[Japanese Minghui] Fundamentally Changing Myself

(Minghui.org) Greetings, esteemed Master,and fellow practitioners!

I began proofreading articles when the Japanese Minghui was set up in July 2001. I was a college student at the time and had relatively more time. After I began to work a regular job, I focused my effort on my regular job and didn’t spend much time proofreading.

Then, it was decided that we would publish 10 articles a day, and I was responsible for the final proofreading before the articles were uploaded. If the translators couldn’t turn in the articles on time, I couldn’t go to bed. As time went by, I began to complain about the delay, and that other proofreaders didn’t do a good job. Now, when I think about it, I treated the proofreading just as some work to finish, and didn’t realize that I was saving sentient beings through the articles.

Applying Experience Learned in Other Projects to Minghui Work

Several years ago, due to the lack of manpower of a practitioners-run media, I joined the team of promoting the website online. I began to post articles on Facebook and ran some advertisement campaigns. In the process, I spent much time thinking about how to write articles to attract ordinary people's interest and gained some experience. Then, I started to work for another media outlet and was involved in video production. Some of the videos we posted on Facebook and YouTube became very popular. I witnessed firsthand how much more effective it was to convey a message through videos when compared to traditional articles and photos.

Later on, I resumed my work at Japanese Minghui. When I started to proofread the articles, I found that I was thinking from a reader’s perspective without even realizing it. Some words may not be appropriate for news reports and some expressions may not be easily understood by non-practitioners. As I put more thought into the work, I found many issues that needed to be fixed. Except for cultivation experience sharing articles, most other articles published on Minghui are meant to be read by non-practitioners. If we can make the articles easier for people to digest, it will be more powerful in saving people.

Not long after, Japanese Minghui established a multi-media team, and we created our own Facebook page and YouTube channel. We began to produce podcasts and video. All the experience I learned from the two previous projects now became very useful. Things moved forward smoothly.

When I left Minghui years ago, after spending much time and effort, I felt rather bitter. But, I didn’t expect that when I returned this time, the experience I gained during the five years I worked at other media all became useful. I feel grateful for Master’s arrangement.

Having gone through numerous xinxing tests at the previous projects, I no longer hold a grudge over translators for being slow or mistakes made by other proofreaders. When I was given a difficult article, I could face it calmly. When I had xinxing conflicts with other practitioners, I could also face the criticism calmly. My discontent about other practitioners lessened, and I no longer complained about whether they were attached to themselves. I felt myself becoming more considerate and tolerant. This is the attachment that I have been trying to let go of for years, and now I’m seeing myself making progress at it.

Improving Xinxing

My father, who is also a Dafa practitioner, suffered a severe physical tribulation last year. I worried about him so much that I couldn’t sleep well. I often worried about him and was consumed by strong human emotions. Despite the distress, I knew that it was a good thing that my attachment surfaced and that I needed to remove it, little by little. I understood the principle based on the Fa. But, when it came to the specifics of how to get past it, I was still at a loss and often sighed in despair.

In the process, what helped me the most was to study the Fa. Until then, I hadn’t taken Fa study very seriously. Due to my poor understanding of the Fa, I always lacked the faith to strengthen my righteous thoughts at critical moments. After I realized this, I intensified my Fa study. Sometimes I took notes, and sometimes I read some articles repeatedly.

Through Fa study, I had a deeper understanding of the relationship between Fa-rectification and the old forces, how to tell physical tribulation and interference apart, as well as how to distinguish human emotion and compassion.

I deeply felt that when I face a xinxing test, it’s of utmost importance to base my thinking on the Fa. When I was so easily moved during my father’s tribulation, it showed that my righteous thoughts were lacking. I need to have a serious review of my cultivation.

Cultivation is to become a divine being, transcending the three realms. We need to assimilate our xinxing to the universe’s characteristics, “Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance.” But all along, instead of working hard on my heart, I did the three things through superficial efforts. I told myself that if I didn’t change my heart, I couldn’t make breakthroughs in my level.

I thought of my long-term conflicts with another practitioner. I had so many problems with her that I got annoyed even hearing her name. How could I become a divine being by holding on to such an attitude? I wanted to eliminate the bad substances. I looked within. I realized that my extremely unpleasant feeling about her and my intense worry about my father both resulted from my strong human emotion that I couldn’t let go of. My stubborn belief in how to go about things as practitioners also played a part.

After I identified my problems, I began to work to rectify them. I tried to treat this other practitioner and my father as regular practitioners and let go of my strong feelings about them.

Every practitioner has different cultivation states and arrangements. Master is taking care of everything. When I stubbornly try to force my understanding onto others, who do I think I am? I fixed my eyes on others but refused to change myself. This isn’t cultivation. I should let go of my attachments to them and focus on changing myself, looking for my thoughts and feeling that weren’t in line with the Fa and then digging deeper to see where it came from. By doing so, I can improve myself to be a little closer to “Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance.”

A few days later, I realized that whenever I thought of the other practitioner, I was able to remain calm and peaceful. I felt my changes. My husband, also a fellow practitioner, said to me, “You’ve changed recently. You no longer demand this or that.”

I told him, “I understood recently that cultivating is to change oneself and to let go of strong feelings about different types of issues. That means the substance that caused my heart to move no longer exists in my dimension.”

In the process, my husband gave me many constructive and helpful suggestions. He had said the same thing to me before, but I couldn’t accept them because I didn’t think I was wrong. But this time, I had the sincere wish to change myself, and I was able to accept it when he pointed out my problems. Although sometimes I still have worries about my father, I’m working to weaken them.

This test made me thoroughly review my cultivation state, change my way of thinking and improve my xinxing. As the lead of the proofreading team, I needn’t only to improve my proofreading techniques, but also improve my xinxing as well. During a recent sharing session, every team member talked about how they were looking within and improving themselves. In my future cultivation, I will work harder to solidly cultivate myself, improve my xinxing and save more sentient beings.

I welcome fellow practitioners to point out anything improper.

Thank you, Master and fellow practitioners!

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