(Clearwisdom.net) I have felt so fortunate that all three members in my family are Falun Gong practitioners. My father used to have a foot disease and no treatment could heal it. After he started to study the Fa, his disease was cured. Therefore, my mother and I started practicing as well. She and I always felt pleased with our harmonious family environment. We would discuss topics based on the Fa, improve ourselves together, and cultivate ourselves well.

However, my father, who was always diligent in studying the Fa, started to suffer from serious illness karma. In the beginning, my mother and I patiently tried to help him from the perspective of the Fa by reading the Fa about illness karma to him. Many fellow practitioners helped him by sharing their understanding of the Fa principles with him. When he heard the Fa regarding illness karma, he was very clear-minded and stated that he would be determined. Similarly, after fellow practitioners talked to him, his mind was very clear. However, his main consciousness became unclear shortly after the discussions. He kept saying that he wanted to go to the hospital for a check-up. We understood that those words were not his true intention.

Actually, the root of the problem was from my mother and I. We had attachments about the situation and did not look inward. Since we could not get rid of the attachments in time, the old forces took advantage of our loopholes and expanded our attachments. My father started to continuously complain about my mother. He claimed that if he could go to the hospital, his disease would have been cured, and now it was too late to go to the hospital. He complained to us every minute. Sometimes, his demon-nature surfaced and seriously blamed us, especially my mother.

Actually, we have enlightened that my father's attachment was always believing the "illness" was real. My mother's attachment was that she was afraid of the surfacing of my father's attachment. For example, she claimed that if my father went to the hospital, he would be giving up his cultivation. Therefore, when my father started to ask to go to the hospital, we were completely against the idea. We told him that modern medicine could not cure the root of his illness. We always compared his wishes with the Fa and could not understand why he couldn't understand the Fa. We thought that we were better than him, and ignored that we should measure ourselves with the Fa. Gradually, we lost our patience and started to argue with each other. After that, I started to complain about him and completely lost my compassion. The conflict between us was getting more serious day-after-day. My father stopped studying the Fa and went to the hospital. My mother was hindered by human notions, and started to feel sick both physically and mentally. The evil forces was trying to destroy all of us.

With the help of a fellow practitioner, my father left home for several days. My mother started to calm down and search inward. I also began to look deeply inside, and studied the Fa with her.

Actually, we had many loopholes! We always looked at other people, compared others' behavior with the Fa instead of searching inward and sending forth righteous thoughts to eliminate the interference. However, how could our thoughts be effective when laden with attachments? Only when we could identify our attachments and start to release them, could Master help us. The fact that we were so attached to our notions was exactly the same as my father being attached to his "illness." Although the focus was different, they were all attachments and needed to be let go. Frankly, we all had the attachment that we did not want to admit our attachments. Therefore, we could not treat the conflict with righteous thoughts as soon at it arose.

We will do our best not to let down Master again! Whenever we have a conflict, we should always calm down and search inward unconditionally. We should not let the evil forces take advantage of our loopholes. We must completely oppose both the invisible and tangible persecution from the evil forces.