After I Let Go of Fear and Sent Righteous Thoughts, My Son Avoided the Political Background Review and Granted a Government Position

(Minghui.org) I am a veteran Falun Dafa practitioner who began practicing before 1999. I would like to share a recent experience with fellow practitioners about passing a xinxing test.

My son graduated from a second-tier university in 2023. The Chinese economy is currently very sluggish, and it is difficult to find a suitable job after graduating from a prestigious university, not to mention an average university. My family persuaded him to try to apply for a government position, but the competition was fierce with hundreds of people applying for one position. He was not confident but still signed up for an exam in another city.

In mid-July 2023, the exam results came out and my son took first place, so he could attend an interview at the end of the month.

I didn’t expect my son to do so well on the exam. I just wanted him to give it a try. I was happy, but I worried about the political background check after the interview. Two years ago, I was illegally arrested for telling people about Falun Dafa (also known as Falun Gong). The police ransacked my home and illegally detained me. The police told my son that because I practiced Falun Gong and had a “criminal record,” it would affect three generations of our family, and my family members could not join the military or take civil service examinations. At that time, I thought to myself, “Our Master is in charge; what you said doesn’t count. Besides, we don’t plan to be soldiers or civil servants; we can do other work.”

I hadn’t wanted my son to take the civil service exam at all, and now this problem was in front of me. I knew that a test of my xinxing was coming. At the beginning, my mind was chaotic, scared, negative, and helpless. I couldn’t do housework, and I thought about the political review from time to time when I studied the Fa. My thoughts rolled out like a tide.

Sometimes I thought, “Why don’t I go to the police department in advance to check my record and see if there is a problem?” I immediately realized that this thought was wrong; isn’t this acknowledging the old forces’ arrangements?! Sometimes I thought, “If there really is a problem, my family members will definitely find some back door, and I won’t need to come forward.” I immediately denied this idea too, “I am a cultivator, how can I place my expectations on ordinary people? Besides, if we go through a back door, what will ordinary people think of Dafa and Dafa practitioners when they know about it?” Then I thought, “Why don’t I ask fellow practitioners help me to send forth righteous thoughts?” As soon as this thought came out, I laughed to myself. This is a test that I have to pass, what does it have to do with fellow practitioners? Fellow practitioners are all busy doing the three things. How can I bother them and interfere with them saving sentient beings?

In the end, I decided that I would believe in Master and the Fa and pass the test myself. Whenever a bad thought arose, I recited Master’s Fa:

“I’m Li Hongzhi’s disciple, I don’t want other arrangements or acknowledge them.” (Teachings Given on Lantern Festival Day, 2003)

I recalled Master’s scripture, “Dafa Spiritual Practice Is Serious.” Dafa disciples’ lives are only under the control of Dafa. I silently said in my heart, “I am only under the control of Dafa; no one else is in charge of my life, and whoever touches me is a committing a sin.”

I was studying the second lecture of Zhuan Falun with a group of fellow practitioners one day when I read “Transcending the Five Elements and the Three Realms”. I was particularly impressed by this sentence. I realized that I was a life outside the Three Realms, and extremely tall. The evil set out to persecute me, but it could not reach me. When I got home, I recited this sentence repeatedly. In this way, I kept rejecting the bad thoughts and reciting Master’s Fa. After five or six days, my mind gradually stabilized, and I felt that this matter was getting farther and farther away from me, and it was not a big deal.

During this time, my daughter asked me if her brother could pass the political review. I said, “Yes, it will be fine.” My sister also called me and asked, “Sister, the child of a colleague of mine had passed the exam for half a year and hasn’t gone to work yet. The political review is very rigorous. Can your son pass it?” I said, “It will be fine.” Although I was not entirely sure in my heart, I thought that Master has asked Dafa disciples to play the leading role in society, and I have to play this leading role well. Ordinary people have to revolve around Dafa disciples.

When my son came home after the interview, he said to me with a sad face, “Mom, the total score (written plus in person interview) has not been announced yet, but I know that the person who came second in the written test did not have a higher interview score than mine. I think my overall score is stable, but I am afraid of the political review.” My son was naturally under a lot of pressure.

I understood my son’s feelings, but I firmly refused to acknowledge this persecution. I said firmly, “The political review will be fine. You have neither broken the law nor committed a crime.” My son was a little unconvinced, “How do you know that it will be okay?” I said, “Our Master is in charge, so we will leave everything to Master. Master has the final say, no one else. Even if you can’t pass this political review, you can’t resent Master and Dafa. Everything we have is given by Master and Dafa, and Master has better arrangements.” My son said happily, “Mom, I can see it, if I can’t pass it this time, I will take the test in our city again.”

When my son was in elementary school, he studied Zhuan Falun with me. When he grew up, he often recited “Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good,” and he usually read all the truth clarification materials I gave him, such as Minghui Weekly and “Coming for You,” and he understands the truth about Dafa.

I said, “Son, it’s good for you to recite Falun Dafa is good, Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance is good. I’m here to send forth righteous thoughts.” I sat in full lotus position, first cleansing myself for about half an hour, and then I sent righteous thoughts, thinking: first eliminate all evil beings and factors; the police are also the lives of the Fa, I’m hoping that they will not commit crimes against Dafa so that they can have a bright future.

I thought that my non-cultivating family members had been under a lot of pressure over the years because I had been harassed and persecuted, and I was always worried that my illegal detention would affect my son. If my son didn’t pass the political review, my son would not be hired, and my family members would have negative thoughts about Dafa, which would affect their acceptance of the truth. I must not allow the old forces to destroy our family. So I had a righteous thought that I should completely eliminate all the evil beings and factors that interfere with my family’s salvation.

I later realized that I still had the mentality of acknowledging the persecution, and Master told us not to even acknowledge the old forces themselves; we were not cultivating in the tribulations they had arranged, so we couldn’t let them examine Dafa practitioners at all. I sent forth righteous thoughts again to completely eliminate the evil political review and to not allow them to judge Dafa practitioners, to not allow them to commit crimes against Dafa, so that they could also be saved by Dafa. If my son couldn’t pass the political review, what we would lose was only a job opportunity for my son, but what they would lose because they were involved in the persecution of Dafa was the eternity of their lives.

In the process of sending forth righteous thoughts, I felt the energy become stronger and stronger, and my whole body was surrounded by energy. It lasted for an hour and twenty minutes, and by 1:10 a.m. I felt relatively calm, so I went to sleep.

At six o’clock the next morning, I continued to send forth righteous thoughts. Before nine o’clock, my son received a notice that said he had been hired.

My son has now officially worked there for six months. Relatives, friends, and colleagues of mine, who knew about this praised my son for being excellent. I deeply know that it is not that my son is excellent, but that our great Master has been protecting disciples, and it is Master who helped us dissolve the evil persecution. Thank you, Master!

Looking back on this experience, I realized two points. First, the power of Dafa disciples’ righteous thoughts. I had stood on the basis of saving sentient beings, and treated this matter with righteous thoughts, without considering personal fame, interests, and emotion, and without being attached to my son’s future. We hadn’t used any ordinary people’s practices to go through the back door using relationships. I had thought only about the salvation of sentient beings, and this was on the right path. Master had helped me resolve the tribulation, and the evil could not find an excuse to persecute us. Second, I rejected the thoughts that did not conform to Dafa, resolutely refused to admit that they were mine, and repeatedly recited Master’s Fa to eliminate the thought karma.

This is my current understanding. If there is anything in my sharing that is not in accordance with the Fa, please kindly point it out.