(Minghui.org) Reading experience sharing articles on Minghui has helped me a lot in my cultivation. For example, I learned from Master's teaching that we should reject the old forces' persecution, but I was not sure what to do. Reading practitioners' articles on this topic helped me to recognize the old forces' thoughts so that I could reject them.
I felt that I was pretty diligent about doing the three things that Master told us to do. After reading sharing articles on Minghui, however, I realized that I was just diligent about doing things but not in cultivation. I then learned to look within.
Later I thought, “Many practitioners, despite being busy studying the teachings and doing Dafa work, still find time to write their experiences and understandings to share with practitioners around the world. Why can't I do that?”
That motivated me to go to my keyboard.
It took me two months to complete my first article. When I was half-finished with the first draft, I discovered that my latest changes were gone even though I knew I had saved them. I thought of giving up. After sitting there and being sad for a while, I realized that this showed my attachments to comfort, simplicity, and avoiding trouble. After getting rid of those attachments, it took me no time at all to recreate those changes.
Just as I was about to finish the article, my computer suddenly started to malfunction and kept rebooting. I looked within but didn't find any attachments, so it had to be evil interference. The rebooting problem lasted a couple of days. I asked Master to help. In a few seconds, the computer was back to normal.
I usually worked on the article late at night. Sometimes I had thoughts like, “If I weren’t writing this, I would have more time to study the Fa, and that would be better for my cultivation.” But when I thought of quitting, I would hear another voice say, “That is not right. As a Dafa disciple, we should not just think of ourselves. We need to let go of our own selves and be willing to take on hardships for the group.” I kept going.
When I finished the article, another thought came into my mind: “There is such a big gap between me and other practitioners. How dare I write and submit an article to share my understandings? I should delete it!” This thought was so strong that it almost made me delete my file. But I thought it over and realized that this thought was not from me. It is not I but the Minghui editors who decide whether to publish an article. More accurately, it is Master who makes the selection. All I should do is just submit what I have written. My previous thought was clearly due to evil interference. I submitted my article.
From that first experience, I realized that writing articles is similar to doing other Dafa work: we need to maintain strong righteous thoughts to eliminate evil interference. From then on, I didn't face big interference anymore.
I have gained a lot from writing. When I try to recall how I did in some Dafa work, I realize my attachments. When I try to think why something did not go well, I realize that I had a xinxing problem on certain issues at that time.
Sometimes my computer malfunctions and cannot be fixed. I then look within. If I do not find any attachments, I then go over my writing in my mind, sentence by sentence. I would find that all of what I wrote was to validate myself.
Without putting my thoughts and actions down on paper, it would have been difficult to see these elements that served to validate myself. This is because many of our thoughts and actions have become second nature and can slip away undetected.
When I gave up the desire to prove myself and just focused on validating Dafa, from time to time, whether I was doing housework or taking a break, Master would remind me of a certain Fa teaching. Those quotes were directly related to the article I was working on.
Later, titles for new articles would come to me every day. Even the section titles and details would show up in my mind. I knew these are my assignments from Master. Writing articles is similar to our going out to tell people about Falun Dafa. When we don't know what to do, Master will give us wisdom if we are sincere.
With so many article topics coming into my head, I also realize that Minghui needs many high-quality sharing articles. I keep writing, but sometimes I can't keep up with Master's requests.
I want to ask fellow practitioners to please start writing. With the Fa, we can do anything. Illiterate practitioners can read Dafa books and peasant practitioners who've worked in the fields their whole lives can pick up a computer mouse. That is all because the Fa is great and we need to do it to validate the Fa. We need to write down our experiences and understandings, which every true practitioner has. Do not look down on your understandings. They originate from the Fa. As long as we have a righteous mind, we can validate the Fa.
When I started, it took me two months to write one article. Now I am able to write one in an hour. My articles are still good even though I do not spend much time on them. I've figured out that Master is behind whatever I write. I've also realized that when I see other good articles on Minghui, Master probably helped write those, too. Master is helping us! Why didn't Master give me ideas for articles before? Because I didn't have the desire to write back then. Just like when we go out, Master will bring predestined people to us if we have the desire to help Master save people; if we don't have that desire, there is no point in bringing those people to us.
I read Master's poem “Deterrence” in Hong Yin Vol. II (Translation Version A):
“The old forces pay not the Fa its due respectWielding the brush you shall subdue the surge of madness”
I realized that as we write sharing articles, we are in fact eliminating the old forces.
Also, sharing our understandings helps all of us. I know a local practitioner who has very strong righteous thoughts. She was arrested seven times and was released because of her righteous thoughts seven times. If she shares her understandings on Minghui, it may help prevent other practitioners from being arrested and sentenced with long prison terms.