Recognising my fundamental attachment while selling Shen Yun Creations subscriptions

Greetings, respected Master!
Greetings, fellow practitioners!

My name is Min Ye. I am from Germany, and I obtained the Fa in 1996.

Many years ago, after passing a test of life and death, I found my fundamental attachment: Dafa agreed with my own code of conduct. That code was loyalty and righteousness, which I held to be weightier than life itself. Master said:
"... if a bottle filled with dirty things is sealed tightly and thrown into water, it will sink all the way to the bottom. You pour out some of its dirty contents. The more you empty the bottle, the higher it will float in the water. If it is emptied entirely, it will float completely to the top." (Lecture One, Zhuan Falun)

In 2026, before the Shen Yun tour began, I had a strong wish. I wanted to completely pour out all the dirty things in my own dimension, my fundamental attachment among them, so that they would not affect the project of saving people, which was selling Shen Yun Creations subscriptions during the performances. Perhaps because this wish of mine was so strong, Master let me discover on two occasions just how deeply my fundamental attachment was hidden away in my life. Today I would like to share these two experiences with fellow practitioners.

1. A Sale That Was One Hundred Per Cent Certain, Blocked by My Attachment

On 8 February 2026, Shen Yun's first performance in Germany opened at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Tickets for that day had sold out, but shortly before the rising of the curtain a few tickets suddenly became available.

An hour before the performance, a woman in the audience, Ms A, came to the Shen Yun Creations sales booth where I was working. I introduced her to what Shen Yun Creations offers, and she said straight away that she was interested in buying a subscription. But she had no means of paying. She had no cash, no credit card, and no PayPal account either. All of these were with her daughter, who was out looking for a parking space.

While she waited for her daughter, Ms A asked whether she could sit on a chair behind our booth. “Of course," I said. The chair happened to be near the Shen Yun ticket desk. Once she had sat down, Ms A told me that she had in fact bought three tickets. Someone could not come, so she wanted to sell the spare one.

I knew that under Shen Yun's rules a ticket cannot be refunded once sold, that there were still a few tickets available at the ticket desk, and that finding a buyer for her was not the work of saving people that I was there to do. For these reasons I told her I was sorry, but I probably couldn’t help. At the same time I thought to myself: “If her ticket did not sell, it would still count as a donation to Shen Yun, and that would bring her blessings.”

Once Ms A was settled, I went back to introducing Shen Yun Creations to other members of the audience. Before long another woman, Ms B, came over. She said, "I have wanted to see Shen Yun for a long time. I am in Berlin today and happened to hear that Shen Yun is performing here, but the website was already showing no tickets left. I thought I would come to the theatre and try my luck, and see whether there were any after all."

I pointed at once to the ticket desk and told her that there seemed to be a few tickets left there. Ms B walked over to the desk, and I carried on introducing Shen Yun Creations to other audience members.

A little while later I turned around and saw Ms A and Ms B talking in front of the ticket desk. I guessed that Ms A must have heard that Ms B wanted a ticket and struck up a conversation with her. I thought this was a good thing, a predestined relationship between the two of them. What’s more, once Ms A's ticket was sold she would be able to buy a Shen Yun Creations subscription.

A few minutes later Ms B came over with Ms A's ticket in hand, thanked me, and went upstairs into the auditorium. I walked over to Ms A too and said, "You have sold your ticket, that is wonderful! Now you have the money to buy a Shen Yun Creations subscription."

Ms A said that Ms B had not had enough cash. She had paid only half the ticket price as a deposit and would transfer the other half to Ms A's daughter by PayPal after the performance. However, that was not enough to buy a Shen Yun Creations subscription.

I was about to say that she could still put the cash she had towards a deposit on the Shen Yun Creations subscription, and have her daughter transfer the balance to me by PayPal. Before the words left my mouth, her daughter rang to say that she had found a parking space and would be over shortly. Out of politeness I felt I should not raise the idea I had just had, so we waited for her daughter.

As it turned out, the theatre was full that day and parking was very hard to find, so her daughter had left the car a long way off. By the time she reached the theatre the third bell had already rung. There were only minutes to the curtain opening, and the two of them were still downstairs at the entrance and had to hurry into the auditorium. Ms A said that they would definitely come back to buy Shen Yun Creations when the performance ended.

When the performance ended, they must have been interfered with, because they did not come back to buy. After sales finished that day my heart was heavy. I did not know where I had gone wrong.

At 4:15 the next morning my alarm went off. This was the time I get up to do the exercises. The day before had been the first day of the shows, and setting up the booth had taken a great deal out of me, on top of the selling itself, so I was very tired when I got up. Even so, I began as usual with the fifth exercise.

As I did the exercises, the left side of my body told me that I was too tired and should sleep a little longer today, while the right side told me that doing the exercises is the best rest there is. Half an hour passed with the two sides pulling back and forth like this.

Then I heard a thud inside my body as a lump of karma fell away, and right after it a clattering sound. I felt it utterly clearly: a whole body's worth of black karma dropped off. In that instant my true self woke up, and I understood at once why I had not managed to sell that Shen Yun Creations subscription.

My problem was that when Ms A and Ms B were talking, why did I not simply go over and join them? Because I had an attachment of fear, and behind that attachment lay my fundamental attachment. I was afraid Ms A would misunderstand me. I knew she wanted to sell her ticket, so why did I not tell Ms B? That would go against both loyalty and righteousness. And I was afraid Ms B would misunderstand me too.

In that moment I had placed my own code of conduct, which was the fundamental attachment I brought with me when I entered Dafa, above my vow to "assist Master in Fa-rectification and save sentient beings".

Had that fundamental attachment not been there, I could have walked over openly and confidently and congratulated them on the sale of the ticket. At the same time I could have found a way for Ms A to buy a Shen Yun Creations subscription, and very likely Ms B would have bought one as well, since she already knew about Shen Yun. Master said: "A notion, once formed, will control you for the duration of your life, influencing your thinking and even the full gamut of emotions, such as your happiness, anger, sorrow, and joy. It is formed postnatally. If this thing persists for some time, it will become part of a person's thinking, melding into the brain of that person's true self, at which point it will shape his temperament." ("Buddha Nature", Zhuan Falun Volume II)

Although I had been working seriously for years at removing my fundamental attachment, its roots still went extraordinarily deep. Fortunately I dug this attachment out again at that first performance, so that it did not interfere with the rest of my work of selling Shen Yun Creations and saving people.

At the same time, meeting my physical exhaustion with righteous thoughts and persisting with the exercises to set my body right was also what allowed me to see, within a short space of time, the trap that my fundamental attachment had laid for me in saving people.

2. My Fundamental Attachment Magnified the Qing I Had Not Yet Let Go Of

Several of the major ordeals I have been through in cultivation were connected with my fundamental attachment. So when I was putting the Shen Yun Creations sales team together, I paid particular attention to helping the practitioners on the team recognise their own fundamental attachments, and one after another they found them.

One thing was rather curious: for a fairly large proportion of practitioners on the team, the fundamental attachment was thinking that Dafa can cure their illnesses. To be specific, what these practitioners had been cured of was not a physical illness but mental and emotional pain from before they began cultivating. Sometimes I wondered whether this had anything to do with me. Why were so many practitioners with psychological wounds around me? The question was answered after the Shen Yun performances in Füssen ended, and the answer took me completely by surprise.

Over the course of selling Shen Yun Creations in Füssen, the whole team went through many tests, especially tests bound up with fundamental attachments. We improved together and were diligent together, and there were miracles along the way. In the end the team finished the Füssen sales with results that surpassed last year's.

When I parted from the team, I felt an inexplicable reluctance to say goodbye. I knew that qing was expanding steadily inside my body. The question was why it could run unchecked, and why I seemed unable to do anything about it.

The next day I got up at 4:15 as usual to do the exercises. This time, while “Holding the Wheel in Front of the Head” in the second exercise, I suddenly felt my body burst open and be purified, and then all at once I understood where the problem lay.

My fundamental attachment was that Dafa agreed with my code of conduct, with loyalty and righteousness. Someone who lives by such a code admires the heroes of history and likes to help those who are weak. And the practitioners on the team who carried psychological wounds had become, for me, the weak ones I was willing to help, and even wanted to protect.

Of course, there is nothing wrong in itself with helping fellow practitioners recognise their fundamental attachments. But when I did it while carrying my own fundamental attachment, the qing I had not yet cultivated away got mixed in, and that diluted the sacred bond between Dafa disciples of the Fa-rectification period, who stand shoulder to shoulder to fulfil our sacred vows.

Once I saw this, I found the human side of myself that carries this fundamental attachment truly laughable. Here was a being still in the final part of the old cosmos's period of destruction, unable even to protect myself, yet wanting to protect other Dafa disciples! It was a complete overestimation of my own capacity, and had it gone on, would it not have become the very source of arrogance? It is genuinely unsettling to think about.

Conclusion

As I have kept removing my fundamental attachment layer by layer, my understanding of the Fa-principles has deepened, and my Fa study and my exercises have become far more effective. A fellow practitioner once asked me why the exercises should become more effective once a fundamental attachment is removed.

The next day, as I was going out, I saw a tree ahead of me and suddenly understood.

The tree in front of me had many branches and leaves. The branches are like our various attachments, the leaves like countless pieces of karma, and the fundamental attachment is like the roots buried deep in the soil.

We can remove the branches and the leaves, which is how we let go of attachments and eliminate karma. But if we can dig the roots out, the branches and leaves will wither of their own accord. It is just that these roots have been growing over lifetime after lifetime, so removing them takes time.

On 9 June 2026 the Minghui Editorial Board published an article, "Notice", recommending that every Dafa disciple who truly wants to cultivate memorise "Towards Consummation". As I memorised this scripture I came to understand a great deal, and I felt Master's boundless compassion even more deeply.

Master said, "Think about it: the enormous test at present is exactly to see how Dafa fares and how students conduct themselves in Master's absence. How could Master speak out? How could I again tell you what to do?" ("Towards Consummation", The Essentials of Diligent Progress II)

Master had already made it clear in this scripture that he could not tell us anything more. Seeing that we were truly not enlightened to it, out of his boundless compassion he used an article from the Minghui Editorial Board to wake us up.

The above is my recent cultivation experience. If there is anything incorrect, please kindly point it out.

With deepest gratitude to Master!
Thank you, fellow practitioners!

(Submitted to the European Fa-Conference 2026)