(Minghui.org) I downloaded the article “What is True Kindness (Shan) and Master's Comments: Fa-Rectification and Cultivation” published on the Minghui website, and saved it on my desktop. I recently read it again and had new understandings. I’d like to share my views with you, so that we can improve together and walk righteously the very short last lag of our cultivation path in the Fa-rectification period. Please kindly point out anything that is not in line with the Fa.
Looking back over my 26 years of cultivation in the Fa-rectification period, my journey was not smooth sailing. Thanks to Master’s protection, I managed to hold up under the pressure of the persecution and come through the hardships. I have followed the progress of Fa-rectification closely. Master’s immense compassion has paved the path forward for me to cultivate.
I was forced to leave home in the spring of 2002 and wander around in another city due to the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) persecution. Several months later, in the summer, I came home secretly. A veteran practitioner in his seventies came to see me. I learned that he had many truth-clarification materials on hand. I suggested that we go out to distribute them in the evening. He agreed.
We went to a village to distribute the pamphlets, household by household, and put up sticky posters on the power poles. It was after heavy rain. The path between the fields was bumpy and wet. There were deep water pits beside the roads. We couldn’t see the roads clearly. The elderly practitioner stepped into a water pit with one leg. His pants got wet. He folded his pants to his knee and walked with me with soaking wet shoes. We covered five villages and walked more than 15 kilometers [9.3 miles], distributing 600 pamphlets. It was dawn when we got home.
My husband was furious when I lay down in bed. He shouted, “The police car sirens wailed the whole night. I thought they got you. I didn’t expect you’d come back. They’d better arrest you so I don’t need to worry about you. They are searching for you. You still dare to go out to distribute flyers. You are making trouble and don’t want me to live in peace. I will make trouble for you now.” He got up and seemed ready to beat me. I sent forth righteous thoughts immediately and said, “Stop! I was doing a good deed. You are not allowed to touch me!” Sure enough, he lay down obediently. But he got up a few minutes later. He looked furious again and wanted to beat me. I sent forth righteous thoughts toward him again. He lay down quietly again. He got up again 10 minutes later. He was furious and seemed determined to beat me. I pleaded to Master in my heart, “Master, please help me and don’t let him touch me. I was not wrong to go out to save sentient beings. Please make him lie down and sleep.” I sent forth righteous thoughts toward my husband. He lay down and didn’t get up again. I was very thankful to Master for helping me avoid being beaten. I got up and made breakfast the next morning. He was back to normal, as if nothing had happened the night before.
I realized that when I had righteous thoughts when facing my husband’s unreasonable behavior, Master could help eliminate the evil spirit and rotten demons behind him and put him in a peaceful state. The old forces had used evil demons at lower levels to manipulate my husband to damage Dafa and do bad deeds. If I had accepted it all, I would have been hurt, and my husband would have committed wrong deeds against Dafa. How could he pay back the karma, or could he ever pay it back? I stopped him with righteous thoughts. Master helped me dissolve the tribulation and also gave my husband the opportunity to rectify himself. Dafa helped us. It was real compassion.
My husband’s 82-year-old aunt was hospitalized due to a severe cerebral infarction in 2018. She woke up after being unconscious and was discharged from the hospital two weeks later. She was in a wheelchair and couldn’t speak. I went to see her. She looked at me, but was unable to talk to me. I felt sad for her. I told her to recite the two phrases, “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good,” sincerely in her heart. I asked her son to recite them as well. I said, “Recite the verses genuinely, and miracles will happen. Auntie will recover and will be able to speak again.” Soon after, I saw my sister-in-law, who told me with excitement that Auntie could speak, and she asked me to go visit her. Indeed, she chatted with me fluently with a clear mind.
I went to see her another day. She was still paralyzed in bed. Master had helped her recover her ability to talk. I speculated that Master would continue to help her. I remembered how Master had cured illnesses for people, including those who were paralyzed in his seminars. I asked her if she believed in Master and Falun Dafa. She replied yes sincerely. I told her stories about how Master cured people with illnesses back then. She was very happy hearing these stories. I could see that she expected that Master would help her to stand up and walk. I said, “If we believe in Master. Master will definitely help us.” She laughed heartily. I said, “Please get off the bed. I will help you walk.” She handed me her shoes. I put them on her feet.
She was trembling while on her feet. I encouraged her not to be afraid, and Master would help her. She became confident and stood without trembling several minutes later. I held her right arm, and her left arm held the bed. She was able to walk slowly step-by-step back and forth several times. She breathed heavily. She then stopped practicing walking. I helped her rest back on the bed. She didn’t lie down and looked at me with a smile. I said, “You can practice walking with the help of your wheelchair. Miracles will happen.”
I told this story to my husband. Unexpectedly, he swore at me, “Can you shoulder the responsibility if Auntie falls down and gets injured? Will her daughter forgive you?” He forbade me from seeing her again. I didn’t realize at the time that demons in other dimensions were controlling him and preventing me from saving people. I didn’t eliminate it with righteous thoughts. I thought he was an everyday person, and his realm was different from practitioners’ realms. I explained to him that Auntie had no issue. He wouldn’t listen to me and said, “If anything happens to her, what are you going to do? Her children will not let you leave. They might send her to our home and have you look after her.” He was irrational and swore at me for four or five days. I just put up with him.
I went to see Auntie one month later. To my surprise, she could look after herself. She and her son told me that she had gotten down from the bed and practiced walking with her wheelchair by herself for two weeks. Then she used sticks to walk. Finally, she threw away her sticks and could walk by herself. Now she is 89 years old and still looks after herself.
I told her story to my husband. He felt guilty and didn’t say anything. He later went to see her and said he was sorry to her for swearing at me. If I had a clear understanding of the Fa about the relationship between Fa-rectification and cultivation at the time, I would not have been cursed by him for several days, and he could have avoided creating that karma.
Fellow practitioners have said they admired my good cultivation environment. My husband supports me in making truth-clarifying materials, going out to clarify the truth to people, and writing articles that validate the Fa. He welcomes practitioners who come to my home. Practitioners are not afraid of him. Why do I have such a good environment? I send forth righteous thoughts at the four set times every day. I added the following into my righteous thoughts: “Eliminate the evil beings and elements in the other dimensions of my area that damage Falun Dafa and interfere with my Dafa work. Completely eliminate them, encompassing everything and leaving out nothing.”
I thank Master from the bottom of my heart for bestowing me with such a good environment, enabling me to do the three things well and at ease. I now truly understand what true compassion is.
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