(Minghui.org) Human attachments make us incompetent, useless, and vulnerable, but they can also be really strong. When we let go of our attachments and learn to stop seeking, miracles will occur and we can see Master's arrangement.
I am a labor contractor – my job is to supervise groups of workers. Now, the economy is not good and everyone feels it; so do I. I understood that this is a rule of the old universe. As a Falun Dafa practitioner, I should let go the attachment to gain.
Once, I supervised a group of new laborers on a project. They'd heard I had a good reputation and I always paid my workers on time. I agreed to pay them as soon as the project was done. But when the job was almost done, my boss had some difficulty with funds and did not pay me. It put me in a difficult situation. What should I do? How should I explain the situation to the workers?
I asked Master: "What am I being tested on? I do not care about money or my reputation. But I need to pay the workers. I told them that they would get paid at the end of the project." I was anxious and did not know what to do.
Something similar had happened to me in the past. When it did, I forced myself to listen to Master's lectures. When I concentrated on the Fa, the problem was resolved and my employer paid me, so I was able to pay my workers. This time, which attachment should I get rid of? "Master, I do not know what to do. Tomorrow is the last day of the project. The workers will leave after tomorrow and I need to pay them now."
It was almost noon, and I could not think of any way to find the money to pay them. I started to do the exercises. I was thinking about what I was attached to. I did not care about fame and gain, but not having money was a true problem. Suddenly I remembered what Master said:
"When it’s difficult to endure, you can endure it. When it’s impossible to do, you can do it."
"When you are overcoming a real hardship or tribulation, you try it. When it is difficult to endure, try to endure it. When it looks impossible and is said to be impossible, give it a try and see if it is possible. If you can actually do it, you will indeed find: 'After passing the shady willow trees, there will be bright flowers and another village ahead!' " (Lecture Nine in Zhuan Falun)
I was enlightened. I said to Master, "All right, I will give it a try." I stopped worrying and did not think about it anymore. All the anxieties, such as no money, tomorrow is the last day, etc., were human attachments. All my thoughts about borrowing money or even taking on a usurious loan were based on human thinking. I should let them go! My cultivation path is arranged by Master. Now I would just follow whatever Master arranged for me!
The phone rang just as I finished the exercises. It was about another project. This boss had tried to reach me two days before, but I'd missed his call. He promised to pay me as soon as his project was done. I went to the work site. It was a very difficult project but I knew I would be able to pull it off. I returned to the first site and explained to the workers about the new project and promised them they would get paid at the end of it. They were happy to stay on.
The next day I led the workers to start at the new site. It was a difficult project. Three teams of workers had tried it before my team, and they had all quit. For me, the project was a good opportunity for cultivation as well as saving people. I treated myself as a practitioner and cooperated with others well. When the project was going well, it was even easier to tell others about Falun Gong.
I knew this project was Master's arrangement. It not only solved the financial problem for me, but also provided an opportunity for me to save more people. Two weeks later, we completed the work. I got paid. I used the bonus to make up the unpaid portion from the previous project. Everything worked perfectly. I was so grateful for Master's help.
Later on I learned that a middleman had actually wanted to get me for the second project, but my referral mistakenly gave him a wrong phone number, so he did not reach me. He then hired other teams, but they could not handle the work. He looked for me again. Now I understood that I missed the opportunity at first because my xinxing was not high enough. I was anxious, but my anxiety was about my predicament; it was all about me. I should be more anxious about saving people. When I let go of my human attachment, Master arranged things.
Through this incident I enlightened to how incompetent, useless, and vulnerable human attachments really are. They also get in the way of Master's arrangements for us. When we let go of our human attachments and do not seek, miracles will occur and we can see Master's arrangements.
Later when I ran into similar difficulties, I did not use human thinking, and things turned out remarkably well. I now truly understood: Follow the course of nature. Our path is arranged by Master. What are the arrangements? We should give up attachments and human thinking and use the wisdom of a cultivator to observe quietly. Then we will see Master's arrangements.
Category: Improving Oneself
