(Clearwisdom.net) I obtained the Fa in May of 1996, and I am 40 years old now. My colleague recommended that I read Zhuan Falun. I was so touched by the book that I felt as if I had been waiting for it for thousands of years and that I had finally received it. I experienced a lot of mental and physical changes. I was no longer a selfish person who only wanted to benefit myself. I began to consider others and be compassionate towards them. Many of my friends said that I became a different person. My colleagues told me that I looked younger. I really cherished the opportunity to cultivate in Falun Dafa.
In July 1999, the Communist regime launched a brutal persecution of Falun Gong. As a Dafa practitioner, I had benefited a lot from the practice and I knew I should tell people that Dafa is good. Therefore, I went to Beijing to appeal. Like many other practitioners, I was sent back to my hometown, and my company kept harassing me and pressuring me. However, I persisted in cultivating Dafa. I was forced to resign from my workplace and was detained in a forced labor camp multiple times.
Eliminate All Interference and Produce Truth-Clarification Materials with Righteous Thoughts
In 2007, I started making truth-clarification materials with some fellow practitioners. During the Olympic Games in Beijing and the World Expo in Shanghai, many practitioners were illegally arrested. So we were not producing enough materials for fellow practitioners to save sentient beings. My activities were being monitored and I was under a lot of pressure. However, as a Dafa practitioner, I knew I should do what Dafa needed us to do. I was committed to fulfilling my vows.
Master said,
“Dafa disciples are walking a divine path. Don't be affected by shifts in the ordinary world, seize the day to clarify the truth, save the world's people, clean out the rotten demons, and keep your thoughts and actions righteous.” (“Greetings,” 2004)
“That's because you are a cultivator: someone who is on a divine path and who is not controlled by the factors of ordinary people or low-level principles.” (“Teaching the Fa in the City of Los Angeles,” 2006)
I studied the Fa well and continued producing truth-clarification materials. Even when the persecution was severe, we did not stop making materials. We always provided fellow practitioners enough materials to save sentient beings. We did so because Master said,
“Carry on with what you would normally do. Whatever you would do, you should still just go about it as usual. That's because your every thought and whim, and each and every action, are affecting major things. No matter what big things are happening, pretend nothing is going on and just go about, as usual, doing what a Dafa disciple should do. This is the path you're taking today, and this is the [legacy of] mighty virtue you are leaving. The path you, the Dafa disciples, take, is how you have to cultivate as dictated by our cultivation way, and it absolutely cannot change with shifts in the ordinary world.” (“Teaching the Fa at the 2004 Washington DC Fa Conference”)
The evil factors do not want to be eliminated and thus often interfered with what we were doing. On October 1, 2009, I shared my experience with fellow practitioners in another area and encouraged them to save more sentient beings. I promised that I would offer them truth-clarification materials. However, when I was producing the materials, my printer encountered a problem, and I felt very uncomfortable, as if I had a heavy cold. I looked inward and discovered that I was not patient and always wanted to control other practitioners. Therefore, the old forces managed to take advantage of my loopholes. I tried to get rid of those attachments, and I bought a new printer. I had a high fever at night. When I was awake, I listened to Master's audio tapes of teaching the Fa. In the morning, I sent forth righteous thoughts and became totally fine. Practitioner A came to pick up the materials. Some interference occurred again. My phone and internet did not work. The fellow practitioner waited for half an hour.
Be Compassionate towards Fellow Practitioners and Save More People
The practitioners with whom I often cooperated had different cultivation states, and I tried to be compassionate towards them. We should not look down on each other, because our attachments will be let go of during Dafa cultivation.
Practitioner B was 77 years old and he lived by himself. He had done a few things to validate the Fa. Other practitioners often gave him Minghui Weekly, but he returned it to the practitioner after he finished reading it once. So practitioners did not want to give it to him anymore. Then I began to offer him Minghui Weekly, and I asked him to give it back to me after he read it. We should help him, even though he did not realize the importance of reading Minghui Weekly. I believed that as long as he wanted to be a practitioner, Dafa had the power to lead him onto a righteous path. Eventually, he did not return it anymore.
I invited him to join the Fa study group. He did not come initially, but later he did. He realized that he was behind in cultivation and was willing to be more diligent. He started to distribute truth-clarification materials and offer sentient beings salvation. He also encountered some physical tribulations, but he passed the tests with righteous thoughts. Although he was 77 years old, he walked really fast. Moreover, he looked younger. He once told me that when he was meditating one day, he felt as if his legs had disappeared and felt very comfortable. I was very happy for him.
Sometimes, practitioner B watched TV and agreed with some points that the Communist Party said about Falun Gong. Then he encountered some physical tribulations. I shared my experience with him, “What we are doing is the best thing in the world. Master asks us to save more sentient beings and there is no excuse for the evil to interfere with us. You'd better study the Fa well.” A few days later, he resumed going out to save sentient beings.
I suggest that we be compassionate to our fellow practitioners and try to help each other. Never look down on other practitioners. We are all practitioners of Falun Dafa and should not force other practitioners to do what we want. We need to be compassionate so that we can cooperate well and save more people.
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