(Minghui.org) It's been over ten years since I started practicing Falun Gong. With Master's benevolent guidance and care, my cultivation path has been filled with miracles.
I heard from my neighbors in June 1998, that Falun Gong could improve one's health, so I decided to give it a try. I used to have diabetes and poor health overall, and I had gotten into the habit of going to bed early and getting up late. After I started practicing Falun Gong, I had to go to the local group practice site early every morning. After keeping it up for some time, my body felt so much better and became lighter feeling than before.
I lost my job when the company I worked for closed in 2000, and I started putting all my time and effort into studying the Fa and doing the exercises. I started being in charge of making truth clarifying materials, and I soon realized that I had to hold myself to a higher standard and measure each and every thought with the teachings in Zhuan Falun. I realized that illnesses and other tribulations were caused by karma, and that practicing Falun Gong could purify my body so that I could achieve the state of having no illness.
Every day I got up at 4 o'clock to do an hour of the sitting meditation at home, then went to the local group practice site for another two hours of exercises. I joined a local group Fa study and experience sharing at a fellow practitioner's home. After dinner, I read the book, often until 2:00 in the morning. Another big chunk of my time was spent on making truth clarifying materials. I was encouraged by fellow practitioners' praise that the materials were very effective. After over six months of intense cultivation and truth clarification, I still felt full of energy and in good spirits every day.
I previously suffered from bad eyesight. My eyes felt sore and hurt whenever I read for long hours into the night. I knew that this was karma that was yet to be eliminated. So I was determined to endure the pain and continue reading. In the beginning, my eyesight was blurry, especially when I read in the lamp light.
My eyes felt swollen and teared a lot. The handkerchief I used to wipe my tears soon got sticky and dirty. I thought maybe this was due to the dark matter flowing out of my body as the karma was being eliminated.
At the next stage as I continued reading, the characters in the book seemed to be moving, and at times, if I was not paying close attention, they would disappear into the page as if they were playing hide and seek with me. To catch each character, I had to get my eyes very close, almost touching the page. I felt the karma somehow had become powerful.
As I read the book at night, my eyes really hurt, and felt like they were going to pop out of their sockets. The characters became blurry and connected to each other. I also had headaches. Each time I felt frustrated or confused about the situation, I would read Zhuan Falun and remind myself that it was a result of my body being purified and karma being eliminated. In order to minimize the interference to my reading the book, I wrapped a towel around my forehead to cover one eye at a time and then switch to the other eye after a while.
One summer night in 2001, I lay in bed, in pain all over after studying the Fa. I wanted to eliminate more karma, so I got up to read the book again. When I had read only a few lines, my eyes really hurt. When I touched them, they were hard, like two stones. So I closed my eyes to rest for a while.
Suddenly I saw a cloud of bright light hovering in front of my eyes that made me feel very comfortable. I was astonished. As I opened and touched my eyes, they were no longer hard like stones. I looked up at the lamp and saw a circle of rainbow light surrounding the lamp. I wondered, “Did my celestial eye just open?” I knew from reading the book that a certain color might display as another one if one's eyes could see into other dimensions. I jumped up in excitement. I went to look at Master's photo on the wall and it also was surrounded by a circle of colorful lights.
My husband was awakened by the noise and saw me kneeling in front of Master's photo saying words of gratitude. Out of curiosity he asked me why. I told him what I saw, but he could not believe it. He wanted to test me. I told him to hold the book farther and farther away from me, and I could still read it. I read it out loud without any problem. He suspected that I was simply reciting the words from memory, so he pointed to specific words and sentences and asked me to read them. I did, without any mistakes. He was completely convinced and could not help praising Master and Falun Gong.
After that, my husband also started practicing. He used to be quick-tempered and had various illnesses. After he began practicing, he was transformed into a totally different person and his life was filled with joy.
My fellow practitioners were also moved by the miracle that happened to me. They were all in tears when burning incense to express their respect and gratitude in front of Master's photo. The gratitude we felt was beyond words. We knew that to truly thank Master for his guidance and care, we must keep advancing diligently in our cultivation, do the three things well, and make good on our vows to save more sentient beings.
In the past years of cultivation in the Fa-rectification era, I have encountered multiple tribulations and setbacks in my cultivation. Whenever it happened, I reviewed Master's teachings and reminded myself of the miracle of my eyesight, to encourage myself to move forward in spite of the hardships.
