(Clearwisdom.net) I took a motorcycle taxi to the bus station one morning. However, the driver had only learned to drive four days earlier. When we reached an intersection, a sedan came speeding towards us. The motorcycle driver became very nervous and suddenly jammed on the brakes, throwing me over him and into the door of the sedan. As the motorcycle came to a stop, it landed on top of me. The moment I was thrown out of my seat, I asked Master for help.
There was a big dent in the car door, and I was unable to move. I quickly asked others to help me up. As the driver of the sedan helped me up I felt pain in my head, ribs and back. My head was bleeding and there was a large bump swelling up. My hands were also bleeding, with a large chunk of flesh coming off the palm of my right hand.
A crowd had gathered and when several police arrived, they said that I should be immediately sent to the hospital. I replied, “I’m a Falun Gong practitioner. I will recover by doing the exercises.” I then told the two drivers that I won’t bring them any trouble or ask for compensation. I continued to say, “It is predestined that we met here. I will be fine since I have Master taking care of me.”
The pain was unbearable in the days that followed. It hurt when I sat down or used the restroom. My abdomen was very painful and there was blood in my urine. My husband was very anxious and wanted me to go to the hospital. I told him that as I have Master taking care of me, and I would recover soon. My husband said that if I didn't recover within two days, he would personally take me there.
My first thought was that I should firmly believe in Master and the Fa, overcome all the difficulties and seize the time to study the Fa and do the exercises. Studying the Fa presented no problem, but doing the exercises was really hard because of my injuries. I tried to do the sitting meditation, and was determined to cross my legs no matter how hard it was. I recited “Righteous Thoughts and Righteous Actions” from Hong Yin II, and as the pain lessened, I was gradually able to cross my legs in the full lotus position.
When I tried the other exercises, they were even harder for me because my ribs and legs were still really painful. I couldn’t do the movements well, but I bore the pain and persisted to the end. My clothes were soaked with sweat.
I only usually do the exercises in the mornings, but due to my condition I decided to do them in the evenings, as well. During the day I studied and memorized the Fa, and sent forth righteous thoughts every hour. After I finished the exercises the next morning, my husband came and checked the wound on my head. He said in surprise, “Your wound has already scarred over and the bump has disappeared.”
When my husband told fellow practitioners about the traffic accident, they came to visit me. Some practitioners helped me with the housework. Others exchanged their understanding of the Fa with me, helping me to find and eliminate many of my shortcomings, to gain a deeper understanding of why this accident happened to me.
That night, when I did the exercises, I felt a Falun rotating between the lower parts of my body. It kept rotating the entire time I did the exercises. I knew Master was helping me adjust my body. I was excited and moved to tears.
One week after the accident, I could slowly walk to the restroom by myself, and within a month I went out of the house to handle some affairs. Our neighbors all knew about the accident and asked how I had recovered so quickly. When I told them that it was because I practice Falun Gong, some of them also wanted to learn it.
My husband didn’t used to believe in Falun Gong, but after witnessing how I miraculously recovered from the accident, he told everybody he met that Falun Gong is good. He also told me that he would learn Falun Gong one day. Several friends who lived in other cities came to visit us and wanted to learn the practice. My elder sister was also never interested in learning Falun Gong in the past, but she even took the initiative to call me and expressed her desire to learn.
The day I had the traffic accident, I told the motorcycle driver about Falun Gong and helped him to quit the Chinese Communist Party. A pedicab owner later told me, “The motorcycle driver told us that after he caused the accident, the police took him to the station, and said they would detain him for 15 days. But you not only didn’t extort money from him, but you also bailed him out.”
My experience helped me to truly realize what Master said:
“Those ordeals and the suffering, no matter how great or harsh you find them to be, are good things, because they take place solely on account of your cultivation. A person can eliminate karma and shed human attachments when he goes through ordeals, and through ordeals he can improve” (“Fa Teaching at the 2008 New York Conference”).
