Righteousness and Compassion Change People’s Views

(Minghui.org) I heard about Falun Dafa as early as 1997, but I didn’t start to cultivate right away due to my poor enlightenment quality. In 1998, I happened to read a Falun Dafa newsletter with several practitioners’ experience-sharing articles. I was so touched when I read about how they sacrificed for others that I told myself, “I want to be like them.” That is how I started to cultivate.

Over the past 20 years, I have been tempered by cultivating myself and being persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). I have experienced the pain as well as the happiness of validating the Fa. Below are a few experiences I would like to share.

My Cultivation Environment Changed When I Did My Work Honorably

I worked in accounting, human resources, and cafeteria management for a business. I was in charge of cash flow and purchasing for our cafeteria that fed our employees from out of town in the winter of 2004. Thinking about how hard they worked and how stressful it would be to not be able to live with their families, I tried my best to provide them with the best possible food, including protein, vegetables, and so on.

However, our accountant and chef didn’t agree that I should do that. They said they’d made more money before I came. I thought, “That’s because you hardly put any meat in any of the dishes and often served rice and soup.” The accountant and chef told me that I didn’t need to worry about those employees that worked directly with the customers, because they could make extra money from their customers. Plus, they could get better food when they took their customers out to eat. For the employees who didn’t deal directly with customers, making extra money by “playing” the company was expected. I realized they had been making money on the side by providing substandard food for the cafeteria, which was certainly not in line with the required behavior for a Falun Dafa practitioner.

The accountant and the chef were older, and they’d both left their families behind to work for the company, so I did my best to provide tasty and nutritious food without spending too much. If I felt that I had spent more than I should have, I used my own money, but I didn’t want to lower the quality of food for the other employees. When the owner of the company later found out what I did, he also told me that I didn’t need to worry about those out-of-town employees, because they had good food when they treated their customers in restaurants. This is how people make extra money in today’s China, and they don’t realize it isn’t right. However, they did witness how unselfish I was and how hard I tried to improve the quality of food in our cafeteria.

I was later relocated to company headquarters, where the owner asked me to manage the cafeteria and improve the employees’ benefits. I think he had changed how he treated his employees after seeing what I did, and I was happy for him. The quality of food in our cafeteria at headquarters improved after I took over doing the purchasing. I also spent time cleaning the pots and utensils and got rid of years of dirty built-up. I clarified the truth of Falun Dafa to other employees when I got a chance to chat with them and helped them quit the CCP and any affiliated organizations they’d once joined. All my coworkers seemed to respect me and were very polite to me.

Compassion Touches People’s Hearts

When I started working in sales, the accountant for that department showed some resistance and created a trial for me. She was older and more experienced than I. One time, I accidentally double-reported a transaction. After the report was submitted, I got a call from our accountant at headquarters, asking me for details about that error. I told him that I’d accidentally recorded the same transaction twice but the final balance was correct. I was embarrassed and nervous, but he didn’t give me a hard time about it.

After the phone call, the accountant in our department told me, somewhat embarrassed, that she had known about the error before she submitted it but didn’t alert me, because she thought I had been sent from headquarters to inspect them. I didn’t hold a grudge against her and continued to cooperate with her at work and be respectful and care for her.

Our workload increased near the end of the year. Accountants had to finish all the inventories and all the daily, monthly, and annual reports and submit them to headquarters by the end of the year. We had no computer at that time, so all the work had to be done manually. Other senior accountants had worked until late every night for a while to clear their daily reports and monthly reports so that they could finish on time at the end of the year. Our department accountant didn’t handle it like that, so it was impossible for her to finish everything no matter how hard she tried. She became overwhelmed and anxious.

Seeing how helpless she was, I let go of what she did to me in the past and worked until late at night to help her with inventories and other reports. We finally finished balancing and reporting on the night of the last working day. She was so thankful that she gave me a hug with tears in her eyes. I told her that what I did was based on the principles of Falun Dafa. She agreed that Falun Dafa was great and decided to quit all the communist organizations she had joined.

I’m fortunate to have benefited so much from Falun Dafa. My family life has become harmonious, my past resentments have been resolved, I have a bigger heart, and my body has been purified. I hope more people will see the power and wisdom of Falun Dafa.