(Clearwisdom.net) One day, as soon as I finished putting up a banner that reads "The world needs Truth-Compassion-Forbearance," I heard someone shout behind me: "Stop!" Right away, I began to feel uneasy, became alert and began to send forth righteous thoughts. When I turned my head, I saw a middle-aged woman smiling at me. I was still using my unkind heart to measure her, thinking, "She must be really happy for catching a 'big fish!'" I kept thinking about her with such a mindset.
She then began to talk. "I was afraid that I couldn't find anyone practicing Falun Gong, and I finally found one today! One of our villagers drove his truck uphill in order to transport coal, his big truck ended up turning upside down, but he was fine. Everyone was saying that was because he carried a keepsake with him that says 'Falun Gong is good.' My son is also a driver and he'd like to get one of those keepsakes too, but we've had trouble finding Falun Gong practitioners, so I began to pay attention to you guys, and today I finally found you. It's truly awesome!"
My nervousness finally subsided. I happened to have a few such keepsakes with me, so I gave all of them to her. I also began to clarify the truth to her, and help her entire family quit the evil CCP (Chinese Communist Party) and its affiliated organizations. However, I was not happy about myself. I felt bad for thinking about her, a sentient being hoping to be saved, with a bad heart and fear!
Coincidentally, a few days later, my 13-year-old son suddenly told my husband, "Do you know, Dad, what I miss most about my childhood? I miss Mom holding or carrying me with her on her bicycle to surrounding villages to hand out Falun Gong materials."
Actually, in more recent years, I tried not to tell him about handing out truth-clarification materials, because I was afraid that he would interfere with me and not understand what I was doing. Now, since he brought it up, I explained it to him. He became angry and began to loudly criticize me, "Alright! You have been hiding that for so many years! Why didn't you tell me?" While quietly sending forth righteous thoughts and cleaning up the evil behind him, I was complaining about him, but he was still angry and said, "Tell me, why didn't you tell me?"
I began to be moved again, and I had some fear, so I adjusted myself, then said to him very seriously, "Because you are not a practitioner and you don't understand what we do. I was afraid that you would try to stop me and that you would incur karma. I did all that for you!" He smiled and said to me, "Had you told me earlier, I'd have helped you, and it could have gone faster and safer".
My heart began to calm down again, however it still was not very happy. I again felt sad for my thinking about sentient beings with a bad heart and fear!
The following paragraph of the "2009 Washington DC International Fa Conference" touched the very depth of my soul:
"If a Dafa disciple's heart is unsteady, it will cause changes in his or her surroundings. When you have fear, for instance, you will find that the sentient beings around you are not quite right. When you change such that your presence is refreshing and uplifting to people, and your mind becomes broad and full of optimism, you will find the things around you to be correspondingly different. When clarifying the truth, when validating the Fa, and when encountering challenges as you do things, adjust yourself and look at things with righteous thoughts. It might just prove to be effective."
Sure enough, our thoughts indeed impact sentient beings and the environment surrounding us! Teacher said:
"When you have fear, for instance, you will find that the sentient beings around you are not quite right." ("2009 Washington DC International Fa Conference")
I was deeply shaken by this! Everything that happens today in ordinary society is the result of practitioners' thoughts.
Let's follow what Teacher told us. Let's cultivate and be in high spirits, be broad-minded and optimistic, adjust ourselves for the better, and view things with righteous thoughts.
Then our environment will surely change! One should not always wait for Teacher, who has mighty power, to end this persecution.
I feel that this is all I can express. It may not be to the exact point of what I really wanted to say. Fellow practitioners, please kindly point out anything inappropriate.
