(Minghui.org) I have been employed by the same school in Guangdong Province since I was hired 20 years ago. I have always followed the Falun Gong principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. Therefore I am in good standing with those around me.
I started to practice Falun Gong in May 1996 while studying at a university. I was assigned to work at a high school in July 1996.
Despite being a fairly new practitioner, I wanted others to also learn about it. Therefore, I lent the Falun Gong books to the principal and my colleagues. The principal read Zhuan Falun, the main book of Falun Gong, and said that it was a good book. But, he felt that it would be too difficult for him to follow the Falun Gong principles. Nevertheless, he told me to keep on cultivating.
I worked hard, helped clean offices and was always ready to help everyone. I got along well with my colleagues and everyone knew that I was a good person.
First Principal Protects Me
When the persecution started on July 20, 1999, officials tried to force me to give up the practice. But, my principal said: “I believe in freedom of belief. I only care that you do your job well, nothing else matters.”
He and the deputy principal dealt with anyone who tried to harass me. They protected me and the Falun Gong materials. I was detained a few times and he welcomed me back when released. He kept the Falun Gong books safe when I was imprisoned in a forced labor camp. He got promoted and left for another job.
Second Principal: Beware of Safety
The deputy principal was promoted to the principal position. He did not allow anyone to harass me and hid my Falun Gong materials.
He asked me to meet him in a restaurant during my August 2006 summer vacation. On arriving there, he and a few others of the school's leaders greeted me warmly and we talked while eating.
At the end of the dinner, the principal told me that a ninth grade student's parents had complained to an officer that I handed to students Falun Gong amulets. The officer was not against Falun Gong and thus did not report me, but told my principal. He asked me to think of my safety in the future.
Third Principal No Longer Follows Orders
The third principal distributed a document concerning the persecution of Falun Gong in a teachers' meeting in August 2007. I realized that I had to tell him the facts about Falun Gong.
When I talked to him briefly after the meeting he said that he would do everything required of him by his superiors as a matter of principle. I approached him about the Falun Gong issue several times, but he just did not change his mind.
I remembered that Master said:
“Saving beings, improving yourself, and resisting the persecution are all acts that validate the Fa; only walking straight your path amounts to validating the Fa.” (“Walk Straight Your Path” from The Essentials of Diligent Progress Vol. III)
It is our mission to tell people about the goodness of Falun Gong. We are cultivating in ordinary society so we should demonstrate the beauty of Falun Gong to ordinary people. I was strict with myself and walked straight on my cultivation path.
After I had worked with this principal for a year, and he had observed my behavior during that time, his attitude changed completely. He said, “It would be wonderful if everyone practiced Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. If everyone would work as consciously as you, I would not need to worry.” He withdrew from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Before the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008, he ignored all pressures from his superiors. He put no pressure on me and treated me just as before.
Fourth Principal's Poisoned Mind Transformed
The school's leadership had several meetings about my work arrangement at the beginning of the new term in 2012. The director of the Dean's Office wanted me to work in the instruments room because he did not think that anybody else could do as good a job as I did.
The principal wanted to assign me to the dormitories evening shift because that would give him peace of mind. The politics officer agreed and said that I would do well in any job because I am a practitioner. In the end, I chose to be a dormitory officer over teaching a class.
However, this principal's mind was very poisoned by the CCP's slander of Falun Gong when he was transferred to our school. He tried to poison the minds of the teachers and students against Falun Gong. His behavior was exposed on the Minghui website. Instead of feeling regret, he was hateful and framed a practitioner at his previous school.
He hated Falun Gong and refused to listen to me. I did not give up on him and continued to tell him about Falun Gong. I told him the principle: “Good would be rewarded with good, while doing evil would be met with retribution.”
I followed the Falun Gong principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, worked hard and helped others. I took whatever job was given to me. He watched and remembered. My actions finally dissolved his hatred.
It is just like Master said:
“Compassion can harmonize Heaven and Earth, ushering in springRighteous thoughts can save the people in this world” (“The Fa Rectifies the Cosmos” from Hong Yin Vol. II)
Keeping Practitioners Safe
The head of the domestic security division slandered Falun Gong at the city-wide principals' meeting in November 2013. I wrote a letter to the Education Department and demanded that they restore the reputation of Falun Gong and rehire the fired practitioners. Many practitioners from China and abroad called the department and related officers, which frightened the persecutors.
He did not repent and came with others to interrogate me. My principal did not call for me, instead he praised me highly and refused to give them my home address. He protected me and told them not to harass me before they left.
The leader of the domestic security division did not give up. He and his officers came to my school again in May but my principal refused them entry into the school. He and some of the teachers went to the police station and praised me highly.
When the security leader asked them if I distributed Falun Gong materials, one of the teachers said that I was much too busy, stayed at the school around the clock and asked them to check the monitoring video if they didn't believe him.
The principal protected me twice and he was blessed as well. In two consecutive semesters, our school won many prizes and he was very delighted.
At the beginning of the new semester in September, quite a few teachers were demoted to primary teaching positions. The principal kept me in the high school as promised although my academic qualifications did not meet the high school teacher requirements.
Working hard and living by the Falun Gong principles is validating the Fa. Falun Gong practitioners' every thought and action represent the practice. So we should do well anywhere and leave people a good impression of Falun Gong.
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