Passing a Xinxing Test at Work

(Minghui.org) I’m a 56-year-old practitioner from Guizhou Province. I started to practice Falun Dafa in 2017. I would like to share one of my experiences of passing a xinxing test at work, which really helped me progress in cultivation.

When I visited my parents in 1996, I saw a lot of people at my father’s workplace doing a type of qigong. I felt very comfortable and relaxed listening to the exercise music; it was like walking in nature. However, I didn’t agree the first time my sister asked me to practice Falun Dafa.

My husband and I took our son to the provincial capital for an eye examination in 2017, and we stayed at my cousin’s house. I told her about my mother-in-law being paralyzed after having a stroke. She gave me some brochures about Dafa’s miraculous effects on healing, and told me to read the stories to my mother-in-law and look for a practice site in our area.

That was the first time I read Zhuan Falun. Master Li Hongzhi’s (Dafa’s founder) picture looked so familiar to me. My cousin told me that Falun Dafa is a cultivation practice of the Buddha Fa. I immediately responded, “This is exactly what I am looking for!” I have been worshiping gods since childhood and was always looking forward to being saved by a deity. I finally found one!

I read the brochures that my cousin gave me, and they helped me understand Falun Dafa better. I decided to go to the practice site to learn the Dafa exercises. However, the day before, I fell and twisted my ankle. It hurt so much that I couldn’t hold back my tears. The next morning, my left foot was purple and very painful to walk on, but I still went to the practice site. After a month of practicing, all my chronic ailments disappeared. My complexion became rosy, and I felt so light. It was wonderful!

I also found that my moral character elevated. I followed the requirements of the Fa in my daily life and put others’ interests before mine. When encountering conflicts, I remained calm and looked inward to see if I hurt anyone or if it was caused by my own emotional attachments.

Working in a School Dormitory

I worked with two coworkers to manage a student dormitory building. These coworkers called me at 1 a.m. to tell me they were going to quit the job. The supervisor blamed them for turning off the lights in the building two minutes late, even though the lights in other buildings were not turned off at the designated time. They then got into an argument with the supervisor and asked me if I would like to quit too. I said I needed the job to pay off a loan.

I called the supervisor of the property management company the next day to try to persuade my coworkers to stay, as this company had just taken over responsibility for this school. They needed a few responsible and capable dorm managers. He promised to talk to the teacher in charge.

That night I asked one of my coworkers when they were leaving. She told me they had to stay for another 15 days before they could leave. I thought they could possibly calm down during that time, as they loved the job.

The following day, I went to ask the supervisor to persuade them to stay. When I returned to my dorm, I greeted my coworkers, but they had a stern look on their faces. I didn’t say anything due to my attachment to vanity.

After a few minutes of silence, one of them blurted out, “You didn’t talk to us before about our leaving. What kind of person are you? Now we won’t quit because you want us to leave. What are you going to do?”

I was very confused and didn’t understand how I had offended them. I simply said, “I really hope you stay.” They didn’t listen to me and walked away.

When I returned to the dorm duty break room and tried to talk to them, one of the women raised her hand and gestured for me to leave. I walked up to her and said, “You can tell me if I did something wrong.”

She replied, “You wanted us to leave, but we won’t go. In this building, either you stay or we stay.” She gestured again for me to leave.

Everyone there laughed at me. I felt like a clown who was being mocked and insulted. At that moment, Master’s Fa appeared in my mind:

“As a cultivatorOne always looks for one’s own faults’Tis the Way to get rid of attachments most effectivelyThere’s no way to skip ordeals, big or small[During a conflict, if you can remember:]“He’s right,And I’m wrong,”What’s to dispute?”(“Who’s Right, Who’s Wrong”, Hong Yin III)

How could I fight with them? There must be some misunderstanding.

They went to the office to complain about me the next day. When I overheard them say, “Either she stays or we stay. We can’t both stay.” I couldn’t hold back my tears. I felt wronged and blamed. Why couldn’t I get along with ordinary people? I’m a Dafa practitioner, and my responsibility is to save sentient beings. Their future might be destroyed because of my attachment. They had already heard the truth about Dafa, and one had already quit the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations.

I looked inward and tried to find out how I hurt them. I once complained about their being awarded the rating of most beautiful dorm. They then asked me to install and join their WeChat group, but I felt uncomfortable and refused to do so.

When I found my attachments to competitiveness and jealousy, I told them, “I will quit! You two stay, as you have been with the students for a long time. They need you. Please forgive me if I did something wrong to you.”

They suddenly changed their attitude and told the supervisor, “She should stay as she is very capable and responsible for the students.”

The supervisor said, “No more arguments. You are all good. Please stay to manage the dorm well.”

The situation changed after I dug out my attachments to jealousy, competitiveness, lust, and vanity. However, there were changes in the school rules, including work hours. We were required to stay on the school grounds all day, so I decided to quit.

They called me after a few days wanting me to go back to work, saying I was very capable, responsible, and considerate of others.

Upon hearing people speak highly of Dafa practitioners, I realized how important our words and deeds are in the human world. The compassion of Dafa practitioners manifests in our actions when we follow the Fa’s standard of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. I must be more diligent from now on.

Thank you, Master for spreading the incomparably sacred Fa of the universe and teaching me to be a good person.

Thank you, Master! Thank you, fellow practitioners!