(Minghui.org) When I was young, I experienced dental problems that resulted in the decay of one of my teeth. Some twenty-odd years ago, I was told that the decay had progressed deeper into my gum, so a dentist filled up the cavity to protect the gum. The filling fell out in 2019, so I went to a dentist and had the cavity refilled.

One night in October 2025, I woke up with severe pain in the decayed tooth. I thought: Why do I suddenly have a bad toothache? Could it be resolving a karmic debt? Or a form of persecution by unseen nefarious forces?

I am 65 years old now and have practiced Falun Dafa for many years. I started looking within for loopholes, but couldn’t find any at the time. I remembered that Master tells us that whatever we come across in life, whether good or bad, is an opportunity for us to improve in cultivation.

I began listening to the cultivation-sharing podcasts of other practitioners on Minghui.org, which I had saved on a cell phone. Later, I fell asleep, and woke up just in time for sending forth righteous thoughts at 6:00 a.m. However, I missed the one at 12:00 a.m., as well as doing the exercises at 3:00 a.m.

During the day, the decayed tooth felt a bit numb, but it didn’t hurt. I tried to find the cause of my toothache and said to my wife, “You have control of my Medical Insurance Card and use it to buy all kinds of medications in my name. This is fraudulence and not truthful. I’m a Dafa practitioner, and I cannot act against the principle of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. You must give me the card that is issued in my name.”

My wife argued angrily, “You lost your job after your unlawful dismissal by the Chinese Communist Party for your faith in Dafa, and I have paid for both your Medical Insurance and Social Security Contributions. It’s all my money.”

“These are purchased in my name, so they belong to me. You must give me the card,” I said to my wife, and explained why we should do it this way. In the end, she reluctantly tossed the card to me.

That night, I had just fallen asleep when my toothache woke me up again. I went to another room with my phone and started listening to podcasts on the Minghui website. I fell asleep, but the alarm woke me up for Dafa exercises at 3:00 a.m. I got up and did the exercises, but had missed sending forth righteous thoughts at 12:00 a.m.

The next morning, my wife asked me to go see a dentist with her. I agreed, as I also wanted to know if there was any problem with the filling again. The dentist said that there was nothing wrong with the filling, and the pain was caused by a nerve in my gum, saying that they needed to open up the decayed tooth, clean it, kill the nerve with medicine, and fill up the cavity again after all was settled. I thanked the dentist and went home with my wife.

In the evening, I went to talk with a fellow practitioner about my toothache issue. I told him that I had looked within for loopholes in my cultivation of speech and other various attachments in my daily life, but nothing seemed to be the reason for the toothache. I felt a bit puzzled about the cause of my recurring toothache.

He said, “Master has explained to us in Zhuan Falun that apart from the huge karma Master has borne for us, and the share borne by many others who have benefited as a result of our cultivation, the remaining part would be divided into numerous portions and placed at different levels of our cultivation, to be used to improve our xinxing, transform our karma, and increase our gong. This could be the reason for your toothache.”

We continued with our sharing, and decided that since the toothache was already interfering with my clarifying the truth to validate the Fa, and with doing the three things, we should eliminate the interference with righteous thoughts.

The fellow practitioner also mentioned that if the cause of the toothache was due to an issue of settlement of a karmic debt, we could resolve it by offering benevolent solutions. But I didn’t feel that was the case.

We also shared that Master has told us many times to look inward when encountering any issues. I tried very hard to dig out any hidden loopholes I still might have.

I remembered that when I went to consult a dentist years ago, my wife showed me the Medical Insurance Card for the first time, telling me that there was money on the card that I could use. I also remembered that when my wife wanted to buy insurance for me, I only agreed to get the Basic Old-Age Pension Insurance. She agreed with me then, but actually got me the Medical Insurance as well.

After I had my decayed tooth fixed, I thought: There are over 10,000 yuan I can use on the Medical Insurance Card. I had used the filling made in China this time to save money. I thought that if I should need to have it fixed again, I would use imported dental cement for better results. Then I reminded myself: I’m a Dafa practitioner and I won’t have further tooth problems. I hope the filling and my decayed tooth will turn into one good tooth.

However, the decayed tooth felt numb a few more times and when it was bad, I became worried, thinking that if my gum was infected and decayed, I would definitely use imported dental cement next time.

Such a thought was already a loophole in my cultivation—I was worried, like an everyday person, and still attached to how I should have my tooth treated. This afforded the evil a loophole to interfere with me.

As we were sharing in more depth, my fellow practitioner and I came to the same understanding: We must follow Master’s teachings and stop viewing my toothache as a health problem, because Master has already removed all the sickness karma for us from the very beginning. My toothache is not caused by the so-called infection and decay from virus or bacteria, because such things could not get into my body, which is already filled with high-energy matter.

My toothache is caused by karma, and the painful process is simply my remaining karma being cleared. However, when it interferes with our validating the Fa and doing the three things, then it is persecution by evil influence and we should completely deny it and eliminate the persecution, while looking inward to rectify ourselves.

We both thought that I did the right thing to get my Medical Insurance Card back from my wife, so that she could not buy medicines on the card issued in my name. What I did was in line with the Fa principles and closed that loophole in my cultivation.

My fellow practitioner and I felt the comprehensive sharing we had was very good, especially now, as Fa-rectification cultivation is approaching the end, and the standards for Dafa practitioners are now higher and stricter. Even just a single unrighteous thought could result in a loophole in our cultivation, which the evil could use to justify its persecution.

After our discussion, I had a very good sleep that night, and I didn’t miss sending forth righteous thoughts at 12:00 a.m. or doing the exercises at 3:00 a.m. Everything was back to normal. My wife was really surprised that my toothache was gone in just two days without any treatment.

Five or six days have passed since I started writing this sharing. It’s quite amazing that my severe toothache disappeared completely when I looked within, found my loopholes, and rectified myself. We all know that it was our compassionate Master who bore my karma and removed it when he saw that my xinxing had improved. Thank you, Master!

The above is just my personal understanding. Please kindly point out anything improper in this sharing.