Harmonizing My Family Environment

By a Falun Gong practitioner from Jilin Province

(Clearwisdom.net) During the eight years of the Fa-rectification period, I changed from a common person full of karma to a Dafa disciple on the path to godhood. I summarize my cultivation experience in this article and would like to share it with all practitioners.

In 1999, I started to practice Falun Gong with the intention of healing illnesses. After the persecution of Falun Gong began, I gave up my cultivation for a period of time and my focus was diverted. With the help of my fellow practitioners, I restarted my cultivation in Dafa. However, I was not steadfast. In August 2001, the Fa-validation stories of other practitioners on the first Minghui Weekly really moved me and I broke into tears. At that moment, I enlightened. I shouted in my mind, "Master, I would like to validate the Fa. I would like to tell people, 'Falun Dafa is good. Falun Dafa is Righteous Fa!'"

With the attachments of emotion and fear, I took a train to Beijing without telling my family. In front of the Tiananmen, I walked back and forth several times. Finally, my determination to validate Dafa defeated the attachment of fear. I opened up my banner and shouted with my full strength, "Falun Dafa is good. Truthfulness, Benevolence and Forbearance are good. Master is innocent." Suddenly, there was great light in my world. I finally had the courage to stand up and validate the greatness of Dafa.

After I went back home, facing shouts from my husband, blame from my parents, and threats from my sister, I treated them the same as they treated me. My family relationships fell into a deadlock.

Because I met with many people during my daily work, I persistently clarified the truth about Falun Gong to all of them. However, my husband could not understand it and interfered with me. At that period of time, the police treated me as their main focus. They forced my company and colleagues to threaten me. My husband also suffered a lot during that period. Therefore, he was always angry at me. When I read truth-clarifying material to him, he jumped up and roared at me. At the dinner table, if I mentioned cultivation, he threw away his chopsticks and left right away.

Although the situation was very tough, I never gave up. While I did the three things, I kept clarifying the truth to him, including the greatness of Dafa and the rule of "good is rewarded with good and evil meets evil." I kept doing the things that a practitioner needs to be doing and went back home late every night. When he shouted at me, I recited the Fa with my tears and acted according to Master's words.

In addition to my husband's interference, my sister came to my home every 3 to 5 days. Rather than talk, we fought every time. In the beginning, I thought that I was right. She blamed me and I fought back. As I understood more about the Fa, I started to gradually educate and guide her with reason. I started to clarify the truth to her peacefully and with a smiling face. Finally, I succeeded.

Since then, my husband and sister stopped interfering with me. However, I thought that since we were a family, we had a predestined relationship, and I should help them all obtain the Fa. I treated my mother-in-law very well. Often, I bought some good and expensive food for her. In the beginning, my husband thought I was bribing her to start to practice Falun Gong. I said to him, "It's not what you think. I would like see her practice Falun Gong. However, I send her things because she is my mother-in-law. I should be filial to her. She did not want to spend the money to buy good food, so I bought the food for her."

My husband kept silent for a long while. He said to me, "Give me your books, I would like to read them." From that time on, he changed. He started to make truth clarification materials with me, give me suggestions on how to better persuade people to quit the CCP, and even supported me to buy a motorcycle to deliver truth-clarifying materials in distant areas.

My sister had a serious disease last year. Her disease was diagnosed as myasthenia gravis and almost all of our family members lost hope. I asked her, "Do you believe in Dafa? If you do, start to practice Falun Gong with me. Dafa can help you recover." She started to practice Falun Gong with me. As a result, miracles happened and her disease disappeared. From that time on, her whole family started their cultivation. When my sister clarifies the truth about Falun Gong, she always mentions, "Dafa saved my life!"

Now, my whole family lives in a peaceful cultivation environment. They have all started their cultivation path. I truly thank Master's boundless benevolence for all of these blessings.

January 16, 2008

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2008/1/17/170481.html

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