Eliminating Selfishness and Cultivating Altruism

(Minghui.org) A scene in the 2024 Shen Yun performance showed a group of scholars that gathered and shared information with each other reflecting many years of difficult study. One of the scholars wrote three lines of poetry on a stone, but he could not remember the last line. At this time, a Taoist immortal walked out from a statue and transformed into a scholar. He went to the scholars, and after exchanging a few words with them, he picked up a brush pen and wrote down the fourth line of the poem, “Relieving the suffering of the people.” Then, he returned to the statue.

After watching this, I burst into tears, realizing that Master has always been by my side. I started to practice Falun Dafa in 2012, and my husband and daughter joined later. Given Master’s compassionate care, our family has been walking the cultivation path for 12 years. By watching this performance I realized that Master has been with us through everything. When it was difficult for us to pass a test, when we were trapped in sentimentality, and when we were interfered with and persecuted by the evil, Master did not directly tell us what to do, but instead enlightened us through the words of the people around us.

Master Enlightened Practitioners

My husband and I were doing the second exercise in 2012. Just as I was having difficulty “holding the wheel above the head,” my husband said, “Just think of those arms and legs as not your own.” He gasped as soon as he finished talking, then tears covered his face. I was astonished. Later, my husband said that Master did guanding (pouring energy into the top of his head), and he felt a warm current flowing through his body. After that, when he encouraged and helped me in cultivation, Master would do guanding for him, and he realized the beauty of altruism.

A few years ago, my brother’s friend came to my house to visit my mother. It was the first time I met her, and I didn’t think it appropriate to talk about Falun Dafa. My mother told me quietly, “Tell her what you know.” So I told my brother’s friend the facts about Dafa. She understood what I said and quit the Communist Youth League and Young Pioneers, which are the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) youth organizations. She became clearer on some issues that had confused her about Falun Dafa. Afterward, I thanked my mother for telling me to talk to this person. She replied, “I didn’t say that!” This was precisely how Master used my mother’s mouth to encourage me to tell my brother’s friend the truth about Dafa.

After I filed a criminal complaint against Jiang Zemin (former head of the CCP) for launching the persecution of Falun Dafa, I received a phone call from the police station ordering me to go there. I said, “I don’t have time,” and refused to go. Then, I noticed that two colleagues at work seemed to be monitoring me, one male and one female. The male colleague appeared to be following me everywhere. I was terrified and felt tremendous pressure.

While taking my daughter to work, I told her about this. She said, “Mother, if you think it’s real, it’s real. If you think it’s false, it’s false. It depends on how you think.” I realized that Master was telling me this through my daughter’s mouth. I was immensely relieved, and realized that it was my fear causing the false appearance. The male colleague’s strange behavior disappeared after I let go of my fear.

I have always hoped to have a husband who cares and loves me deeply. My husband is a good person, but he is very strict with me. If I do something wrong, he will scold me, and then let me solve the problem by myself. He was even more like this after we started to cultivate. I followed the requirements of the Fa and maintained my xinxing, while eliminating a number of attachments. I gradually eliminated my sentimentality for my husband.

I mentioned the past one day, and he said, “Do you just want me to spoil you?” He was correct, but I told him I didn’t want that anymore. He said earnestly, “If I still treated you like that, would you be able to practice Falun Dafa?” I felt that those words did not come out of his mouth, but Master was enlightening me through his mouth. If he spoiled me, I might not be able to practice Falun Dafa.

My brothers and sisters-in-law occupied my mother’s house and property over the past year. They wanted to send my mother to a nursing home. The situation was excruciating for me, and included getting rid of sentimentality for my family, and giving up self-interest. I ultimately let go of everything and cared for my mother alone. After studying the Fa and looking inward, I gradually let go of my jealousy and resentment toward my brothers and sisters-in-law.

Because my xinxing did not meet the standard, I experienced physical problems during that time. My lower abdomen was frequently swollen and painful, caused by jealousy and resentment. One morning when I woke up, my muscles and bones were aching, and my lower abdomen was swollen and painful. I told my husband that I was miserable, to which he immediately replied, “Only hard work can achieve great merit!” I felt grateful to Master in my heart! I cleared away my jealousy and resentment and treated those who were predestined with me with genuine compassion and kindness. Without any bitterness or hatred everything returned to normal.

I asked Master, “Master, what is selflessness and to have compassion completely for others?” In an instant, I experienced this sacred and beautiful feeling, which cannot be described. That is infinite beauty and infinite happiness! It turns out that doing everything for others is so beautiful!

Master, I must continue cultivating and reach the realm of selflessness and altruism and devote myself to saving all sentient beings.