(Minghui.org) I was born in the 1990s. In 2005, I was attending high school where my cousin told me about Falun Dafa. Under Master’s compassionate protection, I now walk steadily on my path of cultivation. On the occasion of the annual RTC Platform Falun Dafa Experience Sharing Conference, I would like to share with you how I made a breakthrough in my cultivation.
I have an outgoing personality, did well in school, was given a good education, and landed a decent job. All this caused me to feel a sense of superiority, and formed many attachments, such as the mentality of showing off, jealousy, vanity, comparing myself with others, and a competitive mentality. These attachments were exposed in my life, and at work.
Fortunately Master constantly helped me eliminate the bad substances, helping to assure that I did not get lost in our materialistic society. Although I am still far from Master’s requirements, I have gradually experienced the joy of being a true Dafa practitioner through continuous Fa study and solid cultivation. Every time I enlighten to a new Fa principle, I truly experience the feeling of elevation. I am constantly tempered and purified in Dafa.
I attended the New York Fa Conference in May 2019 and was fortunate to see Master in person for the first time. I felt like crying throughout Master’s lecture. After the conference, my cultivation entered a new stage. I understood that we have gone through so many cycles of reincarnation and that our purpose is to assist Master in Fa-rectification.
In order not to leave any regrets, I tried my best to seize every opportunity to show the beauty of Dafa to people, and tell them about the persecution of Falun Dafa by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). I did my best to cultivate diligently.
Along the way, I truly experienced Master’s meticulous arrangements. At each stage on my cultivation path, I cooperated with different practitioners on various projects, and I was able to improve myself in the process.
After working as a translator for the media team for over two years, I saw that although I was doing the three things on the surface, I still had many attachments, and I had not been able to make a breakthrough in clarifying the truth to people in China. I realized that without the true compassion from the bottom of my heart and a deep understanding of the Fa, I could not truly clarify the truth. Clarifying the truth to a person is not merely completing a task; it is exposing the lies with a cultivator’s compassion and saving that person, and the huge group of sentient beings whom he represents.
Master saw my heart to save sentient beings in China, so I was invited to participate in the writing team on the RTC platform. In the beginning, the other practitioners’ feedback was that my articles were overly abstract and academic, and were hard to understand. I was confused. I felt it was their issue that they couldn’t understand my articles or follow my train of thought.
One practitioner pointed out that most people in China did not know the term “geopolitics” I used in one of my articles; another practitioner in the group said that my articles were full of tongue twisters. I didn’t think anything was wrong. Looking back now, I realized that it was because I lacked an understanding of the daily lives of people in China and their suffering.
As more and more things happen in the world, we need to write powerful articles in a timely manner so that more people can be saved. In June last year, the CCP seemed to be moving toward a closed-door policy to cut off Chinese people’s contact with the outside world. It looked like it might even shut down people’s ability to receive phone calls or text messages from overseas. The other practitioners felt that this was an attempt by the old forces to prevent people from hearing the truth. For the first time I felt a sense of urgency, because so many people in China had yet to be saved. That afternoon I wrote two articles. The other practitioners later told me that these two articles were widely circulated, and they played an important role in our mission. I understood the good effect was because of my wish to save people from deep within my heart.
I have felt that every time I enlightened to more Fa principles, Master arranged new opportunities for me to improve and pushed me forward. A practitioner who cooperated with the team often sent us articles written by other practitioners. I sometimes complained that these articles lacked logical reasoning and details, and some used inappropriate expressions and words. I later realized that when reading other people’s articles, instead of focusing on the shortcomings, I should look at their good points, and try to supplement with anything that’s needed.
Later, I modified an article by a fellow practitioner about China’s economic recession and the high unemployment rate among young people. It received good feedback because it talked about the pain and challenges most Chinese people face. From this, I realized that writing articles is closely related to my own cultivation and understanding of the Fa.
Master told us,
“So, I would say that you need to rationally go about things, and not just do things superficially. If you want to save people, then you have to put more into it and not just do things superficially.” (“Fa Teaching Given at the 2010 New York Fa Conference,” Collected Teachings Given Around the World, Volume XI)
We realized that in order to save sentient beings and have them sincerely wish to withdraw from the CCP, we need to carefully think about how best to clarify the truth.
For example, we need to understand the thought process people in China go through. We also need to build trust with them first, instead of focusing on trying to persuade them to withdraw from the CCP. We need to have reasonable and well-founded evidence and logical thought trends so that we can clearly expose the CCP’s lies. We can then introduce traditional values into the articles, and truly help people understand the truth. In order to achieve this, the practitioners in the writing team have a weekly in-depth sharing session on writing articles and cultivation issues.
We are often able to help and inspire each other during these weekly sharing sessions, and I have benefited immensely from them. After each session, I often had a feeling that the articles just naturally flowed as I wrote them, and I also found surprisingly useful information in my research. I did not need to spend a lot of time writing them, yet they were effective.
Just as Master said,
“Master affirms what Dafa disciples have done. As long as you are doing things out of a wish to validate the Fa and save sentient beings, I will affirm all that you do. And when you go do those things, there will be my Law Bodies or gods there to amplify it and make what you do yet more magnificent and extraordinary, and they will assist you. ” (“Fa Teaching at the 2008 New York Conference,” Collected Teachings Given Around the World, Volume VIII)
In the process of writing, I also realized that it is very important to let go of ourselves and cultivate kindness and compassion. We must always think from other peoples’ perspectives.
For example, can they easily accept the way we word the issues? Are the contents we talk about interesting and relevant to them? Through studying Master’s Fa I understood that when writing articles, we need to help people understand us. Then what we say will resonate with them, and awaken the kindness in their hearts.
I am grateful to Master for giving us the opportunity to improve together in the writing team. We cherish this sacred predestined relationship with each other and hope that on the road of cultivation, we will support and help each other to fulfill our vows as Dafa disciples of the Fa-rectification period.
Thank you, Master! Thank you, fellow practitioners!