(Clearwisdom.net)
Making Falun Gong Materials and Saving Sentient Beings
Today I went to an older practitioner’s home and saw her eating noodles wearing a thick winter jacket. She said she had spent the entire morning making truth-clarifying materials. Instead of returning to her son’s home where she lived, she went to group Fa study in the afternoon. She moved to her son’s home because her former home was slated to be torn down. Since she does not have the space at her son's residence to make informational materials, she often returns to her old house to make the materials. It still stands due to the developer's lack of funds.
Being winter in northern China, the house is very cold and there is no water or electricity. I saw this senior practitioner, who is nearly 80, wearing a thick winter coat and hat, her face blue from the cold. Yet she was eating the freshly-cooked noodles with a smile on her shining face and seemed full of life. The noodle dish was the only warm thing in the house, and even it turned cold as we talked. Seeing this, I felt a great sense of admiration well up deep inside me for this older practitioner. I enlightened to one layer of meaning when Master said that the Dafa disciples were “amazing.” It was not just a note of encouragement.
This practitioner is truly amazing. She was illiterate. When she first started to learn Zhuan Falun, she didn't recognize many words, but she can now read all the Dafa books. She also has such high enlightenment quality that I, a university lecturer, can't begin to compare with her.
In addition, she was the first in our village to start making truth-clarifying materials. In the early days, not many practitioners knew how to work on the Internet. In all kinds of weather she had to travel very far away to fetch the proofs for printing. Over the years, she went through several copy machines to continually maintain the clarity and quality of her materials. It goes without saying that she achieved positive results in saving sentient beings with these materials that were made with all her heart. It has not been easy to safely continue her work all this time.
The Story of 350 Yuan
Practitioners started to arrive to study the Fa in the afternoon, one of whom offered this older practitioner 350 yuan to use for making materials. She refused to take it, saying that she had enough funds to make the materials. She was aware that the family of the practitioner offering the money had left their hometown, had no proper home, and were going through some hardship in their lives.
The practitioner presented reasons why the older practitioner should accept the money. She said their lives had turned around this year. Her two children were now adults and had found work. These adult children each gave their mother 100 yuan from their salaries for making materials. The practitioner’s husband’s company had given him a 200-yuan subsidy, so she took out 100 yuan from the subsidy, along with another 50 yuan given to her by her kids, and asked that the funds be used to make materials to save people. She said, “We are practitioners. As long as we have enough food and clothing, what else is there to buy?”
This 350 yuan carries the good wishes, as well as the blood and sweat of the entire family. We persuaded the senior practitioner to accept the money, and at the same time we were so touched. There were no words to express our feelings. Tens of thousands of venerable and admirable practitioners are selflessly and silently contributing to the saving of sentient beings under the guidance of Master.
