Study the Fa Well, Hurry Up and Save Sentient Beings

(Minghui.org) I started practicing Falun Dafa in 1998 and have gained a clear understanding of cultivation after more than 20 years of being a Dafa practitioner.

Master said,

“Every moment in your life is part of your spiritual journey, and at every moment I am looking after you.” (“Another Stern Warning”)

Master often gave me a hint in various ways, so I could look inward and become more diligent.

Nothing Is Accidental in Cultivation

Three years ago, a practitioner found a job taking care of an elderly man. She asked for my help when she was busy, so I went to look after him.

The practitioner told me that a water purifier installed in the man’s house was really good. After tasting the purified water, I thought the water was very good, so I filled two bottles of the purified water at the old man’s house to take home with me.

I had to take a bus home and inserted a 50-cent coin into the machine, but the driver asked to see my senior bus card. I told him that I didn’t bring it with me, but after flipping through my bag, I found it. The driver said, “Who knows if that card is yours?” I swiped my card after having already paid 50 cents and went to sit down.

I thought that something wasn’t right. I’ve been using my senior card for a long time, and no one has ever questioned me about it. Something must be wrong, as nothing is accidental in cultivation. I immediately thought of the two bottles of water in my bag. I wanted to take the water home to drink purified water, so the driver finding fault with me was not accidental. Master had arranged this episode for me to correct myself. I had not behaved like a cultivator. I should hold myself to a high standard, so I no longer took water home.

A Lesson Learned

I studied the Fa once a week at practitioner Rong’s home. There were over ten practitioners in the Fa study group. After Fa study, we took some truth-clarification materials and left our books (Zhuan Falun) at her home.

On my way to Rong’s house to study the Fa, I waited at the bus stop for a long time. There were three buses going through that stop, two of them were on route to her house, and only route 7 didn’t go there. It was strange that day as seven route 7 buses came before my bus.

I thought it was strange. What does 7 mean? Seven days in a week. Once a week to study the Fa. Is there anything wrong with our Fa study group?” I immediately negated this thought, as nothing was wrong with studying the Fa.

After arriving at Rong’s house, I told her about my experience with the buses. She had been against us leaving our Dafa books in her house, so she asked us to take them home, but no one listened, and we still left the books there.

Rong went to bed one day while steaming buns on the stove. The pot boiled the water dry and turned to smoke. Her neighbors couldn’t wake her up, so they called the fire brigade. When the firefighters saw the smoke, they called the riot police, and the riot police handed it over to the police station.

After forcibly opening the door, the police found Master’s picture and our books and confiscated all of them. Rong was taken away and locked up for half a day and night.

We wouldn’t have lost the Dafa books if we had listened to Rong when she asked us to take the books home.

Memorizing the Fa

I came to memorize the Fa by memorizing a paragraph of the Fa one day, but usually forgot it by the next day. I then memorized it again. I couldn’t normally remember a paragraph for the first three days. Even if I could memorize it on day one, I couldn’t even remember a single sentence the next day. I could remember a little more on the third day, and could then remember most of it on the fourth. I then went back to correct my mistakes. It would usually take me about a week to fully memorize a paragraph.

Only after making sure I had memorized the paragraph, would I move to the next one. During the process, I also went back to the previous paragraphs. I moved forward very slowly and felt that I was not clever enough. I sometimes got disturbed while reciting, but I continued regardless. It took me three years to memorize Zhuan Falun. and I didn’t need the book to recite in group Fa study. I will soon finish memorizing Master’s poems in Hong Yin V,andhave the last ten poems to go.

I also memorized Master’s new lectures when they came out. It took me a week to memorize “Another Stern Warning,” and I memorized it again the following week, so that I could recite it without missing a word. I can recite the Fa from memory as fluently as I recite “On Dafa.” In the long process of memorizing the Fa, it is now easier for me to concentrate and control my mind, and of course not to create karma because my mind is concentrated only on reciting the Fa.

Whenever I encountered a problem, I could easily recall the relevant text in the Fa because I have memorized the Fa. Therefore, I have steadily walked the path of cultivation over the years.

Saving People When the Community Was in Lockdown

After the coronavirus broke out in Wuhan in 2020, all the communities in our city were closed, and practitioners couldn’t contact each other. My child called and told me not to go out, saying it was too dangerous outside. My husband said the same thing, trying to prevent me from bringing the germs home.

I had a dream where my husband and I were sitting on the No. 414 bus, without many other people on board. The strange thing was that the bus was not on the original route, and didn’t stop even at the stops where people were waiting for the bus. It just kept moving forward. I realized that Master was telling me that it would be dangerous to go on like this. In other words, I didn’t follow the original path and didn’t realize the urgency of saving people. Instead, I was treating myself as an ordinary person, which was equal to heading toward a dead end. I should conduct myself as a Dafa practitioner, walk on the path of cultivation, and not be swayed by the current situation.

Master said,

“Dafa disciples go about their lives alongside ordinary people as part of the illusory ordinary society, and are really susceptible to drifting along with the tide in their way of thinking, at least in some regards.” (“What is a Dafa Disciple”)

I adjusted myself as soon as possible and continued to find fellow practitioners, study the Fa, and try to help Master save people.

Some practitioners’ neighborhoods were not strictly closed, so I could find a way to get in. For the strictly closed communities, I would get in before the guards started their shifts. We distributed the materials to some neighborhoods after the guards got off work. During the pandemic, I followed Master and tried my best to do the three things well, fulfilling the mission of a Dafa disciple.

I still have many attachments, including seeking comfort, having worries, and sometimes being distracted when studying the Fa. These are the areas that I need to improve.

In this rare cultivation opportunity, under Master’s careful protection, I will definitely cherish this last stage of Fa-rectification, study the Fa well, cultivate myself, save more people, and look inward when encountering problems, so as to live up to Master’s compassionate salvation.

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