(Minghui.org) I am a 14-year-old middle school student. My mother is a Dafa practitioner. Although I grew up in a Dafa family, I did not cultivate diligently. However, Master did not give up on me. Last winter vacation, I read Zhuan Falun twice with my mother and aunt, and from the book I have enlightened to the extraordinariness of Dafa.
Becoming More Tolerant
The atmosphere in schools nowadays is extremely corrupt. Students curse at each other, and even the teachers curse. Most of the students do bad things, including smoking, drinking, and bullying.
On one occasion, one of my classmates cursed at me using offensive vulgar language when I urged her to recite a text. I did not know how to respond and was speechless. After school, I talked to my mother about this incident. She said that more and more students were cursing because the textbooks they read this semester contain a lot of “red genes”—poisonous words from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Instead of getting angry, my mother said I should send forth righteous thoughts to eliminate the evil factors behind them.
Through cultivation, I understood the Fa more deeply. Since that incident, I have done my best to remain unmoved by any circumstance and just focus on sending forth righteous thoughts. This was something that I could not do before. Dafa made me become more tolerant.
Changes in My Classmates
The students in our class were divided into four groups, and each group competed with the others. Everyone in the top group received a bonus, and everyone in the bottom group had to do chores. I was one of the group leaders. My group was on chore duty almost every week last semester because we kept scoring the lowest. I was vexed by these results and doubted my leadership skills. My mind was in turmoil, and I could not concentrate on my studies in school or at home. I blamed the poor scores on our teacher’s unfair grouping, my classmates’ lack of motivation, and the other group leaders’ scheming and cheating. I often slumped over my desk and cried.
Then, the situation changed this semester. My group members changed too, and the person sitting in front of me changed the most.
This classmate is a cheerful person, but her academic performance was below average. She joined our group last semester. At that time, she could not do dictation. She did not memorize texts, do homework, or take advice. I wanted to replace her, but could not find anyone to take her place. So I started to get annoyed with her.
In the first week of this semester, I still had a resentful mindset and our group was stuck doing chores. I felt wronged and cried when I got home. My mother said, “The atmosphere surrounding you is a reflection of your cultivation state. If you do not cultivate diligently, you will neglect your duties and cause your teammates to also not do well. They should not be your scapegoats—they are your sentient beings!”
I calmed down a bit, but was still in a bad mood the next morning. So my mother showed me Master's Fa teachings before school. My mindset changed after reading the lecture. I felt that I should be kind to my teammates. Amazingly, they also changed and were nicer to me.
In the second week, I let go of my attachments to fame and gain, and only focused on doing my job without thinking of rewards. The girl whose desk was in front of mine also changed greatly. She started reciting texts proactively and thus added points to our scores. I asked her to keep track of our scores, which she did very well. Consequently, our scores improved and we did not have to do chores all the time. Later, our group even won an award.
Afterwards, I looked inward and realized that I had the attachments of selfishness, jealousy, resentment, and competitiveness. I had actually wasted half the semester because of these attachments. When I let them go, I suddenly understood the meaning of “getting things naturally without trying to get them,” which was what Master taught us in the Lecture Given at the Conference in Sydney.
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