(Minghui.org) A fellow practitioner asked me to join a Fa study group in the winter of 2024. At first I didn’t want to go, thinking that I didn’t cultivate well and I didn’t want to interfere with others. However, I went along just for the sake of saving face.
The way of sharing in this Fa study group was different from what I expected. Whoever wanted to share something could do so, or if one had come across any difficult tests or issues, they would share with others and everyone was free to talk about their own understanding. This would help the practitioner in difficulty quickly improve in the Fa. At the same time, everyone would try to rectify themselves according to the Fa principles.
I was just sitting there, not saying anything, and thought: I don’t really agree with their way of doing things. They should pay more attention to the issue of safety, leaving at a specific time to be safe.
In the end, I left early at a time I thought was most safe. Later, I realized that I did so due to my attachment to fear, and I didn’t truly fit into the cultivation environment.
I kept leaving early until a fellow practitioner walked out with me and spoke to me about the Fa study ending time. Only then did I realize my strong attachments of arrogance and selfish ego.
Thanks to Master’s arrangement for this precious environment, I was able to let go of many of my human attachments, and I began to feel genuinely happy. Since then, each time I join the Fa study group, I attentively listen to the others share, and I share my own understanding and views. I’ve learned and improved a lot.
Once, a fellow practitioner complained about others in the Fa study group. I could feel that her words were marked by competitiveness, jealousy, resentment, showing off and self-centered stubbornness. We shared with her calmly, but she was very emotional and couldn’t take in anything we said.
Her behavior was like a mirror, reflecting myself. When I got back home, I started looking within—I often argue with my husband, and I look down on him for his way of doing things. I often measure him by my own notions, and he never agrees with me.
As I was looking within, I could see that the way I behaved at home was just the same as the fellow practitioner when she was complaining about others. I knew that Master used this situation to help me let go of my own attachments to competitiveness, jealousy, resentment, sense of imbalance, a show-off mentality and selfish ego.
In the past, I often complained to a fellow practitioner about my husband, and she always reminded me to cherish the bond between husband and wife, but I never took her advice. Looking back, I realize I’m the one who was in the wrong all this time.
Having realized my own attachments, I let go of those human notions and biases against my husband. When I looked at my husband again, I found that he is actually a nice person.
After I rectified myself, when I saw the fellow practitioner who earlier was complaining about others, I found that she had also changed. She shared about how she acted righteously with strong righteous thoughts when clarifying the truth to save people. “Time is pressing, and we must do our best to save more people as they are all waiting to be saved,” she said. Once, she helped six people quit the Chinese Communist Party and its affiliated organizations. She also came across a member of the 610 Office and clarified the truth to him as well.
I was full of admiration for our fellow practitioner, as she clarifies the truth to people so openly, without hesitation.
I’ve improved rapidly since I joined this Fa study group, and we are all improving together in this precious environment as one body. Everyone is doing their best to do the three things well.
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