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新移民在修炼中获得人生智慧
【明慧网二零一一年七月十日】
(明慧记者章韵多伦多报道）杰茜二零零九年从中国大陆来加拿大留学，在多伦多的第一份工作是推广政府服务的一个新项目。她在短短时间内成为了机构的主力，使服务工作走上正轨。杰茜认为，是修炼法轮功给了她智慧，才能在工作中有所成就。
放掉包袱才会轻松
杰茜原来是个对任何事都会过份担心的人，面对任何事情都担心自己可能会做不好，担心别人是否会对自己不满意，担心自己哪句话说得不合适。她说：“脑袋里总是想着这些东西，总是放不下。”
从中学开始，杰茜就是这种状态，因为有太多的忧虑，造成睡不好觉，吃不好饭。一米六五的身高，最瘦的时候体重只有九十斤；上六层高的楼，中间要休息好几次。杰茜有很好的学习成绩，但却少了快乐。
二零零五年读大学三年级的时候，杰茜开始修炼法轮功。按照修炼人的标准要求自己后，她的心态逐渐变得平和，吃饭及睡觉也比较正常了。她开始认识到：“很多事情，去忧虑是没有用的，努力做好就行了，对结果也不需要太过在意。”
结果是，杰茜的学习成绩非常好，还被学校保送去读研究生。
改善人际关系——我只退了一小步
在多伦多的第一份工作开始后，杰茜又面临新的挑战。
她说，开始工作时，老板吩咐什么就做什么。一段时间后，觉得自己做得好象挺好，就有点得意，开始觉得老板这里不对，那里不对，看到的都是老板的不是。“很长一段时间里，觉得矛盾很大，好象干不下去的样子。”
在最困难的时候，杰茜采用了修炼人的办法——向内找。就是找自己有什么讲的不对或做的不对的地方，而不是找别人的差错。
“其实我只是退了一小步，承认大家有不同，找找自己的不对。后来发现，矛盾就这样解决了。”她说，“我看他（老板）不对，因为我戴了一付有色眼镜。其实老板的初衷是好的，只是他有些说法不合我意。”
“如果我一定要去改变他的话，矛盾永远也得不到解决。”
她说，究其原因，是自己有一种很强的争斗意识，在国内已经形成多年，老想和别人斗一斗，老想找别人的不对，显示自己比别人强。
杰茜认为，修炼是一天天积累的，不好的东西并非一下子就能去干净。“你要每天都做好一点的话，你今天就会觉得，你的心情很好，你的工作状态很好。就这样一步一步地往前走。”
“我当时如果陷在矛盾中的话，那种状态是无法修炼的，不是一种修炼的状态。”她说，“修炼的状态，就是你要找出那些不好的心，并把它去掉。”
“如果不是修炼的话，与老板有那样的矛盾，我可能就会辞职不干了。”杰茜说，“修炼提高的结果，就是矛盾消除，身心舒畅。”
她说，人的妒忌心、争斗心，还有显示心等，“其实都是一些负面的情绪，它们会伤害你。它就象空气污染一样，是对精神的污染，它在伤害你的心智和精神。
“当你把这些不好的东西从心里剔除后，就象空气变得很清洁，没有污染，你就会很健康。”
努力做好工作自然能挣钱
杰茜的工作主要是服务社区，给人讲课，讲解如何善用政府的福利政策。来听课的人越多，政府拨款就会越多。
“有一段时间很想多挣些钱，但就是一直没什么人来听课。”她说，“后来就不去想钱了，只想着如何把事情做好。结果讲座越办越好，人也多起来，钱也挣到了。”
杰茜说，是修炼使她明白，干工作首先要把工作干好。“工作的时候不要想着要赚多少钱，怎么挖空心思地把钱挣来。如果把钱放在第一位，钱就占据了你的心，你的心就没法想如何去干好工作了。”
人类历史上的智者得出过类似的结论：用心把事情做好，结果自然会好。对于第一次工作的杰茜来说，能这么快学会这种处事方式也是难能可贵了。
“修炼使我们更快获取人生智慧。”杰茜说，“很多人说我处理事情的方法不象这个年龄的人该有的。我觉得这是修炼带给我的，能使我更加成熟、理智地去看待问题，不象一些年轻人那样感情用事。”
杰茜认为，通过修炼去掉嫉妒、争斗及显示等不好的人心后，就会有一个积极的态度，加上个人努力，工作一定会有所成。
她说，修炼不是一夜就能成的，但每天都需要提高。“你只要每天想着，我都按这个做，不知不觉中，你发现自己已经是一个更好的人。”
From - http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2011/7/10/新移民在修炼中获得人生智慧（图）-243725.html
Cultivation Inspires Wisdom – A Recent Immigrant to Canada Explains the Positive Effects Falun Gong Has Brought to Her Work
(Clearwisdom.net) Jessie came to Toronto from Mainland China as a student in 2009. Her first job was to promote a government welfare program. In a very short time, she became a key member of the project. Jessie attributed her success to Falun Gong, which gave her wisdom.
Jessie used to worry about everything that she needed to do: whether she could get the task done well, whether others will be satisfied with her performance, etc. “My head used to be occupied by all these concerns and I was always very worried,” said Jessie.
This mental state started in middle school, and she could not sleep or eat well because of anxiety. While she is about 5ft 5 in., she weighed only about 100 pounds and had to rest several times to climb a 6-story building. She had good grades, but she was rarely happy.
Jessie started to practice Falun Gong in 2005 when she was a junior. While striving to live up to the standards of a cultivator, she became more peaceful and could sleep and eat normally. She gradually started to realize: “Worry is useless. I only need to focus on my actions and results will come naturally.” The result of this change in her mindset change was that she got better grades and directly sent to graduate school.
As soon as she started her first job in Toronto, she faced new challenges:
When she started, she did everything that her boss told her to do. Soon, she felt very good and started to think her boss had problems and things could be done better. “Soon, I felt that there was a huge conflict and it seemed that I could not work there any longer,” said Jessie.
At the most difficult moment, Jessie applied a cultivator's standard: looking inward to see if she had done anything wrong.
“In fact, I only backed off a small step to acknowledge that everyone is different and to look for my own shortcomings,” she said, “With this, the conflict was soon dissolved. My boss had good intentions, the only problem was that his plan was not exactly what I expected. If I tried to change him, this conflict would have never been resolved.”
Fundamentally, she realized that she had a strong attachment to competition because of her education and living environment in China.
She said: “If I were not a practitioner of Falun Gong, when such a conflict with my boss surfaced, I would probably have resigned. Since I am a practitioner, cultivating myself helped me to dissolve the conflict and harmonize my working environment. Attachments such as competitiveness and jealousy are all negative emotions and they can easily hurt you both mentally and spiritually. Cultivation helped me eliminate them and gave me good health.”
Her main job function is community service, giving seminars to explain government welfare details. The more citizens attend her workshops, the more funding she will receive.
Jessie shared: “For a while, I worked very hard to earn more funding; however, not many people were attending my workshops. Gradually, I let this attachment go and focused on how to improve my workshop quality. Soon, more and more people came, as did more funding. This process helped me understand that I have to perform well at work. If I focus on how to get more funding, money issues will distract me and I will not have the energy to improve my work.
“Cultivation gives me wisdom. Many people commented that I was more mature than my actual age. I think this is from my cultivation which let me view things intelligently Cultivation will not succeed overnight. However, I can make improvements every day. If I knowingly follow the principles of Falun Gong every day, I am becoming a better person.”
From - http://clearwisdom.net/html/articles/2011/7/12/126660.html
