Treasuring Sacred Relationships, Helping Fellow Practitioners, and Elevating Collectively

(Minghui.org) Ms. Yu, who was temporarily living in another city than I, exhibited the symptoms of a brain hemorrhage in November 2020. Two months later, she returned to our area. Falun Dafa practitioners who learned about her situation helped her send righteous thoughts, yet her improvement was minimal. Upon hearing about her situation, I was shocked, and felt great pain. 

In everyone’s eyes, Ms. Yu is a very diligent practitioner. Especially when clarifying the truth about Falun Dafa she could endure a lot of hardship. Regardless of whether it was freezing cold, or under a scorching sun, she spread the facts to people wherever she went. She did that for over 10 years and never took a single day off. 

During the previous two years, Ms. Yu lived in another city with her son’s family. Every time she returned to our area, she always brought a list of names of people who decided to quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its youth organizations. As a great practitioner, so diligent in cultivation, how could such a thing happen to her? How much would it affect the saving of sentient beings?

Although I felt pained, we practitioners are one body, and therefore, the persecution of Ms. Yu was also serious interference and a persecution of validating the Fa and saving sentient beings. I couldn’t just sit there and do nothing. Meanwhile, I realized once again how serious cultivation is. 

Assisting in Recovery from Sickness Karma

After work, I went to Ms. Yu’s home. She was in low spirits. She had trouble talking, and the right side of her body was not functioning. She couldn’t walk steadily, had low self-esteem, and was depressed. She looked completely different from how I remembered her. She was very pessimistic and desperate, saying, “I can’t study the Fa, nor do the exercises. I am so worried. Is Master still taking care of me?” She began to cry as she said that. 

I said to her, “Master is compassionate, He wouldn’t leave any practitioner behind. We are practitioners, we must walk the path Master arranged for us. The more the evil doesn’t want you to cultivate, the more you must persist.” 

After that, every day after work, I rode my bicycle with two other practitioners to Ms. Yu’s home. The four of us set up a Fa-study group, and we studied the Fa and shared our cultivation experiences. 

In the summer of 2019, I experienced a serious life-and-death test. My ears were buzzing, I couldn’t see clearly, my head seemed to have a 1,000 pound-weight pressing on it, and my body appeared to have reached its limit. At that critical moment, I began to think about Master Li, the founder and teacher of Falun Dafa. Without Master bearing a lot tribulations for me, without fellow practitioners’ help in strengthening my righteous thoughts, if I hadn’t treated everything with righteous thoughts, I couldn’t have broken free of that tribulation. After that, I truly came to feel the seriousness of cultivation. I realized that for practitioners who get stuck in a tribulation, it is critical for them to strengthen their righteous thinking. 

I shared my experience of breaking through this trial with Ms. Yu, to have her clearly understand that all these abnormal states boil down to the evil forces interfering with Master’s Fa-rectification, persecuting practitioners, and destroying sentient beings. Only by looking at it from the standpoint of Fa-rectification saving sentient beings, could she completely dismantle the evil arrangements. 

Every time we sent righteous thoughts, for over half an hour, we focused on eliminating every evil being and factor that was persecuting Ms. Yu, and completely eliminated the evil persecution mechanism that was planted in her. Gradually, her righteous thoughts emerged, and her confidence improved. She also strengthened sending forth righteous thoughts, by extending it to a few hours. 

We also read one chapter of Zhuan Falun every day. During this process, I came to truly feel the great transformations brought about by studying the Fa together as a group. My random thoughts subsided, and I could assimilate into the Fa wholeheartedly. That kind of peacefulness, quietness, and beauty filled my heart, which strengthened my faith in Dafa. Other practitioners shared that they had the same feelings. Given my understanding, that’s also why Master stressed often that we study the Fa as a group, as this environment can truly transform us. On the surface, we were there to help Ms. Yu, but in reality, we got to cultivate ourselves and elevate altogether, which was also to complete our mission and fulfill our respective vows among our sacred predestined relationships. 

After we read a chapter, we did the exercises together. Since Ms. Yu couldn’t move her right arm, one of us took turns helping her lift her arm every day. 

One day, when a practitioner helped her do that, another practitioner said excitedly, “You know what? Do you know what I just saw? I saw so many heavenly beauties flying above, including you (indicating the practitioner who was helping Ms. Yu) pulling her to fly up. It was truly magnificent.” 

I knew this was Master encouraging us, yet I felt ashamed. I had reservations about helping to lift Ms. Yu’s arm, because I was concerned it would hinder me from doing the exercises. It came down to selfishness, as I wasn’t truly doing things solely for her benefit. From then on, I took my turn at helping her lift her arm, and didn’t feel any longer that I should not do it. 

After a while, Ms. Yu went through great transformations. Her right hand became more usable, her foot had more feeling, her leg could bend, and she spoke more fluently and clearly. I remember when a few of us first went to her home, her husband didn’t quite welcome us. But, after a while, especially after he saw the improvements in his wife, he changed his attitude towards us, welcomed us warmly, and served us fruit. 

One day, Ms. Yu said to us, “I’ve enlightened to something. I can’t always have you help me lift my arm. I can’t be too selfish. I will try to do that myself.” From then on, she used her left hand to hold up her right hand. Eventually, she could raise her right arm unassisted. What a big step forward for Ms. Yu. We all felt truly happy about that. Her ability to do the exercise movements improved too. 

Within just a couple of months, Ms. Yu had changed tremendously, both mentally and physically. She went from having low self-esteem and being depressed to being confident and feeling fulfilled. We witnessed Master’s wonderfulness and the extraordinariness of Dafa. She used the time every day to study the Fa, do the exercises, and send righteous thoughts in an intensive way. She said her greatest wish was to go out and save people by telling them the facts about Falun Dafa. While saying that, tears covered her face. What a pure, altruistic heart. Despite her situation, Ms. Yu still had the wish to save people. We encouraged her, saying, “As long as you persistently perform solid cultivation, soon enough, you will be able to go out to save people, for sure.” 

Later, she and her husband moved to another city. I heard from other practitioners that she did well and set up a Fa-study group with the local practitioners there. They learned from each other, and elevated together.