(Clearwisdom.net) I have a friend who coughed for an extended period last year. I introduced Falun Dafa to her and also gave her the book Zhuan Falun to read. But she did not even finish reading the book even once. Later, I was reported by someone to the police when I was clarifying the truth and therefore I was illegally detained. She was afraid of being in trouble because of me, so she hid the book and did not read it again. This year she was diagnosed with a malignant tumor at the hospital. I told her again how miraculous Falun Gong is and was hoping to fundamentally save her. After she had surgery in the hospital, I had multiple conversations with her and found that she had not let go of the thought of treating illnesses at all. She went to the hospital for chemotherapy, but the illness continued to worsen. I again reminded her of what Teacher has taught. Later, I realized that I was wrong, since to cultivate or not is up to each individual and cultivation is truly very serious.
At that time, many of her good friends said to her, "If you can recover by practicing, then I will practice as well." But her symptoms are now getting worse and worse. I felt very sad and realized that I caused losses to Dafa without knowing it and I have brought difficulty in saving sentient beings. Teacher taught in Zhuan Falun,
"As to seriously ill patients, we do not let them attend the classes since they cannot give up the attachment to having illnesses cured or the idea of being ill. If one has a serious illness and feels very uncomfortable, can one let go of it? This person is unable to practice cultivation. We have stressed from time to time that we do not admit patients with serious illnesses. This is cultivation practice here, which is too far from what they think about. They can find other qigong masters to do those things. Of course, many practitioners have illnesses. Because you are true practitioners, we will take care of these things for you." (Zhuan Falun)
Even so, many people who had severe illnesses totally recovered after they started to practice Falun Dafa. Of course, they are true cultivators. Therefore, I suggest that we should be cautious when we introduce Falun Dafa to those who have severe illnesses.
Certainly, we treat all people the same when we clarify the truth. We will clarify truth to anyone to save him/her.
