(Clearwisdom.net) Before I began cultivation, my business was at a standstill, and sometimes I lost money from it. After I started cultivating, I followed Dafa's principles and let things happen naturally both in my daily life and my business. As a result, everything has been working out very well.
1. Working with people that don't cultivate
Doing business means working with partners. Once I was traveling with a friend looking for business opportunities. While on the road, I told him about Dafa and the benefits from practicing it. I also explained to him about the lies told by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) about Dafa. He agreed with what I said and learned to recite, “An Upright Person” from the book of poems Hong Yin II. He indicated that he would like to partner with me. About half a month later he said to me, “Because you practice Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance I would like to partner with you. I will follow what you say and shall not waste your time. When I go out to look for business, I will follow your direction.”
Even to this day he continues to listen to me, and I listen to Teacher. We started with a small investment and gradually moved into bigger and bigger ones. Before entering into a business deal, I applied the Fa to make sure I was in line with its principles. I also spoke to my friend based on Dafa principles and he was receptive to what I said. The business decisions we made were based on Dafa. Things have worked out very well.
Teacher said in “ Fa Teaching Given at the Epoch Times Meeting, 2009,”
“I don’t have any misgivings about Dafa disciples making big money. I’ll be happy when your businesses grow even bigger and you have ever greater wealth. My only concern is that you won’t achieve this. If you all had great financial means, wouldn’t you have greater strength to draw upon for these things that Dafa disciples do to validate the Fa? Wouldn’t that be outstanding? I have never told you to be like those mountain-dwelling cultivators, who’d rather go penniless. That’s because you cannot be like that when your cultivation is carried out in ordinary human society. I never told you to be like that. Rather, I have always said that Dafa’s cultivation is done in a manner that maximally conforms to the way of ordinary human society. But that said, you mustn’t go to the other extreme now. I’m not telling you to get obsessed with making money from this day forth. (Everyone laughs) It would be a problem if you stopped doing the things that Dafa disciples do. You have to do those things.”
2. By following Dafa you won't lose what is yours
In conducting business, problems will occur, and ordinary people may not be able to understand our perspective. I believe that my path of cultivation has been designed by Teacher and it is the best thing for me. Any situation that looks bad is not real. I just follow Teacher's arrangement. Whenever I took this attitude, Teacher would help me find a solution.
Teacher also said in “Teaching the Fa at the Conference in Vancouver, Canada, in 2003,”
“Also, a lot of our students are concerned about many things, all kinds of stuff. In fact, once you think about those things your realm has dropped. Don’t think about anything, and don’t worry about anything. Master is compassionate, and he’ll definitely arrange for you what’s the best. (Applause) You don’t need to think, “That’s Master being merciful to us,” because it’s what you’ve achieved through cultivation, and it results from your own mighty virtue. That’s why Master does it for you.”
Friends often asked me, “Why don't you tell me what to do?” I replied, “I don't have anything to say because it is Teacher who has arranged everything. What you are doing now is actually a part of my cultivation process. There is a problem when I fail to remove an attachment. After I do, success will again be ours.”
When we were about to finish a job, we saw a million yuan transferred into our account. For us that was a lot of money, but later we heard that part of it was taken away by someone. My thinking is that it is a crime to take money from practitioners, because it adversely impacts validating the Fa and saving sentient beings. Whatever is ours will come to us, however, because Teacher has made proper arrangements.
The next day, someone called and asked, “How much more should I pay you?” We were taken by surprise. My partner said that he would go along with what I decided. I told him that we won't lose what should be ours. We asked for another million yuan. Within a few minutes the money showed up in our account. My partner felt that we must have asked for less than what we should. I told him that the amount was not important. What was important was for us to follow the Fa and Teacher's arrangement. For us the deal is already a very big one. We must not do anything that violates the Fa.
About the additional money my partner said to me, “Your practice of Dafa is truly remarkable. What seems impossible happened as you indicated.” I replied, “You may not know it, but everything in this world comes from Dafa. Ordinary people want to enjoy life, but practitioners want to validate the Fa and save sentient beings. The objectives are different.” He told me that he knew what to do now. I said to him, “This deal is not over yet. It is just a part of my cultivation process. Teacher gave me what corresponded to my level of understanding. The final amount is yet to be determined. ” I believe this project of ours is responsible for saving countless numbers of beings belonging to some heavenly body. Our activity will set an example for human beings in future generations.
We did not rely on taking shortcuts using our contacts in this project, as business is normally conducted in China, and followed only Teacher's arrangement. My partner understood how great Dafa was. When he went to different departments to review this project, he recited in his mind, “Falun Dafa is good.” I sent forth righteous thoughts at home and prevented ordinary people from committing crimes against Dafa. My partner called me to let me know where he was and I knew what I should do. The answers we got were what we expected. There were things that were not clear to us, but after a few days things turned out to be better than expected. After the review was completed and taxes paid, they paid us another million yuan. It is Teacher's arrangement that led to this result.
Based on Teacher's guidance I corrected every thought and, by understanding the Fa from the Fa I disintegrated the old forces' arrangement. Teacher said in “Fa-Lecture at the Conference in Florida, U.S.A., 2001,”
“And in order to enable you to do cultivation practice and improve, I've infused this Fa throughout with every element that can enable a person to improve and ascend through cultivation. As long as you study, any problem can be solved. As long as you cultivate and as long as you're able to understand the Fa from the Fa, there's nothing you can't achieve.”
Being financially sufficient goes beyond reaching a certain living standard. We must remove the financial persecution arranged by the old forces at different levels in order to be able to save more sentient beings.
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