(Minghui.org) My parents live next door to a couple in their 60s. The husband's surname is Zhang. His brother is a policeman. The family was misled by the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) propaganda and held hatred toward practitioners of Falun Dafa.
Under the direction of local CCP officials, the neighbor and his brother monitored my sister and brother who practice Falun Dafa.
The two men committed many wrongdoings. They even framed my brother, which led to his detention in a forced labor camp. When my brother was arrested, our family home was ransacked. My almost 80-year-old mother was terrified and helplessly sat on floor.
To make matters worse, the neighbor tried to extort a 300 yuan “reporting fee” from her during the altercation.
My brother and sister grew to dislike the neighbors. They chose to avoid the neighbors, and did not want to tell them about the grace of Falun Dafa.
I became aware of the issue when I visited my brother and sister. I thought: “I am a Dafa practitioner. The neighbors were misled by lies and are manipulated by the old forces. They need help. I must take care of them with compassion.”
I proactively greeted the neighbors. I offered free tutoring to their grandson, and offered them other types of help in their daily lives. I treated them with kindness. Their attitudes gradually changed. The neighbor's wife told me, “You treat others so well. Practitioners are different from what is reported on TV.”
During my next visit home I saw Mr. Zhang walking slowly with a cane. As he approached me, I saw he had a tremor.
“I have met with retribution,” he told me. “My wife and I watched you all before. Your brother was locked up in a forced labor camp [because of us] and he suffered a lot.”
Mr. Zhang explained that several days earlier, he had fallen from a truck's trailer on his way home, as he sat atop a pile of corn stover (leaves and stalks).
“I almost lost my life,” he said. “I went to the emergency room and spent thousands of yuan on medical bills. I have not recovered yet.”
His wife had also contracted a serious illness and was hospitalized, he said.
“I realized that we met with retribution for persecuting Falun Dafa practitioners. After you treated us kindly, I came to understand the grace of Falun Dafa and the truth of the persecution. I think I survived because I had decided to treat practitioners kindly. It is your Master who saved my life!”
Mr. Zhang cried as he spoke. Tears streamed down my cheeks as I held his hands.
News of the neighbors' retribution spread throughout the village. Everyone was stunned. I understood that we had met the requirements of Falun Dafa, so Master and divine beings that safeguard Dafa manifested their mighty power.
If we had still harbored hatred toward Mr. Zhang and avoided him, our xinxing would not have met the requirements of Dafa, and we would have been unable to save these sentient beings.
Like my siblings, I had also felt hatred at the beginning of the persecution. I looked at the situation as the persecution of human beings by everyday people. I hoped that the police who brutally beat practitioners would encounter disaster as soon as possible.
From studying the Fa, I realized that I was too selfish and did not have compassion toward others. I did not cultivate well, and expected Master to remove my tribulations. I thought about avoiding the persecution, not about the need of others for help.
Master said in “20th Anniversary Fa Teaching,”
“Master could purge them, sure. After they were purged and nothing was left, you would go past that point without saving a single being and repeat that process at the next stop: whoever opposes you would be cleared out, you’d make it through, and… not a single being would be left. If we were to do that all the way through, wouldn’t we have destroyed everything by the time we were done? Thus, Dafa disciples can only save sentient beings when they manage to walk their paths correctly. And only then, while saving beings, can you make it through. It’s that hard. This is what makes it so hard to save sentient beings. Some people who don’t know what they are talking about may say that they 'want to save sentient beings,' but in fact have no idea what saving beings involves.”
I enlightened that we can only eliminate the evil forces behind people and save them when we cultivate solidly according to Master's teachings. We must have compassion, without any resentment or selfish intent.
Master and the divine beings that safeguard Dafa can do anything to help us when we meet the Fa's requirements. The dignity of Dafa thus manifests.
Category: Improving Oneself
