(Clearwisdom.net) I started practicing Falun Dafa less than two years ago, and under Teacher's compassionate guidance, I have made it through each tribulation with a righteous mind. Many things have happened during my cultivation. I would like to share a few recent experiences regarding our responsibilities during the Fa-rectification period.
1. An Open Withdrawal from the Communist Youth League
At the end of last year, with a righteous mind, my mother was released from a forced labor camp. At around the same time, she declared her resignation from the Chinese Communist Party. When she was in the forced labor camp, the guards there persecuted her using the excuse that Communist Party members were not allowed to practice Falun Gong. At the time, I understood that withdrawing from the Communist Party was my mother's righteous action, and I never thought about withdrawing from the Communist Youth League myself. In December, when the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party was published, I did not read it, and only heard that many people had withdrawn from the Party and League after reading the Nine Commentaries published by the Epoch Times. I immediately declared my withdrawal from the League on the Epoch Times website, using my real name. That afternoon I found out from my work unit the procedure to withdraw from the League, and told my director about my withdrawal. I checked the League Charter, and it listed two ways to withdraw from the League. The first one is if a member fails to pay League fees and does not participate in any activities for six months, he or she will be automatically considered to have withdrawn from the League. The second way is to send in a written statement, which requires stating clearly the reasons for withdrawal. The director preferred that I use the first method, but I picked the second method without any hesitation. At the time I did not think too much about what I should or should not do. I only knew that I needed to validate Dafa. But I wondered how I would write the League withdrawal statement. I understood that as a Dafa practitioner, no matter what I did, that I should first of all validate Dafa and save sentient beings. Therefore I wrote in my League withdrawal announcement about how I had suffered from the evil persecution, and I stated that this was the reason for my withdrawal. I did not want to make up an excuse in my announcement because if I could not firmly validate Dafa, I would not be qualified as a Dafa practitioner.
Before I handed in my announcement, I was a little scared because I had no idea how the directors would treat me. Although I have been clarifying the truth to them all the time with a righteous mind and with righteous actions, in the past when they just understood a little, they would be intimated by the 610 Office, which does all it can to intimidate them, including interfering with their job stability or possibility of promotion. In addition, these officials were family members of high-ranking government officials. Many of them were the relatives of administrative, judicial, and legislative officials, so the environment in the unit was quite evil. I knew this was due to arrangements by the evil. Nonetheless I was not too concerned, and I continued to eliminate the evil elements behind them.
When I delivered my announcement, I immediately felt that my righteous thoughts were strong. I just had one thought at the time. Regardless of the result, my heart to validate Dafa would not change. I then sent in my League withdrawal announcement and felt very calm. Many colleagues asked me why I suddenly withdrew from the League when everything seemed to be going well. I told them the reason and let them read my withdrawal statement. Later, the League subsidiary secretary told me that after the directors met to study my withdrawal, they accepted my withdrawal and chose not report it to the higher authorities.
2. Walking Our Paths Righteously
At every year's end, all department personnel must write a self-assessment, and usually everyone just copies each other's assessment. The content is the same old nonsense. This year my self-assessment was a little different. I wrote down my experience of how I do my work based on the requirements of Dafa, the standard of "Zhen, Shan, Ren" (Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance). Although the content was short, it summed up a thousand words. I battled with myself while I was writing the assessment, and at the end I concluded that I will not do anything that does not validate Dafa! The unit did not want to accept it at first. None of the directors wanted to take my case, so finally the assessment was presented to the director of my department. First he used a soft method, a "heart to heart talk", and told me that my self assessment did not meet the requirements, and that "Zhen, Shan, Ren" had nothing to do with the work. I replied to him, "I have followed the principles of Zhen, Shan, Ren to cultivate. How do they have nothing to do with my work? To do the work well, self understanding and moral standards are fundamental. If the morals of a person are not good, could that person do his job well?" Since he was not able to convince me, he approached me the hard way and told me that I would not be able to receive a job assessment at the year-end review, and that the entire department would not be able to obtain a good assessment because of me. I immediately denied the arrangement of the old forces and told him, "Everyone sees my performance. If I did not do my work well, I would have nothing to say. However I cannot accept it if my self-assessment is negated due to practicing Falun Gong. I will write it the same way if I have to rewrite it ten thousand times. It will not change." At the end of the year, I was graded as being "competent for the position."
