(Clearwisdom.net) My cultivation path had an insurmountable barrier. Each time my financial condition improved, economic problems recurred. When I read Teacher's article, "Teaching the Fa at the 2004 International Fa Conference in New York" in which Teacher answered a practitioner's question about some practitioners not paying attention to denying the financial persecution, I suddenly realized what had happened.
I had a stable job and a high salary in my workplace. However, since 1999 when Jiang Zemin's regime started to persecute Falun Gong, I failed to treat the persecution with righteous thoughts. My thinking was along the idea of human beings persecuting other human beings. The Public Security Bureau, police station and residents' committee came to me repeatedly. I thought they harassed and persecuted me because I had strong attachments to my job and high salary. I didn't fear death, so how could I fear job loss? I moved to an unfamiliar city. Now when I think about it, I just stayed at the level of personal cultivation instead of clearly recognizing the evil old forces' persecution of Falun Dafa, and I did not fundamentally deny the persecution.
In the unfamiliar city, I experienced Teacher's compassionate protection. I could always find a satisfying job. During my work, I clarified the truth with wisdom to all the people I met and told them, "Falun Dafa is good." However, each time my financial condition turned better and I did my work with high proficiency, I was suddenly dismissed, and had to look for another job. After studying the Fa more, I clearly recognized that I had been taken advantage of by the dark minions. That is, whenever my financial condition turned better, all my thoughts were of human matters and pursuing material interests. The dark minions thought that I hadn't let go of my attachment to material interests. Therefore, they persecuted me. This persecution not only caused my low salary, but it also made my husband's workplace to be unsuccessful, which in turn negatively influenced my clarifying the truth and saving the world's people.
After I found my omission, I treated it with righteous thoughts. I firmly denied the dark minions' persecution, and eliminated the evil. I only follow the cultivation way that Teacher has arranged for me. I rectify myself according to the standard of the Fa whenever I haven't positioned myself properly. As a result, the situation has turned better. A friend referred me to a company. After I was interviewed, the company was very satisfied with me, and offered me twice what I was making.
What Teacher arranges for Dafa practitioners is always the best. If we want to artificially get something, it will be in vain. When we have strong righteous thoughts and firmly believe in Teacher and improve ourselves in the Fa, the results are unexpected. Only when I do well in the three things that Teacher requires Dafa practitioners to do, am I worthy of the title "Dafa practitioner."
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