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Many things have happened to me as I have cultivated over the years. I truly feel that all that has happened have been good opportunities for me to improve my character (xinxing). As long as I conducted myself as a cultivator, nothing could interfere with me.
I Learned to Look Within
Another practitioner once had a misunderstanding about me. We did group exercises in her yard, which was a bit small. Our practice site was later moved to another place. This practitioner was really unhappy about the move and thought I had pushed for this behind her back.
During a sharing, she lost her temper and accused me angrily, “So you think you cultivate well? If so, how come you still have so many dark spots on your face!”
Everyone turned to look at me. My first thought was: "I'm a Dafa practitioner. I must maintain my xinxing." I didn't argue with her and remained calm.
She later came to my place and tearfully apologized. I told her not to worry about it, as we are all Dafa practitioners.
Through Fa study, I learned to look within and understood how to cultivate my xinxing. Now when conflicts arise, I no longer try to figure out who is right and who is wrong; instead, I look at my own heart and thoughts and find my attachments.
I have come to understand that whenever my heart is uneasy, there are bound to be some attachments at work. When I discover these attachments and find that they are not me, Master will help me eliminate them. This is cultivation.
Resolving My Quarrel with a Practitioner
I usually get on very well with other practitioners. Once, though, another practitioner and I had a deep misunderstanding. In the past when I saw practitioners in her group, they were very friendly. But suddenly they turned rather cold. I didn't know what had happened.
Then I heard during a group sharing that I didn't pay attention to safety when I put up information about the persecution of Dafa in residential buildings. It was said that some practitioners I had visited were arrested because of me.
At the time, this felt very hurtful. Later I heard that this practitioner was moving out of town. I thought this discord must not be allowed to linger between us any longer. I went to see her along with another practitioner. I shared with her with a pure heart. The discord immediately dissolved and we broke through the arrangement made by the old forces.
Helping Practitioners through Fa study
Once a practitioner said at the end of our group Fa study, “I need some help. My aunt used to cultivate, but not anymore. Now her health is terrible. Who can go and talk to her?” Seeing that no one else offered, I said I would do it.
I shared a lot with the aunt based on the Fa principles and helped her undo the knots in her heart. I then suggested, “Let's set up a Fa study group in your house.”
She was a little afraid at first. I encouraged her and said, “Now, almost all Dafa practitioners join Fa study groups. The situation has changed. You can't go on like this, and you need to be in a Fa study group.” So she agreed.
I helped establish a Fa study group at her place and studied the Fa with them for a few days. We shared our understandings and her health improved.
Later when she bumped into me on the street, she hugged me warmly and kept saying, “I'm feeling so good now. I'm involved in making informational materials, too. I'm very grateful to Master. Thank you for helping me out!” I felt the boundless compassion of our great Master in my heart.
One day, my son came over when another practitioner was visiting. As soon as he walked in, he squatted down and said over and over, “Mom, I'm going to die!” He complained of unbearable pain in his chest and back.
Seeing how much pain he was in, the other practitioner said, “Maybe we should take him to a hospital.”
“Hospitals can't treat his sickness,” I said. I asked my son if he wanted to go to the hospital or have me read the Fa to him.
My son is also a practitioner, and he opted for me to read to him.
We helped him to bed and I started reading in Zhuan Falun about “sickness karma.” He said he understood that he was not sick. I then read Lecture Six to him and he soon fell asleep.
The next day, all his pain had disappeared and he was completely back to normal.
He said to me later, “Mom, I felt very good when you were reading the book to me.”
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