Validating the Fa Through Small Matters

(Minghui.org) Master asks us practitioners to be considerate when we do things, and to be good people and even better people. Therefore, whenever we do or say anything, no matter how small the matter is, we should use the standards of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance to measure ourselves and follow Master’s teachings, so that we can cultivate ourselves well and validate the Fa. Here I’d like to share my cultivation experiences through a few small matters.

Keeping My Word

A few days in early June this year were very hot, and this was followed by a few days in a row of rain. The weather was very abnormal. One morning, I took my six-year-old granddaughter out to do some Fa-validating work. After walking for a while, the sky started turning dark, and the wind started to blow. As I walked quite slowly, my granddaughter urged me to walk faster because it was going to rain.

I walked vigorously into the wind as the rain got heavier. I looked up and saw that the distance to walk to our destination was similar to the distance to walk home. My granddaughter said, “Grandma, why don’t we walk forward and turn right to take the shorter route home?” I thought, “I am a cultivator of Falun Dafa, so even if it rains, I still need to do what I promised to do.” So I said, “No, I promised the shop owner yesterday that I would come to collect the goods today (I did not collect them the day before because I was short of cash). If I do not go, I will be breaking my promise. As human beings, we must be honest. We must keep our word.” My granddaughter said, “Okay, we can take shelter from the rain when we are there.”

When we reached the shop, the shop owner saw that I had brought a child and kept my word even though it was raining outside. He was very happy and welcomed us warmly.

Within a few minutes, the wind outside died down and the rain stopped. The sun shone brightly in the sky, and I walked home happily with my granddaughter.

Delivering Pumpkins

In late autumn of 2020, the weather gradually turned colder, and people were all doing their autumn harvest. I was worried that the pumpkins in my garden may be destroyed by the frost. My husband was working during the day, so by the time he got home, the sky had already turned dark. I was going through sickness karma elimination, so a fellow practitioner helped me collect all the pumpkins that she could find, and both of us moved the pumpkins in batches to my house on the fifth floor (there was no elevator).

That night, my husband was happy to see that the pumpkins had been harvested when he returned from work. However, he discovered that two pumpkins were not of the species that he had planted. He asked me where the two pumpkins were harvested from. When I told him the location, he said that they were from Aqiang’s garden, and they landed in our garden because the vines had climbed over to our garden without them realizing. I told him that I would return them to Aqiang tomorrow, and my husband said nothing about it.

The next day, I moved the pumpkins downstairs, and a neighbor downstairs (who had already understood the truth of Falun Dafa and had agreed to quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations) saw it. When she learned that I was going to return the pumpkins, she helped me without hesitation. She placed the pumpkins in a trolley, which she used to go to the market, and we arrived at the apartment where Aqiang lived.

Groups of people were chatting downstairs. When they saw the things in the trolley, they asked what it was about. An old woman, who has understood the truth of Dafa, said, “You see, people who have a belief (in Dafa) are so good. They accidentally harvested other people’s pumpkins and could have kept them for their own consumption, since no one saw it, but they are returning them to the owner.” The neighbor who was helping me return the pumpkins said, “The pumpkins had already been moved upstairs, and she brought them down again. If not for practicing Falun Dafa and having a belief, would she have been able to do that?” Everyone cast me a look of approval, and someone said, “See how good she is. She is really a good person!”

I thought to myself, “Dafa teaches people to be kind. Master asks us to consider others. Only with Master’s guidance am I able to become a truly good person. Without Dafa, I would also just follow the tide and take other people’s good things as my own. I am so fortunate to be able to become a Dafa practitioner today! I am really blessed to be Master’s disciple!”

The local people all know that I practice Falun Dafa. Over the years, fellow practitioners and I have often clarified the truth to people in the community who have predestined relationships. Many people have chosen a wonderful future for themselves. This small matter with the pumpkins really helped people witness the goodness of Falun Dafa!

Two Cucumbers

I remember that one morning in late summer of 2021, my husband returned home with two cucumbers from our garden. He placed them on the dining table and said, “These cucumbers are from Uncle Zhong. The vines had crawled over to our garden from their side.”

After my husband left for work, I took the two cucumbers to Uncle Zhong’s house. His wife opened the door and exclaimed when she saw me, “Why are you here?” As both of our gardens were divided by a row of sticks in the center, we often met each other in the garden. I placed the cucumbers on the table and said, “These cucumbers are from your garden. Their vines had climbed over to our side, so we harvested them to deliver them to you.” She pulled me inside to sit and said, “You guys (referring to Dafa practitioners) did a great job!” I replied, “It’s Master who asked us to do so.”

Uncle Zhong’s wife believes in the Buddha, and her niece is a Dafa practitioner. For more than 20 years, many Dafa practitioners have clarified the truth to her, trying to persuade her to distance herself from the CCP and to quit the Party to secure peace and safety. However, she had never agreed to quit. Master had arranged such a chance for her today, so I told her, “Master asks us to be good people and to be considerate in whatever we do. We are cultivators who require ourselves to abide by Dafa’s principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance.”

I also told her that the CCP staged the Tiananmen self-immolation incident to frame Falun Dafa. I told her that Falun Dafa has spread to more than 100 countries and regions and that Dafa books have been translated into 50 languages. Falun Dafa, also called Falun Gong, is highly virtuous and is spread to save sentient beings. Only the CCP is suppressing and persecuting these good people who cultivate in this practice, and strive to be more compassionate. The perpetrators will definitely be punished when the CCP is disintegrated.”

She said, “I know that you all are kind people. I believe in the Buddha, and we all talk about being kind, and we all believe that there are divine beings.”

I said, “Yes, the good will be rewarded, and the evil will meet retribution, according to the heavenly laws. The CCP promotes atheism, goes against the divine, and persecutes Falun Dafa practitioners who strive to be kind people. They harass practitioners, send them to brainwashing centers, torture them, sentence them to jail, and harvest their organs while practitioners are still alive. The CCP has committed extremely evil deeds. When the CCP is brought to justice, if you are part of the CCP, you will be implicated. Did you join the CCP or its affiliated organizations?” She said that she joined the Young Pioneers and repeated, “I have been believing in the Buddha for so many years.”

I understood that she was still unable to let go of her belief of so many years, so I told her, “We are not changing your belief. You can still believe in Buddha and work toward being a compassionate person. Just renounce the Young Pioneers from the bottom of your heart. The Heavens are watching. In this way, the divine can truly protect you and you can really obtain peace, safety, and bliss! Quit the CCP to obtain peace and safety. Using an alias can work too.” She replied, “Okay, use my real name to quit it.”

I was happy for her withdrawal. Thank you, Master, for not giving up on anyone with affinity! Thank you, fellow practitioners, for laying the foundation for her by clarifying the truth to her whenever there was an opportunity to do so. Thank you, Master, for bestowing me with the wisdom to awaken her so that she chose a wonderful future.