PureInsight | June 18, 2001
In 1987, I was diagnosed with cancer in my left breast. Due to short-handedness in taking care of the household chores, I had to delay my hospitalization for the surgery until my husband returned from a business trip. Meanwhile, a co-worker recommended that I try some Qiqong treatments and I gladly agreed.
She took me to see an 80+-year-old Qiqong master who looked to be only about 60 years old. He had practiced Internal Qiqong exercise for more than 40 years and seemed to be energetic and able to move swiftly for his age. It was two o’clock or so in the afternoon and he had just finished his daily routine of the Taiji Sword exercise. Usually, he would treat 3 to 5 patients in the morning, almost free of charge, and then do his exercises for recuperation each afternoon.
I briefed him on my case and expressed my wish to make an appointment for Qiqong treatments in the near future. He just said, “I am feeling very well today so I can send forth my Qong to heal you right away.” After 40 or so minutes of receiving Qong from him, my left chest felt comfortable and the cup-sized tumor seemed to disappear. With two more treatments on the following two days, the abnormal mass of chest tissue became much smaller and softer. The treatment was amazingly effective. But as I learned years later from Master Li’s book (p.295 Lecture Seven in Zhuan Falun), “an ordinary qiqong master is not a person who has attained the Tao in cultivation practice. He can only put off illness or perhaps transform them. He might transform them into other misfortune.” In fact, after the qiqong treatment, my breast cancer was deferred and shifted from the left chest to the right chest a few years later.
This Qiqong master told me “Your degree of response to Qiqong treatment rarely occurs. So you would be better off doing the Qiqong exercises yourself, rather than relying on others to treat your illness.” Then he gave me a whole bunch of Qiqong materials. So I jumped on the bandwagon of Qiqong exercisers.
After one year of doing Qiqong exercise, my Celestial Eye was opened. During meditation with my flesh eyes closed, I would “see” some wonderful blue lights that were so beautiful. But then when I saw the turning of the blossoming flower, the experience was getting to become somewhat frightening. I was scared as to what would finally happen so I had to open my eyes wide to avoid seeing too much. Because of having no teacher in the human world to guide me, I did not understand what was going on. I thought that this was a state of Qiqong exercise and every exerciser would see the same things.
One day I was doing a Qiqong standing stance exercise. Suddenly there appeared an image of Happy Buddha Maitreya before my eyes. His huge body was imitating my exercise position and seemed to tease me: “Is this the right way of doing it?” At seeing his funny face, I could not help but burst out laughing. Some time later, I learned another Qiqong exercise. As I was pretending to be sitting on top of an iceberg during my meditation, I saw myself really there. I was surrounded by a vast world of white crystals that was so quietly tranquil. To my surprise, I was not the only person there; Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara (the Goddess of Mercy), dressed in white and holding a vase, stood silently beside me. This image repeated itself many, many times. From then on, if something special was going to happen in my daily life, I would see the white Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara near me.
Thus I started my search for Buddhas. In the earthy world one could go to see images of Buddhas in temples. I intended to say thanks to Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara. But at that time, I had not yet been to any temple in my whole life.
(To be continued)
Translated from an edited version of http://www.zhengjian.org/sci/sci/home1/10250_p.html
