(Minghui.org) I recently heard that some fellow practitioners were suffering from sickness karma. Some passed the test, but some unfortunately failed. There were similar cases around me. I think this is very serious, and I would like to share my understanding about it to remind fellow practitioners.
Our Fa study group was formed 15 years ago. Maybe it was arranged by Master that our neighbors, a mother-in-law, and daughter-in-law, were fellow practitioners. Thus, my husband and I formed a Fa study group with them. We studied the Fa almost every day, as we lived so close.
Although we studied the Fa every day, our group did not put enough effort into cultivating xinxing. We didn’t look inward immediately when encountering problems. Instead, we always looked for the other person’s faults. My husband also told me that I didn’t cultivate myself upon encountering problems, even though I studied the Fa and practiced the exercises a lot.
Although my husband and I did a lot of things to validate the Fa, we both did not put much effort into cultivating xinxing. As a result, my husband gradually slacked off on cultivation. He spent a lot of time playing on WeChat, rather than studying the Fa, practicing the exercises, and sending forth righteous thoughts. He put the Fa in a secondary position. In the end, he passed away due to sickness karma.
I noticed that some fellow practitioners around me who have been cultivating Dafa for over 20 years are still using WeChat and TikTok, although the Minghui Editorial Board asked Dafa practitioners to uninstall WeChat. Some fellow practitioners still keep using WeChat having a number of excuses. My understanding is that we just do whatever Master says without any excuses, as cultivation has no excuse.
I think the fellow practitioners in our Fa study group should have looked inward regarding my husband’s death. They didn’t. They always looked at my husband’s shortcomings, rather than cultivating themselves. Four years after my husband passed away, another elderly fellow practitioner in our Fa study group also passed away.
We could have sent forth righteous thoughts to eliminate the bad substances behind her, but we didn’t. When she started to get confused, we thought it was due to her old age and cerebellar atrophy; we didn’t remind her to correct herself based on the Fa. When she couldn’t keep up with studying the Fa, practicing the exercises, and sending forth righteous thoughts, or when she took medicine, we thought it was a matter of her personal cultivation, rather than a matter of our being one body. We all failed to pay attention to this matter and look inward, including that practitioner’s daughter-in-law.
During the last few years, this elderly fellow practitioner always complained that her daughter-in-law was stealing her stuff. Her daughter-in-law didn’t measure herself against the Fa principles. Instead, she always dealt with her mother-in-law with a human mindset. Neither of them passed the xinxing test in this matter.
The daughter-in-law experienced sickness karma three times and barely passed them. She hasn’t come to our group Fa study for over a month. Sometimes, her husband reads the Fa to her at home. But, it was not very helpful. When I delivered Minghui Weekly to her, I noticed that her main consciousness was not clear and she was repeatedly saying the same thing.
Master told us to study the Fa and share our experiences together, so we can all improve and be diligent in cultivation. It’s not right for fellow practitioners who are overcoming sickness karma to study the Fa at home alone. We should take responsibility for our fellow practitioners who are overcoming sickness karma, study the Fa with them, and send righteous thoughts for them. This is the Fa study form that Master left us, and we must not ignore this.
When a fellow practitioner develops an abnormal state, we should look inward first, instead of looking for the fellow practitioner’s shortcomings, as that is not arranged by Master, but by the old forces. We should deny the old forces’ arrangement.
Other practitioners’ behavior or situation is like a mirror for us, reflecting what we need to cultivate. Let’s look inward and walk on the path arranged by Master. Let’s be responsible to our fellow practitioners who are overcoming sickness karma. I believe they will quickly overcome the tribulation.
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