(Clearwisdom.net) I am 23 years old and a new practitioner. I remember that my mother started practicing Falun Dafa in 1998 in order to improve her health. At that time, we only knew that Falun Dafa teaches people to be good, and that it can heal people's illnesses and help them get fit. We didn't have any further understanding of it. When the Chinese Communist Party started to persecute practitioners on July 20, 1999, we could no longer get hold of Master's teachings. Under Master's arrangement, before the persecution began, my father asked a practitioner to write the poem "Cultivating Amidst the Delusion," from Hong Yin, on the wall in my home. That poem has been deeply imprinted in my mind and continually encourages me during my cultivation.
Cultivating Amidst the Delusion
Ordinary people do not understand the pain of cultivation,
Happiness to them is vying and competing;
Cultivate, my disciples, 'til no single omission is found,
And with the passing of all adversity,
will come the sweetness of true joy.
September 15, 1994
My mother obtained the precious book Zhuan Falun in 2007, and kept urging me to study the Fa. But I only studied the Fa and did the exercises with her sometimes. In September 2008, I changed my job and went to stay in a city where a relative, who is a practitioner, lives. I joined their local Fa study group, and continuously studied the Fa. I understood that as Master is rectifying the Fa, practitioners have a mission to assist our great Master, and we should do the three things well and save sentient beings.
Master asked us to walk our own path, and said:
"If you want to be a practitioner, it all depends on cultivating your heart and on you, yourself being enlightened since there are no role models." (Zhuan Falun).
When I tried to set up a computer, I met our local coordinator, and with her help, I learned some simple computer techniques. Her unselfishness moved me. Seeing that she was so busy with Dafa work that sometimes she didn't have time to take care of her family matters, I decided to share some of her workload. I started delivering truth-clarification materials, and both of us worked as a great team. As a single person, I have less distraction from my family and more time on my hands, so I normally do Dafa work first and then take care of my personal things. My understanding is that the Fa is harmonious and practitioners are a whole group. We should let go of personal notions and attachments when working with other practitioners. That's what Teacher wants.
Since the Minghui website (Chinese version of Clearwisdom) published articles on making phone calls to inform people of the facts about Falun Dafa, I have been using this method to validate Dafa and save sentient beings. When making calls, our state of mind is the most important. Regardless of what attitude the other party exhibits, we should not be affected by that person. We should keep a benevolent mind and be truly responsible for sentient beings. A person with a bad attitude is not showing their true, good side. They are the real victims of the persecution. Whenever I had fear, I recited the poems "Hurry Up And Tell Them" and "What's to Fear?" from Hong Yin II. Then I felt that Teacher was strengthening me and I no longer had any fear.
The Fa-rectification has come to its final stage. Let's fully utilize this time, study the Fa more and well, truly cultivate and save more sentient beings.