(Clearwisdom.net) I started practicing Falun Dafa in 1996. Dafa has benefited my mind and body and given me a new life.
Before I became a practitioner, I committed wrongdoings in the area of lust and desire. After I studied the Fa, I understood how to become a good person and an even better person.
Master said,
"Cultivation practice must take place through tribulations so as to test whether you can part with and care less about different kinds of human sentimentality and desires. If you are attached to these things, you will not succeed in cultivation." (Zhuan Falun, Lecture Four)
"Throughout history, or from the perspective of higher dimensions, the issues of one's desire and lust have been very critical in determining whether one can practice cultivation. So we must really regard these things with indifference." (Zhuan Falun, Lecture Six)
Master's words shocked me to my very soul. I realized that if I hadn't practiced Dafa, what a terrible path I would have followed.
In early 2002, my husband died. Trying to find me a new husband, my younger sister tried to set me up with one of our acquaintances who is a college professor. The professor was very accomplished and had three grownup daughters living overseas. He was willing to divorce his wife, who had betrayed him during the Cultural Revolution, and marry me instead as soon as I agreed, but I resolutely refused him.
He called me and invited me to his home. At first I didn't want to go, but on second thought, it was a good opportunity to clarify the facts to him, so I went. He said he found it hard to understand why I refused him, because many single women wanted to marry him, given his good social and financial status. While we were talking, he moved to sit next to me. I naturally stood up and moved to sit on another sofa. He finally understood. That day, I clarified the facts of Falun Dafa to him and persuaded him to reconcile with his wife. He was very grateful, and now he and his wife get along very well together.
If I weren't a practitioner, I could never have done this. I would have thought it was quite reasonable for me to remarry, especially to someone in such favorable circumstances and to live overseas. I would have worked hard to make him divorce his wife...
But I am a Falun Dafa practitioner and I cannot do that. Master told us to take reputation, self-interest, and feelings lightly, think of others, and consider others first in doing anything.
It was Master who has saved me and gave me a new life and led me to the path of returning to my true self. I profoundly understand how fortunate it is to be a Fa-rectification period Dafa disciple. I have made up my mind to remove all the bad substances that exist in my dimensions, rectify every thought of mine according to Dafa's standard, and conform to the requirements of the Fa at each level. I understand that, during this most precious period of time, only by doing the three things well, completely negating the old forces' arrangements, and walking our path well with righteous thoughts and righteous actions can we not let down Master and our sentient beings.
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