(Clearwisdom.net) The first time I experienced the power of benevolence was one night after I had just begun to practice Falun Gong. That night, my husband's snoring was so loud that I couldn't fall asleep at all. If this had happened before I began to practice, I would have become very angry and grabbed his nose or woken him up. However, remembering that Master told us to be benevolent, I changed my mind, and instead thought, "His snoring is not on purpose." Thinking about my husband this way with benevolence, his snores became softer and softer, and at last even stopped.
Another time that I experienced the power of benevolence was in the middle of 2000. One director in my company, who had a positive attitude towards Dafa, told me, "A deputy Party secretary said in the meeting that he would like to talk with those people who were named by an informer as still practicing Falun Gong."
There were several Falun Gong practitioners in my company. Our job performance was very good. In addition, several practitioners among us, including an elderly man with skin cancer, had been sick for many years before practicing; however, after practicing Falun Gong, they became healthy again, and both their bodies and mental outlook were youthful. At that time, many people in the company told us they would learn Falun Gong in the future. Thus, a lot of people knew that Falun Gong is good. After July 20, 1999, when the CCP started to persecute Falun Gong, most leaders in the company chose to do little to involve their directors in the persecution. This kept our work environment free from the evil. However, there were still a few people who were afraid of the CCP's persecution campaign. Therefore, that deputy Party secretary, who was mainly in charge of Falun Gong issues, brought the above issue forward at the Party meeting because of the informer. In order to keep himself safe, the main director replied, "We have to talk with them because someone has brought forward this issue. If someone is a Party member, then he must stop practicing, but only if he's a Party member."
After we received this message, we all felt very angry at that deputy Party secretary. Then some people started to criticize his character, and talked about how he and his wife opposed Falun Gong. Hearing this, I felt more and more angry, but also more and more worried. The next day, when I was leaving work around noon, that deputy Party secretary walked in front of me. I felt very nervous, and despised him at the same time. I was surrounded by this negative energy, and I felt it hard to breathe. At this moment, I remembered Master's Fa, "good or evil comes from a person's spontaneous thought" (Lecture Four, Zhuan Falun) I needed to have benevolent thoughts. Therefore, I sent out a benevolent thought, "I definitely cannot let him commit a crime against Dafa; it's not good for him." Instantly I felt that the environment became clear again, and that nothing bad would happen. I walked past him and gave him a pleasant smile; he also smiled at me. From then on, he never brought up the issue to any practitioner, even at the Party meeting. In fact, no one mentioned this issue again.
This is the power of Dafa. At present, if we want to save sentient beings and truly save them, we need to do things with a totally unselfish and benevolent heart, and cherish every sentient being and every opportunity to save them. Only if we have these benevolent thoughts, will the power of Dafa appear, and can we save more sentient beings.
I had only such a limited realization at that time, and then the power of the Fa appeared. If we study the Fa well, cultivate ourselves well, and consider everything from the standpoint of the Fa, how great and powerful the manifestation of the Fa will be!
