Volunteering for Dafa Websites is Also Cultivation--My Understanding of Dafa Website Projects in the Past, Current, and in the Future

By a Dafa practitioner from overseas

(Clearwisdom. net) I am from Taiwan. I have practiced Falun Dafa for four and a half years. Today I want to share my experience of volunteering for Dafa's website.

First of all, from the bottom of my heart, I would like to say that it is my honor to be able to volunteer for a Dafa website and express my thanks for this honor. Before working on the website, I did not like computers very much because I had to look at the computer for 8 or 10 hours at my office and I wanted to take a rest when at home. So the idea "to buy a computer for my own use" never occurred to me. However, now my laptop has become part of my rectification path.

One of my responsibilities for my volunteer work on the Dafa website is to coordinate local practitioners. In the beginning, we did not know each other. Through emails, practioners just came out and joined the group. For the past two and a half years, all the editors in my country have been working together and are a very stable group. No one has left. The only way we communicate among ourselves is through emails. I felt very touched by their wholehearted contributions to Dafa.

Since the website work is a quite lonely work, one of the editors wanted to leave and spend more time on other truth-clarifying work such as making phone calls to the precious Chinese people, Internet chatting etc. I shared with her what I understood from being an editor and the meaning of a Dafa website. However, at that time I asked myself what was the first thought I had while I was listening to her intention to leave this project? Was I sincerely for Dafa and for her own good? Was I without any selfish thought while I was sharing with her? Then I found a deep attachment in my mind. I was afraid of her leaving because it would take me at least one more hour everyday if I took-over her job. I hesitated to make this commitment to Dafa. I asked myself why I had such an attachment and what I was afraid of? Was I afraid of being deprived of Fa-study time, not having enough sleep, or not being able to reach consummation? Did I really understand the meaning of Fa-rectification, the honor of being part of Dafa website team? I should firmly believe in Master. Everything arranged by Master is the best arrangement I have ever had. He will give me the best results; better than I can imagine. I should not hesitate to take-over her job if she really wanted to leave. Finally, I agreed; I would take her job. Instead, she chose to stay. Again, I thanked Master for this arrangement. We passed the test together.

There is one practitioner on my translation team who is very stable and diligent. When I began to coordinate this team, I wanted to do the translation as much as I could. However, one local practitioner asked me not to take articles too quickly and recommended I give them to other practitioners on the team more time to take articles. I did not look inward at first and blamed this practitioner for his interruption of my contribution to Dafa work. I thought the more quickly I took and translated articles the faster the articles would be published on the Dafa website. I did not see why I should wait for other practitioners. Later, I had a chance to meet with one translator on this team in a Falun Dafa study group. He said there was someone who was always taking articles before he had a chance to get them and he had no opportunity to do the translation. I felt very sorry and saw how big my attachment was. Did I interfere with another practitioners' translation duties because of my selfishness, poor enlightenment, arrogance, show-off attitude and inconsiderateness? Thanks for Master's grand benevolence in letting me have chance to find out my attachment and to create more harmony in the team. Now most of the practitioners in the team are busy with other Dafa work; but this diligent practitioner still translates most of the articles in our group.

Lately, I joined other translation teams. I found it was difficult since articles to be translated were from everyday newspapers and very complex. I tried my best to finish the translation as soon as possible in order to get some compliments from coordinators. I knew my show-off attachment was coming out. I kept reminding myself not to do translation for compliments and asked myself if I really understood the meaning behind my actions. Everything I do is for Fa-rectification no matter what the content of the work.

Dafa website is one approach for truth-clarification and is our holy responsibility. By working as a team, we can find our attachment and cultivate ourselves. We shall cherish this and fulfill our holy duty a Dafa disciple in this holy period.

Regarding the issue of practitioners leaving the projects of Dafa websites (to do other Dafa projects), I think it's a matter of cultivation and how we view the current situation. Some practitioners left the work because they thought that Dafa websites were only meant for practitioners, not for everyday people; some think that the work of Dafa websites are becoming less important in clarifying the truth, and they want to do the "most important" work; some want to find a project that fits their personal interests and talents better. I think that if we truly regard saving the sentient beings as the most important thing and do not attach to "myself" and "my own notions," then our minds will be clearer and calmer, and we can objectively see the roles of Dafa websites and our historic mission.

Dafa websites are an important method to clarify the truth and offer sentient beings salvation. In the past 4 years, all the first-hand information about the persecution's facts are from Minghui/Clearwisdom. In particular, when the persecution first started in 1999, Dafa websites were resisting the evil propaganda from a whole country. The truth-clarifying materials from Dafa websites have been continuously sent back to China; they are also translated into English, so that people all over the world know about the truth. Dafa websites have a special and important role in the truth-clarification. The stable running of these Dafa websites have made the evil scared and helpless. I think as Dafa practitioners, we should all take our websites seriously and cherish them.

I think, in the future, as more and more people come to know the importance of Dafa for their lives, there will be an increasing need for more and better work for Dafa websites. We can only meet the need with improvement in every aspect of our work for the Dafa websites. Let us all work hard as one entity.

Thank you, Teacher. Thank you, my fellow practitioners.

Chinese version available at http://minghui.org/mh/articles/2004/1/30/65732.html

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