(Minghui.org) I saw the “Call for Articles for the 23rd China Fa Conference on Minghui.org” on August 7, 2026, and I felt pleasantly surprised because that day was the beginning of Autumn on the lunar calendar. Autumn is the season of harvest, and I would like to select a few of my cultivation fruits of the past year and respectfully dedicate them to our venerable Master Li and share with fellow practitioners.
Temper Explosion
I am an easygoing person and typically let other people say what they want. I can refrain from talking back when other people criticize me with harsh language, and even go back and find factors for my improvement in the issues they bring up. However, when my wife criticizes me, sometimes I just cannot get past it. It might be caused by my attachment of having a low opinion of her.
I started making breakfast one morning at 6:30. I made a mashed potato salad and various vegetables with dipping sauce that our son likes. My wife made roasted sweet potatoes with an air fryer. After finishing the washing up and putting everything away, I planned to check Minghui.org and then head off to group Fa study.
Just as I sat down, my wife started yelling from the kitchen, “Why didn’t you put this air fryer away?!” After hearing this, I immediately thought, “I was busy for an hour and a half. It’s just an air fryer. Can’t you just put it away...” After this thought emerged I caught it right away, “Isn’t this the attachment of disliking criticism?” I immediately restored my calm state, and the joy of passing a test arose within. My wife did not say anything further; it was as if nothing ever happened.
A few days ago, over a small matter, I said a few words in my defense to my wife when she criticized me. She became furious, and would not let the matter rest. She insisted that I admit that I was wrong, or otherwise she would not let it go. In the end, I had no choice but to admit fault to bring an end to the “war.” Afterwards, I reflected and realized, “Wasn’t this exactly my fault!? I was not at fault on the surface, but wasn’t the fact that I did not want to be criticized ‘making a mistake’ in Dafa cultivation?” I finally passed the test of a sudden conflict.
My Wife’s Reproach
On another occasion, my wife asked me to tidy up items on the cabinet, which I quickly did. However, she accused me of not doing it to her liking. I snapped back at her right away, “You don’t do it yourself, and you ask me to do it, and then nitpick about it.” She instantly became angry and started reorganizing the items herself while scolding me, “You work on making improvements at the company, but you can’t even arrange things right at home.”
I suddenly woke up as she was criticizing me. I thought, “Isn’t this another test of my attachment to disliking criticism? I have to maintain my composure and stop talking back.” My wife calmed down instantly.
So it appears that whether a “war” ends quickly or not depends on whether I look inward quickly! For several months now, we have lived harmoniously, and I pretty much have not been going through tests in this area. Cultivation is just like this – improving little by little in everyday life.
Anxiety Is Also a Form of Attachment
One night, I suddenly felt flustered and uncomfortable. I immediately looked inward to see what was causing this abnormal state. My first thought was, “Is something about to happen?” (When people suddenly feel flustered, they think something might have happened with their family). I corrected myself, “No, how is this looking inward?” I then thought, “Was it caused by a certain attachment? Doesn’t seem like it.”
Since I could not figure it out for the moment, I decided to wash my feet. While soaking my feet, I started to look for attachments again. All of a sudden, a word appeared in my mind – Anxiety. Instantly, in another dimension, a hole was drilled in the area around my heart, and a substance gushed out from inside my heart. My flustered state immediately disappeared. I understood right away that the substance of anxiety gushed out.
I then realized the reason for my anxiety. For the past two days, a practitioner had been asking me to cooperate and do some things to validate the Fa. I was doing them with difficulty but was afraid of delaying the process, so I became anxious. Next, my mind automatically understood that my anxiety stemmed from an earlier period.
At work, one of my jobs is to solve production issues in the factory. Some issues must be solved quickly, otherwise production would be halted and the company would be unable to deliver goods on schedule. I was like a fire-fighting captain who rushes to the forefront and shoulders heavy responsibilities. However, I do not know how to solve every issue, and I am often in an anxious state.
I realized that this anxiety issue must be solved. I felt that if I kept being unable to attain enlightenment on this issue, I would have health problems. But the way this anxiety issue was solved that day could be called magical. I simply went through the cultivation process of promptly looking inward, and what happened afterwards was almost like sudden enlightenment, and the solution was not something I would normally think of.
I recalled Master’s teaching:
“Cultivation depends on one’s own efforts, while the transformation of gong is done by one’s master.” (Lecture One, Zhuan Falun)
Everything is done by Master. We only have the wish to cultivate and put our heart into cultivating.
From this experience, I also realized that anxiety is also a form of attachment. The magical tool of looking within resulted in the substance of anxiety flowing out from inside my heart. Now, whenever I become anxious, once I realize it the anxiety substance flows out from the hole. After a month or so, I stopped sensing this hole. The attachment to anxiety was cultivated away time and again like this.
Cultivating Away the Attachment to Conceit
Practitioner Jia (pseudonym) and I had an intense conflict a few years ago. During the argument, Jia subjected me to a barrage of criticism, including that I was conceited. At that time, I felt aggrieved because I didn’t think I had done anything wrong. When I reflected on Jia’s words afterwards, I found that traces of conceit were infinitesimal on that issue, but were actually a serious problem on other issues. I immediately sent a message to thank this practitioner.
However, attachments do not get recognized and completely removed in one sitting. During this past year conceit tested me when having conflicts with Jia.
Because Minghui has published sharing articles that suggest practitioners undergo true cultivation, I cared a lot about whether the practitioners around me were truly cultivating, and always wanted to remind them to emphasize true cultivation. Additionally, Jia and I worked on a Fa-validation project with her as the leader and myself playing a supporting role. My subconscious thought was, “If Jia does not do things according to the Fa, it will be difficult for our project to achieve the effect of validating the Fa and saving people. Additionally, while doing things in this environment in China, if we deviate from the Fa, danger could arise at any moment.” Therefore, I kept a close watch over Jia’s cultivation state. As I analyzed carefully, I discovered my conceit.
This year, every so often I would tell Jia my views and suggestions. However, as I recall, only the suggestions I gave the first time were accepted by Jia through indirect feedback. Subsequent suggestions were either not accepted, or my message received no response. There were also times when after I sent a suggestion, Jia assigned fewer jobs to me, which made me feel that she was upset.
Until recently, our relationship was neither close nor distant due to various reasons. While piercing through my heart and looking within, I finally came to an understanding. I cannot think that I am more capable than the Fa and Master in making the fellow practitioner improve and change. I have to remove the state of liking to be the teacher and commenting on other people’s cultivation. Of course, normal sharing is fine, but I should not be attached. Being overly concerned about a fellow practitioner’s attachment is also an attachment that should be removed. As for the project, I should do my best to cooperate with Jia and not care about whether her cultivation state matches my perspective. This cultivation insight came from the experience described below.
Many years ago, my coworker and fellow practitioner Yi (pseudonym — new practitioner at the time) asked me to print 20 copies of a story he had written to use while convincing people to quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations. I read the story and felt that the approach had parts that were inconsistent with the Fa, so I refused to do it for him. However, Yi insisted that I cooperate. Yi was relatively assertive and thought the story could inspire people. At that time, I happened to be reading the Fa about practitioners cooperating well. I was hesitant, but eventually decided to make 10 copies for him.
Soon after, Yi happily told me that coworker Lei (pseudonym) read the story he wrote and agreed to withdraw from the CCP using his real name. Lei also said he used to think we were political, but now knows that we are saving people. Yi shared that when he saw Lei the next day, a scene presented to him showed that Lei’s body in another dimension was purified to be like white jade.
I was also happy to hear this story from Yi. Lei had been very difficult to communicate with in the past and would say that we were political. Yi and I had clarified the truth to him separately about seven times and tried to convince him to withdraw, but he never agreed. I was surprised that he accepted so readily this time.
I felt that my cooperation with Yi was significant, but I did not realize it at the time. Looking back, I now understand it more. We are all at different levels and realms. While cooperating in a project, we are in a divine state and experience divine miracles as long as our direction is correct, we put others first, and cooperate unconditionally.
Yi was a new practitioner at the time and his approach matched his state. When we worked together, he was like the coordinator of that project. He may not have cultivated better than I, but my not insisting on my own opinion and cooperating with him was in accordance with the Fa.
With the above understanding, I think I will cooperate well with Jia and other practitioners going forward, with fewer conflicts.
Cultivating the Heart While Doing Dafa Work
My printer recently had issues and could no longer print the materials needed. I looked inward and discovered that my mindset about making and distributing materials had changed.
In the past, I was very careful when I started printing and making truth-clarification materials on my own, and was afraid that not stacking them neatly would interfere with saving people. When I put materials aside, I would pick them up and put them down lightly and gently, cherishing them. I never treated them flippantly. As I was making the materials, I would say to them in my mind, “You should work with me well on saving sentient beings!” Sometimes while making the materials, I could feel a magnificent and sacred field of righteous thoughts flooding over me.
In the past, while distributing materials, especially in those residential complexes where every building entrance had an electronic lock, when I got to the entrance, often someone would happen to just be stepping out or be about to enter — allowing me to enter smoothly. There were doors that I could not open a few days earlier but could easily open that day. At that moment, I would thank Master in my mind. I would think: The sentient beings in this building were arranged by Master to be saved by me; it is wonderful to save sentient beings according to Master’s arrangements. Therefore, giving out materials in these complexes with electronic locks made me feel that everything was prearranged, and felt more sacred.
However, as time passed, I became busy with work and making more materials. I became apathetic and no longer had the righteous mindset. I need to go back to the state of working with my heart.
I once cooperated with Jia to oppose the persecution of a practitioner using legal terminology. I gave Jia a suggestion, but she argued right away. The next day, after looking inward, she found her attachment to disliking criticism. She was happy. I was also happy and felt that she truly improved as it seemed that she previously had difficulty tolerating criticism.
While addressing envelopes for truth-clarification letters to support the case, Jia asked me to add a few words. As I was writing, I suddenly felt fear that those officials would investigate based on handwriting after reading the letter. I even feared them receiving the letters. A cluster of the substance of fear enveloped me. I sensed it at the time, and immediately had a righteous thought, “I do not want this substance of fear. Not only do I want these officials to see the letter, but I also want them to develop righteous thoughts!” This thought was very firm!
After I got home, I sent forth righteous thoughts and strengthened these letters so they could save the people who saw them. After I sent righteous thoughts, the mechanisms throughout my body started to intensely revolve and I was enveloped in a strong energy field. I knew this state was because I changed my notion, removed my fear, and improved my xinxing. With the addition of other practitioners’ full cooperation in sending forth righteous thoughts, the kidnapped practitioner was released overnight. I realized that such a good result took place after the evil beings in other dimensions were eliminated, and there were officials who made the right choice after reading the letter.
Both Jia and I improved our xinxing during this cooperation. So in other words, we will have better results in saving people when we cultivate our minds while doing Dafa work.
While writing this draft, many of my understandings were refined and elevated. Writing sharing articles is also a process of cultivating the mind and improving. I would like to use the cultivation result that I obtained over the past year as the cornerstone to walk my future cultivation path well.
Thank you, Master, for your compassionate salvation! Thank you, fellow practitioners!
(Selected submission for the 23rd China Fa Conference on Minghui.org)
