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文：墨尔本青年大法弟子
尊敬的师父好！
各位同修大家好！
我是一九九九年跟随父母得法的青年大法弟子，二零一四年初我来到澳洲攻读硕士学位，完成学业后，于二零一五年五月有幸加入墨尔本报纸项目的工作团队。报社社长安排我担任报社的前台工作，并告诉我这是报社非常重要的一个岗位。
刚出校门的我对报社前台工作的性质一无所知，只知道大纪元是一个讲真相、救人力度非常强的项目，师父还曾为报纸项目单独讲过法。
师父在讲法中开示：“如果把讲真相和做大法弟子媒体的事合在一起，那不就减少时间的分担了吗？而且又解决了生活问题，解决了常人社会的工作问题，何乐而不为呢？我觉的势在必行了。” [1]
因此我一直认为能够进入报纸项目工作是大法弟子的荣幸。就这样，我有幸进入了报纸项目。
一、初出茅庐修人心
很快我就进入了前台的角色，并发现前台是一个非常繁琐的工作。除了接听各种来电、接待访客等工作外，还要做销售合同的验收、入帐，报纸编辑、校对，报纸的包装和邮寄，以及一些简单的会计工作。在报纸项目工作了一段时间以后，我渐渐地发现，原来报社前台就是一个打杂的工作，没有什么技术含量，并认为自己的工作岗位并不重要。
由于对前台这个岗位的重要性没有一个正确的认识，导致自己心态不好，一旦工作繁忙起来，我急躁的脾气就暴露无遗，对周围同事的态度也不好了。记得有好几次，一名销售同事因签得广告单价格太低，不符合相关规定，我立刻把脸板了起来，咄咄逼人地说：“你这个不行，超过了底价，不能入单。”令这名销售同事当场无语，非常沮丧，要知道这张单子是她辛辛苦苦拉来了，不料回到办公室还要承受来自前台的巨大压力。
事后报社社长与我交流了一下想法，社长告诉我，我们在办公室的人，要多为奔波在外的销售同修着想。我们是一个讲真相的媒体，是一个救人的项目，邪恶一直对我们虎视眈眈，他们拉回的每一张单子都是非常的不容易。
后来我对社长说：我自己心态有点不好，我认为前台这个岗位每个人都能做，而且突如其来的杂事特别多，我觉得这个岗位无法做出成绩来，没有办法将自己的能力展示给别人看。协调人听后和善地对我说：“其实这个岗位是非常重要的，是我们报社的一个枢纽中心，你不应该因工作量增加了而感到不开心，而是应该觉得我掌握了很多的东西，可以帮助每个人啊。”
社长的话，让我渐渐地转变了自己的观念，是啊，我的工作是一个救人的岗位，我为什么总是觉得多做了就不开心呢？或者做得工作看似不重要就懈怠呢？
师父在《转法轮》中开示：“小和尚越吃苦越容易开功，那大和尚越享受越不容易开功，因为这有个业力转化问题。小和尚老是又苦又累的，还业就快，开悟就快，说不定有一天他一下开功了。” [2]
师父在法中一直在告诫我们，对修炼人来说，吃苦是好事。而我却用常人的观念来衡量，把吃苦看成是不舒服、不高兴的事。所以当我用师父的法理对照自己时，才会发现吃苦真是一件大好事。
如今我和销售同修在一起工作时，会尽量站在对方的立场上，多为对方想一想，我也悟到，我们在报纸项目的工作过程、细节、态度都是救人的一部分，无关个人能力大小，也不分技术高低，都是修炼的一部分。随着我态度有所转变，销售同修也会因为我友善的态度一扫拉广告的疲惫。
最近我们报社开始推广英文报纸，我除了需要投送报纸外，还要为同修制作一些地图和派发的表格。这项工作需要很仔细地核查和校对，不能出现任何差错。虽然我增加了工作量，但我非常开心地接受了这项任务，每次都会认真的检查和校对，而且干劲十足。我们知道主流社会的众生正在等着这份真相报纸，这也是我们修炼人的使命和责任。
二、去妒嫉心
我是家中的独生子女，父母和我的先生都是修炼人，他们一直都对我十分照顾，因此我一直过着一种无优无虑的生活。在前台工作时间久了，每天繁忙的工作节奏渐渐地让我产生了攀比心和妒嫉心。
前台工作不但需要准点到办公室，还要时时待在自己的办公桌前。通常我也总是会早早来到办公室。很快我就发现只有报社的协调人和一些年长的同事会早到，和我年纪差不多的同事都来得比我晚，经常迟到（后来我知道他们经常工作到很晚很晚才回家的）。时间一长，我感到不舒服了，心理愤愤不平，产生了强烈的妒嫉心，“凭什么他们可以这么晚来上班？凭什么我要这么辛苦？我又没比她们多拿一分钱！”
记得有一次，那天工作量特别的多，连一向自誉快手快脚的我也忙得焦头烂额。中午时分，我捧着饭碗在电脑前一边吃饭一边工作。忽然耳边传来一阵阵欢声笑语，原来我的年青同事们正聚在一起吃饭谈话。我一下子心理就崩溃了，委屈地想到，“我忙得连吃饭的时间都没有，他们还这么开心。”
那天正好是周五——报社每周的例会。傍晚时，我先生也来参加例会，他看我情绪很不好，就问我：“你怎么了？”于是我哭着把事情的经过一五一十地告诉了他，我说：“我生气了，我要回家，我不准备参加晚上的例会了。”先生当时就指出我是妒嫉心在作祟，劝我说：“你要放下这个心，听听同修的交流，或许对你会有所帮助的。”
正如我先生说的那样，那天的会议正好交流到了妒嫉心。在会上，我们的销售团队谈到了几名销售人员合作拉广告时发生的各种矛盾、冲突和心性的提高。一张由数名销售人员合作完成的广告单子，都存在著有的人付出多，有的人付出少，但佣金是一样的多。面对这种情况，多付出的销售人员通过学法去除了自己的不平和妒嫉心，他们首先想到的是：这是救人的项目，又能为报社挣到资金。就这样，他们签下了一张又一张的销售单子。当时我听了他们的交流后很受触动，并悟到这是师父在点化我，是让我修去妒嫉心的一个巧妙安排。
我现在悟到，在报纸项目工作中遇到的任何事都是好事，都是帮助我来修炼提高的，都是师父帮我去除自身还存在的执着心。
记得师父在讲法中开示：“你知道你是在给谁修呢？给你的名？给你的气恨？给你心里的执着？给你的亲人？给你执着的事情？给你放不下的事情在修吗？那不正好是要去掉的东西吗？” [3]
三、疫情期间去安逸心
今年突如其来的中共病毒疫情，让整个社会都处于停摆状态，但是我们大法弟子救人的项目没有停下来，我们报社的工作也没有停下来。根据政府的规定，公司员工能在家中上班的尽量在家中上班，这个政策着实让我开心不已，我也希望自己能在家中一边休息、一边上班，这样就太舒服了。
不料报社社长告诉我们，大家需要根据自己的实际情况来决定是否来公司上班，于是我也不管自己的工作性质，借口疫情的暴发，缩减了在办公室的工作时间，而且自我感觉不错，认为自己比别的同事强，毕竟自己大部分时间还来办公室工作。
但事实上，因为我不在，别的同事就要替我接电话，而且打电话给我，我也不能及时回复和处理工作，这给团队工作造成了拖延。
而我自己带着一颗求安逸的心来到了办公室，看着空荡荡的办公室，干起活来总是心不在焉，总想着快点干完活，早点回家。不知不觉中我的工作差错率开始上升。终于最大的差错发生了：由于疫情期间报纸页数变少，报纸变轻了，但我还是按照原来报纸重量所需要的邮寄费在寄报，几周后才被发现，直接造成公司经济上的损失。
社长很严肃地给我发了一个短信，表达对我工作懈怠的不满，并表示如果再不改进就要换人了。
我接到短信那一瞬间，我一下子惊醒了！我反思自己：我这是在干什么？！我这是什么工作状态？我觉得自己对待报纸项目的工作态度太敷衍了，这种工作态度似乎还不如一个常人了！我不禁反问自己：我也是从小就在大法中修炼的学员，一路走过来很不容易，怎么在救人的项目中越来越松懈了呢？
我突然想到师父的讲法：“其实我说的根本意思是想告诉大家，你们的生命就是为了这个而来的！（众弟子热烈鼓掌）别无选择，真的别无选择！这是大法弟子。常人哪，他可以六道轮回、各界转生；你们不能了，你们就是大法这件事情。所以哪，不做好，那留给自己的那就是悔恨。特别是那些老大法弟子，不要懈怠。你从那么艰难的岁月中走过来、走到今天，多不容易！你不知道珍惜吗？我都珍惜你！神都珍惜你！（众弟子热烈鼓掌）所以自己更应该珍惜自己。” [4]
我只是看到了别人轻松的时候，却不知在我看不见的时候，同事们做得有多努力，销售同修在外面辛苦地拉广告，我在办公室里，应该要更好地帮助他们，给他们提供有用、准确的信息。而其他的工作，比如会计开发票，编辑部的改字工作，看似都很简单，但是由于安逸心，使得自己不愿意多检查一遍自己的工作，导致错误率增加。而所有的一切只要愿意做，多用一些心，多检查一遍，就可以减少很多麻烦，虽然我的工作不能为大纪元带来财力，也不能带来制作新闻的软实力，但是我的工作可以为整个团队带来便利。
师父在讲法中开示：“人总想做显眼的事、叫人看见成绩，不叫师父看见也得叫别人瞅见，不然心里就不太平衡。其实，这宇宙中关注你们的眼睛啊，多到了你都想不到有多少，那个粒子里都挤满了眼睛，最小粒子都挤满了眼睛。宇宙的一切生命都在关注着大法弟子做的一切。神都在看。你的每思每念、你做的一切都在记录下来，比那录像还真切、立体的把一切都录像下来了（师父笑）。所以啊，给神看，不给人看。” [4]
痛定思痛后的我，一定要去除自己的安逸心，全力投入讲真相救人的报纸项目中。于是我现在每天准时上班，一直把当天的工作认真仔细完成后才下班。我悟到这是我的工作、是我的职责、更是我救人的岗位和使命。
以上是发生在自己身边的点滴小事，报纸项目的每一项工作中其实都是修炼，需要我们互相配合、圆容整体，在这个过程中，我们将修去自己的各种人心，提高自己的心性，圆满随师回。由于层次有限，不妥之处，请同修慈悲指正。
谢谢师父！
谢谢同修。
注：
[1] 李洪志师父著作：《各地讲法十》〈在大纪元会议上讲法〉
[2] 李洪志师父著作：《转法轮》
[3] 李洪志师父著作：《二零一五年美国西部法会讲法》
[4] 李洪志师父著作：《二零一八年华盛顿DC讲法》
English translation of the article:
My cultivation experience working at the newspaper project
By Melbourne Practitioner
Greetings Master!
Greetings Fellow Practitioners!
I am a young Dafa practitioner and I obtained the Fa at the same time as my parents in 1999. I came to Australia to study my Master’s degree in early 2014. After completing my degree, I was lucky enough to join the Melbourne newspaper project in May 2015. The general manager of the newspaper arranged for me to work at the front desk and told me that this was a very important position.
I was a new graduate and I didn’t have any experience working as a front desk receptionist. I only knew that the newspaper project was a very powerful project to clarify the truth and save people. Master also lectured a few times specifically to Epoch Times staff. In one of Master’s lectures, Fa Teaching Given at the Epoch Times Meeting,
Master said: “So, if clarifying the truth and the task of running a Dafa-disciple media entity could be rolled into one, wouldn’t that help resolve the time constraints that you face? And it would also be resolving the issue of making a living and having a job in ordinary society. What’s not to like about it? I think that this is now imperative.”
Therefore, I have always felt that it is an honour for Dafa disciples to work for the newspaper project .
- Being a novice receptionist and cultivating away my human attachments
As soon as I began my front desk receptionist job, I found that it was a tedious job. In addition to answering all kinds of phone calls, dealing with visitors, etc., I also had to process contracts and invoices, help with newspaper editing, proofreading, newspaper packaging and mailing, and some simple accounting tasks etc. After working at The Epoch Times for a while, I felt that the receptionist position was a go-for job and was not at all challenging and that my position was not important.
Because I didn’t have a correct understanding of the importance of the receptionist position, I didn’t have a good mentality when going about my job. As soon as I got busy, I would get impatient with my colleagues. I remember that for a few times when a sales staff member signed off contracts at a price that was too low. I would become upset and would say in an aggressive tone, “Your contract doesn’t meet our standard, the price is too low. I can’t process this.” The sales colleague was speechless and looked very frustrated. I should have known that she had worked so hard to sign off on this contract, however, she still had to endure the added pressure from me at the front desk.
After that, the general manager told me that those of us working in the office should be more considerate to the salespeople who have been working hard outside of the office. He also said that this is a media that clarifying the truth and a project to save people. The evil had always been watching us, and every contract is acquired with difficultly.
Later, I told the general manager: “I wasn’t feeling it right. I think that everyone can do this receptionist job, and I have to handle lots of unexpected tasks. I felt this position was not rewarding and I haven’t been able to show my abilities to others.” After hearing this, the coordinator kindly told me, “In fact, this position is very important. It is a central hub of our newspaper. You shouldn’t feel unhappy because of the increased workload. You should know that you have mastered lots of things and that you can help everyone.”
The general manager’s words have gradually changed my mindset. Yes, my job is a job that helps saving people. Why do I always feel unhappy if I have to do more work? Or do I slack off when I feel that my job isn’t important?
Master said in Zhuan Falun, at lecture seven: “The more the junior monk suffers, the easier it is for him to achieve the Unlocking of Gong. The more comfortable the senior monks’ lives are, the harder it is for them to reach the state of Unlocking Gong since there is the issue of transforming karma. The junior monk is always suffering and tired. He will repay his karma and become enlightened more quickly. Perhaps one day he achieves the Unlocking of Gong all of a sudden.”
Master has always been reminding us that hardship is a good thing for practitioners. However, I had been using ordinary people’s notions to measure it, and seeing hardship as something uncomfortable and unpleasant. So when I measured my situation with Master’s Fa, I realised that the suffering was really a good thing.
Now, when I work with fellow sales staff, I try to stand by their side and think of them more. I also realised that our work process, details and our attitude in Epoch Times are all related to saving people. Regardless of one’s personal abilities or skillset, it is all part of our cultivation. As I became friendlier towards my colleagues, they felt relieved and easier after a hard day’s work.
Recently, our office started to promote an English newspaper project . In addition to delivering newspapers, I also had to prepare maps and distribution forms for fellow practitioners. This work required great attention to detail when doing the verification and proofreading. We can’t have any errors. Although my workload had increased, I happily accepted the task. I did the verification and proofreading very carefully each time, and I was very motivated. We know that sentient beings in mainstream society are waiting for this truth-clarification newspaper. And this is also our mission and responsibility as practitioners.
- Jealousy
I am the only child in my family. My parents and my husband are all practitioners. They have always taken good care of me. Therefore, I have always been living a life without any worries. Since I started working at the front desk, with the work getting busier every day, I gradually developed jealousy and a competitive mentality.
The receptionist job requires me to arrive at the office on time, but also stay at the desk the entire time. Usually, I come to the office early. I discovered that only the general manager and some senior colleagues would arrive early. Colleagues around my age came later than me and were often late (I later learned that they often stayed back and went home late). After a while, I felt upset and developed strong jealousy, “Why can they come to work so late? Why do I have to work so hard? I don’t get a cent more than them!”
I remember that one day I had a lot of work to do. Even though I’d normally work quickly and efficiently, that day I felt overwhelmed. At lunchtime, I was eating and working simultaneously in front of the computer. Suddenly I heard a burst of laughter. I saw that my fellow young colleagues were all gathering for lunch and happily chatting. I suddenly felt anguished and thought, “I’m so busy that I don’t even have time to eat, yet they are so happy.”
That happened on a Friday when we meant to have our weekly meeting. In the evening, my husband also came to the weekly meeting. He saw that I was in a bad mood, so he asked me, “What happened?” So I cried and told him what happened. I said: “I’m angry and I’m going home. I’m not going to attend the meeting.” My husband pointed out that I was jealous and encouraged me, “You have to let go of this attachment and listen to the sharing of fellow practitioners, that would help.”
Just like what my husband said, in the meeting, that day fellow practitioners shared about jealousy. Our sales team talked about the various contradictions, conflicts, and improvements in their Xinxing that occurred when several sales collaborated on one contract. Say several sales staff secured a contract; some made more contribution and others made less, yet each got the same share of the commission. In their situation, the salespeople who made the greater efforts had to get rid of jealously and the feeling of it being unfair, by studying the Fa more. The first thing they thought was, “This is a project to save people, and they could bring in income for the newspaper.” By thinking it this way, they were able to sign off contracts one after another. I was very touched after listening to their sharing and realised that it was the Master that inspired me, and Master arranged it in such a special way for me to cultivate away my jealousy.
I now realise that everything I encountered while working at The Epoch Times was a good thing. It helped me to cultivate and improve, and it is Master who helped me to get rid of the attachments that I harboured within me.
I remember Master said in Fa Teaching at the 2015 West Coast Fa Conference, “What are you cultivating for? For your reputation? Out of resentment? For the attachments you harbor? For your loved ones? For the things you’re attached to? For the things you can’t let go of? Aren’t all of these exactly the things that you should be getting rid of?”
- Cultivating away the attachment of comfort during the pandemic
This year’s sudden outbreak of the CCP virus brought the entire society to a standstill. However, Dafa disciples’ projects in saving people did not stop, and neither did our newspaper. According to government restrictions, company employees who could work from home must work from home. I was really happy about this policy, hoping that I could enjoy the comfort of working from home. It sounded so pleasant.
However, the general manager told us that everyone needed to decide whether to come to the office based on their own situation. I disregarded the nature of my work, and reduced my working hours in the office using the excuse of the pandemic. I even thought that I was better than others because I still spent lots of time working in the office.
But in reality, because I was away more often than before, other colleagues needed to answer the phone for me. When they called me for help, I couldn’t reply and handle the issue in time, and that brought inconveniences to the whole team.
When I came to the office, I brought my attachment to comfort. Looking at the empty office, I wasn’t able to concentrate with my work, and always wanted to finish the work quickly and go home early. Unconsciously, I made more errors in my work. Eventually, a really big mistake occurred. During the pandemic we reduced the number of pages in the newspapers, but I still mailed the newspapers with the same mailing fee that was for the original weight. It was only discovered a few weeks later, which directly resulted in the company’s financial loss.
The general manager sent me a text message with a serious tone, expressing his unhappiness with me slacking off at work. He said that if I didn’t improve, he would replace me with someone else.
The moment I received the message, I immediately woke up to myself and start self-reflecting. “What am I doing?! What kind of working attitude I have been having? My attitude to work at The Epoch Times is too perfunctory. My attitude seems to be worse than an ordinary person!” I couldn’t help asking myself, “I am a disciple since I was a child, and it has not been easy to come to this state. Why have I become more and more slack in the project that saves people?”
I suddenly thought of the Fa taught by Master,
“What I am ultimately trying to convey to you is that it was all for this affair that you came here! So you have no choice [but to do all of this well]; there is really no other way! That’s the case for Dafa disciples. For ordinary people it’s fine to reincarnate however they may. But that’s not an option for you, as you are here for Dafa and its great undertaking. So if you don’t do well you will be left with regrets. And I especially want to remind our veteran Dafa disciples not to slack off. You have gone through so many long and grueling years to make it to this day, and it really hasn’t been easy! Do you not know to value and cherish yourselves? I certainly cherish you! And divine beings do too! (Applause.) So all the more so should you value and cherish yourselves.” (2018 Fa Teaching Given in Washington, D.C.)
I only noticed when other people were relaxing, but I didn’t know how hard my colleagues worked when I couldn’t see them. Sales staff worked so hard out of the office to get contracts. In the office, I should do a better job in helping them. I should provide them with useful and accurate information. I was reluctant to double-checking my work on other simpler tasks, such as invoicing and editing, due to the attachment of comfort. This resulted in me making more errors. As long as I am willing to do everything, pay more attention and check things twice, I can reduce a lot of such mistakes. Although my work cannot bring income to The Epoch Times, nor produce news, my work can bring convenience to the whole team.
Master said in the 2018 Fa Teaching Given in Washington, D.C.: “People usually want to do things that are more visible, and where others can see what they have accomplished. They’d like it to be seen by others, if not Master. Otherwise it might bother them on some level. But actually, there are so many eyes in the cosmos intently watching you that the number is simply unimaginable. Even a single particle of matter is packed full of these eyes—even the tiniest of particles are. All of the lives in the cosmos are intently watching all that Dafa disciples do. And divine beings are among these. Your every thought and action are being recorded, and more vividly than video recording—everything is recorded multi-dimensionally. So what you are doing is for the divine to see, not man.”
After the painful experience, I affirmed to myself that I must get rid of my attachment to comfort and devote myself to the newspaper project as a way to clarify the truth and save sentient beings. So now I go to work on time every day, and I have been carefully going through my work again before leaving. I realised that this is my job, my responsibility, my position in order to fulfill my mission of saving beings.
That’s my sharing about the little things that happened to me. In fact, every aspect of work in the newspaper project is cultivation. We need to collaborate with each other and work as a whole body. In this process, we will cultivate away our various human attachments and improve our own Xinxing, following Master to return home and achieve consummation.
My understanding is limited. Please point out anything improper.
Thank you Master!
Thank you fellow practitioners.