(Minghui.org) The 21st China Fahui (the annual Online Experience Sharing Conference for Falun Dafa practitioners in China) published 43 cultivation sharing articles. Many practitioners in Europe, after reading the articles, were inspired to do better in their own cultivation. The following are some of their sharings.
Ms. Lin, who lives in Germany, focused on reading the sharing articles about how to clarify the truth to family members. Her only son lives in China and his boss kept pressuring him to become a member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). She hoped that her son was strong enough to resist the supposed benefits the CCP offered its members.
After reading “China Fahui | My Kindness Changed My Husband,” Ms. Lin felt quite emotional. “After I became a Falun Dafa practitioner, I was able to interact with my son with kindness, and I guided him with traditional values. It was only in this way that I was able to reach him and turn him from a rebellious, arrogant youth into a righteous man with a sense of justice and responsibility.”
Ms. Lin raised her son by herself, and spoiled him with all kinds of expensive gifts, while spending little time with him. As he grew older, he became rebellious and irresponsible. He even sent her an email telling her to stop talking to him.
After Ms. Lin became a practitioner and read the teachings of Falun Dafa, she started to treat her son with Forbearance and Compassion. She emailed him birthday cards, and her son replied with genuine happiness. She stopped nagging him, and instead often sent him classical stories about traditional values. He replied, saying that he enjoyed the stories, and even made comments about them. Several years went by and her son accepted the truth about Falun Dafa, and was able to adhere to traditional values on important issues.
One year, her son’s workplace encouraged the employees to join the CCP, and he was the only senior member who hadn’t joined. His boss even invited him to his home for dinner during the New Year and told him that someone could complete the application for him and he just needed to sign it. His boss told him that he could get a promotion and a 5,000-yuan (US$683) raise per month for joining. Her son really struggled with his decision. Without joining the CCP, he could neither get promoted, nor qualify for housing, pay raises and bonuses. To make things worse, due to the special work he did, he also risked being fired.
Ms. Lin’s son called her, and she was pained to see his mental struggle. But she calmed down and let go of her attachment to family, and focused on what was best for him. “Think about it: is your life worth merely 5,000 yuan? How would you feel if one day the divine eliminated the CCP and took your life with it?” Her son replied, “You have already told me all this. It isn’t about the benefits I’d get, it’s about the pressure they’re putting on me.” She asked him to think about it carefully.
Her son’s boss invited him to his home after the New Year and kept pushing him to join the Party. He steadfastly refused. His boss asked if it was because his mother practiced Falun Dafa and told him not to join the CCP. He said, “I listen to her because she makes sense.” His boss was outraged and told him, “I’ve been protecting you all these years; otherwise, you’d have already been fired for not joining the CCP.” Her son held his ground.
Consequently he didn’t get a promotion, pay raise, or housing. He told his mother, “I told my boss that I don’t need his protection. My mother protects me, and yes, she practices Falun Dafa.”
“I asked my son to do what is best for him, and to stay away from evil,” Ms. Lin said. “If I had not thoroughly clarified the truth to him over the years, he would not have been able to resist the pressure and temptation, and would have joined the CCP.”
Neven is a professor from Croatia. He was touched after reading “China Fahui | Being Kind to Others from the Bottom of My Heart,” in which the author talked about how she selflessly took care of her mother-in-law, and helped her daughters-in-law, relatives and neighbors see that Falun Dafa is good.
Neven said, “Being a good person is the basis and starting point of cultivation; we prioritize others and not our own self interests. Being selfless also means putting oneself in others’ shoes, and not looking at things from one’s own selfish viewpoint.
“If we strive to be kind and selfless, we’ll improve in the process, because cultivation means not accusing or asking others to change to fit our demands,” Neven said. “The reason that it’s hard for us to change ourselves is that we are attached to self, and without removing that attachment, one cannot improve in cultivation.”
Jianluka from Germany was inspired after reading “China Fahui | The Environment Improved After I Eliminated My Deep-Seated Notions,” because it helped him realize he has the same issue.
In the article, the author ran into a former coworker, Tang, who used to be his subordinate, and learned that he’d made a lot money since they parted. The author couldn’t suppress his jealousy, until one day another coworker told him that Tang made a fortune because he scammed people in his sales business.
All of a sudden the author felt sorry for Tang, and it was at that moment he saw his rampant jealousy. It took him a long time to rise above his jealousy and overcome his anger, even after Master showed him how ridiculous his supervisor acted for being jealous of another supervisor. The author realized that it was hard to remove jealousy, because its removal on the surface means an infinite number of beings in other dimensions are rectified and saved.
Jianluka said that he often ran into similar tests regarding personal interests. He also saw how the CCP has made society so degenerate that it is hard to cultivate in that environment.
After the author relinquished his attachment, his supervisor also stopped complaining about the other supervisor and they became friends again. From then on, whatever tribulations the author ran into, he would see it as Master’s arrangement for him, and had no complaints.
Jianluka said that he used to complain a lot. “I didn’t think I was complaining to Master, it was just about daily matters. However the daily matters are arranged by Master, and complaining about them means complaining to Master.” He also realized that the illusion of illness or other signs were Master showing him his attachments.