(Minghui.org) One day, I happened to find a small lump on my foot. I didn’t pay much attention to it, but it got bigger and harder. Negative thoughts began to surface. I thought: “I should go to the hospital for surgery! It will be fine if it’s removed by surgery.” Then I thought again. I should go and discuss it with practitioner Ping.
I happened to meet Ping on the roadside. I told her about the lump on my foot, and she said, “Maybe it’s because you are a new practitioner and are experiencing karma elimination! You don’t need surgery. Even if you have surgery, it will still grow back. Don’t worry! You’ll be okay.” But the lump grew bigger and harder every day. I was concerned and kept asking myself, “How can I get rid of this big lump?”
One night, I took out the necklace box that my future daughter-in-law bought me as a gift for the new year. When I opened it, I found that the necklace chain had become tangled and turned into a big clump. I couldn’t untie it no matter how hard I tried. I was sure I hadn’t touched the necklace, so why was it all tangled up? I realized that it was caused by the issue between my future daughter-in-law and me, and the lump on my foot was also related to this. If I want to untie the knot in the necklace, I must untie the emotional knot between my future daughter-in-law and me. Now everything made sense.
I began to calm down and look within. Where did I go wrong? My son’s fiancee is from northeast China. Her parents divorced when she was young, and she grew up with her grandparents. I didn’t want a girl from such a family marrying my son. I looked at her situation: her parents were divorced, her family was not rich, and she didn’t have a good education. But my son likes her. What’s wrong with me? It’s obvious that I dislike her! My son used to be considerate of me in every possible way, but since he met his fiancee, he no longer cares about me as much. Instead, he is obedient to his fiancee and sometimes talks back to me. I was very angry about this.
What attachment do I have? Jealousy and resentment. Every time my son’s fiancee came to visit, I gave her thousands of yuan, and bought her delicious food. But she was as cold as ice to me. Although she greeted me when she came in, and said “Goodbye” when she left, her behavior made me angry. What attachment was that? The desire for seeking reward, the desire for profit, an imbalance in the heart, and competitiveness. Every time my son called me to tell me about his fiancee, I would yell at him. Why? Was I afraid of being criticized? I had so many bad thoughts.
I sent strong righteous thoughts: “All of these notions are not me,” and I made them disintegrate from the macroscopic to the microscopic level. I eliminated them. I opened the necklace box again and untied the knot in the necklace. When I came back from clarifying the truth that afternoon, I looked down to take off my shoes and found that the big lump on my foot had magically disappeared. I understood that I was right to look inward, and Master had removed the lump for me.
Thank you, Master! Thank you, fellow practitioners.
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