(Minghui.org) Greetings respected Master! Greetings fellow practitioners!
The Fa-rectification has reached the very end. At this most critical moment of saving people, Master hopes that every practitioner can fully use their strengths to save more sentient beings and follow him home. However, many practitioners are experiencing various sickness karma tribulations which interfere with their ability to save people.
I’d like to tell you how I survived a tribulation after experiencing a major car accident, and my limited understanding regarding sickness karma tribulations. If my understanding is not in line with the Fa, please kindly correct me.
I was heading home on the evening of December 16, 2024, a little after 5 o’clock, when I was hit by a car. When I woke up, nearly five hours had passed. I felt dizzy, nauseous, with an unspeakable pain in the right side of my head and my right ear, and pain resembling fractures in the bones in the right side of my neck, right shoulder, front and back of my chest, right knee, and left lower leg. The fingers of both of my hands were bleeding badly.
The nurse said, “You were hit by a car.” Only then did I realize that I was in the hospital and had been in a car accident hours earlier. In my heart, I repeatedly begged Master to save me. I told myself that even if I have shortcomings, Master is watching over me, and I will rectify myself in Dafa. I do not allow the old forces to persecute me. As I kept reciting this, my head became a little clearer, and I was able to open my eyes.
The nurse said, “You were hit very badly. You will need a CT scan to get your whole body checked.” Saying this, she pushed me towards the entrance of the CT room. I said, “I practice Falun Dafa. I don’t need a CT scan. I’m fine. Could you please take me back to the ward?” Seeing that I was not cooperating, she had the doctor talk to me. The doctor said, “You were hit very hard. You will regret it if you don’t get checked.” He indicated it wouldn’t cost me any money. I said, “Even if I don’t have to pay, I can’t cause trouble for others. I can’t make the other party pay. I practice Falun Dafa. Our Master tells us to always think of others first. I don’t need a CT scan.”
Seeing my firm attitude, the doctor said, “Then you must bear the consequences and you must sign to acknowledge this.” I agreed. The doctor and nurse had no choice but to bring me back to the ward. I thought: I must go home. I asked the nurse, “Could you please hand me the phone?” I called my son and asked him to pick me up. While waiting for my son, I thought I should not be lying down; I must sit up and send forth righteous thoughts. But I couldn’t sit up on my own. I said to the nurse, “Could you please help me? I want to sit up.”
The nurse said, “Your injuries are too severe. You cannot sit.” I thought I could not listen to the nurse. I had to sit up. After a while, I said, “Nurse, please, I would like to get down to use the restroom.” She said, “You are wearing an adult diaper. Just urinate while lying down, and afterward we will clean you.” I thought diapers are for patients. I am not a patient. I cannot urinate in the diaper. I must negate the old forces’ persecution. I said, “Nurse, I can’t urinate lying down. I must get up to go.” She said, “You must not move,” meaning they feared something worse. I said, “I have no problems. Please just help me up.”
She had no choice but to crank the bed up. When I sat up, I found that all my clothes had been cut off, and except for the diaper, I was only wearing the hospital gown. I asked Master to strengthen me. I got up by myself and went to the restroom. Afterward, I said to the nurse, “I’d like to sit for a while. Please don’t make me lie down.” She had no choice but to let me stay sitting. Once she left, I quickly sent righteous thoughts to completely negate the old forces’ persecution. At that moment I thought, I’m a Falun Dafa practitioner, and I only walk the path arranged by Master. All other arrangements I do not recognize and do not want. No one is allowed to persecute me. My body is composed of high-energy matter—if anyone can move me, then they can move my Master, then they can move this universe.
After sending righteous thoughts for a while, the nurse brought water and painkillers. I said, “I’m fine. I don’t need medicine, thank you.” The nurse set the medicine aside, and I continued sending righteous thoughts. After about an hour, my mind grew clearer. Then I sat there and practiced the tranquil meditation, until my son arrived to take me home. The doctor told my son, “Your mother is very seriously injured. She’s refusing treatment.” My son said, “My mother has the final say. If she says she’s fine, then she’s fine. Let her go home.” The doctor said we had to bear all the consequences. My son said, “She’s fine.” So, without any tests or medication, we went home.
Overcoming the Tribulation by Maintaining Righteous Thoughts
After returning home, I could not lie down—if I tried, it felt like the whole world was spinning. My entire body and the house seemed to spin. I began to feel nauseous and kept vomiting white foam. We kept a basin on the floor all day. Later I vomited yellow bitter stuff. I vomited like this for four days, without eating or drinking. Just smelling food made me sick. For my sake, my family did not dare cook meat, fish, or anything with a strong smell. They did not dare eat at the table. When I felt nauseous, my head felt as if the stitches were splitting apart. It was indescribably painful. My head felt split into two hemispheres, the right half swollen. If I touched it, it felt like it pulsed. My hand couldn’t even touch my hair; without touching, I was dizzy, and if I did, it went numb and tingly like an electric shock, making the spinning worse.
On the second day after the accident, my face began to swell. My eyes were squeezed into slits. The internal bruising in my head started to surface, some seeping out around my ears, turning the skin blue-purple. Other bruising spread over three-quarters of my face and even into my eyes, turning my face dark purple-black. It looked terrifying. After about twenty days, the discoloration gradually faded.
The bones on the right side of my head were deformed—uneven, with ridges and dents. In the deformed area, about the size of a small bowl, there was no hair. My head still felt unspeakably uncomfortable every day. Sometimes it felt like stabbing pain, sometimes intense aching. I didn’t dare move my head—turning it made me dizzy and nauseous. Speaking hurt worse. Lying down was even harder—before my head even touched the pillow, everything was already spinning.
My right ear, which had felt uncomfortable in the hospital, started to hurt, burn, and hum. Bruising behind the ear lasted over a month. The bones in the right side of my neck and my right shoulder felt as if they were collapsing inward, and I could not lift my right arm. My chest felt crushed, making it hard to breathe. My neck felt like it was supporting a thousand-pound weight—it ached so badly it was beyond description. My left lower leg hurt so much I dared not move it. It and my ankle were black-purple and swollen. My right knee was also swollen black-purple, the size of a large bowl, with a big hard lump; it was excruciatingly painful. Every day I could not eat or sleep lying down. Sitting was unbearable, lying was impossible, and I could not walk. My entire body felt like it was pieced together from shattered parts.
Although I suffered tremendous pain every day and every second felt like torment, my faith in Master and the Fa never wavered. I completely negated the old forces’ persecution. In my heart I kept repeating: No matter where I did not do well, the old forces are not allowed to touch me. Master is watching over me. The old forces are unworthy of persecuting me. Whatever loopholes I have, I will rectify them within Dafa.
I recalled that Master said that for practitioners, good and bad encounters are all good things. So, I regarded this car accident as a good thing—I was eliminating karma. No matter what condition appeared in my body, I did not label it fractures, bleeding, or anything else. I kept sending righteous thoughts to cleanse my dimensional field.
During the first four days after the accident, I vomited constantly. I was unable to eat or drink. I thought: The old forces don’t let me eat or drink, don’t they want to starve me to death? Then I must eat, and eat a lot. I asked Master: “Master, I want to eat, and eat a lot.” I couldn’t tolerate the smell of food. I said, “Master, I can’t be too selfish. Because I can’t stand the smells, my family isn’t cooking. Isn’t that selfish of me? I must be able to tolerate and eat. If I don’t eat, it causes my sister trouble, she can’t cook.” I said, “Go ahead and cook, and put it on the table to eat. I will eat there too.” My sister asked, “Can you do it?” I said, “Yes.” As a result, seeing food did not make me nauseous anymore, and I could drink a little porridge. Later, I could eat normally.
When my body ached in every place, I did not think about how I had been hit. I knew Master was pushing all the karma to the surface, and let it be eliminated! When it was truly unbearable, I thought: Master gave me abilities, let my pain and dizziness return to the persecutors. Let them feel it, not me. When my eyes were swollen, I thought: The karma here is being eliminated. My eyes will be even clearer and brighter. When my ears buzzed, I thought: This is the Falun turning, cleansing my ears. When this karma goes, my celestial ear will open. When my head hurt like stabbing needles, I thought: Master is cleansing my head, helping the bones return to place. Karma coming out of my head will make my mind clearer and wiser.
When I felt dizzy and the earth was spinning, I thought: The Falun is rotating.
“When Falun rotates clockwise, it can automatically absorb energy from the universe. Rotating counter-clockwise, it can give off energy. Inward (clockwise) rotation offers self-salvation while outward (counter-clockwise) rotation offers salvation to others—this is a feature of our practice.” (Lecture Five, Zhuan Falun)
On the fourth night, I couldn’t sleep at all because of the pain. I thought: Evil, if you won’t let me sleep, I will do the exercises. Practicing is the best rest.
When I started to practice the first set, I found I could not raise my arms fully—only as high as my face. Raising them further made my shoulders and chest bones hurt unbearably. I thought: No way! The evil doesn’t want me to practice, I must practice, and more. I used nine slips of paper to help keep track of the number of times I did the first, third, and fourth sets, ensuring that I completed each set nine times.
When I could stand a little, I did the second set. When I tried to hold the wheel above the head, my arms could only lift to my eyes' level. I asked Master to strengthen me. I looked into the mirror, while begging for Master’s help, I vowed to hold for an hour. Bit by bit, I lifted my arms to head height, sweating profusely. My clothes were soaked. I felt like I was about to collapse. Still, I kept raising my arms to the correct height. My bones hurt so badly that my arms shook, my legs trembled, and I felt I would fall.
I kept reciting:
“When it’s difficult to endure, you can endure it. When it’s impossible to do, you can do it.” (Lecture Nine, Zhuan Falun).
With Master’s help, I finished holding the wheel for one hour. Afterward, my body felt much lighter. My neck that had felt like a thousand pounds pressing on it eased greatly. I “Heshi” to thank Master!
Every day I persisted in holding the wheel for two or three hours. Sometimes, when I held the wheel above the head, I would hold it for forty-five minutes. Whenever I felt the bone of my right shoulder pulling inward during Fa study, I would turn the pages of the book with my left hand and hold my right arm up as if I was holding the wheel. After more than ten days, the bones that had collapsed inward were all returned to their correct positions. The swelling in my head also eased somewhat.
On the fifth day, I began practicing the sitting meditation. The sitting meditation was even harder. I had pain in my left leg in two places (perhaps fractures or cracks), but I did not acknowledge it. I just thought: the karma has gone to my leg, so it hurts. Once it’s eliminated, it will be fine. Also, I couldn’t let Master bear everything for me. Whatever I could handle myself, I should handle myself. My left leg was black and purple, severely swollen, but I thought: “Can I still cross my legs? Yes, I must be able to!” As soon as I crossed my legs, sweat poured down like a waterfall. Moreover, my already painful left lower leg and ankle were pressing down on my swollen right leg during the meditation. The pain of both parts added together was indescribably excruciating. But I refused to uncross my legs and I insisted on practicing.
The first time, I sat cross-legged for an hour. The second time, I meditated for three hours. I discovered that after finishing the exercises, my body felt much lighter. My head was less dizzy, and I could even lie down and rest for a little while. Later, I could cross my legs in the full lotus position for five hours. I persisted in sitting meditation in the full lotus position for a few days. I was then able to get up and do some household chores.
Every day, aside from studying and listening to the Fa, I did the exercises countless times. In less than a month’s time, except for the bald patch on my head where hair hadn’t yet grown back, my entire body completely recovered. I could do everything again. After two months, hair had grown back in the bald spot.
I truly experienced what Master said,
“...Disciples’ righteous thoughts are strongMaster has the power to turn the tide”(“Master-Disciple Grace,” Hong Yin II).
Master reassembled my body, cleansed and purified it, gave me a new body, and granted me a new life.
That I encountered such a severe car accident was not accidental at all. I began to seriously look within. I discovered I had very strong resentment, a competitive mentality, jealousy, a mentality of looking down on others, a show-off mentality, a mentality of self-contentment, a pursuit of personal gain, the pursuit of reputation, a liking for hearing flattering words, concern for saving face, dependency, attachment to emotion, and a focus on self. These frightening attachments were obstacles to my progress. After identifying these attachments, I started paying close attention to eliminating them.
To have experienced such a major car accident and yet I was able to fully recover in less than a month,without taking any medicine, without receiving any medical treatment, how could I have possibly achieved this without Master’s help? From the bottom of my heart, I am deeply grateful to Master! My personal experience once again validates Master’s greatness and the miraculous and extraordinary nature of Dafa.
Through this serious car accident, I gained a deeper understanding of the issue of “sickness karma.” In my opinion, in order to break free from the tribulation of sickness karma, one must achieve one hundred percent faith in Master and the Fa and change one’s human notions.
Master said, “Once you bring up the word “illness,” I won’t want to listen.” (Lecture Two, Zhuan Falun).
The Fa says it is not an illness, then why do we keep thinking about some tribulations as an illness and associating ourselves with illness? Master says we have no illness, so we have no illness. Wherever we feel uncomfortable, that is where we have karma. Then we must eliminate karma. The black substance transforms into white substance, transforms into virtue, and transforms into gong. Isn’t that a wonderful thing?
The doctor says it’s cancer, but Master tells us it’s karma. So, who do you choose to follow—humans, or gods? Medical treatment only postpones it. Doctors cannot eliminate karma. Only Master can help us eliminate it! You might say, “But it hurts so much! It’s so uncomfortable!” Of course, it’s because you still have karma, so you must repay it. How can you repay karma without suffering? Why don’t we think of it as a great opportunity to improve?
Secondly, we do not acknowledge the old forces’ persecution. What Master does not acknowledge, we also do not acknowledge. We cultivate within the human world. In the process of cultivation, we will make mistakes. Sometimes small mistakes, sometimes big mistakes. But we look within and rectify everything within Dafa. We do not allow the old forces to exploit loopholes to persecute us. Cultivation is like sailing against the current: if you don’t advance, you will fall back. Every test and every tribulation is a trial!
Finally, I hope the sharing of my experience of passing this test can offer some inspiration to fellow practitioners who are going through tribulations. I also hope that those practitioners trapped in the tribulations of sickness karma can change their notions, walk out of the tribulation, and return to the path of Fa-rectification and saving sentient beings!
Heshi.
(Selected Sharing Article Presented at the 2025 Canada Fa Conference)
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