Diana X.

I am an veteran disciple who obtained Fa in 1996. Our cultivation experience is totally different after 7.20, 1999 compared to that at personal cultivation period. The path I have walked in this past 20 years during testifying Dafa and cooperating with practitioners is also my progress to improve in my cultivation and getting mature. I experienced lots of things during this process, especially after I became a coordinator for one of the local projects in 2009, I felt the duty that Fa rectification Dafa disciples bear, also I came to realize that one can only fulfill the oaths by doing according to what Master said “by doing the three things well everything is encompassed.” [Teaching the Fa at the 2004 Western U.S. Fa Conference]

Only if you cultivate yourself well, can you do things well, can you save the sentient beings. I am sharing some of my experience with everyone now.

1. Work is not doing a job, it is cultivation.

I had lots of things on my plate when I first took over the project. The biggest challenge in my mind and the biggest pressure is the management of the business and the cost associated with the monthly operation. I was almost doing sales work daily on streets and then went back home to write into late nights. I was operating in an over-limit mode mentally and physically for a long period of time, I was very much exhausted and suffering. I set my sleeping and eating aside for this project, even in my dreams I was thinking of the things in the daytime. I think it is that Master saw my true heart for saving sentient beings and sacrificing for Dafa, I was very successful in sales or designing projects. I can often talk to a client and close a deal. Although I was the only person in making plans for sales and doing sales, I can get things done in time and make sure the company can operate normally. I can ensure my Fa study, but I was slacking off on practicing and sending out righteous thoughts. Thus, I had a period time with allergies on my face, my face was swollen, red and itching, I suffered a lot from the allergies. I have to face clients regularly due to my job requirements, lots of them know that I practice Falun Gong, I told them eagerly about my healthy body after practicing and never got sick. This awkward situation made it very hard for me to face the clients, my job seemed to be an ordinary people’s job, yet it was part of my cultivation during that period of time. The requirements from Fa is high. Thus, I have to study Fa in bigger amount and keep on seeing clients, and try to find out loopholes in cultivation quickly. I was trying hard to look inside for the cause of this problem one night during Fa study. When I was reading a part in Teaching the Fa at the 2003 Atlanta Fa Conference, I felt suddenly clear-minded, it was very hard to describe with words what I have enlightened to. But I found my issues in this part of Fa from Master. Master said: “Every Dafa disciple will shoulder immense responsibilities in the future. There are so many beings that need you to save them--there are so many lives that need you to save them. During this period of time, you yourselves need to harmonize and consummate everything that's needed for your own Fruition and countless beings. Your mighty virtue and everything of gods are within it. That's why I often say that in validating the Fa, you should do well the three things Dafa disciples need to do, and everything is encompassed in them.”

2. Coordination is about communication, sharing, cooperating and enduring.

In the beginning phase of my being a coordinator, it was very challenging for me to do coordination work. My personal trait is being alone, not good in cooperating with others. I have a high and cold attitude, which gives people impression about not being easily approached. On the other hand, my weakness lies in being not attentive to details, not willing to communicate with others. In the beginning, my job was not smooth. Looking inside, I tried my best to think for the whole body and think for others since I started to be a coordinator, I felt I had a 180 degree turn already. In fact, it is hard to be a coordinator, the requirement for a coordinator for a Dafa project is higher. Dafa requires us as a coordinator, we have to cultivate ourselves well and lead others.

Our project has our special side, which is totally different from ordinary peoples’ business operations. The lack of capital requires more cooperation and sacrificing from fellow practitioners. Although we’ve been making the transition to the formal management patterns of ordinary people in the past several years, we still need time and more practitioners with abilities to join and cooperate with each other to meet the requirement of Fa to us. I gradually learned to communicate and cooperate with fellow practitioners, I actively study the corresponding techniques related to this job, I seek opinions from the others, I work by discussing and cooperating with others. I coordinate the Fa study, training and sharing in job related skills weekly, trying to create a cultivation environment that is different from ordinary people’s.

A veteran practitioner in the office shared with me later that she had the notion that I am not easy to communicate and work with. She was hesitant to take this job before she started this job. But she took it because she thought about the lack of manpower in Dafa projects and the missions that we carry. She shared with me that after working with me for a while, she felt my heart is really thinking for the company and the true heart of thinking of Dafa makes her cooperate with me naturally together. Another practitioner stated in a weekly meeting that she can handle a manager’s position in ordinary society business, but it is very hard for her to preside a Dafa project. I felt really cold in my heart during her criticism of me. I endured with tears from time to time amidst this kind of experiences, I thought about this many times, let it go, I could do other projects to testify Dafa.

I learned to think for the ordinary person that I have encountered and my clients and my readers. How many of them are starting to feel respectful for us for our preservation on this job and then start to understand Falun Gong?! How many of them are saved through this publication? I can not let them go, because I am coming for them! I let go the thoughts of giving up from time to time. I have one colleague in the office that often shares with me. She would say to me that “you can not leave the position, we are counting on you!”, whenever she saw I am depressed.

Actually, xinxing tribulation and being wrongfully accused often come from time to time. I feel I was trained with this cultivation environment. Dafa can season and melt a person. We are one part of it, how lucky we are! The opportunities and predestined relationships with Dafa are all for assisting Master in Fa rectification. It is only up to us to let go of ourselves and if we can walk a path in Fa rectification by cooperating with each other without gaps.

3. Cultivation of patience in coordination

I was always No.1 in sales in several years of cultivation. I also almost did the most interviews. So I felt that I should try my best to train others to get involved. Practitioner A is not good in sales but is very good in cooperation and have a solid cultivation foundation. I often try to teach him how to do sales and share half of the commission with him for those clients who signed the contract on spot, I could let go of material interest and try to train new people as much as possible. However, I could not be patient with him for his lack of understanding of needs from clients and his not doing his homework, there was an episode that I criticized him in a series. He did not talk back but I could feel how sad he was. Thinking about these practitioners are together to save sentient beings, everyone would get multiple times of their current income if they had a job in ordinary people’s society. I started to blame myself. Thus, I took him for sales repeatedly. We worked together better and better, I also learned much from him. Such as how to clarify the truth to the clients. I could see his preservation. I didn’t feel practitioner B was a candidate for sales, but her persistent manner and righteous thoughts about letting go of ordinary people’s job and devoting herself to Dafa really moved me. Her striving efforts despite the difficulties moved me as well. She is not good at interviewing at all, she has to write for 1-2 days when others could finish in 1-2 hours. I tried to let her get involved in interviewing community events and teach her how to write articles, she agreed without reservation and learned in a cooperative manner.

I helped her polish the article from time to time after she finished. In the end, she became capable of interviewing. It not only trained my patience but also made me see shining points from practitioners. Almost everyone in our team can do interviews and write articles now, any everyone can take multiple roles. I can see the greatness of the Fa rectification period Dafa disciples in all practitioners that work together with me.

4. Broadening my heart to gather all practitioners together, including those who are easy to get along with and those who are not, let everyone contribute the best of them and walk a path of validating Dafa.

There was a time when our chief editor position had a high turnover rate. Plus, one key coordinator was in another state, which made it very hard for him to merge into local work. It just happened that a local practitioner was very suitable for this position, but he was not an easy-going character in lot’s of peoples’ notions.

I think about making the best use of a practitioner’s strengths and think from the requirements of the job, I did not think about whether he was easy to get along with, so I invited him warmly to get involved into major coordination part of our project, and he agreed easily. We had a transition period from not being able to cooperate with each other to being able to cooperate in these several years of working together, we had differences in viewing things, we also had conflicts. But we walked through together for validating Dafa and make sure our project can save sentient beings. Our working environment gathered practitioners with different characters, we reminded each other in cultivation and improved together. This is the biggest feeling that I have to broaden my heart, gather all practitioners together and make the best use of everyone’s strengths in my coordination.

In fact, I have lots of other feelings, there are countless small things that practitioners did in ordinary time period. Lots of shining images should be kept in other dimensions. Lots of practitioners in our project are on the front for Shen Yun promotion when Shen Yun comes to us. They went back quickly to our project after Shen Yun. Of course, our project is still growing, there are many sentient beings waiting to be saved. We are far away from Master’s requirements. However, we should treasure our opportunity to assist Master in Fa rectification in this period of Dafa disciples validating Dafa, seize the precious time and cultivate ourselves well in this great melting stove of Dafa and breaking away from humanness.