(Minghui.org) I’m a rural woman who has practiced Falun Dafa for 19 years. I used to have all kinds of ailments, but now I’m illness-free.
Master Li (Dafa’s founder) has always watched over me and helped me. Master’s blessings cannot be expressed in words. I would like to share some of my cultivation experiences with fellow practitioners.
Improving Together with a Practitioner Going Through Sickness Karma
I met practitioner Zhen who was from the same town. She told me, “Fen [her sister, who is also a practitioner], came back from her son’s home, and her legs had still not recovered. When I went to study the Fa with her this morning, she had gone out for physical exercise [to help with her legs]. When I returned in the evening, she went out to exercise again. At first, we studied the Fa slowly, about 10 pages a day. She doesn’t want to join group Fa study. However, I don’t have other ways to help her. If you and other practitioners have time, can you help her by staying with her for a few days?”
I asked practitioner Lan if she could go with me to Fen’s place. She said she didn’t want to, since she had just gone through a bout of sickness karma. Lan and I used to go out together for Dafa-related activities. But now that she wouldn’t go, would I go?
I thought of what Zhen said. She was under a lot of pressure and needed help. My running into her was not by chance, everything was Master’s compassionate arrangement. It was time to eliminate my attachment of relying on others, so I decided to go by myself.
I returned to my hometown and saw Fen. She was very happy to see me. We studied the Fa together, exchanged cultivation experiences and did the exercises at her home. Zhen mentioned that Fen’s exercise movements were not accurate, so we watched Master’s exercise video and corrected each other’s movements.
When we studied the Fa in the evening, there was some interference. I had pain under my breast, but I reminded myself that Dafa practitioners are one body. I said to myself, “I am following what Master said, and the interference is nothing.” I denied it and was completely fine after Fa study.
On the first evening I was there, I told Fen about a practitioner’s experience-sharing article that I had read. The practitioner shared that when going through sickness karma, she did the exercises in the morning and again in the evening, and the symptoms disappeared very quickly. I asked Fen, “Do you want to try it?”
She replied, “It’s already 10 o’clock, let’s go to sleep. If you go to sleep late, you won’t be able to get up early.” I didn’t push her and went to sleep.
Fen woke me up at midnight. She was ready to send righteous thoughts. In the morning, when I was sleeping soundly, I heard Fen’s voice, “Get up, it’s time for the exercises.” What a good practitioner! She was helping me! After I got up, the back of my head hurt. I denied the pain, sent righteous thoughts twice, and I was fine.
At group Fa study with Fen, several practitioners said that Fen didn’t cultivate diligently and only focused on doing physical exercises. I responded, “It’s a difficult time when a practitioner is going through sickness karma. We should all help to reinforce her righteous thoughts and encourage her. We should not put pressure on her. When seeing another practitioner’s attachment, we should cultivate ourselves based on the Fa.”
Zhen said, “Fen is indeed under pressure. Our youngest sister called, telling me to keep Fen away from other practitioners and asked her to do physical exercise and take medication for treatment.”
“We must change our human notions,” I replied. “Don’t be afraid of this and that. We should cultivate in an upright manner.”
Master said,
“...We have said that good or bad comes from a person’s initial thought, and the thought at that moment can bring about different consequences.” (Lecture Four, Zhuan Falun)
We should firmly believe in Master and the Fa and put cultivation as a priority. After studying the Fa, it’s okay to go out and do physical exercise (walk around and stretch the legs), but we need to set the relationship right and not turn our priorities the other way around.
In order to strengthen Fen’s righteous thoughts, I told her, “Some time ago, some of us went to the home of a practitioner who was experiencing sickness karma to study the Fa with her. When we were in the middle of our Fa study, her son came and saw us studying the Fa. He then called his elder sister and said, ‘Mom is very sick; we should take her to a hospital. But she is still studying the Fa with others.’ However, his father said to him, ‘Let your mom decide what to do.’ A few days later, other practitioners went to her home again. She had recovered, and her daughter thanked the practitioners who went to her place.”
Fen gained her righteous thoughts. That evening Zhen and I did the standing exercises with her. Zhen said: “It’s good to do the exercises more often. I have been uncomfortable in my stomach for the past few days but after doing the exercises, I feel fine.”
Not Giving Up on Fellow Practitioners
Practitioner Mei in our village had been going through sickness karma. She was in a wheelchair and had to be pushed around by her family. I was planning to go to her home to study the Fa with her. My elder sister-in-law and I went to Mei’s home first to check it out. Her daughter, who had broken her leg, and son-in-law were there to have a meal. Her daughter played with her cell phone right after they were done with the meal. I thought the environment was not good and left after having a few words with Mei.
I had a dream that night where six of us were preparing to do the exercises in a large courtyard. Two others stood outside the gate. I told them to come in and close the gate. After we finished the exercises, the practitioner sitting next to me pointed at an elderly practitioner and told me not to bully her. I looked at the practitioner and exclaimed, “I’m not bullying her!”
She said again, “Don’t bully her!” The dream was especially vivid, and I thought it must be Master enlightening me. Could that practitioner be Mei? The Chinese word “bully” has the same pronunciation as “abandon.” It is Master who does not want us to leave behind our fellow practitioners.
In the morning, my elder sister-in-law and I went to see Mei. I asked her if she wanted to walk around. Her husband pushed her in the wheelchair and we went to practitioner Zhen’s home and watched Master’s video lectures there. When Mei’s husband came to pick her up, Mei said to him, “I’d like to ask the practitioners to come to our home to study the Fa.” Her husband readily agreed.
Practitioners arrived at Fen’s home that evening. The practitioners did not want to go to Mei’s home at first but after some discussion, they decided to go. Mei was alone on the bed, leaning on stacked blankets, doing the 3rd set of exercises by moving one arm up and down.
Mei’s bed was a fire-heated brick bed, which was very big, but a little dirty. I took a broom, did some cleaning, and went up to the bed to study the Fa. Several practitioners sat on the bed in a circle, and read two paragraphs of Zhuan Falun in turn. Mei couldn’t read, so she listened. We sent righteous thoughts together, and left afterward because we needed to go to Fen’s place to do the exercises with her. We left without finishing a few pages of the lecture.
When Zhen and I went back to Fen’s home, Fen told us that she had not studied the Fa well because she was upset with herself. She also tried listening to Master’s audio recording, but couldn’t focus too well.
I said, “I know that you didn’t want to go to Mei’s home, so your mind was unsettled. We should help fellow practitioners as much as possible. Dafa practitioners are one body.
“You can’t study the Fa well because you’re not on the Fa. When I was home one day, I just didn’t want to go to the group Fa study. In the past, when it was my turn to read, some practitioners would doze off, which made me feel uncomfortable. So I thought I should just study the Fa at home. I was sleepy that night and couldn’t study the Fa well. I went to bed early and had a dream that practitioner Lan was sitting in the center of the room reading the Fa. Her whole body was glowing with golden light, and the other practitioners surrounded her in a circle.
“It was Master who was hinting that I had a selfish thought. Group Fa study is what Master has left for us. We have to maintain this environment and improve as a whole. What’s more, we should not dislike our fellow practitioners, and if anyone is in trouble, we should help them. Whenever anyone sees an issue, we can get together to share our understandings and cultivate based on the Fa.”
The next day, all the practitioners came together to have a group Fa study. We formed a whole body. It is what Master requires us to do.
Master is compassionate and does not want to leave a single practitioner behind. Thank you, Master! Thank you, fellow practitioners!
This is my personal cultivation experience at my current level. If there is anything that is not in accordance with the Fa, please point it out.
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