(Clearwisdom.net) Local practitioners have recently experienced severe illness karma interference, including me. It felt like a life and death tribulation. For three days, excruciating pain never left me. After three days I pleaded in my mind, "Master, please strengthen me so that I can do the three things! No one can stop me." At that moment I jumped out of bed, and the excruciating pain disappeared. My body felt normal again. During the three difficult days I asked for help from Master, sent righteous thoughts continuously, recited the Fa and I also said, "Only Master can guide me. I don't want, nor do I acknowledge, any other arrangements." I also pledged to do the three things. But nothing worked. Jumping out of bed showed that I truly believe in Master, and the severe pain disappeared within a second. It is just as Master said,

"When disciples have ample righteous thoughts
Master has the power to turn back the tide" ("The Master-Disciple Bond" from Hong Yin Vol. II)

This is what I realized when going through the life and death illness karma tribulation.

As far as I am concerned, practitioners who encounter the persecution of severe illness karma should truly and firmly believe in Master. They need to put down their worries and trust in Master's arrangement. Our actions should also follow. Make sure we truly believe in Master and Dafa and solidly cultivate ourselves during the process. We cannot wait until Master has dissolved all of our karma and we are comfortable before doing the three things. That is conditional cultivation and Master won't be able to take care of us. In that case it is useless to ask Master for help. Master pointed out that,

"Some people may think, "I'll practice cultivation after my illness is cured." There is no precondition for practicing cultivation, and one should practice cultivation if one wants to." (Zhuan Falun)

These life and death tribulations are the so-called "tests" of Dafa practitioners conducted by the old forces and elements of the old universe.

In my opinion, practitioners who encounter this kind of tribulation may have had attachments for a long time. They had dark minions and evil elements in the universe take advantage of them.

Master tried several times to give me a hint. But I never heeded the hints, and tribulations came. Many practitioners, including myself, have similar attitudes: the cultivation environment is more comfortable now and there are fewer evil beings, which has led to slacking in personal cultivation. They became lazy when sending righteous thoughts and clarifying the truth. They are often in a state of indifference. They are attached to personal recognition, gain and emotion; they cook good food, decorate the house, and save money for the kids. Some practitioners even began drinking and smoking on occasion. Some became consumed with taking care of their children and grandchildren and have had to squeeze in some time for doing the three things. Sometimes they feel they are being pushed to do the three things instead of treating it as their responsibility and mission. The old forces and dark minions have seen this clearly. These practitioners don't have a strong main consciousness or righteous thoughts, so dark minions dragged them away.

Validating the Fa among everyday people and harmonizing within Dafa requires us to have a human body. The old forces are absolutely forbidden to take our human body. We should not lose our human body because of our mistakes.

At the final moment of Fa-rectification, we should cherish this once-in-a-thousand-millennia opportunity and cultivate ourselves well, validate the Fa, explain the facts to people, and offer sentient beings salvation. We should measure ourselves by the standards of the Fa, no matter what we do and where we are. Only then can we fulfill our prehistoric vows and follow Master to return to our true homes.