Have I Really Done Everything I Could?

By a Western Practitioner in Asia

Today when I was in the train station on my way home from work, an announcement was broadcast over the loudspeaker, "Due to an earthquake, the trains will decelerate for a while. Thank you for your patience." With every announcement I saw the people waiting there around me getting more and more anxious. When the train finally came it traveled very slowly, and the woman sitting across from me was visibly shaking. A serious earthquake happened in this region a few years back, killing many and demolishing buildings and roads. When we got out of the train I noticed people moving much more quickly than usual, not smiling, not talking. They were eager to try to escape the danger they associated with the train.

I wondered why I was witnessing all of this, since as cultivators, everything we come across has a meaning and a purpose. As I looked at the people around me afraid amidst the potential suffering I started to think about the fates of those who oppose Dafa. I thought of the line, "new graves cover the landscape of China Proper" and of "I can tell you, all of the natural and man-made disasters that have been happening in Mainland China are already warnings for the sins the beings there have committed against Dafa. If they don't come to realize it, then the real catastrophe(s) will begin." It has been a law throughout the ages and throughout cultures that those who oppose Goodness will meet with destruction. I thought of all the suffering that lay ahead for the millions of people whose minds have been poisoned with lies, or who have allowed themselves to be manipulated by the forces of evil, and tears came to my eyes. I looked around me and saw each person as a being, and thought of each of them as precious. As I continued home I kept trying to hold the tears back as I thought, when that day comes, will I really be able to look back and say to myself, "I did everything I could"? Have I given all I have for the sake of sentient beings? I wanted to cry because I felt the answer to that question was no.

As a result of this period of time, beings can receive either the greatest fortune imaginable or the greatest destruction. Let's not ever lose the sense of urgency, not waste our time, thoughts, money, or words on trivialities, and remember why we exist and why we vowed so long ago to do the things we're doing today. When that day comes, we should all be able to say, "I did everything I possibly could."

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