Continue diligently

Greetings everyone! I have been practicing Falun Dafa since April 2007. Even though it has not been a long time, my various experiences and new understandings since then have made me feel that I have gained a new life. In fact I heard about Falun Dafa three years ago but did not know the existence of the book, Zhuan Falun. Therefore, at the time my human side did not pay much attention to Falun Dafa, but my side of consciousness reminded me to understand it thoroughly. I had been trying to seperate myself from the ordinary human society that is on a big downhill slide, searching through such fields as history, arts and philosophy. However, my human side did not want to give up doing everyday people things.

When finally I was lucky enough to read Zhuan Falun, I felt this book was very special without realising exactly why. Having read the whole book, I decided to join the practice site in a park, but encountered tremendous interference. As soon as my wife heard that I wanted to go practice, she went hysterical. Finally I made up my mind to go, not letting anything to get in the way. In my mind, however, I wondered whether a big storm awaited me when I got home. Surprisingly, nothing happened after I got home. My wife did not get angry as I worried she would. Instead she asked whether I had a good time.

In the beginning, I did not feel wondrous improvement in health like many other practitioners did, for I did not have any serious sickness or pain even before cultivation. Gradually, however, my body was purified. I felt as if I used to be a filthy sewer pipe filled with dirty stuff. My character improved a lot as well. I used to be a stubborn, arrogant person with a huge temper. Since cultivation, my wife, parents, even work colleagues saw the change in me. I started drinking and smoking when I was 16 years old. Prior to cultivation, I used to smoke a pack a day and drank quite often as well. A few times I tried to quit but did not manage. After cultivation, under Master’s help and reinforcement, I came clean easily. I enlightened, in order to get rid of any attachment one must first be firm in really wanting to be free from this attachment. This way it definitely will be removed. Benefits in my body firmed my heart in cultivation. I decided to devote the rest of my life to cultivating Falun Dafa.

Not long after I cultivated, I encountered a big test in karma elimination. One day when I was at work, I felt ill. My whole body ached but I held up. When I got home from work in the evening, suddenly I felt my body temperature soared. My head felt swollen and painful as if it was going to burst. I broke into waves of sweats and shivers. I did not dare mention any of this to my wife for fear that she would think that I was crazy for not taking medicine. Saturday afternoon my body temperature reached 40 degrees and I had a huge headache. I knew Master was purifying my body. I did not need to take medicine. It would get better if I did the exercises. When my wife saw my pain, she was angry with me and urged me nonstop to take medicine. Even though I had a temperature and felt ill, I insisted to go to the park to practice with others on Sunday. The next day, I went to the park against my wife’s advice. When I got there, the pain in my body immediately felt alleviated. That night I felt much better. That was the biggest karma elimination that I experienced so far.

Soon after cultivation, I started to read Master’s recent lectures and realised that there are many other things in Dafa cultivation, such as studying the Fa, sending righteous thoughts and clarifying the facts. I work ten hours each day plus commute. When I get home it is already late. I also need to help wife with housework and do some cleaning. Often I have time to either study the Fa or do the exercises but not both. To make my wife happy, I also need to find time to watch TV with her. My spare time is rather limited. Fellow practitioners suggested that I join group Fa study, sending righteous thoughts and practice via Teamspeak each day at 5 am. When I heard 5 am - wow - that is early! I work exhausting ten-hour days. I would not be able to get up. But I realised that it was laziness that prevented me from being diligent. If I did not overcome this laziness and get up to study the Fa with others, I would always be like before, never would be able to find time to do well the three things that Master asked us to do. Therefore I decided to take part in the Fa study at 5 am. Once my mind was made up, I immediately put it into action. I found it was not as difficult I thought it would be. In other words, when we have strong righteous thoughts, laziness gets weaker and weaker and was easy to overcome. Till now I persisted in group Fa study, sending righteous thoughts and doing exercises with fellow practitioners each morning. Surprisingly, even though I sleep fewer hours now, I feel more energetic than before when I slept more.

I made up my mind to devote all of my time to Dafa. But I have limited free time except for weekends. In addition, I do not know any other language or computer technology. Without the skills I felt puzzled as to what to do for Dafa. Once I received a phone call from a fellow practitioner asking whether my car can be used to distribute the Epoch Times newspaper. My first reaction was “No”, and I also found an excuse of not being able to spare the time getting up that early in the morning. Thirty seconds after I hang up the phone, I kept thinking, “But isn’t this the opportunity that I have been looking for?” I immediately called back and promised to do the work without asking any details. I felt very happy about my change as if unloading a heavy bag in my chest – a black bag of selfishness. Instantly I breathed more smoothly. Since then, each Sunday morning we distribute the paper and later have time to practice in the park.

Now I take advantage of all the available time to do things for Dafa. In my spare time I distribute the Epoch Times in Madrid and surrounding cities. When we give out the newspaper, we also collect signatures to support Falun Gong’s anti-persecution campaign. Each week we go to Chinese shops to distribute the Epoch Times and truth clarification VCDs. During weekends we go to other Spanish cities to spread the Fa and clarify the truth to local Chinese. Some Chinese did not want to accept the newspaper for fear of the evil CCP party as they were deceived by the CCP’s lies. But I would always deliver the paper again the following week. Even though we sometimes could not see immediate results, I knew as long as our hearts were pure and unselfish we could open their dust-laden hearts if we persisted. They would accept the paper and learn the truth. It was in fact the case: slowly, those Chinese who used not to accept the paper took them in. Later they accepted the truth VCDs as well.

Once, I went with two fellow Chinese practitioners to a commercial area where Chinese people gathered to clarify the truth and urge people to quit the CCP. Since I did not know Chinese, I held out a quitting-the-CCP form in Chinese and told them it was important. To my surprise, having read carefully the Epoch Times announcement on top of the form, some Chinese people did actually write down their names on the form to declare quitting the evil party organizations. I enlightened, even if I do not know Chinese, with a heart that truly considers others I can also urge people to quit the CCP and save sentient beings.
In order to distribute the newspaper and truth VCDs to Chinese people, I learned a few words of Chinese, such as “Hello”, “For you”, “Falun Dafa is good”. In order to clarify the truth to Chinese people, I learned to burn truth VCDs. Using my savings, I bought large quantities of discs to burn VCDs that expose the evil nature of the CCP and clarify the truth of Falun Gong, such as the Nine Commentaries, Feng Yu Tian Di Xing, We Tell the Future, etc. I give them to Chinese people so that they can learn the truth and quit the evil CCP.

I feel there is not enough time to save sentient beings as Fa rectification becomes faster and faster. As such I use every minute of every day to think about how to do the three things better. I remind myself to follow the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance at work, at home, with neighbours, on the bus or anywhere. Anything that happens to me in life is an opportunity to improve myself or save others. For anyone I meet in the streets, even though sometimes I do not have time to clarify the truth to them, I would give them a leaflet or help them to do something, leaving a positive influence for clarifying the truth to them in the future. After I get off from work and before I reach home, I distribute newspapers in Spanish and Chinese and collect signatures. In the beginning I collected signatures far away from home. Gradually as I got rid of my attachments to bashfulness and fear layer by layer, I started to collect signatures close to home. Later I collected signatures from relatives and colleagues and eventually neighbours in my building. I still have various, big attachments with regards to collecting signatures and clarifying the truth. But I am very happy to be able to save that many sentient beings. Everyday I carry signature forms and truth leaflets in my suitcase from home to office. When I collect signatures, I will take the opportunity to ask them come to practice in the park. Pretty much everyday I spend like this. Every time I sit in front of the computer, it would be for a Dafa project.

Once, I was involved in a Dafa project that required printing at home. Due to interference, the printer refused to work even after I spent 30 minutes repairing it. Even though I knew it was interference, I did not know how to overcome it. At that time, the music for righteous thoughts sounded. After righteous thoughts I still did not know what to do. I knew I could not waste time on this interference, thinking, “I must take advantage of this time.” I clicked onto Minghui website and picked at random an article by a mainland Chinese practitioner to read. This practitioner talked about her experience of repairing practitioners’ printers in her spare time. Once, she had to repair a brand of printer that she had not dealt with before. It was late. She was not sure how to repair the printer. She dismantled it completely but was doubtful that she would be able to put it back like it was as she was not familiar with that kind of printer. Having cleaned it, she put it back as it was. The practitioner mentioned that it was as if Master (Mr. Li Hongzhi, the founder of Falun Gong) guided the screwdriver to put back each screw to its original place. She even did not know where the screws had come from. After the printer was put back together, it worked without a problem. The practitioner enlightened that Master led us the way forward following the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance. I cannot remember exactly what she said, but it was something like that. Having read this article, a dialogue box appeared on my computer screen. I clicked “OK” and my printer started working again. It was a miracle of Dafa. When you are diligent, Master will guide you.

This August, fellow practitioners and I went to Barcelona to hold a press conference on the Eutelsat incident and clarify the truth to Eutelsat’s largest stockholder, Abertis. At the Triumphant Arch, we distributed truth leaflets to and collected signatures from passer-bys and tourists. Around noon, fewer people passed by. Rather than waiting for tourists to come over and sign, I walked over to busier areas to clarify the truth. I saw that everyone has a kind side. But some have turned numb and cold by various economic interests. Others were deceived by lies of the CCP and the surface prosperity it created. But if we get rid of our attachments to fear and shyness and clarify the truth with selfless, pure hearts, almost everyone would sign to support us and condemn the CCP’s shameless acts. Having learned the truth, the reporters that came to cover the event all signed to support NTDTV.

At Eutelsat’s largest stockholder, Abertis, even though a few big bosses did not return from holiday, we distributed leaflets and clarified the truth to all employees that we met and collected many signatures from the employees. I enlightened, not only did we call upon Eutelsat to resume NTDTV’s broadcasting signals as soon as possible, in the process we also saved all the sentient beings from the various social strata that we met.

Since I practiced Falun Dafa, I feel that my selfishness is getting smaller and smaller. I have become more and more tolerate. I can think of others more and more. Everyday is busy yet fulfilled. I discovered that my home environment is changing without notice as well. For example, my wife did not like Dafa for she thought I spent a lot of time everyday to do the three things and less time with her. As I continuously cultivate away my selfish sentimentality and think of others, I found that my wife changed as well. For example, initially I was worried that getting up at 5 am in the morning to do the three things would upset my wife as we just got married. But gradually wife changed from being unhappy to now accepting my routine. She no longer complains. Another example, when I distributed the newspaper sometimes she came along for the ride. Once we had to go to another province to clarify the truth and I ran out of time to distribute the papers. So I left the car with Chinese papers at home in Madrid. I said to wife, “If you’d like you can distribute the papers.” At the time I thought for sure she would not want to do it. I was merely making a suggestion. To my surprise when I got home a few days later, my wife had distributed all the papers by herself! That afternoon when I arrived at Madrid, my wife did not ask me to watch TV or go shopping with her. Instead, she came along with me to distribute the next issue of the Epoch Times. Just like Master said, “Buddha’s light shines everywhere, propriety and righteousness harmonize everything.”

Falun Dafa is the law of the universe that I have been looking for all my life and finally managed to find. Master, please rest assured that I will walk straight the cultivation path that Master has arranged for me and do my best to do the three things well.

Thank you, Master. Thank you, fellow practitioners.