(Clearwisdom.net) I manage a small store and meet many customers every day. Since November 1996 when I began practicing Falun Dafa, this store has always been a good place to promote Dafa and clarify the truth. Especially after July 20, 1999 when Jiang's regime started to persecute Dafa practitioners, we have used this small store more to clarify the truth to customers.
There are several Dafa practitioners who work at my store. Every day, we take clarifying the truth and saving people as our main priority. Facing different customers, we can mention the topic from different angles to tell customers the facts about the persecution of Falun Gong. Some say a few words and some answer the questions customers raise. One time, there was a customer who went away at once when we started clarifying the truth to her. When we realized this, we sent forth righteous thoughts immediately. She came back later and bought the items she originally came in for, and at the same time she listened to us.
People continually come and learn about Dafa, and more and more customers have come to a good understanding. They also tell others: "This store belongs to people who practice Falun Gong. They follow Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance. The produce is of good quality and the price is also reasonable." One time, right after a customer entered the door, she said: "This is the first time I have come here to buy things. Others have told me that the products here are good." We understood that she also came here to listen to the truth.
I had an idea that if we opened another store, we would be able to save even more people and resolve several Dafa practitioners' employment problems. Later on we opened another store, where we clarify the truth to the customers from the countryside.
Because few people close to the new store know us, we have been losing money there. Once the store began losing money, my attachment to money came up and I thought: "How can I lose money like this?" I realized immediately that this was a bad attachment and selfish. I was a Fa-rectification period Dafa disciple and I had a mission to save all beings. I came here to assist Master to validate the Fa, not for everyday people's comforts. I cannot be moved by human attachments or let the old forces take advantage of my loopholes. The fact that I opened this store to be able to save more people was good. When my righteous thoughts came out, the bad thoughts disappeared at once. Now my new store has new customers every day. Most of them did not know the truth about Dafa, and several Dafa practitioners in the store coordinate together to best clarify the truth to them. Some send forth righteous thoughts and some clarify the truth, and they are saving people everyday.
November 13, 2004