(Clearwisdom.net) Since July 20, 1999 when the Chinese Communist Party started the evil persecution, we lost our good cultivation environment and I have not been as diligent since then in studying the “Fa” and doing the exercises. In the winter of that year the weather was terrible. It frequently snowed, and the snow was very heavy. Ice was everywhere. On December 25, 1999 while I was riding my bike home from work, I slipped and fell on a hill covered with ice. My bike fell on me and my left leg was under the bike. I heard a cracking sound at the femur bone of my left leg. I thought at the moment that I was eliminating karma; I did not think that it was interference by the old forces. There was a man-drawn two wheeler nearby, and I called him over to take me home.
That night my son called his former classmate over who was a orthopedist. He looked at my leg and told me, “The femur bone is broken and it needs to be treated at a hospital.” I said at that moment, “I practice Falun Gong and I do not need to go to the hospital. It will heal after I rest at home for several days.” He said, “Why do you believe in Falun Gong so much? For femur bone fractures, it would take at least half a year to heal even if you go to hospital for treatment. For serious cases, the fractured femur bone needs to be replaced with a steel one. The hospitals in our city cannot even do the replacement; the patient needs to go to a hospital in a larger city!" I said, "I know that. One of my former classmates also fell and fractured his femur bone. He went to Shanghai and spent more than 60,000 “yuan” to have his femur bone replaced with a steel one. Even then, he is still not completely healed and he still needs crutches to walk around. Our practitioners have Master's protection, and I will heal soon!” Because I firmly believed in Falun Gong and Master, he could not persuade me, and he finally left. Before he left, he warned me not to postpone the treatment; otherwise I would become disabled.
For the first seven days I lay in bed with my body kept straight. It was so painful that I broke into a cold sweat if my body was touched. I could not move even a little bit. On the night of the 8th day while I was asleep, but not in deep sleep, my left leg suddenly moved upward on its own. My wife, who had just laid down on my right side, also felt that my left leg was moving. She asked, “It must be that Master is setting your bone! Even the blanket is moving.” I said with excitement, “Yes, Master is setting the bone for me!” After that my left leg moved up involuntarily two more times. It was miraculous. When I woke up the next morning (on the 9th day), I could sit up and my leg did not hurt that much. On the 21st day I could stand up and do the Falun Gong exercises. On the 40th day I was completely healed. It happened to be the Chinese Lunar calender New Year, and my relatives came to see me. When they saw that I did not have any signs of disability, they all said that Falun Gong is miraculous.
Later, a relative told me, “You are aged and your bones are becoming porous; otherwise, you would not have been injured by the fall. As a Falun Gong practitioner you do not go to hospitals and do not take medicine. However, drinking milk to increase calcium should be OK.” At that time I also thought that I was not studying the Fa very well and that my body was probably not yet transformed. I also thought about the issue using ordinary reasoning. Because I had followed this human logic and the mentality was taken advantage of by the demons, I started to drink milk. Later, the relative told me again, “Fresh milk is not as beneficial as the milk with calcium additives.” I followed along with ordinary reasoning again. I did not treat myself as a true practitioner. Although I was studying the Fa and doing the exercises, I did not elevate myself based on the Fa. As a result, the interference and tribulations got worse and worse.
One day in May of 2004, I suddenly experienced the symptoms of a stroke. My left leg was not as nimble when walking and my left hand could not hold my food bowl. The same relative came to see me after she heard about this, and she introduced food supplements to me. (She sells health food supplements.) Initially, I did not agree to take them, but then I failed to resist her continuous persuasion. My ear was filled with the information of nutrition and health care products. She told me that health food products were not medicine and did not have poisonous side effects. She told me that, when she went to conferences for health care products, she often heard that in other areas some practitioners also take health food supplements. At that time I could not tell whether what she told me was right or wrong.
This was how I was dragged step by step into the trap set by the old forces, and I was drawn into it deeper and deeper. The relative then started to sell an American health care supplement, and she told me that it was the most advanced technology in the world. I also accepted this claim. From then on the interference and tribulations came one after another. During the following two years, I vomited blood three times and once had blood in my stool. On June 12, 2006 I suddenly fell flat on my back and heavily on the floor in my home! My wife said to me, “You need to think seriously about why you fell! Why are you always encountering interference?”
This fall awakened me! I came to realize that although the nutrition and health food supplements have had their poisonous side effects removed through their refinement process, they still have pharmacological effects and are for healing. The old universe interfered with me by using the varied reasoning, and they dragged me down step by step, trying to reach their goal of making me fall. Taking nutrition and health food supplements to relieve the symptoms was a deviation in my thinking; it was an excuse to cover up my fundamental attachment to illness! It was because I did not study the Fa well and was not firm in Dafa cultivation
It started from drinking fresh milk, then milk with calcium additives, to taking health food supplements and then concentrated American health care food supplements. I followed along the arrangement by the old forces, step by step into their trap! It was really dangerous! It was because of my selfish mentality. If it were not for Master's hint, I almost loss my opportunity for which I have waited thousands and thousands of years!
Thinking back about my uneven path of cultivation during the recent several years, I was able to walk the path only with Master's benevolent protection. My fractured femur bone healed in 40 days. I was able to ride a bicycle only several days after the “stroke.” I was healed on the second day of the three times of vomiting blood and the one time of blood in my stool. It is Dafa that renewed my life! My understanding of Dafa cultivation had fallen. As a Dafa practitioner, how could I use human logic to deal with the situations I had encountered? I hope that fellow practitioners who have the same thoughts that I had will eliminate their erroneous thinking about nutrition and health food supplements, correct all their mistakes, catch up with the progress of Fa-rectification and do the “three things” well as Master has asked us to do, and to walk well our paths of returning to our origin.
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