(Minghui.org) For nearly two years, encouraged by fellow practitioners, I participated in a project that collected, organized, and edited practitioners’ Fa conference articles. Here, I’d like to share some of my experiences and understandings gained during this process.
While collecting and organizing fellow practitioners’ cultivation experience articles, I took being responsible to the Fa as the standard. I normally talked to practitioners in person, so that we could produce an article that conformed to the true situation as much as possible. I tried to see if practitioners’ understandings were based on the Fa by comparing them with the Fa, and also verified if they had quoted Master’s Fa correctly. There could not be anything that contradicted the Fa.
The standards in traditional culture exceed modern people’s levels of moral integrity. I thus required myself to read and listen to more content related to traditional culture, and articles related to disintegrating Chinese Communist Party (CCP) culture. I tried to familiarize myself with this type of content, so that I could avoid having CCP culture elements in the sharing articles, to be closer to traditional culture.
Not Leaving Out Any Practitioner
Anping submitted her sharing article rather late last year. As the practitioner who received her article was not skilled at typing, and during the screening of the article some parts of the article were also found to be at odds with the standards for xinxing cultivation for a practitioner, the practitioner who received the article finally decided to return the article to Anping.
I happened to learn about this matter and discussed it with fellow practitioners. “No matter what, Anping enthusiastically joined the Fa conference,” I said. “We should be thankful for Master’s benevolent salvation and not discourage her. Everyone can share good suggestions on how to improve her sharing. After that, we can share with her and read the updated version to her. She will understand.”
Some practitioners gave suggestions, while others helped type out the article. The task was completed quickly, and it just happened that Anping arrived as we finished. We read the article that we had edited for her, and she fully agreed with it. Satisfied, Anping said, “Very good. This is what I had wanted to write. Thank you!” We then sent the article to the practitioner who submits the articles, and this practitioner helped her to submit it in time.
This year, Anping’s cultivation experience sharing article did not require us to edit it for her, and the content was in line with the Fa. Anping is able to persuade many people to quit the CCP and its affiliated organizations every day through clarifying the truth to them. Her diligent cultivation state had also influenced her husband. Her husband had objected to her going out to clarify the truth, but now he asks, “Are you going out today? I heard that you can speak very well.”
Master Gives Me Wisdom
I understand fellow practitioners’ wish to write cultivation experience sharing articles. They have benefited a lot from the Fa over the years, so they are very grateful to Master for his infinite Buddha grace. They have no way to repay Master, and can only use their cultivation experience sharing articles to express their profound gratitude. Therefore, no matter how tight time may be, how sloppily the paper may be written, or how many areas are not in accordance with the Fa, I try my best to find practitioners’ strengths. With the intention of maintaining as much of the practitioners’ original intent, I try to discuss the articles with the practitioners to reach an agreement with them before I tidy up the content into the final article.
When there are some parts of an article that I am not sure about, or if I do not really understand what the practitioner is trying to express, I calm myself down and look within to see what experience or lesson the practitioner is trying to share with fellow cultivators. I also think about the practitioner’s objective in choosing the topic, and ask myself if I have added my own thoughts and level of understanding. Have I tried to keep it as close to the truth as possible? When I cannot find a solution, I will ask Master for empowerment to help me attain an outcome that conforms to Master’s arrangements. I will beg Master to give me wisdom so I can edit the articles well. When I have finally read the articles to practitioners, they have been very happy and have said, “That is exactly what I was thinking about, but I did not know how to express it. What you have written has really struck a chord with my thoughts.” In actual fact, this all came from Master’s empowerment.
Due to a tight deadline, I once typed an article through the night without sleep. In the morning, I wanted to read it through one last time to the practitioner before sending it out, but I was required to attend morning meetings at work every morning. If I did not attend the meeting, it would delay that day’s plans and arrangements, and I would also be fined. After thinking it over, I decided that the Fa was the top priority and I should finish whatever I needed to do for the article before going to work. Not long after that, a colleague told me, “You are really lucky, the morning meeting today was canceled, so you won’t be fined.” The morning meeting had never been canceled before.
I once stayed with a practitioner longer so I could listen to her experiences more, so we could choose some better topics, but when we were done, the bus that would take me home was due to leave in ten minutes. Theoretically, I wouldn’t be able to catch the bus. As I ran, I begged Master to enable me to go through another dimension. In the end, not only did I manage to catch the bus, the bus even waited a while before setting off. The bus came late that day.
Participation Is Important
Master said,
“It is necessary for disciples to share with one another what they have experienced and learned in their cultivation. There is no problem with them helping one another make progress together, so long as they don’t have any intention of showing themselves off.” (“The Fa Conference,”Essentials for Further Advancement)
Initially, some practitioners who worked with me on the articles asked, “We have written a lot of articles, why have none of them been published? Is it because our writing skills need to improve?” I thought that my cultivation might not have reached the mark, and I also have CCP culture in me which makes me not aligned with the Fa. I must cultivate myself well. However, even though the articles had not been published, they contained what practitioners wanted to tell Master. Master knows. During this process, we recalled and once again experienced Dafa’s supernatural and great capabilities, encouraging us to be diligent in our cultivation. Organizing the articles is also a form of cultivation and improvement. Everyone who participated in this improved together and did not care about the results.
We later saw that the articles were gradually being published. That was a very big encouragement to me and the practitioners who had participated in this project. We knew that practitioners have kept up with the Fa-rectification process as an entity. If there was no perseverance and trust right from the start, there would be no encouragement in the later phase.
For this year’s World Falun Dafa Day, we divided ourselves into a few small groups and held small-scale cultivation experience sharing conferences in a few places. We read our articles, no matter whether they had been published or not, as the articles represented our current realms and levels, and our gratitude to Master. The articles also validate the Fa’s greatness.
I hope that all fellow practitioners can make use of their strengths, cooperate well with one another to come up with good articles, and improve together based on the Fa.
Articles in which cultivators share their understandings typically reflect an individual's perception at a point in time based on their cultivation state, and they are offered in the spirit of enabling mutual elevation.
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