(Minghui.org) I started practicing Falun Dafa in 2014. Recently, I experienced a tribulation due to severe sickness karma. Relying on the solid belief in Master, I overcame it. I want to share my witnessing Dafa’s amazing power, and express my appreciation to Master.
Experiencing Sickness Karma
It happened last December. While I was on the phone with a practitioner, I felt my heart beating strangely. I thought it was because I was anxious when I was speaking and that it would go away soon.
But, it got worse. My heart beat very fast, and I developed arrhythmia [a condition in which the heart beats with an irregular or abnormal rhythm]. So, I hung up the phone and started to send forth righteous thoughts.
My first thought was that it was caused by interference, and I needed to disintegrate it. However, after 30 minutes of sending righteous thoughts, my heart still beat fast. I felt that something got stuck in my heart, and I had trouble breathing.
In the afternoon, I sent forth righteous thoughts and listened to Master’s lecture recording. I kept telling myself that I only accept Master’s arrangements, and I reject the evil’s persecution. My heart felt a little better.
But that night, my heart rate sped up again, stopping me from falling asleep. I was worried that it would eventually lead to heart failure. I counted the beats without realizing my thought was not on the Fa. The only little righteous thoughts I had told me to get up and do the exercises.
During the first exercise, every stretch struck my heart, but I told myself to keep going. At that moment, I had a thought: why don't I talk to my heart? So, while doing the exercises, I repeated, “Slow, gentle, curved” (how the exercise movements are described in Zhuan Falun) to my heart.
I felt that a piece of rock was stuck in my heart when doing the second exercise. I could hardly breathe. I could not sleep the whole night. I felt a fear filling my field: “You are so young – heart disease can kill a person. I followed the thoughts: what about my projects? What about my oath? What about my kids?
The next morning, a fellow practitioner sent me a screenshot, which recorded the audience's comments on my program. One wrote: “Ten some years ago, I didn’t even know that Falun Gong was persecuted. I didn’t know how much they suffer.”
Another commented: “In the world of lies, hatred, and violence, Falun Gong is great as its practitioners follow the principle of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance.”
A third new supporter wrote: “I have misunderstood Falun Gong for this long. Sorry, Falun Gong.” I was touched by these comments, and happy for the sentient beings.
Promising to Lead an Altruistic Life
Then, I thought that there are still so many people who don't know the truth. They are waiting for me to save them. At that moment, my heart was full of compassion, hoping to save more people. I said to Master: “Master, I will live for the sentient beings. I will lead an altruistic life – living for them.”
As I thought, the rock stuck in my heart melted. My heart beat went back to normal. My face was covered with tears. The great Master saw my heart of saving people, so, He took away the tribulation.
However, two days later, the rock came back. I felt like a large piece of undigested substance was stuck in my stomach. I could not carry anything. So, I found myself developing fear and anxiety again.
For a long time, I didn't study the Fa calmly, only going through the motions. When I encountered tribulations, I could not recall the Fa. I felt that I got stuck in human notions. So, I decided to listen to the Minghui website broadcast – the series of “Breaking Through the Sickness Karma.”
I learned how fellow practitioners enhanced their righteous thoughts with Master's help. I listened to three programs. When hearing the Fa cited by the authors, I gained courage and realized that a practitioner does not have sickness. The so-called sickness is an illusion.
Practitioners Supernormal Ability
Master said:
“Suppose that someone has a heart disease. When this hand moves toward the heart to grab that being, the hand in another dimension moves inside the body, and it will be caught instantly. As your outside hand grabs it, both hands close in and will grab it.” (Lecture Seven, Zhuan Falun)
Master has told us many times that we all have supernormal abilities. So, I raised my left hand, grabbed my heart area, and waved my hand outward. I repeated this action three times. I also sent strong righteous thoughts. Magically, the stuff stuck there gradually disappeared.
Although it came back every now and then in the next few days, I didn't develop any fear – because I understood the Fa. I looked inward, and saw why I had fear: I treated the heart as a vital organ. In my notion, if there is a problem with your heart, you might die—it is not like pain here or an itch there. I myself enlarged the tribulation.
Master said:
“But people do create karma, and that karma will manifest in your body in a way that mimics an ailment. If the karma manifests in your nose, you will be stuffed up or have a runny nose, which might lead you to think, “Oh, I’ve got a cold.” You think that you’ve got a cold (Master chuckles), but it’s not a cold. If the karma manifests in your stomach, you will have a stomachache, and think “Oh dear, it must be something I ate.” (Master chuckles) But that’s not it. It was caused by karma that was sent there. Then why was it sent there, of all places? Actually, it didn’t have to be sent there specifically; it could have been sent to some other place. They send it there when you have some sort of attachment, and their aim is to help you work on it.” (Fa Teaching at the 2019 New York Fa Conference)
I also enlightened that the tribulation can help me improve my xinxing. What is xinxing? I kept reading the paragraphs in the first lecture of Zhuan Falun, where Master explained what xinxing is.
I found that in the seven years of cultivation, I didn't really pay attention to xinxing. At the surface level, I have been doing the three things, and was busy every day—affairs at the media, at home, taking care of kids, and other Dafa projects.
But I never calmly studied the Fa intensively. I didn't proactively look inward and correct myself, or measure my behaviors against the Fa. I cultivated with strong attachments while thinking I was diligent.
Also, I could not calmly send forth righteous thoughts, especially the first five minutes. I didn't clean my field, so the tribulation came to me. I told myself to genuinely study the Fa, and be a real disciple of Master's.
Two weeks later, I talked to a friend online, telling him the truth about the U.S. Election. All of sudden, my heart beat fast, and I could not breathe. I said goodbye to him. I felt that the evil was coming to take my life.
At that moment, I picked up a copy of Zhuan Falun, and shouted: “Falun Dafa is good! Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good! I am Master Li Hongzhi's disciple! Nobody can touch me!” The voice came out of the bottom of my heart and every single cell in my body vibrated from this thought.
I went to another room to send righteous thoughts. When I put my legs up, my heart beat became normal, and I was able to breathe again, as if nothing had happened. I knew that I overcame a big tribulation.
From that day on, I never experienced any heart problem. I witnessed the amazing power of Dafa. I thank Master for his salvation. I also thank the fellow practitioners who helped me overcome this tribulation.
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