(Minghui.org) When I was 22, I developed heart disease. At 39, I was diagnosed with a brain tumor. By then, I could no longer hold down a job.
Thankfully, that same year, I attended the Sydney Fa Conference in Australia on May 1, 1999. After I saw Master Li and listened to the teachings of Falun Dafa, I made up my mind to take up the practice.
I had several tribulations resembling heart disease over the last 20 years. But with Master’s protection, I was able to overcome them with righteous thoughts.
In April of 2021, I was struck again with sickness karma in the form of a malignant brain tumor. Under Master’s protection, I was able to make a swift recovery.
How My First Brain Tumor Disappeared
I was born in China and moved to Japan when I was 17. I had no faith due to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s indoctrination of atheism. However, my wife began to practice Falun Dafa in 1997.
Seeing how ill I was as I had suffered several heart attacks, she encouraged me to practice as well. Due to my poor enlightenment quality, I did not listen to her.
Since childhood, I also had migraines. Each episode would last over a week. The situation got worse after I turned 39 in 1999. In addition to headaches, I had tinnitus, dizziness, and some murmurs in my brain. Soon, I went in for an MRI and found that I had a brain tumor near my right ear. The doctor said it would be hard to operate on the tumor due to its location. Yet, my wife didn’t seem to be that worried.
“Maybe it is a sign for you to practice Dafa,” she said to me.
Thinking of the stories she told me before about people recovering from serious illnesses through Dafa, I thought that I might give it a try as well.
My wife asked me to attend the Fa conference in Sydney on May 1, 1999. I agreed. Though I already had a hard time walking by then, my wife and her cousin accompanied me. The journey wore me out, but when I listened to Master giving the lecture, I began to feel more and more comfortable and my tiredness melted away. That day, I made up my mind to cultivate.
The very night I began cultivating, Master began purifying my body. I had a fever and coughed up tons of phlegm. My urine also smelled like medicine. A week later, my appearance changed a great deal: my pale face turned rosy and my energy started to recover.
I was able to go back to work one month later.
Another Malignant Brain Tumor
In April 2021, I suddenly developed numbness on the right side of my body, and lost my ability to walk, talk, and read. Eventually, I was bedridden.
I began to send forth righteous thoughts to eliminate the old forces’ interference and also looked within, trying to find my loopholes. But in the meantime, my symptoms got worse.
I thought, “A a Dafa cultivator, I am here to assist Master in rectifying the Fa and saving sentient beings. If something happened to me at home, it might severely affect my parents and son who have a good impression of Dafa. Plus, there are many Chinese people in the area who know that I practice Dafa.”
I decided to go to a hospital for treatment to avoid any misunderstandings.
On my way to the hospital on May 9, I lost my memory. The rest is recollected from what my wife told me.
The MRI showed that I had a large tumor in my upper left brain. The biopsy indicated that it was a late-stage malignant tumor. The prognosis was poor, and they estimated that I only had a few months left.
After the surgery on May 13, the surgeon told my wife, “It was not a malignant tumor but a brain abscess, and we removed all the pus with a needle. He should recover within a month.”
While I was hospitalized, several fellow practitioners sent righteous thoughts for me daily. The day before my surgery, a fellow practitioner saw with his celestial vision that Master took me in the palm of his hand and removed my brain tumor.
A month later, my memory recovered, but due to the pandemic, I was alone at the hospital. One day, a nurse allowed my wife to visit me since I looked depressed.
My wife told me, “Master took out your brain tumor, and you will be fine. Believe in Master and Dafa, you will be fine.”
Only then did I realize that I had had a brain tumor again. Master spared me the agony by temporarily removing my memory and pain. I was deeply moved. Master renewed my life and endured the pain for me.
During the entire process, I kept reminding myself that I am a Dafa practitioner, I memorized Master’s teachings:
“If you can let go of life and death, you’re a God; if you can’t let go of life and death, you’re a human...” (“Fa Teaching Given in New York City,” Teachings at Conferences in the United States)
“I’m Li Hongzhi’s disciple, I don’t want other arrangements or acknowledge them...” (Teachings Given on Lantern Festival Day, 2003)
I kept reciting Master’s Fa teachings, and one day, I felt my toe and finger move. I started rehab the very next day.
The speed of my recovery stunned my physical therapist. I told them that I was able to recover so quickly because I practiced Falun Dafa. I showed the Minghui website to the physical therapists and nurses who worked with me.
I work on a Japanese Dafa website. Before my hospitalization, I would verbally translate articles, and my daughter (fellow practitioner) would type things out for me. During my rehab, I used a computer to type. In order to catch up on time, I asked to be discharged from the hospital. The doctor objected at first but eventually agreed.
On August 31, I was discharged, and I stopped all my medical treatments. When I did the exercises that night, my daughter saw through her celestial vision that Master was adjusting my body and there were Falun spinning all around the room. I was able to move my arms just fine.
Looking Within and Searching for Attachments
I thought I was diligent, but I realized that I spent much of my time doing things and not cultivating myself. Sure, I was doing the three things as a Dafa practitioner, but my mind did not settle down while doing the exercises or studying the Fa. Instead of removing my attachments, I even grew more of them.
I realized that I still have an attachment to fear, and did not let go of the fear of life and death. I also held resentment toward my wife—I often looked for her faults instead of my own. Behind that, I realized that I was jealous of my wife.
She pointed out that I had the mentality of showing off. I realized that I liked to talk a lot during group Fa study. Looking back, she was right. I also realized that I had strong sentimentality toward my daughter and son.
Elevating Xinxing
While I was hospitalized, I was also given opportunities to elevate my xinxing. In Japan, the nurses are usually very gentle and caring. But a middle-aged nurse was not very friendly toward me. She was impatient and condescending.
But I chose not to react to her. I thought it was time for me to pay back any unsettled debts I had with her, whatever they were.
Before I was discharged, this nurse told me, “You are terrific, you are always so gentle and kind every day. If it were me, I would stir up a storm and resent everyone around me.”
Closing Remarks
In the face of this major tribulation, I did not feel sad or waver in my faith toward Dafa and Master. I knew that whatever I encounter in life is always a good thing.
I am deeply grateful to Master for saving my life and giving me another opportunity to assist him in Fa-rectification. I will diligently cultivate, do the three things well, fulfill my historic vow, and follow Master home.
Thank you, Master, for your compassionate salvation! Thank you, fellow practitioners, for sending forth righteous thoughts for me!
This is my understanding at my level, please kindly point out anything inappropriate.
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