Our Compassion Should be Shown at all Levels

Where I work, all people know that I am practising Falun Dafa. Many people also study “Zhuan Falun”.

Our Assistant Manager often asks me to bring her all Dafa books and our Master’s recent articles. We talk about everything happening in the world every day and each of us sticks to our own view. Some talk from a deeper level, while others talk in a relatively shallow way. All of my colleagues hold a good attitude toward Falun Gong. They all saw a video that clarified the facts made by our fellow practitioners, and brought up some quite valuable opinions.
Recently for a period of time, I couldn’t help but spend a lot of time making phone calls for the purpose of doing things to clarifying the truth about Dafa whilst at work. As a result, our assistant manager reported it to our general manager and I was ruthlessly scolded on the matter and told that phones in the office could only be used for business purposes. (I felt that the assistant manager knew very clearly why I did this. Right before this, she had even asked me whether her understanding of who our Master really is, was correct.) My first reaction at that time was, “I should go and find another job right away and leave this place. Indeed, what she said was correct. Office is where we work. I, however, could never stop what I am currently doing to clarify the truth.”

It was a very simple conclusion that I needed to find another job which would allow me to do things for Dafa freely. After I handed in the resignation letter, all my colleagues were very upset as we had a good relationship among each other and it felt like a big family working together. Everyone was waiting and hoped I would change my mood over the weekend. My husband, reacted unusually; he advised me quietly and gently that I should think it over again as people at this workplace were unusually nice to me. He also said that he himself would not necessarily get along well with colleagues in a similar working environment.
On Monday while everyone was on tenterhooks awaiting my decision about whether to continue to work there, I said determinedly, “I am trying to be a good person but I cannot adapt myself to you ordinary people.”

We have a very sweet-natured secretary who does not practise cultivation. She, however, gives me support in doing Dafa work at any time. Even when I am sending forth righteous thoughts, she will keep the surrounding environment quiet. (She was the first one to sign the anti-Article 23 petition) She came and sat in front of me and started to persuade me and urge me to see that the people surrounding me are all good. However, they are ordinary people so they cannot always understand what we are doing and how important it is to do these things. Although I am different from them I should understand them and think for them. I should take care for each without exception; learn to be tolerant of them, and not to have too many expectations of them. I should know that each of them has his or her own level.

Even now I have no idea whether it was she who really knew this deeply, or whether our Master used her mouth to point things out for me. I started to feel guilty. I came to realise that it is not our assistant manager who influenced me to clarify the truth and harm herself, but it was I who had harmed her. These remaining attachments of individuality and pride were preventing me from upgrading and improving myself.

People around me are very glad that I did not leave them. I however felt even more ashamed about this. It made me see and realise more that there would be something even worse or unimaginable that could have happened if I had left. What attitude would they hold toward Dafa? How would they view us practitioners? I often think of our Master taking everything into account for all sentient beings in countless levels and taking care of each sentient being at each moment, including the tiniest particles. And how could we harm people around us when doing such magnificent things? Our compassion should be shown at each level and even to the lowest level of the ordinary people in the universe.

Now I continue to do Dafa work as before. However, I not only think of what I am doing but also take care of people around me and what they are currently doing. I do not make them feel unhappy or like an inconvenience. After all, they equally do what they consider important at their own level. I have no idea how long it will take until it becomes so harmonious again in our environment.

Translated from http://www.yuanming.net/articles/200303/18763.html