(Clearwisdom.net) My work at a Dafa materials production site began in 2003. To keep up with demand, I also made materials for practitioners in other areas. I frequently moved around the various materials preparation sites. When helping with technical issues, I realized that the crux of problems at materials preparation sites has to do to with cultivation-related issues of the involved practitioner. Local practitioners and I exchanged experiences. I explained that in order to help with improvement in technical issues, we have to first help practitioners improve their xinxing. Whenever technical problems require help, a few of us sincerely exchange and share cultivation experiences based on the Fa and improve our xinxing, and thus also improve technical expertise.

While helping each other at the production sites, we should also cultivate away attachments and emotions. I frequently go to one particular site. The practitioner gave me homegrown vegetables each time I helped him solve his problem, and I was too polite to refuse them. But after awhile, after one of these visits, on the way home I saw a small pothole in the road. I was driving very fast and it was late. As I drove over the pothole, I heard a sound. It was my right tire bursting. After changing the tire I looked inward. After calculating the expenses--gasoline, the ruined tire, and traffic fines--it came to one thousand and one hundred yuan. I had attachments and thus had loopholes. When I went to other sites these incidents didn't occur. I sensed that Dafa matters were sacred and pure and should not carry any attachments.

We lost the group Fa study environment following the onset of the persecution in 1999. Practitioners had severe karma elimination. Their righteous thoughts were weak, and they didn't pass their tribulations. To help practitioners strengthen their righteous thoughts, we decided to go to a fellow practitioner's house to study the Fa together. We re-started group Fa study in 2003, and have continued ever since. Through group Fa study, those who had lagged behind became diligent again, allowing them to concentrate while studying the Fa. Their illness karma disappeared. Those who dared not explain the facts to the public began doing so. This resulted in the whole body improving.

Establishing a School and Validating the Fa

In 2001, my wife and I set up an arts school. Our school's mission was to promote Chinese culture and use the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance to educate children. The painting of historical figures--for example, Han Xin and Yue Fei--teaches children about the principles of how to be a better person. When teaching children to write, we copy the poems from Master's book of grand verses, Hong Yin.

After the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party was published, Fa-rectification entered a new period. We weren't rational when speaking with students about Falun Gong and the persecution and urging them to renounce their Chinese Communist Party (CCP) membership. There were loopholes. Students and parents misunderstood us, and enrollment dropped by half.

I also shared experiences with a few practitioners and they shared with me from the standpoint of the Fa. One thing became clear to me. We should be more rational while explaining the facts in class and not be in a hurry for results. Also, I had to abandon my concern for enrollment numbers and my diminished income, thus letting go of my attachment to financial gain. After enrollment numbers dropped, time available for Fa study increased. I should thus seize the time to study more Fa. I commented during experience sharing with practitioners, "Although I set up a school, I am not attached to it. What I implied was that I didn't have an attachment at all, but I have not yet reached the stage where I can let go of this attachment completely."

Master said,

"Cultivation itself is not painful--the key lies in your inability to let go of ordinary human attachments. Only when you are about to let go of your reputation, interests, and feelings will you feel pain." ("True Cultivation" from Essentials for Further Advancement)

Truly needing to let go of our attachments is very painful and difficult.

I realized recently that my cultivation has lagged, and I have fallen behind on Master's Fa-rectification path. We strengthened our Fa study and are now waking up at 3:50 a.m. to practice the exercises. I also make it a point to send righteous thoughts at the four daily times. If I miss, I make up for it. When I send righteous thoughts to purify myself, I add that I will remove the barriers within myself that are preventing me from telling more people the facts and from urging them to renounce their CCP membership, and that I will overcome the hurdles that prevent me from offering sentient beings salvation and telling them the truth about Falun Gong.