(Clearwisdom.net) Before I began practicing Falun Dafa, I was a very weak person. I lost the ability to work before I was 20 years old. Every year, I visited many doctors and took a lot of medicine. I was still in a lot of pain, as nothing was effective. In spring 1999, an elder woman in my village told me about Falun Gong, and I then fortunately obtained the Fa.
The miracle of Dafa really amazed me. Soon after I started practicing Falun Dafa, Master cleansed my body. I became a person with a rosy complexion without taking any medicine, from one who was always on the sick list. Everyone in my village praised me after seeing the complete change in me, and said that I practiced very well.
Even more amazingly, I got rid of my addiction to drugs. In the past, I had too much pain from various diseases, and someone suggested that I grow poppies for opium. I tried it, and became addicted. Because I was so addicted to it, I felt unable to get rid of it. I had taken opium for seven years. However, after I practiced Dafa, I elimminated this serious drug habit without any suffering, and I burned out all the poppies I had grown.
On July 20, 1999, Jiang Zemin and his followers started persecuting Dafa and slandering Master unprovokedly, which was so evil. Because I didn't write a guarantee statement, I was arrested by the local police station before the 2008 Olympic Games. Due to my fear and the high pressure, I was forced to write a guarantee statement, which disappointed Master, and me.
After I returned home, I didn't strive forward. I suffered endless pain in my body, feeling incapable of facing the evil and tribulations.
I recently read on the Minghui website a fellow practitioner's sharing entitled, "Put Down the Attachment of Hurriedly Eliminating Physical Suffering." (Editor's note: no translation is available for this article) I deeply had the same feeling. I did have the attachment of fearing suffering. Master wrote in a poem, "Eating bitterness treated as joy." ("Tempering One's Heart and Will," from Hong Yin) However, I didn't feel happy.
After reading this sharing, I felt that my condition was similar to the author's. At the same time, it reminded me that Master taught us,
"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." ("Fa Teaching at the 2008 New York Conference")
Practicing cultivation goes along with suffering. How could I always think of being comfortable? It is true cultivation when one can remain unmoved while facing tribulations. After I realized that, I suddenly enlightened. It's just the attachment of fearing suffering. But while suffering, we may upgrade ourselves, so why don't we do it? Sentient beings are still waiting to be saved.
After I realized this Fa principle, there was an immediate change in my cultivation state. I soon got rid of the attachment of fearing suffering and no longer felt the severe pain in my body. When I sent forth righteous thoughts, I could control myself well, and was no longer attached to time. Attachment like this are truly eliminated after enlightening to them, and a great change comes afterwards. It is as Master said,
"After passing the shady willow trees, there will be bright flowers and another village ahead!" ("Lecture Nine" from Zhuan Falun)
