(Minghui.org) I met a sanitation worker a few days ago while handing out 2024 calendars with Falun Dafa messages printed on them. “Hello, here is a free calendar. Those who receive it will be blessed.” The worker took it, then stared at me in mild confusion. I continued, “Remember, Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good. Falun Dafa has spread in more than 100 countries around the world. It has also received more than 6,000 awards. It is a high-level Buddhist practice.” As I spoke, his expression became increasingly fierce.

A thought suddenly surfaced in my mind, “He intends to hit me.” Immediately after, the man raised the desk calendar threateningly, glaring at me with a twisted and angry expression. I lightly smiled at him through my face mask (only my two eyes were visible) and maintained a state of calm compassion. The moment we made eye contact, the worker changed his posture, threw the desk calendar into the snow and walked away.

Another time, I was distributing Falun Dafa truth-clarifying materials on the street when I met a physically-fit middle-aged man, about a head taller than me. I handed the Dafa materials to him and said with a smile, “Hello, this is a piece of Falun Dafa informational truth-clarification material. I hope you will read it.” The man’s mood changed in an instant. With an angry face, he folded the material in half and raised it high in the air, as though preparing to hit me.

I maintained a calm smile and raised my head to look at him through my face mask. The man lowered his head to look at me, and with just one glance, his anger vanished. He gently put the materials into my hand, and with a calm look on his face, turned around and walked away.

A fellow practitioner who saw the entire exchange, worriedly advised, “You should have run away at the start!” I replied, “He’s still a good person. He didn’t hit me after all.” Everyone has been deceived by the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) propaganda, and the specific trigger that caused this man to change his mind will remain unknown. But, his sudden change in attitude may have something to do with my smile. Dafa’s genuine compassion must have been conveyed from that silent smile, instantly dissolving all the hatred caused by the CCP’s lies.

Both critical situations were resolved with calm smiles and Dafa’s compassion, not due to a fortunate coincidence. Encountering such tribulation is also the result of one’s own shortcomings, which I will not analyze in detail here.

Master said:

“...settles what was done to him with a smile.” (“Fa Teaching Given at the 2004 Western U.S. Fa Conference,” Collected Teachings Given Around the World Volume V)

I have come to understand how true this is, and these experiences have given me a new level of understanding of the above phrase from Master’s teachings.