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Deeply Understanding "Cultivation depends on one's own efforts, while the transformation of gong is done by one's master" While Saving Sentient Beings

November 05, 2009 |   By a practitioner in China

(Clearwisdom.net) I became a Dafa practitioner in 1998. The "Tiananmen Self-immolation" staged by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 2001 negatively impacted my entire family, so they exerted pressure on me to stop practicing. Because I had not been that diligent in my cultivation, I was gradually isolated from Dafa. In mid May 2008, I came across a practitioner whom I had known before. When she asked me if I still practiced, I could say nothing in reply. She asked me to follow her home, where she gave me several copies of Minghui Weekly. With tears in my eyes, I finished reading through all the copies that she had given me, and I was deeply moved by practitioners' sharings and their great deeds of saving people. Master once again led me, who had been lost in the muddy human world, back to the ship heading for home. I also learned that I can log onto the Minghui/Clearwisdom website via software that can circumvent the Internet blockade.

I searched for the software online for two days, but to no avail. I also consulted some net friends, but no one knew anything about it. On the third day, I thought, "Master, I have lagged behind too far for too long. I must be able to visit the Minghui website! Master, please help me!" I then continued searching, and a miracle occurred. I found the information about the free software! The moment I opened the website, I was so emotional that mere words cannot describe my feelings. Later on, when I told practitioners online about this experience, they all thought it was miraculous. I truly understand from this experience what Master said:

"Cultivation depends on one's own efforts, while the transformation of gong is done by one's master. It is good enough if you have this wish. It is the master who actually does this, as you are simply unable to do it." (Zhuan Falun, 2000 Translation Version)

Since then, besides working, I've spent all my time and energy on studying the Fa, doing the exercises, and saving sentient beings. After I learned that many people do not know there is a software that can get around the Internet blockade, I mass-emailed the information about the software to many people. I've also set up some public email boxes, where I placed materials explaining Falun Gong and the persecution and information about the software. I made suggestions on how to use the software through a variety of means. A considerable number of people have downloaded materials and the software information from those public email boxes.

I'm a history teacher, and other than helping my students learn the facts about Falun Gong while teaching them and in my everyday life, I also help students' parents learn the facts by other means. Being a head teacher, I'm concerned about my students, and I also pay attention to contacting my students' parents. At one point I learned that a student's family situation was very poor. Her father had passed away years ago, and her mother was seriously ill and relied on taking medicine on a daily basis to maintain her health. The girl was under great pressure and could not concentrate on her studies. All that was uppermost in her mind was how to shoulder the responsibility for her family. I found the girl and asked her if she would allow me to visit her home. She was happy to welcome me.

One weekend, shortly after arriving at the student's home, I began explaining the magnificence of Falun Dafa to the girl's mother. Her mother said, "According to my daughter's good impression of you, your care and love for students, also the fact that you look so young and your complexion has a healthy glow, I believe all that you have said." Actually, I'm several years older than she. However, the moment she saw me, she thought I was her daughter's classmate. She asked her daughter, "Where is your teacher?" Her daughter smiled. The student's mother happily withdrew from the Youth League and Young Pioneers and got rid of CCP objects in their home, including photos of Mao. After that, we prepared a meal together and watched the video of Shen Yun Performing Arts. A feeling of happiness and joy permeated their home. Before leaving in the afternoon, I left my MP3 player for my student's mother, and asked her to listen to Master's lectures every day. I also asked her to recite sincerely "Falun Dafa is good" and "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good" in the evening or whenever she was free.

A month later I called her and asked how she was. She said that ever since that day, she has slowly regained her health, and eventually stopped taking any medicine. She felt light and at ease and her complexion had became rosy. As she was well-known in the village to be a sickly person, the other villagers who observed her dramatic physical changes all stopped by to ask her secret recipe for good health. She told them, "Only by being a kind person and sincerely reciting 'Falun Dafa is good' and 'Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good' will you be healthy and safe."

In over a year of saving sentient beings and validating the Fa, I have deeply realized that as long as we keep the thought and wish of saving people always in our minds and do everything with a pure heart and clean mind, Master will help us with everything we do.

This is my personal understanding. Please compassionately point it out if there is anything inappropriate.

September 26, 2009