"Words Can't Express One's Gratitude Towards Great Benevolence"

By Xiangrui, a Falun Dafa practitioner from China

(Clearwisdom.net)

There is a saying in China, "No words can express one's gratitude towards great benevolence." It means that there is no remuneration for truly great benevolence. There is no way for a beneficiary to show his or her gratitude with a mere "thank you."

Sister Han was my neighbor in the past. She is a very humble and compassionate person who has great respect for gods and Buddhas. Due to special circumstances, I could not easily let her know about my own belief, and I did not mention anything to her about Falun Dafa. I felt really regretful about that, and constantly reminded myself that one day I must tell her about the magnificence of Dafa. I knew how important and significant it would be to a sentient being.

Teacher indeed gave me the opportunity to fulfill my promise. I finally had a chance to tell her all about Dafa in the most detailed manner. When we bid farewell to each other, I thanked her for the lovely dinner that she prepared. Sister Han sincerely replied, "It should be me to thank you for telling me about Dafa. It is indeed true that words can't express one's gratitude towards great benevolence!"

Each time I witnessed a sentient being awakening after learning the truth, I was touched by the feeling and joy of being blessed by the immense grace of Dafa. Teacher created the opportunity of a new life for all practitioners and sentient beings alike. It is such a great fortune and joy for us, as Dafa practitioners during the Fa-rectification period, to witness righteous thoughts being generated by sentient beings after they answered the compassionate call from Dafa, especially since their doing so provided them with a bright and beautiful future.

During that day Sister Han helped me with some chores, costing her 50 Yuan. She only reluctantly accepted my money after I insisted over and over again. I then candidly told her about myself as a Falun Gong practitioner. I also gave her several Dafa flyers. Sister Han knew that I had been living without a home, moving from place to place, so she asked me, "Did your organization give you some reimbursement for all the effort that you put in?"

I explained to her clearly that we did not have any organizational formality in the cultivation of Dafa. Everyone was free to come and go. Dafa cultivation did not touch money or material wealth. Teacher never asked us for a cent, and all true Dafa practitioners clarified the truth to people willingly and voluntarily. Each and every cent came from our own wages and savings. Many Dafa practitioners squeezed the last Yuan from their limited living expenses while living under extremely harsh conditions caused by the persecution. But the principles of Dafa will never change. The so-called hoarding of money and financial support from "foreign political interests" were all hideous lies fabricated by the Chinese state-run media to defame Falun Dafa.

Sister Han suddenly stood up, took out the 50 Yuan that I gave her, and said to me solemnly and resolutely, "I can never take this money from you. You must take it back. Use it to print some more copies of truth clarification flyers!" Faced with such a sincere and candid heart, I could no longer refuse her demand. I could only keep my deeply felt emotion in my heart.

Because of her long-standing respect for Gods and Buddhas, Sister Han had a clear conscience. She readily accepted the Dafa teachings. Based on that, I told her quite a bit about Dafa, and she was able to understand and accept them.

Later I found out that after Sister Han read all the truth clarification materials, she was deeply touched by Dafa, and she recognized the heinous nature of the persecution. She wrote a three-page article about her understandings, in which she expounded on Dafa practitioners' comments, faith and belief, the freedom and the legality to appeal, as well as the law-breaking and constitution-violating nature of Jiang's persecution, from the perspective of her position in the legal profession. She further pointed out that the law can only regulate people on the outside, yet people will try to commit crimes against the law, even trying to circumvent the law by seeking loopholes in it. Yet a higher faith will change a person inwardly from the heart, and people will move away from bad things on their own initiative. They will wholeheartedly move towards compassion. All countries and societies should allow spiritual beliefs to exist. There are only benefits and no drawbacks.

Afterwards, due to various reasons, I did not contact Sister Han for two weeks, and she was really worried. When she saw me again she said, "After I learned about the truth, now I also worry. They are just too heinous, you must be careful. These past two days I just could not sit still. I cried out from inside my heart that Falun Dafa is good! The power of Falun Dafa is boundless. Xiangrui will be safe and sound."

It is Teacher's Dafa that truly finds predestined people and saves them. It was my greatest honor to participate in and witness the awakening of each and every soul.

Even an ordinary person knows about the greatest benevolence that "No words can express one's gratitude towards," how about we Dafa practitioners? How could any of the many things that Teacher gave us be categorized and classified as gifts that we can thank him for with words? All my fellow practitioners who strive diligently, I hope you will take the next stride safely and soundly according to your will. For those who need to catch up, let us all extend our hands and hold on to each other, moving forward together. Let us do just that much more for sentient beings so that we can be worthy of Teacher's tireless efforts and boundless compassion.

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