Overcoming Many Tribulations with Righteous Thoughts

(Minghui.org) I started practicing Falun Dafa (also called Falun Gong) in 1999. Assisting Master Li Hongzhi (Falun Dafa’s founder) to rectify the Fa is my honor.

When I worked at the Sanitation Bureau, an elderly man and I were assigned to work together to collect the trash. He didn’t look like he belonged there. He kept his back ramrod straight and was always in good spirits. Although I was much younger than him, I suffered from many ailments. I finally made up my mind to ask him, “Sir, how come you’re so healthy?” He said that he was a Falun Gong practitioner, and I asked if I could practice with him.

He told me to come with him to the Fa study site and watch Master’s lecture videos. As I looked at Master, I felt that Master was a god. I bought a copy of Zhuan Falun but couldn’t read it as I was illiterate.

Later, someone loaned me a set of the audio recordings of Master’s lectures. After listening to them, I knew that this was cultivation, so I bought a set of the audio recordings myself. I threw away or burned the other qigong books that I had. I also threw away the medication that I had been taking. I just believed in Master!

I had uremia and was plagued with edema. Despite taking all kinds of prescriptions, the symptoms did not go away. Two people that I knew who had the same symptoms passed away. But from the day I started cultivating, the symptoms miraculously disappeared. I really felt so light because my body was free of illnesses! Dafa displayed its power, and this convinced my family that Dafa was good. My family of eight, from my elderly parents to my siblings, experienced the blessings of Dafa. My older sister, her husband, and three other siblings started to cultivate Falun Dafa, too.

When I first did the exercises, Master started to cleanse my body. When I had diarrhea and vomited, everything I expelled smelled of the medications I had been taking. My legs were still swollen, but my body felt light. Why?

Master said,

“The worse you might feel, the closer you are to the turning point, and your entire body will be, and must be, fully cleansed. The roots of any ailments that you had, have been taken out, and all that remains is some dark energy that is coming out on its own and causing you a little misery or trouble, since you can’t get off completely scot-free.” (The Second Talk, Zhuan Falun)

In the past I couldn’t eat or drink anything cold, but after doing the exercises, doing that didn’t bother me. One day I was so thirsty when got home that I just drank directly from the tap. My father saw me and said, “You couldn’t do that before. Now look at you. Just by seeing this, I can say that Falun Dafa is good.”

When I lost my job my father consoled me, saying, “It’s okay to lose your job. If you didn’t practice Dafa, you probably wouldn't be with us now. You are learning Dafa even though you’re illiterate.”

He said that because I am able to read almost all the Dafa books. My family believed that this was a miracle. My parents were very proud of it, but I knew this was the wisdom Master bestowed on me.

My parents also started to cultivate, studying three lectures in Zhuan Falun with me every day. Practicing Dafa cured all my ailments and has displayed its goodness in my family. I am always happy and smiling. I often say in my heart, “Having such a great Master in this lifetime, I have not lived my life in vain. I’ve found a true Master!”

I cannot suppress this feeling. Even when I was incarcerated for my faith, I was always happy inside. Others can’t understand. How could they? No matter how terrible and dangerous things may be, they cannot keep me from believing in Master and Dafa!

Overcoming Tribulations with Righteous Thoughts

Severe Sickness Karma

I started to have severe bouts of diarrhea and vomiting. It felt like my intestines were coming out and I had no strength left. I thought this had come to take my life. I went to the bathroom repeatedly to vomit. When I had no strength to reach the bathroom, I placed a bin in front of me. I didn’t have ample righteous thoughts so I asked fellow practitioners to come and send righteous thoughts for me. I felt much better after that and got up to take the bin to the bathroom. A practitioner said, “Do not acknowledge it.” I thought that I didn’t acknowledge it, but the pain was literally there and I had to keep going to the bathroom. However, I realized that this thought was not right, as was still acknowledging the old forces and empowering this sickness karma.

I had a change of thought: “I’m not going to acknowledge it or cooperate with it.” I put the bin to one side and said, “I am not going to acknowledge you!” Things started to change. It no longer hurt, and I stopped vomiting. Due to everybody’s cooperation I felt much better and could send forth righteous thoughts at midnight.

There were more tests the following afternoon. After vomiting and having diarrhea once, the discomfort increased again. I immediately thought, “Master, save me! You, the old forces, can’t do anything. You don’t need to create this sickness illusion. My body is a universe, and all the beings in it are here to obtain salvation.”

After this thought, a warm current flowed from my head to my feet. I felt light and comfortable. Master cleansed my body. In this way, I overcame this tribulation in two days.

A Broken Arm

I was chatting with a practitioner by the road when a car suddenly came at me. I fell, and when I got up, I couldn’t move my right arm. Two bones were poking out and my arm really hurt. I said that everything was fine and used my left hand to hold my right arm and kept saying to it, “Return to your original position. Return to your original position,” while stroking my hand at the same time. And, truly, the bones returned back to their original position.

The pain was overwhelming, but I did not let it affect me sending forth righteous thoughts. When I did the exercises, sweat drenched my clothes such that I had to wring out the towel around my neck after each exercise.

Three days after the accident was my nephew’s son’s 100 days old celebration. I was wondering if I should go. Looking at the thumb drive that had truth-clarifying information on it, a strong thought came to my mind: “I must go and help Master save people!”

At the party, I could only eat with my left hand. My sister saw it and asked what had happened. When I said that I had broken my arm, she was shocked and exclaimed, “How could that be?”

“I killed chickens and ducks and caught toads in the past,” I replied. “I’ve killed many beings and created a lot of karma. How can I not repay my debts?”

My sister agreed, “Yes, a person really can’t do bad things. If you do anything bad, you will need to pay for it.”

I continued, “It’s been three days, and I haven’t been to the hospital or taken medication. I just do the exercises, and I keep getting better every day.”

My nephew was intrigued and commented, “Dafa is really good.”

I clarified the truth to many people at the celebration. Strengthened by Master, I was able to overcome this tribulation. I also looked within and found attachments to resentment, a fighting mentality, and seeking material gains—and I corrected them all.

Five days after the accident, a practitioner took me to the morning market to clarify the truth. It was difficult for me to get into the car and I was anxious about going. Around 10 days after the accident, I knew I couldn’t go on like this, that I had to overcome this anxiety. So I got ready to ride my tricycle to the market by myself to clarify the truth and distribute materials. However, it was a bit hard to get on the tricycle and I was not feeling very sure about it. I focused on one thought: “I am a cultivator. I must overcome it.” In the end, I rode the tricycle and distributed the materials.

Old Forces Try to Interfere

I sprained my foot one time when I was distributing Dafa informational materials. It was so bruised that it was purple and black. This was persecution by the old forces trying to stop me from going out to let people know about Dafa. I said to them, “You want to stop me from doing righteous deeds. That can’t happen. You cannot stop me.”

I held onto the railing as I slowly made my way down the stairs so that I could go out to clarify the truth. Despite the pain, I continued to do what I was supposed to do. After three to four days, the pain in my foot disappeared and everything returned to normal.

Another time I woke up and couldn’t turn over. The thought of asking someone to help me up kept coming to my mind. I thought, “I do not acknowledge you! Cultivators have no illnesses. This is a fake display that is being used to persecute me. The more you don’t let me get up, the more I must get up.”

Begging Master for help, I used all my strength and finally managed to turn over. I lean against the wall to slowly get up to go to the bathroom. I did not tell my family. This time it was like I’d had a stroke. I couldn’t squat and couldn’t bend at the waist. I thought, “You don’t let me squat, all the more I must squat. You don’t let me bend, all the more I want to bend. I will not go along with you!”

I even did the fourth exercise, the Falun Cosmic Orbit, every day. This went on for three days and I finally overcame it. My arms and legs all went back to normal, and the illusion of a stroke totally disappeared.

Once again, Dafa displayed its power. So many amazing things happened to me! No words can express my gratitude to Master.