(Minghui.org) Benevolent Master Li Hongzhi, the founder of Falun Dafa, taught the Fa in my hometown in 1994 when I was 10 years old. I couldn’t attend the lectures, but my mother brought me to a local practitioner’s place to listen to the audio recordings afterwards. I clearly remembered at the end of the lectures, Master offered to eliminate an illness for every attendee or someone they thought of. I immediately thought of my grandmother. Not long after, I visited my grandmother and found that she looked healthier and happier. That was the beginning of my faith in Master.
1. Eliminate the Attachment of Fear and Human Notions
On May 13, 2017, which falls on Master’s birthday, I thought the best gift to Master was to save more sentient beings, so I set up display boards and a table in Chinatown earlier than usual. Then I sat down to send forth righteous thoughts to clear all evil factors preventing us from saving more lives.
I heard someone yelling close by. I thought it must be interference, so I continued to send forth righteous thoughts without opening my eyes. Then something hit my forehead hard and knocked me down on my back. I subconsciously tried to get up and a thought popped up in my mind, “Master protected me. I don’t even feel any pain.”
When I sat up again, I saw a tall black man running away from me. Two women who were reading the display boards looked at me with a surprised expression. I quickly recognized the man. Practitioners who come to Chinatown all know this tall black man who has mental problems and often curses and yells at us. I thought he must be controlled by the old forces because he had a weak main consciousness.
I didn’t chase him or resent him at all. I continued sending forth righteous thoughts till the time was over. Seeing me stand up, two men at the front gate of a casino came over and said to me, “You can report what happened to the police. They will find that guy.” I smiled back at them and said I had forgiven him already. “You are a good man!” the two Westerners said.
The following days I returned to the same spot in Chinatown every day. However, I often opened my eyes to check if the black man came again while I was sending forth righteous thoughts. I noticed it was fear, so I added a thought to clear the attachment; gradually it was withered away.
One week later, the black man walked by when I was passing out fliers. To my surprise, he apologized to me. I gave him a thumbs up to indicate that I was fine. I assumed that the old forces stopped controlling him because he couldn’t make me angry or have resentment.
One week later, the black man appeared again while I was meditating. I looked at him and he appeared very calm. I decided to use this chance to clarify the truth to him. I quickly stood up and told him what Falun Gong is and how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) persecutes Falun Gong practitioners. He listened attentively.
When I finished talking, he nodded his head once and turned to leave. I immediately asked, “Will you sign the petition to stop the persecution?” He stood in front of the signature table and picked up a pen. He scanned the form up and down and was about to sign his name, but stopped. He raised the pen to rub his temple. Then his hand moved down to sign and moved up to rub his temple. It repeated about five times. I thought the old forces were trying hard to stop him from being saved. I sent forth righteous thoughts to clear the evil factors in other dimensions. Finally, he signed. I gave him a paper lotus flower. He walked away with a bright smile while looking at the flower.
I clearly sensed that his appearance became more peaceful after he signed the petition. Master must’ve removed many bad substances from his body.
Looking back at this incident, I searched within about why I didn’t clarify the truth to the man sooner. I saw that I had formed a notion of this man. His English was difficult to understand. He had mental problems and had a negative attitude towards Dafa. The human notion made me not willing to save him.
Master said,
“...When one is attached to nothingThe path underfoot is naturally smooth”(“Unimpeded,” Hong Yin Volume II)
It started with a thought on May 13 that “the best gift to Master is to save more sentient beings,” and Master made the arrangement accordingly. The black man’s kick awoke me and let me see my shortcomings in my cultivation.
2. The Busier Life Is, the More Important It Is to Study the Fa
My understanding is that Master has arranged a path for every practitioner. We should put ourselves in Master’s hands and not pursue anything.
I wasn’t attached to finding a job, but a job found me. I wasn’t attached to getting married, but I “naturally” got married to a practitioner that my parents and relatives were very satisfied with.
I’ve come to Chinatown almost every day since 2015. While I worked at a regular job Master helped balance my work and personal life so I could set aside time to do the three things.
Every day at noon, I go to Chinatown with fliers and blank petition forms, six roll-up banners, one big banner and a table. Other practitioners help me set up the table and clarify the truth to passersby including Chinese, Westerners, and tourists.
I usually finish around 6 p.m., go home for dinner and then sleep for three to four hours. Around midnight, I get up and ride a bus to work. I work from 1 a.m. to 9 a.m. in the winter, and 2 a.m. to 10 a.m. in the summer. After work, I go home and send forth righteous thoughts at 11 a.m. After lunch, I go to Chinatown.
When I have a project at work, I usually work continuously for one to three months. The pay is good, and the schedule is very suitable for me. During projects, plus going to Chinatown every day, it seems that I’m very busy since I sleep only three to four hours a day. Other practitioners thought my life was very hard but in fact, the feeling in my heart is not painful; I feel a sense of diligence more than anything.
Of course the pace of work, life, and doing the three things is quick and demanding. I know I must study the Fa more and better. I read the Fa while waiting and riding the bus to and from work. I can read one-and-a-half lectures or two lectures on the bus. I study the Fa for a third time before going to sleep.
I have an hour break at work and I can do four sets of exercises. I feel relaxed and energetic after doing the exercises. I know that I won’t survive at this pace for more than three days without the Fa and Master strengthening me.
My wife, who is also a practitioner, landed a job at the same company as me, so we began to ride the bus together. We read and alternate paragraphs; she can recite the Fa from memory and I read the book. We encourage each other to be more diligent and support each other. Thank you, Master, for your compassionate arrangement.
Here is another story of eliminating human notions. The city was locked down and almost no people came to Chinatown during the CCP virus pandemic. We changed our way of saving people by distributing newspapers and fliers at people’s homes.
One day an elderly practitioner and I went to a residential area to distribute fliers. The houses have basements so we had to walk up a flight of stairs to insert a flier into the mailbox and then walk down a steep flight of stairs to deliver one to the basement; it was very tiring. Usually we only encounter one block of houses like this a day.
This day we had the entire afternoon to deal with these kinds of houses. I completed three blocks and more of the same were in front of me. Human notions emerged. I wanted to complete the task faster. I was tired and didn’t want to endure the hardship anymore. My righteous thoughts were weakening. I sweat profusely and my legs felt heavier and heavier.
I asked myself what a divine being would do in this situation. A divine being certainly will fly from house to house, not burdened by human notions, and will not be tired. I also recognized this was a good thing for me. I could save lives while transforming karma to virtue in the process.
My righteous thoughts returned to me. My body became light and I could walk up and down stairs faster.
From this experience, I came to the understanding that when we are controlled by human notions, our body will be restrained by the law of the human realm and we have to be in pain and tired. When we are led by righteous thoughts from the Fa, our body will be close to a divine realm, so the hardships of the human realm will have no effect on us.
Master said,
“We have said that good or evil comes from a person’s spontaneous thought, and the thought at that moment can bring about different consequences.”(Lecture Four, Zhuan Falun)
I had a better understanding of the teaching after this experience.
Fa-study gives me endless energy and motivation. Only by assimilating to the Fa can we truly validate the Fa, and in the process can we realize the infinite wisdom and great compassion of Master and Dafa.
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