(Minghui.org) After my family began practicing Falun Dafa, we live according to the Fa’s principles. We keep Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance in our hearts, and the way we act influences those around us.
As practitioners, we emphasize improving our xinxing and we do our jobs to the best of our ability. When there are conflicts instead of blaming others, we look inward to see where we can improve. However, my mood tends to fluctuate with my cultivation. I was focused on loss and gain when I wasn’t in a good cultivation state.
When our supervisor assigned overtime work, I thought: “Please don’t assign this to me, or else I’ll have to stay late...” My coworkers were able to find ways to avoid extra work. I didn’t do this. Instead I contributed much more than they did. So, the supervisor usually assigned the extra work to me.
Through diligent Fa study, I learned to remain unmoved. I put my self-interest aside, and did whatever task I was asked to do without complaint. As a result, my situation changed. I received fewer assignments that required staying late, and I was usually able to leave work on time.
I learned that people’s affairs I encountered seemed insignificant on the surface, but were actually arranged by Master to help me eliminate my attachments. Those troubles were inconsequential. I realize they exist to help me elevate in cultivation.
My husband and I were college classmates, and I told him the importance of quitting organizations affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He knew about the persecution of Falun Dafa, and that Falun Dafa is a righteous cultivation.
He worked at a restaurant. Since he didn’t know how to drive the electric bike, he usually delivered food with a coworker.
He was told to help chop vegetables in the kitchen one day, so that day his coworker delivered the food by himself. The coworker got into an accident and had to be hospitalized. When I heard this, my first thought was: “Withdrawing from the CCP will keep one safe.” If my husband (who was then my classmate) was not told to help in the kitchen, he would have been involved in the accident. I felt he avoided danger because he chose not to be part of the CCP’s organizations.
My husband was diagnosed with tuberculosis while we were still in college. He had to leave school and be treated at a hospital. Because he could not afford the high fees he asked to be discharged from the hospital and went back to his hometown in the countryside for treatment. He felt his symptoms were gone after a couple of check ups at his village infirmary. A CT test result showed his lung was completely cleared. He recovered in less than a month.
The doctor compared my husband’s before and after CT scans and said, “I’ve never seen someone recover from tuberculosis in less than a month. You’re a special case!”
I visited him when he was in the hospital, and the thought: “Will I get infected?” never crossed my mind. I was fine. He knew I was a Falun Dafa practitioner and he was supportive, so he was blessed.
We met again after we graduated and got married. My husband began practicing Falun Dafa. I knew he must have had a predestined with Dafa because Master took care of him before he began cultivating, and helped him eliminate karma through hardships.
My oldest son did not like school. His first grade teacher said he was, “emotionally withdrawn.” Every morning he looked at me with tears in his eyes and asked, “Mom, do I have to go to school today?” He repeatedly wrote: “I miss you mom” in his note book.
He attempted to leave school by climbing over the wall, but was caught by security. As soon as I dropped him off one day, he took advantage of the busy hustle and bustle at the school gate, and sneaked out. I did not know about it until his teacher called me, and asked why my child was not in school. We eventually found him after my parents’ neighbor alerted us. He walked an hour to my parents’ neighborhood and a neighbor recognized him.
I could sense my son’s inner pressure. Encouragements, rewards and strict talks were tried with minimal results. I realized that only Dafa can change someone’s heart.
In the past, I worried that my son might not have the ability to read the Fa on his own, simply because he was too young, and knew too few characters, so I read the book (Zhuan Falun) to him.
I encouraged him to read on his own. Gradually, reading the Fa became his routine. When he faced conflicts or problems, he learned to use the Fa to evaluate the situation. His issue with school improved.
My two children are thriving. They follow Falun Dafa’s guiding principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. As for studying the Fa, they went from reading one paragraph a day, one character at a time to reading one lecture a week.
Dafa opens one’s wisdom. My children are top students and even participated in some academic competitions. They help their classmates and teachers. They are able to handle difficult situations with grace and are well liked. I believe this is thanks to their learning the principles of Falun Dafa.