Toothache and Chin Swelling Disappeared after Letting Go of a Deeply Hidden Attachment

(Minghui.org) One day, my husband and I were talking about the war happening between Israel and Hamas, and the war between Russia and Ukraine. I used unpleasant words. I meant to make myself feel good when I expressed my opinions.I had a toothache that night, and my chin had a hard and painful swelling half the size of an egg the following day. It’s a piercing pain that hurts so much that I wanted to bang my head against the wall.

I looked inward seriously and realized that it must be due to my bad thoughts, so bad that I had to bear the same degree of retribution. I looked at the various human thoughts I had during recent days, earlier days, and all the way back to the time when I started practicing Dafa. The toothache reduced to a lesser degree when I found a reason. But the lump in my chin didn’t go away, and it still hurt as if I were on fire.

Suddenly, I thought about why I decided to practice cultivation in the first place. I gave it a careful analysis and found that it was the beautiful things I yearned for in my heart. Dafa can help me achieve some beautiful things, like health, self-satisfaction, and being proud in dealing with people, and transcending many things that trouble ordinary people. My conclusion was that I was pursuing success and using Dafa to satisfy my own selfish desires.

My righteous thoughts grew stronger after I found the root of my attachments. I couldn’t read the Fa so I watched the DVD with video of Master’s teaching the Fa to Australian practitioners. I watched the teaching of sickness karma repeatedly. I also watched the entire video that night, and I was enlightened to a single point: The various difficulties that Dafa practitioners encounter are opportunities to create mighty virtue, and this mighty virtue is indestructible. As long as the universe does not perish, the mighty virtue of Dafa practitioners will not perish.

Master mentioned the above point in the video from 2 hours 27 minutes 28 seconds to 53 seconds. My heart was filled with gratitude and respect for Master, and my righteous thoughts became strong. This meant that I would endure the pain no matter what. I repeated Master’s teaching, “When it’s difficult to endure, you can endure it. When it’s impossible to do, you can do it.” (Lecture Nine, Zhuan Falun) Then I saw a small Falun in green color spinning in my vision. I felt excited and continued chanting. Suddenly, a severe pain shot through my chin. Then, I felt the pressure of the swelling was disappearing quickly. It was as if a balloon was releasing the air. Although I had experienced many miracles during my cultivation, I still felt particularly excited when a miracle occurred again.

My toothache and the lump in my chin were gone when I woke up the following morning. I called a fellow practitioner and told her about my experience excitedly. She said, “Do you remember? In Russian, the pronunciation of I is Я (ya), which is the same as the pronunciation of tooth in Chinese (ya). This is a reminder for you to cleanse yourself.”

I didn’t get that hint, but I did cleanse myself. I experienced the pain brought to me by a desire to pursue beautiful things in the secular world using Dafa. I realized that the only way to free oneself is to assimilate to Dafa.