[Japanese Minghui] Cultivating Myself While Coordinating Japanese Minghui

(Minghui.org)

Greetings, Master!Greetings, fellow practitioners!

During my 23-year-long cultivation journey, I had not been a project coordinator before, but a practitioner called me in July 2019 asking if I could coordinate Japanese Minghui. From what he said, I could tell this was very important. Although I hardly knew anything about it, I knew it was Master’s arrangement, so I accepted without hesitation. I thus began to improve Japanese Minghui in areas that I thought were appropriate. I did not realize this would be so challenging. But with help from Master, Japanese Minghui has grown.

1. Increasing Translators and Polishers

Initially, it was difficult for Japanese Minghui to even publish five articles per day, because we lacked translators and secondary polishers. A secondary polisher had been working too much and had to polish four or five articles per day. The team had tried to change the situation before, but rather than adding people they only made adjustments with the existing staff. I thought the only way to change the situation was to add translators and polishers. This had also been the plan of the previous coordinator, but it had not been easy to achieve this. After I shared this thought during a meeting, a practitioner in the coordination team who hosted the discussions asked me to find additional practitioners for this. To avoid losing face, I did not argue and decided to take on the task. I had no experience coordinating such activities and I also had fear about making phone calls. But I began to bite the bullet and started to contact practitioners anyway.

As I was trying my best to look for people, I heard from another practitioner that the meeting host had told the polishing team that he opposed adding any additional practitioners. I thought if one practitioner opposed my plan, the interference in other dimensions might not be much. If the polishers also had the same thoughts after they talked with meeting host, the interference for me would be much greater. So some resentment arose in me toward the host.

I knew that if I had that attachment, I would not be able to find suitable personnel, so I tried to eliminate the attachment while I continued to look. I called practitioners that I knew previously, and I received some recommendations from others. A local practitioner said she had been having group Fa study with a practitioner from Tokyo. When she mentioned the name, I realized that practitioner was a native Japanese. I obtained her contact information and called her. The practitioner was happy to become a polisher for Minghui and she has played an important role since then.

Before traveling out of town to help with Shen Yun performances, I remembered another practitioner in Kyushu and planned to contact her when I returned. When I came back one month later and logged a file with an updated contact list of translators and polishers, I noticed her name had already been added there. I immediately realized it was Master’s arrangement and, with two palms together in heshi, I thanked Master for the help. From this, I realized that while we assist Master with Fa-rectification, when we disciples plan to do something, Master can help make arrangements in other dimensions. As long as we do not have any attachments and follow Master’s arrangements, we will be able to succeed. So just like this, several additional practitioners joined the Japanese Minghui team as translators and polishers. Our daily published articles increased from five to eight.

2. Forming a Media Team

People these days don’t really like reading, but Japanese Minghui only had articles. After someone visited the site, he or she may not stay long if the content is unappealing. To enrich the content of Minghui, I decided to add Minghui Radio and videos in Japanese.

I had no background in such technology myself, so I asked a practitioner in the coordination team for help. “I don’t know it either. Maybe you can reach out to others,” the practitioner replied. So instead of laying back, I took action and made it happen.

To avoid disrupting the operations of the existing Japanese Minghui, I began recruiting from outside the team. Starting from the media team coordinator,I found practitioners one-by-one who could record audio files, insert captions, add music, and do high-quality translations. By working together, we formed a media team for Japanese Minghui. The practitioner responsible for technical support also added items into our system to support Japanese Minghui translation and polishing. The first episode of Minghui Radio, “Falun Dafa Changes a Troubled Youth into a Good Man,” was published on June 25, 2020. Several months later, the first Minghui video, “The Happiest Thing in Life for a Taiwan Poet” was also published, on September 11, 2020.

I found many human notions during this process. They included resentment, competitiveness and showing off. While preparing these additions, I also failed to update others in time, which showed my selfishness.

3. Promotion on Social Media

I also translate articles myself, so I understand the hard work of translators and polishers. But I do not know the outcome of our hard work on saving people. To achieve better results and reach more people, we needed to let people know about our existence. So the Japanese Minghui media team was established for us to promote the website on the Internet.

The media team focuses on marketing on social media platforms, such as YouTube, Twitter and Facebook. The contents they market include Minghui articles, videos, and audio files. We also have paid advertisements. After the web content was enhanced, statistics showed there were more visitors, longer viewing times and more pages browsed.

4. Group Study to Eliminate Barriers

In the past, I had felt the existence of barriers between team members and there were complaints from time to time. For example, some translators or polishers were unsatisfied and they left many comments in the notes section. Some polishers were frustrated, and some translators wanted to resign. Thinking that we needed to form one body to achieve the best results for saving people, I knew the only way to get there was to study the Fa better so that we could improve as a whole.

Many Japanese Minghui team members are introverted. Most of them were quiet during sharing, and only four or five practitioners talked a lot. Since not every one was involved and practitioners did not open their hearts, this situation needed to change. We started a timetable spanning 12 months so that everyone would participate. That is, each of us needed to write an experience-sharing article once a year and present it during our regular meetings. After this was announced, one practitioner initially said she had fear and would never do this. But when it was her turn, she prepared an excellent experience-sharing article. Later she said this experience helped her overcome a lot of fear.

By doing this, we had more and more content to discuss during our experience sharing. As our cultivation status improved, more practitioners joined the group Fa study and sharing. We no longer heard complaints or criticism from team members.

Summary

When first taking on the coordination role, I had complaints and jealousy toward other practitioners. I later changed my way of thinking and focused on areas that they had done well, and my complaints and resentment disappeared. When my compassion emerged, I found our team members were very good. In fact, sometimes I had not received support from practitioners in the past because there was things between us that blocked us. After I removed that substance, practitioners actively supported me no matter what I proposed.

Here I also want to add that, without Master’s arrangements and support, I could not have done well as a coordinator. I am so grateful in my heart that Master has helped to run Japanese Minghui so well. I am thankful that Master allowed me to be a coordinator although I did not have experience or special abilities. I know Master did this for me to be diligent and improve.

Once again I want to thank Master for the arrangements. I also want to thank everyone in the Japanese Minghui team for your support.

(Presented at the 2022 Multilingual Minghui Teams Experience Sharing Conference)