Lessons Learned from an Attachment to my Physical Condition

I have been practising Falun Gong for more than ten years. Although I did not start practising Falun Gong for health reasons, my health nevertheless improved tremendously. All of my minor ailments were completely gone. I just knew that Falun Gong is good, but I paid no attention to my own physical situation.

Starting six months ago, my lower back began to feel sore. I thought that maybe I needed to get some more rest and did not pay much attention to it. Recently, my company invited employees who have been with them 20 years to participate in a physical examination. I did not feel like going and gave the opportunity to a relative. But on the day of the physical, a heavy rain broke out. As a result, my relative could not come. I thought I should go along with the situation, so I went for the physical. An ultrasonic examination revealed a kidney stone. I was very surprised. After I came home, I reviewed my cultivation seriously.

A genuine cultivator should not have illness. So my condition must have been caused by an evil attack. What should I do? Some practitioners suggested that I should send forth righteous thoughts and deny the persecution of the old forces. But after I have done that, what do I do if the old forces come back to persecute me again? I still had to look inside myself for problems. I needed to fix the root cause.

Master told us in the past that the old forces' excuses for persecuting Dafa disciples are our own karma and attachments. Master also told us that for today's Dafa disciples, karma should not be a big problem.

Therefore, the only remaining issue is an attachment. What attachment do I still have?

I believed that I was a diligent cultivator. I could always treat everything I encountered with Dafa principles, even in my sleep.

I think the old forces could only attack me through my attachments. Otherwise, they would not dare to touch me. Since the evil persecuted my physical body, it meant that I still had attachments related to my own physical body. I realized that I was always pretty happy about my youthful appearance. I looked at least ten years younger than my age, and I was paying special attention to my physical beauty. At the same time, when I saw people of my age group begin to have health problems while I was so healthy, I secretly felt pretty good about the contrast.

I thought the old forces must be telling Master: "This disciple of yours has an attachment, so we will help your disciple to find her own attachment." Subsequently, the old forces began to attack me. If I dropped out because of this, they would tell Master, "See, we did the right thing!"

Realizing this, I felt ashamed that I was not aware of this attachment for such a long time. I even thought that I was being diligent in my cultivation. After this breakthrough, when I practised the exercises, I felt a hot sensation around my lower back. When I stretched my body, the pain was gone. I realized that this is what Master meant in "Hong Yin" II:

"Remove your human thoughts and evil will naturally die out."

In recent years, I became more aware of the importance of removing attachments. Attachments will become the excuse for persecution. When you are caught up in your own attachment, you are just a human, because attachments belong to the human level. As a human, you will not have any divine powers. The old forces and rotten demons can use their supernormal powers to have the police arrest you. On the other hand, if you have no attachments, and if you stay in a divine state of mind all the time, your energy field will be big and strong. The evil cannot fight with you. It will not dare to arrest you and evil beings will run away when they see you. Only in getting rid of all attachments can you ensure your safety and save more people.

My understanding is limited, please correct any mistakes.