(Minghui.org) I started practicing Falun Dafa in 1996. I currently work in a hotel where I’m in charge of the boiler and equipment maintenance. The bathhouse is open to the public. My salary is 4000 yuan [$589] a month. The workload is for three people, but my boss didn’t want to hire that many people, so asked me to do the job alone. As a Falun Dafa practitioner guided by the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, I don’t complain but do the work with a positive attitude every day.
My boss was the director of the Chengguan Town Power Supply Station under the Electric Power Bureau before he retired. In those years of massive construction projects, this position carried a lot of authority. His wife was a deputy director of the county life insurance company. She was one of the top three salespeople in the county for several years and a famous, strong woman. As a worker, whatever I said to them didn’t have much weight. I wondered how I could tell them about Falun Dafa and quitting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations. Though I found opportunities to talk to them about Falun Dafa, they didn’t take it to heart.
My boss decided to renovate the bathing area two years ago and hired an equipment installation technician from Beijing. He paid the man 500 yuan a day and provided him free meals and accommodation. My boss asked me to cooperate with him for the equipment installation and put me in charge of purchasing materials. I am a Falun Dafa practitioner and am considerate. To complete the work as soon as possible, I put all my time and energy into work. I used my lunch break to prepare the materials and never delayed any work. The technician was very happy with my work.
I told him about Falun Dafa while we were on breaks together. He gradually learned the truth behind the persecution of Falun Dafa and agreed to quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations. He said, “I have never met anyone who works as hard as you.” I said, “I practice Falun Dafa. Master told us to do so.” He told my boss several times that I did the work as if I worked for myself. My boss appreciated my work ethic. I set a standard in my heart that I would put more effort into the work and work harder than at home. I wanted to win over my boss with my actions.
The installation work was finished in just over three weeks. My boss invited the technician to dinner and asked me as well. His wife was also at dinner. I talked about Falun Dafa again. My boss said, “I know what communism is like better than you. I have never said anything good about communism.” His wife said to me, “Few people can persuade me, but I admire you. Through your actions, I see the goodness of Falun Dafa.” I said, “Without the guidance of Falun Dafa, I wouldn’t have done so well. I never cheat anyone. Please believe me and quit the CCP to keep yourself safe.” The technician also helped me with this. He asked my boss and his wife to believe what I said. Both of them thus agreed to quit the CCP and its affiliated organizations.
The sister of my boss’s wife came to do the accounting work in the hotel after she retired. She looked depressed and didn’t talk much. I learned from her that she didn’t get along with her husband. Her husband didn’t contribute a penny to the family but fought with her and smashed the furniture after he got drunk. On one occasion, he came to her workplace with a knife and wanted to kill her as well as himself. She was so scared and didn’t go home for two weeks. She had asked for a divorce a few times, but he didn’t agree.
Before the Chinese New Year, she said to everyone, “I will stay in the office during the Chinese New Year and won’t go home. Let him [her husband] stay at home by himself.” Our colleagues spoke up for her. Someone said, “If it were me, I wouldn’t have lived with him one more day.” Another one said, “He runs wild when drunk. If it were me, I would have divorced him a long time ago.” Another said, “You lodge a lawsuit against him if he doesn’t agree. Nothing is impossible.” Few people tried to persuade her to make up with her husband.
One day I chatted with her and asked her if she really wanted to get divorced. She said, “He [her husband] said that he wouldn’t leave home even if we got divorced and he got half of the property. Furthermore, I don’t have anywhere to go. We are old. Even if we get divorced, what difference will it make?” I could see that she didn’t really want to get divorced. I encouraged her and said, “Just accept fate. You owed him in your previous lifetime. He came to you to repay the debt in this lifetime.” She smiled bitterly, “That might be so.”
Then I told her a very old story. A long time ago, people believed in lifetime-long marriage and devoted themselves to each other all their lives. Neither husband nor wife ever thought of leaving the other.
Once upon a time, a husband regularly picked up whatever was nearby (such as a fire poker or a yardstick) and brutally beat his wife regardless of how good the wife was to him. He didn’t stop beating her until he got tired. The wife could no longer put up with it and went to a temple to seek a senior monk’s guidance.
The monk said, “You were a stable boy in the heavens in your previous life. Your husband was the naughty horse. You didn’t like the horse and often whipped him. Thus, you accumulated a huge amount of karma. He came to you to collect the debt in this lifetime.”
The wife asked how long it would take to pay back the debt. The monk said, “A lifetime.” The wife sobbed and begged the monk to save her with compassion because she could no longer bear it. The monk said, “There is one way out. Going forward, you must do only good things, never bad things.” The wife agreed wholeheartedly.
The monk said, “Please prepare a delicious meal for your husband tomorrow. Please hide any poles or sticks lying around, but put a bedding broom on the kang bed (a bedding broom is made by binding hundreds of sorghum stalks together and is used to sweep the kang). Remember, no matter how he treats you when he comes back, you must treat him kindly. Don’t hide from him.” The wife remembered it and went home.
The next day, the husband went out to work after breakfast. The wife prepared the meal as the monk had insstructed and waited for her husband to return. When the husband home and saw a table of delicious food, he criticized her for wasting money, as it was not a big holiday that day. He became angrier as he talked.
He looked around but couldn’t find any sticks until he saw the broom on the kang. He picked it up and beat his wife. The wife remembered the monk’s instructions and didn’t fight back or flee. After a while, the husband looked tired, dropped the broom, and went outside.
He no longer beat his wife after that. The wife went to the temple to thank the monk and asked him why her husband no longer beat her. The monk said, “The broom was made of hundreds of sorghum stalks. One sorghum stalk represented one lash of a whip. One hit with the broom meant you paid back 100 lashes. When you paid back all the lashes you whipped him in your previous life, he no longer beat you.” It suddenly dawned on her. She said, “Now I understand.”
After I finished the story, I said to the accountant, “The senior monk’s method was only effective in saving the wife from hardships. Quitting the CCP and keeping yourself safe is the most effective way that Master provides to all Chinese people. Sincerely repeating the phrases ‘Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good’ can help you avoid disasters and hardships. Please believe me and withdraw from the CCP and its affiliated organizations, and sincerely repeat the phrases. Master will definitely bless you and turn everything toward the positive.”
She said, “Ok, I didn’t join the Community Party. Please help me quit my membership of the Youth League and Young Pioneers. I’d rather believe it exists than risk believing it doesn’t. I will repeat those words and wait for blessings.”
I said, “Yes, please do it. It isn’t right that you don’t go home during the Chinese New Year, is it? Doesn’t it make things worse? Please take a step back and look after your husband for some time. Try it. For example, when you eat meals, please put a piece of meat into in his bowl first…”
She shouted, “Give him a piece of meat. Why should I?” I said, “Hold on. Please listen to me. You must feed him well before he listens to you. Don’t you complain that he doesn’t give you his salary? Before you get his money, you must first get his kindness. If he is not kind to you, will he give you money? If you want his kindness, you must win his heart first. If you want to win his heart, you must communicate with him heart to heart. This is the traditional wisdom our ancestors left for us, and it is a winning method. You just do what I said bit by bit to see what result you will achieve.” She said, “Yes, this is the principle. Let me try.”
I was very busy after the New Year. I didn’t have time to chat with the accountant, though I saw her every day. She looked better now. She previously was not willing to leave the hotel, but now she went home immediately after she finished work. She had a smile on her face. She sang a song from time to time and posted a video on her social platform. I sincerely wish her happiness.
Falun Dafa can nourish suffering hearts and save us from the sea of bitterness. I wish all people could be saved!
(Selected submission in celebration of 2026 World Falun Dafa Day on Minghui.org)