Falun Dafa Made Me a Better Teacher

Falun Dafa has changed me, making me an excellent teacher.

In doing my work, when I was able to put down my attachment to myself, my attachments to showing off, to reputation and personal gain, I am able to think of things from a higher perspective. What on the earth do I work for? What can I do for the students? The level of my teaching has also greatly increased for the same reason. After listening to my class lecture, our supervisor said, "You completely understand the new concepts in education reform and carry them through your teaching practice. You are an excellent teacher." As a matter of fact, this change has come about solely through my practice of "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance." In the process of my practising Falun Dafa, I have become more and more reasonable and clear-minded and I am able to see the essential parts of the problems with greater clarity. Therefore my class teaching keeps improving, which looked and sounded "new" to others.

I was once vexed at why some kids could not succeed in higher grades since I taught them exactly the same way as I did to students with good grades. Later in my cultivation of Dafa, I suddenly realised that any child's grades, high or low, are not absolutely related to his intelligence, but instead it was related to other personal factors like their attentiveness and patience. Furthermore, I came to understand that the state of mind of students is very similar to that of cultivators. Students who appeared to pay particular attention to study rarely attracted outside interference since their mentalities are relatively stable.

Within two months I had realised the above truth. However, it took a foreign educator fifty years to realise this truth. Now, I have a more peaceful and more benevolent mentality with which to teach kids how to be good people. In this, I am being responsible for their future, and not just paying attention to my personal success and gain, like I did before.

I used the principles which I had come to understand and enlightened to in studying Falun Dafa, to inspire students, telling them: there are two little persons in your body. One of them is light and bright, very kind and tolerant, and loves people very much around you; another one is dark, loves fighting and cursing people. However, you should remember, only that light little person is truly yourself, while the dark one is not. Then, when someone is bullying you, that dark little person makes you angry, telling you "beat him up"! If you follow this, won't it be a mistake? Make sure that you remember to reject it. Gradually, several kids in my class who fought and cursed their schoolmates changed a lot and their grades also improved. The atmosphere in my class has also improved. Even if a problem does come up, I can solve it more reasonably.

Our principal said that I am an excellent teacher. But this "excellence" appeared only after I started practising Falun Dafa. Before then, I treated kids in a rude way, which makes me feel shocked and ashamed whenever I recall it. I know that if I had not practised Falun Dafa I might have made a group of children live in a negative state, teaching them to complain all the time and be depressed.

I have visited some psychology websites. A psychotherapist talked about the joys and sorrows in his profession. Experience made him finally realise that a psychotherapist must be peaceful and friendly, and help patients with a peaceful and friendly mentality. Having read his research articles, I felt a little sad. After nine years of hard research, he came to understand the above truth, which I came to see after reading Zhuan Falun [the core text of Falun Gong teachings] two years into my cultivation. Furthermore, what I learned is something more profound. I learned that medicine is not needed at all to cure psychological diseases, and that a more direct method is available to find the root of a psychological disease. It is my knowledge of psychology that I have used to talk about and introduce Falun Gong to one of my colleagues.

I have a student who has transferred to my class recently. When I clarified the talked about the real reasons behind the persecution of Falun Gong to him, he rejected it. However, I decided to be patient allowing him to come to a gradual understanding on his own through my actions. I think that I must have some problems otherwise he would not have rejected what I told him about Falun Gong. Later, he wrote a composition with the title of "My good teacher." One paragraph was added to the end: Teacher, September 10th is our Teachers' Day and I will give you a sentence. "You are the great sea and I am only a small boat, which can never go out of this vast sea." A that moment I was really moved because this reminded me of our Teacher [referring to the founder of Falun Gong, Mr Li Hongzhi].