You Reap What You Sow

The seasonal winds of Peng Lake are very famous. Sometime the wind is even as powerful as a typhoon. I rode a bike to go to my practice site at four o'clock in the morning. Although the wind was ice cold, after having lived with it for more than thirty years I had gotten used to it.

After practice I went back home and met a neighbor in the elevator. She looked me up and down curiously and asked, "You're retired, aren't you? Why, I always see you being busy doing something! What are you doing?" I [thought that] I should schedule a time to clarify the truth to her. A former colleague also told me, "Why are you even busier now than you were when you worked? It was so hard for me to have a chat with you!" After I heard these comments I thought, "That's an easy opportunity for me. I can catch up with you and bring the good thing to you." What could be more precious and more meaningful than anything else than to give them Dafa books? Another thought came to mind - everyone needs food, clothes, housing and transportation. I might as well start clarifying the truth in these fields. I took action right away. I began to look for business persons whom I was familiar with and screened targets from among stall-keepers and peddlers in the produce market, people in the department store, mechanics shop, electronic appliance shop, beauty parlor, beauty management salon and restaurants. I waited for my chance to promote Dafa and clarify the truth to them. I provided them with Dafa promotion materials, according their needs, or brought Dafa books for them to read and obtained their permission to leave some Dafa flyers in their places of business for people to pick up. Customers do pass by these places of business every day, in an endless stream, and there must be some people with predestined relationships among them. Of course I should have good will and a kind heart in order to get twice the result with half the effort. Although there seemed no apparent success, I believed that if I persevered there would be more people knowing that "Falun Dafa is good." If they came up with this idea they had a chance at salvation. Currently practitioners around the world work very hard and their purposes are also to clarify the truth and make efforts to offer salvation to sentient beings.

I could promote Dafa to my brothers and sisters only when I went back to my hometown and visited my relatives, since the sea separated us. I provided them with free Dafa books, audio tapes, the Falun Gong exercise video, and encouraged them to do the exercises and study Fa at a nearby practice site. I didn't act condescendingly in order to avoid possible opposite effects because of the difference in their and my understanding. I hope all people with predestined relationships will not be left behind, no matter how close and distant. Last year my eldest son came to visit his grandmother and I happened to be there. When he saw the changes in me he was extremely surprised - he was both happy and surprised. He said I was different, as if I was not the same person before and after practicing Falun Gong. If he had not seen this himself he would not believe it. His frail and emotional mother "disappeared;" instead his mother was now optimistic, outgoing and healthy. I heard that he bolted out, "I approve of Falun Gong." I shouted in my heart, "one more person is offered salvation!" To me there is nothing that could be more worthwhile.

I read the books and studied Fa at home whenever I had time, regardless of day or night. Ten minutes is good enough for me and I just don't want the time to pass by so quickly. My daughter joked with me and said, "Mom, you worked so hard! You could definitely get admitted to National Taiwan University like this." She didn't know the test I was taking was not for the admission of everyday people's university. The ladder to heaven is very hard to climb. Master Li said, "Only when you are studying the Fa and cultivating your heart and mind in addition to the means of reaching Consummation — the exercises, and truly changing yourself fundamentally while improving your xinxing and elevating your level can it be called true cultivation practice." (From "What is cultivation practice?" in Essentials for Further Advancement) Right now I am still quite far away from the standard. I would fail if I did not make a determined effort to do well. You reap what you sow. At the moment I really understood the truth that the time is as precious as gold.

Time goes by and the arrogance of the evil diminished gradually. But it still rampantly persecutes practitioners in Mainland China. There is an age-old principle that states that the evil cannot defeat the righteous. After over 100 million practitioners around the world sent forth righteous thoughts, the evil was struggling to avoid failure. Its fate is to get burned since it plays with fire. This is the position they put themselves in.

This is only my personal understanding. May fellow practitioners, please do point out mistakes so that they can be corrected.

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