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Some Thoughts On Helping Fellow Practitioners Written by a Practitioner in China
(Clearwisdom.net) Ever since Jiang's regime started persecuting Dafa, my family has been repeatedly fined. I earn
only minimum wage and my wife has been unable to find a job. In addition, my children need to go to
school. As a result, my family is living a very thrifty life. At this crucial moment, one fellow
practitioner gave me a hand during this difficult time. During the Spring Festival, several other
practitioners also brought my family some things that we needed. This made me feel that we have many
brothers and sisters caring about us, that we are like one big "family." I truly felt the
enormous power of Dafa. I feel that my financial difficulties are a form of persecution imposed against me by the old
forces. This is something we need to eliminate and reject fundamentally during the Fa-rectification.
Teacher said: "Learning Dafa itself is beneficial. Why would you worry about losing
anything?!" (Falun Buddha Fa: Lecture at the First Conference in North America).
Everything we have is given to us by our Teacher and no other life has the right to deprive us of
it. While we examine ourselves to prevent evil from taking advantage of our loopholes, we need to
reject their arrangements with our purest righteous thoughts. Everything we have should be the best.
The evil is not worthy of testing us. When this thought arises from my heart, I find myself becoming
more firmly determined in my faith in Dafa, and the evil arrangements being eliminated layer by
layer. As a result, the situation in my family also improves greatly. From another perspective, we practitioners are one whole body. Teacher said: "The next
person's things are your things, and your things are his things." ("Teaching the Fa at the
Washington DC Fa Conference in 2002"). When I read Teacher's words, I think about our fellow
practitioners and their families who have been detained or forced to leave their homes, as well as
others who are bearing difficult situations at present. Don't they need more of our care and help? For example, several practitioners and I went to visit one fellow practitioner who was sentenced
to jail. Although we were unable to see him, we could tell from his letter that he was deeply
touched and encouraged. From the surface, all we are doing in such situations is saying a few words to help and encourage
fellow practitioners. In fact, what we are giving are righteous thoughts and firm belief in Dafa. We
also manifest the indestructible great compassion as well as the principle of one body. The
magnificence of Dafa is shown in our actions, and fellow practitioners do not feel alone. It also
enhances their determination and confidence. Furthermore, practitioners' families will further
understand and support Dafa and will tell their relatives and friends about the compassion and
kindness of Dafa practitioners. From the perspective of the Fa, let us help those practitioners and their families who are
enduring difficult situations at this critical time. They will feel the boundless power of Dafa no
matter if the help is spiritual or material. In doing so, aren't we eliminating the evil's
arrangement? The above is just my personal understanding shared for your reference. Feb 12th 2003 Posting date: 2/28/2003 |