(Clearwisdom.net) My family lives in Hebei Province. We earn our living with a retail business, and everyone practices Falun Dafa.
One day in September 2010, our five-year-old son suddenly started crying and yelling, saying that he had a pain in his abdomen. We didn’t pay attention to it at first, thinking that he might just have an upset stomach. Four days later, however, he was still suffering and crying. We had to send him to a county hospital. The doctors at the hospital couldn’t find anything and therefore, our son was transferred to a city hospital for further examination. The results showed that he suffered from appendicitis, which was already suppurated and swollen, thus he had to stay in the hospital. Eight days later, he was able to leave the hospital and return home. However, his illness recurred the following day, and we had to take him to the hospital again, where he stayed nine additional days. One month later, our son had pain in his abdomen again. This time, his grandmother enlightened and said that we should have him study the Fa and recite “Falun Dafa is good” and “Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” We also had him recite poems from Hong Yin and Lunyu. While our son watched Master’s video, “Fa Teaching Given to the Australian Practitioners,” his pain was unbearable and he knelt down in front of the television, and asked Master to save him. He also asked his grandmother to carry him to Master’s photo, where he bowed his head and asked Master for help.
After we returned home that evening, his grandmother said, “We all need to consider this based on the Fa. If the child continues to feel like this, it must be evil interference to affect and stop us from validating the Fa. We should study the Fa more and send forth righteous thoughts. We cannot allow evil to persecute us.” Not until this moment did my wife and I think of the Fa; we realized that we must look within. Before that, we were busy with our business for the Mid-autumn Festival, and only thought about using this opportunity to earn a lot of money. We didn’t put the Fa first. Moreover, we studied the Fa less, did the exercises less, and only did a little for validating the Fa. As a result, the evil took advantage of our loopholes. We lost quite a bit of money in the business, and our son's hospital expenses were over ten thousand yuan. It turned out that the evil had persecuted us from the aspect of our attachments.
During the following days, my family seized the time to study the Fa and send forth righteous thoughts. While doing our retail business during the day, we also sent forth righteous thoughts whenever we had a chance. In the evening, our entire family studied the Fa and sent righteous thoughts together every hour. When our son had unbearable pain, we asked him, “Do you want to continue studying the Fa or go to the hospital?” He replied firmly, “Study the Fa. I don’t want to go to the hospital.” Five days later, he had recovered completely. During those five days, he defecated and urinated purulence every day. Master helped him to pass a big test. The doctors had told us when our son’s abscesses disappeared, they needed to cut out his vermiform appendix, without which my son couldn’t completely recover. However, our son fully recovered simply because the whole family studied the Fa and sent forth righteous thoughts. Thus, he became happy and active again.
Dafa really is miraculous and great! From this lesson, my wife and I improved in the Fa. I enlightened that I can no longer be attached to ordinary people’s things, and should put the Fa first at every moment. Facing our son’s pain, we truly believed in Master and the Fa. We were not attached to our love for our son, and firmly sent forth righteous thoughts, and were thus able to break through this test. I really experienced the solemnity and holiness of Dafa. My wife also enlightened that Dafa is sacred, holy and omnipotent and as long as we walk righteously and truly practice cultivation, nothing can interfere with us.
On our future cultivation path, we will strive forward diligently and live up to Master’s compassionate salvation.
The above is my current understanding. Please kindly point out anything improper.
Category: Improving Oneself
