(Clearwisdom.net) Recently an elderly practitioner in our area encountered severe "sickness karma" and overcame it through righteous thoughts and righteous belief in Master and the Fa. I hope her story can help those practitioners who have been interfered with by "sickness karma."
Ms. Chen is over 80 years old this year. In 1998, when her daughter-in-law started to practice Dafa, she asked her for the book Zhuan Falun and started to read it. When she realized Dafa was the great way of Buddha cultivation that taught people to cultivate their mind and nature, she immediately decided to practice as well. Not long after she started, she improved greatly. Many people started to follow her to practice and a practice group was formed. They practiced and studied with determination.
After the CCP started to persecute Falun Gong in1999, their study group encountered some interference as well. Some veteran practitioners clarified the truth to the leaders in the village and the director of the village understood them. The leaders thwarted the "instructions" from their superior authorities with all kinds of excuses. Therefore, the practitioners' study group continued their routine activities without interruption.
After studying the Fa and Master's new articles, old Ms. Chen realized that, as a particle of Dafa and while Dafa and Master were suffering injustice and practitioners were being persecuted, one should do one's best to enable more worldly people to understand the truth. With another senior practitioner, B, who was 89 years old, the two of them started to visit friends and family to clarify the truth and to tell people "Falun Dafa is the righteous Fa" based on their own experiences. These senior practitioners have visited several nearby towns and townships.
One day in early of August this year, Ms. Chen suddenly felt very dizzy. Her daughter wanted to take her to see a doctor. She said to her daughter firmly, "I'm a practitioner. Everything will be OK." She understood it must be the interference from demons. She kept sending righteous thoughts and also asked Master to help. Next day, her dizziness was gone and there was only a little swelling on her face. She didn't pay much attention to it and continued to do the three things.
However, a few days later, her practitioner friend B suddenly passed away. Just the night before, they had studied together until past 10 p.m. Next morning, practitioner B was found still sitting on the couch, already dead. The death of this fellow practitioner stirred up Ms. Chen's human emotions. She was very sad. A few days later, she fell down and lost consciousness. Her children took her to the hospital. She was first diagnosed with virulent encephalitis but later it was changed to a stroke. However, several days worth of infusions and injections didn't help her at all.
A strange thing happened. No matter how her children called to her, she didn't react at all. When practitioners came to send forth righteous thoughts and to read Master's articles, however, she would regain some consciousness, calling out practitioner's names or holding their hands tightly. She even indicated to her daughter-in-law that she wanted to go home. After exchanging thoughts with other fellow practitioners, her daughter-in-law realized that her mother-in-law was a practitioner and should not go through ordinary treatment. She should help her mother-in-law to strengthen her righteous thoughts and to break through the old forces' arrangement to pass the test of life and death.
When her daughter-in-law suggested taking her mother-in-law home, she encountered disagreement from all the other family members. After failing to persuade them, she realized that she must have some human thoughts that were interfering. Through studying the Fa and looking inward, she realized her own human thoughts; her sentimentality with regard to her mother-in-law that made her unable to regard her mother-in-law as a practitioner; and her fear that she might have to assume a great responsibility if her mother-in-law didn't have strong enough righteous thoughts and passed away. Because of such selfish human thoughts, she had unconsciously acknowledged the old forces' arrangements.
She became calm after realizing these attachments. She thought, "We go along the path that Master arranges for us. Let us do the three things." She stayed with her mother-in-law and reminded her whenever it was the right hour, "My fellow practitioner, let's send forth righteous thoughts."
Because she corrected her state of mind, that night the senior family members arranged to take Ms. Chen out of the hospital.
Ms. Chen's daughters insisted on continuing to give her infusions even out of the hospital. The old lady seemed in great pain whenever any medicines were injected. She even started to be incontinent. When her daughters invited the doctor to come check on her, the doctor said, "According to her condition, any medicine is just to extend her time and to decrease her pain. Be prepared for her death."
Her daughter-in-law invited all their fellow practitioners to send forth righteous thoughts for her. More than 10 nearby practitioners came to her mother-in-law's home to study and send forth righteous thoughts together. A miracle happened. When the fellow practitioners were reading the articles, the old lady followed to read as well; when the daughter-in-law told her to send righteous thoughts at the right hour, she raised up her hand and said, "Let's eliminate them."
A few days later, the old lady regained consciousness. She asked to move into her daughter-in-law's home, and her daughter-in-law immediately agreed. With the help of fellow practitioners, she was moved in. At close to 6 a.m. the next day, the daughter-in-law called to her, "Get up. It is the time to send forth righteous thoughts globally." She immediately sat up with the help of the daughter-in-law and they finished sending righteous thoughts together. The daughter-in-law said to her, "We are Fa rectification period Dafa disciples. We should do well the three things that Master asks us. Do not lie in bed all the time. I can help you to walk a little bit."
Three days later, with the help of Master and their fellow practitioners, Ms. Chen recovered completely.
That morning, her oldest daughter came to visit her. Ms. Chen was sitting in front of the door smiling. It seemed as if nothing had happened. Her daughter was really surprised. Three days before, her mother seemed barely conscious and was incontinent. Three days later, her mother could walk and her face was glowing with health, red and smooth. Her mother said, "I'm fine now. It is the power of Dafa and Master's compassion that helped me go through the big test."
Later Ms. Chen realized that she and practitioner B had encountered the old forces' arrangements, but they hadn't realized it in time. Practitioner B followed the arrangement and she tumbled. When other practitioners asked what she was thinking when she was battling the tribulation, Ms. Chen said, "I only had one thought: For such a great Dafa, I must follow Master to cultivate to the end. I don't want any other arrangements at all. I can't leave here when the Fa-rectification is still going on. Sentient beings are waiting to be saved and my mission hasn't been fulfilled."
That's it. Because she has Dafa in her mind and she is thinking about saving sentient beings, that precious thought helped her to pass the test of life and death.
December 12, 2005