(Minghui.org) Huang Yufeng is a medical technologist in southern Taiwan. For more than 20 years, Yufeng has deeply felt the struggle and pain of life and death. Though he could detect the signs of various diseases, he realized that it is difficult to change someone’s fate. He had a desire to understand the meaning of life. He wanted to know what the eternal pursuit of life should be.
Yufeng, a medical technologist in southern Taiwan
Chef Gives Him a Copy of Zhuan Falun
Yufeng read many books, ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, on medical philosophy and religion as he tried to understand why life came about. When he saw something he didn’t understand in one book, he would look for a related book to study.
“I always wanted to understand the meaning of life,” Yufeng said. “It turned out that these books seemed very reasonable and correct, but they were very difficult to implement. And they did not offer answers, just an argument presented in a different form.”
He went to a European-style restaurant after work in early Fall 2008. He became acquainted with a chef there named Alex. They talked about everything, including the current political situation and food ingredients. They discussed many topics, from work to life, and body and mind. Yufeng chatted with Alex and his wife extensively. Yufeng told them frankly that he felt that the world was collapsing and morality was declining, so he has been actively involved in environmental protection and children’s education for many years. However, he found that the more he was engaged in, the more powerless he felt.
A month or two later, Alex recommended a book that had changed the couple’s lives, Zhuan Falun. After reading a lot of books in his search for answers, this book finally answered his questions and resolved doubts he had held onto for many years.
“I had been involved in the environmental movement and children’s education for more than 10 years, but I found that social problems still emerged one after another,” he said. “It was not until I read Zhuan Falun that I understood what the appearance and root cause of all these problems were.
“Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a high level cultivation, which has unveiled many mysteries and clarified the true purpose and ultimate destination of being a human being. Falun Dafa can truly bring practitioners to a high realm. It also provides the most complete answers to the origin of mankind and the mystery of the universe. To date, I have never doubted it, and I know that this is the criterion and direction to be pursued in life.”
A Thread of Chances
Looking back over his life, Yufeng found that everything had not been accidental and seemed to follow an orderly arrangement made by Master for him to obtain the Fa.
Yufeng practicing the fifth exercise.
“Before I obtained the Fa, I drove to Hualien and Taitung with my girlfriend (now wife) and her younger sister, and along the way I saw more than 10 billboards with ‘Falun Dafa Is Good’ written on them. I was curious, but had no idea what Falun Dafa was about. Unexpectedly, a year later, the three of us all started cultivation, one after the other,” he said.
After starting to practice with his girlfriend, Yufeng was also ready to buy a house and get married. He set his sights on a house that was more than 10 years old and made an appointment with an agent to take a look at the house.
“The house was bright and the environment was very tidy. The agent told me that it was cleaned by the previous owner, and I thought that this owner must have taken good care of the house,” Yufeng said.
Yufeng and the real estate agent were about to leave the house when Yufeng saw a paper lotus flower hanging on the bookcase, with the words “Falun Dafa is good” written on it. “I was amazed and thought, ‘How could such a coincidence happen?’” he said, “The entire house was empty, except for a paper lotus flower, so it must have been the house of a Dafa practitioner.”
Yufeng did not have a lot of savings, but the house’s asking price was much lower than the market price, and the condition of the house was very much in line with his needs. “When the house was sold to us and the owner found out that I was also a Falun Gong practitioner, she was very happy. We knew that this was Master’s arrangement.”
Practicing Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance in the Healthcare System
In recent years, with the pandemic and the sharp increase in the volume of laboratory tests, the workload of medical technologists has increased significantly. The large number of specimens and many items to test meant it was also necessary to work night shifts.
“In the past, if my biological clock could not adjust well, with the lack of sleep I would lack energy. After I started cultivating, my mental state improved significantly. Not only did my thinking become clearer, but I was more likely to be calm.”
The pressure of working in the hospital is high, and some colleagues either retired early or left due to illnesses. “Actually, I used to suffer from irritable bowel syndrome, and whenever I was nervous, I would have diarrhea. I also had migraines, which occurred at least once a month, and the pain was almost unbearable, but these symptoms are almost gone after I began cultivation.”
Despite the complicated and burdensome work, Yufeng feels calm every day. For almost two decades, he has not had any conflicts with his colleagues, and has become known as someone with the best temper in the eyes of his hospital colleagues.
“Dafa requires cultivators to first look inward when they encounter any problems and reflect on whether there is anything wrong with them. I don’t care who does more and who does less, I can do more if I can, and I can help more if I can, and I get along with my colleagues naturally,” he said.
Understanding What It Means to Truly Be a Good Person
Under the influence of his parents’ words and deeds, Yufeng was a good child and a good student in the eyes of his teachers. After becoming an adult, he obeyed the law, treated people with courtesy, and participated in many activities to help those who were less fortunate. He always thought of himself as a good person. But after he started practicing cultivation, he realized that what he had thought was good was not really good.
“In the past, I measured myself by the moral standards of ordinary people, but the moral standards of ordinary people are constantly declining,” he said. “And I only met the standards of ordinary people on the surface, but I still had a lot of bad thoughts in my heart, such as jealousy, contempt, lust, greed, and so on.
“After cultivating, I took Dafa’s Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance as the standard and demanded that all my thoughts meet these requirements, because that standard is eternal and unchanging, and is in line with the truth of the universe, but not the principles of human beings.”
For example, in the past, if a medical test was not conducted properly, Yufeng said that he might have covered up the mistake for fear of being blamed and punished. But after practicing, he will admit his mistakes and correctly report the data. “I no longer worry about supervisors issuing penalties and blaming me. The point is that I need to do things better. Because I should be honest and not affect the doctor’s professional judgment. I should be kind, for the sake of the health and safety of the patients. And I should accept the mistakes calmly; this is also a manifestation of forbearance.”
Yufeng also realized that true kindness is not to seek fame, but to truly put oneself in others’ shoes and think about others. “In the past, I wanted to be a good person, because I cared about what others thought about me and wanted others to think I was a good person,” he said. “But after cultivating, the motivation is different. I know what I should do, these are the principles of life, the essence of being a human being. As a human being, I should live like this. I am a cultivator, and that motivation and starting point are completely different.”
In the past, if Yufeng had found that his colleague had not done a good job, although he would help fix the problem, he would not tell her, because he was worried that the she would be unhappy and it would affect the friendship between them. But now he’s going to think further, if I’m really trying to be good to you, I have to let you know. “Moreover, when I remind the other party with kindness in private, she could feel that I was genuinely doing something good for her, and she would accept it gladly,” he said.
Epilogue
Looking back over his 16 years of cultivation, Yufeng’s gratitude to Master cannot be described in words.
“Dafa has changed my entire life,” he said. “We all know that life is not all smooth sailing. Although the setbacks encountered on the surface are the same as those of ordinary people, the connotations are completely different. Because of Master’s protection, I am not helpless on the road of life. I know that no matter what kind of tribulations I encounter, it is an opportunity to improve myself, and I will definitely be able to make it in the end. I also hope that more people will be as fortunate as me to enter Dafa to cultivate and find the origin of their life.”
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