(Minghui.org) I live in a small village located in a remote, poor, and rugged mountain region. There is limited arable land and recently, nearly all of the farmland was submerged under water when it was released from the reservoir.
I receive some financial support from my children and a monthly subsidy of 100 yuan for the elderly. I’ve lived in poverty since I was young, so I’m frugal. My older brother teases me and calls me an “old miser.”
I cherish every little thing, and I even pick up anything—from a single sorghum grain to a pancake crumb. My family owns about two acres of apple orchards, but I haven’t eaten a perfect apple for a decade. I only pick rotten apples, cut out the bad part, and eat what’s left. I collect apples with scars or awkward shapes that people don’t want to buy, and during the winter season I give them to friends and relatives who don’t have apple trees or other fruit.
In short, I’m very attached to money and material possessions. I would probably wake up with a smile if I found an egg in my dreams.
When I went to the bank I found I had an extra 8,000 yuan. My jaw dropped when the banker told me my savings account had over 8,000 yuan. I’d never seen that much money in my life! I asked my children and relatives, but they all said they hadn’t transferred any money to me, and they would have told me if they did.
Where did the money come from? I then recalled Master’s teaching of “no loss, no gain.” (Lecture One, Zhuan Falun)
The money came from an unknown source and it wasn’t mine, so I shouldn’t keep it even though I’m poor. I asked the banker to find out who the money belonged to and to pay the person back. But he said, “It’s hard to trace. I’ll leave it in your account for now and investigate later.”
I kept pressing him to investigate, but he kept brushing me off with excuses. In order to boost his performance metrics, he transferred the 8,000 yuan into a three-year fixed-term deposit for me. I thought, “Fine, let him deposit it. When it matures, I’ll use the money to make Falun Dafa informational materials.”
When two practitioners came to my house I told them what happened and explained my plan. They were happy that a poor person like me wasn’t going to keep the money. But they thought using the money for Dafa materials was not appropriate, and that I should return it to the owner. So one practitioner asked her son who worked at the bank to investigate and return the money to the rightful owner.
When practitioners praised me I told them, “This is what Master would want me to do, and any practitioner would do what I’ve done. I’m simply following Master’s teachings and not keeping the money.”
I felt Master arranged the incident to test me, since I value money so much. It was a good thing I remembered the Fa principle of “no loss, no gain” when I saw the extra 8,000 yuan in my account. I wasn’t greedy and I didn’t want to keep the money.
The two practitioners who helped me were happy for what I did. The power of Dafa prompted me to share my cultivation experience.
I’m grateful for Master’s compassionate guidance over the years. I couldn’t have given up the 8,000 yuan that fell into my lap if I didn’t practice Falun Dafa and eliminated my attachment to money and profit.
Thank you, Master, for saving me! Thank you, fellow practitioners, for your help!
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