(Minghui.org) My mother has practiced Falun Dafa for as long as I can remember. For her generation, parents-in-law held relatively more power. My mother followed Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance to do things, was unmoved when her parents-in-law bullied her, and was as filial to them as ever. My grandparents were very content with her and often praised my mother as a good daughter-in-law in front of their neighbors.
My mother went to a neighboring village to buy meat once, and the butcher asked: “Are you so-and-so’s daughter-in-law? Your father-in-law said you are filial and that we won’t find another daughter-in-law as good as you in these neighboring villages.”
My mother smiled and said that it’s just what she should do. My mother felt that the things she did were normal, but many people could no longer do these things. My grandparents were thus very supportive of my mother practicing Falun Dafa. The police went to arrest my mother after the Chinese Communist Party started persecuting Falun Dafa. As soon as my grandfather heard about it, he rushed to block the policemen with a shovel. My grandparents were blessed for protecting a Dafa disciple. They eventually passed away peacefully.
I grew up under the guidance of Dafa. I felt sympathy for the weak and would want to stop people who were bullying others. When I saw elderly people, I felt compassion. I always thought about people and things positively.
My friends call me stupid because society is so sinister and people are unpredictable, so with my temperament I easily suffer losses. I believe that suffering losses is a blessing. I am fortunate to have met good people. After I married, when I have interacted with my parents-in-law, I have thought of how my mother treated my grandparents and I think from my in-laws’ perspectives. My parents-in-law treat me very well, and they are glad to have a good daughter-in-law.
I have also started practicing Dafa. Although I often slack off, I will try my best to eliminate all kinds of attachments, seize the time to practice cultivation, and follow the path arranged by Master.
I have a son who also grew up in a Dafa environment and he is a child with good character and excellent academic performance. When he was in kindergarten, he told his friends to recite the nine-character mantra “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good” to keep safe.
The school once distributed textbooks when he was absent. The only torn book in the class was given to him. My son said, “No one else wanted it. It was given to me so it means that I have a predestined relationship with this book.”
Another child or parent might think, “Why I was given a torn textbook when everyone paid the same amount of money?” They would definitely ask the teacher to exchange it for a new one. This is what most people would do. As a cultivator, I was really happy that my son’s realm of thought had surpassed that of ordinary people. As a practitioner, we do some things that we feel are normal, but most ordinary people cannot do these “very normal” things.
Thank you, Master, for allowing us to grow up in Dafa, enter Dafa one after another, and follow Master back to our true home.
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