By a Falun Dafa practitioner in New Zealand

August 5, 2003

On the afternoon of July 20, 2003, another practitioner and I had some left over bread and water from our lunch. When we tried to enter the conference, the doorkeepers indicated that we could not bring food or drink into the conference room, so we had little choice but leave it in the front corner of the conference room. After the conference, we hurried there to pick up our food, but instead we found a trash box. Inside the box were a lot of empty bottles and on top of them were three sandwich packs and a marinated egg. The food looked like it was in good condition and it looked like it had been thrown away and not just temporarily put there. I took out the three sandwiches and the marinated egg and shared it with another practitioner. Except for some dried out vegetables, the meat and bread smelled fine.

I remembered that a practitioner told me a real story: During the Singapore Fa conference in August 1998, some practitioners went to a restaurant for lunch. Right before they finished their lunch and planned to leave, Teacher walked by from another table. He asked if everyone had finished eating and everyone answered that they were all finished and full. Teacher then sat down without saying another word, and started to eat the leftover food. Some practitioners suddenly realized what was going on and finished all the leftovers.

During the Washington D.C. Fa conference, there were some incidents that let me look inside myself repeatedly. After the parade on July 21, everyone was sweating and Washington DC practitioners prepared a lot of free spring water near by the congress compound's open area for everyone to drink That provided timely relief. But when other practitioners and I cleaned out the area, we found that a lot of the bottles were still one-third or one-quarter full.

We hope every practitioner can act as if "he is full of great aspirations while minding minor details" (Essentials For Further Advancement). Please be appreciative of each grain of rice and drop of water.

Posting date: 8/15/2003
Original article date: 8/14/2003
Category: Practitioners' Insights
Translated on 8/11/2003
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2003/8/6/55215.html

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