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"Glory in Calmness" -- Thoughts on the Fifth Internet Experience Sharing Conference for Practitioners in China

Nov. 12, 2008 |   By a practitioner in China

(Clearwisdom.net) I developed an impression after reading the first day's papers from the Fifth Internet Experience Sharing Conference for Practitioners in China, that it was "ordinary," and it didn't seem as exciting as the previous conferences. But after reading more carefully, I see the solid cultivation, rationality, and maturity behind the "ordinary." These papers may have lacked a heroic sensation on the surface, but they inspired me from deep down inside. Other fellow practitioners have a similar understanding: regardless of how personal cultivation or cooperation among fellow practitioners can clarify the truth of Dafa, we must be unselfish, always think of other first, and remain solidly persistent on our path.

More and more fellow practitioners in mainland China have stepped forward by doing things such as establishing truth-clarification materials production centers. Many practitioners are doing similar things, so their cultivation experiences are similar in this regard, and it seems very commonplace, but in fact it has reflected the maturity of Falun Dafa practitioners as one body.

Compared with previous experience sharing conferences, this conference stood out because practitioners were acting from a basis of unselfishness and of thinking of others first. The editors' grouping of the articles, the introductory paragraphs, titles and subtitles, and form of posting are all following the sense of "doing things for others," considering the needs of different audiences. The papers encompass the standpoints of readers from different parts of society. Not only will fellow practitioners be uplifted by these papers, but ordinary people, including police officers in China, can also accept the content and benefit from our compassion.

I recalled in "Teaching the Fa at the Meeting on Writing Music," Master answered a question:

"I feel that the music our students have created overall right now tends to have a gentle beauty and be extremely calm, but perhaps it lacks a feeling of being glorious or majestic," and Master said, "Within calmness there are ups and downs, but it's fully rational, and in calmness there is its own glory, though that glory is based on calmness."

I think the papers of this conference can be described as "glory in calmness."