(Minghui.org) I was distributing informational materials about Falun Dafa in a neighborhood earlier this year when I saw on a wall writings like, “Whoever Slanders Dafa Will Die” and “Whoever Cross This Out, His Family Will All Die.”

I was shocked to see such messages, which would certainly damage Dafa’s reputation. While I could not rule out the possibility of non-practitioners scrawling such messages in order to frame Falun Dafa, I felt the messages could also be written by a practitioner who was probably irrational. If so, those words didn’t reflect a Dafa disciple’s compassion at all and would make it extremely difficult for us to save people.

I kept thinking about the incident after I returned home. Feeling uneasy about the words there, I brought some sandpaper and steel brush, and spent a long time removing the words from the wall.

I now recall seeing many similar things when I distributed materials. Many years ago when I left a fellow practitioner’s home after Fa study, I saw a pack of eight plastic bags at the entrance of the apartment building. Each of the bags contained at least ten DVDs, some booklets and amulets. I felt bad that some practitioner would casually put such precious materials there. I wondered if anyone would be interested in picking them up. Not wanting them to be thrown away as trash, I took away all the bags.

I also saw a dozen copies of the same type of materials left by a door. In another case, fellow practitioners put up the same poster on every floor in a building, with some on the windows. Some of the posters were too low and some were too high. Some were put upside down. Some covered the resident’s own decoration on the front door.

If we put ourselves in the shoes of sentient beings, we should think about whether we would appreciate such materials or whether we would feel annoyed by it.

I often wonder why some practitioners, after so many years of cultivation amidst the persecution, still take such sacred responsibility of saving sentient beings so carelessly. When we fail to do it well, we are pushing people away, instead of saving them.

If we think about it, it takes a lot of effort for every copy of the materials to be made, from buying supplies, to downloading the design, and then printing and packaging it. In addition to the efforts the materials-producing practitioners are putting in, this process is also carefully watched over by Master, who spent much efforts making arrangements and protecting us along the way. I do hope that we can all cherish the materials and distribute them with due seriousness and compassion, to maximize its effect in saving people.

I’d like to revisit what Master taught us before,

“Validate the Fa with rationality, clarify the truth with wisdom, spread the Fa and save people with compassion—this is establishing the mighty virtue of an Enlightened Being.” (“Rationality,” The Essentials of Diligent Progress II)

Let us cherish the opportunities to save people and do it well with rationality.

Editor’s note: This article only represents the author’s understanding in their current cultivation state meant for sharing among practitioners so that we can “Compare with one another in study, in cultivation.” (“Solid Cultivation,” Hong Yin)