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Cultivating Compassion in Dafa
By Shuhui
(Clearwisdom.net) Greetings, respected Master! Greetings, fellow
practitioners! I am fortunate to be a Falun Gong practitioner during the Fa-rectification
period. I have traveled my journey of 12 years of cultivation with Master's
benevolent salvation and protection. I have deeply realized that my
responsibilities and missions are to cultivate well, offer salvation to sentient
beings, and assist Master in Fa-rectification. During these years of Fa-rectification, in order to fulfill our prehistoric
mission assisting Master in Fa-rectification, we should have a compassionate
heart. How do we cultivate compassion? It needs to be cultivated step by step.
In our daily life and work, Dafa requires us to attain the righteous
enlightenment of selflessness and altruism. We should touch the hearts of
everyday people with our righteous behavior to make them truly feel the nobility
of Falun Gong. Within our strong and compassionate righteous field, they will
admire, trust, and respect us, which will be helpful in saving them. 1. Caring for Fellow Practitioners I have tried my best to do this with a pure heart. I remember that Master
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")
I realize that we should also treat non-practitioners in other practitioners'
families with compassion so that they can experience how respectful
practitioners are. A young fellow practitioner's husband insisted on divorcing her. Although
the practitioner had several conversations with her husband, he still insisted.
The practitioner thought, "I have shared my thoughts with him from the Fa
perspective. He also learned Dafa before. Why is he so determined to divorce
me?" The parents on both sides also tried to persuade him to change his
mind, but nothing helped. The fellow practitioner did not know what else to do.
She was puzzled as to what might have gone wrong. I shared my thoughts with her:
"Although your husband read Dafa books, on the surface, you did try to
persuade him from the Fa perspective. In fact, deep in your heart, you tried to
use the Fa principles to force it on him. He could feel the impurity. No matter
what you do, you should always maintain compassion and seek to understand his
feelings from his perspective. If you truly treat him benevolently, look inward
and compare this with the Fa's requirements to find your own shortcomings and
correct them, and share your thoughts with him openly and honestly, the end
result will be different. Master will help you. Please do not push away somebody
who once walked into the Fa. Please do not do anything that would make the old
forces happy. You must study the Fa more and send forth righteous
thoughts." After sharing with her several times, this practitioner finally realized how
to cultivate compassion. She said with confidence, "I finally realized what
compassion truly is." Now, their family is very happy together. They both
are cultivating Dafa. Her husband is also actively involved in validating the Fa. In our cultivation, we should treat all sentient beings benevolently so they
can truly witness the wonderfulness of Dafa and the benevolence of
practitioners. Master encouraged us compassionately: "Dafa disciples, you are golden light in the mortal world, the hope of
the world's people, Fa-disciples who help Master, and future Fa-Kings. Keep
diligent, Awakened Ones that walk the earth: Everything of today will be the
glory of the future." ("Congratulatory Message" 2005) 2. Treating Family and Co-workers Benevolently I was transferred from a branch office to headquarters, a very evil place
that persecuted Falun Gong practitioners. I knew clearly that it was Master who
arranged for me to be here to offer salvation to the sentient beings! How could I awaken these people who were deceived by the Chinese Communist
Party (CCP)? I must be strict with myself. I worked very hard and always thought
about others first in order to gain their trust. Gradually,
Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance was seeded in their hearts. They were
touched by Dafa's power. Four of them have read Zhuan Falun.
Some have withdrawn from the CCP, and so have their families. What moved me the
most was that when they found Dafa books and tapes confiscated by the CCP, they
often protected them and handed them over to me secretly. I am so happy for
them. They are finally saved. Dafa is harmonizing. We should harmonize our families, the cultivation
environment we are in contact with everyday. Through Fa-study, I realized that I
should be even more compassionate to my family members because they are closest
to me. Why did we all end up in this big family? It was because of our
prehistoric vows that we would re-connect with one another when Dafa was
introduced to the world. Therefore, no matter how busy we are with Fa
validation, I always try my best to take time to take good care of them. If I do
not have time, I communicate with them so they can know what is going on and
support us. Let us not ignore them because of our busy schedule of Fa
validation. They will think that we are selfish, gradually creating distance and
resentment. It will become difficult when we try to clarify the facts" to
them. Therefore, I always try my best to harmonize my family. My kindness,
tolerance, and compassion have helped me gain their trust and respect. They all
know Dafa is good. Most of them have quit the CCP. Some have even taken up
cultivation. Some have read Dafa books. Some have been protected by Master in
dangerous situations. What is the most important and benevolent thing for sentient beings is to let
them know that Dafa is good and to exhort them to quit the CCP as soon as
possible. Master teaches: "...for Dafa disciples to do an even better job of clarifying the
facts and saving the world's people and sentient beings. The closer it gets
to the end, the more you cannot let up; the closer it gets to the end, the
better you must study the Fa; the closer it gets to the end, the stronger your
righteous thoughts must be." ("To the Canada Fa Conference") I have been following Master's teachings because we have waited for this
opportunity for thousands of years. "The countless years of hardship were
all for this time" ("A Will That Ebbs Not") I diligently recall
everybody who has a predestined relationship with me. I created a list and tried
my best to contact them. When Master saw that I had such a heart, oftentimes he
arranged to send these predestined people to meet me. 3. Operating the Material Production Site with Righteous Thoughts My family informational material production site is in operation. This was a
process of cultivating my xinxing. I know this is a very
serious task. I must study the Fa well and always maintain strong righteous
thoughts. But sometimes while making materials, if one thought fell short, the evil
took advantage of it immediately. Either the materials were printed incorrectly
or the machine stopped working. Sometimes I was so busy that I did not even have
time to study the Fa. I quickly realized that this is the evil interfering with
my saving sentient beings. I would not let it succeed. I adjusted my mindset and
studied the Fa with a calm mind to regain my strong righteous thoughts. In the
past, I thought computers were controlled by aliens, so I resented them. I did
not want to touch them or learn how to use them. Now computers have become the
Fa's weapons for saving sentient beings. No matter how hard it may be, I
decided I would learn how to use them. With Master's strengthening, I easily learned how to get onto the Internet,
download, edit, and print. Sometimes when there are issues with the computer, I
can even solve the problem by myself. It is tiring to make materials. Sometimes
my legs become swollen from standing for too long or I do not have time for
lunch. Nevertheless, I still feel happy because I am doing the noblest thing.
While I have been making materials, Master has been protecting me benevolently
and giving me hints regularly. Sometimes, miracles happen that surprise me. Once
the printer made a strange sound like, "Take a quick look at me now!"
I immediately looked at it and saw that a piece of paper was stuck, and would
soon have wasted much more paper. I pulled it out immediately. In order to save time, I decided to buy a faster color printer so I could
have more time to study the Fa and save sentient beings. I was thinking that I
would give my original printer to another practitioner to make informational
materials. All of a sudden my original printer stopped working. I tried to fix
it, but instead of examining myself, I only focused on the printer. I could not
find the problem and thought, "It must be the printer. It might have been
the heavy workload. I'll give it a break." So I turned it off. Just as I
pulled the plug, I immediately realized that the printer was not happy that I
was going to send it away. I said to the printer, "If you are willing to
work with me on Fa validation and you do not want to leave, I will not send you
away." When I turned it on again, everything was back to normal. Similar
things happened many times. It is truly miraculous. I deeply realized that as
long as we treat the Fa as our Master, any issue can be resolved. 4. Advancing Together I was fortunate enough to have entered cultivation with the guidance of
several practitioners at my workplace. We studied the Fa and practiced the
exercises together every day. I was so happy. Since 1999, when the evil CCP
started the persecution, we have not been able to do those things together. But
we often try to find opportunities to share experiences with each other in order
to encourage one another. There have been many reports on "Minghui Weekly" that after
fellow practitioners established Fa-study groups, practitioners were able to
advance together rapidly. In the beginning, I did not think too much about that.
I just found a Fa-study group and joined them. Through Fa-study, I realized that
I should not only be concerned with my own advancement. I should organize fellow
practitioners near me to study the Fa and advance together so we can all follow
Master home. With a coordinated effort, our Fa-study group was established. Within this
group, we share our experiences and thoughts. When any behavior does not comply
with the Fa's requirements, we kindly point it out for each other right away.
We advance together from the Fa's perspective. We have eliminated gaps among
us. As long as it is for Fa validation, we can all let go of our personal things
and join the mighty current of Fa-rectification. The Fa-study group has helped
us improve and advance as one body. Finally, I would like to encourage fellow cultivators with Master's poem
from Hong Yin II, "Righteous Gods:" "Righteous thought, righteous action |