(Minghui.org) I started practicing Falun Dafa in March 1999. After starting the practice, benevolent Master Li (Dafa’s founder) cleansed my body and I became free of illness. But, because I did not study the Fa in-depth and had strong human attachments, in 2006 I was persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). A month later, I returned home, sold off the small factory that I had operated, and started to lead a wandering life. My family of three later moved where nobody knew us, and I started being a more diligent practitioner.
I found that the effect of clarifying the truth to my relatives, friends, and people around me under such circumstances was not that good. People who didn’t understand the truth even said, “They stopped running their factory to practice Falun Dafa.” These comments alerted me and I started to think that I should open some form of business again. Then I would be able to make use of opportunities to distribute truth-clarifying materials and help people to realize the importance of quitting the CCP and its affiliated organizations. I started to think about what kind of business would be suitable for me, given my current circumstances.
My older sister came to my house one day and said that she didn’t want to manage the store she was running anymore. She asked me to take it over. Without allowing me to say anything more, she started moving my luggage and daily necessities into her car. So I took over an unfamiliar business in an industry that I had no experience in.
I wondered if this was Master’s arrangement. For ordinary people, logically it seemed impossible that a lady over 50 could do well in this line of business with no experience. If I was to do well, I needed to learn and grasp knowledge about design, budgeting, and carpentry. And the industry was so competitive and intense. Normally businessmen bribed carpenters, giving them commissions and relying on them to pull in clients. The businessmen even colluded with carpenters to cheat clients by replacing good materials with inferior ones and purposely wasting materials to increase their recorded usage quantities.
I am a cultivator so I could not stoop to their level. So how should I go about doing business? I memorized and recited Master’s Fa repeatedly,
“...the key is to deal fairly and act with integrity.” (The Fourth Talk, Zhuan Falun)
As I did this, I gradually understood how I should conduct business in this industry. Dafa opened my wisdom and I grasped how to do business in a short time.
I try my best to prevent my clients from being cheated and help them get quality renovations at low costs for their homes. When I quote costs to my clients, I observe how my heart is moved. If it is not righteous (thinking of earning more money), I immediately correct it. When I introduce materials to clients, I help them analyze the advantages and disadvantages of each type of material, instead of promoting the materials that I am selling. The clients feel that Dafa practitioners are truthful. When I do design for clients, I do not lure them to buy more materials. Instead, I truly stand in their shoes to think about things and try my best to help them save money. The clients feel my compassion.
Clients who have spoken with me have said, “You are really kind. Why are you so good?” I will then tell them that I cultivate Falun Dafa and that I changed a lot after I started cultivating. Before I took up cultivation, I owned a store. To sell more merchandise, my husband gathered some people from our village together who liked to play mahjong and had them come to our shop to play mahjong. So I could earn more money, I basically gave them free rein. We ended up not earning much money, and my husband was stabbed three times by the son of the neighboring village’s leader when my husband tried to intervene in a fight. We fought a lawsuit for nearly three years, and then we lost everything.
Dafa changed me for the better. After cultivating, I stopped trying unscrupulous means to make money. I stand in the shoes of my clients to do my business. So my business has continuously improved. When former clients promote me to their relatives and friends for house renovations, they will say, “Her family practices Falun Dafa, so they don’t cheat people.”
I display the goodness of Dafa to clients. Throughout the renovation process, my clients can see that the materials I ordered for them are of good quality and the workmanship is good. They are all very satisfied with the outcome of their renovations and that makes it relatively easier for them to accept the truth.
One client wanted to help her mother renovate her apartment. I treated them calmly, despite them trying to bargain the price with me repeatedly, and I treated her bad-tempered husband calmly. The client said, “Sister, your temper is really good.” I told her that I practice Falun Dafa. She said, “My husband works in our local police department. Because I have a bad temper, I always quarrel with him, so he brought me the books that his department had confiscated from Falun Dafa practitioners so I could read them. Sister, let me learn Falun Dafa from you.” We started studying the Fa and practicing the exercises together. I later learned that her husband was actually the chief of the local Domestic Security Division.
Another client used to work for the security department in his company. The company’s director was deceived by the CCP’s lies and persecuted Falun Dafa practitioners. My client had been assigned to monitor Dafa practitioners at one time. After I told him the truth about Falun Dafa, the client said, “Falun Dafa is being framed. I was deceived by the CCP’s lies and had misunderstandings about Dafa.” He decided to quit the CCP.
A lady who was in her seventies dragged herself with her swollen left leg to my house one evening. Using her hoarse voice, she said that she wanted to install a knife rack in her kitchen and that she had bought the knife rack. She had asked around to see who could help her install the knife rack, but the other business owners didn’t want to help her, because the job was small and troublesome. The work would require an impact drill to make holes in her wall.
As a cultivator, I do not just consider earning money or avoiding troublesome things. If doing this could awaken people, I should do it. I asked my daughter and her husband to install the knife rack for the lady for free. The elderly lady was very happy and kept saying, “Both you and your daughter are really good!” My daughter and I clarified the truth to her and she asked us if she could study the Fa and learn the exercises from us. She could not bend her left leg at the time, so she practiced the exercises while standing. She learned the five sets of exercises and persisted in waking up every morning at 4:00 a.m. to do the exercises and listen to Master’s lectures.
A few months later on the second day of the Chinese New Year, the elderly lady happily came to tell me that many guests had come to her house, and as she was speaking to her guests her hoarse voice suddenly became loud and clear!
“My voice suddenly became good,” she said. “One second earlier it was still hoarse but the next second it was loud and clear. Even I myself did not dare believe it. I had never thought that studying the Fa and practicing the exercises could help make my voice become good. I am so surprised!” The lady’s family had thought that something growing in her throat had caused her voice to become hoarse. So when her voice suddenly returned to normal, her husband and son were shocked!
After another few months, I saw the elderly lady dancing in the square. I discovered that her swollen leg that she had not been able to bend had recovered, and she showed me that she could now jump quite high. She also told me that her stomach could not handle cold or spicy food before, but after studying the Fa and practicing the exercises, her stomach had returned to normal too. Her whole family was in awe of Dafa’s miraculous nature.
Master bestowed me with this life-saving platform to let me come into contact with many predestined people. These people and those around them have all witnessed the miraculous and supernatural nature of Dafa.