(Minghui.org) I have practiced Falun Dafa for 10 years. The more I assimilate to Dafa, the more I understand how valuable it is to be a cultivator and how precious this time is. I understand it’s the first time Fa-rectification has ever happened in the entire cosmos. Getting guidance from Master at this special time, I am very grateful to him, and I cannot thank him enough.
While studying the Fa the day before the earthquake in February in Turkey, I saw blood through my celestial eye. I saw that I’d hit my forehead, so I rubbed my hand across my forehead because it was bleeding, and I saw blood on my hand. I rubbed my forehead again with my hand and looked with my real eyes this time. There was nothing there. Then I realized that the person I saw wasn’t me.
Then I wondered why I would see blood while I studying the Fa – I couldn’t make sense of it. Actually, my celestial eye is not open, I just sometimes see visions. At four a.m., my husband’s nephew called to tell us that there had been a very big earthquake.
We’d built a new house in my hometown and stayed there during the summers. I called my mother right away, but she didn’t answer. Then I called her neighbor, who said that nothing had happened at my mother’s house and everyone else was outside. I thought my mother hadn’t woken up yet so I stopped calling.
Two earthquakes, one a magnitude of 7.7 and the other 7.6, just nine hours apart, affected 10 cities—it was unprecedented. So much destruction. I wondered, “Was this the danger Master was talking about in his latest article?” Master’s latest article was written on January 20, and the earthquakes happened on February 6.
Master wrote:
“Since it’s the new year, I should have said a few festive words that everyone likes to hear, but I see danger is getting closer and closer to mankind. Because of this, Gods and Buddhas asked me to tell all beings in the world a few words that the Gods wish to say.” (“Why There Is Mankind”)
When I read this paragraph, it caught my attention and I repeated it to myself. As a practitioner, I felt bad when I heard of the gravity of the earthquakes. I regretted I’d not yet done the things I’d wanted to do there.
No one in our immediate family died, but four of our relatives did as well as 42 people in our village. The death toll in our village was not as high as expected because most of the houses were empty in the winter. The death toll in our county was 409, while the total number in all the cities is said to be over 150,000.
Master said:
“You are the hope of the lives of the race or ethnic group that you were born into. Do well the things that you should do.” (“To the Czecho-Slovak Fa Conference”)
My heart ached. I was born and grew up there, I was their hope, and I had done nothing. Only repeating Master’s words relieved my anxiety:
“Dafa disciples, don’t get caught up in the chaos. Hold on to the fundamentals—only then will you be able to see the chaos for what it is.” (“Rationality”)
To help the people there, I decided to go to the earthquake zone. I promised that no matter what I encountered, I would not be affected. When I got there, the situation was more serious than I thought. As I walked through the ruins, I couldn’t help wondering if it would be possible for me to prevent these people from dying.
Master said:
“You are here not to alter history but to save people amid history’s gravest peril.” (“Rationality”)
I couldn’t have prevented it, but what I could do was to let people learn about Dafa before the disaster.
Our house was in good condition. Only my older brother’s house was badly damaged. Interestingly, it was as if there was no earthquake in my mother’s apartment—not even a single glass was overturned, while those on the same floor said that the earthquake had been quite intense. My mother said that her place didn’t shake at all, that she only heard a sound, like that of a low-flying place.
Even though my mother was illiterate, she’d read Zhuan Falun twice by spelling out the words without understanding a single sentence. In the evening, she repeats “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good” as she goes to bed. It was Master who protected my mother. I thanked Master. I told my mother this. She believed it and thanked Master, too.
We are in the final phase of the Fa-rectification. We don’t know what will happen tomorrow; anything can happen at any moment, a moment we don’t ever expect. Let’s not leave today’s work for tomorrow. Tomorrow may be too late. Let us urgently explain the Fa to the people in our area and to everyone around us.
Master taught us:
“Upon reaching modern times when the Creator was about to use the human body to save the beings in the universe, the original lives in the human bodies were mostly replaced by humans incarnated from “Gods.” This is because human bodies can eliminate karma through suffering while humans can, in an environment devoid of righteous principles, hold onto the righteous principles taught by Gods and can remain kind—therefore, they can elevate the level of their beings. The end times have come, heaven’s gate in the Three Realms has opened, and the Creator is choosing such beings for deliverance.” (“Why There Is Mankind”)
As far as I understand it, the gates of heaven open for a certain period of time. Our job is to help Master. With this in mind, we must do our best.