(Clearwisdom.net) Teacher said in Zhuan Falun: “The difference in one thought leads to different results.” The cultivation process of many practitioners has validated this point. If a person’s every thought conforms to Dafa, the power of Dafa will manifest itself, and the old forces will not dare to interfere with him. He will thus succeed in all the things he wants to do. I experienced this from the following events.
1. I Immediately Looked Inward and Recovered 500 Yuan
On a Monday morning, I found that the 500 yuan my wife had given me a few days prior was missing. I was a bit anxious, thinking that I had probably lost it when I went to the supermarket the previous day. Teacher said: “If something is yours, nobody will take it away.” (Zhuan Falun) I thought that if it was mine, the money would surely be recovered. If it was not mine, then I would have paid my debt. But then I thought: nothing in cultivation is accidental. Could it be that something was wrong with my cultivation?
On my way to work, I realized one thing I had not done well recently. I met a couple on a train ride who had taken their daughter to another town to see a doctor. I clarified the facts about Falun Dafa to the wife. She was not totally convinced of Dafa's goodness, and was being cautious because many people had conned them in the past in promising to treat their daughter’s illness. I told them to quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliations and to recite “Falun Gong is good. Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good.” She asked me if I could leave my contact information, which I declined to do out of safety concerns. When we went our separate ways, she gave me her email contact information. Later, I wrote a letter to them and tried to send them some Dafa information, but I got no response. I realized that I was too selfish, concerned more about my own safety than about saving others. I decided that I wanted to salvage this matter.
At my office, a colleague asked me, “What's behind your chair?” I looked and, sure enough, it was the 500 yuan that had I lost.
2. The Thought of Saving People Allows Me to Succeed in Whatever I Do
Once I took the train to my parents’ house. The train was very crowded, so I stood in the corridor. Not being able to find a seat did not bother me, although I would have liked the opportunity to tell people the facts about Dafa. I found it rather inconvenient to stand while trying to talk to people in their seats, and those who were standing seemed as though they did not want to be bothered. I was a bit upset, telling myself that I would definitely reserve my seat next time. Because of my eagerness to save people, the situation changed immediately. A lady sitting near me started talking with the person sitting across from her about Falun Dafa. I joined their conversation and told them the facts about Dafa and about the importance of quitting the CCP. The people around all heard it too. Indeed, when a practitioner has righteous thoughts, things will go his way.
3. With My Thoughts Firm, My Wife’s Attitude Changed
One day after dinner, my wife confronted me sternly: “Tell me the truth. What have you done lately?” To tell the truth, although her understanding is much better now, and sometimes she studies the Fa with me, she has never totally gotten over my having been persecuted. She was upset about my validating the Fa. So that she would not interfere with me and to give her some time to understand Falun Dafa better, I did not let her know about my validating the Fa. Since I did not know what she had found out, I did not answer her directly. After a while she said angrily, “Why do you lift the mattress all the time?” I knew that she had found the cell phone numbers that I hid underneath the mattress, and which I had not stored on the computer. I said to her candidly, “I will tell you the truth: They are the phone numbers I have collected of the people that I need to save.” She looked discouraged and went to bed after spitting out a few sentences.
I sympathized with her feelings. She always hoped that I would be successful and make a lot of money. Not only did she no longer see any hope of that, but she was worried about me all the time. I felt bad as I sat alone in the dark room, feeling as though the air was frozen. I thought, “Why is saving people so difficult? The feeling of not being understood is truly miserable.”
A while later, I went to a bathhouse nearby to take a bath. I looked inward and felt that I did not do what Teacher taught in “Sage” from Essentials for Further Advancement: “He is full of great aspirations while minding minor details.” Why did I not straighten the sheet if I wanted to hide the information under the mattress? Why did I not store the information in a safer place since I knew it was for saving people? Validating the Fa and saving sentient beings are so important. How could I be so careless? I knew it was the old forces trying to interfere with me, so I began to send forth righteous thoughts to get rid of the evil. In the meantime, my heart was filled with righteous thoughts: No matter what happens, my determination to save people will not waver. With this thought, the situation changed. When I finished my bath and went home, my wife had already prepared a nice dinner and was calmly waiting for me.
Teacher said long ago, “If every one of you can understand the Fa from the depths of your mind, that will truly be the manifestation of the Fa whose power knows no boundary—the reappearance of the mighty Buddha Fa in the human world!” (“Cautionary Advice” from Essentials for Further Advancement). I enlightened that only if one studies the Fa well and often, and thinks according to the Fa, can one validate the Fa and will the Fa manifest its power.
The above are my own experiences. Please point out my deficiencies.
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