(Minghui.org) I’m a Falun Dafa practitioner from Northeast China. I started practicing cultivation on December 31, 1995. I feel very fortunate to be born in this great era and be able to assist Master Li in validating the Fa and saving sentient beings. No words can express my profound gratitude to Master!
Taking Care of a Young Practitioner
My son was born in the post-millennial era. When he was young, my wife and I guided him to study the Fa. Raising him during those years was surprisingly easy and enjoyable.
However, as he got older and his academic workload increased, the negative influences in society and school gradually became apparent. Studying the Fa became challenging for him, and when he reached the fourth grade, my son began forming his own opinions, and it was difficult to encourage him to study the Fa.
He once told me he no longer wanted to study the Fa. I was deeply disappointed because I understood profoundly what it meant for someone to lose this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to become a Dafa practitioner.
However, I calmed down and respected his decision. I continued to care for my son with the same dedication as before, while patiently waiting for the right opportunity to help bring him back to Dafa.
Before long, an opportunity presented itself. My son’s academic performance had been less than ideal for some time, and he was very distressed. I advised him to try studying the Fa, as it could bring him wisdom. Motivated to improve, he started reading Dafa books again. Remarkably, his final exam grades improved significantly. He was delighted. Since then, no matter how busy his schoolwork became, he would read up to a dozen pages of Zhuan Falun daily.
My son was later admitted to an excellent university. However, his heart was set on studying abroad. We also worried that if he attended college in China, he would not have a good environment to study the Fa due the influence of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) highly politicized education. So we helped him to apply to some universities abroad.
After my son went abroad to study, I felt relieved. But my attachment to showing off emerged, and tribulations followed.
The first year and a half went well, as my son handled his studies with relative ease. But once the specialized coursework began, everything became more challenging. The study methods that had previously allowed him to breeze through his classes were no longer effective. He became consumed by frustration and resentment. After doing poorly on a quiz, he burst into tears. The next time he couldn’t complete his homework on time, he flew into a rage.
During that difficult period, I was afraid of checking his messages, fearing that something had gone wrong, and he had suffered a mental breakdown. I truly regretted sending him abroad and never imagined that college life could be so grueling.
I went on a business trip and was absolutely swamped, juggling many things that were completely beyond my control. Just when I felt truly helpless and distressed, my wife called at 5 a.m. in the morning and said, “Your son is about to be expelled. You'd better look into this right away!”
It turned out that when my son went to register for his classes for the next semester, he discovered that his course registration had been locked. He then found a dismissal letter from the school in his mailbox. He was on the verge of a complete breakdown.
At that moment, I was calm and had only one thought: “It’s nothing!” I understood this was a test. I believed I could pass the test under Master’s guidance.
That being said, the next two weeks were still incredibly difficult. Our family’s finances had been almost entirely spent on our son’s education, and we absolutely couldn’t afford to let him start over at another university. Also, my wife and I were both intellectuals and felt we would lose face if our son were to be expelled. We used to be the envy of everyone, but now we fear being the laughing stock!
During that time, I juggled time between my work and comforting my wife and son. In search of a solution, I intensified my reading and memorization of the Fa. About one week later, my son excitedly told us that his appeal to the school was successful, and he could resume attending classes. Only later did we realize the letter he received was not a notice of dismissal, but a warning for an unsatisfactory grade in one subject. I felt this was all a comprehensive test targeting my attachments to fame, material loss, and affection.
Similar incidents occurred a few more times, though none were as severe as the first one. I began to become alarmed: Why did the same tribulation keep recurring, again and again? Was the evil taking advantage of my loopholes?
With this realization, I sent righteous thoughts with greater intensity. I understood that the purpose behind these tribulations was for the old forces to shake my son’s belief in Dafa’s power to bring him wisdom. Of course, I knew my son wanted good grades, but he studied the Fa with the attachment of pursuit. However, the evil’s arrangement was to drag him away from Dafa. This was unacceptable. What right do the old forces have to dare destroy a Dafa disciple? Our cultivation paths should be arranged solely by Master. What right do the old forces have to interfere?
After understanding this principle, I knew I had found the root of the problem. By sending righteous thoughts intensely, things were quickly sorted out, and my son’s grades improved as well.
Facing My Mother’s Sickness Karma
After my father passed away, my mother lived with us. She was deeply attached to me and was unwilling to go anywhere else. She was good at truth clarification. She used to go to a nearby morning market every day. Usually, she was able to help people to quit the CCP during a brief conversation. Over the years, she recorded the names of people who had quit in a thick notebook, and the number grew into the thousands.
In addition to clarifying the truth, my mother also studied the Fa and did the exercises every day. It would be reasonable to say that she was a diligent Dafa practitioner. However, I still felt something was not quite right. For example, when I studied the Fa with her, she always misread the characters for the terms “In-Triple-World-Fa” and “Beyond-Triple-World-Fa” as being just “In-Triple-World-Fa.” I corrected her many times, yet whenever she reached this particular spot, she would invariably misread it.
I realized that, because she knew the text so well, she would simply skim over many sections without reading them carefully and, consequently, kept making the same mistakes. This must have been the old forces’ interference. For a practitioner, however, this is a serious issue about whether or not one is being respectful to Master and the Fa.
In 2018, my mother experienced a serious sickness karma test. She was admitted to the ICU, and the hospital issued a critical condition notice. Faced with this sudden test, my wife, my sister, and I never lost hope. Besides dutifully tending to her, we sent righteous thoughts intensively, sometimes every hour.
My celestial eye could see nothing, yet I firmly believed in everything Master said and would do whatever he required of us. While sending righteous thoughts, I sensed my body’s energy expanding outward in concentric waves, like the shockwaves of an atomic bomb, obliterating all evil. With Master’s blessing, we snatched our dying mother back from the brink. I’m so grateful to Master!
In the past two years, my mother was showing some signs of aging and seemed to have become a bit senile. She also became addicted to watching short videos and reading online novels on her phone. As a result, she read the Fa much less. I reminded her repeatedly to read the Fa more and spend less time on her phone. She would agree, but just like a child, she simply couldn’t control herself. The moment I turned my back, she would pick up her phone again.
In order to help her to study the Fa, I specifically set aside time to read with her for half an hour every day. We studied Master’s recent lectures, reading paragraphs in turn. When she read, I helped her to correct mistakes. Only after we studied together several times was my mother’s state of confusion corrected. My sister exclaimed, “Dafa is so powerful!”
Nurturing Enlightened Beings to Enter a New Universe
I suppose you could call me a semi-technical person: I can encrypt computer systems and use various methods to bypass Internet blockages. I can also install satellite dishes to watch New Tang Dynasty (NTD) TV. When the computer or printer breaks down, I’m pretty good at finding fixes. So, not only is our family never short of Dafa materials, but fellow practitioners nearby also benefit.
In our home, the NTD signals were never interrupted, no matter how many channels were scrambled. We could always break through the Internet blockade with a quick connection. I knew it was Master’s blessing and the power of Dafa. As a Dafa practitioner, I understood that everything is given by Master, and I must meet the required standards for a practitioner.
Because my home had reliable Internet access and the NTD channel, my sister and several practitioners frequently visited. When some practitioners encountered computer issues, they often brought them over, and I would help fix them. If I noticed a practitioner facing cultivation issues, I would share my understanding of the Fa with them. While sharing with fellow practitioners, I also benefited a lot. I understood these were all responsibilities Master entrusted to me, and I’m determined to complete them well.
There were many experiences I wished to share, yet I struggled to know where to begin. Thirty years ago, at the age of 25—still in the prime of my life—I obtained the Fa. It remains vivid in my memory, the sense of finally having found the very thing I had spent my entire life waiting for. We descended from higher realms, and Master guided us through lifetime after lifetime. How could we not cultivate diligently? Master, your disciple bows down in reverence!
During this extraordinary era, our great Master and the Fa have been nurturing enlightened beings to enter the new universe. Thank you, Master!
Please point out if there is anything not aligned with the Fa.
Category: Improving Oneself
