Looking Within to Rectify Myself While Doing Media Work

(Clearwisdom.net) I have been involved with media work for New Tang Dynasty Television (NTDTV) for over six months. Even though I have not done a large amount of work, I have gained some new perspectives. I write my personal experiences and thoughts here to share with fellow practitioners:

Initial Tests in Doing Media Work

Another practitioner asked me to join NTDTV in August 2010. Before then, I had been involved in clarifying the truth about Dafa to tourists at local attractions. I asked her to give me some time to think it over. Although I knew that Teacher had told us to do whatever is needed to clarify the truth about Dafa, I hesitated since I was not sure if I wanted to be involved.

This practitioner approached me again telling me that doing media work would not prevent me from clarifying the truth, so I finally agreed. When I learned that I needed a computer dedicated just to the media work, I hesitated again. My husband is not a practitioner, and I wondered if he would let me buy another computer since we had one at home already.

After my husband came home that day, I told him that I needed a computer. He immediately asked why we needed another computer since we already owned one. I did not answer his question right away, but thought about it and found out that I had not been righteous myself. Therefore, I began to send forth righteous thoughts to void that thought. In the meantime, I thought if I was supposed to work on media projects, nobody should interfere and block me from doing that. In addition, I also cleared-out the evil interference that had influenced my husband in preventing me from working on this project.

The next morning, my husband told me on the phone that he had withdrawn the money from the bank for me to buy the computer. I knew at that moment that once my thoughts were righteous, Teacher would resolve everything for me.

My First Impression of Media Work

After I installed all the necessary tools into my new computer, the fellow practitioner told me that my job was to “polish articles,” and she added, “It’s like looking for faults.” The words, “looking for faults” startled me. There are different tasks in media work: Writing reports, interviewing people, and promoting, but I had never heard about tasks that required someone to “look for faults.” After she explained the nature of the task to me, I smiled. However, I knew that it was not a coincidence. It must be true that Teacher knew that I had tended to find fellow practitioners’ faults, and because of that, he made the arrangement for me to work on my attachment. I must pay attention to this mentality in the future.

Breaking Trough the Conventional Thinking by Melding into the Projects

After only a few days, the fellow practitioner asked me to write reports and upload images. Writing was not hard for me, but I had never written news articles before. I was not sure if I could do a good job. At that moment, other practitioners encouraged me and told me that if I studied the Fa constantly, I should soon be able to learn how to write news articles. Heeding their advice, I made sure that I practiced the exercises and studied the Fa every day. I also sent forth righteous thoughts before doing a live report.

To work in media, an ordinary person must have a degree in a related field with past experience and good social skills. Luckily, for us, as long as we are practitioners and have solid faith in Teacher and the Fa, we are given the wisdom needed to do the media tasks well.

By following the Fa, I have obtained righteous thoughts. The fellow practitioner also told me about her experiences in writing news articles. With practitioners’ support and encouragement, I began to write. I could not write well for the first few days, and other practitioners had to correct many mistakes in my articles.

Before one article was ready to be published, the fellow practitioner told me to write the reporter’s name. Since she had helped me correct the article, I asked her to use her name on the by-line. However, she told me that it was not important whose name was signed on the article, our task was to save sentient beings. I felt very bad about myself after realizing what mattered the most was to write the articles well to save people. Searching inside, I learned that I must eliminate my attachment to emphasizing results and validating myself. After that, I stopped thinking like that because the more pure we are, the better articles we can produce.

Writing News Reports Gives Me the Opportunity to Eliminate the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Culture Hidden inside Me

After picking up a topic one day and reading all the sources of information, I told myself that I would be able write a good article. Then, I searched materials related to this topic and spent a total of two hours writing the article. After I submitted my article for proofreading, I happily recollected what was written in the article because I believed that I had done a good job. However, the fellow practitioner told me that nobody would have written a news report in that manner.

The fellow practitioner’s feedback gave me a warning which helped me to search inside myself. I remembered what Teacher said in “Fa Teaching at the 2009 Greater New York International Fa Conference,”

“However, per the old forces' sinister arrangements, this wicked-Party-perpetrated persecution of the world--and especially of the Chinese people--that was wrought by the old forces so as to supposedly "help Dafa disciples achieve Consummation" is unmatched in its severity. By corrupting people and having them commit sins against Dafa, isn't it pushing the Chinese people towards destruction? Even though it was the old forces that arranged this vile persecution, it is nonetheless on account of Dafa disciples that the Chinese people have endured such disgrace and suffering. So from that perspective, shouldn't you go and save them? Shouldn't Dafa disciples open their hearts wide? Aren't even those who carry out the persecution, with the exception of the head of the evil, themselves targeted by the persecution?”

It is true that I must follow Teacher’s requirement and treat every sentient being with compassion instead of pushing them downward. But while sitting in front of my computer and thinking about the entire process, I found out that I still had a strong attachment to competition hidden in the different dimensions in my environment. It was this attachment that had blocked me from saving people with compassion.

After finding my own shortcomings from the perspective of the Fa, and with the help from a fellow practitioner who calmly told me how to write news reports, I finished writing the report thirty minutes later.