By a Dafa practitioner from Zhucheng City, Shandong Province, China

(Clearwisdom.net) I am 55 years old and a Falun Dafa practitioner in Zhucheng City. Twenty years ago, I contracted a skin disease that was considered incurable. I tried various medicines and treatments, but it was in vain. Every day seemed like a year for me.

Fortunately, I learned Falun Dafa in 1998. Teacher purified my body twice, and my skin disease was cured completely. My thankfulness to Teacher and Dafa was beyond description. Only when I am determined in Falun Dafa and diligent in doing the three things that Teacher requires and commit myself to saving more sentient beings to fulfill my historical vows, can I live up to Teacher's benevolent salvation.

For the past fives years, I have been doing my best to clarify the truth about Falun Dafa and save people. Since 2001, I began to clarify the truth face to face. Every day I rode a bicycle to clarify the truth, from the marketplaces to the village fields, and I also went to remote rural areas to distribute truth clarifying materials. Every time, I always returned back safely with Teacher's compassionate protection.

On March 10, 2004, I suddenly had a fever and many red spots developed all over my body with a yellow liquid oozing out. I felt terribly itchy, and my legs were swollen. I thought that I was eliminating karma, so I decided to tolerate it without seeking any treatment. I could hardly go to work in the fields and I also couldn't eat and drink. The situation didn't get any better, even after seven or eight days. I felt there was something not right about this. When I first began practicing Falun Dafa, I regarded myself as a cultivator and I thought that my feeling unwell was due to karma, instead of being an illness. As a result, I got well within ten days. Why was this current situation getting worse and worse? Was I doing something wrong somehow? I was worried about it. At this moment, a fellow practitioner came to see me and we shared experiences with each other, which led me to have a new understanding of the Fa principles. During the Fa-rectification period, Dafa practitioners should be free of tribulations resulting from issues of personal cultivation. After the persecution began on July 20, 1999, Teacher didn't arrange tribulations for Dafa practitioners' personal cultivation. All tribulations were interference from the dark minions, in order to make us unable to save sentient beings. Looking at the red spots all over my body, which were swollen and itching unbearably, I said, "This body is so filthy! I should just abandon it." My fellow practitioner said, "Don't have this thought. This might be the reason that the dark minions have intensified the persecution. You should send forth righteous thoughts to eliminate the dark minion's persecution. Our fellow practitioners will send forth righteous thoughts along with you." From this practitioner's words, I suddenly realized what was going on.

With help and encouragement, I studied the Fa with a calm heart and read Minghui [the Chinese version of Clearwisdom] articles in which Dafa practitioners talked about their experiences in overcoming illness tribulations with righteous thoughts. I was greatly inspired and understood the seriousness of cultivation in the Fa-rectification period. I started to look at my attachments and omissions in my xinxing with a calm heart. And I also looked at the reasons why my heart couldn't calm down while studying the Fa and sending forth righteous thoughts. Then, I sent forth strong righteous thoughts with a calm heart: "Eliminate all dark minions; completely negate the old force's arrangements; eliminate the dark minions' interference and their persecution of me." My mind became more and more clear, and my will became firmer and firmer. I spent more time studying the Fa, doing the exercises and sending forth righteous thoughts.

With strong righteous thoughts, my illness disappeared gradually. After one month, I was completely well. My body felt light and my heart was filled with happiness for defeating this tribulation. Teacher's benevolence moved me to tears. I rejoined the Fa-rectification activities of clarifying the truth and saving sentient beings.

I understood from this experience that, only by Dafa practitioners keeping strong righteous thoughts and righteous actions can the dark minions be restrained from taking advantage of us. I am sharing my experience in order to help fellow practitioners who are suffering the persecution of illness tribulation. Only when we study the Fa more with a calm mind, and consistently send forth righteous thoughts, can we walk well the path that Teacher arranged for us, and fulfill the grand vows we made before history.

Posting date: 2/2/2005
Original article date: 2/1/2005
Category: Practitioners' Insights
Chinese version available at http://minghui.ca/mh/articles/2005/1/25/94178.html

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