(Clearwisdom.net) I will never forget that day. Teacher let me witness life and death, Dafa, and the power of the thought of righteous belief at a critical moment.

This is the story. Last year my 80-year-old father and my 74-year-old stepmother obtained the Fa at the same time. My stepmother is illiterate, but she loves to listen to the audio recordings of Teacher's lectures. My father and my stepmother study the Fa together on a regular basis. I also often go to visit my father and I study with them. It has been almost four months since they started practicing, and they are coming to understand the Fa level by level.

One afternoon in early September of last year, I went to visit my father. Just as I stepped inside the door, my stepmother told me, "Your father went to the washroom a dozen times last night with a serious stomachache, and he felt he couldn't stand it any longer. However, everything was fine this morning, and he even has done lots of work today. He himself thinks it is strange that he could recover so soon." I said, "That was Teacher helping him cleanse his body and increase his xinxing. If Teacher did not take care of him, he would not have been able to make it given his age."

I said to my stepmother, "This is a good thing. It all depends on one's xinxing. Dafa focuses directly on people's hearts. Once your xinxing increases, your tribulation decreases, and you are stronger. In this way you past the test." My stepmother mused, "Why didn't I think of that?" I said, "When the tribulation came, you didn't think of yourself as a practitioner, as a Dafa disciple. If you think, 'I am a practitioner, Teacher is looking after me, the tribulation of illness will be over soon,' then you will be able to feel the might and wonderfulness of Dafa."

At that moment, I noticed that my stepmother had started to sweat. I asked her what was wrong, and she said, "I am dying," and fell onto the bed. I asked Teacher to strengthen our righteous thoughts to eliminate all the evil factors behind my stepmother. In the meantime, I reminded her, "Do you believe in Teacher and the Fa and follow Teacher and the Fa, or do you want to follow the evil with a heart of fear?"

She said, "I am following Teacher and the Fa, and will never follow the evil with a heart of fear." Right after she said that, my stepmother said, "I feel all right now."

The thought of righteous belief reminds me of what Teacher said in "Teaching the Fa at the Western U.S. International Fa Conference,"

"So as a cultivator, what is truly remarkable is when you can be steadfast and have righteous thoughts so firm that nothing can sway you. Be solid and firm like diamond, or granite, and then nothing can affect you--evil will be afraid at the mere sight of you. If upon encountering trying circumstances your thinking can be truly righteous, then, when faced with the evil's persecution and when faced with interference, just one sentence of yours fortified with steadfast righteous thoughts can instantly make the evil disintegrate (applause), and it will make those who are being used by the evil turn and flee, it will make the evil's persecution of you dissolve, and it will make the evil's interfering with you disappear without a trace. One thought born of righteous faith is all it takes. And whoever can hold firm that righteous thought and go the distance will become a magnificent god forged by Dafa."

March 24, 2006