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A True Story: When I Cried, and So Did the Photocopier
A Mainland China Dafa Practitioner
(Clearwisdom.net) Tomorrow will be January 1st. I was forced to
leave home and go from place to place, while my husband is in a labor camp and
my child is with relatives. Practitioner A, who I was putting together Dafa
material with this morning, told me that his wife and son would come back to
celebrate the New Year. Another practitioner said that his whole family would
get together tomorrow to celebrate. As I listened to them, I felt a little bit
sad. In the afternoon, practitioner A started to complain at me for some petty
things, and I couldn't help but feel depressed and stopped my photocopying.
Imperceptibly I was being overtaken by sadness, a deviated element. I snuck into
the washroom and started crying. The more I cried, the more I became homesick.
When I thought about how practitioner A's wife was against her husband putting
together material with me, an idea came to me, "Am I fit for this kind of
job? Since I am away from home, it doesn't matter what I do. I can go anywhere
to do what I am supposed to do." In fact, at that time, I was thinking
about Fa rectification based on the notion of a human protecting another human.
I was not looking inside, and evil took advantage of me. When I turned on the
photocopier to finish printing the material for the day, something strange
happened. What came out of the printer was clearly raindrop-shaped dots all over
the paper. It seemed like this machine was crying, as if because I decided not
to carry on with my work, she stopped working also. As a matter of fact, she had
been overworked. I understood that if I couldn't look at things from the Fa's
point of view and truly treat myself as a Fa rectification practitioner,
everything with me would lower their level correspondingly. There won't be
anything supernatural and sacred. I then calmed myself down, turned off the
photocopier, and studied the Fa with a calm heart.
Through studying the Fa I kept looking inside my heart. I found that part of
my thoughts deep down had gone along with the evil. The evil would then take
advantage of every opportunity to weaken my determination. Fa rectification is
solemn, and I shouldn't mix any human notions with such a sacred thing! After I
realized this, I started eradicating the evil by using my righteous thoughts.
Practitioner A and I sent forth righteous thoughts towards the photocopier
for about 20 minutes. Then we turned on the photocopier and started
photocopying. It worked perfectly fine, printing both words and pictures.
"However strong the righteous thoughts are, that's how great the power
is"(Also a Few Words). Fellow practitioners, let us strive forward
and believe in our capabilities. Everything of ours is elevating within
Fa-rectification, including everything around us.
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