By A Dafa Practitioner in China

(Clearwisdom.net) Once a senior practitioner tried to find fellow practitioners because one of his relatives in the neighboring county, who started to read "Zhuan Falun" three years ago, was diagnosed with cancer six months ago. At that time, the doctor said that his relative only had two to three months left to live. However, it was miraculous that she still lived even though six months had passed. The senior practitioner wanted to find several fellow practitioners who had cultivated well to go to his relative's home to send forth righteous thoughts. I heard about this indirectly. I also heard that fellow practitioners had said that the senior practitioner thought it correct to send forth righteous thoughts for curing illnesses and keeping fit.

Several days later, a fellow practitioner called me. He asked me if I had time to go with him to do something. I agreed without thinking too much about it. However, when I met with that senior practitioner there were also several other practitioners. I then immediately realized what the practitioner had planned. Yet, as I had already made a promise, I got into the vehicle. In the vehicle, we chatted a little. I asked what the senior practitioner wanted to do. He briefly explained the situation. I asked him what else this relative was doing besides reading Zhuan Falun, he answered that she had not read any other articles written by Master. Furthermore, she had not done much of the three things, which Master has asked us to do. After she got the illness, when she did not feel well, she still would occasionally listen to Master's lectures while laying in bed. Later, when she learned that she had cancer, she broke down and stopped listening to the Fa. She just held photos of her children and cried. I asked the senior practitioner, "Do you think that she is a Dafa disciple? If she is not a Dafa disciple, do you think it is right for us Dafa practitioners to send forth righteous thoughts for her?"

On the way, the more I thought about this issue, the more I felt uncomfortable. I went along while I knew nothing about the situation. On the surface, it appeared that I trusted the fellow practitioner. However, in fact, I just followed a person rather than the Fa, just because I thought that this fellow practitioner usually had a very good understanding of the Fa and did very well. During the interim, one of the fellow practitioners did not act very rationally, and I felt even more uncomfortable.

Fortunately, I changed my mentality in time: Perhaps in the beginning we have this or that kind of shortcoming, but the Fa can rectify the bad things into good ones. I thus stopped viewing this trip as something bad, and instead viewed it as an opportunity for saving sentient beings and showing the wonderfulness of a Dafa cultivator, because all things we have encountered are good things.

The vehicle stopped for a short while on the road and we took a break. We practitioners took out the articles written by Master and started to read. We re-examined the objective of this trip and gained a relatively clear understanding of the goal of this trip. We rectified the base of our views, and that this trip was for us to validate the Fa and save sentient beings.

As a result, this trip went very well. Although this patient had not regained her rationality, we considered her family members' ability of acceptance when we tried to help her understand the Fa. For example, we said, "When a person is dying, she cannot take money and the children with her, even if she cannot let this go in her mind. It does not help her family members. She would be better off if she makes a decision to cultivate and stops thinking about anything else. Even if she cannot keep her human flesh body, her destiny will for sure be different from that of an ordinary person. She will go to the paradise of a Buddha or an enlightened being. As your family has such a person, great fortune will be brought to the family." While listening, her family members kept nodding.

Furthermore, we unexpectedly found that the patient's neighbors, twenty to thirty of them, had also come to her home. Knowing that this was a good opportunity, each of us started to use his or her own means to clarify the truth. Some talked about the persecution of people by the evil Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and some talked about the greatness of Dafa. Everything we talked about was from our own experiences, which were either about how we enjoyed our good health and happy family life, or how the CCP brings damage to people's peaceful lives. The listeners felt the same. Some practitioners handed out truth-clarification material, and some sent forth righteous thoughts. We also explained to them the importance of withdrawing from the CCP as one can only have a future after the withdrawal.

On the way back, we shared what we had understood from this trip. We realized what we lacked and what we had gained. We truly understood that Falun Dafa is the foundation of a life, and all lives, as long as they are rooted in the Fa, can be rectified.

July 21, 2006

Posting date: 8/15/2006
Original article date: 8/15/2006
Category: Practitioners' Insights
Translated on 8/2/2006
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/7/22/133668.html

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