(Minghui.org) I am a Falun Dafa practitioner from the countryside. Fifteen years ago, when my life was in danger, I was saved by benevolent Master Li Hongzhi. Soon after I began practicing, I recovered from all my ailments. My husband, who had a terminal illness, and my daughter and son witnessed the miraculousness of Dafa and Master’s compassion, so all of them began practicing Dafa as well.
My husband passed away due to an illness karma tribulation five years ago. While my daughter and son had to pay off the nearly 80,000 yuan in medical fees their father owed and build a house, they were shunned by relatives and denounced by friends. I also suffered mental and physical stress after my husband’s death as a result of people’s negative opinion of Dafa.
In these circumstances, my children saw all too clearly how human morality has declined. Thus, they understood the meaning of life and treasured their cultivation even more, which has made them all the more determined to follow Master to return to their original, true selves.
A year later, after my children had paid back all our debts by living frugally, we were relieved and thanked Master. When other practitioners saw the changes in my family, they also came to understand the Fa principle “The Buddha Fa is boundless.”
My Daughter Holds Herself to the Standards of Dafa
After my daughter graduated from university, she went to work as an electrician for a large steel company. Because the company’s equipment and lines were all new, there were no glitches. Since she wasn’t very busy, she was able to spend a lot of time studying the Fa after work. She held herself to the standards of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, tried to be a good person, and did her job well.
Two years later, when her bosses saw that she was young and kind and worked hard, they promoted her. She lived up to everyone’s expectations and did well in her new position.
My daughter’s company merged with a company in the south a few years later, and all the leaders were to be transferred. Since she didn’t want to leave me on my own, she didn’t accept the job transfer and wanted to follow Master’s arrangement. Soon enough, she found a new job.
At first, she was a little reluctant to go to work because she was unfamiliar with the job and ended up being very busy every day. I said, “You are very busy now. It’s probably because you have mixed up cultivation and work. You have allowed work to take priority over cultivation.”
She didn’t quite understand what I said, so she asked me, “I’m so busy now. Where can I find the time to study the Fa?”
I reminded her that Master said,
“When it looks impossible and is said to be impossible, give it a try and see if it is possible.” (Lecture Nine, Zhuan Falun)
“Why don’t you give it a try?”
After she understood, she changed her notions. Then her environment also changed, and her work went well. She truly appreciated Master’s teachings.
After she’d worked with her coworkers for a while, she started to clarify the facts to them. Some of them decided to quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations after learning the truth.
Because my daughter regarded herself as a practitioner, she cared little for self-interest and didn’t fight with others when there were issues, so the manager trusted her. During the COVID-19 pandemic, most people in the company tested positive, but she never did. The boss decided to leave all the work for her to handle. My daughter worked hard to make sure that she didn’t fall behind in any of her work, and her boss really admired her. After the pandemic restrictions were lifted, the boss gave special approval that granted her a month-long vacation.
Last year, my daughter’s company failed to win an important bid, so she went to work for a larger company. The new work environment was very different, and there were more conflicts. However, there were also more opportunities to improve her xinxing. Her former company had fewer employees, and they came to work on time and left when their work was completed, so she could always find time to study the Fa and do the exercises. On holidays, my daughter could come home to practice with other practitioners. There were many more employees in the office at her new company, and she had to take on a lot of work. She couldn’t keep up with Fa-study and doing the exercises, and her health declined.
My daughter began to feel mentally unbalanced. She often called me and sighed, “I don’t want to do this anymore. I’m too tired. Even if I were to make less money, I need to have time to study the Fa. I would rather go home and farm than work here.”
I encouraged her, saying, “You are used to working at your own pace. Now, a change of environment is helping you to get rid of your attachment to comfort. Besides tempering the will, there is also working the body. You have to suffer either way. When you don’t have time to study the Fa, isn’t it a reminder for you to recite the Fa like you used to? Return to the cultivation state you had when you first started!”
What I said encouraged her righteous thoughts, and she did a good job every day. After about six months, she was finally able to take a vacation and come home to visit me.
When she did, she studied the Fa, did the exercises, and shared with other practitioners. With the improvement in her xinxing, her physical tribulations went away. But she still didn’t want to go back to work. I then looked inward. Was it because I was too attached to her having a job? Or did I have an attachment to self-interest? Each person has his or her own fate. My daughter’s is in the hands of Master Li.
As soon as I had that thought, my daughter suddenly said, “I’m a practitioner. Master arranges my work. Whoever tries to interfere with that will be unable to. Nobody can block my cultivation path.”
When my daughter returned to work, her manager did some re-organization, everything went back on track, and her workload was reduced. She also got a raise. She said cheerfully, “I held out for six months and finally made a breakthrough and improved myself. Thank you, Master!”
My Son Overcame Tribulations and Returned to Dafa
My son’s cultivation path has been bumpy. When he was at university, he studied the Fa whenever he had time and held himself to the standard of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. He didn’t smoke or drink alcohol. Protected by benevolent Master, he completed his studies, and, because of his excellent grades, it was recommended that he pursue a master’s degree. After he graduated, my son was hired by a foreign company subsidiary in our city.
His girlfriend went to a university in another city. After she graduated, she moved to his city to pursue her postgraduate studies. He helped her to rent a place. He also talked to her, based on Dafa’s principles, about how to be a good person, that good is rewarded and evil punished, and what “no loss, no gain” means. At that time, she could accepted everything he said. My son even took her on a sightseeing trip overseas, where she was able to learn the truth about Falun Dafa.
When my son brought his girlfriend to see me the very first time, we treasured this predestined relationship with her. We talked to her about my family situation and the beauty of Dafa. After that, she came to my house on her vacations every year, and my son went to see her parents during the Chinese New Year.
After she completed her master’s degree, she and my son secured a marriage certificate, and her parents bought them a house as a gift. After she entered the workforce, however, she was influenced by the moral decline in society and the CCP’s propaganda and changed her mind. She blamed my husband’s death on Dafa. She also said that my son was stupid. They grew apart and had little to share. My son was afraid that I would be worried about them, but he was also concerned that if he didn’t get married, people would misunderstand him and Dafa, so he just endured the situation.
Three years later, I held a wedding ceremony for them per her parents’ request. But shortly after that, my daughter-in-law asked for a divorce, the reason being that I practiced Falun Dafa. She thought that would affect her chances of job promotion. She also believed that the futures of any children they might have would be jeopardized. My son was completely disheartened to hear this. Thinking that all of his selfless efforts and plans had failed, his health collapsed.
When he returned home a month later, I saw my once healthy and handsome son haggard and skinny. He was six feet tall and walked with a stagger. When practitioners saw him, they were sad and quite surprised.
I calmed down and asked Master to help him. Then I said to my son, “You’ve cultivated for nearly 10 years. Master has eliminated karma for you and helped you to clean up your body. In addition, you have been given the best of everything. Now that you have run into this tribulation, why don’t you treat yourself as a practitioner? We have said and done everything possible to help your wife. As to what she should do, we can’t decide that for her. Now it’s your turn to make the choice: Will you hold onto to cultivation or pursue fame, self-interest, and sentimentality?”
When he heard this, he was relieved. He said immediately, “I’ve obtained the Dafa that I’ve waited thousands of years for. I don’t want anything else. I will just follow Master to cultivate in Dafa.” When this thought came forth, his divine thoughts gained the upper hand over his human thoughts.
My son also felt uplifted. After he studied the Fa, did the exercises, and shared his experiences with fellow practitioners for a few days, he left full of confidence. Six months later, they divorced. When they parted ways, my son asked his wife to remember the auspicious phrases, “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good” whenever she needed help.
After that, he rented a place to live. Because he wasn’t in good health and was always asking for sick leave, he quit his job.
My daughter worked in the same city as my son, and she found a rental property for him right near her company. This made it possible for them to study the Fa and do the exercises together. Soon enough, the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, and everything was shut down, so I asked my son not to be in a hurry to look for work, but seize the time to cultivate diligently. During the pandemic, he made a living by finding work online.
After the lockdown was lifted, when my son was looking for work, he either had health problems or was not qualified. He could not find a job even though he had a master’s degree from a prestigious university. He had negative thoughts and was baffled.
When my daughter saw this, she told me, “I don’t know where he got stuck in cultivation, but he didn’t put his heart into studying the Fa and had interference when doing the exercises. Have him come home and cultivate with you.” After that, my daughter’s boss granted her a leave, so both of them headed home. When not engaged in my Dafa project work, I spent the rest of the time studying the Fa, doing the exercises, and sharing with my children.
After finishing a chapter of Zhuan Falun one day, I shared my understandings of the Fa with them. Only then did I discover that my son was anxious to work and make money. He wondered why a non-practitioner could be blessed by reciting the auspicious phrases, but not him. He said that he had cultivated every day but couldn’t find a decent job. Not only that, his health got worse. At this time of difficulty, he had trouble feeling the beauty of Dafa and felt exhausted.
I said to him, “It’s you who has fallen short. How can you study the Fa with the attachment of pursuit? When you couldn’t find a job, it’s because you didn’t assimilate to Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. When you encounter physical tribulations, isn’t it because Master is compassionate and doesn’t want to abandon you in this human world? So your Teacher is helping you to improve your xinxing so that you can return home. How can you possibly complain about Master? Aren’t you not respecting Master and Dafa? You need to remember that, whatever you run into, you must have righteous thoughts. What Master gives to his disciples is always the best.”
He looked at me with his eyes wide open and said, “That is not respecting Master or Dafa. I made a huge mistake!”
He quickly said to Master Li, “Master, please forgive your disciple. From now on, I’ll rectify myself according to the Fa.” After he found where he was stuck in his cultivation, he rectified his notions and cleansed his negative thoughts to eliminate all incorrect factors. With that, his health was restored. In about 40 days my son left home, a much happier person.
My son studied electronics and computers at university and is very familiar with computer issues, systems, and drives. That meant that, every time he came home, practitioners brought over their computers with all kinds of issues for him to look into. Around our home in the countryside, it’s very hard to find practitioners with a technical background. Whenever a computer used for Dafa acts up, it negatively affects our clarifying the truth. After my son realized that, he decided to move back to live with me without any hesitation.
After practicing with other practitioners for nearly a month, my son became healthy again. He said, “I’ll start from scratch, find the true me, and rectify myself based on the Fa holistically.” Arranged by Master, he found a job in the city, but it appeared to involve further hardship.
My sentimentality towards my son came up again. I knew that he had never done any actual hard work, so I was worried that he could not bear this new hardship. I was teary all the time. After a few days, I realized that it was the attachment of sentimentality that was interfering. I asked myself how could I want this interference in my cultivation. I immediately sent forth righteous thoughts to eliminate it.
I will fulfill my vows and accomplish my mission as I cultivate along with my daughter and son and return to my sacred home with Master!
Thank you, Master, for your saving grace!
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