(Minghui.org) We used to be young practitioners, but after over 20 years of cultivation, we are now middle-aged. How can we help our ailing parents who are now in their 70s and 80s?

My parents are both over 80 and luckily still in good health, but I still need to visit them often.

My father-in-law passed away many years ago, and my mother-in-law, who is 88, has been in poor health in recent years. She was hospitalized four times last year, and most of the time I was the only one taking care of her.

I am the only Falun Dafa practitioner in my family. I think I should do well both at home and in my everyday life. When my mother-in-law was in the hospital, I took care of her without complaint. Doing this didn’t leave me enough time to do the three things well, and I couldn’t keep up with Fa study, doing the exercises, sending righteous thoughts, and saving people. My fellow practitioners couldn’t even find me when they needed to.

In May 2022, I suddenly realized that I should send righteous thoughts to eliminate this problem. The old forces interfered with my cultivation by using my relatives to take up my precious time.

Just trying to be a nice person might lead me to follow the path of the old forces. Thus, I sent strong righteous thoughts to eliminate the interference. No one is allowed to interfere with my doing the three things, assisting Master in the Fa-rectification, and saving sentient beings. Nothing is allowed to use my relatives to interfere with my cultivation.

I also sent righteous thoughts to improve my mother-in-law’s health. Since then, my mother-in-law has fully recovered, and all her health problems have disappeared.

Everything should be centered around our cultivation in the Fa-rectification. Of course, we should cultivate diligently and be nice to everyone as we assist Master in the Fa-rectification and saving sentient beings.

We should always remember we are Dafa practitioners and aim to achieve higher realms than ordinary people. However, we should be careful to not unintentionally take the path arranged by the old forces.

One fellow practitioner has been busy all day every day taking care of her paralyzed family member. She didn’t have enough time to study the Fa, practice the exercises, and send righteous thoughts, and started to develop health problems.

Another practitioner spent most of her time taking care of her husband's friends. Her husband often brought his friends home for dinner, and she would spend a lot of time cooking for them. Sometimes, she couldn’t send righteous thoughts and had no time to do the three things, either. She ended up being controlled by the old forces, which resulted in various troubles at home.

If we cannot remove our human attachments, the sentient beings in our own world will be eliminated. That means we should do our best to validate the Fa.

I also understand that we cultivate in the Fa-rectification period, and everything around us should cooperate with us in assisting Master to rectify the Fa and save sentient beings. Whoever interferes, whoever breaks the law of heaven, is destroying themselves. When this one thought emerges, nobody dares to control family members to interfere with us.

The key is still with us. We all know that we should not acknowledge the old forces’ arrangements. Not just verbally, but by our actions, too.

Master left the form of ordinary society for us to cultivate during the Fa-rectification. Therefore, ordinary society is centered around us, not the other way around. Everything should make way for us to assist Master in rectifying the Fa and saving sentient beings.

Please point out anything not based on the Fa.