(Clearwisdom.net) I started practicing Falun Gong in 1998. Prior to becoming a practitioner, I was a narrow-minded person who cared only about personal gain. While doing work, I tried very hard to be perfect so that I could get praise from people, but more often than not I couldn't get what I wanted. After beginning the practice, I was gradually able to act according to the standards of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance.
In 1998, I worked at a department in my company in which there were many conflicts between the department head and the subordinates. I often privately withstood these situations. I remembered what Teacher said,
"We should all speak according to a practitioner's xinxing rather than create conflicts or say something improper." (Lecture Eight in Zhuan Falun)
So I conducted myself in accordance with Teacher's requirements, and did not create conflicts. Instead, I often told my colleagues that the manager had his difficulties, so we should have mutual understanding, and meanwhile, while facing the manager, I also provided my colleagues' opinions to him so that he could immediately adjust his approach. By doing so, I played a coordinating role between them.
As time went by, the people in my entire department worked more and more in unison, and that year all of our benchmarks were first in the company. As a result, the manager in my department constantly appreciated me. During the period of validating the Fa in Beijing, some of my colleagues didn't understand why I had to go to Beijing. But the manager always defended me, saying, “Falun Gong practitioners are all good people. They have a different faith from us.”
I always think about others first in whatever I do, and this has gradually become a habit. I no longer care only about personal gain. Sometimes when people in my company have misunderstood me, I don't pay much attention or explain. There was a period of time in which a colleague often gossiped about me in front of others. I didn't pay attention to it at all. Instead, I always looked out for him at work. Gradually, people stopped believing what he was saying about me, and he became embarrassed to gossip about me. Teacher said in Zhuan Falun,
"...coming to work early and going home late. They work very diligently and will do any assignment the boss gives. They also no longer compete for personal gain." (Zhuan Falun)
Over the years, I have conducted myself according to Teacher's words more and more and have become an open-minded person. In a competitive environment, I have been happy all the time. My company's managers and my colleagues have witnessed Dafa's wonders through me.
I always had a wish to clarify the facts about Falun Dafa to my company's manager, but for a long period of time I had not found a chance. One day, I was reading Teacher's lectures on my computer at work and forgot to turn off the computer before leaving the office. One of my department managers saw it, so he reported me to the company heads at all levels. One manager had a chat with me regarding this issue. I said to him, “There are many things I want to talk to the managers at all levels in the company about, but I fear that I am unable to talk about them clearly." He answered, "Then you should open your heart and write about them." I realized that this was a good opportunity to clarify the truth to my company's managers, so I wrote why I practiced cultivation and why I went to Beijing to appeal for the right to practice Falun Gong. I also wrote about how wonderful Dafa is and and how brutally the Chinese Communist Party persecutes Falun Dafa and practitioners. Just like that, this issue was resolved under Teacher's merciful protection and through my righteous thoughts and actions.
Prior to the Beijing Olympics, a newly appointed manager saw me and said, "I haven't talked to you for a while. Come to my office to have a talk." I was a bit nervous but I immediately realized, "This is not the time for me to be afraid of him, instead, it is my opportunity to clear out any evil in his various dimensions." So I sent righteous thoughts while walking toward his office. When I sat down, the manager said, "The Olympics is coming. You have to write me a guarantee statement." I answered him with a smile, “If a guarantee statement could ensure everything, then our company should ask each employee to write a guarantee statement to ensure that each does his or her job well. If we could achieve that, then the company would no longer need any rules or regulations.” The manager thought that what I said was reasonable but he still wanted to persuade me to give up practicing Falun Gong from other angles. I said to him, "Prior to practicing Falun Gong, I was a narrow-minded person who cared only about personal gain. And now I work ..." Before I finished my sentence, the manager quickly said, "Everybody knows. Everybody knows.” The conversation ended with the manager smiling and waving his hands to me, "You don't have to say anything."
A few days later, a local police officer wanted to talk to me. My department manager tried to steer him away several times but the local police did not agree and repeatedly demanded to see me. My department head told me about it and I knew that he had done whatever he could. It was my turn to face the police. I tried to comfort him, "It's all right. Let him see me." I sent righteous thoughts and talked to the police in the conference room. I started from why I practiced Falun Gong, and talked about the many benefits I gained both physically and mentally from the practice. We also shared our views on the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party. Later, he even let me listen to the messages on his mobile phone that were left by an overseas practitioner who clarified the truth to him. I naturally and calmly talked with him and shared my views with him. From the beginning to the end, I didn't speak with any extreme language and we chatted naturally as friends. I felt as if a merciful field surrounded us which broke through some of his prejudices toward practitioners. Finally, he shook my hand and said, "I'm relieved."
The department manager later apologized to me, “I really could not stop him from seeing you this time." I began to realize that I had not been harassed by the police for several years because my company's managers had intervened. I felt that as long as we always do things in accordance with the requirements of Dafa, we are able to change our surroundings.
