Today, I share my experience with you during the celebration of the World Falun Dafa Day. I thank Master Li for letting me know Falun Dafa by my heart and I can cultivate and practice Falun Dafa.
In March of this year, I decided to go Geneva to attend European Experience Sharing Conference and some activities there. I had been pointed to make hotel reservation for all the practitioners who go to the Geneva conference.
Through the help from the practitioners in Vancouver, I booked a youth hostel in Geneva, everything is fine in the hostel except we have to bring our own sleeping bag or rent blanket from them. Thinking of some of our practitioners are short of money, also everybody bring their own sleeping bags is not convenient, so I continued search and try to find a better places on the internet.
One day, a practitioner said to me that his friend told him a better hostel in Geneva, I found the hostel's webpage on the internet, this hostel not only less expensive, convenient, including breakfast, has cooking facility, but also no need to bring our sleeping bags or rent blanket, plus if we have their membership card, every one can save 5 SFr per night. We phoned and sent email to them asking booking information, in the replied email they state the room rate is for the membership but they did not mention the price is for the members. We do not have their membership card, but I heard that they might have group discount rate, I should try to push them to give me the discount rate. I sent an email to the hostel tried to negotiate the price and made them feel that we should have this rate because their mistake, but it did not work. At mean time, the other practitioner sent an email to book the rooms, they soon booked rooms for him.
Then I started to think everything about booking hostel, it means something to me as a practitioner. I take a look into my inner self, I found the problem: although I try to save every one's money, but I did in the wrong way to try to reach my goal even it is opposite to the Truth, Compassion and Tolerant. Master Li said:" As long as you are a practitioner, I will make use of any trouble and unpleasantness in any environment, under any circumstances, and of whatever you believe to be the best thing, the most sacred thing, even working for the great Law, to remove your attachment and expose your demon - nature so that you can abolish it, because your improvement is of first importance." I realize that no matter what I do, even I do good things for the other people, and I must do it with the standard of Falun Dafa. Finally we bought a membership card and booked rooms.
After we came back from Geneva, when I calculated the expenses for every one, I found that they missed charge for the 7 beds in total on their statement. I thought that we should use practitioner's standard to do things, we can not gain anything that not belongs to us. So I sent an email to them and told them the situation, we would like to pay the money. When I wrote the "Ottawa Falun Gong Practitioner" in the last sentence, I feel really proud as a Falun Dafa practitioner, and I want to let them know about it. Several days later, I received their response, they appreciated our honest, but they would not let us to pay any more because the entire mistake is due to their miscalculation.
Through all the process of booking the hotel, I realized that I should combine the volunteer work and self-cultivation, every word I say and every thing I do should check with the requirement of Falun Dafa. Master Li said in "Further Understanding": "When you have really improved yourselves like this, whatever you do in a pure state of mind is the best and is the most sacred." I will try to do what Master Li told us to do, whatever I do, I "should have first consideration for others so as to attain the right enlightenment of selflessness and altruism."
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Category: Improving Oneself
