(Clearwisdom.net) Recently two veteran practitioners at our practice site had very serious sickness symptoms. They were able to work through them with righteous thoughts overcoming the evil. This showed people how miraculous Falun Dafa is. I will refer to these two practitioners as Practitioner A and Practitioner B.
Practitioner A
Some time ago when practitioner A was doing the exercises, his right arm suddenly became numb and painful. He had no strength in his arm. It was very serious. He couldn't lift his arm when doing the exercises or the meditation. When he lifted his arm up even a little bit, a force pushed it back.
Practitioner A's children tried to persuade him to have an examination at the hospital to see if he suffered from bursitis in his shoulder. If it was bursitis, he would not recover in one or two years. Practitioner A thought it was not sickness but interference instead. It was interference that attempted to prevent him from practicing the exercises. He did not care much and continued with the practice and Fa study every day. He couldn't lift his right arm so he used his left arm to lift the right arm and practiced. For example, when doing the Maitreya Stretching His Back in the first exercise, "Buddha Showing a Thousand Hands," he used his left hand to lift the right hand and push it up to the top of his head. After he finished all the exercises, he had sweat so much that he was wet all over, and his right arm was unbearably painful.
But Practitioner A did not stop doing the exercises for a single day. He didn't take it as an illness. No matter how painful or how unbearable the pain was, he did not stop until he finished all five sets of the exercises. In less than two weeks, the symptoms of pain, numbness, and lack of strength in his right arm all disappeared.
Practitioner B
Practitioner B is very diligent in practicing the exercises and studying the Fa. A few days ago, when she woke up one morning, she couldn't move and her whole body was sore. When others helped her to stand up, she felt her body was as painful as if she had been cut with knives. Her body was stiff like an iron plate. Her family members wanted to call the emergency number and send her to the hospital. She did not allow this. She thought that this was not an illness even though she couldn't move a bit and couldn't take care of herself.
Practitioner B did not think of herself first. Instead, she thought that she couldn't bring any negative effects on Dafa. When she was unable to do the exercises, she studied the Fa every day. She studied Teacher's article "Teaching the Fa in San Francisco, 2005" many times. Teacher said:
"When students exhibit severe sickness karma, it undoubtedly has two goals. One is to have that person display such a state and then see how people around him or her look at it. It's to see how and whether your minds are moved by it. Isn't that the case?"
"The other goal applies to that person himself: how well has the person who exhibits the sickness karma cultivated? Is he able to make it through with strong righteous thoughts while in such a state? Does he truly treat himself as a god and pay no attention to any of it whatsoever?"
Practitioner B was moved to tears after reading these two paragraphs. She thought, "Isn't Teacher's talk directed at me? Aren't there practitioners around me who have the same problem? Aren't there quite a few people around me who could be saved after we "clarify truth" to them and they quit the CCP and its affiliated organizations? Aren't they looking at me? I must get over it. I must let everyone cherish this unprecedented opportunity. I shouldn't cause any damage to Dafa."
Her righteous thoughts were very strong. When she was just able to stand up by holding onto the side of the bed, she practiced the meditation, though she beared intense pain. Even if she could only sit for eight or ten minutes, she persisted, because she did not care about the "sickness." In less than a week, the pain she experienced throughout her whole body, and her inability to move disappeared. She recovered completely.
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