(Clearwisdom.net) Buddhas actively save people with predestined relationships, using various ways. For example, my mother is 94 years old. In 1996, she wasn't feeling well and was bedridden. When she was half asleep, she saw many people standing outside her bedroom. Among them was a Buddha, and he was smiling at her. When she awoke, Mother told me the scene she had seen in her dream. When I showed her Teacher's picture, she said, "Just like this. He was exactly like this picture." I told her, "Teacher wants you to practice Falun Dafa." Mother was very excited and began practicing Dafa.
After I taught my mother the exercises and played Teacher's lectures for her, she studied diligently. As she started to study the Fa and practice the exercises, her xinxing and health showed obvious improvements. Cultivating Dafa became her whole life. Mother had deep feeling towards Dafa and felt it was great. She went to her hometown to spread Dafa to people with predestined relationships. Several of them have begun Dafa cultivation as a result of her clarifying the truth to them.
One of them told Mother that Dafa practice was really miraculous. This practitioner said that she saw five assistant spirits coming out of her body in her dream and they all looked like individual beings. There was another person that was uninjured after having an accident while raking in the field, all because he practiced Falun Dafa. Another person's head used to shake, but the symptom disappeared after he began Dafa cultivation. Everyone practicing Dafa has felt healthier and their illnesses have disappeared.
Unfortunately, these people gave up practicing Dafa after Jiang's regime started its persecution of Falun Gong. My mother and I told them many times not to be afraid and that Teacher would protect them, but we were unable to persuade them. Seeing they were losing their predestined opportunity to cultivate in Dafa , Mother was heartbroken. Mother said, "I will persist in believing Teacher and in Dafa. No one can harm me." When the authorities came to take Teacher's tapes from her, Mother hid them and took them out later after they had left.
They came to harass her repeatedly, so my sister, who had been looking after her, sent her to live with her other children. My brother and sisters all took turns looking after her. At end of 2005, Mother went to live with my second elder sister. Because my sister didn't cultivate and there weren't any other practitioners living nearby, my mother slacked off in her practice and thus paid the consequences. One day she took a serious fall. Her grandson helped her to the bed. She realized right away that she had slacked off. As soon as she was lying down she started to listen to Teacher's lectures. My sister called to tell me what had happened. Thinking Mother might have been badly hurt, I sat down to send forth righteous thoughts for one hour. When I got there, I asked her: "When you fell, what were you thinking?" Mother said: "If thoughts are righteous, evil will collapse" ("What's to Fear? " from Hong Yin II)
Afraid that Mother had fractured a bone, my sister wanted to take her to the hospital for an examination. But Mother said, "Not to worry. I'll be fine after I sleep for a few days." I felt bad when I saw Mother couldn't move too well when she was lying in bed. I was afraid that she might not be able to bear it much longer. After all, she was 95 years old. To be able to bear the pain she must have steadfastly believed in Teacher.
Two more days went by, and Mother was still in pain. My sister insisted on taking her to a hospital. Mother and I sent forth righteous thoughts together. I asked Teacher to support her, to thoroughly eradicate the dark minions and rotten ghosts and get rid of all evil elements in her field. Afterwards, my sister didn't mention going to the hospital any more. We continued to send forth righteous thoughts every thirty minutes or each hour. With additional help from fellow practitioners, Mother soon recovered. I remained nearby to help her to look inward constantly and eliminate unrighteous thoughts whenever they arose. I also told her to be persistent when I wasn't there. I told her that she couldn't depend on others and that she could overcome any tribulations by raising her xinxing level.
Mother recovered quickly and was able to sit up after two days. After a short while, she managed to walk. One day she went to the terrace by leaning against the wall as a support. The terrace was cluttered with many things, but she managed to walk there quickly. We were all puzzled at how she could have managed to get there. My sister was very excited and said: "It was a miracle for Mother. You had told us how miraculous Dafa was and I was having some doubts. Now I believe it."
This April, Mother came to live with us. I asked her how she was doing with her exercises as soon as she arrived. She said that because she had been in bed for two months, she hadn't done the exercises very much after her recovery. I chastised her, saying that she had been slackening off for a long time and that she should have done the exercises more after she recovered. Mother got angry and said: "I don't need you to manage me. I do my own cultivation!" I realized that, because of my sentimentality, I didn't have benevolence and rationality. I hadn't cultivated my speech, and that was why I couldn't help her. I thought of what Teacher said:
"Since human beings have sentimentality, being upset is sentimentality, so are happiness, love, hatred, enjoying doing one thing, resenting doing another thing, preferring one person to another, hobbies, and dislikes. Everything belongs to sentimentality, and everyday people just live for it." (Zhuan Falun)
I asked myself: "Is this really me?"" I felt very bad and ashamed. I wasn't sufficiently concerned about Mother and yet I had chastised her. I didn't look inward when I encountered a problem. I was disappointed with myself.
Teacher's words appeared before me when I studied the Fa: "...we use to improve your xinxing, and you will be able to overcome them." (Zhuan Falun) I became aware that I didn't pass my xinxing test. Later, I had signs of sickness karma, and it became very serious. I knew I needed to improve my xinxing level in order to eliminate the tribulation. I sent forth righteous thoughts while I looked inward. Teacher had given me a hint in a dream to let me see a field of righteous thoughts, which was made up with words of "righteous thoughts," and I was standing on top of them. I realized that I'd need to walk my own path and deal any problems with righteous thoughts. I also realized that if I sent forth righteous thoughts by targeting negative elements, they would disintegrate instantly.
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