Cultivating Diligently by Getting Rid of Human Notions

(Minghui.org) I had been weak and sickly since I was a child. As far as I can remember, my father took me to seek medical treatment everywhere. After marriage, I realized that my husband and I were incompatible. His slow temperament was in contrast to my impatience. We would quarrel after speaking just a few words. Although he was slow, he angered easily and often scolded people.

This kind of life made me miserable. My health deteriorated, and I was a frequent visitor to the hospital. My husband also suffered from psoriasis. In the first half of our marriage, we spent a lot of money on hospital treatment. It was to such an extent that my brother no longer went to the pharmacy. He just came to my home to get the medicine he needed.

In the winter of 1998, I went to the hospital for a round of infusions. A nurse told me, “No matter what kind of exercise you do, it’s better to practice Falun Gong [also called Falun Dafa]!” When I first heard the term “Falun Gong,” it seemed as if I was awakened by a mysterious force. I felt refreshed and repeated the words silently until I memorized them. After a week of infusion treatment, I returned home.

On another occasion, a hair stylist told me that she was practicing Falun Gong and showed me Master Li’s photo. I was very excited and told her that I seemed to have seen it before. I asked if she could get me a copy of the book Zhuan Falun. When I was halfway through reading the book, I noticed a yellowish-brown Falun (lawwheel) spinning above my body. I then decided to embark on the path of cultivation in Falun Dafa. Since then, I’ve given up the bad habit of playing Mahjong and, before I knew it, my illnesses vanished.

My husband saw the significant changes in me, and that I no longer bothered him to run around in the middle of a night to buy medicine. He also began to read Zhuan Falun and learned the five sets of exercises. While he was concentrating on reading, he began to pass bloody, black stool. I knew Master was cleansing his body. His psoriasis and fever also vanished. In this way, we started practicing Falun Gong together. Our quarrels gradually decreased, and the atmosphere at home became warm and harmonious.

I once ran into the doctor who previously treated me. Curious, he asked if I had found another doctor. I told him I practiced Falun Gong and explained the truth about Dafa to him. He then exclaimed, “Ah, your worldview has changed. No wonder you’re cured. Congratulations!”

Last winter, a practitioner experienced a serious illness tribulation, and I went to visit him. This not only helped him, but also helped me improve myself. He was like a mirror, reflecting many of my imperceptible human notions, which had evolved into bad habits. In particular, I was often resentful, competitive, and looked down on others. My husband realized some of his shortcomings as well and vowed to cultivate away those bad notions.

Just before doing the exercises one morning, I started to cough violently. After a while, I coughed up black blood clots. Ten days later, I coughed up blood clots for two consecutive mornings. My lifelong symptoms of chest tightness and difficulty breathing had miraculously disappeared! It’s true that “Cultivation depends on one’s own efforts, while the transformation of gong is done by one’s master.” (Lecture One, Zhuan Falun)

My husband recently had severe leg pain, and his legs were so swollen that he dared not walk. Nothing happens by chance in cultivation, so I said to him calmly, “Let’s both look inward! There is no other choice.” We found a lot of human notions. Our tendency to quarrel was still lingering. This mindset of being combative was rooted in Chinese Communist Party (CCP) culture and something we needed to eliminate.

During all these years of cultivation, I have made relatively good progress in doing the three things. Clarifying the truth is my strong point. I go out to talk to people every morning, study the Fa in the afternoon, and participate in a Fa-study group with other practitioners in the evening. For several years, my home has been a Fa-study site. It’s Master who created a good Fa-study environment for us.

We’ve experienced many serious tribulations, and even had a car accident. But we overcome them all with our firm belief in Master and Dafa. Our relatives have witnessed the miracles of Dafa with their own eyes and have quit the CCP and its youth organizations.

As cultivators, we must first learn to face our attachments and shortcomings calmly. At present, even when the evil is struggling to survive, we must continue to cultivate diligently, fulfill our sacred vows, and live up to Master’s compassionate salvation!