(Clearwisdom.net) After sharing with a fellow practitioner my understandings on the teachings of Dafa, I realized that I should write about the miracles I encountered in my cultivation. This is also validating the Fa.
Starting to Practice and Upholding the Fa
From my earliest memories, I always suffered physical discomfort. In the spring of 1974, I contracted tuberculosis and coughed up a lot of blood. Despite taking Western and Chinese medications, I did not improve. Thus I went everywhere in search of a deity. In the deep mountains, I found someone who practiced cultivation. He told me Buddha had descended in the Northeast region and I would have to find him to resolve my problems.
In January 1996, I had the great fortune to start practicing Falun Dafa. My celestial eye opened while watching Master's taped lectures. I saw myself as aged 17-18 years old, trapped in a net, and unable to break free. I understood that this was a vision of myself before I started the practice. After practicing Dafa, all my ailments disappeared.
In July 1999, Jiang Zemin's regime began to persecute Falun Dafa. My employer tried twice to get me to appear on TV expressing my dissatisfaction with Dafa and to have it broadcast across the county. I was determined not to give in and started to clarify the truth to my superiors. Protected by Master, I turned the situation around. In order to help more people learn the truth, I posted signs, hung banners, gave out DVDs and brochures, etc. I traveled around the county as well as to neighboring regions.
Resurrection
Before and after the Chinese New Year in 2005, I developed symptoms of sickness karma. Once, there was a blockage in my intestines, and my nose bled profusely. Then, I suddenly threw up and became unconscious. I was taken to the hospital for emergency treatment and was diagnosed with occipital epidural hematoma. I was in a coma for 12 days. Just before I regained consciousness, I dreamed of two gorillas. They came to my bed and wanted me to follow them. I refused to and then woke up. I sat up and started to meditate. I wanted to follow Master and save sentient beings, so I asked to be discharged because I knew I should not be there.
The occipital lobe is the part of the brain that deals with one's memory. Due to the hemorrhage in that region and because I was in a coma for so long, many of my brain cells died. Consequently, I lost practically all of my memory and encountered unprecedented difficulties. I could not recognize most of my friends, relatives, and colleagues. I didn't even know where I lived. When I studied the Fa, I was not focused and could not finish reading one sentence. I also forgot the exercise movements. My heartbeat was often abnormal, I drooled and lost control of my bowels. I often bumped into walls and got lost. I then started to recite “Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance” every day. The more I recited it, the better I got. At the same time, I understood that this tribulation was directly related to the old forces. I made a solemn declaration: “In history, I might have signed a pact with the old forces. I earnestly declare this void and deny everything that was arranged.”
Studying the Fa and Doing the Exercises
As soon as I got a little better, I went back to work. I brought Dafa books to read while at work. Initially, my vision was completely blurred, and I had to carefully read the characters one by one. Gradually I could see the characters better and could read a complete sentence. Then I could remember a little of what I had read, whereas before I had no recollection of what I had just read. As I remembered more of what I read, tests and interferences started to appear.
One day, the top man-in-charge where I worked suddenly came to my room and saw me studying the Fa. He shouted angrily, “If you read this again tomorrow, I will take away all your benefits.” I replied that I was given a second life by Dafa—how could I not study the Fa? He saw my resolute attitude and did not say anything more. The next day, he came to my room again and told me he was surprised at my rapid recovery. From then on, no one came to stop me from studying the Fa. Eventually, I could see the characters in the book appear in different colors—yellow, green, pink, purple, and red. Sometimes the characters were in 3-D, and there were wave-like hyphen marks between the lines. At other times, the whole book became very transparent like a bowl of clear water, and there were even spinning Falun on the surface of the book. Every day I had a new understanding of Dafa's boundless content. I truly felt that every character in the teachings was a manifestation of Master, Falun, and many levels of Buddhas, Taos, and Gods. I repeatedly studied the Fa again and again, reluctant to waste any bit of time.
Regarding the exercises, after my discharge from the hospital, I had completely forgotten the exercise movements. Practitioners patiently taught me movement by movement. When sitting in meditation with both legs crossed, the soles of my feet were black and I was in unbearable pain. As I persevered to the end, I experienced the extraordinariness of Dafa. While practicing the exercises, first, I felt as if the back of my head was split open; soon after I felt as if my forehead was split open as well. As I continued the practice, my spine suddenly cracked, and it was as if my whole body was split in half, but I was not afraid and knew this was an adjustment to correct my body. Now I do all five exercises once in the morning and the standing exercises again at night. Practitioners who saw me commented that my face looked really healthy. As my physical condition improved, I sent righteous thoughts more frequently, and my mind was calm, and I had strong righteous thoughts. It was as if I was a god protecting the new universe.
Clarifying the Facts and Saving More People
At work, I found it really easy to clarify the facts about Dafa and persuade people to disassociate themselves from the Communist Party. My recovery was a testament to the miracle of Dafa. My friends and family all believe in Dafa wholeheartedly. I was in a coma for 12 days: two holes were drilled into my skull during an operation, and brain cells that cannot regenerate died in large areas. I spent over 200,000 yuan in medical fees and was not cured. Yet I recovered after practicing Falun Gong and could even return to work. This was indeed miraculous! Medical experts who saw my case wanted to know more about Dafa when they learned that I had recovered by practicing it. The doctors who operated on me even brought hospital trainees to visit me. I became friends with the specialist in the hospital. He warned me to be mentally prepared for the possibility that my illness could lead to cerebral atrophy. When I regained my health and stood in front of him, he was especially moved. He told me firmly that I must continue to practice. An eye specialist kept saying this was a miracle when he saw my recovery.
Improving Xinxing
After my near brush with death and truly cultivating myself, I realized that Master has suffered a lot in order to save us. Not only that, he has given us the best. We have no reason to slack off in cultivation. I took a loan of 63,000 yuan from my employer to pay my medical fees. Consequently, they deducted 5,000 yuan from my wages every year. When they learned that I was not financially well off, they gave me a subsidy in the amount of 2,000 yuan the first year during the Chinese New Year. The second year when they again gave me a subsidy, I did not accept it.
The neighbor living in the apartment above me operated a mahjong parlor and made a lot of noise the whole day. I could not get quiet rest. Someone suggested that I report it to the police. This meant that their house would be ransacked and they would suffer great losses. I am a Dafa disciple and should follow the higher principles of the Fa. Master keeps teaching us to look within ourselves whenever we encounter problems. Therefore I have to look within myself unconditionally and regard this as a great opportunity to improve my xinxing. I simply sent righteous thoughts more frequently and looked for attachments within myself. The noise level upstairs diminished and they stopped playing the contemporary music.
As I was improving my xinxing, my wife kept looking at me angrily. I resolved to treat her with kindness. When my thoughts changed, I experienced a wonderful, feeling deep within my heart. In order to get me to take medication, my wife once asked our two daughters to kneel in front of me and beg me to take medicine. I then recited a paragraph of Master's teaching in Zhuan Falun:
“Genuine cultivation practice is not as easy as you imagine. Do you think that if you want to practice cultivation you’ll be able to make it? Once you want to truly practice cultivation, your life will be in danger right away and this issue will concern you immediately.”
I told them that I would only listen to my Master, that I was not ill and did not need to take medicine. They did not say anything more and left me alone.
Due to limitations in my cultivation level, please kindly point it out if I said anything that is not in accordance with the teachings of the Fa. Let us progress diligently in our cultivation!