(Minghui.org) I am a woman in my 60’s from the countryside, and have been practicing Falun Dafa for 28 years. Master pulled me out of the murky world and cleansed me, purifying both my body and soul, and removing my deeply ingrained human notions.
I was a selfish person before I started cultivating. I always looked at others and never owned my own mistakes. I had the notion that I was better than others, and when I was upset I blamed others—causing me to develop illnesses. It wasn’t until I began watching Master’s recorded lectures that I understood this was all caused by my own karma. The Fa principles that Master teaches also helped me understand the principles of how to behave myself, strengthening my belief in Master and Dafa. Master purified my body without asking for anything in return. I also came to understand that no longer having illnesses is not the purpose of cultivation. The purpose of cultivation is to return to one’s original and true self, the place where one came from.
The number of practitioners at our practice site grew from 28 to close to 50 in less than a year. I was the youngest then and was asked to teach people how to do the exercises. After that, I’d sit there to coordinate the Fa-study. People nearby all came to my home to study the Fa and do the exercises.
One time, when we were in the middle of Fa-study, my husband returned home from work. He pointed at me and started yelling. I didn’t say a word. The practitioners were all caught off guard. In order not to affect others’ Fa-study, I smiled at them and said, “This is for improving my xinxing. Master Li arranged this for me to improve. It’s a good thing.” They all smiled and we resumed our Fa-study.
I believed that since practitioners had gathered, we should study the Fa and do the exercises well. I felt a responsibility to safeguard the Fa, and enable more predestined people to start cultivating. Our energy field has become pure, compassionate, and harmonized. With my firm belief in Dafa, and Master’s empowerment, our environment for Fa-study and doing the exercises grew stronger under the Buddha’s light.
When I learned that people from a nearby village wanted to learn Dafa, I traveled there with a few practitioners to play Master’s recorded lectures and demonstrate the exercises. Regardless of wind, rain, or the harsh winter, we never stopped helping spread Dafa in other villages around our neighborhood.
While lying on my bed one night, I saw a woman waving at me from the clouds, and I wondered if it was my original mother calling for me to return. Master also allowed me to see many miraculous things. Master said:
“My fashen sit in a circle, and above the exercise site is a shield on which there is a big Falun. A large fashen guards the site above the shield. This site is not an ordinary site, and neither is it a site for an ordinary qigong practice—it is a site for cultivation practice. Many of our people with supernormal abilities have seen that this Falun Dafa site is shielded by a red light so it is red all around.” (Lecture Three, Zhuan Falun)
I often saw the light encircling me when I practiced the exercises at home. Even while at home cooking or doing chores, I could feel Master watching me from behind. This encouraged me to hold myself to Dafa’s standards. I often saw Falun spinning on top of me and beside me. During the sitting meditation, Master often appeared sitting in front of me in the lotus position, observing me. Sometimes I could see Master’s true body. He also allowed me to see scenes in other dimensions, and would give me hints in my dreams to help guide me.
Another time, both my husband and I were standing on a cloud in my dream, then we started flying. I flew to another dimension and landed in front of a house. I saw a large padlock on the door, and instinctively took out my key from my bag and opened it. Stepping inside, I felt a long-lost sense of familiarity. This was my home! It was as if I had gone visiting somewhere and forgotten to come home. I sat down and thought, “What have I been doing? How could I have forgotten to come home? I’m never leaving again!” I was filled with regret. How could I have forgotten my home?
After I woke up, I realized that it was Master giving me a hint. This earthly realm is not my home, I must cultivate myself well in order to return to my true home.
I have since become more diligent. I do not want to cause Master any concern, so I adhere to the Fa principles, and strive to cultivate myself.
Encouraged by Master, I’ve overcome difficult family conflicts. My son has been married for 17 years and lives with me, as does my father, creating four generations living together. Even though my daughter-in-law didn’t do any housework, I still managed to do it all for the whole family. Despite this we’ve never had any conflicts or arguments.
My daughter-in-law once wanted stewed green beans, so I began picking them from my backyard. Just as I was about to finish, she came over and said, “Mom, I don’t feel like having that any more, but I’m craving turnips.” I said, “Sure, no problem. Let me just finish picking the last few beans, then I’ll prepare turnips for you.”
After I finished picking the beans and put them away, I began cutting the turnips. Right then, she came over and said, “Mom, I still want to have stewed green beans. I don’t feel like eating turnips any more.”
I felt no resentment at all, and said to her with smile, “Sure, let’s still cook green beans!” Being a practitioner, I realized that my daughter-in-law was helping me to pass a xinxing test. I not only didn’t get upset, but thanked her deep down from my heart.
Later, my daughter-in-law also began cultivating. Prior to that, sometimes she spoke to me disrespectfully in a very unpleasant manner. After she started to cultivate I once heard her sobbing in her room. I pushed open the door and saw her crying while holding Zhuan Falun, sitting in the cross-legged position. I asked her what was the matter.
She said, “Mom, I feel so sorry for you. How could I have treated you so badly in the past?! How could I say those words to you?! I must have hurt you deeply. I am so sorry!”
I said, “I totally forgot about what you said before, and never took it to heart. You were helping me improve my xinxing. I should really thank you!”
Upon hearing that, she stopped crying and started laughing. She said to me cheerfully, “Mom, only after I read Zhuan Falun did I realize that since you began to practice Dafa, you have been able to behave just as Master teaches:
“...so you did not strike back when hit or talk back when cursed at.” (Lecture Given at the Conference in Sydney)
She added, “You are a good person, always thinking of others. Mom, you are so nice!”
My brother and father didn’t get along. My brother always talked back to my father. The two of them fought whenever they were together. My father would get very angry, so as a result, he’s been living with us.
Two years ago, my brother became ill. He suffered a massive brain hemorrhage, and was hospitalized for emergency treatment. My sister-in-law called me, and when I arrived at the hospital, she was holding my brother’s critical condition notice, crying, “Your brother is in great danger; he’s in the emergency room being resuscitated!” I comforted her by saying, “He will be fine. We have Master. Let’s ask Master to help him. Let’s also help him ourselves by reciting the phrases—Falun Dafa is good! Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good!”
Later, after my brother was moved from emergency, I whispered to him to ask for Master’s help. The bleeding in my brother’s brain had stopped, but after two weeks of injections, there was no improvement, and he was unable to walk. I asked my sister-in-law, “Should we take him home to recuperate?” She agreed, and my brother also agreed. However, his doctor disagreed, saying, “Although the bleeding has stopped, his life is still in danger, and he needs to be hospitalized for a period of time for observation.” My sister-in-law insisted that he be discharged, and signed a document stating that she would be responsible for any consequences. We then took my brother home.
I began playing Master’s recorded lectures for him, and talked to him about the principles of being a good person. Becoming ill is caused by one’s karma. In order to live well, one must be a good person and do good deeds. Only then can one recover from one’s illnesses. My brother realized he lacked filial piety toward our father, and that his behavior was wrong. He apologized to our father and decided to invite him to his home. I stayed at my brother’s house for 20 days. Under Master’s compassionate care, my brother fully recovered and has not had a relapse since.
After some time, I called my father and asked, “Are you settling in well with my brother? Are you happy?” He replied, “Your brother is so good to me now—he never argues with me.” I was happy for both of them. On the day when he came to pick up my father to live with him, I gave my sister-in-law 10,000 yuan as gratitude for looking after our father. Later, when my brother’s family needed money for farming and other things, I gave them another 5,000 yuan. My brother’s family had always taken money from me, adding up to tens of thousands of yuan, and they have never repaid me. Nevertheless, I never thought about it. My father stayed with my brother for a year.
One day last year, my husband and I went to my brother’s place to celebrate my father’s birthday. We planned to stay there for about 10 days before taking my father home. Shortly after we arrived, my sister-in-law began scolding my father, calling him stingy, unwilling to spend a single penny. She started yelling and cursing, but I stayed silent. She then turned her criticism onto me, saying there wasn’t a single good person in our family. She said all kinds of hurtful things, making my husband so angry that he returned home after three days.
I said to myself: I must endure. It’s for me to improve. I must maintain my xinxing. As she was cursing me in one room, I went to another room to do the sitting meditation. My body felt very light, and it was truly amazing. After we finished the birthday celebration for my father, 10 days later, I took my father home. During that period of time, my sister-in-law cursed me every day.
Later, when my daughter-in-law and son visited my brother and sister-in-law, my sister-in-law kept apologizing, saying, “I feel so sorry for your mother. How could I treat her like that? I am so sorry!” When both of them returned, they said that my sister-in-law had treated them very well. Later my sister-in-law also began reading Zhuan Falun.
As a practitioner, no matter where I am, I strive to validate, spread, and promote Dafa. Whether it’s my family, fellow practitioners, or others, I treat them all the same. No matter where I am, my every word and action, and the way I treat people and things should be in line with Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. I should not let down Dafa and our predestined sentient beings, but instead be a true practitioner who performs solid cultivation. I strive to not let Master down, and become worthy of his compassionate saving grace.