(Minghui.org) Master said in “Stay Rational,”

“Pandemics and plagues are part of a divine plan and inevitable in the course of history.”

“True Dafa disciples have higher energy and are able to destroy karma and germs; they are emissaries of salvation in these latter days...”

But recently many practitioners around me, including very diligent ones, have developed COVID symptoms, such as fever, headache, and muscle pain. Some practitioners felt helpless, and others took it as a test to pass in cultivation.

By measuring the situation against the Fa, I personally feel that it’s not a correct state for Dafa disciples to even develop COVID symptoms in the first place. In our daily truth-clarification, we’ve been telling others how reciting the auspicious phrases “Falun Dafa is good and Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good” or quitting the Chinese Communist Party can protect one from the virus. But if we also come down with the virus ourselves, it may confuse people who know us.

Last night I went to a fellow practitioner’s home to pick up Dafa materials as usual. After I pressed the doorbell, it took a while for her to come to the door. I was shocked to see her whole family (all of them practitioners) wearing masks. I didn’t know if they had been wearing the masks already or if they had put on the masks because of me. She told me that everyone in her family was running a fever and she asked me to come back in a few days after she regained the strength to make the materials for me.

I wasn’t expecting to come back home empty-handed. I came to the realization that the old forces are using the pandemic to destroy people’s faith in Dafa and interfere with our cultivation and truth-clarification. At such a critical moment, some practitioners came down with fever or other symptoms, rendering them unable to make truth-clarification materials or go out to clarify the truth. While it may be a test related to our cultivation, it has also affected the sentient beings who needed to hear the truth from us. Upon returning home, I began to send forth righteous thoughts to eliminate the interference and the old forces’ arrangements.

I’d like to end my sharing with the following paragraph of the Fa:

“Also, I should mention that there are practitioners in many regions who are calling upon everyone to send righteous thoughts together to put an end to the Chinese Communist Virus (Wuhan Virus). But that is not the right idea. You are not here to change history, but rather, to save people at this most dangerous time in history, by raising awareness, persuading people to withdraw from China’s three major communist organizations, encouraging people to sincerely say the magic words, and so on. All of these are the best medicine possible, the best way to rescue people—when people’s morals change, things will change for the better.” (“Stay Rational”)

Above is my personal understanding. I welcome fellow practitioners to point out anything improper.