(Minghui.org) It is my understanding that Dafa practitioners are different from ordinary people: Dafa has given us wisdom and Master is watching over us and helping us. In over 20 years of cultivation, I came to realize that as long as I have the heart to cultivate, Master will always help.
Dafa practitioners have achieved many things that are considered miraculous by ordinary people. In most areas, the practitioner that provides technical support to others did not have the technical background initially. They only became tech savvy after they started to cultivate Dafa.
A practitioner once tried to teach me how to use the Internet. Since I didn't have the desire to learn, I couldn't even follow the mouse on the screen. The more anxious he was, the more my brain went blank. He almost gave up on me.
I then started to work at a Dafa material production site in 2004. Somehow I seemed to learn how to do everything. One day, I tried to make a greeting card for Master. I wanted to move an image, but couldn't.
After I tried a few times without success, I didn't get anxious, I just kept trying. Then my hands and mind seemed to know exactly what to do, I moved the image skillfully. A moment later, I seemed to have forgotten what to do. After a while, I was again able to do it. At that moment, I truly felt that Master was teaching me and helping me.
I ran into many obstacles producing Dafa materials, but I was able to do them with Master's help as long as I wanted to. I even taught other practitioners how to produce truth-clarifying materials. I can now fix simple computer issues as well.
One day in 2004, I saw a picture of a Western practitioner holding a poster board with a picture of a torture demonstration in the snow. I was so moved. I thought: why couldn't we have torture demonstrations to expose the persecution?
A few days later, I participated in an experience sharing. Afterward, the coordinator asked me to stay later to discuss a torture demonstration. I knew Master had arranged this for me because I had the thought.
Another incident showed me that our mindset is very important, too. A practitioner gave me 30 banners, each with strings attached to both ends. The strings would get tangled up when five or six banners were stacked together.
I was asked to find a solution. I didn't have any idea at the time, but I didn't worry either. When I started to arrange the banners, I found some tape, as if I knew what I was doing. I taped the strings to the back of the banner. Everyone thought it was a great idea, but I knew I didn't think of it. It was Master who helped me.
I realized that when we keep a calm mind and do not worry, the wisdom from the Fa just comes through and we are more effective as a result. On the other hand, the result cannot be very good if we have attachments while doing Dafa work.
When papers for a Minghui Fahui are due, I often hear practitioners say, "I don't know how" or "I haven't done anything. What do I write?" It’s as if he/she is writing his/her own accomplishments. I think this type of thinking is wrong. You are not thinking about validating Dafa and Master, you are thinking about what you did or did not do. Of course, you don't know how to write. Without Master and Dafa, we cannot accomplish anything.
We are cultivators in everything we do. As cultivators, what happens around us—anything that has to do with us, involves us in a conflict, or is seemingly unrelated to us but is seen by us—are all part of our cultivation. That is true for practitioners who provide technical support to others, too.
The technical support practitioner in my area is like a repair man nowadays. Sometimes I see him with ink all over his hands, with several computers at his home waiting to be repaired. How does he find time to study the Fa? When I have a problem with my computer, I just take it to a repair shop.
One time, an elderly practitioner handed me an MP3 player for me to repair. I tried to turn it on, it flashed, and then shut down. I asked the practitioner if the device was charged. She said other people told her it was. I took it home and plugged it in. After it was charged, everything worked just fine. This seems to be a very common phenomenon: if something is not working, just give it to someone else to fix.
I also had the experience of being admired and overly relied upon by fellow practitioners. A practitioner asked me to design a New Year’s greeting card. I tried many colors and different images, but none pleased her.
I realized that my own human notions and attachments brought this on. I liked to design things, because it gives me a sense of accomplishment. Some of my previous designs were selected and used by Dafa websites. I had the feeling that I was better than others.
Another practitioner asked me to design a booklet about the plague in a particular area of China. The cover was people fully clothed who wore gas masks and carried bodies. When I showed it to a practitioner’s husband, he became very angry. "What are you doing? You are creating a panic!" he shouted.
I went home and thought about it. I realized that what I did was undermining the Fa. I couldn't find information about the plague on Minghui. I knew there were many quality Dafa materials available from the Minghui website, yet I still spent lots of time downloading images from everyday people's websites and tried to design my own. I wasted valuable time to fulfill my own interests. Because of that, I was interfered with. My computer was infected with a virus and I even lost my cell phone.
Another practitioner emailed a flash file to me from the Minghui website and asked me to convert it to booklet format to be printed. I tried and tried with no success. Then I realized that it was wrong to change it. If it were meant to be printed, Minghui would have provided the format file already. I told him that we cannot change materials from Minghui website causally. I also realized I had the attachment of validating myself.
After having similar experiences several times, I knew it was my own attachments that caused the problems. Nowadays, I just do what I think I should do. I am not afraid to say "no" to other practitioners. We try to discuss our understandings of the Fa and use the Fa to judge what is right and wrong. I don't tell others what to do, either.
I would suggest that those practitioners who provide technical support to others to try teaching others more. Let other practitioners learn to solve some issues on their own. This way, it lightens the load on yourselves and it also gives others opportunities to learn and get better.
I live in an apartment that is very close to a fruit and vegetable store. Every day someone from the store would announce on loud speakers the sales and prices. At first, it was only an hour in the morning, and then from 2 pm to 9 pm. Lately, it has been all day long, from morning to night, nonstop. I became very annoyed by the voice. I even thought about sending forth righteous thoughts to eliminate this interference.
Then I realized that nothing happens by coincidence. Why is it that no one else seemed to be bothered by it? If I didn't feel annoyed by it, would this interference have lasted this long? So this morning, I sat down to study the Fa with the loud announcement going on. When I felt annoyed, I just tried to get rid of my annoyance and not be moved by it. By the afternoon, I could not hear the voice anymore.
In the past, I treated all problems I encountered as interference. But in fact, the interference is caused by my own human attachments. When I don't have the attachment, the evil has no loophole to take advantage of.
These are personal understandings. Please point out anything inappropriate.