My Transformation Through My Trust in Falun Gong

By a western practitioner
Shared at the Israeli Fa-Conference

Greetings and Shalom to Teacher and all of the Falun Dafa practitioners that are here for the First Falun Dafa Cultivation Experience Conference to be held in Israel.

I would like to share with you an experience that I had whilst staying in the United States that may be of help to all of us.

My cultivation of Falun Dafa began in December 2001. One morning in June, out of the blue, I started to feel a pain in my left leg, as the day progressed the pain worsened and spread up to my thigh. From then on day after day the pain had increased to a point that it was unbearable when I went to sleep, thus i lost out on a lot of sleep because the pain that was so intense. I t had been three and half weeks without any sleep, and I could only sleep here and there for half an hour.

At that time I was helped by two healers. The first one is Linda. In the past, she gave me natural medicine, but this time none of the medicine could help me. The diagnosis was that all the pain was coming from the sciatic nerve and she claimed that it required prolonged treatment. This reminded me of one of my acquaintances who had suffered from a similar symptom for over half a year with treatments that had hardly offered any help.

Linda was also very honest and told me that she couldn't help me any further, and advised me that I should seek help from an acupuncturist which I did, but this also didn’t help. Then my family interfered and insisted that I go to a hospital. What happened was that I was observing the situation buti was not actually not bothered by it.

From the pain and suffering I went through, I evidently stopped my practice of the exercises and stopped my reading of Zhuan Falun [The main text of Falun Gong]. When nothing helped I decided in my heart to ask Teacher Li for help – I was asking for help in a general sense and not specifically for my illness.

The next morning Michael from Boston called me. He is a practitioner who has been cultivating for 5 years, and whom I have not been in contact with for a while. He asked me how I felt and I responded that I didn’t feel well. After my explanation he said, “don’t worry, continue to read the book, practice the exercise, and send forth righteous thoughts every hour in the position that Teacher has taught.” Then Michael added that “the reciting of the verses and sound should be in the original Chinese language in order to have the proper effect.”

Michael said he would come to visit me in 2 days (he lives two and a half hours drive from me). I accepted his suggestion immediately and thereafter my condition started to improve slightly.

When Michael arrived, the first thing he offered was to read Teacher’s article called “Sickness Karma” in Essentials for Further Advancement. While reading I reached an understanding that while enduring suffering one is actually eliminating karma and improving one’s Xinxing [Mind/Heart nature]. I also understood that I am standing amidst a test to enlighten me as to how I should understand the Fa [Law and principles of Falun Gong] and how I should relate to the Fa, and what is the meaning to the changes that my body is going through and how I have to behave according to my situation.

At the end of reading this article and after speaking with Michael, I arrived to a conclusion in my heart and so I stopped my medicine and the different treatments, this even included my intake of daily vitamins, and calcium supplements, which are very important at my age.

That night, I was already able to sleep two and a half hours without any interruption. The changes were a real change from within my being and not a just a change on the surface. I regained my strength in just a few days and all the pain vanished as if it had never happened. My approach towards practicing Falun Dafa had totally changed. I stopped reading all of my other books, and began to repeatably read the book Zhuan Falun, the content had begun to reveal to me the boundless and endless inner meanings. The priority of my life had ushered in a new change and the Fa had become my first priority.

Now, the first thing that I do in the morning is to send forth righteous thoughts, followed by reading one chapter of the book Zhuan Falun and i also practice the exercises every day. The result has been phenomenal.

Two months have now passed, and without reverting to any previous methods of remedy, I feel excellent. I understand at this time that it is important to adhere to Teacher’s emphasis and to do what is required of us, that is to read the book, send forth righteous thoughts and clarify the truth to people who have been deceive by the Chinese propaganda.

Let us all advance diligently in our cultivation in the Fa and treasure this precious opportunity that has been bestowed upon us.

With Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance