PureInsight | December 25, 2007
[PureInsight.org] Four days ago I began to experience severe pains in my upper left back and my lower rear intestinal area. Anytime I wanted to lay down or sit down for my Falun Dafa practice, I had to deal with pain.
I have a history of problems with that part of my back and arm. But of course it is not without reason. I have been in fights with that arm. I have done other things too embarrassing to mention with that arm. And Zhuan Falun speaks similarly:
"So, usually when people have tribulations or bad things happen, for example, they're paying for their karma by karmic retribution."
Almost immediately, there were some brief periods of despair. I began to think: "why did I ever get involved in Falun Gong? Now I am stuck with an aching back. I can't even bend over to put on my clothes."
But I have read Zhuan Falun enough times that I was ready to put Dafa to the test. I kept doing all my daily practice right through the pain - 3 periods of SFRT and the daily exercises. Zhuan Falun prepares the practitioner for trials. Master Li states:
"The height you can cultivate to depends entirely on your ability to endure and your ability to bear hardships."
Interestingly, the initial problems went away, but then another surfaced. It seemed like the vertebra in my upper spine had become too lose and prone to breaking or pain. I again got worried, but at the same time, I knew that any change of the physical body was
possible. If experiments in Taiwan and China have demonstrated the ability to change the half-life of an element:
http://fgmtv.org/videos1/Languages/Swedish/2006/infinite_cosmos_eng.wmv
then fixing a back issue is again not a big deal.
So, again, I just kept plowing through the pain with regular practice and study. And now, I'm sitting here. And it's almost hard to believe there ever was pain! There is no sign of it. I almost feel like I was making the pain up --- dreaming it or something.
Actually, this was not a hard trial for me to withstand. Thanks to Falun Gong, I was already a different person. I felt like I had cleared all sorts of slime out of my body that I had carried for years. Not only that, but I have read of other practitioners who developed severe illnesses purely out of the blue and came through them with no medical attention and felt crystal clear afterwards.
