Fulfilling My Vow
By Falun Dafa practitioner Zheng Yi in Shandong Province
(Clearwisdom.net) Although I began to practice Falun Dafa after July
20, 1999, I became a Fa-rectification period Dafa disciple with honor. I
validate the Fa, save sentient beings together with many veteran
practitioners, and fulfill my prehistoric vow with Teacher. Cultivating Xinxing, Looking Inwards When I read Zhuan Falun the first time, there was a
paragraph of Teacher's Fa which deeply engraved itself into my life. No matter
what problems or conflicts I encounter, my first thought is to see whether my
heart is moved, whether I fall into happiness, excitement, anger, showing off
and other human notions. Once I realize my human notion, I immediately send
forth righteous thoughts to clear it away, and then I address the problem. Many
troubles seem to be quite difficult, but they often disappear after I clear away
my human notions. Only a few days after I began practicing, I was able to eliminate a human
notion, which was anger. I did not know why, but suddenly felt my heart was full
of anger without reason, and I even wanted to hit something. My wife happened to
upset me at that time without reason. I immediately realized that the substance
of my anger should be eliminated. I tried very hard to calmly say to my wife,
"Don't talk to me. Let me calm down." I quietly sat down to send forth
righteous thoughts. This substance was huge, vigor drilled toward my heart, and
this uncomfortable feeling felt like my heart was soaked in a pot of bitter
vinegar. About five minutes later, this substance was completely cleared away,
my wife's temper also turned better inexplicably, as if she had not been angry
at all. The second time when I was clearing away a human notion, I also spent
five minutes, and gradually I needed less time when clearing away bad things.
Now, as soon as I have righteous thoughts, those human notions disappear
instantly. Because I pay attention to looking inward and improving my
"xinxing" when I encounter difficulties, I no longer have
conflicts with people or fellow practitioners. We should not form gaps between
each other due to human notions, and thereby affect our cultivation in the Fa-rectification
period and the salvation of sentient beings. I have experienced the state
Teacher has mentioned in Essentials for Further Advancement: "An enlightened person has no attachments at all. He
quietly observes the people of the world deluded by illusions." I have also experienced ease and naturalness during the
process of clarifying the truth about Falun Gong in such a state. "This is the most convenient school of practice. In
addition, it is practiced directly according to the characteristic of the
universe. It is the quickest, most direct path, and it precisely targets ones
heart." (Zhuan Falun) Whether it be now or in the future, this section in Teacher's
Fa will benefit me forever. Harmonizing the Family, Striving Forward Together Many fellow practitioners and their entire families, who practice Falun Gong,
have the same feeling: when they encounter most problems, they know to look
inward. But when there is a conflict within the family, they often forget to
look inward. Instead, using the Fa to measure others, they point out their
mistakes and then repeatedly emphasize how others should do things. Moreover,
they fell into this state for several years and were unable to step out of it. After my wife started to practice, we also had similar situations for some
time. When conflicts happened, everyone involved wanted to be right, and accused
the other party of having an insufficient understanding of the Fa, which caused
the conflict to be even more difficult. When I studied Teacher's "Teaching the Fa at the Fa Conference at the
U.S. Capital" from July 22, 2006, I read the following paragraph: "When a problem occurs, it is because that person is stubbornly going
against the Fa principles. Go and find where the problem lies, let go of that
stubbornness, and sort things out. When you encounter something, the best
approach is not to charge forward and contend with others, push your way to
the front, and rush forward to chase down the solution. Let go of your
attachment, take a step back, and then resolve it." At that time, I felt that it contained something for my cultivation, but I
did not enlighten to it. After quite some time, I suddenly realized: even if it
is clear between a couple who is right or who is wrong, has the one who is
correct truly abandoned his attachment to competition and demonstrated
forbearance? Meanwhile, did the person who was wrong abandon his attachment to
grievance and unpleasantness after admitting his mistake? Teacher has told us in Zhuan Falun: "Accordingly, in your future cultivation practice you will run into
all kinds of tribulations. How can you practice cultivation without these
hardships? If everyone is good to one another without conflicts of interests
or interference from the human mind, how can your xinxing make progress by
your only sitting there? That is impossible. One must truly temper and upgrade
oneself through actual practice." I wondered why did I not completely enlighten to this Fa principle sooner and
only after I had studied Teacher's new articles! Here I enlightened that it is not a bad thing to have conflicts within the
family, especially when everyone practices Dafa. Without conflicts, one's human
notions won't be uncovered! The only trouble is, when conflicts happen, family
members often fail to look inside themselves, thus missing the chance to improve
one's xinxing and level, which was arranged by Teacher, and that is truly
a pity. Since then, whenever there is a conflict in my family, I first treat my wife
with patience, as if she were an everyday person because when she loses her
temper, that is a manifestation of a human notion. I then remain quiet and
rapidly seize my human notions of anger, the feeling of being wronged and
others, and immediately clean up everything with righteous thoughts. Sometimes
after several minutes, my wife says on her own: "Sorry, I was wrong, I have
not studied the Fa well the last several days, and thus my human notions
emerged!" Afterwards, my wife calmly studies the Fa and quickly improves.
From time to time, I also exchanged my view with her after an incident,
peacefully expressed my point of view, and then say light-heartedly: "If I
have said anything inappropriately, please correct me compassionately."
Most of the time, my wife gladly accepts my point of view when I present it
without attachment. Since my wife is busier at work, I share the housework as long as I have
time, thus enabling her to have more time to study the Fa. She truly cherishes
the time when she can calmly study the Fa together with our child. When everyone truly looks inward, studies the Fa, and diligently cultivates,
then family conflicts will be less. Even if it happens once in a while, it can
quickly be solved and becomes a chance for our entire family to further improve
our xinxing and study the Fa well. With a harmonized family cultivation
environment, Fa rectification work can be done without difficulties. Although we recently paid off our mortgage and thus improved our financial
situation, we still do not have much money remaining, but my wife never objects
to paying for items at the Dafa material production site. No matter how much she
pays, she always smiles, is happy and never considers holding back. When friends
visit us, she warmly welcomes them and serves good food. She upholds good
relationships between relatives and friends, in order to have opportunities to
tell them the facts about Dafa, encourage them to quit the Chinese Communist
Party (CCP) and thus save them. I spend lots of time doing the three things, and hardly have time to think
about other things. Luckily, I have a fixed income and thus have no
income-related worries. Sometimes, my human notions emerge when I see my wife's
plain clothing, the simple food we eat, our simple lives and transportation (a
bicycle). I felt a slight pain, but then realized how much more time we have and
then felt gratification and appreciation. I am delighted that my wife and child
are diligent in Dafa cultivation and are able to save people. My child, who is
nine years old, tells the facts about Falun Dafa, sends righteous thoughts, and
advises people to quit the CCP and its organizations. We truly appreciate being
able to cultivate in Teacher's universal Dafa, being in Teacher's immense mercy
and protection, and being able to fulfill our pre-historical vows made to
Teacher. Even though our lives are simple and hard, Teacher has endowed us with
things that cannot be obtained in exchange for all the wealth in the human
world. Widely Spreading the Truth and Saving Sentient Beings I spend some time to collect emails and send them to the Minghui/Clearwisdom
website, so that practitioners abroad can assist with truth-clarification. In
the beginning, I collected them manually, but later obtained some software, and
then was able to collect several hundred thousand emails in a day. Early this year, I again printed large quantities of truth clarification
information on currency. On each note, we printed a toll-free phone number for
people to call to quit the CCP and its organizations. This way we were able to
tell people that Dafa is good and thus save lives. It is very important to tell
every person the facts and by using this method we were able to increase the
efficiency of our efforts. We also submitted an article about producing
truth-clarification information on currency to Minghui. These two things had a
very favorable effect. I also sent some technical data to Minghui such as
typesetting, maintenance, installation of NTDTV and so on, to share with fellow
practitioners, and thus help practitioners to avoid repeating the work. I also
wanted to help them to strive to do the most excellent work within the shortest
time, thus saving people quicker and better. Fellow practitioners also gave
positive feedback on Minghui. I also talked to people personally about the truth and advised them to quit
the CCP. Although I paid attention to my cultivation from the beginning, every
now and then a thought flashes through my heart: "I am not bad, quite
capable, and can do many things." Sometimes I even said it offhand and when
my wife heard it, she immediately reminded me not to be so self-satisfied. Even
though I said nothing, as she was right, I still felt pleased with myself. Until
one day, when I read Teachers article "Fa Teaching at the 2007 New York Fa
Conference" (April 7, 2007). Teacher expounded on the Fa, aiming at the
performance by the Divine Performing Arts. After reading that paragraph, I burst into tears. Fellow practitioners want
to use the form of the arts to validate Dafa, and while validating the Fa, these
artists can also save people. This is the vow we practitioners have made.
However, if we practitioners cannot fulfill our vows, we will leave behind deep
regrets in the future. In order to not let practitioners experience such
regrets, Teacher quietly harmonized everything for them. When sentient beings
from all circles fixed their eyes on the Divine Performing Arts group, Teacher
gave those practitioners immense glories and was delighted that they were
fulfilling their vows. Teacher's immense mercy cannot be understood by many
people. Everything we do is only fulfilling our vows, and without Teacher's
protection and strengthening, we would not be able to achieve anything.
Fulfilling my vow is only part of my duty, so how can I be complacent? All I
have to do is do better and fulfill my vow! Teacher's compassion and being a
model of an enlightened being unmask my human notions completely and vanquish
them. Cooperating as One Body, Rescuing a Fellow Practitioner In the winter of 2006, prior to the Chinese New Year, police officers
abducted a local practitioner and ransacked his home because he was clarifying
the truth about the persecution. The police also confiscated some
truth-clarification materials. After fellow practitioners learned about this incident, they went to the
police. It is just like Teacher said: "The next person's things are your
things, and your things are his things." ("Teaching the Fa at the
Washington, D.C. Fa Conference") Some practitioners went to the police
station and requested his release, and others sent forth righteous thoughts from
outside the the police station. Some collected the phone numbers of these
evildoers, and others put the information on the Internet, thereby enabling
overseas practitioners to quickly call and support practitioners in China. After
that fellow practitioner was transferred to a detention center, we again went
there several times to clarify the facts and call for his release. In order to exert the power of one body and rescue our fellow practitioner,
we decided to send forth righteous thoughts collectively. Because some
practitioners were harassed by the police, my wife and I decided to collectively
send forth righteous thoughts at home. We are all new practitioners in our
family, so the persecutors did not know that our family are all practitioners.
We only had one thought: this persecution and the interference imposed on us by
the evil can't be acknowledged. We want to expose those who are doing evil, and
these crimes are also the biggest irresponsibility toward sentient beings,
irreverence and an insult to Dafa, and they must immediately release all
practitioners unconditionally. Along with our righteous thoughts and clarifying the truth in depth, the
attitude of the police changed, and they repeatedly expressed that they would
help to put in good words with their superiors, thus striving for an earlier
release. The director of the police station said the following, which deeply
impressed us practitioners who participated in the rescue effort. The rough
meaning is as follows: "Your Falun Gong group is one body and nobody can
touch you." Many people were also saying: "The Falun Gong group is
very capable, we immediately received phone calls from abroad." Faced with huge changes, we did not slack off, continued to send forth
righteous thoughts, and clarified the truth well. Before the Chinese New Year,
the abducted practitioner walked out of the detention center in an open and
honorable way, returned to the great way of assisting Teacher in Fa-rectification
and saving sentient beings. I still remember fellow practitioners compassionately and peacefully
clarifying the truth to those police officers in the police station and the
detention center. They did not have any fear because they knew they are Dafa
practitioners who were saving those people. Based on this, we either explained
the truth thoroughly to all the people we met, or further convinced them to quit
the CCP. It was a powerful experience when we as a group completely denied the old
forces, correctly walked on the cultivation path in the Fa-rectification period
and assisted our Teacher. This splendid scene of mercifully saving people will
forever be sealed in the history of the future new universe. Fellow
practitioners also further showed me the meaning of compassion.
Chinese version available at
http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2007/10/16/164537.html
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