(Clearwisdom.net) My mother is 76 years old this year. When she was young, she endured laborious work and suffered a lot from her own karma. My mother had many physical problems such as rheumatoid arthritis, high blood pressure, heart problems, side effects from gallstone surgery, and tooth pain. Growing up, I still remember how scared I was, knowing her life was in constant danger. Many times, I was sleepless and cried about her getting sick.

1. Beginning the Practice

On the first Sunday of March 1995, I borrowed Master's exercise teaching tape from a fellow practitioner. The whole family watched the tape together several times. At that time, the book Zhuan Falun was not available yet and there was only the book of Falun Gong. My mother had never been in school and didn't know how to write, not even numbers. Of course she couldn't read the book. However, that night after we watched the tape, my mother saw Master's law body wearing a yellow kasaya when she was half asleep and half awake, which really encouraged us ¡V her children who had just begun practicing Falun Dafa.

My mother stopped taking medication right after she obtained the Fa. She believed Master and the Fa would help her with body cleansing and kept practicing and studying the Fa. One day when she sat at the edge of the bed doing the meditation, she saw a person lying on the bed who looked like her. A person who was doing the meditation kept taking something like internal organs out of the chest of the person lying on the bed. Those things were dark and filled with small holes like a bees nest. Then my mother felt her body become so comfortable and light, in a way that she had never experienced. Later, she realized Master had cleansed her body while encouraging her to keep practicing.

2. Master's Hint

Since obtaining the Fa, my mother kept practicing the exercises and studying the Fa every day. Although she was unable to read the book, she listened to Master's lectures on tape every day. However, she was very anxious about not knowing the meanings of certain words. Especially during group study, seeing others read the book while she couldn't. This caused her to feel down and she kept wondering when she would learn the words and be able to read the book.

One day in November 1995, when my mother rested on the bed with her eyes closed, she saw the book of Zhuan Falun open itself and it was standing upright in front of her. The words in the book kept flying into her eyes. She realized it was Master's hint to ask her to learn to read. She started to learn how to read the book. After a while, she began to learn how to write the words, "When it is difficult to endure, you can endure it. When it is impossible to do it, you can do it." However, since her writing was not accurate (My mother's writing looked like drawings. She was used to drawing flowers for her embroidery), Master gave her a hint again. She saw Master in a yellow kasaya flying in the sky. Several lines of words appeared behind him. The words on the first few lines were golden colored but the words on the following line were half golden and half dark. My mother realized her words were not written correctly. Since then, she stopped writing and concentrated on reading Zhuan Falun. Now she is not only able to read Zhuan Falun, but also able to read Master's other lectures. However, sometimes she could not recognize some of the same words when they appeared in other materials.

3. Believe in Master and the Fa

One night in March 2004, my mother suddenly announced she was going to pass away and asked me to dress her with the clothes she had prepared for her death a long time ago. My mother sat at the bed and kept shaking. She even had a hard time speaking. I asked my mother to keep sending forth righteous thoughts and to have a clear mind knowing she was a practitioner and to try to control her body. My mother said, "It is no use. It is my time to leave." At that time, my husband said, "How can you say such words! The practitioner's body should be used to validate the Fa until the Fa rectifies the human world and one should not give up the body easily." Hearing his words, my mother calmed down and her shaking seemed to slow down as well. Surrounding her, my whole family kept sending forth righteous thoughts. Master said,

"Yet some people have limited time left in their lives. Their years for living are numbered and may not be enough for cultivation. Our Falun Dafa can solve this problem and shorten the course of practice. Meanwhile, it is also a cultivation practice of mind and body. When you continually practice cultivation, you will constantly prolong your life. With consistent practice, your life will be constantly prolonged. Those elderly people with good inborn quality will have sufficient time for practice. There is a criterion, however, that the life prolonged beyond your predestined time to live is completely reserved for your practice. If your mind goes wrong a little bit, your life will be in danger because your lifetime should have long been over." ( Zhuan Falun)

During that period, we had relatives coming to visit. My mother accompanied them to chat about ordinary things every day, which seems to have been what led to the above-mentioned symptoms.

In April of this year, my mother kept coughing and was even unable to sleep well. She felt unable to breathe when she fell asleep. Sitting on the bed, she kept coughing and sometimes her face changed to a blue color because of coughing. She was unable to eat much and just ate congee and drank water. After the situation lasted one week, when I noticed that her eyes were sinking in and her face muscles were loosening, my human notions arose. I started to think, "Mother is old. What will I do if something happens to her?" But I immediately realized these thought were wrong. I kept helping my mother send forth righteous thoughts to eliminate the bad things behind her. One day, my mother happened to look at herself in a mirror and was shocked when she saw her own face so disfigured. But she immediately realized, "I am a practitioner. Master takes care of everything. I believe in Master and the Fa. Nothing will happen to me. This is just a phenomenon on the surface."

Master said,

"Good or evil comes from that instant thought." (Zhuan Falun)

This righteous thought helped my mother to pass the test again.

At present, the Clearwisdom website is calling for experience papers for "The Third Mainland China Falun Dafa Practitioners Cultivation Experience Sharing Conference on the Internet." Although in the past we had the idea to write down our cultivation experiences, somehow interference, laziness, human notions and other obstacles kept us from writing any articles. We were encouraged by fellow practitioners' articles on the Clearwisdom website, so I wrote down my mother's cultivation experiences for the past 11 years for the first time. Later we will summarize our own cultivation experiences and send in more sharing. Every genuine practitioner has a glorious history in his/her cultivation. I encourage other practitioners to write down their experiences as well and share them with fellow practitioners and validate Dafa.

(Written for "The Third Mainland China Falun Dafa Practitioners Cultivation Experience Sharing Conferences on the Internet")