(Clearwisdom.net) In the past I thought that respecting Master and the Fa simply meant sitting upright while studying the Fa and holding the book with both hands.
Recently, my daughter met with many xinxing tests at work. In particular, she was suffering while trying to get rid of jealousy. The following is what happened. My daughter works as a teacher at a private English school. Normally, she needs to first undergo training and teach a few classes for free before she can move on to teach classes for pay. During training, all the supervisors and other teachers said that her English level is better than the other new teachers who came later. Everyone believed that they could have my daughter teach paid classes first. However, the exact opposite happened. This immediately exposed my daughter's jealousy and she was filled with grievances. She refused to go to work, and became very worn out throughout the process. Through studying the Fa and looking inward, she was able to identify and rectify her attachments and she let go of her attachments. Indeed, soon after, another turn of events occurred. She began teaching paid classes and was assigned to even more paid classes than other teachers.
One day my daughter told me, “Mom, Master has gone to great lengths to arrange this situation to get rid of my jealousy. Putting my colleagues beside me is to get rid of my jealousy. Now that the tribulation is overcome and I've let go of my attachments, this colleague told me that she's going to quit. Master has truly given so much to help us improve.”
After my daughter said this to me, I immediately realized that if everyone of us disciples can truly regard every test and tribulation with seriousness, we will not let Master down after all his hard work to arrange tribulations for us to improve. When tribulations arrive, we will definitely be able to use the Fa to rectify our thoughts and actions. Let us not miss the opportunities to improve. Every tribulation and every test is a new opportunity for us to raise our level. Treating seemingly bad things as good things and improving based on the Fa is a demonstration of our respect for Master and the Fa.
