(Minghui.org) Greetings revered Master and dear fellow practitioners. I started to practice Falun Dafa in 2011 and I experienced many things including the power and miracles of Dafa. I’ve had many small and large xinxing tests—some I passed well but others I did not. I would like to tell you about some of my experiences while helping with a media project.
The Power of Cooperating Smoothly
I often feel the power when I coordinate with other practitioners while working in a media project. This manifests in different ways and the most obvious one is our cultivation environment.
We have group Fa study in the office every morning, and at lunchtime we do the exercises outdoors together. Once a week, in addition to reading Master’s lectures we talk about our understandings. On weekends we can join the public Falun Dafa practice site near the office. Berlin is a big city, so several local Fa study groups meet every week. Coworkers involved in our project carpool and join local Fa study meetings.
We display a Falun Dafa banner while we do exercises outdoors at lunchtime, and this is telling people about Falun Dafa. Doing this requires special coordination in other cities, but it’s achieved naturally in our media project since many practitioners work in the same office. What a great thing this is!
Our Human Attachments Are Revealed
I interact with many practitioners every day. This is very different from my former cultivation environment where I only met a few practitioners when I went to Fa study or the group practice site. Before, I only saw many practitioners during events or at conferences.
In this media project environment where I interact with many practitioners almost every day, my human notions and attachments, such as jealousy and showing off, surface.
Jealousy
The most obvious test of jealousy concerned accommodation. I didn’t live in Berlin before I joined the project, but I really wanted to move there. At first I had to find temporary accommodation in Berlin because my husband didn’t want to move. I moved from one place to another. I also shared a room with another practitioner. After moving a few times, I finally settled down in a house in Berlin with my husband a few months ago.
At one point, the temporary accommodation was not that close to the office, so it usually took me 40 to 50 minutes to get to the office by taking public transportation and walking. This is normal in a big city like Berlin.
At that time, some coworkers did not live in Berlin but often traveled here. Every time they came, they stayed with coworkers who lived near the office. They could also get a ride with local colleagues when they went to the office or went back. This was very convenient and saved them a lot of time.
I noticed the visiting coworkers left the office at the same time I did but they were given a lift while I had to walk to the bus stop. I felt jealous, sad, and bitter.
I realized these were human emotions. I also understood that my coworkers who came to Berlin from other cities already traveled a long way, so it was only right that they stayed in a more convenient place. Although I don’t live nearby, I don’t have to travel for hours with my luggage.
Some coworkers live further away than I do. One of them has to change trains and travel to work every day, and it takes 50 minutes to an hour; another even needs more than an hour, and she has to commute for almost three hours every day. If the train breaks down or there’s road construction, the time they spend traveling is even longer. Why was I jealous?
Even though I understood this, I still felt bitter.
When I discussed the situation with another practitioner, she told me about a similar experience and gave me some examples of how some practitioners “Let joy be found in hardship” (“Tempering the Will,” Hong Yin). After I talked with the other practitioner the bitterness in my heart gradually disappeared. I realized that I hadn’t thought suffering was a cultivation opportunity, so I couldn’t let go of my human emotions.
When I looked inward further, I realized I had other attachments that were hidden: personal gain and convenience.
After the bitterness in my heart was gone, I was no longer moved and I even felt happy for them when I saw coworkers stayed or lived near the office and were given rides. It’s no longer important to me whether I live far away or close by. Of course, I would like to move closer in the future, but I no longer strive to do so.
The Mentality of Showing Off
I used to be proactive in sharing my thoughts after group Fa study. Another practitioner pointed out that I wanted to show off. At first, I ignored what she said because I felt I was sharing my cultivation experiences for the sake of the whole group. If everyone was silent, how could we communicate?
However, after receiving similar reminders several times, I decided to look within. The sharing itself was not an attachment, but did I have a craving for recognition?
I wondered if I was “excited and pleased” (The Sixth Talk, Zhuan Falun) when I was sharing.
I remembered that one time while I talked, I was very “excited and pleased.” At that time another practitioner said, “Look at this heart of showing off.” I later realized that when I was talking, others may have felt that I was showing off.
Another time, I overheard a coordinator talking about some matters to a few colleagues. I repeated what was said to several colleagues who were not present. I talked excitedly and with great pleasure.
Afterwards, I realized I had a show off mentality. Although I wasn’t gossiping, the way I retold what was said was gossiping. Why was I in such a hurry to spread the message? Was I showing off and trying to let others know that I was well-informed?
Looked at it in a different way: I was not “guarding my speech.”
I want to thank Master and my fellow practitioners for their reminder and for pointing out my attachments. I will pay attention and let go of the attachment of showing off and I will guard my speech.
Taking Sending Forth Righteous Thoughts Seriously
In addition to eliminating our human notions while we are involved in projects, we must keep a clear head and realize that our projects save lives even though it seems that we are doing ordinary peoples’ work. Every day, there are battles between good and evil in other dimensions. This interference can affect our ability to save people if we don’t cooperate with each other well or we allow ourselves to be interfered with.
I’ve experienced interference from my human notions several times. For example, when my coworker did not cooperate with me as I expected, I developed negative thoughts and resentment, which affected my work. I was angry. I realized that I was wrong and I saw a black substance in other dimensions when I sent righteous thoughts. I focused on eliminating that substance and it disappeared. Afterwards, I no longer resented that colleague and I was able to have a normal conversation with her.
Given this experience, I understood that evil will not give up interfering with us even though we are involved in a project to save lives. When evil sees our human notions, it will take advantage of them and interfere. We must not only cultivate ourselves well, but also pay attention to sending forth righteous thoughts to eliminate any interference.
Conclusion
Being part of a media project offers us many cultivation opportunities, and I’m grateful for Master’s arrangement. I can also feel that afterwards, my cultivation level improved. I feel participating in media projects are rare and precious cultivation environments.
Practitioners working in media projects also have to read a lot of ordinary peoples’ news and interact with ordinary people. Therefore, it’s easy to develop human emotions, or discuss and view things like ordinary people.
These are some experiences I had while participating in a media project over the past few years. If there is anything that is not in line with the Fa, please point it out.
Thank you Master! Thank you fellow practitioners!
Heshi
(Selected article presented at the 2024 Germany Fa Conference)
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