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Cultivating Myself While Fulfilling My Responsibilities

March 2, 2024 |   By a Falun Dafa practitioner in China

(Minghui.org) I began practicing Falun Dafa in 1998 but I started participating in the local group Fa study in 2009. By that time truth clarification materials were being produced by many practitioners, even those in remote, rural areas. Some practitioners were older and less educated, and practitioners who had technical skills needed to help them. However these practitioners were usually young, had jobs, and did not always have time. So I offered to bring the equipment to them for repair. It increased their workload and was a safety issue—and one technical practitioner was arrested.

Although I read the Fa (teachings) every day, I did not know how to look inward—instead I often looked outward when problems occurred. I began to examine myself after that practitioner was arrested. I wondered if I could learn the skills since the information was available on the Minghui website. I was in my 50s then. I reminded myself that I’m a practitioner. I needed to change my notions, let go of my attachments and I should help.

When a practitioner’s printer had problems she brought it to me. I took the printer to the repair shop. When I told the owner the problem, he asked me to wait since he needed to work on another printer.

He began taking the other printer apart, and as he worked he explained what he was doing. I watched carefully. It suddenly occurred to me that this was arranged by Master so I could learn to repair printers. When he reassembled it I knew Master opened my wisdom.

Master later arranged for me to meet a practitioner who knew about computers. With Master’s guidance, our equipment maintenance issues were resolved. One practitioner maintains the computers, another repairs printers and buys supplies. I also learned how to maintain computers.

I overcame many difficulties while I learned the required technical skills, and Master helped me cultivate away many attachments. For example, it was almost Chinese New Year when a practitioner from the countryside brought in a printer, saying that the colors were not printing. I told him, “I’ll fix it and bring it to you tomorrow.”

I began fixing the printer after I finished my housework. It turned out that there was air in the ink supply line, and so the ink couldn’t flow. Someone knocked on the door while I was working, but I didn’t pay attention. My husband, who is also a practitioner, opened the door and saw five or six people from the police station and the community committee. One of them asked him if he still told people about Falun Dafa. My husband said, “Yes, of course! Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance are good.”

I overheard their conversation, and I quickly closed the bedroom door and sent righteous thoughts. I said to Master in my heart: “Master please reinforce my righteous thoughts, I don’t acknowledge this interference.” I thought: “I don’t acknowledge whatever Master doesn’t acknowledge, and I deny it completely.”

After about 20 minutes, I heard my husband saying, “I need to go out to do some errands, why don’t we talk another time?” The people left.

My husband told me, “When they asked me where you were, I didn’t answer.” He clarified the truth to them. They tried to open the bedroom door several times, but couldn’t. I knew compassionate Master protected me.

I reflected on myself, and I realized that I had the attachment to showing off, doing things, and to ‘self’. Doesn’t the air in the ink tube imply that I have gaps in my cultivation? When problems surfaced I didn’t look inward. Compassionate Master used the printer to give me a hint. Thank you Master!

Saving People in Another City

When my daughter gave birth in 2017, she asked my husband and I to help take care of the baby. I hesitated before I went out to clarify the truth face to face. I wanted to improve my cultivation state, so, besides taking care of the baby and cooking during the day, I studied the Fa, listened to Master’s lectures, and sent righteous thoughts to eliminate any interference in my dimensional field. I felt myself improving.

I made truth clarifying phone calls for more than a year before I began taking care of my daughter’s baby. I felt this was Master’s arrangement and laid the foundation for me to make calls while I was at my daughter’s home.

I called people for about an hour every day. If the phone call got through, it took at least seven or eight minutes to explain the facts. I could usually help three or four people quit the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) and its youth organizations every day. Some people didn’t quit, but as long as they listened, it laid the foundation and they may later quit the CCP. I made calls every day until the COVID pandemic broke out in 2020, when my mobile phone card could no longer be charged.

I started to look for people to clarify the truth to when I went out to buy groceries. After the baby was a few months old, my husband and I would take the baby out during the day. When he told people the truth I sent righteous thoughts, and he did the same when I spoke to people. Most people agreed to quit the CCP.

While I shopped, I offer to help carry things for people in the supermarket. When they thanked me, I would say, “We are destined to meet.” Then I would clarify the truth to them. Some said, “You’re such a nice person.” I knew this is because practitioners carry a positive energy field.

My grandchild is now in first grade. We don’t know how many people we clarified the truth to in this city. Those who listened to us greet us warmly.

Conclusion

Master said,

“The Fa’s rectification of the Cosmos has finished, and now a transition to the Fa’s rectification of the human world is taking place. Most of our Dafa disciples will join me as the Fa rectifies the human world” (“Wake Up”)

Compassionate Master gave us and all sentient beings the opportunity to be saved. Let us finish the last leg of the journey, do the three things well, and improve together in cultivation.