(Minghui.org) A few years ago, while waiting at a traffic light, I noticed a large sign that said “Free Qigong Class.” At the time, I was experiencing various physical discomforts, particularly severe migraines, so I went to the class. Everyone sat in a circle reading a book titled Falun Gong. We then performed the exercises. After practicing, I felt my mind was clearer and my body lighter. I realized this Qigong was not something that others would do for me, but that I needed to practice it myself.
About two months later, the Chinese massage therapist I often visited told me about Falun Gong in China and advised me to stop practicing immediately. That was the end of my involvement with the practice.
Five years later, on the day of my 60th birthday, I thought to myself: If my life were to end like this, what would I have left behind? Every day, I was busy working and taking care of my children, and it seemed as though something important was missing, but I couldn’t remember what it was, so I put it aside in a corner of my mind, thinking that one day I would remember.
Soon after, my daughter felt unwell and came to stay at my house. That day, a flyer was delivered to our mailbox. My daughter said to me, “Mom, let’s go to this qigong class together!” I looked at it and saw that it was the same qigong class I had attended before.
At my daughter’s request, I reluctantly accompanied her, thinking that the members would be different from before, so it wouldn’t matter. After returning from the qigong class, I learned that the manager of my daughter’s apartment was a Falun Gong practitioner. At his invitation, we began practicing in the management office every day. Soon, we became healthy and energetic.
Before I had memorized all the movements, my daughter was already doing them perfectly, and she would read Falun Gong books whenever she had time. One day, she said that she felt something spinning in her stomach and that it was very uncomfortable. I immediately realized that it was a Falun spinning, so I happily said, “That’s great! Don’t worry, Master is protecting you.”
After that, I made up my mind and began to practice diligently. In less than two months, I noticed that I no longer needed to take headache medicine and was sleeping soundly. Since then, I have never taken any medicine again.
After personally experiencing the extraordinary effects of Falun Gong, I vowed to practice it every day. Falun Gong not only restored my health, alleviated my insomnia, tendonitis, and thirty years of hay fever, but also improved my character. I no longer argue with my husband as I did before.
However, as work became increasingly busy, I gradually reduced my exercises to a short meditation before bedtime. One day, I developed a persistent cough, and later, while taking a shower, I coughed up blood. I immediately asked my daughter, who was overseas, to help me send forth righteous thoughts. My husband took me to the hospital, where the doctor said I might have tuberculosis, and even suspected lung cancer and admitted me to an isolation ward.
Due to fear and anxiety, I couldn’t sleep for three days and three nights. I continued to study the Fa, practice the exercises, and recite “On Dafa.” Each breath I took sounded like a broken guitar, and it was difficult to turn over in bed.
I kept silently repeating, ‘Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good,’ trying to calm myself down. The one-hour meditation passed quickly, and my legs didn’t hurt. Throughout the entire process, I didn’t cough once.
Finally, it was confirmed that I had a viral infection in my lungs that caused inflammation. I was discharged from the hospital two weeks later. From the day I returned home, I decided to retire and resolved to cultivate and do the three things every day.
I threw away all the medicine, decided not to go for my monthly follow-up appointments, and wrote a letter to my attending physician informing him that I was practicing Falun Gong every day.
I joined a Dafa project and worked as a proofreader. I learned a great deal from fellow practitioners, and I also felt the greatness of the Fa.
Yes! I had finally found the important thing that I couldn’t remember on my 60th birthday. I understood the true meaning of my life and felt full of energy.
On September 4, 2024, I was driving home from the exercise site when I was involved in an accident just 50 meters from my house. As I was turning right at a three-way intersection, I failed to stop, and a motorcycle suddenly appeared and collided with my vehicle. The motorcycle fell to the ground, and the driver was injured and hospitalized for 16 days.
I immediately stopped the car and silently pleaded, “Master, please save this person!” While waiting for the ambulance, I kept repeating to myself, “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” My husband and I went to the hospital together. The doctor said that the patient’s ribs had pierced his lung, causing bleeding and that emergency surgery was necessary. Hearing this, my face paled, and I was terrified.
The accident occurred during the daytime, and there were no people or cars around. I was just around the corner from home, so I had let my guard down. My husband calmly said, “If you had stopped for just three seconds at that spot, you could have avoided the collision! So, it’s all your fault!” In truth, I hadn’t even noticed the stop sign at the intersection. I knew my husband was right.
After calming down, I realized that I had been careless and inattentive all along. I get angry when people don’t use the crosswalk and instead cross the road diagonally or when pedestrians move too slowly on a crosswalk without traffic lights. I even get annoyed when I see cars cutting in line and think, “How can they do that!” Because I don’t put others first, I always have dissatisfaction and complaints in my heart. These negative thoughts are selfish, and they are growing stronger. This is precisely what I needed to work on.
That evening, my husband received a phone call and said he was shocked. It turned out that the motorcyclist was my husband’s colleague. He is a kindhearted person, and he smiled when we met.
I had inadvertently become increasingly self-centered and lost my humility, which led to this car accident. Due to my limited understanding of the Fa, there were significant gaps and inadequacies in my practice. Master protected me at a critical moment.
Master mentioned in the Fa:
“I have always taught you to think of others first in everything you do” (“Fa Teaching Given at the 2004 Chicago Fa Conference”, Collected Teachings Given Around the World Volume IV).
I must place others first, look inward when faced with any situation, and identify and eliminate my attachments to elevate my xinxing. Finding attachments and gaining enlightenment about them is of utmost importance.
Every test is an opportunity. If I cannot understand it, the test may become even greater, allowing me to continue learning. On the path of cultivation, when I encounter conflicts or feel upset, I always look inward and measure myself against the standards of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance. If I can unconditionally follow the teachings of the Fa and Master, I will be able to improve.
This is my understanding at my current level; please kindly point out anything inappropriate.
Thank you, Master! Thank you, Dafa!