(Minghui.org) I work as a cashier at a shopping center in China. In 1994, I attended Master's Falun Dafa lectures with my mother. Master's teaching answered many of my questions about life. In fact, I found the meaning of life! I wanted to be a good person. I was extremely happy.
During the next few years, I did not really eliminate my human attachments, and I stalled in my cultivation. When the persecution began in 1999 in China, my father started to doubt whether Dafa was good. I stopped practicing and immersed myself in things like novels and online chat sites.
Although I stopped practicing Falun Dafa, deep down in my heart I could not let Dafa go. When I did something wrong, I would remember Master's teaching about it. I knew I was getting further away from Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance and accumulating karma. I felt I was suffering and lost in the world. The material things in life cannot fill the emptiness for someone who already knows Dafa.
I Return to Cultivation
In 2010, I met a Dafa practitioner during an online chat. He gave me a link to a Falun Dafa website. When I opened the website, the old, familiar feeling of being cleansed by Dafa immediately came back. It reminded me about the time when I was practicing. I knew that was what I really wanted.
I read through all the information about Falun Dafa, including the April mass appeal in 1999, the "false fire" [Tiananmen Square self-immolation], the cruel persecution, and the shocking crime of live organ harvesting. My eyes were filled with tears. How could this be? How could a government do this to its people who simply wanted to follow such a wonderful Dafa? Without the persecution, so many more people would have benefited from Dafa!
I was ashamed of myself. When fellow practitioners were risking their lives to validate the Fa, I was wasting my time seeking my own comfort.
I decided to return to Dafa cultivation. Not only should I save myself, I also wanted to do something for the people who were being deceived by the communist government.
I started to read Dafa books, send righteous thoughts, and clarify the truth to people.
In my daily life, I followed Dafa's principles. At work, I would not be picky about the assignments. I considered others first and often volunteered to do tasks others did not want to do. When I felt I was being wronged, Master's words would lead me to peace:
A wicked person is born of jealousy.Out of selfishness and anger he complains about unfairness towards himself.
A benevolent person always has a heart of compassion.With no discontentment or hatred, he takes hardship as joy.
An enlightened person has no attachments at all.He quietly observes the people of the world deluded by illusions.("Realms", Essentials for Further Advancement)
Gradually, I eliminated many of my bad habits. I was no longer selfish. Coworkers soon noticed the changes in me. They said they felt peaceful and pleasant when they were with me.
Master taught me how to be a good person and guided me to the right path.
Clarifying the Truth at Work
At the very beginning when I tried to clarify the truth about Falun Dafa to my coworkers, some of them did not understand me. I then learned to use methods they could understand and accept. Gradually, many of them began to understand that Dafa is good. I helped more than 100 coworkers withdraw from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations. Many of them sincerely thanked me for helping them.
In 2011, my workplace organized all the employees to go to a "red song" (songs praising the CCP) concert. I thought that these people had already quit the CCP and should not go to the concert and get polluted again. I sent strong righteous thoughts for two days. Soon after, we heard that the activity was canceled. I saw the power of our righteous thoughts!
In the shopping center, many of the name brand kiosks regularly rotated their salespeople, so there were new faces every few days. I knew that Master was sending them. I saw them as opportunities and told them the truth about Falun Dafa and then helped them to quit the CCP. Some coworkers came to me and told me where there were newcomers and asked me to tell these new people the facts. My workplace became an environment for me to save people.
More People Learned the Truth about Dafa
Over the years, I could feel that practitioners' worldwide efforts to save sentient beings have changed our environment. I met many people who could quickly tell good from bad.
Once I was talking to a college student. When I said Falun Dafa teaches people to follow the principle of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, his eyes brightened and he asked me to repeat the three words.
A newcomer agreed right away to quit the CCP after I talked to her. She wrote down her name and said, “I bet many people have already quit the CCP. The CCP is so evil, who wouldn't want to?”
Some coworkers wanted to read the Dafa books and learn how Dafa could bring health and peace to their lives.
At first, my husband did not understand why I kept talking to people about Falun Dafa. After I told him about the CCP's “self-immolation” lie, he was shocked: “I can't believe the CCP did such terrible things!” Not only was he no longer against my talking to people about Dafa, he also helped me at times to clarify the truth to relatives and friends.
My sister-in-law was a postdoctoral scholar in the United States. When I first advised her to quit the CCP, she thought the formality was unnecessary. I then sent her some links to articles on Dafa practitioners' websites. After she read the articles, she quit the CCP, and she even advised her brother to do it, too.
A cousin of mine used to misunderstand Dafa from listening to the lies put out by the Chinese government-controlled media. She then moved to Canada. A year ago when she returned for a visit, she said that she and her husband had already quit the CCP in Canada. One of her husband's friends is a practitioner who clarified the truth to them.
The lady who cleans my house said, “These three words, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, are wonderful! Everyone should follow them!”
A repairman who came to my house said that what he hated most was the CCP. He quit the CCP on the spot.
On an online chat site, I was talking to an American gentleman who is a Christian. He said he admires Dafa practitioners and thinks that Dafa is really good.
I was often very touched when I read what those who understood the truth wrote online. I am so grateful for Master's mercy!
I know that I still have a lot of shortcomings and I need to keep improving myself. Master gave us everything. I want to be a real practitioner, like Master expects us to be: truly selfless and helping Master to save more people.
