2020年澳洲在线法會發言稿 5 : 在媒体项目工作中的一点修炼体会 My recent cultivation experience while working in the media

近期在媒体项目工作中的一点修炼体会

尊敬的师尊好!

各位同修大家好!

藉澳洲法会的机会,在此与大家分享近期在媒体项目中的一些修炼心得。不当之处请同修慈悲指正。

一、放下执着圆满的心,抓紧实修

今年疫情开始后,我看着周围的环境,有些困惑,心想劫难来了,同修们看起来还是按部就班啊。因为困惑,还去问同修是否认为这就是正法的尾声,又去问另一位同修疫情来后有没有更精進。后来我告诉自己“不要向外看还是修自己吧”。

一次同修提醒我,越是这个时候我们越要做好报纸质量才能使项目起到更大的救人作用。同修提醒的很对啊。是我的心偏离了。我意识到自己被疫情带动的人心是求圆满的私心,担心自己不能圆满的怕心。修炼也不是靠认同感与证实自我。眼睛看到的表象往往不是真相。

我发现自己这个执着圆满的心还真是挺重的。记得去年做过一个梦,大致情景是正法的最后时刻,看到同修们白日飞升,我一直在等什么时候轮到自己,可直到醒来都没轮上。

本该救人的时间,思想却想到别处了。得法之初,想求得世间的美好,人身的解脱的根本执着也被暴露出来。我告诉自己,一个正觉无论何时都是心系众生的,不可能是带着私的状态思考与行事。

记得师父讲:“你们知道吗?心里头想着圆满的人是圆满不了的,更何况想圆满还放不下对情、财等执着的人。无求而自得!大法弟子今天所做的一切就是历史赋予你们的责任,你就堂堂正正的去做好你应该做的,什么都在其中。你只要想着你要圆满你就圆满不了。”[1]

明确了这一点后,那就听师父的话,在最后这段时间里,把所有的时间与精力都投入在如何救人上才是我目前唯一需要考虑的。

这次写交流稿也发现了自己的私心与怕心,把做事当做了修炼。

一直认为写交流稿是修炼中应该配合的事,但是自己拖拉到最后只能完成任务式的交差,这次才意识到这样的做法很不严肃。

想想自己的心态是把写交流稿看作是件该做的事,不做的话在修炼上是个损失,不做可能会落下。我心里问自己是不是还有觉得写了稿、不管写得怎样都比不写的好。没有静下心来整理修炼的心得,没有认真去对待原本神圣的事情,我从只是完成任务的做法中看到自己想要提高的心并不纯正,还是站在了为私的基点上。

师父讲:“人把做事当作了修炼,人把维护宗教的形式当作修炼。”[2]

想起过往的一些事情也是如此,每次听到别人说项目不好或有什么问题的时候,我都急吼吼地跟人家解释有时甚至是争论,表面上看似是在维护项目维护法,但因为带着情,带着人心,没有看到自己的问题去实修,是否也是在“维护宗教”的本身呢。

二、发现阻碍修炼的“自我”

年初,主管同事有事请假了,我接替她的工作。这些年她休假或报导神韵时我都代班她的工作,这个部门是我最初进项目时的团队,所以和整个团队配合起来既熟悉又默契。但是心性考验的机会还是会随时出现。

前不久,在头版标题一个字的用法上和团队中的一位同事有了不同的看法。在查阅该字的用法与总部校对手册后,我决定更改,虽然同事持不同意见但最终让步。紧接着在转换使用总部最新版本的校对手册时,我处理不够得当,导致同事对我意见很大。

直到这时我还是没有好好找自己的问题,一天下班,团队的另一位同事说起这件事时,我顺口说了句,“真够某某修的了”(指那位对我很有意见的同事),话一出口,自己也吓一跳,因为看到了那个很强的“自我”。

师父讲:“我经常讲,两个人在遇到矛盾的时候你们都要互相看一看自己。不但你们俩个双方发生矛盾要看一看自己,就是旁观者能看到这个问题你都应该想一想自己,我说那在提高当中才是突飞猛進的。”[3]

旁观的第三方都要找自己,何况我这个矛盾的主体方,可我却将自己置身事外了。

这之后,我开始静下心来看自己的问题。那位同事是位长辈,在生活上也很照顾我,时间久了,我对同事的感激之心也在习以为常中变淡了。同事平常表现大大咧咧,有时不拘小节。我一直用情对待她,没有在修炼上对她有所提醒与帮助。虽然工作上的分工让我可以对一件事情做出最终决定,但在处理这件事情的过程中,我对同事没有用尊重与理解的心去沟通,这是党文化造就下违背传统道德的表现。而且我对同事的解释主观地归结为,那是她一贯坚持自我的做法。我是用强烈的观念在衡量同事,其实那个“自我”正是我要修去的。

意识到自己的问题后,我和同事的关系恢复如常了。同事也在修自己,事情过去了。但就是这个“自我”让我产生了在同事之上的错觉,在面对矛盾时表现出只修别人不修自己的状态。

一次接连几件小事让自己开始介意在别人面前的表现,总感觉自己笨嘴笨舌、笨手笨脚。

一次,正沉浸在自己的情绪当中,一出门过马路,包掉到地上,包里的玻璃饭盒打碎了,同修还开玩笑说要帮我保住饭碗。我向内找时,想起了以前的一个场景。有位同修很不愿意交流也不习惯敞开心扉,她是说不愿让别人觉得自己修的不好,很在意别人的眼光。我记得自己当时还用不太理解的语气跟人家说,为什么会有这样的担心,大家都是修炼人啊。意思是我就不会担心在别人面前坦承自己的问题。

可现在才发现,原来我也这么在意自己的表现啊,这不就是“自我”嘛,我对自己性格的认知不是一天两天了,已经几十年了,为什么现在开始在意了?是不是觉得自己现在位置不一样了,虽然不认为自己具足这样的能力,但隐藏的名利心还是加强了这个“自我”吧。

最近,有同事指出一篇文章的标题改错了,我开始回想到底是怎么回事。

当时看到这条新闻的第一个感觉是,在现实环境下谈论工资是否能够增长的问题没有意义,不如用新闻里面的一个点来得更吸引人,带给读者更实用的资讯。原本那个信息点的表述就是完整的一句话啊,可是为什么出错了呢?

我想起编辑这条新闻时,是版面大没太多选择的情况下,觉得改改标题尚可用,而且在整篇文章中没看到在谈论这类相关内容时的专门用词,心里就嘀咕:“唉,他们怎么会不知道这个专业术语呢?”这个念头冒出来时,我没有去重视它。记不清当时是不是因为别的事情打岔,就匆匆下了新的题目。

就在做这期报纸的前几天,请一位同事解决一个问题时,他说了一些不愿直接做而是要用替代方案的理由后,话题一转,开始指出我们的工作要如何如何,而不应如何如何。因为刚好有其它工作要处理,我当下没有立即回应他的这个话题,感觉那样做的话可能会带出情绪,但其实心里并没有放下,我在思想中这样回复他,“让你做你份内的工作,你就指出别人的问题。你应该最近没有关注我们的内容,我们现在有所改善啊。”不管表面形式如何吧,回忆至此,清晰的一点就是,这让我再次看到了“自我”这个执着。

其实,对于我个人来说,一直看得到自己有很多不足,即使这样,“自我”这个东西依然表现的很突出。觉得自己比别人行,或过分纠结自己不行都是“自我”的表现。

我还悟道:旧势力与三界内的旧神当初都不知道正法是怎么回事,认为自己才有能力挽救苍穹,因此做了他们的安排,但实际上却成为了正法的阻碍。

“自我”障碍着我们修去旧宇宙的特性“私”,阻挡我们不能实修,遇到问题时只修别人不修自己。这让我想起刚开始修炼时印象比较深的就是师父讲:“你们今后做事就是要先想到别人,修成无私无我,先他后我的正觉”。[4]

师父多次跟我们讲过大法弟子在配合时应该如何做。

师父再次讲到配合这个问题时讲:“堂堂正正的配合好。不一定谁的主意最好,就是他主意不好、不全面,你自己默默的把它补充好!做全面了!神才看你了不起,而且是默默做的!”[5]

三、与团队共同成长

之前提醒我要抓好质量的同事对我说,你不能只满足于完成了工作,你要带好团队啊。想想自己好像真的是这样仅限于完成工作。在我看来,因为整个团队坚持了五六年的每天上班前的面对面学法,不仅人员稳定,工作效率也比过去提高很多。大家的工作也很有序,我只是配合大家完成每天的工作。

听到同修的再次提醒后我问自己,我是否真的把自己溶于团队之中,我是否真的关心同修,我知不知道她们在工作或修炼上有什么困难,她们需要什么样的支持。一直以来,都是她们在包容我,帮助我。

我放下人心,想到我既然在这儿,那就要对同修负责。配合公司的要求,我制作了一个表格,希望大家都能填写每天学法炼功发正念的时间,以此在修炼上互相督促与鼓励。结果是大家都很愿意这样做,从八月份起,我们整个报社开始实行在线填表。另外,我所在的团队也开始每周学习一些文字方面及软件使用的培训内容,使大家共同在专业技能上有所提高。

我一直盼望我代班的那位同事能回来,从六月盼到了九月,我问自己是不是有怕吃苦、不愿承担责任的心,我开始放下这些人心与执着,做好要做的工作。

有时会提醒自己,在一个环境中待久了,不修自己的话在工作与修炼上很难有突破,周围的人看不到你有改变的希望,不容易再去提醒你。可是遇到矛盾与问题时自己还是不能做得很好,我知道这不是下决心就能做到的事,是要在修炼上下功夫。

这些年下来,我看到自己有一点变化,本身的性格比较不沉稳,犯了错误会纠结在错误本身上。现在承负能力好像强了一些,不再深陷负面情绪中,而是让自己理智去面对,从工作与心性上找出问题所在。

记得我刚来到媒体项目时,看到部门之间有隔阂,就一心想要怎么消除隔阂,让大家形成整体。可是几年后我才明白,自己当时的心态是想要改变别人。修炼就是修自己啊。

在项目中的八年多时间中,是师父的看护、同修的包容使我坚持了下来。有时也会问自己,我有没有为这个整体增添正的因素,答案都感觉很惭愧。我告诉自己,那就从现在开始,听师父的话,修好自己,奋力精進,使我们的环境成为比学比修,充满更多正气之场,使我们的媒体在正法中发挥最大的救度众生的作用。

谢谢师父!

谢谢同修!

注:

[1] 李洪志师父著作:《二零零三年元宵节讲法》

[2] 李洪志师父著作:《美国首都法会讲法》

[3] 李洪志师父著作:《新加坡法会讲法》

[4] 李洪志师父著作:《精進要旨》〈佛性无漏〉

[5] 李洪志师父著作:《二零一九年纽约法会讲法》

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English translation of the sharing:

My recent cultivation experience while working in the media

Greetings, respected teacher!

Greetings, fellow practitioners!

I would like to take the opportunity in the Australian Fa conference to share with you some of my recent experiences while working in the media. Please correct me if there is anything inappropriate.

  1. Let go of the attachment to perfection, cultivate solidly.

When the pandemic began this year, I looked around my environment and felt confused. I thought, the disaster is coming, but my fellow practitioners seemed to be going about as usual. As I was confused, I asked a fellow practitioner if they thought this was the end of Fa rectification. I also asked another fellow practitioner if they had become more diligent after the pandemic struck. I told myself afterwards, ‘Don’t look outwards, just cultivate yourself.’

I was reminded by a fellow practitioner that at this period of time, we need to focus on the quality of our work for the paper so that the project can have a greater impact on saving people. What she said was so true. It was my mind that had gone astray. I realised that the reason I was moved by the evolving pandemic was because I had a selfish attachment to consummation. I was afraid that I wouldn’t reach consummation. Cultivation is not about recognition nor validating oneself. Neither is the practice based on identification and ego confirmation. What the eyes see on the surface is often not the truth.

I realised my attachment to consummation was quite strong. I remember a dream I had last year. It was basically the final moment of Fa rectification. I saw my fellow practitioners levitating in broad daylight. I was waiting for my time to arrive, but it never came by the time I woke up.

In a time that I am meant to save people, my mind was elsewhere. When I first obtained the Fa, I pursued a happy life. My attachment to personal liberation was exposed. I told myself that a righteous enlightened being is always concerned about saving people. I cannot think and act in such a selfish state.

I remember Master said in “Explaining the Fa During the 2003 Lantern Festival at the U.S. West Fa Conference”:“But you know what? Those who have thoughts of Consummation in their minds can’t reach Consummation, not to mention those who want to reach Consummation but can’t let go of attachments to things like emotion and wealth. Pursue nothing and gain naturally! All the things that Dafa disciples are doing today are in fact the responsibilities that have been bestowed upon you by history. Just do what you should do openly and with dignity, and everything will be covered. (Applause) As long as you’re thinking about wanting to Consummate you won’t be able to Consummate…”

After understanding this, I knew that I needed to listen to Master’s words, and in this final period, the only thing I should be concerned about now is devoting all my time and energy on how to save people.

I also discovered my selfishness and fear through writing this experience sharing. I also treated work as if it was cultivation.

I’ve always thought that writing an experience sharing is something I should cooperate with, but I procrastinated to the point where I was only able to complete the task. This time, I realised that I hadn’t been treating it seriously.

I thought writing an experience sharing is something that I should do, and that it would be a loss to my cultivation if I didn’t do it. I would fall behind. I asked myself if I felt that it was better to write than to not write at all. I didn’t calmly organise my thoughts and write my experience sharing. I didn’t take seriously something as sacred as this. From my approach of wanting to get the job done, I saw that the wish to improve myself was not pure. I was standing on the basis of selfishness.

Master said in “Teaching the Fa at the Fa Conference at the US Capital”:“People take actively doing things to be cultivation, and they take preserving religious formats to be cultivation.”

I thought about some things that occurred in the past. Whenever I heard someone say that a certain project was not good or that there was a problem, I would anxiously explain the situation to others, and sometimes even argued with them. On the surface it looked like I was defending the project and safeguarding the Fa, but due to my sentimentality and attachments, I did not see my own cultivation issues. I wonder whether I’d also just been “preserving religious formats”.

  1. The attachment to self is an obstacle to cultivation

At the beginning of the year, I took over the work of my colleague who was on leave and I became the department manager. Over these years, I replaced her whenever she was on leave or busy with Shen Yun reporting. This is the same department that I joined when I first started working for the media, so I was familiar working with the team and we worked well together. However, opportunities to improve xinxing can pop up at any time.

Not long ago, I had a disagreement with a colleague over the usage of a particular word on the front page headlines. After checking the word usage with our head office’s proofreading manual, I decided to revise the word, and although the practitioner disagreed, he finally gave in. While making the switch, I didn’t handle the process well, which drew a lot of criticism from other practitioners.

Up until that point, I hadn’t really found my own problems. One day after work, another team member was discussing this incident and said casually, “That’s definitely for so and so to cultivate” (I was referring to the colleague who had a strong opinion towards me). As soon as the words came out of my mouth, I was shocked because I saw the strong attachment to self.

Master said in “Teaching at the Conference in Singapore”:“I’ve often said that when two people have friction between each other, each one should examine him or herself. Not only should the two people with the friction examine themselves, but also the bystanders who happen to observe the incident should. That’s when you will really improve by leaps and bounds.”

But I placed myself out of the issue.

After this, I began to calm down and look at my own problems. The practitioner who I had a conflict with was one of my elders. She took care of me daily, but as time went by, my gratitude towards this practitioner gradually faded. This practitioner was usually carefree, and sometimes she didn’t pay attention to detail. I always used sentimentality towards her and did not remind her or help her in cultivation. Even though my role at work allowed me to make the final decision on certain matters, in the process of handling the matter, I did not communicate to my fellow practitioner with respect and understanding. This type of conduct was against traditional morality and had been instilled by Party culture. I thought it came down to the fact that the practitioner kept insisting on doing things her own way. I was judging practitioners with strong notions. Actually, the attachment to self was exactly what I should have been cultivating away.

After realising my problem, my relationship with the practitioner returned to normal. The practitioner was also cultivating herself, so that matter was over. It was this attachment to self that gave me the illusion of being above others. When facing conflicts, I was helping other practitioners cultivate but not myself.

A few small things that happened one after the other made me start to be conscious of how I behaved in front of others, like how I was inarticulate and uncoordinated. One day, I was leaving the house in an emotional state. My bag fell to the ground and the glass lunchbox in my bag broke. Practitioners joked about helping me save my job. I soon remembered a scene from the past. A practitioner was very reluctant to share and was uncomfortable about opening up. What she meant was that she didn’t want others to think that she hadn’t cultivated well. She cared about what others thought. I remember speaking to them as though I didn’t understand why she was worried. We were all cultivators. What I meant was that I wasn’t worried about admitting my problems in front of others.

The fact that I cared so much about myself is a sign of the attachment to self. I have known about my personality for decades, so why would I start to care now? Did I feel that my role was different now? Even though I didn’t think I had all the skills, the hidden attachments to fame and fortune strengthened my attachment to self.

Recently, a practitioner pointed out that the headline of an article had been changed incorrectly. I started to think about why it happened.

The first thing I thought when I saw the news was that it was meaningless to talk about wage increases in the current environment, so I thought it would be better to use one of the points in the article to attract readers and provide them with more practical information. The information was presented as a complete sentence, so where did it go wrong?

Later on, while editing the news, I felt that there was not enough content. After reading the article, I felt it was okay to change the headline, but when I looked through the article, I couldn’t find any Terminology on this relevant topics. I thought, ‘Oh, how did they not know this?” When this thought came out, I didn’t pay much attention to it. I don’t know if it was because I had other things to attend to at that time, so I quickly thought of a new headline.

It occurred to me that just a few days before this happened, when I asked another practitioner to solve a problem, he gave me reasons why he didn’t want to do it in a direct way, but wanted to find alternative solutions. The topic suddenly changed and he started pointing out how our work should be this way and not that way. I didn’t immediately respond to his question because I had other work to do, feeling that his alternative solution might make everyone upset. But actually I hadn’t let go of the issue. I thought to myself, “I’ve asked you to do your job, but you’re pointing out other people’s problems. You probably haven’t been paying attention to our content lately, but we’ve made improvements.” It didn’t no matter how it appeared on the surface, however it made me clearly see the attachment to self again.

In fact, for me personally, I have always been able to see that I have many shortcomings, but even so, the attachment to self really stands out. Thinking that I am better than others, or overly emphasising that I am not capable enough are all manifestations of the attachment to self.

The old forces and old gods in the three realms never understood the Fa rectification. They thought they were the ones who could save the colossal firmament, so they made their own arrangements, but they were actually the obstacles in the Fa rectification.

The attachment to self prevents us from cultivating away the old cosmos’ characteristic of selfishness. It stops us from cultivating solidly. When we encounter problems, we only cultivate others but not ourselves. This reminded me of Master’s words which had a great impact on me when I first started practising. Master said in “Non-Omission in Buddha-Nature” from Essentials for Further Advancement, “I also want to tell you that your nature in the past was actually based on egotism and selfishness. From now on, whatever you do, you should consider others first, so as to attain the righteous Enlightenment of selflessness and altruism. So from now on, whatever you do or whatever you say, you must consider others—or even future generations—along with Dafa’s eternal stability.”

When Master talked about the issue of cooperation, Master told us many times what Dafa disciples should do. In “Fa Teaching at the 2019 New York Fa Conference”, Master also said:

“Collaborate well in an open and dignified way. It doesn’t matter whose idea is the best. Even if someone’s idea isn’t good and hasn’t taken everything into consideration, you quietly make up for what’s missing! Do a thorough job! Only then would Gods see you as remarkable, and not to mention that you did it quietly!”

  1. Growing with the team

The practitioner who previously reminded me to focus on work quality said to me, ‘don’t just be satisfied with getting the job done. You have to lead the team well.’ It really felt as though I was only limited to getting the job done. It seemed to me that we had a stable team because for the last five or six years, our team has persisted in face to face Fa study every day before work. Our work productivity is also much higher than in the past. Everyone’s work was also very orderly and I was just cooperating with everyone to complete their daily work.

After getting this reminder, I asked myself whether I had really become one with the team, whether I really cared about my fellow practitioners, whether I knew if they had any difficulties in their work or cultivation, and what kind of support they needed. They have been accommodating my shortcomings and helping me all along.

I let go of attachments and thought that since I am here, then I must be responsible to my fellow practitioners. In line with what our company wanted us to do, I created a form for everyone to fill out the number of hours of Fa study, exercise and righteous thoughts they did on a daily basis, so that we could monitor each other and encourage each other in our cultivation.

Everyone was willing to participate. Since August, our entire office started to put it into action and fill out the form online. My team has also started taking part in weekly training on content and software to improve everyone’s professional skills.

I have always been looking forward to the day my colleague will return from leave. I was looking forward to it since June all the way until September. I looked within to see if I had a fear of suffering and if I was unwilling to take on responsibility. I started to let go and do well what I am supposed to do.

Sometimes I have to remind myself, when you’re in the same environment for a long time, it’s hard to make breakthroughs in work and cultivation if you don’t cultivate yourself. The people around you can’t see how you can change and it’s not easy to keep reminding you. But when I run into conflicts and problems, I still can’t do very well. I know that this is not something you can achieve with determination, but that we have to focus on cultivation.

Over the years, I have seen some changes in myself. I feel that I wasn’t very stable to begin with, and whenever I make a mistake, I tend to dwell on it. Now I am a bit more resilient, and instead of being trapped in negative emotions, I am now able to face them rationally, and find out where the problems are in my work and in my mind.

I remember when I first came to the media, I saw a gap between departments and I was determined to see how I could bridge the gap so that we could form one body. But after a few years, I realised that I was actually trying to change other people. Cultivation is about cultivating yourself.

Over the 8 years of working for the media, it is Master’s care and the tolerance of my fellow practitioners that kept me going. Sometimes, I would ask myself if I have added any positive factors to the whole team. I felt ashamed of my answer. I told myself from now on, I must listen to Master, cultivate myself well, strive to improve, and enable our environment to become one where we can learn from one another, one that is filled with righteous energy, so that our media can have the greatest effect in saving sentient beings in the Fa rectification.

Thank you, Master!

Thank you, fellow practitioners!

 

2020年澳洲在线法會發言稿 4: 在协调工作中的修炼体会 (with English translation)

文:墨尔本青年大法弟子

尊敬的师父好!
各位同修大家好!

回想自己在一年多的担任本地年轻同修协调人的过程,真是感到既惭愧又感恩。因为我知道自己的修炼状态还需要不断提高,离师尊要求的标准还是远远不够的,但同时也感谢师父给了弟子这样一个修炼的好机会,让我找到自己的执着,与同修共同提高。

一、在协调工作中归正自己
二零一八年底,协调人告诉我,让我和另一位年轻同修担任年轻同修协调人,初聼这个消息我很惊讶,为什么会选我呢?那时我的内心既忐忑又矛盾,忐忑的是我并不知道怎么做协调工作,也不知道自己要做什么,墨尔本的年轻同修也越来越多,我们要怎么协调起来呢?
矛盾的是,我深知自己的修炼状态,时而精進时而人心重重。我也知道有很多年轻同修的修炼状态比我要精進很多,我真的配做这个协调人吗?但是我也悟到,也许这是师父为我安排的一个千载难逢的修炼机会,我应该珍惜并且努力做好,而且这其中一定有我要修的东西。
年轻同修要想在这个“娱乐至死”的社会不随波逐流,唯一的办法就是多学法,学好法,当自己的思想在法上时,就能明辨来自常人的诱惑。所以我们在网上成立了一个学法小组,希望大家能在一起学法交流。刚开始参加的人数并不很多,随着时间的拉长,能坚持下来的同修更是寥寥无几。有时只剩我们两个协调人在线上相望。那时我的内心很矛盾,不知道这个线上学法组要不要坚持下去。有一次我去大组学法,一位和我不太相熟的阿姨同修走过来对我说:你们年轻人学法小组一定要坚持下去!当时我真的很感动,我想,也许这是师父借同修的口在鼓励我。随后,我和另一位协调同修开始分别联系同修,鼓励他们能上线学法。
我知道,既然我作为这个组的负责人,那大家都不来学法,肯定是我哪里出了问题。在向内找的过程中,我找到了证实自我的心。
这个学法小组刚刚成立的时候,我每次上线都会查看一下今天有多少同修参与学法,参与的人数多了,我就会很开心,上线的人数少了,我就很沮丧,因为我有一个观念:如果我们这个学法小组开展的不好,那我潜意识中就认为大家肯定会觉得我的协调有问题。我意识到,这是多么严重的证实自我的心啊!

师父在讲法中开示:“大法弟子的负责人哪,其实只是一个协调人、联系人、一个传达人,你们不要把他们当作像师父一样,寄予那么大的希望,成了你们修炼的依靠,什么事情他都必须做的最好。” [1]
我悟到师父所讲的负责人其实只是一个协调人、联系人、一个传达人,其实师父是在告诉我,要把自己的心态放平和,把姿态放低,这完全和常人中的官职是不一样的,我在其中所做的好与坏,完全是与我的修炼息息相关的。
师尊在法中也一再告诫我们:“法轮大法是修炼,不是工作,我们的一切工作人员首先是个心性高的实修者,修炼心性的表帅,不需要常人式的领导。” [2]
当我归正自己的心态时,我的内心不再为来的人多人少所带动。我把自己定位在为同修服务,而不是为了自己。只要有同修想上线和大家学法,我们这里就有一个平台为同修服务,我渐渐了解到,有些年轻同修有的在自己所在项目中学法,有的和自己的家人一起学法,其实只要大家都在学,都在修,那么是不是在我这个学法小组学,或有多少人来学,对我来说还是那么头痛的一件事吗?答案当然是否定的。
当我和同修接触时,也会继续邀请同修能来上线学法,但那时,我并不是为了人数的多少,而是真心希望能与更多的同修形成一个好的学法环境,大家都能在法中熔炼自己。

二、一思一念修在其中

在做协调的过程中总是会暴露出我许多的人心,例如怕麻烦的心,抱怨心,显示心,求名的心等等。
在做协调的过程中,我发现同修经常忽略协调人发出的一些通知短信。记得有一次,在总协调人发出讲真相活动的相关信息后我转发给了我们群组的同修。没想到第二天就有同修打电话问我相关的活动信息,我很惊奇的问:“我昨天发的信息你没看吗?”他说:“还真没有!”
无独有偶,我也聼到了其他小组的协调人也反映了相同的情况。类似这样的事情发生了几次后,我觉得无奈又好笑,心想:我们又不是发无聊短信,那肯定是佛学会有什么通知才会转发给大家,为什么就不能看一看呢?如果同修间都不相互配合,那怎么能把事情开展好呢?
我和同修交流这件事,同修却说:那么多短信谁看的过来啊?大家又不是每天没别的事做了!同修的话无疑是火上浇油,让我心里愤愤不平又百思不得其解,为什么同修对待这些短信表现得这么麻木呢?
师父开示:“碰到矛盾了,不管我对我错,会想自己:这件事情我有什么不对的地方?是不是真的我出现什么不对了?都在这样思考,第一念思考自己、想问题,谁不是这样你就不是一个真正的大法修炼人。” [3]

虽然师父讲了向内找,可我找半天都找不到我哪里有问题:同修不看信息,和我有关系吗?直到有一次,我又一次转发佛学会通知时,因为当时手上有很多工作要忙,但通知的事情又很紧急,需要及时发出去,由于发送的信息字数多,传送的人数又很多,我就想速战速决,抱着“快点发出去我的任务就完成了”的想法。导致一条信息传了很多次都不成功,当我心烦意乱的传送时,我忽然意识到,是不是我的态度也会决定同修收到信息时对待这条短信的态度呢?当我的态度不是抱着正念,而是抱着一种尽快完成任务的敷衍态度,那么这条信息出去时会有正面的能量吗?收到信息的同修会不会也同时接收到了我这种负面的信息呢?
事情虽小,但修在其中。
师父在法中开示:“你想过你所有生活的一切都在修炼当中吗?你的一言一行,你所做的那一切,你都是在修炼中,你知道吗?” [4]
当读到这段法时,我的内心一震,一思一念,一言一行都是在修炼中,所以师父告诉弟子:“世间上任何事情都没有比修炼这件事情再严肃不过的了。” [5]

从此,对待再小的事情,我都尽量做到认真、不糊弄事。

三.、从妒嫉到相互配合
在做协调人之前,我从来没有发现自己的某些执着心会如此严重,例如妒嫉心。
今年,为了配合讲真相的形式,佛学会组织了社交媒体讲真相小组。当时协调人问我,让谁来协调比较好?我向他推荐了同修甲,随后同修A和同修B便开始筹备该项目,初期也取得了不错的效果。
一次在开会时,协调人说同修A和B这个项目做得很好,能力很好。协调人一句话却让我起了妒嫉之心,我觉得好像言外之意就是我的协调能力不行,说来好笑,也许同修A和B到现在都不知道她们曾经是我妒嫉的对象。
那时我清楚的认识到了这是自己的妒嫉心,但就是排不掉也压不住。总想着我需要做点什么事情来证实自己,因为妒嫉心的驱使,让我都不太想和同修讲话。现在回想起来感到很可笑,但却是我那时的真实想法。我对母亲同修说:“我从来都没有想到我原来有这么强烈的妒嫉心。”
我那时也意识到,为什么会安排我做这个协调人,也许就是师父为了让我在这过程中暴露出这些肮脏的人心,从而去掉它。
师父在法中开示:“有人和我讲是不是工作能力不行,我说这是常人的讲法。关键原因是你们站长、副站长也是修炼的人,也有放不下的执着心,需要有一个去你们那心的环境。而站长与站长之间矛盾出现的时候,往往你们都用“不配合工作啦”等等,用大法的工作来当借口,推开矛盾,而不是利用这好机会向内找,提高上来。” [2]

其实同修有好的协调能力,能在讲真相中发挥更大的作用,这不是一件大好事吗?那么我们在大法中熔炼的生命就是要去掉私,去掉妒嫉。
想通这些道理后,我主动给同修B打电话,希望同修B加入到年轻同修学法小组来。最后我们在相互配合下,组成了两个时间段的学法小组。同修B负责早晨时段的学法组,我负责晚上时段的学法组,因为学法的时间更加灵活,也有更多的年轻同修加入了学法小组。
同时我们商量建立一个年轻人群组,由于疫情的封锁,同修间很难见面,如果有想交流的话题大家可以在网上畅所欲言。群组建立后,同修们在网上交流自己的修炼体会,分享讲真相的方式做法,或者有好的交流文章也会贴到网上,虽然不能见面,但我却觉得和同修离得并不遥远。

四、年轻大法弟子参与讲真相
今年初,我地一华人聚集区的真相点遭到不明真相的常人割断真相条幅的绳子抢走条幅,后来条幅被同修找回。事情发生后,我和另一位年轻同修C就此事交流,同修C觉得,当时真相点上只有两位年岁大的同修,不会讲英文,不会用手机录像,如果当时有多一些的同修在场,邪恶也不会这么猖狂,她当时提议,我们年轻同修应该多去真相点。
当时我们在群组里呼吁年轻同修多参与真相点的讲真相活动,也得到同修的回应,我们当下决定,从当周开始就去真相点。作为协调人,我觉得我有责任起带头作用,可是我的怕心却时时在往外冒,因为这个真相点是我最惧怕去的。因为我觉得那里华人众多,有很多不明真相的众生,会不会有人过来骂我?或者有特务怎么办?
然而师父的法却时时在耳边敲打我:“什么叫“正法时期弟子”啊?你证实法了吗?大法给你好处你来了,大法蒙难你却躲起来不敢为大法说句公道话,你连一个普通的人都不如,还谈什么在家学法?迫害中众生都被毒害着,你还躲的住?大法弟子为什么要去讲清真相、为什么要救度众生?因为这就是大法弟子的责任,我李洪志要的就是这样的生命,大法弟子就是这样的修炼人。” [6]
我发着正念,一面清除着破坏真相点的邪恶因素,一面清除着来自我自身空间场的邪恶因素。去真相点的那天,我感到内心异常平静。我和同修C发完正念便开始炼功,那天下午我感觉整个真相点的空间场特别舒服祥和。
因为我们闭着眼睛什么都看不见,炼完功后聼同修阿姨讲,有很多人给我们拍照,也有很多人驻足观看,有一个年轻小伙子在我们身边站了很长时间,看着我和同修C炼功。由此我想到:其实我们年轻同修站在真相点上,我们自身就是一个真相。中共造谣说法轮功只有老年人炼,那我们就用行动告诉世人,年轻人也炼法轮功;中共造谣说炼功是封建迷信,那我们年轻人站在那里就会让人思考,为什么接受过中共无神论教育的年轻人也炼法轮功?
师父曾开示:“我一算这个年龄啊,从我传法到现在,二十五岁左右这些年轻人,真的还有很多人没有得救,都是神来的,他们下到地上来,散布在全世界各地,有的当人当不了,没有那么多人身,那就当动物,当植物,为什么当今社会对这个动植物保护的要求那么高,这些年,都是有原因的,是神在安排,在带动,没人看的清楚这些事情,但是都不简单。”

师父的这段讲法使我感慨万分:作为我们年轻同修,能够在这万古不遇的机缘下成为大法弟子,我们是何其的幸运。可是常人中和我们一样的同龄人却没有我们如此幸运,那我们怎么不应该去救度他们呢?[7]
疫情期间,我们开始派发大纪元特刊,很多年轻同修都参与了進来,大家背着报纸,开始走街串巷。看到周末时分,本该热闹的街市却家家大门紧闭,我更觉得救人的紧迫性,每塞進邮箱一份特刊,我都在心底对着这户家人说:快来看真相吧!这真的是瘟疫中的救命良方!那时一边发着特刊,脑海中不停的回荡着神韵的歌曲《静心瞅一瞅》。
不为回报没有求
大难一到把你留
别忘来世为何事
千年轮回有因由

在这正法的最后时刻,我希望能与同修在修炼中互相提醒,互相鼓励,不错过这万古机缘!
以上是我在修炼过程中的一点浅悟,如有不正之处,敬请同修慈悲指正。

谢谢师父!
谢谢同修!

注:
[1] 李洪志师父著作:《各地讲法六》〈亚太地区学员会议讲法〉
[2] 李洪志师父著作:《精進要旨》
[3] 李洪志师父著作:《各地讲法十一》〈什么是大法弟子〉
[4] 李洪志师父著作:《世界法轮大法日讲法》
[5] 李洪志师父著作:《澳大利亚法会讲法》
[6] 李洪志师父著作:《二零零四年纽约国际法会讲法》
[7] 李洪志师父著作:《二零一六年纽约法会讲法》

———  English version of the sharing —-

My Cultivation Experience As a Coordinator

By Melbourne Young Chinese Practitioner

Greetings Master!

Greetings Fellow Practitioners!

I have been a coordinator for the local young practitioners for more than a year. I was grateful to have this opportunity, yet I feel I haven’t done the job well. My cultivation state has not improved yet and is not up to the requirements set by Master. But I thank Master for giving me this opportunity so that I can discover my attachments and improve with the help of other practitioners.

  1. Rectifying Myself in the Role of Coordinator

I was asked to coordinate the local young practitioners alongside another practitioner at the end of 2018, much to my surprise. Why would they ask me? I became afraid and hesitant. I didn’t know how to coordinate the group or what kind of work I should do. More and more young practitioners were coming to Melbourne. How should I coordinate them?

I was hesitating because my cultivation state was not good. Sometimes I cultivated diligently while other times I was filled with attachments. I knew many young practitioners were far better cultivators than me. Was I worthy of being a coordinator? I realised that this precious opportunity might have been arranged by Master, and I should treasure it and do the work well. There must be attachments for me to get rid of.

The only way for young practitioners to not follow along current trends and entertainment-filled lifestyles, was to study the Fa more and study the Fa well. When our thoughts are in the Fa, we can resist the temptations from ordinary human society. We established an online Fa study group so that young practitioners could study the Fa and share cultivation experiences together. There were not many young practitioners taking part in the beginning and this became even fewer as time went on. One day an elderly practitioner at the big Fa study group said to me that young practitioners must continue the group Fa study together. I was very thankful to her. Maybe Master was encouraging me through her. Myself and another coordinator then contacted young practitioners and encouraged them to join the online Fa study.

As a cultivator, I must have problems if so few practitioners came online studying the Fa. I looked within and found that I had the attachment of validating myself.

When the Fa study group was just set up, I looked at the number of practitioners online every time. I felt happy when I saw many practitioners attending and felt sad when only a few were there. I had a notion that if a Fa study group didn’t do well, it must be the problem of the coordinator. I realised that it was an attachment to validating myself.

Master said:

“The coordinators among Dafa disciples are in fact just coordinators, points of contact, and people who relay information. Don’t think of them as Master, and don’t have such high expectations that you rely on them as you cultivate and expect them to handle everything just right.” (“Teaching the Fa at the Meeting with Asia-Pacific Students”, Collected Fa Teachings, Vol. VI)

So Master said, “The coordinators among Dafa disciples are in fact just coordinators, points of contact, and people who relay information.” My understanding was that I should have a peaceful mind and become humble. The coordinator in a Dafa project is not the same as a coordinator in ordinary society. Whether I did well or not was closely related to my cultivation state.

Master said: “Falun Dafa is for cultivation practice—it is not a job. All of our volunteer workers must first be genuine cultivators with high-level xinxing, as they are role models for xinxing cultivation. We do not need the types of leaders like those among everyday people.” (“It is not a Job, but Cultivation Practice”, Essentials for Further Advancement)

When I changed my mentality, I was no longer moved by the number of practitioners who came online to study the Fa. This wasn’t set up for me, I was helping other people. We provided a platform for those young practitioners who wanted to study the Fa with other practitioners. I learnt later on that some young practitioners studied the Fa with practitioners in their own projects. Some studied the Fa with their practitioner family members. As long as they study the Fa and cultivate, it doesn’t matter whether they join our Fa study group or how many practitioners are online with us.

I will continue inviting young practitioners to join our Fa study group. That’s not merely for numbers. I sincerely hope that we can create a better Fa study environment by having more practitioners with us so that we can encourage each other and cultivate ourselves in the Fa.

  1. Cultivating Every Thought

Many of my attachments were exposed in the process of coordination. Those attachments include fear of trouble, complaints, showing off mentality and seeking fame.

I found that some practitioners often ignored the text message notifications I sent. One day I forwarded a message sent by the main coordinator about a truth-clarification activity to the group. The next day, a practitioner called me asking for this information. I was surprised and asked him if he had read the message I sent out. He said, “No, I haven’t read it.”

Coincidently, the same thing also happened to other coordinators. It happened to me several other times too. Although I could see the funny side, I didn’t know what to do. We didn’t send the message out just because we were bored, we forwarded the message because the Association needed to notify each practitioner. Why did some practitioners not read it? If practitioners don’t cooperate, how can we get the job done?

I shared my thoughts with the practitioners who didn’t read the messages. They said that there were too many messages for them to read and that they had other things to do. Their indifference angered me. I was puzzled and didn’t understand why those practitioners paid no attention to the messages.

Master said: “When you meet with a conflict, it doesn’t matter whether you are in the right. You should be asking yourself, “What on my part isn’t right in this situation? Might it really be that there is something wrong on my part?” You should all be thinking this way, with your first thought being to scrutinize yourself to try to find the problem. Whoever is not like this is not in fact a true cultivator of Dafa.” (“What is a Dafa Disciple”, Collected Fa Teachings, Vol. XI)

Though Master asked us to look within, I couldn’t find where my problem was. The practitioners didn’t read the message. Was this something to do with me? One day a message from the Association had to be forwarded to practitioners. I was very busy. But the message was urgent and needed to be sent out immediately. Because this message was long and needed to be sent to many practitioners, I wanted to finish the task straight away. But the message failed to send several times from my phone and I became impatient. Then I realised that my attitude might impact the attitude of the practitioners who were receiving this message. When I failed to have righteous thoughts and had the mentality of completing a task as soon as possible, then this message might not have positive energy. Would the practitioners receiving the message also receive the negative energy I was emitting?

Though it was a trivial thing, I must cultivate my every thought.

Master said: “That’s notably so for some veteran Dafa disciples. Has it occurred to you that everything in your daily life is part of cultivation? Your every word and action, and everything you do—all of it is part of your cultivation. Do you realize that?” (Fa Teaching on World Falun Dafa Day)

My heart was touched when I read this Fa. Every word and every action was part of cultivation.

Master also said: “Nothing in the world is more solemn than cultivation.” (Teaching the Fa at the Fa Conference in Australia)

Since then I have tried to do everything, even the tiniest thing seriously.

  1. From Jealousy to Cooperation

Before being a coordinator, I was not aware that some of my attachments such as jealousy were so severe.

The Association organised a Social Media project group this year so we have a greater reach in clarifying the truth. The main coordinator asked me to recommend a practitioner to help coordinate. I recommended Practitioner A to him, and Practitioners A and B started to plan and set up the project. They achieved great results in the first stages.

In one meeting, the main coordinator praised Practitioners A and B and said that they were very capable. Upon hearing his words, I became jealous. I felt like that he was inferring that I was not capable in a hidden way. It sounds laughable to me now. I don’t think Practitioners A or B knew that I was once jealous of them.

But I clearly knew that I had the attachment of jealousy. I tried to suppress it or let it go but I couldn’t. I thought about doing something to show off my capabilities. Because of my jealousy, I didn’t even want to talk to them. Although laughable, that was my reaction at that time. I said to my mum who is also a practitioner, “I never knew I had such a strong attachment of jealousy.”

I realised that the reason for me becoming a coordinator was that Master might let me expose my dirty human attachments in the process and get rid of them.

Master said: “Some have asked me “Is this because those persons are incapable of doing the work?” I say that’s how an ordinary human would put it. The crucial reason is that you, as coordinators and assistant coordinators of the centers, are cultivators who also have attachments that you can’t abandon, and you need an environment to get rid of them. But when tensions arise among those in charge, you usually use the excuse of “not cooperating in the work” or “working for Dafa” to push it aside, instead of seizing this good opportunity to search within and improve yourself.” (“A Person in Charge is Also a Cultivator”, Essentials for Further Advancement)

Actually those practitioners are capable and can do a better job in the project. Isn’t this a good thing? Practitioners, however, cultivate in Dafa and must get rid of selfishness and jealousy.

After I became clear on the Fa principles, I rang practitioner B and invited her to join the young practitioners’ Fa study group. We cooperated with each other and set up two sessions for Fa study. She was in charge of the morning session and I was in charge of the evening session. More young practitioners joined in the group Fa study because of the flexible time schedule.

We also set up a discussion group. Because of the pandemic lockdown, it was hard for practitioners to see each other. Young practitioners share their cultivation experiences and the truth-clarification experiences in the group. They can also post good sharing articles there. Though we cannot meet in person, I don’t feel separated from them.

  1. Young Practitioners Joining Face-to-Face Truth-Clarification Activities

Earlier this year, a man cut our rope and stole our banner at a truth-clarification site in a suburb where many Chinese people live. The banner was later found and returned to the site. I shared my understanding on the incident with young practitioner C. She understood that if we had more practitioners at the site, the evil would not have gone so crazy. Only two elderly practitioners were there at the time. They didn’t speak English and didn’t know how to film the incident from their phone. She suggested that young practitioners go to the site to clarify the truth.

On the sharing list, we suggested the young practitioners join the truth-clarification activities at the site, and received some responses. We decided to start that same week. As a coordinator, I felt that I should take the lead. But my fear kept coming out. I was afraid to go to this site because there were many Chinese people there. Would some of them curse me? Were there any Chinese agents?

Master’s Fa, however, came into my mind: “What is a “Fa-Rectification Period Dafa Disciple”? Have you validated the Fa? You came when Dafa benefited you, yet you hid out and didn’t dare to speak up for Dafa when it faced danger. You have shown yourself to be less worthy than an ordinary person, so what’s the point of “studying the Fa at home”? All beings are being poisoned in the persecution, so how could you feel at ease being in hiding? Why are Dafa disciples clarifying the truth and saving beings? Because that is Dafa disciples’ duty. That is the kind of being that I, Li Hongzhi, want, and a Dafa disciple is that kind of cultivator.” (Teaching the Fa at the 2004 International Fa Conference in New York)

I sent forth righteous thoughts to clear the evil factors that damaged our truth-clarification site and also to clear the demon from my heart. I felt calm when I arrived at the site. After we finished sending righteous thoughts, Practitioner C and I started to practise the exercises. I felt serene and comfortable at the site that afternoon.

When we were doing the exercises, our eyes were closed and we didn’t see the surroundings. Other practitioners told us that many people took photos of us and many stopped to watch. One young man stayed at the site for a long period of time, watching us do the exercises. I realised that even if we young practitioners didn’t say anything, by physically being at the truth-clarification site, we were showing the truth to people. The CCP said that only old people practise Falun Gong. We were showing people that young people also practise Falun Gong. The CCP said that believing in Falun Gong is believing in the “feudal superstition”. With young practitioners standing before them, people will be intrigued as to why those young people that were brought up with atheist education, now believe in Falun Gong.

Master said:“I was thinking about these people’s ages, how long it’s been since I began teaching the Fa, and there are really many young people around twenty-five years old who have yet to be saved. They are divine beings who descended to this earth, and are spread throughout the world. Since there aren’t that many human bodies, some of them couldn’t become human beings and so they became animals or plants. So there’s a reason why in recent years regulations protecting animals and the environment have been quite stringent; it was arranged as such by divine beings, who have been driving those things. No one can see these things for what they are. They are not simple matters, though.” (Fa Teaching Given at the 2016 New York Fa Conference)

As young practitioners, we are so lucky that we have come across this precious opportunity and become Dafa practitioners. Ordinary people at our age are not as lucky. So why don’t we step out to save them?

During the pandemic, we started to distribute The Epoch Times special editions. Many young practitioners took part. They carried the papers and walked around delivering them. On the weekends, the normally busier streets are quiet and the shops are closed. I felt the urgency of saving sentient beings. After I put a copy in the mailboxes, I would say in my heart to every household, “Please read this paper. It will save you from the disaster.” While I was distributing the papers, the Hong Yin III verse, “Calmly Take A Look” resonated in my mind:

 

“We ask for nothing in return and have no pursuit

It’s to save you once the disaster arrives

Don’t forget why you came to this world

There are reasons for ages of reincarnation”

I hope that in the last leg of Fa-rectification, fellow practitioners will remind each other and encourage each other to cultivate diligently. Don’t miss this precious opportunity!

The above is just my shallow understanding. Please kindly point out anything inappropriate.

Thank you Master!

Thank you fellow practitioners!

 

2020年澳洲在线法會發言稿 3: 关于整体配合的感悟

伟大的师尊好!
同修们好!

一、整体配合,慈悲救度迷中人
时间过得很快,澳洲的法会又要开始了,想分享的内容很多,希望大家共勉,在最后的时间不多的日子里:同化大法,精進实修,抓紧救度众生。下面我分享几个修炼中的感悟,主要是关于的问题,不当之处请同修慈悲指正。

二零一九年二月某日下午一个偶然的机会看到当地华人中文媒体里的一篇文章,文章的内容是对神韵和我们当地炼功点的各种造谣诽谤,看完后我非常的震惊,由于我经常带我三岁的女儿去真相点讲真相和炼功,在这篇中文媒体的文章中,用各种调侃,污蔑的语言对我和我女儿在真相点的活动進行诽谤。在澳洲这样的一个宗教信仰自由的地方竟然这样的公开污蔑我的信仰。我看了很伤心,同时也有一丝的顾虑,毕竟以后我还会坚持在那里去讲真相。同修和女儿的安全是我要考虑的。这样的文章煽动了对法轮功的仇恨,造成了对法轮功的很多误解。

所以我在之后的大组交流中,说出了部分的文章内容,其实当时是带着很多人心去说的,比如争斗心,气愤的心,我的内心是很希望通过法律去解决这个问题,感觉这样会有效的震撼邪恶。而且对其他的亲共媒体有警示的作用。我们同修先采用写信件的方式去澄清大法的真相,其实也是想去救这个中文媒体中工作的人,我当时很着急的是这么多人在持续不断的看这个污蔑大法的文章。看着每天上升的观看人数我也有很多负面的想法,希望赶紧处理。急躁的心理会时不时出来,在这期间我突然记忆起了在中国的时候,我被警察抓的时候,对警察是多么的厌恶,至今那个抓我的警察的面孔依然没有忘记。

但是当我在监狱的时候,又看到很多警察是很有正义感的。只是在那个体制内无法表达,而且很多警察都是为了生计才做这个工作,想想他们很多都是受害者, 他们原本的生命都是很好的生命。这个造谣的媒体也是一样。那么作为一个大法弟子,我为什么要执着于马上去起诉、用法律的方法去解决呢?难道真的是因为我急切的要去救人吗?静下心来仔细想想我有一颗非常强烈的争斗心在其左右,想把对方斗到,想立竿见影的看到结果,如果带着这样强烈的心怎么能很好的去讲真相救人,而且这个争斗心会使我越来越感觉自己的方案是对的,越想越对。
我对照大法找自己,都是自己抱着那个争斗心不放而产生的各种负面的想法。想到这里我想我就要去配合协调小组的安排,怎么配合? 要首先放弃我那些负面的想法,积极的去配合协调小组,而且我要慈悲的去配合。比如:会有很多的同修跟我有一样的想法,想直接就通过法律处理,那么我们这类同修在一起讨论这个事情的时候,都是抱着自己的方案是对的,是最有效的想法去参与讨论。我认为我们这类观点一致的同修在一起,有时说话很多都不在法上,甚至把以前的旧账都翻出来,这样反而会增加更多的负面因素,产生整体之间的隔阂。那么要想配合好就把这个口要修好,我自己就避免说那些符合自己执着的话,还有就是在无私无我的向内找自己。比如因为这个事情跟我有切身的关系,所以经常不自觉的会站在“我的”角度去看问题,想问题,总感觉这个中文媒体针对我進行了侮辱,而我却没有跳出来想想有没有我可以向内找的,哪里需要提高的。往往这样想后,就会发现自己还有很多要去的执着心。

在这之后的几天,由于大家的整体配合,那个文章对方也删除了。我们还找到了布里斯班人权理事会的相关部门,安排我们与这个中文媒体的相关负责人進行了会面,其实就是想通过这场会面能够让对方了解真相,从而得救。为了这个会面,我们也做了很多的准备,为了互相之间配合好,我们特地开了很多会议来讨论怎么样做好。比如作为当事人,我需要写一篇文章去阐述我的立场,为了展现大法弟子的慈悲与威严,文章的语言一定要考虑对方的接受能力。我悟到:作为大法弟子我们不是在气势上要压倒对方,而是用大法弟子修出来的“真善忍”的去感化对方,让对方从内心感受到大法的美好,从而对自己的错误去反省,避免以后再发生。

为了体现对对方的尊重,我们三个主要参与者都是正装出席。我可以深刻体会到在场每个大法弟子的慈悲,这里其中一个细节很有感触,比如对方专门请了一个律师和我们会面,对方开始的表情有点傲慢,感觉有点想要吵架的样子,但是我们协调人的开场白说明大家都是中国人是因为误解才到这里见面,说完后,我感觉对方律师的态度突然变了,连表情都没有那些要吵架的意思了。然后轮到我发言,我特意把语速放慢,心里想着并发出“希望你得救”的正念。我可以感觉到对方在认真的聆听,等到了第三个同修再发言的时候,我还看到对方的律师在写着什么?之后才知道原来是他们临时对我们的反馈方案,内容除了表达歉意外,还特地说明他们对法轮大法非常的尊重。媒体的经理当即表示对我们造成的伤害而惭愧,觉得无地自容!表示以后看到神韵广告时就会告诉公司所有员工都要去看神韵。而他们的律师还说要培训职工对法轮功的认识,并表示给我们做正式书面道歉。由于会议的规则媒体请的另外两个律师只能在外面等候,与会的律师还恳请我们与其他两位在外等待的律师见面握手问候。整个过程都非常的平和,我深刻的感受到师父讲的那句:“慈悲能溶天地春”[1] 的法理。我悟道:大法弟子一定要先修好自己,“真善忍”慈悲的能量才会发挥最大的效力,去溶解那些负面的物质,从而大法的威力就能展现出来,整个过程就是一个证实法的过程。

最后我们和那个媒体也是在互相理解的基础上,让这个事情得到了善解。而且我还知道,在这之后这个中文媒体的工作人员碰到我们其他同修的时候还对这个事情表示了歉意。我们整体也都感悟到配合的好不是说表面上如何,而是需要真正慈悲用心的去做才能配合好。

 

二、在配合营救中体悟修真
今年三月的某一天我突然接到(中国大陆)弟弟(常人)的留言说父母(同修)现在门前有人敲门,让我回个电话,我当时在上班,赶紧给母亲拨通了电话,父母都还平安但是说有居委会的人在门口盯梢,让我发正念,我赶紧给一些同修打电话请求帮忙发正念清除邪恶的干扰。等我下班后再多次的打电话,一直没有人接,一种不祥的预感涌了上来,但是我尽量排斥它,告诉自己不要多想,一切都有师父的安排。等到晚上的时候弟弟告诉我由于父母发大法的资料被人举报,被警察绑架带到派出所了,听到这个消息后,我顿时心急如焚,毕竟中国派出所的条件不是很好,那个时候北方的春天还很冷,很多不好的念头又冒出来了 ,当时吃饭的胃口都没有了 。而且一种对父母的责怪之心还出来了,心想现在疫情严重,盯梢的人很多,尽量少出去吧,这个念头出来的时候我又否定它,心想又是情出来了 ,不管怎么样现在最要紧的是抓紧营救父母同修,不要让抓父母的警察造业而跟着被淘汰,其实警察是最可怜的。

晚上我赶紧联系营救平台的同修進行营救,当我说出父母的情况后,营救平台的同修赶紧立案,准备营救,还给我布置了任务,就是尽快找到派出所所长的名字。我通过各种网络搜索寻找。其实当初我还有个想法就是我打电话给派出所,不过同修还是劝我要让更有经验的同修处理,我想为了更好的营救我就努力配合好平台,在找派出所所长的名字时我也看到平台同修反应的速度,营救同修一到位、打电话的和语音播放的同事就开始运作,我可以感受到同修的正念和慈悲,毕竟警察也是受害者,是中共邪党的毒害让他们走在了迫害大法弟子的路上。在师尊的加持下我很快找到了派出所所长的名字,并上报到平台,我想邪恶最怕的就是曝光,我也赶紧整理资料上传明慧网,同时加大发正念。让父母正念正行的同时也清除邪恶对营救平台同修的干扰。让我很感动的是:由于第二天我还要上班,自己不能做太晚就去休息了 ,但是平台上其他同修还在继续营救。我深深体会到师父的法:“他的事就是你的事,你的事就是他的事。[2]

第二天下午的时候我接到弟弟的电话说父母同修已经在凌晨回家了,听到这个消息我非常的感动,尤其同修之间默契的配合让我深有体会。弟弟还告诉我个细节,说父母被放出来的时候,警察都说海外的大法弟子老给我们打电话。晚上的时候我继续上平台,营救的同修看到我后马上询问我父母的情况,当得知父母平安回家后他们也很高兴。还跟我分享了昨晚营救的情况,比如说派出所的人接听了多少分钟的语音电话,而且同修是不间断的拨打,平台的一个规定让我更感动:就是同修在一个拘留所里多久营救平台就一直给这个拘留所拨打多久,直到这个同修不在那里为止。我体悟这个坚持就是修真的表现。一件事情长久坚持下去,并认真的做好。还有就是同修的反应速度都非常的快,没有互相推脱责任,大家都为着一个目标默默的去圆溶整体。这就是大法弟子应该有的配合的表现,同时我也看到了我自己在配合上的差距。

师父讲:“有一次,一个学员问我说:师父,退党退到多少人中共邪党能倒?(师父笑)我伸了五个手指头。”[3] 一开始我以为是到五亿。但是随着现在正法形势的变化,我体悟师父的法理有更深的内涵。五个手指头不就是一个拳头同时也代表我们大法弟子要整体配合好吗?同修们,在这所剩不多的时间里,我们整体配合好才能更好的救人。这里也包含修炼的因素,有同修之间的配合,同修和佛学会协调人之间的配合,有时候遇到不顺利的时候如何善意的去沟通,把自己摆在低一些的位置,默默去圆溶配合整体,这才能使每个项目发挥最大的作用。谢谢大家!

个人体悟,不当之处,请同修慈悲指正。

感谢师父!
感谢同修!
注:
[1] 李洪志师父诗词:《洪吟二》〈法正乾坤〉
[2] 李洪志师父著作:《二零零二年华盛顿DC法会讲法》
[3] 李洪志师父著作:《二零一九年纽约法会讲法》

2020年澳洲在线法會發言稿 2: 我在报纸项目工作中的修炼点滴(with English translation)

Image: by Laura Davidson via unsplash

 

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 .

  1. 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.

  1. 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?”

  1. 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.

 

 

2020年澳洲在线法會發言稿 1: 在疫情期间的修炼体会 (with English translation)

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在疫情期间的修炼体会

尊敬的师父好!

各位同修好!

师父告诫我们:“你们为什么当大法弟子啊?大法弟子就有那么大的责任,那这个责任就是要在众生都不行了的时候、世人被恶魔中共邪党绑架而无望的时候救度他们。今天的众生又都是天上来的,而且每一个人甚至于他都代表着一个天体体系的,所以救一个人等于救无量无计的生命,这背后的威德太大了,你说一个常人能做的了吗?配吗?不配。只有配做大法弟子的人才能做的了,才能解体这恶魔。”[1]

以下是我在疫情期间的修炼体会,向师尊汇报,和同修交流。

一、在RTC平台上学打真相电话

二零二零年初,瘟疫在中国爆发之后,来澳洲景点的中国游客突然减少了许多。很快澳洲也因为中共病毒在三月中旬开始进入半封城状态,我的常人工作单位也决定开始在家里上班。我觉得这正是师父给我们大法弟子安排的在平台上往国内打救人电话的最佳契机。所以我很迅速就在四月初开始学着在平台上拨打真相电话。

打电话就是修心的过程。首先是克服了安逸心,本来一到晚上十点我就想睡觉了,自己救人的决心战胜了睡魔的干扰,现在这个点一开始讲电话就精神起来了。通过在平台上打真相电话很能发现自己平常觉察不到的不真和虚伪的毛病。在打哈尔滨专案的时候和一个大哥通上了电话,从肺炎的情况开始聊,对方因觉得国内现在肺炎控制得很好问我为什么不回国,我就随口说之前考虑过要回国,但后来因为知道国内的安全只是宣传出来的所以还是不回了。事后在一旁听我打电话的同修问我是否真的考虑过回国,我说我不可能目前考虑回国,这有悖于师父对我们海外弟子的要求。同修接着问那为什么不对众生说实话,这不符合真。

师父讲:“我这个人我不愿意说的话,我可以不说,但是我说出来的就得是真话。”[2]

我当时才意识到我和同修的差距,人家就可以用法来严格要求自己,而我因为各种人心挡着,不敢说真话还觉得这种无关痛痒的善意的谎言没事。我为什么就不能堂堂正正的告诉众生因为自己的信仰在国内遭到残酷的迫害而一时想回回不去?不就是怕人家笑话自己吗?瞧你炼个法轮功,连回国都不敢回了?为什么自己的正念少的如此可怜,就不想通过讲这个事实让众生看清中共的变态和邪恶?唉,多些正念很多情况就不一样了。我感激平台同修及时又真诚善意的指出自己的不足。我之后更加注意杜绝自己任何情况下的言不由衷。怪不得之前听一位老同修说上平台打电话是最快提高心性的项目之一。

开始在平台上打电话救人之后,发现自己的修炼状态对救人的效果影响很大。在参与平台打电话之前由于自己的惰性,每天的学法炼功经常没有办法保证,经常是学半讲法和只炼一二五套动功,凌晨发正念根本起不来。修炼上的每日功课没有到位,说出的话没有足够的法力来解体另外空间的邪恶,所以众生经常不接电话或者听两句就挂电话,再打不接。刚开始还觉得是因为自己的电话讲稿有问题,什么不能有疫情敏感词啦,要快速的直接说主题啊等等,那时总是向身边的几位同修打听哪里可以获得更好更吸引人的电话讲稿。

后来才发现自己还是向外求了,因为其他同修在讲电话的时候说了所谓的敏感词众生也不挂电话呀,其他同修不紧不慢的讲着真相也没有太多挂电话的。反观自己,因为担心对方挂电话,讲的越来越快,再快一点就可以飞起来了。这种电话谁要接听?

后来向内找之后发现担心众生听不明白也是一颗必须要修去的心。师父讲:“害怕也是一种执着心。”[2]后来我就特别重视自己每天的学法炼功发正念,打电话在语速上尽量慢一些,众生也不像原来那样频繁挂电话了。向内找就能找到最好的解决方法!我发现如果今天学法炼功没有全部完成,反映到救人上就是接电话的众生听大法真相听不全,他们因为害怕电话监听或者其他原因挂电话的机率就会增多。原来他们的表现都是我自己修炼状态的真实反映啊!所以现在我就会格外重视每天自己要做的修炼功课——炼功、学法、发正念和尽量用法来规正自己的一思一念。

说在平台上打电话救人,就像修炼人云游中修心的过程,我刚开始还觉得就那么一说吧,也没去多想。但是经过这几个月的亲身体验下来,才千真万确的知道每一个接电话的众生,都是师父给我们安排的让我们提高心性的有缘人。比如说,怕心未去的同修常常遇见胆小不敢接电话的众生,或者一听开头就挂电话;爱面子心、争斗心未去的同修经常遇上破口大骂完全不听真相的众生;急性子的同修经常遇见有很多心结的众生,需要耐心聊一至两小时才能明白真相。看着是给十四亿中国同胞随机拨打的电话,但是我越来越觉得每个电话都是师父巧妙完美的安排。

我虽然表面上谦虚有礼,待人接物都能尽量做到为他人着想,让对方感到我的真诚和善意。但是一旦发现对方暴露出了我之前未曾察觉的大缺点,或者让我觉得很不舒服的方面,我就会打心眼里瞧不起这个人,然后态度一百八十度大转弯,甚至懒得多说一句。在宽容忍耐方面做得实在太不象个修炼人应有的状态。所以有一次接电话的是一位正在田地里休息的农民大哥。我听他的声音觉得他是善良有传统理念的好人。我就想简单和他聊一下,问他种的是什么农作物之类的,随后才和他开始讲真相。

这位大哥听完了抹毒誓三退保平安的消息后就很爽快的退了少先队。当我还在恭喜他做出这样一个明智选择的时候,他在电话的那一头就迫不及待的表达了他对我说话声音的喜爱,紧接着就说了很露骨淫秽的话,说他很想怎样怎样,还问我想不想。我当时就觉得这人简直太恶心了,他的那些话像一大堆屎壳郎一样砸在了我的脸上,我当时真想破口大骂然后挂电话。好在我同时又想起师父讲:“文艺作品里边要不写点儿黄色的东西,好象这本书都卖不出去,因为讲销售量的问题;电影电视里要没有点儿床上镜头,好象电影电视也没人看了,讲上座率收视率的问题;裸体画就搁那放着,大马路中间挂着,一抬头就看见。”[2]

我当时仿佛看见自己站在直升飞机外正在伸手救援一个不小心落入大粪池里的有缘生命,我会因为大粪池的臭气熏天就不完成我的使命了吗?我会因为等待救援的生命手上有粪便我就放弃他吗?绝不能!只要他愿意伸出手臂被救,只要他愿意三退并且对法轮功有个正面的表态,那他就会拥有平安美好的未来。那我就应该放下所有观念义不容辞的帮他得救。在经过了这两秒的挣扎之后,正念战胜了人心,我就当没听见对方的恶心话,接着充满善意的和他说:“恭喜您大哥,退一次就可以了,不用重复退。另外您听说过真善忍好吗?”我和他继续讲法轮功的真相。很快他就非常充满正气地说:“我知道法轮功是好的!”我真替这位大哥的明智选择感到欣慰,谢谢师父对我的加持!

二、等待真相电话的有缘大姐

中共的谎言使国内很多民众误解法轮功,中共在国内的淫威让善良的民众不敢来了解真相。但是作为正法时期弟子,我们就是把持着一颗纯净的心在平台上向所有有缘的中国人讲真相。有时也能遇到师父安排的很有缘份的众生。记得大约是今年六月份的一天晚上,我照常上平台打电话,这次接通电话的是一位中年女性,她一听我的开场白就说可算是接到我们真人电话了,她之前接到过好几通我们打的电话,但都是事先录好的语音电话,不能和真人互动,但是她觉得一定会有真人打来电话的,所以她那段时间就每天守候在电话边等待我们给她打电话。她十分明白中共的邪恶,所以很快就同意了三退。

大法真相她也知道很多,因为原来经常翻墙看新唐人的节目,所以她知道法轮功弟子就是想要修心向善的一群好人。这位善良的大姐还告诉我她一直都对宗教信仰很感兴趣,曾经很多年在国内的教堂里面了解基督教和在寺庙里了解佛教,但是现在都退出来了,因为她觉得这些宗教都不修心,她和我说她认识的大和尚天天都想着怎么去买名牌好车,她就觉得奇怪,你一个和尚你要那么好的车做什么?她觉得人生最重要的事就是要给自己的灵魂找一个家,她说:但是现在很多现代人都不知道自己还有灵魂。

我告诉她法轮大法修炼没有宗教形式,但是特别注重修心,很多法理直指人心。她听了之后很感兴趣,问我如何学炼。我就把安全获取大法信息的方法告诉她。她很快就开始看《转法轮》这本书,过了些日子我再次打电话给她的时候,她和我说这是一本指导人上天的书,她说她找了一辈子,现在终于找到真爱了。她现在有机会的情况下还会告诉身边的人法轮功可好了,不要相信中共的谎言。

三、在中国大陆社交媒体项目中修炼提高自己

在打电话的过程中,很多同修经常碰到国内有缘众生向我们询问如何突破邪党的网络封锁,安全稳定的接收海外真实的新闻。因为在中国大陆几乎人人都用社交媒体,有大量人群整天花大量时间抱着手机看社交媒体。我很快意识到了社交媒体也是一个很好的讲真相救人的平台。虽然说邪党的监控和封锁很厉害,但是同修们在师父的加持下总能智慧的突破他们的封锁把真相资料发到国内众生的手机里。

刚开始的时候我也就是在群组里发一发每天的真相资料,包括九评共产党,新唐人的时政节目,传统文化故事和大法基本真相。一开始师父鼓励我,就每天有很多人来加我为好友,希望得到我们每天更新的真相资料。很快我的好友数量就达到了七八百人,那协调同修就跟我说希望我开设新的群组,把这些有缘众生都放在几个大群里,然后每天定时在群里发几次资料,再管管群里的秩序就可以了。听着并不复杂,也是我力所能及的事情,所以我就答应管理我们的真相群。师父把有缘人送来,我开了几个群,很快每个群里都有两百五十人左右了。

就在我正有点沾沾自喜的时候,问题就来了。在每个群里都有那么十来个群友在群里每天发不少的常人文章,我因为不想得罪人也就没说什么。但很快就有其它群友对我说群主您可是要管一管呀,不管这群到时又烂了。我立刻和另一位有经验的同修联系,她说在群里是不能太吵,就像看神韵演出一样,周围环境要安静观众才能专心看演出。是啊,确保众生能在安静的环境中收看每天更新的真相资料,就已经是开始净化他们的心灵,救人重要的一个步骤了。

所以我就开始制定群规希望大家保持安静。但是那些个不安静的群友根本就不听我的,还是照常发。出于无奈我就开始把他们一个个都删除出去。但是我每删一个人我都心如刀割,因为人家是来得真相的,我却把人家赶出去了。这结了恶缘以后还怎么单独劝三退啊?这可都是师父给安排的有缘生命啊!但是他们就是不断发帖,不删除他们我能怎么办呢?我给协调同修发信息他也不回,我一下子变得很烦躁,怨恨协调同修怎么不帮我解决解决这个难题,还怨恨群友不遵守规矩,不懂得珍惜这来之不易的真相资料,然后我还要惦记着每隔几分钟就要到群里去看看有没有谁又发常人文章了,如果谁发了还要把他们删除,唉,我的心那时七上八下,我整个人也是坐立不安。我怎么变成了自己最讨厌的那种人,像不给人说话的“监狱长”了呢?

不行,我一定要找到自己的问题。师父讲:“因为矛盾产生的时候,会突然间出现,可是却不是偶然存在的,那是为了提高你的心性的。你只要把你当作炼功人,你就能够把它处理好。”[2]

所以我想这件事情能发生,一定是我修炼哪里出了问题,你看其他同修管的群都安安静静的,我向内找一定也可以做得到!师父讲:“对的是他,错的是我”。[3]更何况我是修炼人和常人发生不愉快,那错的一定是我修炼人了。

我很快安静下来向内找,找到了自己的人心:用要求自己的标准去要求别人。发真相对我修炼人来说很重要,但对于尚不全面了解大法的普通民众来说,重要的东西除了真相之外还有很多,比如保健养生、孩子教育、购房置业啊这些都是和他们生活息息相关的。不让想说话的人说话就会引起不愉快。怎么办呢?静下心来之后,我就突然想到了一个好办法:再开一个可以说话的真相讨论群,把那些删除的人再加到这个可以讨论发消息的群不就很好了吗?然后我每天也在这个群里发真相资料,这样他们既可以得真相,也可以自由发言,问题不就解决了吗?这样一来,那些被删除的众生也很感谢我把他们又拉入另一群可以一边听真相一边谈天说地,那些想要安静听真相的群友私下和我说“群主管理真好,此地无声胜有声。”谢谢师父的大法给我的智慧!

四、结语

多年坚持讲真相的同修常常说:“讲真相贵在坚持,不要被一时的结果带动了情绪。在看不到表面结果的时候,还能坚持是很了不起的。”

最后我恭录师父的一段法和大家共勉。师父讲:“做的过程中看的是你的人心,而不是看你成功的本身。你做的过程中就把人救了!你做的过程中是你修炼提高的过程,同时就在起着救度众生的作用!不是说你把那件事情做成了才能起到救度众生的作用。”[4]

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》〈在明慧网十周年法会上讲法〉

[2]李洪志师父著作:《转法轮》

[3]李洪志师父诗词:《洪吟三》〈谁是谁非〉

[4]李洪志师父著作:《二零一六年纽约法会》

(编者按:本文作者是一位二零一三年开始修炼的年轻教师)

 

English translation of this sharing:

2020 Australian online Fahui Sharing article 1:  My Cultivation Journey During the Period of the epidemic (English translation)

 

Greetings to Master

Greetings to fellow practitioners!

Master said in Fa Teaching Given at the Fa Conference Marking the Tenth Anniversary of Minghui’s Founding:“why was it you that became a Dafa disciple? How come you are Dafa disciples right when this massive cosmos is going through a process of renewal and re-creation? That is how great the responsibility of Dafa disciples is, and that responsibility entails saving sentient beings when they are no longer any good and when the world’s people have been held hostage by that wretched fiend, the wicked CCP, and have no hope. Furthermore, the sentient beings today came from the heavens, with each, moreover, being the representative of a system of cosmic bodies. Saving one person thus amounts to saving countless, measureless lives, and the mighty virtue that lies behind that act is simply enormous. Would you say that’s something an ordinary person could accomplish? Could he be worthy? He couldn’t be. Only those who are worthy of being Dafa disciples could accomplish that, and only they could dissolve that wretched fiend.”

  1. Learning to make calls to clarify the truths

The number of Chinese tourists quickly plunged in Australia due to the outbreak of the CCP virus and Sydney soon began semi-lockdown status. My workplace decided to move things online in the middle of March. I felt that was a great opportunity that Master has arranged for me to save sentient beings through making phone calls to China. So I got everything ready and began learning how to make calls to China at the start of April.

Making calls to China and clarifying theand truth is the process of cultivating the mind. First of all, I had to overcome my attachment to sleeping early. I wanted to sleep as soon as 10 o’clock at night. My determination to save people overcame this interference. Now I feel more energetic when I talk on the phone. By making the calls on the RTC platform, I found out that I was always being very truthful. When I was calling Harbin, I was talking to a local male there. I started by asking him how the virus situation was. He told me that it was well controlled in China and he then asked me why I didn’t go back for better safety. I said that I thought about going back before, then I knew that it was only the propaganda that made people feel safe there, so I didn’t go back. Afterwards, a fellow practitioner who had listened to me on the phone asked me privately if I had really considered returning to China. I said that it is impossible for me to consider that at the moment. This goes against Master’s instructions for overseas disciples. The fellow practitioners then asked why I didn’t tell the guy the truth on the phone. This is not being truthful.

In the eighth lecture of Zhuan Falun, Master said: “I am a person who will not say what he does not want to say, but what I say must be true.” I realized the gap between me and fellow practitioners. Fellow practitioners can use the Fa to strictly guide themselves, but due to all kinds of human attachments, I dare not tell the truth and felt that this kind of innocuous white lie was ok. Why didn’t I tell him honestly that I couldn’t go back because of the cruel persecution of my faith in China? Isn’t it just my fear of others laughing at me? Look, you practice Falun Gong, you dare not even go back to your country? Why areis my own righteous thoughts so weak that I didn’t want to let sentient beings see the CCP’s evilness by honestly describing the situation I face? Many things would be different with more righteous thoughts. I am grateful to the practitioner for pointing out my shortcomings so promptly and sincerely. Since that, I have even more careful about being truthful in all circumstances. No wonder I heard a veteran fellow practitioner say that making calls to China is one of the best projects to improve our xinxing levels.

After starting to make phone calls on the platform to save lives, I found that my own cultivation state particularly affected the effectiveness of my phone calls to save lives. Before participating in the project, due to my laziness, I was often unable to complete the daily tasks for a cultivator, often just finishing half a lecture and exercising only 3 sets of exercises, and I could not get up in the early morning to send righteous thoughts. The daily homework of cultivation was not completed, and the words spoken did not carry enough power to dissolve the evilness in another dimension, so people often did not want to answer the phone or listen to more than two sentences before they hung up the phone. At first, I thought it was because there were problems in my scripts, such as the pandemic sort of sensitive words or I was speaking too quickly, etc. At that time, I always asked my fellow practitioners where and how I could get a better and more attractive beginning in what I have to tell them.

Later on, I realised I was still seeking answers from outside. When other fellow practitioners said the so-called taboo words, sentient beings did not hang up the phone. And other fellow practitioners speak fairly slowly on the phone, but the sentient beings did not hang up. On the other hand, because of my fear of the sentient being hanging up the phone, I ended up speaking faster and faster. Who wants to answer such a call?

Later, after looking inward, I discovered that fear of sentient beings not understanding me was also an attachment that has to be removed. In Lecture Six of Zhuan Falun, Master said, “Fear is also a kind of attachment.” Then I made sure that I did my daily Fa study and exercises and the cultivation of the mind. I also tried to speak more slowly on the phone, and sentient beings stopped hanging up so quickly. Looking inward leads to the best solutions! I found that if I didn’t complete my daily Fa study or exercise, it would be reflected in saving lives – the sentient beings who answered the phone couldn’t hear the truth of the Dafa fully, and their chances of hanging up increased for fear of phone tapping or other reasons. It turns out that their response was a true reflection of my own cultivation status! So now I will pay extra attention to my daily cultivation tasks – exercising, a lecture of Fa study, sending out righteous thoughts and trying to use the Master’s teachings to guide every thought in my mind.

Making calls to China to clarify the truth and save people is like wandering around in society to really cultivate the heart. I just thought that’s what people said and I did not think much of it. But now after months of personal experience, I know that every sentient being who answers the phone is arranged by Master for us to improve our xinxing. For example, those who have an attachment of fear often ring sentient beings who are too timid to answer the phone, or hang up as soon as they hear the first word; those who have attachments to fame often call sentient beings who yell at them and refuse to listen to the truth; those practitioners who are impatient often call sentient beings who have a lot to questions and need a lot of patience to explain about things for 1-2 hours to understand the truth. It looks like a phone call to random numbers among 1.4 billion Chinese people, but each phone call has been a perfect arrangement by Master.

On the surface, I seem modest and polite and I try to be considerate of others so that people feel that I am sincere and kind. But once I find that the other person reveals a major flaw that I hadn’t noticed before or an aspect that makes me feel uncomfortable, I will despise the person in my heart, and then make a U-turn in my attitude without saying anything. My tolerance and patience were not up to a real cultivator’s level. There was a time that a guy who answered the phone was a farmer who was resting in the field. As soon as I heard his voice and I felt that he must be a good man with traditional values. I talked to him briefly and I asked him what kind of crops he was growing, and then I started to tell him what I was really calling to say.

After hearing the campaign of quitting the CCP to secure a good future, he happily renounced his affiliation with the CCP’s Young Pioneers. When I was congratulating him for making such a wise choice, he couldn’t wait to express his love for my voice on the other end of the phone, followed by very explicit and obscene words, saying that he really wanted to do something with me and he also asked me if I wanted to. I was so disgusted with what I heard that his words hit me in the face like a pile of feces, and I really wanted to yell at him and hang up.

However, I remembered what Master said in Lecture 9 of Zhuan Falun: “If a piece of literary work is not written with some sexual content, the book seems unable to sell since the issue of sales quantity is involved. If movies and television programs do not show footage of bedroom scenes, in terms of audience ratings no one seems to watch them. ” “Nude pictures are displayed right over there, hanging in the middle of the street. Once you look up, you will see them.”

It was as if I saw myself standing outside a helicopter reaching out to rescue a sentient being who had accidentally fallen into a cesspool, and would I stop rescuing him because of the stench of the cesspool? Am I going to give up on a life waiting to be rescued because it has feces on its hands? No way! As long as he is willing to raise his arms to be saved, as long as he is willing to quit the CCP and have a good impression of Falun Gong, then he will have a safe and bright future. Then I should put aside all my human notions and help him to be saved. After a few seconds of struggle, righteousness got the upper hand in my mind. I pretended not to hear the disgusting words and said to him with kindness: “Congratulations! you only need to quit the CCP once. Also have you heard of truthfulness, compassion and forbearance?” I continued to tell him the truth about Falun Gong. Soon he was very full of righteousness and said, “I know that Falun Gong is good!” I’m so glad for his wise choice, and I thank the Master for showing me the right way!

 

  1. A Lady waiting by the phone for truth clarification

The Chinese Communist Party’s lies have made many people in China misunderstand Falun Gong, and because of the regime’s appalling human rights record, people of goodwill are afraid to get to know the truth. However, by keeping a clear and clean mind with righteous thoughts, we can still sometimes chat with the very kind and brave sentient beings brought by Master.

In June this year, I rang a phone number and a middle-aged lady picked it up. She was so happy that we finally rang her. She said she had received several calls from us before, but they were all pre-recorded voice messages, so she couldn’t interact with the real person, but she thought there should be a real person calling her soon, so she had been waiting by her phone for someone to call her! She understood the evilness of the CCP very well and she quickly agreed to quit the CCP.

She also knew a lot about the truth of Falun Gong, because she used to watch NTD programs through special channels, so she knew that Falun Gong disciples are just a group of good people who want to cultivate their hearts to be better people. She also told me that she has always been interested in religion. She used to learn about Christianity in churches and Buddhism in temples in China for many years, but now she doesn’t practise these religions because she feels that they do not cultivate the heart. She told me many monks she knows always try to get money to buy many expensive cars. She thought, what do monks need expensive cars for? She didn’t understand it. She felt that the most important thing in life is to find a home for one’s soul, but many people today don’t even know they have souls.

I told her that Falun Dafa has no religious rituals, but that it focuses on cultivating the mind, and its teachings are directly to the heart. She was very interested and asked me how to learn it. I told her how to safely get information about Falun Dafa. When I called her again a few days later, she told me that it was a book that guides people to go to Heaven. She told me that she had been searching her whole life and now had finally found her true love. She now tells people around her that Falun Gong is good and that they should not believe the lies of the CCP.

 

  1. Cultivating myself on Chinese social media project

While interacting with people in China, many of them would like to know more truth and they asked us how to break through the CCP’s internet firewall and receive real news from overseas safely and reliably. Because almost everyone in Mainland China uses social media, there are large numbers of people who spend a lot of time on social media on their mobile phones. I soon realized that social media is also a great platform for clarifying the truth and saving lives. Although the surveillance and blockades by the evil CCP seem very strong, with the wisdom given by Master, fellow practitioners were always able to break through and send the truth materials to the phones of sentient beings in China.

At first, my job was just posting daily truth material in chat groups, including the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party, NTD’s current affairs programs, traditional cultural stories and the basic truths of Falun Gong. With Master’s encouragement, and many people added me as friends every day, hoping to get the daily updates of the material. Soon the number of my friends reached almost 800, and the coordinator of the project told me that he would like me to start new chat groups, so that all these sentient beings would be placed in several large groups, and then I could post information to the groups several times a day, and manage them well. It didn’t sound complicated at all, so I agreed to manage new groups. Master sent those sentient beings, and I started several groups, and soon there were about 250 people in each group.

Just when I was feeling a bit pleased with myself, problems quickly followed. In each group there were some group members sending a lot of their everyday people posts in the group chat. I didn’t say anything as I didn’t want to offend anyone. Soon the quiet group members complained about the groups being too “noisy” as they only wanted to receive the truth clarification material from Falun Gong practitioners. I immediately contacted another more experienced practitioner and she told me that there should not be too much noise in the group, and it was like the audience watching a Shen Yun performance. Of course, making sure sentient beings can watch the daily truth updates in a quiet environment is an important step to start purifying their hearts and minds and saving lives.

So I started making rules for the groups and I asked everyone not to send their everyday people posts in the groups. However, that did not stop those from posting in the groups. I had no choice but to kick them out one by one. I was heartbroken every time I had to kick a member out. That’s because everybody came for the truth materials, and I kicked them out! They hate me now, how can I help to quit the CCP later on? They are here because Master has arranged them for me. But they just keep posting, so what can I do except kicking them out? I sent messages to the project coordinator and he did not reply. I suddenly became very irritated, resenting the coordinator. Why can’t he help me solve this problem? And I also resented the group members for not following the rules, not cherishing this hard-earned truth information. Plus, I had to check who posted anything in the group every few minutes. It was driving me mad! How did I become the type of person I hate the most? A prison captain who didn’t allow anyone to talk.

No, I have to find my problem, because Master said in Zhuan Falun that “…when a conflict occurs, it will take place unexpectedly. But that is not a coincidence—it is for improving your xinxing. As long as you treat yourself as a practitioner, you can handle it properly.” So, I thought there must be something that has to be improved in my cultivation. Other chat groups organised by other practitioners are so quiet with a similar number of people in them. Master wrote in Hongyin III, “Who is right and who is wrong”: “He is right, I am wrong,” not to mention that when problems occurred between a practitioner and everyday people, it must be my fault.

I quickly calmed down and looked inward and found my attachment: expecting others to have the same standard as I require of myself. It’s my top priority to deliver the truth materials, but for everyday people who don’t fully understand Falun Gong, there are many other things that are just important, such as health care, children’s education, buying properties, and so on. If I don’t let those who want to share and post such things, surely there will be conflicts.

What should I do? After calming down, a good idea came to me: wouldn’t it be great to start another group where we can talk about the truth and invite those who have been deleted in this group so they can post as much as they want. Then I will post the truth materials on both sides every day, so that everyone can get the truth materials and speak freely, and the problem will be solved. Those who wanted to listen to the truth in peace and quiet said to me privately, “This is a great way to deal with the situation.” Thank you, Master, for giving me the wisdom!

 

Conclusion

Fellow practitioners who have been doing truth clarification over the years often say, “Clarifying the truth needs a lot of perseverance. Don’t be driven by momentary results. It’s remarkable to carry on when you can’t see the apparent results.”

I would like to conclude with a piece of Master’s teachings from the New York Fa Conference in 2016, where He said: “In the process of doing things, what’s looked at is your hearts, not your success itself. In the process of doing things you can save people! Your process of doing things is also a process of you elevating in cultivation, which, at the same time, plays the role of saving sentient beings! It is not that only if you succeed in doing that thing can you play the role of saving sentient beings.”

If there is anything inappropriate, please kindly point it out to me.

 

Thank You Master

Thank You fellow practitioners!

 

(Editor’s note: The author of this article is a young teacher who started practicing Falun Dafa in 2013)

 

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