety of even the most devoted children.” I understood that everyday people’s patience is limited. During that process, everyone’s negative side eventually emerged, and I was no exception. But I’m a cultivator. Fortunately, I had Master’s teachings and Dafa’s guidance. I knew I needed to follow the standards of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance and be a good person, a better person, and not behave like everyday people. So I let go of my concerns over personal loss and gain. Whether financially or physically, I tried my best to take the lead in caring for my mother-in-law without resentment or regret.
My sisters-in-law witnessed this. Gradually, they also began taking the initiative to care for my mother-in-law and help share the responsibilities. Complaints disappeared, and no one argued any longer.
I sometimes shared my understandings of Dafa’s principles with them, “Dafa teaches us to be good. On the surface, it may seem as though we’re giving of ourselves to others, but in reality heaven rewards us with virtue. This virtue is the source of all blessings in life and can even be passed on to future generations. Isn’t that wonderful?” Once they understood, they all said that Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is truly wonderful.
We all worked together seamlessly to feed, bath, turn over, change diapers, and help comfort her emotionally. As a result, our affection for one another deepened, and the whole family lived harmoniously.
In the same village, there was a daughter-in-law who became critical of her mother-in-law, who had mild dementia. She ended up shoving her mother-in-law’s head into water, and the entire township was shocked. The neighbors said, “These two families are truly worlds apart!”
If I had not cultivated Dafa, I do not think our family could have become what it is today. I always told my mother-in-law, “It’s because I practice Falun Dafa that I developed such patience and physical endurance.” I taught her to recite “Falun Dafa is good,” and as a result, she passed away peacefully.
Throughout the entire process of caring for my mother-in-law, there are simply too many stories to recount. Thanks to Master’s help, I made it through everything. When I look back, I feel very grateful. Under Dafa’s guidance, so many negative and demonic things within me were gradually cultivated away.
On the surface, it looked as though I had been giving to others all those years, but in reality Master was using predestined relationships to help me improve my character. The moment I thought this, tears streamed down my face, and my heart filled with gratitude.
How the Fa Changed My Family Environment
By ordinary reasoning, considering how well I treated my parents-in-law and my husband’s family, my husband should have been grateful to me—or at the very least, he should not have harmed me. But as a Dafa practitioner, what I experienced was different.
My husband and I had a very good relationship. But in July 1999, Jiang Zemin, the then head of the Chinese Communist Party, mobilized the entire state apparatus to launch the persecution of Falun Dafa. At the beginning of the persecution, I was sent to a forced labor camp. My husband visited me every month and wrote me many letters.
I was sentenced again more than 10 years later. After I returned home, he had completely changed. He often lost his temper and cursed me. He even became violent and began physically abusing me.
I was truly suffering, but I did not want my family to worry about me, so I silently endured the abuse. Sometimes, just hearing his footsteps made my heart tremble. I lived in fear every day. Even after being assaulted, I did not dare speak up for fear of retaliation. I even felt as though my life was in danger. Seeing that I still had not enlightened to the root cause of the issue, Master arranged for me to meet some fellow practitioners. At last, I had returned to the Fa!
Through studying the Fa, I gradually came to understand Master’s words:
“For a cultivator, looking within is a magical tool.” (“Fa Teaching Given at the 2009 Washington, D.C. International Fa Conference,” Collected Teachings Given Around the World, Volume IX)
Only the Fa can eliminate evil! So whenever fear arose in my heart, I tried looking within. After uncovering a large number of attachments, I sent forth righteous thoughts to eliminate them. Gradually, I noticed that the situation began improving.
My husband once saw me bringing truth-clarification materials home and threatened me with a knife. I knew he was being controlled by the evil factors behind him. I changed my human notion of judging things only by appearances, and directed righteous thoughts toward the factors manipulating him from behind. He immediately put the knife down.
As I continued studying the Fa more deeply, I realized that all external manifestations of evil are caused by internal unrighteous elements. After understanding this, I constantly began searching inward for my attachments and notions that did not conform to the Fa. I later discovered that every single thing he did and said was actually related to my state of cultivation. So it turned out that he had come into my life to help me cultivate and improve.
I was then able to stay calm. Whenever we had a conflict, I listened to everything he said, then immediately looked within to see what issue of mine was being targeted. I gradually learned to cultivate myself amid every detail of daily life, and looking within became second nature. I was able to let go of my emotional attachment to my husband, as well as my attachment to a comfortable life.
If I saw someone else’s attachment when reading sharing articles written by fellow practitioners, I immediately looked within and cultivated myself as well. Over time, I discovered that my attachments were becoming fewer and fewer. My husband also now rarely explodes with demonic behavior. He’s become much more peaceful. My family environment has finally changed!
My level is limited. If there is anything not in accordance with the Fa, please kindly point it out.
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