(Minghui.org) My name is Xiaobei, and I’m 10 years old. When I listened to Young Practitioners’ Corner, I thought, “When will I be able to use such a method to express my gratitude to great benevolent Master Li? After I shared my thoughts with my mom, she was fully supportive and helped me draft this article as I narrated the contents.
For as long as I can remember, my grandfather has helped me tie my hair every morning. I never dared to ask my mom, because she often slept poorly and would lose her temper. My father and grandfather always asked me not to disturb her so that she could sleep a bit longer. However, mom still frequently quarreled with my father and grandfather, such that it became the norm. I deeply remember one time after mom finished quarreling, she dragged some luggage, held me, and walked off, intending to leave the house no matter how I cried! The whole family was afraid of her and gave in to her! The uncles and aunties who knew me said that I had always been a sensible child, but actually, that was because my mom was so fierce that I did not dare to go against her!
I don’t remember when it started, but my mom seemed to have changed into another person. I later found out that it was because mom had started practicing Falun Dafa. I no longer heard her quarreling with my father, and she treated us better and better. Although she still loses her temper with me sometimes, the situation is so much better than in the past! I remember once when I made a big mistake, and mom said to me fiercely, “If I had not just finished studying the Fa today, I would have given you a beating.” I replied, “Well, then you didn’t really learn much today, did you?” Hearing that, she did not make a sound and walked away.
Because of these things, I am especially thankful to Dafa! Thank you, Master, for letting me have a warm mother. My mom changed. My father also cultivates Falun Dafa, and our whole family environment has changed. Therefore, I am especially thankful to Master for giving me a harmonious and warm family!
I heard that my grandfather had started smoking when he was barely 20 years old. However, after reading just one round of Zhuan Falun, he actually gave up his addiction to smoking, which had been with him for more than 50 years!
One summer, a delivery driver hit my grandfather, and he collapsed unconscious on the ground. When the hospital called us, my father was so scared that his legs turned to jelly! Despite this, my father and mother did not give the deliveryman any trouble. My grandfather went from being unconscious and not knowing anything to becoming the healthy person he is today. This is just like what Master said,
“We have said that good or bad comes from a person’s initial thought, and the thought at that moment can bring about different consequences.” (Lecture Four, Zhuan Falun)
I know that this is a blessing because our family cultivates in Dafa. As such, I am especially grateful to Master for protecting our whole family!
When I was seven, I went to pick up a ball for my younger sister. A dog that was as tall as me pounced at me and bit my arm. I was scared stiff. Its sharp, big teeth left a string of teeth marks on my arm. Although the teeth marks were very clear, astonishingly, not a single one punctured the skin, and there was no bleeding.
In the area where the teeth marks were, it was only a little swollen. I told my mom, “If not for Master saving me today, I don’t know what would have become of my arm.” I recalled the example that Master mentioned in Zhuan Falun, about an older lady who was hit by a car but was unharmed, so we did not think of giving the dog owner any trouble.
After less than an hour, my mom thought of taking a photo to show my father, but that string of teeth marks had disappeared! Because I personally experienced that Master was right by my side, I started to study the Fa seriously and followed the study group of practitioners to memorize Hong Yin and Hong Yin II. I am now able to recite more than 100 poems!
For a period of time, I memorized a poem from Hong Yin every day. The more I memorized them, the easier it became. Furthermore, I no longer liked to play with my tablet, because I found the games completely uninteresting. However, when my state was not so ideal, such that I stopped memorizing poems for a period of time, I started playing on the tablet and scrolling through short videos.
I could not sleep one night, so mom asked me to memorize Hong Yin. In the past, I could memorize one poem within 20 minutes, but after I started playing with electronics, I could not memorize one poem even after three hours. I was so anxious that I cried. Through exchanging thoughts with my mom, I understood that if I filled my dimension with too much of this demonic matter, I would be distancing myself further and further from the Fa.
Sometimes when I made mistakes, mom would reason it out with me using the Fa principles, and I would listen. However, sometimes she would look down on me when she reprimanded me, and I would talk back. I know that we help one another to cultivate. My younger sister is very cute and naughty. Every time that I get into a conflict with her, mom will ask me to look within, and I will rebut her, “Why don’t you ask my sister to look within?!” I know that this is jealousy, just like how I am always jealous of my sister when she acts cute.
Master said,
“It can evoke one’s jealousy, for if someone is doing well, instead of feeling happy for him or her, people will feel uncomfortable.” (Lecture Seven, Zhuan Falun).
This is such a bad attachment, and there is no compassion either. I must get rid of it. As I kept studying the Fa, I also gained new understandings about it.
One day, we had a guest, and she picked up some food with her chopsticks to put into my mom’s bowl. Because mom did not allow us to pick up food for her with our chopsticks when we were at home, I knew she did not like it. However, that day when the guest gave her food, she did not make a sound at all.
After the guest left, I could not wait and asked her, “Why didn’t you say anything (when she picked food for you)? You did not practice truthfulness!” But mom replied, “She did it out of goodwill, and she had already done it. If I said something, I would not be considering her feelings. A cultivator also needs to practice compassion.” Oh, Master said that the Truthfulness in ‘Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance’ also includes Compassion and Forbearance.
For a period of time, I was absolutely obsessed with the “Detective Conan” short videos and would watch them whenever I had time. One day I had a dream that someone was burning my neck with fire. It felt very real and extremely painful. I quickly asked the people around me for help and saw a practitioner distributing truth-clarification materials at the side of the road.
I ran over and said, “Hello, I am also a practitioner, can you save me? The practitioner took me to a bridge, and the scenery totally changed. There had been nobody at all there, but all of a sudden, it was filled with practitioners who were wearing Dafa T-shirts. There were also many colorful Falun Dafa flags. We later boarded a big boat, and my parents were on the boat! When I told mom about the dream, she said, “It is saying that only Dafa can save you, so you definitely must not stray from the Fa!”
I still remember the kind of pain in the dream. It may be that Master is reminding me to quickly get back on track, as the Fa boat is about to take off. I must correct myself so that I do not let down Master’s benevolent protection.
Thank you, Master!
Thank you, fellow practitioners!