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万古机缘
无上荣耀--
在参与新唐人工作中修炼提高、助师正法 (Chinese and English)
Precious Opportunity, Unprecedented Honour - Cultivating and Helping Master in Fa-rectification in NTDTV Work 一、突破自我 1. Surpassing My Ego NTDTV Australia started to set up a new structure after we listened to Master’s Fa lecture to Australian Falun Dafa Practitioners in New York in August 2007. The previous news coordinator needed to undertake the role as the vice general manager. In order to show support for her, I reluctantly agreed to take her responsibility as the news coordinator. I had never coordinated anything before that. At the first meeting after I became the news coordinator, I told the fellow practitioners in the TV team, “I have been very afraid of asking help from others. Please do try to understand this and support my work. I will have to resign from my position if at any stage asking for help from you has become too difficult a task for me.” Having said that, I still managed to get another practitioner to do this “asking for help” thing for me. Whenever we needed to cover an event, this practitioner was to arrange a reporter, a camera person and a video editor; whilst I only looked after other non-man-power issues. In other words, I had been doing NTDTV work without letting go of my attachment to this fear of “asking for help from others.” Last year NTDTV went through a reshuffle. The news department was divided into two sub-departments, “news story department” and “editorial department”. Another practitioner was appointed as the coordinator for the editorial department. Since then she and I encountered huge differences of opinion about how to coordinate the staff and how the two sub-departments should be working together. In the end, the conflicts and clashes became so furious that I was no longer able to take it. So I asked to resign. 零七年八月,在纽约听完师尊对澳洲弟子讲法 后,澳洲新唐人开始组建新的架构,为支持原来的新闻部协调人去担任副总经理,我勉强答应接替她的工作。 在此之前,我从未担任过任何协调工作。上任 后第一次开会,我就对电视组同修说:我从小就怕求人,请大家理解、支持,如果哪天大家让我觉得求人太难了,那么对不起,我就只好不干了。 虽然如此,我还是找了一位同修专门帮我做“求人”之事,每当有报道任务,由他来安排记者、 摄影和剪辑人员,而我只负责与业务相关的事务。也就是说,我一直是在“怕求人”的执著中工作着。 去年年中,公司架构再次调整,新闻部协调人 从一个增加到两个,部门也被分为“采访部”与“编辑部”两个。从那时起,在新闻部的人员应该怎么安排、两个部门之间应该怎样互相配合的问题上,我与另一名 协调人出现了严重分歧,后来又因为工作中的一些事情发生过激烈的矛盾和冲突,有一天我终于忍不下去了,提出辞职不干了。 After receiving my resignation letter, the general manager called and shared with me. She did not say much, only politely pointing out to me that in all these years since she knew me, she felt that although I could be counted on as being diligent, I wasn’t able to break away from my ego. No matter what I did, there was always some sort of ego carried around. She said that if I could make a break through regarding this, I would be making a great step forward on my cultivation path. Although her words were polite and soft, they sounded like a tremendous thunder to me and felt so soul stirring to me. I suddenly realized that, without knowing it, I had already wrapped myself within a very thick layer of ego. I remembered that shortly after the persecution happened in China, when I realized for the first time that I should step forward to safeguard Dafa instead of hiding at home to so-called “cultivate myself”, I had experienced how it felt like after “letting go of oneself and melting into the Fa”. At that moment I experienced the unspeakable wonderfulness expressed in Master’s poem “After the Catastrophe”: “The heavens clear, the cosmic body transparent, the universe rectified, With the ultimate catastrophe now past, lucent is the whole Cosmos.” I
realized that if I could let go of my ego; if I could melt myself into
the Fa of the cosmos, who could the evil persecute? If “I” did not
exist anymore, how could the evil persecute me? That was a wonderful
feeling of true freedom and fearless integrity.
我为什么不
愿做协调人呢?不就是认为自己如
何如何有某方面的能力,应该最大限度的发挥自己的能力,而把协调人事等等这些“婆婆妈妈”,又不需要多少特别能力的事甩给别人去做吗?说到底,这不就是
私、就是放不下自我吗?说严重点儿,
不就是又退回到走不出来之前的那个“自我”当中去了吗?这在修炼上,还不够让人觉的惊心动魄吗?我为什么不能把所自认为的所谓能力放下,去成
就别人、成全别人、为更多的同修创造参与新唐人工作的机会吗?我为什么要在困难和矛盾面前退缩,而不能再次突破自我呢?
I
gave up the idea of resigning and was determined to make a breakthrough
in this test. I also wanted to avoid conflict with another coordinator.
However, because I did not elevate in my Xinxing enough, conflicts were
bound to surface. As I looked outward, I thought more and more about
how I was correct, and I was becoming more and more emotional; I felt
more and more that I must have been wronged. Eventually, I lost my
temper one day and dumped all my resentments and unhappiness on a
fellow practitioner who had come to discuss a project with me. He
quickly ran away from me. I then grabbed another practitioner, and
complained about all the unfairness I had suffered. The
next morning, I realised I was so out of control the day before. How
did this happen? Which of my attachments was causing this? As I looked
inward, I immediately found it. It was my resentments towards the
practitioner who had different opinions from me. This was obviously
wrong and I must let go of it. When
I had the righteous attitude, I immediately felt very calm. And when I
thought of the practitioner again, I did not feel any resentment or
negativity. Master have asked us to “look inward”, so why did I only
look at her and her attachments\? Perhaps I was right, but it was
because I pointed out her mistakes that her attachments were touched,
and as a consequence, she refused to cooperate with me. Shouldn’t I be
thinking about why I was being unkind, not considering others’ feelings
and situation, and not cultivating my speech? How many people have I
hurt through my speech in the past few years? Looking
further inward, I realised that I may not be absolutely right. Perhaps
there were some good points in the other practitioners’ suggestions.
Master has said adopting which-ever idea is not as important as
practitioners trusting each other and cooperating well. In the past few
years, Australian practitioners have been insisting on their own ideas
and therefore wasting valuable time and causing damages to different
Fa-rectification projects. It’s about time we all learn our lessons. So
why should I insist on my own ideas, rather than step back and accept
others’ ideas? Why can’t I trust other practitioners’ explanations
instead of interpreting her positive efforts in explaining things as
her not wanting to give up her attachments? Why can’t I step back in
the face of conflicts? In
“Teaching the Fa at the 2002 Fa Conference in Philadelphia, USA” Master
said: “When another God proposes an idea, they aren't eager to reject
it, and they aren't eager to express their own ideas and they don't
believe that their own ideas are good. Instead, they look at what the
end result of the other God's proposed approach will be. The paths are
different--everyone's path is different--and the truths that beings
validate and enlighten to in the Fa are different, too, but the results
might very well be the same. That's why they look at the results, and
if the result of a God's idea can achieve the goal, if it can truly
achieve it, then all of them will go along with it. That's how Gods
think. Also, if there's something lacking in it they'll unconditionally
and quietly supplement it to make things more complete and perfect.
That's how they handle things.” 师尊在《二
零零二年美国费城法会讲法》中早 就说过:“当一个
神提出来一个办法的时候,他们不是急于去否定,不是急于去表达自己的、认为自己的办法好,他们是去看另外的神所提出的办法的最后的结果是什么样。路是不同
的,每个人的路都是不同的,生命在法中证悟到的理都是不同的,可是结果呢很可能是相同的。所以他们看其结果,他的结果达到的,真的能够达到要达到的,大家
就同意,神都是这样想的,而且呢,哪块有不足,还要无条件的默默的给予补充,使它更圆满。他们都是这样处理问题的。” After
I gave up my own ideas completely, I did not get so attached to my
notions of how the news department should be run. I accepted other
practitioners’ suggestions and tried my best to harmonise the whole
body with the best of my abilities. Master has said in “Teaching the Fa
at the 2002 Fa Conference in Philadelphia, USA”: “True improvements
come from letting go”, and in Zhuan Falun: “One’s gong level is as high
as one’s xinxing level, and this is an absolute truth.” I quickly
discovered, after I had learned to look inward and let go, not only was
the work of the news department not affected; to our delight, it
improved. Also,
the practitioner who had refused to work with me earlier on started to
contact me. We talked about how to better improve our work. After I
have finished writing this sharing, I sent a copy to her and asked for
her opinion. Not only didn’t she hold any negative opinions about me,
on the contrary, she opened herself up to me, and told me that she
didn’t want to work with me because I was too aggressive in my speech.
And she was afraid of such an approach. After our positive sharing, the
conflicts between us dissolved. Through this process, I can see that the issue is not how others have treated me, but the problems lie with myself. “The environment changes according to your mindset”. When I have too much negativity in my thinking or the way I do things, people will be pushed away. Whereas, if I am not attached to my own ideas and am able to listen to others’ opinions calmly, I can then understand others and their feelings. Consequently the situation will improve. Of
course, to do the job better also relies on the quiet contribution of
many practitioners and the elevation of the group as a whole. It’s not
just about one person. Sometimes, a news piece of just over one minute
takes more than ten hours to complete. I understand if I as the
coordinator did not improve my xinxing and understanding, the news
department’s tasks will be affected. Working for NTD TV is also clarifying the facts. Being a journalist, however, also brings about many opportunities for clarifying the facts. When we are sincere about it, there will also be opportunities for us. For example, during the 2007 APEC meetings held in Sydney, the then- Australian Foreign Minister held a first press conference. On my way there, I thought to myself that I must grab the opportunity and ask a question about the forced organ harvesting of Falun Gong practitioners in China. It was a big venue and there were several hundred journalists participating from all over the world. I quickly settled down in the first row, so that I would have better chance of asking the question. After the Minister finished his speech and announced that questions could be asked. Almost all the journalists there raised their hands all at once. The staffer who stood in the centre of the venue and not too far away from me did not know what to do and who to give the microphone to. As she hesitated, I said to her in my heart: “Please pass the microphone to me.” Subsequesntly, she walked to the front, walked past several journalists next to me and handed the microphone to me. So I stood up and asked: “Last year, former Canadian MP and co-author of “Investigation into Allegation of Forced Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong Practitioners in China”David Kigour visited Australia. The Australian Government promised to conduct an investigation into the issue. This year, Mr Kilgour is again in Australia to call on the world leaders attending the APEC to pay attention to the issue. Can I ask what the Australian Government has done in the past year?”
The then-Australian Foreign Minister was sued by Falun Gong practitioners for issuing certificates preventing them from demonstrating outside the Chinese Embassy in Canberra. It’s not hard to imagine that he must have been quite shocked by the question. As a result, for the press conference next day, journalists were asked to submit their questions beforehand in writing. This caused a lot of complaints among the journalists. Nevertheless, those journalists, several hundreds in number, had all heard my question in the first day; they would have all heard of the Kilgour-Matas report. So perhaps some of them might have looked up the report or reported on the issue.
On another occasion, The Australian Foreign Journalists Association invited the leader of the opposition to give a speech. I also applied to attend the event. The secretary of the Association was quite serious about her work and he sent to everyone a detailed list of the participating journalists’ names, organisations, countries and the seating arrangements. Because she knew I represented a Chinese language TV station, she put “China” behind my name. I wrote back to her immediately and asked her to change the country behind my name to “USA” or “Australia”; I explained to her the independent nature of NTD TV, and how the Chinese Communist regime was afraid of NTD TV exposing its true nature, and the regime’s efforts in suppressing the TV station. In the following day at the lunch function, perhaps as a gesture of apologising for her mistake, she let me asked the first question. Before asking the question, I again emphasized that NTD TV’s headquarter was in New York, it’s an independent TV station and not belonging to the Chinese regime. This made all the participating journalists (about 100 of them) and the leader of the opposition smile in a friendly way, as if they all understood the meaning behind my words. There are rules to follow as a journalist and we cannot step over the line. However, our work allows us to reach everyday people at different social levels. If we have the heart to do so, there will always be opportunities for us to clarify the truth. There are different ways to clarify the truth, and our wisdom bestowed by Dafa will allow us to do so appropriately and at will. 还有一次,
澳洲外国记者协会邀请澳洲反对党
领袖来演讲,我也报名参加。记者协会的秘书长很敬业,把每个报名参加的记者的名字和其所在媒体的名称、国家、每个人应该坐在哪里等等,都一一列出来发给大
家。因为她知道我来自一家中文电视台,就想当然的在我的名字后面写个“中国”。 A few years ago, when I noticed Master mentioning NTDTV, The Epoch Times and the Sound of Hope in his teaching, I was shaken and felt really honoured. I thought to myself: those media established by Dafa disciples were mentioned in the Fa. This might have meant that they will exist forever with the Fa and will be remembered in the history of the universe. To be able to participate in the media valued by Master is such an honour and blessing. I’d like to thank our venerable Master for rectifying the universe and sentient beings at the last havoc. Thank you, Master, for helping the Fa-Rectification Period Dafa Disciples establish their future and mighty virtues. In order to do this, Master gave his all. We can only do better and better, so as not to disappoint Master, for this opportunity only comes once since the creation of the Cosmos. Thank
you, Master. Thank you, fellow practitioners. |