(Minghui.org) Though the title of my article is called “Wholeheartedly Doing Well Every Day” I still feel that my cultivation could be better and I plan to work harder.
I am sixty-five years old. I take care of my grandson and granddaughter every day. I also go grocery shopping, drop off and pick up my grandson from school, and take my granddaughter out to play. When I take her out, I usually distribute brochures and clarify the truth to people.
I wake up at 3:10 a.m., practice all five sets of Falun Dafa exercises and go to bed at 10 p.m. after sending forth righteous thoughts. I’d also do household chores the night before I go to bed. I read one or two lectures in Zhuan Falun. Instead of taking naps, I read Master’s other lectures and experience sharing articles on Minghui.org.
Helping a Practitioner Return to Cultivation
When I chatted via phone with another practitioner, Ying, last winter I was surprised that she was walking with crutches. She was diligent in cultivation and did the three things. On one occasion, she even walked in a snowstorm with a bag of truth-clarification materials. She is tall and very fit. What happened?
Ying told me that she couldn’t resist the temptation and participated in a senior fashion show team. Rehearsals were held several times each week and she had to attend fashion shows in many cities. She also participated in performances during the holidays. She is very outgoing and friendly, so many of her friends in the fashion show team came by her house and had long chats. As a result, she did not have much time to study the Fa, practice the exercises, send righteous thoughts or go out to clarify the truth. She began falling behind in cultivation.
Many practitioners were worried for her. They attempted to help her but she was stubborn. Ying thought that her posture had changed for the better and was able to stand more upright by participating in the fashion shows. She hurt her knees on the concrete floor last autumn. Screws were put into her knees and she had to walk with crutches. She felt troubled and knew that there was a loophole in her cultivation. Walking in the fashion show was an attachment for Ying. The more she wanted it, the more she was interfered with. I reassured her and told her that I would visit her.
I called my sister who is also a practitioner and told her about Ying. My sister managed to find a practitioner near Ying who agreed to visit her. More practitioners went to Ying’s house and joined her in studying the Fa and sending righteous thoughts. Her cultivation state kept improving and she was even able to cross her legs and do the lotus position with one leg up.
Ying called me again one day and told me that she was clarifying the truth on WeChat. I did not say much on the phone but only told her it was unsafe.
My son had some matters to attend to near Ying’s house. I asked my son if I could go with him. She was very surprised to see me. I told her that I decided to tell her in person about the dangers of clarifying the truth on WeChat. Minghui.org posted the dangers of clarifying the truth on WeChat numerous times. She deleted her WeChat application immediately.
I recently learned that she is doing very well in cultivation. She is very grateful to Master for not giving up on her and also grateful to practitioners for helping her.
Acts of Kindness Attracts Predestined People
When I take my grandson to school we walk through a grove of trees. Many parents use this convenient shortcut. Although the pathway was a shorter route, it gets muddy and slippery whenever it rains or snows.
It rained one morning when I brought my grandson to school. I found some concrete blocks and placed them on the pathway so it was easier for the children. While I was placing the blocks on the muddy road, another elderly lady Mei passed by with her grandchild and said, “You are very kind. We should all be grateful to you.”
I later found a pile of discarded concrete blocks. I placed two blocks in my bicycle and took them to the grove of trees—I took about 20 blocks and paved the steep, muddy road. The children were able to freely travel back and forth.
This simple act of kindness touched Mei’s heart. We became friends and she said, “I really like chatting with you. Only you would do such a thing as paving the road for us. You are a good person and good people are rare these days.”
She invited me over to her house last winter. I took a small, wooden gourd key chain that had the words “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good” engraved on it. I said, “Let me give you something priceless.” I told her stories about how people received blessings after reciting the nine words. She happily accepted it. The school was closed for winter break so we didn’t see each other.
When I saw Mei again on March 1 of this year, the first day of the school year, she was was happy and said, “Let me tell you something wonderful. I was strolling with my grandson before Chinese New Year when I accidentally tripped. I fell really hard and my grandson was scared and started crying. I started to immediately recite, ‘Falun Dafa is good. Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.’ It was a miracle that a 70-year-old lady could be completely fine after falling down hard like that.”
Mei took out the key chain I gave her and said, “Every time I touch this key chain I say, ‘Falun Dafa is good. Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.’” When I looked at the key chain, the wooden gourd had been rubbed so many times that it was very smooth and shiny.
I saw Mei carrying a bag of tomatoes one day at a supermarket. She looked out of breath so I helped her and carried the bag to her house. Mei said, “Look at you! You are so healthy! We’re the same age and yet you can walk so much faster than me.” I told her it was because I was a Falun Dafa practitioner. I explained that I used to be very sickly.
Mei asked me to teach her the exercises. I demonstrated the five Falun Dafa exercises. She then asked if there was a book for it and I told her about Zhuan Falun. I invited her over to my house that afternoon to read the book. She told me she would come over.
After dropping off the children at school, Mei promptly arrived at my doorstep. After watching Master Li’s (Falun Dafa’s founder) exercise video demonstrations, she took a copy of Zhuan Falun and The Great Way of Spiritual Perfection and happily left.
We often see each other at our grandchildren’s school, and we started sharing cultivation experiences. I would head over to her house, correct her exercise movements and I also gave her a copy of Master’s instructional exercise video.
All of Mei’s illnesses and ailments disappeared in a few months. She was very happy and became very diligent in studying the Fa and practicing the exercises. She would either study the Fa or listen to Master’s audio lectures as soon as she got back from taking her grandson to school. She practiced the standing exercises three times each day. She prolonged the second exercise from 30 minutes to one hour.
She is very grateful to Master for letting her be a Falun Dafa practitioner. Her enlightenment quality is also quite good. She was building a house this year in May, however, the weather report predicted that there would be a very strong gale. She put Zhuan Falun on the table and asked Master for help, “Master, I am a new practitioner. I am putting a roof on my new building tomorrow. The weather report predicted there would be a very forceful gale. Please help me. Thank you Master.” When her husband came back from putting a roof on our new house, he said, “The day went by very smoothly. There was no wind at all and many people came over to help me.”
Mei’s husband’s family was persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) during the CCP’s political campaign. His father was wrongfully imprisoned for nine years. He hates the CCP and told Mei, “For someone to teach you such a good practice during uncertain times like these, you cherish this practice and protect her from the CCP.”
I gave Mei’s husband a tape recorder with many cultivation stories, including, Nine Commentaries on the CommunistParty and How the Specter of Communism Is Ruling Our World. Mei said that her husband enjoyed listening to the audios and that he doesn’t look at his cell phone anymore.
Mei would tell her husband to recite “Falun Dafa is good. Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good” to stay safe. One day, her husband found a small black wart growing on his leg. Mei told her husband to say, “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” Mei told me, “Do you know what happened? After reciting those special words, the wart fell off! It was a miracle!”
Mei has two sons and both of them are respectful. However, when her younger son learned that Mei was practicing Falun Dafa, he demanded that she stop. Mei remained unmoved and told him, “I am not giving up on cultivation. Dafa has bestowed many blessings on me. Look at me now, all my ailments are gone. If you are worried that I will bring trouble for you at work, we can sever our relationship. You can even tell your supervisors that I am not your mother anymore.” He left with tears in his eyes.
Her younger son called up Mei’s oldest son, thinking that they could persuade Mei to give up cultivation. To Mei’s surprise, the older son said, “It is a good thing that one has a spiritual belief. As long as Mom is healthy, you should let her practice.”
Mei’s younger son changed his attitude towards Dafa. He said, “Mom, please be careful when you practice Falun Dafa since it is still being persecuted in China.”
When Mei told me what happened, she had tears in her eyes, “My responsibility as a mother has already been fulfilled now that both of my sons are grown. I should have the right to make a decision for myself.” I told her that she passed a test to see how determined she was in cultivating Falun Dafa. Mei understood and stated that she will not stop practicing.
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