Cultivating Benevolence By a practitioner in Europe
(Clearwisdom.net) This summer, I worked at a restaurant near Edinburgh. Most of the staff in the restaurant were
from China, and they did not understand English. They needed help in every aspect of their lives. I
was considerate of their needs and often took the initiative to help them. Doing Dafa work and
helping others often seemed to create a conflict in time, but I tried my best to accomplish both.
Every time this happened, I was happy to give up my own things to help them, or to arrange another
time for them. Of course I also suffered a lot and I silently withstood the tribulation. They could
see this and were deeply moved. They warmly call me "big brother of Falun." Teacher said that the environment is created by us. Gradually they have been able to see the
goodness of Falun Gong practitioners through my actions. Someone said to me, "I think Falun
Gong is really good." At the time of Edinburgh Falun Gong conference, I had known them only for
three weeks; however, they voluntarily cooked for our practitioners every day. Similarly, when we do Dafa work, if fellow practitioners need help, what should we do? I remember
an article under "To Fellow Practitioners" on Clearwisdom net that said, "Every
thought by every Dafa disciple is being watched by countless Gods. When encountering something,
everyone might have considered things quite thoroughly and carefully based on individual
understandings. If we can think about whether it is possible to reach the result that we want to
achieve using the other party's suggestion, consider their ideas before ours and carry out the task
together as one, then this thought is displaying our realm. The Buddhas, Daos and Gods in the
heavens see this as very important, yet as for how this specific task is carried out, it actually
becomes secondary." Another article written by a young practitioner with his Celestial eye open
said, "The last test is to test cooperation between practitioners as a whole body. Only when
practitioners perfectly cooperate with each other, can we achieve better results. Certainly we can
cooperate well, because we are great Dafa practitioners." Posting date: 12/2/2002 |