Don't Invite Tribulations

(Minghui.org) Falun Dafa practitioners have to be careful to not inadvertently invite tribulations, because the old forces may use it as an excuse to interfere with us.

As he was planting his field, a practitioner in my area found a young date tree in the way. When he dug it up, he noticed the trunk would make a good walking stick, so he took it home.

Not long afterward, he started having pains in his leg. Soon he wasn't able to walk and had to use the walking stick. He knew it wasn't sickness, because Master mentioned a true cultivator is not sick. He felt it must be interference from the old forces. He searched inward for attachments, but did not realize that he had invited this tribulation by thinking he might need a walking stick.

After studying the Fa and sharing his understanding with fellow practitioners, he finally realized he had almost destroyed his own cultivation with his negative thought. After sending forth righteous thoughts to eliminate interference, his leg pain disappeared within a couple of days.

Another practitioner who is a village doctor saw a commercial about a medication for hand pain. She wrote the information down, thinking she might need to prescribe this medicine someday.

A few days later, she started having intense pain in her left hand while she was washing clothes. It quickly swelled and the pain became excruciating. She sent forth righteous thoughts and asked Master to help her, but she was still in pain. She suddenly remembered the hand-pain medicine and used some. But it didn't help.

Master has told us:

“There’s a law in our universe: when it comes to what you seek, nobody is going to intervene. If you want something, nobody is going to intervene.” (The Sixth Talk in Zhuan Falun)

After talking with fellow practitioners, she realized her desire to cure disease had invited this tribulation. The test was to see whether she viewed this tribulation from an ordinary person's perspective or as a Falun Dafa practitioner.

She sent forth righteous thoughts to eliminate any thoughts not in accordance with the Fa and to eliminate any interference from the old forces. The next day, the pain in her hand was completely gone.

Master told us:

“We’d say that a good or bad outcome comes from one thought. The difference in one thought leads to different results.” (The Fourth Talk in Zhuan Falun)

Cultivating in Dafa is so wonderful! As long as we search inward and find the fundamental causes of our problems during tests, they are good opportunities for our improvement.

These examples show us that if we inadvertently invite tribulations, there is a huge difference between following an everyday mindset and Dafa's criteria. The result may be different based on which we choose to follow.