Being a Genuine Practitioner and Saving Sentient Beings

(Minghui.org) I gradually realized that my good character, noble words and deeds, and excellent moral character were changing the environment around me and showing the merits of Dafa. I started practicing Falun Dafa in 1996.

Regaining My Health and Elevating My Morality After Practicing Falun Dafa

I had postpartum fever after giving birth to my daughter. I later suffered from neurasthenia, insomnia, enteritis, frequent diarrhea, and lack of energy during the day. Hospitals couldn’t cure my illnesses, so I tried different qigong practices, but nothing helped.

I was transferred to a governmental bureau not long after I started working. Because the bureau had more people than needed, people in the bureau liked gossiping and scheming. There were often banquets, where I drank a lot but was never drunk. In such an environment, coupled with my bad temper, I developed a distorted personality of being unyielding, unreasonably argumentative, and fighting for every profit I could get. As a result, my health worsened.

After practicing Falun Dafa for a short time, I became disease-free. I read the Fa and realized that I should be tolerant, but it was difficult. I reminded myself every morning, “Don’t talk back if someone scolds me, be patient.” I could control myself during the day, but I still dreamed about having quarrels with people. It took me a long time to get past this stage.

The work unit held a fishing competition every year, with no distinction between men and women, and I was often among the top three. After practicing Dafa, I understood the principle that practitioners cannot kill, so I no longer participated. Master taught us not to drink alcohol. I decided to quit drinking, and then alcohol tasted awful to me. My colleagues found out that I didn’t drink anymore and they thought it was incredible. I asked them to read Dafa books and played the video of Master’s nine-day lectures in the labor union’s office. Everyone who watched it said it was very good, and some of my colleagues began to practice Falun Dafa too.

At that time drugstores sold all kinds of daily necessities. People often bought things in the drugstores and got reimbursed from the work unit. Master purified my body and I was no longer sick. I decided not to claim medical expenses and not to seek personal gains from purchasing office supplies. At first it was difficult to make ends meet. I later became used to it and no longer felt it was so difficult. The work unit then had financial difficulties and allocated medical budget in cash according to a ratio of one’s salary. This replaced the medical expenses reimbursements. The ratio was low, and many people found it was not enough to cover their medical expenses. But I could keep all the money. I began to feel the wonder of cultivation practice.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started persecuting Falun Dafa in July 1999. I began to be pressured by my family, work unit, the subdistrict office, and the 610 Office. I clarified truth to the new leaders at the bureau face-to-face. A colleague told me one day that my manager had gone to the bureau Party secretary to complain about me. The secretary didn’t deal with her complaint, so she then went to the director to complain about me. The director didn't listen to her, either. “If she keeps making complaints, it won’t be good for you! You’d better be careful,” my colleague warned me.

My manager and I had a grudge between us. She was unfamiliar with the business, but always spoke in an official tone when she became the manager of our unit. I looked down on her and often criticized her when there were many people around. I didn’t resolve the grudge between us, and I ignored it. I remembered what Master had said about Hanxin enduring the indignity of crawling on his hands and knees between another man’s legs, and I knew that I should let go of my pride, so I decided to apologize to her in public. One morning at our staff cafeteria, I saw my manager come in and there was a vacant seat at our table. I stood up, gestured with my hand and smiled, “Would you like to sit down and eat with us?” She was at a loss. I felt that at that moment, we became the focus, and everyone else was holding their breath.

After she sat down, I said, “When you first became the manager, you were not familiar with the business. I did not help you and even caused trouble for you. I was wrong. I apologize.” She was moved and said: “It’s all over, it’s all over.” I continued, “I was not in good health and in a bad mood at that time. Please forgive me. I now practice Falun Gong, which gave me good health. Falun Gong also taught me how to be a good person. If I hadn’t practiced Falun Gong, I would not have apologized to you today.” She said: “That’s right; we don’t participate in politics. As long as we are healthy, that’s fine.”

After she left, colleagues from other tables came over and commented. One said, “Master Li is so capable and can teach you to be a good person.” Another said, “Falun Gong is so amazing. I am enlightened today.” Another one said, “I am touched by you. I know Falun Gong is good. I just don’t have the courage to practice it.”

Someone later told me that my manager had spoken highly of me. I knew that Master had resolved the issue for me because he saw that my xinxing was at the right level.

Creating an Environment to Validate Dafa

The staff from the district’s 610 Office notified the bureau leaders and demanded a meeting with me, saying that they wanted to inspect the “transforming” work in person. My colleagues had asked me not to offend the people from 610 office and suggested I could lie to them and say I had quit practicing Falun Gong, otherwise I might be detained. At that time, many practitioners had been detained in brainwashing classes or sent to labor camps. There were no fellow practitioners around me to learn from. I kept asking Master to save me.

Four people from the 610 Office came to my workplace. When I met them, I didn’t say a word, but kept asking Master to save me in my heart. After a long stalemate, as they left, one said, “This won’t work, we have to come more often in the future.” After they left, my colleagues all blamed me, but I knew Master had resolved the situation for me.

They really did start coming often after that; sometimes one alone, sometimes two of them; the number of people was not fixed, and there were often new faces. Their presence annoyed my colleagues and the bureau leaders. I clarified the truth to them when the situation allowed. My colleagues also talked to them from a human perspective. They felt unwelcome so they handed me over to the city’s 610 Office.

For more than a year, I was often harassed at work and could be abducted at any time. I was always afraid.

Master said,

“All beings in the cosmos are repositioning themselves. Humans aren’t worthy of testing this Fa, and neither are gods. Whoever touches it commits a sin. They have seen all of this as well.” (“Fa Teaching Given at the Great Lakes Fa Conference in North America,” in Guiding the Voyage)

“How could it be allowed if during the course of a being’s progressing towards the surface and gradually becoming divine, he doesn’t make his own sacrifices, doesn’t continue to improve himself, and doesn’t establish his own mighty virtue?” (“Fa Teaching Given at the Great Lakes Fa Conference in North America,” in Guiding the Voyage)

Master’s teaching awakened me. Several people who had been monitoring me said that they envied my good job. Before I used to think they were persecuting me, so I hated them. Now I looked at them and realized they were pitiful; some of them had been laid off, so they took this job to earn a living, but were harming themselves. The old forces are so bad. These people were waiting for us to awaken them and save them. At that moment, I knew that my mission was to save sentient beings. Falun Dafa practitioners were not doing it for Master, nor were we doing it for Master to see. Rather, Master gave us the opportunity to establish our mighty virtue.

I also realized that I was getting rid of various attachments, especially fear, in the process of clarifying the truth. I understood that if we don’t save people, we are committing a sin. Whoever blocks the saving of people is committing a sin. Master also gave us the supernatural power of sending forth righteous thoughts. Only when we don’t do well will we be interfered with by the evil, so Master asked us to study the Fa well.

Later a new Party Secretary joined the bureau and wanted to see me. My section chief accompanied me, and I told the secretary why I practiced. Afterwards, the new bureau director also wanted to see me, and my section chief accompanied me again. After I finished speaking, the director was deep in thought. The chief said, “You have become stupid from practicing Falun Gong. Would you pick up money if you found it on the ground?” I said, “I wouldn’t pick it up.” The chief said, “Are you stupid? You don’t even want money when you see it.”

I asked, “Which one is better: to return the money found or not to pick up lost articles in the street?” The chief said he didn’t understand why I asked. I said, “Returning the money found means a person is good. Not picking up a lost item in the street means all the people are good. If Falun Gong practitioners had a country, it would be a country of saints.” The director laughed out loud. I knew that my chief was just performing in front of his superior to protect me. In fact, when the police came to my house to harass me, he had asked someone to protect me.

The third new bureau leader carried both titles, bureau director and Party secretary. The new director had just taken office and had not yet met with the staff when he received a call from the city’s 610 Office, asking him to cooperate in “transforming’ me. The new bureau leader had been on the highway on his way to a provincial meeting, but he turned back and convened an emergency meeting of the bureau’s Party committee. Two deputy directors introduced my situation and asked him to go to the meeting without delay.

When the director later came back from a trip abroad, I took the initiative to greet him: “What did you see abroad?” He answered knowingly: “I saw [Falun Gong]!”

The department I was in underwent a major reorganization, and I was the only one who stayed. The staff numbers were more than doubled, including new college graduates, people transferred from other departments, and people transferred from other work units. My new colleagues worried that the bureau leaders would reprimand them if I clarified truth to them.

One day, the new deputy director in charge came to our department and talked about the CCP-staged Tiananmen self-immolation incident. I blurted out that it was staged. At that time, no one in the room spoke. I calmly talked about the suspicious points, revealing that it was staged to frame Falun Gong. The deputy director said it was on TV. I said, “No one believes the TV anymore. If you want to know more about the truth, I can go to your office and tell you in detail.” Seeing that the deputy director in charge didn’t oppose my clarifying the truth, my colleagues’ concerns were also dispelled.

As the environment became more relaxed, I used my wisdom to clarify the truth to the people I met at work and persuaded them to withdraw from the CCP and its affiliated organizations, which was very effective. They included workers, residents, teachers, principals, firefighters, doctors, armed police, policemen, 610 Office personnel, and so on.

I have now moved to Australia. Coming to a foreign country is another test. In a relaxed environment, it is easy to become slack. I have to remind myself from time to time to cherish every moment and remember that the purpose of my life is not to enjoy myself, but to return to my original nature. I must be courageous and diligent on the path of cultivation and return to my true home with Master!

Thank you, great and compassionate Master!