(Minghui.org) I’ve been practicing Falun Dafa for 19 years. Throughout my years of cultivation, I've remembered to follow Master’s teachings and look within during conflicts. I constantly correct myself whenever I see my behavior is not in line with the Fa and strive to cultivate away my attachments. Of course, I still have many, major shortcomings.
After many years of cultivation, I have fully realized that sentient beings can only escape from the abyss of suffering and calamity through Dafa, and I am but one of those many sentient beings who’ve escaped.
My health was always poor. Soon after I was born, I was extremely sick, and the doctor told my parents that I would not survive. My aunt came and saved me with folk remedies. I couldn't walk or talk before the age of 5. To take care of me, my mother had to give up her very promising job.
School was a huge challenge for me, and I barely passed tests because I couldn’t understand or remember the material. I’m not exaggerating when I say that, in elementary school, it was my dream to pass all my classes.
Because I was considered stupid, I was frequently bullied, ridiculed, and beaten by my classmates. I didn’t dare retaliate. My brother often got into fights because of me. When I was older, I was determined to get fit, so at the very least I wouldn’t always be bullied.
At first I didn’t know what I was doing. I blindly did exercises with little results. When martial arts became popular, I started to learn it, but I soon realized that it wasn't for me and that I’d be better off practicing qigong. I took up all sorts of qigong practices, and gradually I could heal my minor ailments.
In 1995, I had an accident. When I woke up in the hospital, I couldn’t even keep my balance when I stood up. It felt like the ceiling was spinning. I thought my life would soon be over.
After I was discharged from the hospital, I worked a night shift. When I invited my coworker for a drink, he said he practiced Falun Dafa and didn’t drink alcohol. He had some minor ailments, so I asked him why he didn't take pills. He said that he was not ill, that it was his master eliminating karma for him.
He asked me if I wanted to try practicing. At that time I considered myself a high-level qigong practitioner and refused his offer. I said that his practice discouraged drinking alcohol and that was too much. He replied that drinking was up to me and to first take a look at the book.
I felt bad refusing, so I agreed. He gave me copies of Falun Gong, Zhuan Falun, and Zhuan Falun Volume II. After a while, he asked me what I thought. He said if I was not interested to return the books. I did not follow Master’s instruction to read through Zhuan Falun and only picked certain sections that I wanted to read. I kept Zhuan Falun Volume II.
At the beginning of 1996, after reading Zhuan Falun Volume II a few times, I finally realized why I was suffering so much in this life. With this realization, I officially started to practice Falun Dafa. After practicing for 80 days, the double vision caused by the 1995 accident disappeared. My severe headaches also disappeared. Even my appearance drastically changed.
The practitioner who introduced me to Falun Dafa suggested I participate in a group Fa study and do the exercises at the exercise site. Through discussions and sharing with other practitioners, my xinxing gradually improved. The misunderstandings I had with my wife’s family were also gradually defused.
My family experienced what Master said: “When one person obtains the Fa, the whole family will benefit.” (Teaching the Fa and Answering Questions in Jinan, Zhuan Falun Fajie). After I began practicing, I gave up the attachment I had developed regarding my wife working. That issue was resolved well, and our income increased. This made me even more determined in my faith in Master and the Fa.
After one of the first times I went to the practice site, I started to walk home when, suddenly, I could barely move and I couldn’t see a thing. I thought, “Master is helping me eliminate karma,” and I refused to stop walking. Just as suddenly, I regained my vision and could easily move again.
My frequently going to the practice site became a new cause for disagreement between my wife and me. She was unhappy and started to hinder me from going. When we were in a deadlock, my mother told her, “Haven't you seen that he no longer has headaches? And I don’t have heart disease anymore You should just let him go.”
After the 1995 accident, my sinuses were always congested. Once, in the middle of the night, I couldn’t breathe because of the congestion. I sat up and began panting, which frightened my wife. She hurriedly gathered a pile of medicine for me to take. I smiled at her and said that I was eliminating karma.
After that night, my sinuses cleared and were never congested again. That convinced my wife that Falun Dafa is amazing. She said, “Your teacher is truly incredible!”
In late autumn 1998, I visited my in-law’s home. Because I had been practicing very diligently, when my in-law’s relatives and neighbors saw me, they said that I looked 5 years younger than I had 10 years before. One time they saw me doing the exercises at dawn and asked me what I was practicing. I told them about Falun Dafa and described its benefits. Six of them began practicing. However, when the CCP began to persecute the practice in 1999, they gave it up. Truly a pity.
I realized that all the tribulations I'd gone through since birth were so that I could practice Falun Dafa and walk well my cultivation path and return to my original, true self.
One time we were busy because one of my wife's elderly relatives passed away, and my parents visited to pay their condolences. They said some unpleasant things that upset my wife. She didn’t say anything, but as soon as we got home she could not control herself and flew into a terrible rage that she directed at me.
From an ordinary person's perspective, her tone of voice and what she said were disrespectful of my parents. If I hadn't been a practitioner, I would not have been able to control myself and would have settled the matter by slapping her. However, I remembered what Teacher taught: “When you take a step back in a conflict, you will find the seas and the skies boundless.” (Zhuan Falun) I realized she was helping me eliminate karma and that I should thank her from the bottom of my heart.
When she finished venting her anger, I said, “Since my parents said something inappropriate, I need to apologize to you and your family. As their son, I apologize on behalf of my parents.” I stood up and said, “I bow to you to express my apology.”
My wife’s sister (who is also a Dafa disciple) and her future husband were both stunned. My wife’s sister said, “You have such a big heart!” I replied, “I practice Falun Dafa.”
Slowly, my wife’s anger evaporated, and an unpleasant situation was peacefully resolved.
Through this event, my xinxing elevated, and my wife realized that Dafa is good and began to practice Falun Dafa.
