(Clearwisdom.net) Master wrote the article to tell us "The Closer to the End, the More Diligent You Should Be." From my own experience, I feel like the closer to the end, the narrower and harder the path becomes, and a minor mistake could lead to a fall. Recently, some fellow practitioners experienced "sickness karma," and it lasted for a long time without recovery. When practitioners got together, we looked for the reasons why, and the following is my understanding on this situation.

When sickness karma manifests, there must be loopholes that are hidden deeply, rooted in the old universe that are not easy to detect. And even when found, they are like a granite stone, hard and deeply buried, so that it was not easy to eliminate. Cultivation is a very serious matter, the new universe has its rules, and if we aren't strict with ourselves, we will fail tests. For example, I have a bad temper, I know I need to learn to be tolerant. When I encounter tribulations, sometimes I can endure and pass, but sometimes I can't endure and I lose my temper. After I lose my temper, I don't get over it, and eliminate it from my mind. Recently I encountered an issue, which in fact was a test for me. Because I did not forbear, I experienced sickness karma, and my arm started hurting. Additionally, while this was going on, I became anxious about things. I was not very peaceful and I even lost my temper. As a result, my arm became increasingly painful (during this period, I did not realize where my loopholes were, and instead I kept asking myself, "Why was this happening?" After all, I felt that I was doing the three things well). Then at Fa-study, when a fellow practitioner said that someone who did not endure might experience sickness karma, I immediately understood.

Master said,

"When you meet with a little bit of hardship or a little something here and there, you can't make it through. And when eventually it accumulates to a very large amount, it becomes a major test, and that test is one you can't pass without letting go of [the attachment to your] life." ("Teaching the Fa in San Francisco, 2005")

I have cultivated for so many years, but I had left an opening for my attachment. It had not been let go of completely, and it was used by the old evil forces. No matter how well I was doing the three things, if my xinxing was not upgraded, how could I not experience sickness karma if I handled things as an ordinary person would? Especially now that we are near the end, our road is very narrow, whenever our thoughts are not on Dafa, we might fall. The universe has standards, the college entrance exam is serious, if our thoughts are not righteous, we won't be allowed to attend the college. Of course, some practitioners have different situations that are not like mine, and the above is my own experience.