(Minghui.org) The old forces planned a set of destructive tribulations for practitioners. They do not focus on how well you behave on the surface, but instead aim to test your remaining attachments.
I am in my 40s now. I started practicing Falun Dafa in the spring of 1997.
My eyesight became blurry when I was making dinner one day in December 2018. I could not see properly. As I am familiar with the layout of my kitchen, I was able to find the ingredients I needed. Throughout the whole experience, I thought of Master’s Fa.
Master said:
“Our practice doesn’t work on the basic kind of energy known as chi. You needn’t work on such basic things with our practice. We boost you past that stage, so that you begin with a body free of ailment.” (The First Talk, Zhuan Falun)
According to Master’s Fa, I understood that my body had already been purified at the early stages of my cultivation. I do not have illnesses like everyday people, and I must reject this interference with my vision.
Master said:
“The truth is, anything that is not consistent with Dafa or the righteous thoughts of Dafa disciples results from the old forces’ involvement, and that includes all of the unrighteous elements that you have. And that is why I have made sending righteous thoughts one of the three major things that Dafa disciples are to do. Sending righteous thoughts targets things that are outside of as well as inside of oneself, with nothing unrighteous allowed to escape. It’s just that there have been differences in how we have regarded and handled sending righteous thoughts.” (“On the Responses to the Piece About Assistant Souls”)
After understanding this part of Master’s Fa, I was certain that the old forces brought about the incorrect state of my body. I knew that I must fully negate it so I began to concentrate on sending forth righteous thoughts while making dinner. The battle between good and evil didn’t stop in the other dimensions. Everyday thoughts repeatedly popped into my mind: “You have night blindness. You are too tired. This is a symptom of presbyopia. You should go to a hospital to get it checked.”
Multiple human attachments began to surface and I rejected each of them. I thought to myself, “I am a Dafa practitioner and I carry gong within my body. Disease is not able to touch me since it will be eliminated if it comes to me. Even though I have not been diligent in my cultivation, I have cultivated for 22 years. I don’t carry sickness karma of this magnitude. Master would not plan this and would not let me suffer such a tribulation.”
My strong righteous thoughts searched for the old forces in every direction. My gong in every cell of my body on every level was emitted in order to eliminate the persecution created by the old forces, completely opposing and disintegrating their arrangements. I kept sending forth righteous thoughts continuously as the persecution didn’t stop. My faith in Master and Dafa became even more determined as my human body in this dimension felt the strong waves of my gong.
Half an hour later, my wife returned home. I placed dinner on the table. After taking several bites, my eyesight returned to normal. My family members did not realize anything was amiss and they were happily talking about things at work.
After this episode of sickness karma, I looked within and found that I had been paying too much attention to the news. My emotions had been swayed by the news. However, the news is meant for everyday people so I had placed myself at the level of everyday people. I am a practitioner during the Fa-rectification period. Master reminded us that the three things are the most important. Naturally, the old forces had used this excuse to persecute me.
A 60-year-old practitioner I knew lost her human body due to sickness karma in July 2018. It took the form of colon cancer. I started to feel a discomfort in my lower abdomen several times in the middle of the night. Gradually, a voice appeared in my head saying, “Do I have colon cancer as well?”
I was unaware and did not completely oppose the persecution so the discomfort became more severe. Before my early morning practice on January 4, 2019, the lower left side of my abdomen began to swell severely. The symptoms I had were very similar to the symptoms of my fellow practitioner right before she died.
I suddenly awakened. The old forces were persecuting me yet I did not oppose, reject, or deny it. They assumed I accepted the persecution and it became more and more severe. The old forces do this step-by-step: as you gradually begin to accept it, they quickly strengthen the persecution. If you don't oppose or reject them, they say in a dignified manner, “This is what you want.”
I began to do the exercises early on January 4, 2019. My ordinary thoughts began stirring in my head, “Is this real? I should go to the hospital; I have never felt like this before. If I can’t handle it, I can go to the hospital.”
I thought to myself that I often tell everyday people that practitioners have healthy bodies, so I'd be a hypocrite if I went to the hospital. After these human thoughts came about, I felt small and hopeless.
Master said:
“But I will cleanse true cultivators’ bodies, and that kind of body is free of illness.” (Teaching the Fa at the Conference in Switzerland)
As Master’s voice resounded in my head, I slowly remembered the Fa related to this topic.
Master said:
“By believing that you are sick you might just make yourself sick. That’s because when you take it to be sickness your thoughts are no higher than this world. Neither energy practice nor true spiritual practice will result in health problems, and particularly not the type I was describing, where energy gets stuck somewhere.”
“You might just bring yourself health problems by often thinking that you have them. That’s because your thoughts have sunk to the same starting point as the average person, who, naturally, does experience illness.” (The Sixth Talk, Zhuan Falun)
As the music of the second exercise began, I steadily regained my righteous thoughts. I knew that my mind must be calm during practice, so I did my best to rid myself of any thoughts not in line with Dafa.
I could barely hold back my laughter as my righteous thoughts slowly rose. I wanted to thank Master for awakening me from the old forces’ trap. I fully understood now: I had been afraid of getting sick and was unintentionally wishing for the sickness. The more I held onto the attachment, the more severe my symptoms became.
Master said:
“Lay down your human, mundane mind,The Fa gained, you now stand divine”(“Salvation Far and Wide”, Hong Yin, Translation Version A)
Master’s Fa clearly states that once the Fa is gained, one becomes divine. How can a divine being get human sickness? Thinking back to my attitude that wasn’t on par with the Fa, it was ridiculous and very dangerous.
Cultivation requires that I give up my human attachments. The stronger my righteous thoughts became, the weaker the discomfort in my abdomen. During the second exercise, when my hands were overlapping in front of my lower abdomen, all the feelings of sickness were gone. As my xinxing finally got to the right place, my body was back to normal once more.