The Preciousness of Being Able to Let Things Go

(Minghui.org) I work for a real estate company. At the beginning of this year, the company assigned me a new task, which was to sell the previous investment housing in the school district to make up for the loss during the three years of the COVID pandemic. I started to worry when I learned of the assignment.

During those three years, the city was locked down, the real estate business was hit hard, and my company wasn’t able to sell a single property. What’s more, my coworkers had made every effort to cover all the possible channels to help sell housing but were not successful.

I was upset, thinking that management deliberately chose me to resolve the problem. I calmed down and thought carefully about the issue. As a practitioner, nothing is accidental. It must be Master’s arrangement. I went ahead and looked for agencies, and surprisingly found one that was interested in buying the housing.

It turned out that this agency’s intranet hadn’t registered our listings. After successfully registering them, a sales agent contacted me. Their client viewed the property and intended to purchase it. I was especially happy, as there is always light at the end of the tunnel, or, as Master said, “After passing the shady willow trees, there will be bright flowers and another village ahead!” (Lecture Nine, Zhuan Falun)

Things were going very smoothly, but then a coworker called me and said that the agency had contacted her before the New Year, so credit for selling the house should go to her.

I was a little annoyed, as I had worked hard to get the deal. She only contacted the agency once, but now she wanted the credit. Wasn’t I being robbed?

I tried to control myself and thought carefully about what to do. I remembered what Master said:

“Sometimes, you think that something should be yours, and others also tell you that it is yours. Actually, it is not. You may believe that it is yours, but in the end it is not yours. Through this, it can be seen whether you can give it up. If you cannot let it go, it is an attachment.” (Lecture Seven, Zhuan Falun)

As a practitioner, nothing happens accidentally. It must be for me to enlighten to something. I decided to let it go and let things take their course. When I told my coworker what I had decided, she was surprised, because she had been expecting me to fight with her over it and never thought that I would give up my commission.

A month later, that same coworker told me that she only wanted half of the commission, that we all worked for the same company, and that everyone had contributed.

Indeed, she allocated half of the sales commission to me, which made me truly realize what Master said: “If something is yours, you will not lose it.” (Lecture Seven, Zhuan Falun)