(Minghui.org) I’m a young female Falun Dafa practitioner who began practicing relatively late. As my grandpa, grandma, mom and my aunt are all veteran practitioners, I gained a shallow understanding about the practice at a young age and have always deeply respected Master and Dafa. So, with such a background, I believed that I would be diligent in Dafa cultivation.
However, the world is full of temptations. Gradually I became obsessed with everyday amusements and a colorful lifestyle, losing direction and treating Fa study and exercises as a mere formality.
For months at a time I would not read Zhuan Falun, and even though we run a small truth-clarifying material production site at home, I never read any sharing articles by fellow practitioners, and did nothing in terms of sending forth righteous thoughts or clarifying the truth to save sentient beings.
The only difference between me and an everyday person was that in my heart I knew that I had a different goal in life. Still, just like that, I let the years slip by in a haze.
In August 2025, as soon as I returned home from a two-day work shift, my mom showed me a printout of a sharing article and said to me in an urgent tone, “You’d better read this quickly. Master’s Fa-rectification will soon come to an end, and we really don’t have much time left. If we still slack off in what we should do, we will surely be left out!”
Mom’s words made me feel a bit tense in my heart, but only a tiny bit. I took the printout, and saw the title of the article “Hurry up! Our Cultivation Will Reach an End Any Moment”.
I quickly read the article, and mixed emotions surged through me. I know that since the fellow practitioner could accurately pinpoint the remaining time left in Fa-rectification, it means that it is indeed coming to an end, yet I still felt a numbness in my heart.
Seeing that I was sitting there in silence, mom wiped away her tears and said, “Yesterday, after I read the article, two miraculous things happened. Last night, I saw in my dream that I was lying in bed, but my body was like a 20-year-old young man in a white gown.
“Suddenly, a pair of big hands waved over my body a few times. I knew clearly in my dream that Master had completely transformed me! When I woke up, I still remembered everything from my dream and felt that my mind was free from all those attachments and random thoughts, as if Master had removed them.” She continued, “I switched on my computer, and in just five minutes, I was able to get onto Minghui.org! It’s truly incredible!”
Before then, we had been unable to access Minghui.org for almost a month. Mom became more emotional as she was telling me all this, “My child, we are approaching the last moment, we can’t keep going like this anymore. You must let go of your big attachment to writing novels. As long as you have a thought to rectify yourself and to be diligent in cultivation, Master will surely take care of you!”
Looking at my mom at that moment, it was hard to believe that only two days earlier, she was watching short dramas on her phone until after midnight. I know for certain that it’s our great compassionate Master who helped her improve.
Still, I didn’t say anything and went to my bedroom, where I began to reflect on my so-called cultivation path.
I felt really ashamed and unworthy of the title of Dafa disciple. Would Master still take care of someone like me? Do I still deserve Master’s kindness and grace?Suddenly, I was overwhelmed by a deep sense of heaviness in my heart, and found it hard to breathe.
Just then, a thought flashed through my mind: I’d better stop writing novels. It would be really good if I could let go of this huge attachment. In an instant, I picked up my phone and deleted a compilation of ideas and plot lines—nearly ten million words accumulated over the years.
The moment the files became empty, I felt completely lighthearted, as if a heavy mountain was lifted from my shoulders. I came out of my room with tears in my eyes and told mom what I had just done.
Mom kept nodding her head, also in tears, saying, “Good, very good. Thank you, Master! Thank you, Master!” She continued, “To be honest, I didn’t expect that you could delete all those things. You have at last overcome this most critical barrier in your life. Master has never given up on us. We still have hope!”
Indeed, our Master has always been so compassionate and tolerant toward every Dafa disciple.
Then, mom suggested that we watch the movie Once We Were Divine together. Earlier, she had mentioned it several times, encouraging me to watch the movie, but I refused to do so as I was preoccupied with everyday people’s entertainment. But this time, I couldn’t wait to watch the movie with my mom.
The movie has truly revealed so many heavenly secrets, and I could clearly understand why Master wants to rectify the Fa, and why I could become a Dafa disciple, as well as the serious mission and responsibility we have on our shoulders— assisting Master in saving sentient beings. If we fail in our cultivation and do not honor the pledge we made, we will face grave and irreversible consequences.
Since then, both my mom and I have made up our minds to cultivate ourselves diligently during the remaining time. We study the Fa more often, and strive to conduct ourselves by the Fa principles in everything we do. We have also felt the wonderfulness of being immersed in the Fa.
Mom reflected, “I’ve been cultivating in Dafa for so many years, but only now I understand what solid cultivation means!”
As mom is relatively young among fellow practitioners in our area, and we also have a small material production site at home, she is responsible for communication among local practitioners.
With her new enlightenment in cultivation, she thinks of others and encourages local practitioners to download and watch the movie Once We Were Divine and read the article “Hurry up! Our Cultivation Will Reach an End Any Moment.”
Through group sharing, everyone is inspired to do improve and be more diligent in cultivation. With such a single thought, our compassionate Master removes many degenerated things and destructive thoughts from us. We must become clear-headed straight away and be more diligent in what we should do.
I would like to share some of my cultivation experiences in the past four months.
Free from Competitive and Fighting Mindset with No Resentment
As I became more diligent in cultivation, I started to read Master’s Fa teachings given in various places, which I had not read in the past. I was often deeply touched and in tears by the profundity of the Fa principles and the boundless compassion of Master for all sentient beings. As I was progressing in cultivation, Master also arranged new xinxing tests for me for further improvement.
My boss at work is very harsh and unpopular, and she used to blame me often for no reason, in a harsh tone and very blunt. On a number of occasions, when I couldn’t bear it anymore, I slammed the table, yelling at her, with strong feelings of resentment and hostility.
One day, while reading “Teachings at the Conference of Changchun Assistants,” I noticed this line—Master said,
“Those who say bad things about you are everyday people, not Gods and Buddhas. Why would a cultivator be affected by that?”(Teachings at the Conference of Changchun Assistants)
I instantly became clear-headed and thought: Why do I pay so much attention to what my boss says? It doesn’t mean anything. Furthermore, she is giving me opportunities to improve my xinxing. I aspire to make breakthroughs in cultivation, and this is not decided by my boss.
Almost instantly, I let go of all my hatred and resentment toward her, and fear of being blamed. I made up my mind that I would conduct myself by the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance and treat my boss with kindness, so that I can better validate the Fa, and I may even have an opportunity to clarify the truth to her about Falun Dafa so that she can be saved as well.
Since then, I have always viewed my boss as beautiful and very capable. She has also become kind and considerate toward me.
Being Confident in What We Think and Doing What Is Right
I feel strongly that as I understand how to cultivate myself by the Fa principles, I can handle tests more easily to make new breakthroughs, and at the same time become enlightened to more Fa principles. Although I started late, I feel a strong sense of urgency to assist Master in saving lives.
However, it wasn’t as easy as I imagined. Thanks to the encouragement from my mom, we often go out to put up truth-clarification stickers in the evening, and to clarify the truth to people face to face at big markets. During this process, some attachments I wasn’t aware of in the past also surfaced, such as fear, anxiety anda sense of resistance.
Mom said, “Only by coming out and facing up to the challenges, can you let go of these attachments layer by layer. Don’t be afraid, because we have Master protecting us at all times.”
One evening, just as I finished putting up a truth-clarification sticker on a utility pole, a police car drove past me. They should have noticed me putting up the sticker, but they drove past me as if I was invisible. Thank you, Master for your compassionate protection!
I feel that I have been much less afraid since that experience, and have started to clarify the truth to those customers I’m familiar with, and the results have been quite good thanks to Master’s encouragement.
I have read many sharing articles on Minghui.org lately and have learned a lot. By comparison, I’m so far behind, and the only way to catch up is to be more diligent on my path of cultivation and never again fail to live up to Master’s compassionate salvation and fellow practitioners’ kind help and encouragement.
Lastly, I would like to say a few words to those who may have let themselves slack off and disengage from fellow practitioners as I did in the past. Please wake up quickly! Even for someone like me who has been so sloppy and scattered, Master has kindly given me opportunities again and again and never given up on me.
We have come a long way to reach where we are now. Please do not give up at this most critical moment. The only way not to give up is to quickly pull ourselves together and push forward!
The above is only some of my shallow understanding. Please kindly point out anything improper in the sharing.
Thank you, Master for your compassionate salvation. Thank you, fellow practitioners for your kind encouragement and help.
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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