(Minghui.org) I am a 92-year-old Falun Dafa practitioner living in the countryside of Hebei Province. I stayed with my daughter for a few days so she could help me write up my Falun Dafa cultivation experiences to share with others. After she finished writing, I still felt that my experiences were not quite fully expressed. Thus, after returning home, I asked my son to help me also.
My children do not practice cultivation, but know Dafa is good. I asked them to write down what they knew about how I benefited from Falun Dafa. I was transformed from a very ill person to someone super fit and felt so grateful for Master’s saving grace! After they finished, I passed the paper on to a practitioner, asking her to help me make some edits before submitting to the Minghui website.
My family situation was rather complex. My daughter-in-law passed away due to illness. My son remarried and his wife and her single 20-year-old son came to live with us. That’s how he became my third grandson. My first two grandsons were both married and lived by themselves. For this grandson, we had to take care of his wedding ceremony, his wife’s childbirth needs, and babysitting his child.
Therefore, I had to cook for a family of six people, plus tidying up the kitchen. Even though I did what I was supposed to do without showing any dissatisfaction, honestly, I felt some resentment.
This grandson wasn’t my biological relative, yet I had to serve his family as usual. I knew this resentment needed to be eliminated. In addition, they were also Master’s family before and beings who came for the Fa. If I did well, they’d know Dafa is wonderful, and be saved. But sometimes when I was tired from working, my resentment would flare up. However, when I saw that my son’s family was in harmony, I felt I shouldn’t have become unbalanced.
I moved to the city from my home in the countryside, didn’t I come here to serve them? Even though I didn’t fully improve myself in the Fa back then, I knew this family environment was a place for me to cultivate. When I completely eliminated my attachment and feelings of resentment, this year my grandson’s family moved out of the house to live on their own.
However, I still had to help them daily. Every morning, my daughter-in-law had me steam an egg for her grandson. She sent it to her son’s home, then I started preparing our breakfast. Speaking of my daughter-in-law, she truly came to help me cultivate.
When she lived with us, the meal had to be ready for her as soon as she came home from work. After she finished dinner, she either watched TV, checked her cell phone messages or relaxed and ate snacks. Initially I felt unbalanced, for I disliked her for her laziness. I asked my daughter-in-law to help tidy up the house, wash dishes and help with other chores. She just smiled at me without saying anything. But she didn’t do anything either.
Of course, I never got upset with her, and still took on all household chores. I thought to myself: I am a practitioner. Nothing happens accidentally. I just treated it as owing them debts and paying back. Thus, I was always in a good mood when taking care of household chores.
I also finished the leftovers for my meals since nobody else ate them. Besides, I took care of every piece of work when nobody did it. In addition, I never complained about my daughter-in-law and grandson’s family to anyone. Whoever asked me, I always said good words about them.
I told myself: I should get rid of resentment, looking down upon others, complaining about others and feeling unbalanced. As none of these were the true me. They were either attachments or notions needed to be eliminated in my cultivation. After having removed all of them, when I felt tired at work, I recited “Tempering One’s Heart and Will.” (“Tempering One’s Heart and Will,” Hong Yin) while carrying on with what I did.
However, there were times where my mindset wasn’t stable.
At that time, I began to listen to Minghui Podcasts. Practitioners’ sharing articles inspire and help me a great deal. One time, I heard a story about how a mother and daughter practitioner tried to be like a “little monk.”
I thought: Right on! I shouldn’t treat myself as an old woman anymore. I also wanted to be the “little/novice monk” who did all the basic work at a temple that nobody else liked to take on.
Then I felt my body shake, with a warm current penetrating through me from head to toe. I was especially excited. Without having any complaints, I felt extremely relaxed. I began to thank Master deep down. It’s truly wonderful to have a Master!
Thinking back, prior to cultivation, I was so ill. I had cervical spondylosis, frozen shoulder, lumbar disc herniation, and even worse, asthma. I needed someone to look after me, let alone me taking care of others. Even so, I didn’t feel comfortable.
Starting from 1997, since I began with Dafa cultivation, all my illnesses that had tormented me for a few decades were gone. My body felt so light and illness free!
Soon enough, I could work in the field. I also learned how to ride a bicycle at 67 years old! It was benevolent Master Li Hongzhi removing my karma and giving me a healthy body. Without Master, without Dafa, I wouldn’t have been where I am today!
Soon after my illnesses were eliminated, I began to attend the Fa-study group every night. Seeing everyone holding Zhuan Falun to read, I became worried. I said to my Teacher, “Master, I’m your humble disciple. I never attended school. How can I possibly read correctly from the book?”
I often held the book and sat upright to practice reading the Fa. Sometimes when I got tired, I laid down and looked at the ceiling. Wherever I looked, big words showed up one after another. They scrolled just like the scrolling subtitles on the TV, I could watch it whenever I wanted. They were not only on the ceiling, but also everywhere else in the room, regardless of whether I had my eyes opened or closed. When I closed my eyes in doing Exercise 2, there were letters appearing in front of me as well. These words kept appearing before my eyes and settled in my mind.
These scenes have occurred from the beginning of my cultivation and continue still, even now.
It is Master who caused these words to appear in my mind and heart. Now I could read Zhuan Falun as well as all of the new lectures. When running into words I didn’t know, I’d check with my family.
I’m someone who is 92 years old, with good hearing and eyesight, and my back is still straight. I have dark, smooth, and shiny hair. My teeth are also good. I feel so light while walking. When it comes to doing laundry, cooking, and cleaning up the house, I do it all very quickly. In addition, I haven’t taken any medication for more than 20 years. I am in good spirits every day. Nobody can tell that I am someone in their 90’s!
There were times that I appeared to have illness karma symptoms. When that happened my first thought was always, “A practitioner doesn’t have any illness!” Then I asked Master to strengthen my righteous thoughts while looking inward to see what attachment the evil was taking advantage of.
Meanwhile, I sent forth strong righteous thoughts to dismantle every evil factor trying to persecute me. My body is supposed to be used for validating the Fa, as opposed to being persecuted by the evil. Even though I had omissions, I wouldn’t allow evil to persecute me. I leave everything to Master. As for my omissions, they’d be rectified in the Fa, as opposed to being taken advantage of by the evil.
“...if you can disregard any supposed Buddha, Daoist deity, divinity, or fiend that tries to tempt you...” (The Sixth Talk, Zhuan Falun)
With Master here, with Fa here, I always confronted tribulations with a calm mind and never felt scared. When I couldn’t endure anymore, I asked for Master’s help. Thus, every time, the illness karma illusion disappeared fairly quickly.
At 3:20 a.m. on August 25, 2020, I was just about to get up and do the exercises when suddenly I realized that my left leg was very swollen. The whole leg was extremely painful. The inside of my leg hurt so much that I couldn’t even bend it. I immediately said, “I am Master Li Hongzhi’s disciple, whatever evil can dare to hurt me. The Fa rectifies the Cosmos, the Evil is completely eliminated!” I kept sending forth strong righteous thoughts. At 3:40 a.m., this illness karma illusion disappeared.
After I finished doing the exercises, I just went to prepare breakfast as usual.
Later, I shared with my son and his wife what had happened to me that morning. I said, “If I was not protected by the Master of Falun Dafa, who knows what would have happened to me. You should really thank Master and Dafa. Given my age, if I were ill, wouldn’t you have had to take care of me?”
Once again, my family got to witness the miraculousness of Falun Dafa. They felt truly grateful to Master!
I live on the fourth floor and we don’t have elevators in our building. When people living in the neighborhood saw I walked so fast going up and down stairs, they all envied my good health and state of mind.
Master also arranged for me to meet people with predestined relationships so I could tell them the truth about Dafa. Some people asked me, “How do you take care of yourself? What do you eat?” I just told them with a smile: I practice Falun Dafa! It has an amazing effect on healing illnesses and keeping fit. They then asked, “Are you for real?” I said, “Of course. Every element in the universe is contained in this practice. Whatever I missed physically will be replenished by it. Thus, I don’t have to worry about nutrition, nor do I have to be cautious about what I eat. Otherwise how could I have such a healthy body? If I didn’t practice Falun Dafa, how could I possibly have such a great mental state?” I then told them about the staged “self-immolation” incident at Tiananmen Square and quitting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). After they listened to the truth, most of them decided to renounce their memberships from the CCP and its affiliated organizations, using their real names.
I know for Master to give me such a healthy body is for me to clarify the facts and save people. I will work diligently to cultivate myself well and save more sentient beings, so that Master can rest assured.
Thank you, Master, for your saving grace! Heshi!
Thank you, fellow practitioners, for your help!
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